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Rental Person Who Does Nothing
- A Memoir
- By: Shoji Morimoto, Don Knotting - translator
- Narrated by: Kevin Shen
- Length: 3 hrs and 35 mins
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Shoji Morimoto was constantly being told that he was a ‘do-nothing’ because he lacked initiative. Dispirited and unemployed, it occurred to him that if he was so good at doing nothing, perhaps he could turn it into a business. And with one tweet, he began his business of renting himself out, to do nothing. In Rental Person Who Does Nothing, Morimoto chronicles his extraordinary experiences in his unique line of work and reflects on how we consider relationships, jobs and family in our search for meaningful connection and purpose in life.
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Rental Person Who Does Nothing
- A Memoir
- Narrated by: Kevin Shen
- Length: 3 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 06-07-2023
- Language: English
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Into the Night
- A Year with the Police
- By: Matt Lloyd-Rose
- Narrated by: Nneka Okoye, Simon Lawson, Theo Solomon
- Length: 9 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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A former carer, primary school teacher and education researcher, Matt Lloyd-Rose became a volunteer police officer to try to understand the challenges facing young people in Brixton, the place he lived and taught. He got more than he bargained for. Each Friday evening, he put on the uniform and policed South London: racing through it on blue lights, patrolling its streets, entering a parallel version of a place he thought he knew.
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Into the Night
- A Year with the Police
- Narrated by: Nneka Okoye, Simon Lawson, Theo Solomon
- Length: 9 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 18-05-2023
- Language: English
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Dear Reader
- The Comfort and Joy of Books
- By: Cathy Rentzenbrink
- Narrated by: Cathy Rentzenbrink
- Length: 4 hrs and 19 mins
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For as long as she can remember, Cathy Rentzenbrink has lost and found herself in stories. Growing up she was rarely seen without her nose in a book and read in secret long after lights out. When tragedy struck, books kept her afloat. Eventually they lit the way to a new path, first as a bookseller and then as a writer. No matter what the future holds, reading will always help.
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Dear Reader
- The Comfort and Joy of Books
- Narrated by: Cathy Rentzenbrink
- Length: 4 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 17-09-2020
- Language: English
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The Utopians
- Six Attempts to Build the Perfect Society
- By: Anna Neima
- Narrated by: Tania Rodrigues
- Length: 11 hrs and 42 mins
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The Utopians is the remarkable story of six experimental communities - Santiniketan-Sriniketan in India, Dartington Hall in England, Atarashiki Mura in Japan, the Institute for the Harmonious Development of Man in France, the Bruderhof in Germany and Trabuco College in America - that sprang up in the aftermath of the First World War.
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The Utopians
- Six Attempts to Build the Perfect Society
- Narrated by: Tania Rodrigues
- Length: 11 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 10-06-2021
- Language: English
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Queer Intentions
- A (Personal) Journey Through LGBTQ+ Culture
- By: Amelia Abraham
- Narrated by: Amelia Abraham
- Length: 9 hrs and 26 mins
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Today, the options and freedoms on offer to LGBTQ+ people living in the West are greater than ever before. But is same-sex marriage, improved media visibility and corporate endorsement all it’s cracked up to be? At what cost does this acceptance come? And who is getting left behind, particularly in parts of the world where LGBTQ+ rights aren’t so advanced? Combining intrepid journalism with her own personal experience, Amelia Abraham searches for the answers to these urgent challenges, as well as the broader question of what it means to be queer in 2019.
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Must listen
- By Anonymous User on 16-12-2022
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Queer Intentions
- A (Personal) Journey Through LGBTQ+ Culture
- Narrated by: Amelia Abraham
- Length: 9 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 30-05-2019
- Language: English
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The Adventures of Maud West, Lady Detective
- Secrets and Lies in the Golden Age of Crime
- By: Susannah Stapleton
- Narrated by: Susannah Stapleton, Clare Wille
- Length: 10 hrs and 43 mins
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Maud West ran her detective agency in London for more than 30 years, having started sleuthing on behalf of society’s finest in 1905. Her exploits grabbed headlines throughout the world, but beneath the public persona, she was forced to hide vital aspects of her own identity in order to thrive in a class-obsessed and male-dominated world. And - as Susannah Stapleton reveals - she was a most unreliable witness to her own life. Who was Maud? And what was the reality of being a female private detective in the Golden Age of Crime?
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Disappointing voice narration
- By Anonymous User on 24-07-2023
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The Adventures of Maud West, Lady Detective
- Secrets and Lies in the Golden Age of Crime
- Narrated by: Susannah Stapleton, Clare Wille
- Length: 10 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 13-06-2019
- Language: English
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Going with the Boys
- Six Extraordinary Women Writing from the Front Line
- By: Judith Mackrell
- Narrated by: Julie Teal
- Length: 17 hrs and 12 mins
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On the front lines of the Second World War, a contingent of female journalists were bravely waging their own battle. Barred from combat zones and faced with entrenched prejudice and bureaucratic restrictions, these women were forced to fight for the right to work on equal terms as men.
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Going with the Boys
- Six Extraordinary Women Writing from the Front Line
- Narrated by: Julie Teal
- Length: 17 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 28-05-2021
- Language: English
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Lost & Found
- Reflections on Grief, Gratitude and Happiness
- By: Kathryn Schulz
- Narrated by: Kathryn Schulz
- Length: 7 hrs and 26 mins
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Eighteen months before Kathryn Schulz’s beloved father died, she met the woman she would marry. In Lost & Found, she weaves the stories of those relationships into a brilliant exploration of how all our lives are shaped by loss and discovery—from the maddening disappearance of everyday objects to the sweeping devastations of war, pandemic and natural disaster; from finding new planets to falling in love.
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Most enjoyable & a tender memoir delivered
- By Denyse on 03-05-2023
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Lost & Found
- Reflections on Grief, Gratitude and Happiness
- Narrated by: Kathryn Schulz
- Length: 7 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 20-01-2022
- Language: English
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The Crossway
- By: Guy Stagg
- Narrated by: Laurence Dobiesz
- Length: 13 hrs and 25 mins
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When Guy Stagg decided to walk from Canterbury to Jerusalem, he spent the next 10 months following medieval pilgrim paths across 5,500 km. He began the journey after suffering several years of mental illness, hoping the ritual would heal him. Travelling alone and without support, he had to rely each night on the charity of strangers.
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The Crossway
- Narrated by: Laurence Dobiesz
- Length: 13 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 14-06-2018
- Language: English
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A Fortunate Woman
- A Country Doctor’s Story
- By: Polly Morland, Richard Baker - illustrator
- Narrated by: Pippa Haywood
- Length: 6 hrs and 24 mins
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Polly Morland was clearing her late mother’s house when she found a battered paperback fallen behind the family bookshelf. Opening it, she was astonished to see an old photograph of the remote, wooded valley in which she lives. The book was A Fortunate Man, John Berger’s classic account of a country doctor working in the same valley more than half a century earlier. This chance discovery led Morland to the remarkable doctor who serves that valley community today, a woman whose own medical vocation was inspired by reading the very same book as a teenager.
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A Fortunate Woman
- A Country Doctor’s Story
- Narrated by: Pippa Haywood
- Length: 6 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 09-06-2022
- Language: English
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I Heard What You Said
- A Black Teacher, A White System
- By: Jeffrey Boakye
- Narrated by: Jeffrey Boakye
- Length: 8 hrs and 58 mins
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Before Jeffrey Boakye was a Black teacher, he was a Black student. Which means he has spent a lifetime navigating places of learning that are white by default. Since training to teach, he has often been the only Black teacher at school. At times seen as a role model, at others a source of curiosity, Boakye’s is a journey of exploration—from the outside looking in. In the groundbreaking I Heard What You Said, he recounts how it feels to be on the margins of the British education system.
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I Heard What You Said
- A Black Teacher, A White System
- Narrated by: Jeffrey Boakye
- Length: 8 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 09-06-2022
- Language: English
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Party Lines
- Dance Music and the Making of Modern Britain
- By: Ed Gillett
- Narrated by: Ed Gillett
- Length: 12 hrs and 45 mins
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From the illicit reggae blues dances and acid-rock free festivals of the 1970s, through the ecstasy-fuelled Second Summer of Love in 1988, to the increasingly corporate dance music culture of the post-Covid era, Party Lines is a groundbreaking new history of UK dance music, exploring its pivotal role in the social, political and economic shifts on which modern Britain has been built.
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Superb
- By Darcy Moore on 01-04-2024
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Party Lines
- Dance Music and the Making of Modern Britain
- Narrated by: Ed Gillett
- Length: 12 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 03-08-2023
- Language: English
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The Book Collectors of Daraya
- A Band of Syrian Rebels, Their Underground Library and the Stories That Carried Them Through a War
- By: Delphine Minoui, Lara Vergnaud
- Narrated by: Nikki Massoud
- Length: 4 hrs and 22 mins
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In 2012 the rebel suburb of Daraya in Damascus was brutally besieged by Syrian government forces. Four years of suffering ensued, punctuated by shelling, barrel bombs and chemical gas attacks. People’s homes were destroyed and their food supplies cut off; disease was rife. Yet in this man-made hell, 40 young Syrian revolutionaries embarked on an extraordinary project, rescuing all the books they could find in the bombed-out ruins of their home town. They used them to create a secret library, in a safe place, deep underground.
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The Book Collectors of Daraya
- A Band of Syrian Rebels, Their Underground Library and the Stories That Carried Them Through a War
- Narrated by: Nikki Massoud
- Length: 4 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 18-03-2021
- Language: English
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Every Good Boy Does Fine
- A Love Story, in Music Lessons
- By: Jeremy Denk
- Narrated by: Jeremy Denk
- Length: 13 hrs and 16 mins
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In this searching and funny memoir, based off his popular New Yorker article, renowned pianist Jeremy Denk traces an implausible journey. Life is difficult enough as a precocious, temperamental, and insufferable six-year-old piano prodigy in New Jersey. But then a family meltdown forces a move to New Mexico, far from classical music’s nerve centers, and he has to please a new taskmaster while navigating cacti, and the perils of junior high school. Escaping from New Mexico at last, he meets a bewildering cast of college music teachers, ranging from boring to profound.
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Every Good Boy Does Fine
- A Love Story, in Music Lessons
- Narrated by: Jeremy Denk
- Length: 13 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 26-05-2022
- Language: English
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Time Lived, Without Its Flow
- By: Denise Riley
- Narrated by: Denise Riley, Max Porter
- Length: 2 hrs and 9 mins
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Time Lived, Without Its Flow is an astonishing, unflinching essay on the nature of grief from critically acclaimed poet Denise Riley. From the horrific experience of maternal grief Riley wrote her lauded collection Say Something Back, a modern classic of British poetry. This essay is a companion piece to that work, looking at the way time stops when we lose someone suddenly from our lives.
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Time Lived, Without Its Flow
- Narrated by: Denise Riley, Max Porter
- Length: 2 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 03-10-2019
- Language: English
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How to Be a Refugee
- The gripping true story of how one family hid their Jewish origins to survive the Nazis
- By: Simon May
- Narrated by: David Timson, Simon May
- Length: 9 hrs and 54 mins
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How to Be a Refugee is Simon May’s gripping account of how three sisters – his mother and his two aunts – grappled with what they felt to be a lethal heritage. Their very different trajectories included conversion to Catholicism, marriage into the German aristocracy, securing ‘Aryan’ status with high-ranking help from inside Hitler’s regime and engagement to a card-carrying Nazi.
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How to Be a Refugee
- The gripping true story of how one family hid their Jewish origins to survive the Nazis
- Narrated by: David Timson, Simon May
- Length: 9 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 21-01-2021
- Language: English
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Time Come
- Selected Prose
- By: Linton Kwesi Johnson, Paul Gilroy - introduction
- Narrated by: Ben Onwukwe - introduction, Linton Kwesi Johnson
- Length: 7 hrs and 15 mins
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Recognized as one of the great poets of modern times, and as a deeply respected and influential political and cultural activist and social critic, Linton Kwesi Johnson is also a prolific writer of non-fiction. Here, he selects some of his most powerful prose for the first time. Written over many decades, it is a body of work that draws creatively and critically on Johnson’s own Jamaican roots and on Caribbean history to explore the politics of race and ethnicity that continue to inform the Black British experience.
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Time Come
- Selected Prose
- Narrated by: Ben Onwukwe - introduction, Linton Kwesi Johnson
- Length: 7 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 13-04-2023
- Language: English
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Father and Son
- A memoir about family, the past and mortality
- By: Jonathan Raban
- Narrated by: James Langton
- Length: 12 hrs and 31 mins
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On 11 June 2011, three days short of his sixth-ninth birthday, Jonathan Raban suffered a stroke which left him unable to use the right side of his body, wheelchair-bound in a rehab facility and endlessly frustrated by his newfound physical limitations. As he resisted the overbearing ministrations of the nurses helping him along the road to recovery, Raban began to reflect not only on the measure of his own life but the extraordinary story of his parents’ early marriage, conducted for three years by letter while his father fought in the Second World War.
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Father and Son
- A memoir about family, the past and mortality
- Narrated by: James Langton
- Length: 12 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 14-09-2023
- Language: English
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Assad
- The Triumph of Tyranny
- By: Con Coughlin
- Narrated by: Charles Armstrong
- Length: 8 hrs and 6 mins
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In Assad: The Triumph of Tyranny, Con Coughlin, veteran commentator on war in the Middle East and author of Saddam: The Secret Life, examines how a mild-mannered ophthalmic surgeon has transformed himself into the tyrannical ruler of a once flourishing country.
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Assad
- The Triumph of Tyranny
- Narrated by: Charles Armstrong
- Length: 8 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 22-06-2023
- Language: English
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Our Evenings
- By: Alan Hollinghurst
- Length: 15 hrs
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Our Evenings is Dave Win’s own account of his life as a schoolboy and student, his first love affairs, in London, and on the road with an experimental theatre company, and of a late-life affair, which transforms his sixties with a new sense of happiness and a perilous security; but it is also, very movingly, the story of his hard-working widowed mother, whose own life takes an unexpected new turn after her son leaves home.
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Our Evenings
- Length: 15 hrs
- Release date: 03-10-2024
- Language: English
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