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Confessions of a Bookseller
- By: Shaun Bythell
- Narrated by: Peter Kenny
- Length: 9 hrs and 6 mins
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Shaun Bythell is the owner of The Bookshop in Wigtown, Scotland. With more than a mile of shelving, real log fires in the shop and the sea lapping nearby, the shop should be an idyll for bookworms. Unfortunately, Shaun also has to contend with bizarre requests from people who don't understand what a shop is, home invasions during the Wigtown Book Festival and Granny, his neurotic Italian assistant who likes digging for river mud to make poultices.
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Thoroughly enjoyable
- By Lore on 19-06-2023
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Confessions of a Bookseller
- Narrated by: Peter Kenny
- Series: The Diary of a Bookseller, Book 2
- Length: 9 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 29-08-2019
- Language: English
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The Unaccountability Machine
- Why Big Systems Make Terrible Decisions - and How The World Lost its Mind
- By: Dan Davies
- Narrated by: Peter Dickson
- Length: 8 hrs and 55 mins
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When we avoid taking a decision, what happens to it? In The Unaccountability Machine, Dan Davies examines why markets, institutions and even governments systematically generate outcomes that everyone involved claims not to want. He casts new light on the writing of Stafford Beer, a legendary economist who argued in the 1950s that we should regard organisations as artificial intelligences, capable of taking decisions that are distinct from the intentions of their members.
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The Unaccountability Machine
- Why Big Systems Make Terrible Decisions - and How The World Lost its Mind
- Narrated by: Peter Dickson
- Length: 8 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 18-04-2024
- Language: English
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Impossible City
- Paris in the Twenty-First Century
- By: Simon Kuper
- Narrated by: Tim Frances
- Length: 6 hrs and 36 mins
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Simon Kuper has experienced Paris both as a human being and as a journalist. He has grown middle-aged there, eaten the croissants, seen his wife through life-threatening cancer, taken his children to countless football matches on freezing Saturday mornings in the city's notorious banlieues, and in 2015 lived through two terrorist attacks on their neighbourhood. Over two decades of becoming something of a cantankerous Parisian himself, Kuper has watched the city change.
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Impossible City
- Paris in the Twenty-First Century
- Narrated by: Tim Frances
- Length: 6 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 11-04-2024
- Language: English
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Conspiracy
- Peter Thiel, Hulk Hogan, Gawker, and the Anatomy of Intrigue
- By: Ryan Holiday
- Narrated by: Ryan Holiday
- Length: 11 hrs and 39 mins
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In 2016, one of the giants of modern journalism fell: Gawker Media, infamous for saying what other outlets wouldn't say, was sued for publishing Hulk Hogan's sex tape, lost the case and went bust. After countless other lawsuits it seemed that Gawker had finally run out of luck. But luck had nothing to do with it. Peter Thiel, PayPal founder and billionaire investor, had masterminded the whole thing.
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Great book, terrible narration
- By David on 06-05-2018
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Conspiracy
- Peter Thiel, Hulk Hogan, Gawker, and the Anatomy of Intrigue
- Narrated by: Ryan Holiday
- Length: 11 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 01-03-2018
- Language: English
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All That She Carried
- The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake
- By: Tiya Miles
- Narrated by: Janina Edwards
- Length: 9 hrs and 29 mins
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In 1850s South Carolina, an enslaved woman named Rose faced a crisis: the imminent sale of her daughter Ashley. Thinking quickly, she packed a cotton bag for her with a few items, and, soon after, the nine-year-old girl was separated from her mother and sold. Decades later, Ashley's granddaughter Ruth embroidered this family history on the sack in spare, haunting language. Historian Tiya Miles carefully traces these women's faint presence in archival records, and, where archives fall short, she turns to objects, art, and the environment to write a singular history of the experience of slavery.
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All That She Carried
- The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake
- Narrated by: Janina Edwards
- Length: 9 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 06-04-2023
- Language: English
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The Diary of a Bookseller
- By: Shaun Bythell
- Narrated by: Peter Kenny
- Length: 8 hrs and 23 mins
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Shaun Bythell owns The Bookshop, Wigtown - Scotland's largest second-hand bookshop. It contains 100,000 books, spread over a mile of shelving, with twisting corridors and roaring fires, and all set in a beautiful, rural town by the edge of the sea. A book-lover's paradise? Well, almost... In these wry and hilarious diaries, Shaun provides an inside look at the trials and tribulations of life in the book trade, from struggles with eccentric customers to wrangles with his own staff, who include the ski-suit-wearing, bin-foraging Nicky.
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The Diary of a Bookseller
- Narrated by: Peter Kenny
- Length: 8 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 10-10-2023
- Language: English
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George
- A Magpie Memoir
- By: Frieda Hughes
- Narrated by: Frieda Hughes
- Length: 8 hrs and 56 mins
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When Frieda Hughes moved to the depths of the Welsh countryside, she was expecting to take on a few projects: planting a garden, painting and writing her poetry column for The Times. But instead, she found herself rescuing a baby magpie, the sole survivor of a nest destroyed in a storm - and embarking on an obsession that would change the course of her life. As the magpie, George, grows from a shrieking scrap of feathers and bones into an intelligent, unruly companion, Frieda finds herself captivated.
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George
- A Magpie Memoir
- Narrated by: Frieda Hughes
- Length: 8 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 27-04-2023
- Language: English
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The Secret Life of John le Carré
- By: Adam Sisman
- Narrated by: Sean Barrett
- Length: 4 hrs and 29 mins
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Secrecy came naturally to John le Carré, and there were some secrets that he fought fiercely to keep. Adam Sisman's definitive biography, published in 2015, provided a revealing portrait of this fascinating man; yet some aspects of his subject remained hidden. The Secret Life of John le Carré reveals a hitherto-hidden perspective on the life and work of the spy-turned-author and a fascinating meditation on the complex relationship between biographer and subject.
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The Secret Life of John le Carré
- Narrated by: Sean Barrett
- Length: 4 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 12-10-2023
- Language: English
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Breaking and Mending
- A Junior Doctor’s Stories of Compassion and Burnout
- By: Joanna Cannon
- Narrated by: Joanna Cannon
- Length: 4 hrs and 58 mins
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A few years ago, I found myself in A&E. I had never felt so ill. I was mentally and physically broken. So fractured, I hadn't eaten properly or slept well or even changed my expression for months. I sat in a cubicle, behind paper-thin curtains, and I shook with the effort of not crying. I was an inch away from defeat...but I knew I had to carry on. Because I wasn't the patient. I was the doctor.
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Great read for an aspiring psychiatrist
- By Anonymous User on 25-10-2019
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Breaking and Mending
- A Junior Doctor’s Stories of Compassion and Burnout
- Narrated by: Joanna Cannon
- Length: 4 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 26-09-2019
- Language: English
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The Disappearance of Lydia Harvey
- A True Story of Sex, Crime and the Meaning of Justice
- By: Julia Laite
- Narrated by: Kristin Atherton
- Length: 11 hrs and 23 mins
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1910, Wellington, New Zealand. Lydia Harvey is sixteen, working long hours for low pay, when a glamorous couple invite her to Buenos Aires. She accepts—and disappears. 1910, London, England. Amid a global panic about sex trafficking, detectives are tracking a ring of international criminals when they find a young woman on the streets of Soho who might be the key to cracking the whole case. As more people are drawn into Lydia's life and the trial at the Old Bailey, the world is being reshaped into a new, global era.
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The Disappearance of Lydia Harvey
- A True Story of Sex, Crime and the Meaning of Justice
- Narrated by: Kristin Atherton
- Length: 11 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 01-04-2021
- Language: English
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After the Storm
- Postnatal Depression and the Utter Weirdness of New Motherhood
- By: Emma Jane Unsworth
- Narrated by: Chloe Massey
- Length: 4 hrs and 1 min
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Six months after the birth of her son, Emma Jane Unsworth finds herself in the eye of a storm. Nothing - from pregnancy to birth and beyond - has gone as she expected. A birth plan? It might as well have been a rough draft! Furious and exhausted, her life is the complete opposite of what it used to be. She's swapped all night benders for a grazed labia and Whac-a-Moling haemorrhoids. How did she end up here? In this brave and hilarious account of postnatal depression, Emma tells her story of despair and recovery.
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the best book on postnatal depression
- By Anonymous User on 28-01-2022
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After the Storm
- Postnatal Depression and the Utter Weirdness of New Motherhood
- Narrated by: Chloe Massey
- Length: 4 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 06-05-2021
- Language: English
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Seven Kinds of People You Find in Bookshops
- By: Shaun Bythell
- Narrated by: Peter Kenny
- Length: 2 hrs
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Everyone knows who you find in bookshops: people who want to buy books. But, as Shaun Bythell reveals, that's really only half the story. Join Shaun as he introduces us to seven bookshop characters, from the Person Who Doesn't Know What They Want (But Thinks It Might Have a Blue Cover) to the harried Parents Secretly After Free Childcare and all the way over to the erotica section, where we'll meet The Person Who Is Up to No Good.
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Seven Kinds of People You Find in Bookshops
- Narrated by: Peter Kenny
- Length: 2 hrs
- Release date: 05-11-2020
- Language: English
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The Professor and the Parson
- A Story of Desire, Deceit and Defrocking
- By: Adam Sisman
- Narrated by: Gavin Osborn
- Length: 5 hrs and 40 mins
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The Professor and the Parson traces the strange career of one of Britain's most eccentric criminals. Motivated not by money but by a desire for prestige, Peters lied, stole and cheated his way to academic positions and religious posts from Cambridge to New York, Singapore and South Africa. Frequently deported, and even more frequently discovered, his trail of destruction included seven marriages (three of which were bigamous), an investigation by the FBI and a disastrous appearance on Mastermind.
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The Professor and the Parson
- A Story of Desire, Deceit and Defrocking
- Narrated by: Gavin Osborn
- Length: 5 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 09-05-2019
- Language: English
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Remainders of the Day
- By: Shaun Bythell
- Narrated by: Peter Kenny
- Length: 10 hrs and 10 mins
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The Bookshop in Wigtown is a bookworm's idyll—with thousands of books across nearly a mile of shelves, a real log fire, and Captain, the bookshop cat. You'd think after twenty years, owner Shaun Bythell would be used to the customers by now. Don't get him wrong—there are some good ones among the antiquarian porn-hunters, die-hard Arthurians, people who confuse bookshops for libraries and the toddlers just looking for a nice cosy corner in which to wee. He's sure there are. There must be some good ones, right?
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Easy listening
- By Karrina on 15-10-2022
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Remainders of the Day
- Narrated by: Peter Kenny
- Length: 10 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 01-09-2022
- Language: English
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Dancing with the Octopus
- The Telling of a True Crime
- By: Debora Harding
- Narrated by: Debora Harding
- Length: 12 hrs and 27 mins
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Undertaking a radical project, Deborah Harding dexterously shifts between the past and present to unravel her story. From the immediate aftermath to the possibility of restorative justice 20 years later, Dancing with the Octopus lays bare the social and political forces that act upon us after the experience of serious crime. A vivid, sly and intimate portrait of one family's disintegration, this is a darkly humorous and ground-breaking narrative of reckoning and recovery.
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Not your average survivor storytelling
- By Amazon Customer on 08-02-2023
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Dancing with the Octopus
- The Telling of a True Crime
- Narrated by: Debora Harding
- Length: 12 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 28-08-2020
- Language: English
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Metamorphoses
- In Search of Franz Kafka
- By: Karolina Watroba
- Narrated by: Deborah Balm
- Length: 7 hrs and 14 mins
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In 2024, exactly one hundred years after his death at the age of 40, readers and listeners all over the world will reach for the works of Franz Kafka. Many of them will want to learn more about the enigmatic man behind the classic books filled with mysterious courts and monstrous insects. Who, exactly, was Franz Kafka? Karolina Watroba, the first Germanist ever elected as a Fellow of Oxford's All Souls College, will tell Kafka's story beyond the boundaries of language, time and space, travelling from the Prague of Kafka's birth through the work of contemporary writers in East Asia.
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Metamorphoses
- In Search of Franz Kafka
- Narrated by: Deborah Balm
- Length: 7 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 02-05-2024
- Language: English
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Where Power Stops
- The Making and Unmaking of Presidents and Prime Ministers
- By: David Runciman
- Narrated by: David Runciman
- Length: 7 hrs and 40 mins
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Lyndon Baines Johnson, Margaret Thatcher, Bill Clinton, Tony Blair, Barack Obama, Gordon Brown, Theresa May, and Donald Trump: each had different motivations, methods, and paths, but they all sought the highest office. And yet when they reached their goal, they often found that the power they had imagined was illusory. Their sweeping visions of reform faltered. They faced bureaucratic obstructions, but often the biggest obstruction was their own character. However, their personalities could help them as much as hurt them.
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Good Info
- By Anonymous User on 12-12-2020
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Where Power Stops
- The Making and Unmaking of Presidents and Prime Ministers
- Narrated by: David Runciman
- Length: 7 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 29-08-2019
- Language: English
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An Extra Pair of Hands
- By: Kate Mosse
- Narrated by: Kate Mosse
- Length: 4 hrs and 13 mins
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A deeply moving story of what it means to care for those we love by best-selling author Kate Mosse, a celebration of older people and ageing, and of finding joy in the smallest acts of everyday caregiving. As our population ages, more and more of us find ourselves caring for parents and loved ones - some 8.8 million people in the UK. An invisible army of carers holding families together.
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An Extra Pair of Hands
- Narrated by: Kate Mosse
- Length: 4 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 03-06-2021
- Language: English
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Gloucester Crescent
- Me, My Dad and Other Grown-Ups
- By: William Miller
- Narrated by: Robbie Scotcher
- Length: 8 hrs and 53 mins
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Written through the eyes of a growing child, this is the story of a very particular family and their circle of brilliant, idealistic and intellectual friends in London in the '60s, '70s and '80s. We follow William through the ups and downs of childhood, as he explores the back gardens and homes of his famous neighbours, attends dramatic rehearsals with his dad, Jonathan Miller, fails exams and is bullied at school, gets drugs from the philosopher A. J. Ayer's wife, and tries to watch the moon landing with Alan Bennett and a room full of writers.
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really great story, but kept repeating DAD was Bad
- By lisapisa on 18-02-2020
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Gloucester Crescent
- Me, My Dad and Other Grown-Ups
- Narrated by: Robbie Scotcher
- Length: 8 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 23-08-2018
- Language: English
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People Like Us
- What It Takes to Make It in Modern Britain
- By: Hashi Mohamed
- Narrated by: Hashi Mohamed
- Length: 11 hrs and 12 mins
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Hashi Mohamed came to Britain aged nine, a refugee from the Somali civil war. He attended some of Britain's worst schools and was raised exclusively on state benefits. Yet today he is a successful barrister, with an Oxford degree and a CV that includes appearances on the BBC. Hashi explores what his own experience can tell us about social mobility in Britain today.
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People Like Us
- What It Takes to Make It in Modern Britain
- Narrated by: Hashi Mohamed
- Length: 11 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 23-01-2020
- Language: English
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