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Doris Lessing
- By: Carole Klein
- Narrated by: Anna Fields
- Length: 10 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Doris Lessing broke the rules. Born in Iran and raised in Rhodesia, she moved to Britain with little more than an unpublished novel in her suitcase. Once an ardent Communist, she distanced herself from the movement long before it's attraction faded for others. Always prolific, Lessing continued to explore uncharted territory with her series of science-fiction novels. Based on numerous interviews and sources, this book is a timely portrait of a fascinating woman.
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Doris Lessing
- Narrated by: Anna Fields
- Length: 10 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 10-11-2006
- Language: English
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Palimpsest
- A Memoir
- By: Gore Vidal
- Narrated by: Jeff Cummings
- Length: 18 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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This explosively entertaining memoir abounds in gossip, satire, historical apercus, and trenchant observations. Vidal’s compelling narrative weaves back and forth in time, providing a whole view of the author’s celebrated life, from his birth in 1925 to today, and features a cast of memorable characters - including the Kennedy family, Marlon Brando, Anais Nin, and Eleanor Roosevelt.
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Boring and bitter
- By MadReader on 08-06-2024
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Palimpsest
- A Memoir
- Narrated by: Jeff Cummings
- Length: 18 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 28-04-2020
- Language: English
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We Were Rich and We Didn't Know It
- A Memoir of My Irish Boyhood
- By: Tom Phelan
- Narrated by: Gerard Doyle
- Length: 6 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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“You don’t have to be Irish to cherish this literary gift—just being human and curious and from a family will suffice.” —Malachy McCourt, New York Times bestselling author of A Monk Swimming In the tradition of Frank McCourt’s Angela’s Ashes and Alice Taylor’s To School Through...
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Growing up in Lovely Laois
- By Anonymous on 26-08-2022
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We Were Rich and We Didn't Know It
- A Memoir of My Irish Boyhood
- Narrated by: Gerard Doyle
- Length: 6 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 05-03-2019
- Language: English
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Theroux The Keyhole
- Diaries of a Grounded Documentary Maker
- By: Louis Theroux
- Narrated by: Louis Theroux
- Length: 8 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Come round to Louis Theroux’s house where the much-loved TV documentary-maker, podcaster and bestselling author of Gotta Get Theroux This finds himself in unexpected danger . . . Like millions of others, Louis’ plans were mothballed by the onset of Covid. Unable to escape to the porn sets...
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Theroux The Keyhole
- Diaries of a Grounded Documentary Maker
- Narrated by: Louis Theroux
- Length: 8 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 09-01-2025
- Language: English
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All the Best for the Future
- Growing Up Without Growing Old
- By: Greg James
- Narrated by: Greg James, Bella Mackie
- Length: 7 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Brought to you by Penguin. *NARRATED BY BBC RADIO 1 PRESENTER, GREG JAMES* A brilliantly warm-hearted celebration of the lost art of having fun When Greg James was ten years old, his nylon shell suit-clad idols the Chuckle Brothers ('to me, to you') signed an autograph (from them, to him) with...
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This made me laugh out loud and brought me to tears
- By Emily Cooper on 17-10-2025
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All the Best for the Future
- Growing Up Without Growing Old
- Narrated by: Greg James, Bella Mackie
- Length: 7 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 25-09-2025
- Language: English
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Boy & Going Solo
- BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramas
- By: Roald Dahl
- Narrated by: Full Cast, Patrick Malahide
- Length: 2 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Two new BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisations of Roald Dahl's gripping autobiographical stories. These two compelling adaptations, based on Roald Dahl’s real-life tales of his of his boyhood and youthful overseas adventures, celebrate his remarkable life and commemorate his genius. Boy Dahl’s...
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Brilliantly done
- By Chris on 18-04-2021
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Boy & Going Solo
- BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramas
- Narrated by: Full Cast, Patrick Malahide
- Length: 2 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 03-11-2016
- Language: English
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Oscar
- A Life
- By: Matthew Sturgis
- Narrated by: Jot Davies
- Length: 36 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Oscar Wilde's life – like his wit – was alive with paradox. He was both an early exponent and a victim of 'celebrity culture': famous for being famous, he was lauded and ridiculed in equal measure. His achievements were frequently downplayed, his successes resented. He had a genius for comedy but strove to write tragedies. Matthew Sturgis draws on a wealth of new material and fresh research, bringing alive the distinctive mood and characters of the fin de siècle in the richest and most compelling portrait of Oscar Wilde to date.
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Over detailed and boring
- By Mark on 15-10-2025
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Oscar
- A Life
- Narrated by: Jot Davies
- Length: 36 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 13-07-2023
- Language: English
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Edgar Allan Poe: Master of Horror
- By: Mark Canada, The Great Courses
- Narrated by: Mark Canada
- Length: 5 hrs and 19 mins
- Original Recording
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Through these 10 lectures, you will delve into the darkness of Poe’s most nightmarish stories, including “The Tell-Tale Heart”, “The Pit and the Pendulum”, and “The Fall of the House of Usher”. You’ll also learn how he invented the detective story and explored themes of love and loss in such poems as “Ulalume” and “Annabel Lee”. And you’ll discover how Poe employed symbolism, imagery, rhythm and rhyme, irony and paradox, repetition, simile, and foreshadowing to create a unique body of work.
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Couldn’t stop listening.
- By Anonymous on 14-09-2024
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Edgar Allan Poe: Master of Horror
- Narrated by: Mark Canada
- Length: 5 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 20-10-2020
- Language: English
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Confessions
- A Life of Failed Promises
- By: A. N. Wilson
- Narrated by: A. N. Wilson
- Length: 11 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Known for his journalism, biographies and novels, A. N. Wilson turns a merciless searchlight on his own early life, his experience of sexual abuse, his catastrophic mistakes in love (sacred and profane) and his life in Grub Street—as a prolific writer. The audiobook begins with his heart-torn present-day visits to Katherine, now for decades his ex-wife, who has slithered into the torments of dementia. At every turn of this reminiscence, Wilson is baffled by his earlier self—whether he is flirting with unsuitable lovers or with the idea of the priesthood.
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Great - but not for everyone
- By Robyn on 03-06-2023
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Confessions
- A Life of Failed Promises
- Narrated by: A. N. Wilson
- Length: 11 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 01-09-2022
- Language: English
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The Master
- By: Colm Tóibín
- Narrated by: Ralph Cosham
- Length: 12 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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In January 1895 Henry James anticipates the opening of his first play, Guy Domville, in London. The production fails, and he returns, chastened and humiliated, to his writing desk. The result is a string of masterpieces, but they are produced at a high personal cost. In The Master Colm Tóibín...
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The Master
- Narrated by: Ralph Cosham
- Length: 12 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 03-01-2025
- Language: English
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The Mysterious Case of Agatha Christie
- By: Maureen Corrigan, The Great Courses
- Narrated by: Maureen Corrigan
- Length: 5 hrs and 43 mins
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Meet Agatha Christie, the best-selling novelist in human history. Her writing career spanned six decades, during which time she wrote 66 crime novels, 6 non-crime novels (including romances), and over 150 short stories. Not only was she a phenomenally successful novelist, but she is also the most successful female playwright of all time - her play “The Mousetrap” is the longest-running show in history. As you learn about Christie’s experiences and her storied career, you will better understand how the circumstances of her life shaped her work and vice versa.
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Fascinating Mrs Christie
- By Patricia on 16-02-2026
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The Mysterious Case of Agatha Christie
- Narrated by: Maureen Corrigan
- Length: 5 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 20-07-2021
- Language: English
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Attention
- Writing on Life, Art and the World
- By: Anne Enright
- Narrated by: Anne Enright
- Length: 8 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Brought to you by Penguin. The first collection of Booker Prize-winning writer Anne Enright's non-fiction writing about culture, literature and her own life For thirty years Anne Enright has been paying attention: casting her lucid and distinctive gaze across the world, literature and her own...
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Attention
- Writing on Life, Art and the World
- Narrated by: Anne Enright
- Length: 8 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 30-10-2025
- Language: English
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South and West
- From A Notebook
- By: Joan Didion
- Narrated by: Kimberly Farr
- Length: 2 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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From one of the most important chroniclers of our time, come two extended excerpts from her never-before-seen notebooks–writings that offer an illuminating glimpse into the mind and process of a legendary writer. Joan Didion has always kept notebooks: of overheard dialogue, observations...
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South and West
- From A Notebook
- Narrated by: Kimberly Farr
- Length: 2 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 21-09-2017
- Language: English
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Emboldened
- By: Belinda Alexandra
- Narrated by: Caroline Lee
- Length: 9 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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How do you begin your life again when you've lost everything you've worked for and your dreams have been shattered? That was the question beloved Australian author Belinda Alexandra faced one freezing winter night when she ran from her home in terror, clutching only her wallet, her phone and her latest manuscript on a USB stick. To pull herself up from rock bottom, Belinda drew strength from the real life women who had inspired her bestselling historical fiction.
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A brilliant book, well read.
- By J Hinchey on 11-07-2023
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Emboldened
- Narrated by: Caroline Lee
- Length: 9 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 30-05-2023
- Language: English
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In the Days of My Youth I Was Told What It Means to Be a Man
- A Memoir
- By: Tom Junod
- Narrated by: Tom Junod
- Length: 18 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICE From two-time National Magazine Award winner Tom Junod, a searching, brilliantly stylized memoir about a charismatic, philandering father who tried to mold his son in his image, the many secrets he hid, the son’s obsessive quest to uncover...
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Interesting story about family. Spoilers
- By Susan P on 01-05-2026
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In the Days of My Youth I Was Told What It Means to Be a Man
- A Memoir
- Narrated by: Tom Junod
- Length: 18 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 10-03-2026
- Language: English
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The Life of Charlotte Brontë
- By: Elizabeth Gaskell
- Narrated by: Penelope Rawlins, Lucy Scott, Sarah Lambie, and others
- Length: 19 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Elizabeth Gaskell’s biography of her friend Charlotte Brontë—the first full-length biography of a woman novelist by a woman novelist—is a true classic. It transports us with a deft hand straight into 19th-century Haworth, Yorkshire and crafts an extensive account of Brontë’s life, quoting throughout from letters she sent and received. From her challenging, isolated childhood to her death shortly before the age of 39, newly married and pregnant, the enigmatic author of Jane Eyre is portrayed with enormous care.
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The Life of Charlotte Brontë
- Narrated by: Penelope Rawlins, Lucy Scott, Sarah Lambie, Nigel Pilkington, Georgina Sutton, David Timson
- Length: 19 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 08-10-2024
- Language: English
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All Down Darkness Wide
- A Memoir
- By: Seán Hewitt
- Narrated by: Seán Hewitt
- Length: 7 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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When Seán meets Elias, the two fall headlong into a love story. But as Elias struggles with severe depression, the couple comes face-to-face with crisis. Wrestling with this, Seán Hewitt delves deep into his own history, enlisting the ghosts of queer figures and poets before him. From a 19th-century cemetery in Liverpool to the pine forests of Gothenburg, Hewitt plumbs the darkness in search of solace and hope. All Down Darkness Wide is an unflinching meditation on the burden of living in a world that too often sets happiness and queer life at odds.
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All Down Darkness Wide
- A Memoir
- Narrated by: Seán Hewitt
- Length: 7 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 14-07-2022
- Language: English
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Homage to Catalonia
- Penguin Modern Classics
- By: George Orwell
- Narrated by: Rory Alexander
- Length: 7 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Brought to you by Penguin. 'Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic Socialism as I understand it'. Thus wrote Orwell following his experiences as a militiaman in the Spanish Civil War...
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Orwell's best book
- By Australian Person on 04-08-2025
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Homage to Catalonia
- Penguin Modern Classics
- Narrated by: Rory Alexander
- Length: 7 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 07-01-2021
- Language: English
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Running with Scissors
- A Memoir
- By: Augusten Burroughs
- Narrated by: Augusten Burroughs
- Length: 4 hrs and 58 mins
- Abridged
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The #1 New York Times bestselling memoir from Augusten Burroughs, Running with Scissors, now a Major Motion Picture! Running with Scissors is the true story of a boy whose mother (a poet with delusions of Anne Sexton) gave him away to be raised by her psychiatrist, a dead-ringer for Santa and a...
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Running with Scissors
- A Memoir
- Narrated by: Augusten Burroughs
- Length: 4 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 23-08-2006
- Language: English
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Berlin Diary
- The Journal of a Foreign Correspondent, 1934–1941
- By: William L. Shirer
- Narrated by: Tom Weiner
- Length: 15 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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By the acclaimed journalist and New York Times best-selling author of The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, this day-by-day eyewitness account of the momentous events leading up to World War II in Europe is the private, personal, utterly revealing journal of a great foreign correspondent.
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An excellent account of a civilisation’s decline into authoritarianism
- By Nigel Jarvis on 24-10-2021
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Berlin Diary
- The Journal of a Foreign Correspondent, 1934–1941
- Narrated by: Tom Weiner
- Length: 15 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 28-06-2011
- Language: English
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