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Empire of Pain
- The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty
- By: Patrick Radden Keefe
- Narrated by: Patrick Radden Keefe
- Length: 18 hrs and 6 mins
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Written and read by the author, Empire of Pain tells the story of the Sackler dynasty, their company Purdue Pharma, its bestselling drug OxyContin, their immensely generous philanthropy and their involvement in the opioid crisis that has created millions of addicts, even as it generated billions of dollars in profit.
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Fascinating and impressive
- By Missamity on 03-05-2021
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Empire of Pain
- The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty
- Narrated by: Patrick Radden Keefe
- Length: 18 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 13-04-2021
- Language: English
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The Snakehead
- An Epic Tale of the Chinatown Underworld and the American Dream
- By: Patrick Radden Keefe
- Narrated by: Feodor Chin
- Length: 12 hrs and 58 mins
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In The Snakehead, Patrick Radden Keefe reveals the inner workings of Cheng Chui Ping aka Sister Ping’s complex empire and recounts the decade-long FBI investigation that eventually brought her down. He follows an often incompetent and sometimes corrupt INS as it pursues desperate immigrants risking everything to come to America, and along the way he paints a stunning portrait of a generation of undocumented immigrants and the intricate underground economy that sustains and exploits them.
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Fascinating story well told
- By David B. on 03-03-2023
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The Snakehead
- An Epic Tale of the Chinatown Underworld and the American Dream
- Narrated by: Feodor Chin
- Length: 12 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 16-02-2023
- Language: English
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Code Dependent
- Living in the Shadow of AI
- By: Madhumita Murgia
- Narrated by: Madhumita Murgia
- Length: 9 hrs and 21 mins
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Through the voices of ordinary people in places far removed from Silicon Valley, Code Dependent explores the impact of a set of powerful, flawed, and often exploitative technologies on individuals, communities, and our wider society. Madhumita Murgia, AI Editor at the FT, exposes how AI can strip away our collective and individual sense of agency – and shatter our illusion of free will.
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Code Dependent
- Living in the Shadow of AI
- Narrated by: Madhumita Murgia
- Length: 9 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 21-03-2024
- Language: English
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White
- By: Bret Easton Ellis
- Narrated by: Bret Easton Ellis
- Length: 6 hrs and 47 mins
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In White, with the same originality displayed in his fiction, Ellis pours himself out and, in doing so, eviscerates the perceived good that the social media age has wrought, starting with the dangerous cult of likability. White is both a denunciation of censorship, particularly the self-inflicted sort committed in hopes of being 'accepted', and a bracing view of a life devoted to authenticity. Provocative, incisive, funny and surprisingly poignant, White reveals not only what is visible on the glittering, pristine surface but also the riotous truths that are hidden underneath.
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Thrilling cultural critique
- By Anonymous User on 08-04-2020
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White
- Narrated by: Bret Easton Ellis
- Length: 6 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 02-05-2019
- Language: English
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Funny Weather
- Art in an Emergency
- By: Olivia Laing
- Narrated by: Sophie Aldred
- Length: 9 hrs and 41 mins
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Funny Weather brings together a career’s worth of Laing’s writing about art and culture, examining its role in our political and emotional lives. She profiles Jean-Michel Basquiat and Georgia O’Keefe, interviews Hilary Mantel and Ali Smith, writes love letters to David Bowie and Freddie Mercury, and explores loneliness and technology, women and alcohol, sex and the body.
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I love Olivia
- By Anonymous User on 12-09-2021
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Funny Weather
- Art in an Emergency
- Narrated by: Sophie Aldred
- Length: 9 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 16-04-2020
- Language: English
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This Is Europe
- The Way We Live Now
- By: Ben Judah
- Narrated by: Dan Connolly
- Length: 13 hrs and 27 mins
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What does it now mean to call yourself European? Who makes up this population of 750 million, sprawled from Ireland to Ukraine, from Sweden to Turkey? Who has always called it home, and who has newly arrived from elsewhere? Who are the people who drive our long-distance lorries, steward our crisscrossing planes, lovingly craft our legacy wines, fish our depleted waters, and risk life itself in search of safety and a new start?
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This Is Europe
- The Way We Live Now
- Narrated by: Dan Connolly
- Length: 13 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 15-06-2023
- Language: English
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Killjoy
- How a small voice made a big change
- By: Jo Cheetham
- Narrated by: Jo Cheetham
- Length: 10 hrs and 7 mins
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In 2012, two weeks before her thirty-second birthday, Jo Cheetham attended her first ever protest and it changed her life for ever. She didn’t consider herself especially political or assertive. She often apologized to people who barged into her on the street and was too polite to tell the man at the pub that he’d been calling her the wrong name for two years. Her days were ‘filled with routine, boredom and the occasional panic attack’. But soon after that first protest she joined the No More Page 3 campaign team.
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Killjoy
- How a small voice made a big change
- Narrated by: Jo Cheetham
- Length: 10 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 02-03-2023
- Language: English
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Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here
- The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis
- By: Jonathan Blitzer
- Narrated by: André Santana, Jonathan Blitzer
- Length: 18 hrs and 13 mins
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New Yorker journalist Jonathan Blitzer has been covering the immigration crisis at America’s southern border for nearly a decade, but the current emergency is the end of a much larger story. In this, his first book, Blitzer goes back to the beginning: to the shadowy civil wars in El Salvador and Guatemala in the 1980s; to the American prison system in the 1990s and the policies of mass deportation that transformed local street criminals into international crime syndicates; to Honduras’s crackdown on crime in the 2000s and the emergence of gangs across Central America and the United States.
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Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here
- The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis
- Narrated by: André Santana, Jonathan Blitzer
- Length: 18 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 30-05-2024
- Language: English
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Mistresses
- Sex and Scandal at the Court of Charles II
- By: Linda Porter
- Narrated by: Julie Teal
- Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
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According to the great diarist John Evelyn, Charles II was ‘addicted to women’, and throughout his long reign a great many succumbed to his charms. Clever, urbane and handsome, Charles presided over a hedonistic court, in which licence and licentiousness prevailed. Drawing on a wide variety of original sources, including material in private archives, Linda Porter paints a vivid picture of these women and of Restoration England, an era that was both glamorous and sordid.
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Mistresses
- Sex and Scandal at the Court of Charles II
- Narrated by: Julie Teal
- Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 16-04-2020
- Language: English
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Losing Earth
- The Decade We Could Have Stopped Climate Change
- By: Nathaniel Rich
- Narrated by: Matt Godfrey
- Length: 5 hrs and 17 mins
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By 1979, we knew all that we know now about the science of climate change - what was happening, why it was happening and how to stop it. Over the next 10 years, we had the very real opportunity to stop it. Obviously, we failed. Nathaniel Rich’s groundbreaking account of that failure - and how tantalisingly close we came to signing binding treaties that would have saved us all before the fossil fuels industry and politicians committed to anti-scientific denialism - is already a journalistic blockbuster.
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We all know this, quite depressing.
- By Kindle Customer on 16-06-2023
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Losing Earth
- The Decade We Could Have Stopped Climate Change
- Narrated by: Matt Godfrey
- Length: 5 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 18-04-2019
- Language: English
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Antisocial
- How Online Extremists Broke America
- By: Andrew Marantz
- Narrated by: Andrew Marantz
- Length: 15 hrs and 8 mins
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This is a story about how the extreme became mainstream. It reveals how the truth became ‘fake news’, how fringe ideas spread and how a candidate many dismissed as a joke was propelled to the presidency by the dark side of the internet. For several years, Andrew Marantz, a New Yorker staff writer, has been embedded with alt-right propagandists, who have become experts at using social media to advance their corrosive agenda.
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Only complaint is he adopts voices for quotes
- By Anonymous User on 23-07-2020
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Antisocial
- How Online Extremists Broke America
- Narrated by: Andrew Marantz
- Length: 15 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 20-02-2020
- Language: English
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Fake Law
- The Truth About Justice in an Age of Lies
- By: The Secret Barrister
- Narrated by: Jack Hawkins
- Length: 11 hrs and 16 mins
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Most of us think the law is only relevant to criminals, if we even think of it at all. But the law touches every area of our lives: from intimate family matters to the biggest issues in our society. Our unfamiliarity is dangerous because it makes us vulnerable to media spin, political lies and the kind of misinformation that frequently comes from other loud-mouthed amateurs and those with vested interests. This 'fake law' allows the powerful and the ignorant to corrupt justice without our knowledge - worse, we risk letting them make us complicit.
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Not very interesting
- By Angie on 06-03-2023
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Fake Law
- The Truth About Justice in an Age of Lies
- Narrated by: Jack Hawkins
- Length: 11 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 03-09-2020
- Language: English
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Kremlin Winter
- Russia and the Second Coming of Vladimir Putin
- By: Robert Service
- Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
- Length: 14 hrs and 46 mins
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Russia has been locked into a winter of authoritarian rule at home and military adventures abroad under Vladimir Putin. In Kremlin Winter, Robert Service, one of our finest historians of Russia, plots the seasonal shifts in events since 2012 and those that may be expected in the immediate future. When Mikhail Gorbachëv introduced perestroika in the mid-1980s, the USSR went through a springtime of growth and release.
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Kremlin Winter
- Russia and the Second Coming of Vladimir Putin
- Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
- Length: 14 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 03-10-2019
- 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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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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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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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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Revolt
- The Worldwide Uprising Against Globalization
- By: Nadav Eyal
- Narrated by: Haim Watzman, Kaleo Griffith
- Length: 14 hrs and 28 mins
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Revolt is an eloquent and provocative challenge to the prevailing wisdom about the rise of nationalism and populism. With a vibrant and informed voice, Nadav Eyal illustrates how modern globalization is not sustainable. He contends that the collapse of the current world order is not so much about the imbalance between technological achievement and social progress or the breakdown of liberal democracy as it is about a passion to upend and destroy power structures that have become hollow, corrupt or simply unresponsive to urgent needs.
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Revolt
- The Worldwide Uprising Against Globalization
- Narrated by: Haim Watzman, Kaleo Griffith
- Length: 14 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 04-02-2021
- Language: English
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Let's See What Happens
- The Last Mayor of Bristol
- By: Marvin Rees
- Length: 9 hrs
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In 2016, Marvin Rees was elected as Mayor of Bristol, the first time a major European city had elected a mayor of Black African heritage. Re-elected in 2021, his eight-year tenure has taken the city through everything from Brexit to Covid, the cost of living crisis to the fall of the Colston statue. With the eyes of the world on Bristol, Rees navigated a high-stakes balancing act to keep the city together – all the while dealing with racist abuse and personal threats.
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Let's See What Happens
- The Last Mayor of Bristol
- Length: 9 hrs
- Release date: 22-08-2024
- Language: English
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Who Are We Now?
- Stories of Modern England
- By: Jason Cowley
- Narrated by: Jason Cowley, Thomas Judd
- Length: 9 hrs and 11 mins
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Jason Cowley, editor-in-chief of the New Statesman, examines contemporary England through a handful of the key news stories from recent times to reveal what they tell us about the state of the nation and to answer the question Who Are We Now? Spanning the years since the election of Tony Blair’s New Labour government to the aftermath of the Covid pandemic, the book investigates how England has changed and how those changes have affected us.
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Who Are We Now?
- Stories of Modern England
- Narrated by: Jason Cowley, Thomas Judd
- Length: 9 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 31-03-2022
- Language: English
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