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A (Very) Short History of Life on Earth
- 4.6 Billion Years in 12 Chapters
- By: Henry Gee
- Narrated by: Henry Gee
- Length: 7 hrs and 47 mins
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From that first foray to the spread of early hominids who later became Homo sapiens, life has persisted, undaunted. A (Very) Short History of Life is an enlightening story of survival, of persistence, illuminating the delicate balance within which life has always existed, and continues to exist today. It is our planet like you’ve never seen it before. Life teems through Henry Gee’s lyrical prose - colossal supercontinents drift, collide and coalesce, fashioning the face of the planet as we know it today.
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Fascinating, comprehensive, without bogging you down in detail.
- By Martin on 04-01-2022
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A (Very) Short History of Life on Earth
- 4.6 Billion Years in 12 Chapters
- Narrated by: Henry Gee
- Length: 7 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 16-09-2021
- Language: English
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Went to London, Took the Dog
- The Diary of a 60-Year-Old Runaway
- By: Nina Stibbe
- Narrated by: Nina Stibbe
- Length: 11 hrs and 3 mins
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Twenty years after leaving London, Nina Stibbe is back in town with her dog, Peggy. Together they take up lodging in the house of writer Deborah (Debby) Moggach in Camden for 'a year-long sabbatical'. It’s a break from married life back in Cornwall, or even perhaps a fresh start altogether. Nina is not quite sure yet. Debby does not have many demands – only to water the garden, watch for toads, and defrost the odd pie – so Nina is free to explore the city she once called home.
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Went to London, Took the Dog
- The Diary of a 60-Year-Old Runaway
- Narrated by: Nina Stibbe
- Length: 11 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 02-11-2023
- Language: English
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I Am Not Sidney Poitier
- By: Percival Everett
- Narrated by: Amir Abdullah
- Length: 7 hrs and 34 mins
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The sudden death of Not Sidney Poitier's mother orphans him at age eleven. He is left with a name no one understands, an uncanny resemblance to an Oscar winning actor, and serious amount of shares in the Turner Corporation. Percival Everett's novel follows Not Sidney's tumultuous life, as the social hierarchy scrambles to balance his skin colour with his fabulous wealth. Maturing under the less-than watchful eye of his adopted foster father, Ted Turner, Not Sidney learns to navigate a world that doesn't know what to do with him.
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I Am Not Sidney Poitier
- Narrated by: Amir Abdullah
- Length: 7 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 21-03-2024
- Language: English
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Shuggie Bain
- By: Douglas Stuart
- Narrated by: Angus King
- Length: 17 hrs and 30 mins
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It is 1981. Glasgow is dying and good families must grift to survive. Agnes Bain has always expected more from life. She dreams of greater things: a house with its own front door and a life bought and paid for outright (like her perfect, but false, teeth). But Agnes is abandoned by her philandering husband, and soon she and her three children find themselves trapped in a decimated mining town. As she descends deeper into drink, the children try their best to save her, yet one by one they must abandon her to save themselves. It is her son Shuggie who holds out hope the longest.
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depressing even though it was obviously well writt
- By Cameron on 29-12-2020
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Shuggie Bain
- Narrated by: Angus King
- Length: 17 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 20-02-2020
- Language: English
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Nothing but the Truth
- The Memoir of an Unlikely Lawyer
- By: The Secret Barrister
- Narrated by: Jack Hawkins
- Length: 10 hrs and 16 mins
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Just how do you become a barrister? And why do only one per cent of those who study law succeed in joining this mysteriously opaque profession? If it’s such a great occupation, how come you work 100-hour weeks for less than minimum wage? And why might a practising barrister come to feel the need to reveal the lies, secrets, failures and crises at the heart of this world of wigs and gowns? Nothing but the Truth charts an outsider’s progress down the winding path towards practising at the Bar,
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Nothing but the Truth
- The Memoir of an Unlikely Lawyer
- Narrated by: Jack Hawkins
- Length: 10 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 12-05-2022
- Language: English
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Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl
- By: Andrea Lawlor
- Narrated by: Dani Martineck
- Length: 9 hrs and 28 mins
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It’s 1993, and Paul Polydoris tends bar at the only gay club in a university town thrumming with politics and partying. He studies queer theory, has a dyke best friend, makes zines and is a flâneur with a rich dating life. But Paul’s also got a secret: he’s a shape-shifter. Oscillating wildly from Riot Grrrl to leather cub, Women’s Studies major to trade, Paul transforms his body at will in a series of adventures that take him from Iowa City to Boystown to Provincetown and finally to San Francisco - a journey through the deep queer archives of struggle and pleasure.
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Saucy!
- By Ellen on 26-09-2022
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Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl
- Narrated by: Dani Martineck
- Length: 9 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 18-04-2019
- Language: English
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In Defence of Witches
- Why Women Are Still on Trial
- By: Mona Chollet, Sophie R. Lewis - translator
- Narrated by: Alix Dunmore
- Length: 7 hrs and 47 mins
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A short feminist polemic that argues that the afterlife of the witch hunts continues today: the same reasons for which women were demonized in the past—being single, ageing, deciding to not have children—lead to them be persecuted now.
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In Defence of Witches
- Why Women Are Still on Trial
- Narrated by: Alix Dunmore
- Length: 7 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 06-01-2022
- Language: English
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Our Wives Under the Sea
- By: Julia Armfield
- Narrated by: Annabel Baldwin, Robyn Holdaway
- Length: 6 hrs and 7 mins
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Miri thinks she has got her wife back when Leah finally returns after a deep sea mission that ended in catastrophe. It soon becomes clear, though, that Leah may have come back wrong. Whatever happened in that vessel, whatever it was they were supposed to be studying before they were stranded on the ocean floor, Leah has carried part of it with her, onto dry land and into their home. To have the woman she loves back should mean a return to normal life, but Miri can feel Leah slipping from her grasp.
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Wanted to see the deep meaning, hated it
- By Anonymous User on 17-03-2024
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Our Wives Under the Sea
- Narrated by: Annabel Baldwin, Robyn Holdaway
- Length: 6 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 03-03-2022
- Language: English
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War Doctor
- Surgery on the Front Line
- By: David Nott
- Narrated by: David Nott
- Length: 10 hrs and 55 mins
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For more than 25 years, David Nott has taken unpaid leave from his job as a general and vascular surgeon with the NHS to volunteer in some of the world’s most dangerous war zones. From Sarajevo under siege in 1993 to clandestine hospitals in rebel-held eastern Aleppo, he has carried out lifesaving operations and field surgery in the most challenging conditions, and with none of the resources of a major London teaching hospital.
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Amazing life story.
- By Sam on 30-04-2019
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War Doctor
- Surgery on the Front Line
- Narrated by: David Nott
- Length: 10 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 21-02-2019
- Language: English
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Dead Weight
- On Hunger, Harm and Disordered Eating
- By: Emmeline Clein
- Narrated by: Karissa Vacker
- Length: 11 hrs and 31 mins
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Emmeline Clein's own history of disordered eating began when she was just twelve. In Dead Weight, alongside her own experience and through the stories of other women – famous figures from across time and popular culture, and girls she's known and loved – she traces the medical and cultural history of anorexia, bulimia, orthorexia and binge eating disorder.
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Dead Weight
- On Hunger, Harm and Disordered Eating
- Narrated by: Karissa Vacker
- Length: 11 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 04-04-2024
- Language: English
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Wilding
- The Return of Nature to a British Farm
- By: Isabella Tree
- Narrated by: Isabella Tree
- Length: 12 hrs and 22 mins
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Forced to accept that intensive farming on the heavy clay of their land at Knepp was economically unsustainable, Isabella Tree and her husband, Charlie Burrell, made a spectacular leap of faith: they decided to step back and let nature take over. Thanks to the introduction of free-roaming cattle, ponies, pigs and deer - proxies of the large animals that once roamed Britain - the 3,500 acre project has seen extraordinary increases in wildlife numbers and diversity in little over a decade.
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Inspiring
- By Anonymous User on 29-07-2020
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Wilding
- The Return of Nature to a British Farm
- Narrated by: Isabella Tree
- Length: 12 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 07-03-2019
- Language: English
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Stay True
- By: Hua Hsu
- Narrated by: Hua Hsu
- Length: 5 hrs and 28 mins
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When Hua Hsu first meets Ken in a Berkeley dorm room, he hates him. A frat boy with terrible taste in music, Ken seems exactly like everyone else. For Hua, who makes zines and haunts indie record shops, Ken represents all that he defines himself in opposition to – the mainstream. The only thing Hua, the son of Taiwanese immigrants, and Ken, whose Japanese American family has been in the US for generations, have in common is that, however they engage with it, American culture doesn’t seem to have a place for either of them.
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Where do I start?!
- By Tamara Neal on 21-04-2024
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Furiously Happy
- By: Jenny Lawson
- Narrated by: Jenny Lawson
- Length: 8 hrs and 28 mins
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In Let's Pretend This Never Happened, Jenny Lawson regaled listeners with uproarious stories of her bizarre childhood. In Furiously Happy, she explores her lifelong battle with mental illness. A hysterical, ridiculous book about crippling depression and anxiety? That sounds like a terrible idea. And terrible ideas are what Jenny does best.
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Furiously Happy
- Narrated by: Jenny Lawson
- Length: 8 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 15-04-2021
- Language: English
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The Doll Factory
- By: Elizabeth Macneal
- Narrated by: Tuppence Middleton
- Length: 10 hrs and 54 mins
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London. 1850. The Great Exhibition is being erected in Hyde Park, and among the crowd watching the spectacle, two people meet. For Iris, an aspiring artist, it is the encounter of a moment - forgotten seconds later, but for Silas, a collector entranced by the strange and beautiful, that meeting marks a new beginning. When Iris is asked to model for pre-Raphaelite artist Louis Frost, she agrees on the condition that he will also teach her to paint. Suddenly her world begins to expand, to become a place of art and love. But Silas has thought of only one thing since their meeting....
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Mystery, intrigue, suspense all here
- By Judith O'Doherty on 02-07-2019
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The Doll Factory
- Narrated by: Tuppence Middleton
- Length: 10 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 02-05-2019
- Language: English
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The Glass Hotel
- By: Emily St. John Mandel
- Narrated by: Dylan Moore
- Length: 10 hrs and 28 mins
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Vincent is the beautiful bartender at the Hotel Caiette, a five-star glass-and cedar palace on the northernmost tip of Vancouver Island. New York financier Jonathan Alkaitis owns the hotel. When he passes Vincent his card with a tip, it’s the beginning of their life together. That same day, a hooded figure scrawls a note on the windowed wall of the hotel: ‘Why don’t you swallow broken glass.’ Leon Prevant, a shipping executive for a company called Neptune Avramidis, sees the note from the hotel bar and is shaken to his core.
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Boring
- By elizabeth b. on 07-05-2020
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The Glass Hotel
- Narrated by: Dylan Moore
- Length: 10 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 30-04-2020
- Language: English
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Sea of Tranquility
- By: Emily St. John Mandel
- Narrated by: Arthur Morey, Dylan Moore, John Lee, and others
- Length: 5 hrs and 46 mins
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Lives separated by time and space have collided, and an exiled Englishman, a writer trapped far from home, and a girl destined to die too young, have each glimpsed a world that is not their own. Travelling through the centuries, between colonies on the moon and an ever-changing Earth, together their lives will solve a mystery that will make you question everything you thought you knew to be true.
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Life is perception.
- By Justin on 01-12-2022
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Sea of Tranquility
- Narrated by: Arthur Morey, Dylan Moore, John Lee, Kirsten Potter
- Length: 5 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 28-04-2022
- Language: English
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The Mercies
- By: Kiran Millwood Hargrave
- Narrated by: Jessie Buckley
- Length: 11 hrs and 5 mins
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1617. The sea around the remote Norwegian island of Vardø is thrown into a vicious storm. A young woman, Maren, watches as the men of the island, out fishing, perish in an instant. Eighteen months later, a sinister figure arrives. Absalom Cornet has been summoned to bring the women of the island to heel. With him travels his young wife, Ursa. In her new home, and in Maren, Ursa encounters something she has never seen before: independent women. But where Ursa finds happiness, even love, Absalom sees only a place flooded with a terrible evil, one he must root out at all costs....
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A fantastic, emotionally impactful story.
- By Anonymous User on 30-01-2021
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The Mercies
- Narrated by: Jessie Buckley
- Length: 11 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 06-02-2020
- 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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Germania
- A Personal History of Germans Ancient and Modern
- By: Simon Winder
- Narrated by: Peter Noble
- Length: 19 hrs and 6 mins
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There are many reasons to be fascinated by Germany: forests, architecture and fairy tales, not to mention its history and inhabitants’ penchant for very peculiar food. Our distant and often maligned cousin, this is a place in which innumerable strange characters have held power, in which a chaotic jigsaw of borders have moved about seemingly at random, and which at the dark heart of the 20th century fell into the hands of truly terrible forces. And now Simon Winder is here to tell us everything else there is to know about this mesmerizing, tortured and endlessly fascinating country.
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Germania
- A Personal History of Germans Ancient and Modern
- Narrated by: Peter Noble
- Length: 19 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 11-04-2024
- Language: English
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The Amendments
- By: Niamh Mulvey
- Narrated by: Jessica Regan
- Length: 8 hrs and 6 mins
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Nell and her partner Adrienne are about to have a baby. For Adrienne, it’s the start of a new life. For Nell, it’s the reason the two of them are sitting in a therapist’s office. Because she can’t go into this without dealing with the truth: that she has been a mother before, and now she can hardly bring herself to speak to her own mother, let alone return home to Ireland. Nell is running out of places to hide from her past. But to Ireland and the past is where she must go, and that is where The Amendments takes us.
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The Amendments
- Narrated by: Jessica Regan
- Length: 8 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 18-04-2024
- Language: English
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