Showing results by publisher "Sceptre" in Biographies & Memoirs
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Cosa Nostra
- The Definitive History of the Sicilian Mafia
- Written by: John Dickie
- Narrated by: Tom Lawrence
- Length: 17 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Cosa Nostra is the compelling story of the Sicilian mafia, the world's most famous, most secretive and most misunderstood criminal fraternity. The mafia has been given many names since it was founded 140 years ago: the Sect, the Brotherhood, the Honoured Society and now Cosa Nostra. Yet as times have changed, the mafia's subtle and bloody methods have remained the same. Now, for the first time, Cosa Nostra reconstructs the complete history of the Sicilian mafia from its origins to the present day.
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Cosa Nostra
- The Definitive History of the Sicilian Mafia
- Narrated by: Tom Lawrence
- Length: 17 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 2020-09-01
- Language: English
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Private Faces and Public Places
- The Autobiography
- Written by: Sian Phillips
- Narrated by: Sian Phillips
- Length: 26 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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The remarkably honest and brilliantly entertaining memoir of one of our finest acting Dames whose long and celebrated career includes her much-loved performance as Livia in I, Claudius and who was married for 20 years to the hell-raising Hollywood star Peter O'Toole. Siân Phillips has a long and celebrated career on both stage and screen. For the first time, her two best-selling volumes of memoir Private Faces and Public Places will be available as a single volume with a brand new foreword by the author.
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Private Faces and Public Places
- The Autobiography
- Narrated by: Sian Phillips
- Length: 26 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 2021-11-25
- Language: English
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The Missing Musk
- A Casebook of Mysteries from the Natural World
- Written by: Bob Gilbert
- Narrated by: Bob Gilbert
- Length: 11 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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In 1913 all the musk plants in the world stopped smelling. Unable to resist the lure of this mystery, Bob Gilbert turns detective, determined to find the truth in the tale. Mixing history, memoir, science and nature writing, The Missing Musk takes the listener on a journey of discovery, uncovering the truth behind six mysteries and myths from across the natural world.
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The Missing Musk
- A Casebook of Mysteries from the Natural World
- Narrated by: Bob Gilbert
- Length: 11 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 2023-05-11
- Language: English
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Back in the Day
- Written by: Melvyn Bragg
- Narrated by: Melvyn Bragg
- Length: 11 hrs and 54 mins
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In this captivating memoir, Melvyn Bragg recalls growing up in the Cumbrian market town of Wigton, from his early childhood during the war to the moment he had to decide between staying on or spreading his wings. This is the tale of a boy who lived in a pub and expected to leave school at 15 yet won a scholarship to Oxford. Derailed by a severe breakdown when he was 13, he developed a passion for reading and study - though that didn't stop him playing in a skiffle band or falling in love.
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Back in the Day
- Narrated by: Melvyn Bragg
- Length: 11 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 2022-08-25
- Language: English
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The Language of Birds
- the novel inspired by the Lord Lucan affair
- Written by: Jill Dawson
- Narrated by: Ellie Heydon, Eilidh Beaton
- Length: 10 hrs and 12 mins
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Drawing on the infamous Lord Lucan affair, this compelling novel explores the roots of a shocking murder from a fresh perspective and brings to vivid life an era when women's voices all too often went unheard. In the summer of 1974, Mandy River arrives in London to make a fresh start and begins working as nanny to the children of one Lady Morven. She quickly finds herself in the midst of a bitter custody battle and the house under siege: Lord Morven is having his wife watched.
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The Language of Birds
- the novel inspired by the Lord Lucan affair
- Narrated by: Ellie Heydon, Eilidh Beaton
- Length: 10 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 2019-04-04
- Language: English
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Outskirts
- Living Life on the Edge of the Green Belt
- Written by: John Grindrod
- Narrated by: Nick Underwood
- Length: 9 hrs and 44 mins
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Green belts are part of the landscape and psyche of post-war Britain, but have led to conflicts at every level of society - between conservationists and developers, town and country, politicians and people, nimbys and the forces of progress. Growing up on 'the last road in London' on an estate at the edge of the woods, John Grindrod had a childhood that mirrored these tensions. His family, too, seemed caught between two worlds: his wheelchair-bound mother and soft hearted father had moved from the inner city and had trouble adjusting.
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Outskirts
- Living Life on the Edge of the Green Belt
- Narrated by: Nick Underwood
- Length: 9 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 2017-06-01
- Language: English
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Consumed
- A Sister’s Story
- Written by: Arifa Akbar
- Narrated by: Shazia Nicholls
- Length: 8 hrs and 48 mins
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When Arifa Akbar discovered that her sister had fallen seriously ill, she assumed there would be a brief spell in hospital and then she'd be home. This was not to be. It was not until the day before she died that the family discovered she was suffering from tuberculosis. Consumed is a story of sisterhood, grief, the redemptive power of art and the strange mythologies that surround tuberculosis. It takes us from Keats' deathbed and the tubercular women of opera to the resurgence of TB in modern Britain today.
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Consumed
- A Sister’s Story
- Narrated by: Shazia Nicholls
- Length: 8 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 2021-06-10
- Language: English
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Burn
- A Story of Fire, Woods and Healing
- Written by: Ben Short
- Narrated by: Ben Short
- Length: 9 hrs
- Unabridged
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Ben Short has a successful career in advertising, a flat in a trendy part of London, a flashy motorbike. But after years of suffering with anxiety, he's a wreck. A drastic change is needed. For a time, he finds solace working with a forester, then as an apprentice to a Gypsy woodman, setting up home in a dilapidated wagon with just a rescue dog for company.
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