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Britt-Marie Was Here
- Written by: Fredrik Backman
- Narrated by: Joan Walker
- Length: 9 hrs and 17 mins
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For as long as anyone can remember, Britt-Marie has been an acquired taste. It's not that she's judgmental or fussy or difficult - she just expects things to be done in a certain way. A cutlery drawer should be arranged in the right order, for example - forks, knives, then spoons. We're not animals, are we? But behind the passive-aggressive, socially awkward, absurdly pedantic busybody is a woman who has more imagination, bigger dreams and a warmer heart than anyone around her realises.
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slow start but really good overall!
- By Ava on 2019-04-08
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Britt-Marie Was Here
- Narrated by: Joan Walker
- Length: 9 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 2016-05-05
- Language: English
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Venomous Lumpsucker
- Written by: Ned Beauman
- Narrated by: John Hastings
- Length: 10 hrs and 35 mins
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The venomous lumpsucker is the most intelligent fish on the planet. Or maybe it was the most intelligent fish on the planet. Because it might already be extinct. Nobody knows. And nobody cares. Except for two people. Mining executive Mark Halyard has a prison cell waiting for him if that fish has gone for good. And biologist Karin Resaint needs it for her own darker purposes. They don't trust each other, but they're left with no choice but to team up, pursuing the lumpsucker across the strange landscapes of near-future Europe.
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Venomous Lumpsucker
- Narrated by: John Hastings
- Length: 10 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 2022-07-14
- Language: English
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Other People's Clothes
- Written by: Calla Henkel
- Narrated by: Lauryn Allman
- Length: 10 hrs and 44 mins
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Two art students arrive from New York, both desperate for the city to solve their problems. Zoe is grieving for her high school best friend, murdered months before in her hometown in Florida. Hailey is rich, obsessed with the exploits of Lindsay Lohan and Britney Spears and wants to be a Warholian legend. Together they rent a once-magnificent apartment from eccentric crime writer Beatrice Becks. With little to fill their time, they spend their nights twisting through Berlin's club scene and their days hungover.
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Worth it
- By Vizslalover on 2022-06-05
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Other People's Clothes
- Narrated by: Lauryn Allman
- Length: 10 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 2021-07-08
- Language: English
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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
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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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The End of Loneliness
- Written by: Benedict Wells, Charlotte Collins - translator
- Narrated by: Luke Thompson
- Length: 8 hrs and 11 mins
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I've known Death a long time but now Death knows me. When their idyllic childhood is shattered by the sudden death of their parents, siblings Marty, Liz and Jules are sent to a bleak state boarding school. Once there, the orphans' lives change tracks: Marty throws himself into academic life; Liz is drawn to dark forms of escapism; and Jules transforms from a vivacious child to a withdrawn teenager.
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The End of Loneliness
- Narrated by: Luke Thompson
- Length: 8 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 2018-03-08
- Language: English
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Oxygen
- Written by: Andrew Miller
- Narrated by: James Meunier
- Length: 8 hrs and 53 mins
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In the summer of 1997, four people reach a turning point: Alice Valentine, who lies gravely ill in her West Country home; her two sons, one still searching for a sense of direction, the other fighting to keep his acting career and marriage afloat; and László Lázár, who leads a comfortable life in Paris yet is plagued by his memories of the 1956 Hungarian uprising. For each, the time has come to assess what matters in life, and all will be forced to take part in an act of liberation - though not necessarily the one foreseen.
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Oxygen
- Narrated by: James Meunier
- Length: 8 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 2024-01-25
- Language: English
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The Optimists
- Written by: Andrew Miller
- Narrated by: Matthew Spencer
- Length: 9 hrs and 41 mins
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In a world where people slaughter the innocent without mercy or retribution, how can we have faith in humanity, or the future? Clem Glass, a photojournalist, returns from Africa to London convinced there is no hope for mankind. Yet after his sister falls ill and he takes her back to the West Country of their childhood, he cannot ignore the decency and kindness he encounters, or the pulse of goodness in his own heart. When news comes offering Clem the chance to confront the author of his nightmares, he must choose what sort of man to be.
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The Optimists
- Narrated by: Matthew Spencer
- Length: 9 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 2024-02-08
- Language: English
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Colour
- Travels Through the Paintbox
- Written by: Victoria Finlay
- Narrated by: Victoria Finlay
- Length: 16 hrs and 2 mins
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Colour unlocks the history of the colours of the rainbow, and reveals how paints came to be invented, discovered, traded and used. This remarkable and beautifully written book, part travelogue part narrative history, remembers a time when red paint was really the colour of blood, when orange was the poison pigment, blue as expensive as gold and yellow made from the urine of cows force-fed with mangoes. It looks at how green was carried by yaks along the silk road, and how an entire nation was founded on the colour purple.
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Colour
- Travels Through the Paintbox
- Narrated by: Victoria Finlay
- Length: 16 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 2022-11-03
- Language: English
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Love Without End
- A Story of Heloise and Abelard
- Written by: Melvyn Bragg
- Narrated by: Beth Eyre, Mark Hadfield
- Length: 8 hrs and 54 mins
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Paris in 1117. Heloise, a brilliant young scholar, is astonished when the famous radical philosopher Peter Abelard consents to be her tutor. But what starts out as a meeting of minds turns into a passionate, dangerous love affair, which incurs terrible retribution. Nine centuries later, Arthur is in Paris to recreate the extraordinary story of Heloise and Abelard in a novel. To his surprise, his daughter visits and agrees to help, challenging his portraits of a couple who seem often inscrutable, sometimes breathtakingly modern.
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Love Without End
- A Story of Heloise and Abelard
- Narrated by: Beth Eyre, Mark Hadfield
- Length: 8 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 2019-03-07
- Language: English
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Madness Is Better Than Defeat
- Written by: Ned Beauman
- Narrated by: Eric Meyers
- Length: 15 hrs and 56 mins
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In 1938, two rival expeditions set off for a lost Mayan temple in the jungles of Honduras, one intending to shoot a screwball comedy on location there, the other intending to disassemble it and ship it back to New York. A seemingly endless stalemate ensues, and 20 years later, when a rogue CIA agent learns that both expeditions are still out in the wilderness, he embarks on a mission to exploit the temple as a geopolitical pawn.
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Madness Is Better Than Defeat
- Narrated by: Eric Meyers
- Length: 15 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 2017-08-29
- Language: English
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Fabric
- The Hidden History of the Material World
- Written by: Victoria Finlay
- Narrated by: Victoria Finlay
- Length: 20 hrs and 18 mins
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Bestselling author Victoria Finlay spins us round the globe, weaving stories of our relationship with cloth and asking how and why people through the ages have made it, worn it, invented it and made symbols out of it. And sometimes why they have fought for it. She beats the inner bark of trees into cloth in Papua New Guinea, fails to handspin cotton in Guatemala, visits tweed weavers at their homes in Harris, and has lessons in patchwork-making in Gee's Bend, Alabama—where in the 1930s, deprived of almost everything they owned, a community of women turned quilting into an art form.
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Fabric
- The Hidden History of the Material World
- Narrated by: Victoria Finlay
- Length: 20 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 2022-11-03
- Language: English
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Alexandria
- The City That Changed the World
- Written by: Islam Issa
- Narrated by: Islam Issa
- Length: 20 hrs and 15 mins
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Combining rigorous research with myth and folklore, Alexandria is an authoritative history of a city that has shaped our modern world. Soon after being founded by Alexander the Great, Alexandria became the crucible of cultural exchange between East and West for millennia and the undisputed global capital of knowledge. It was at the forefront of human progress, but it also witnessed brutal natural disasters, plagues, crusades and violence.
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Alexandria
- The City That Changed the World
- Narrated by: Islam Issa
- Length: 20 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 2023-11-02
- 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
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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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Outstanding
- By louis dandenault on 2022-12-25
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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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Deeds Not Words
- Written by: Helen Pankhurst
- Narrated by: Helen Duff
- Length: 11 hrs and 15 mins
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On the 100th anniversary of women getting the vote, Helen Pankhurst - great-granddaughter of suffragette leader Emmeline Pankhurst and a leading women's rights campaigner - charts how women's lives have changed over the last century and offers a powerful and positive argument for a new way forward.
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Deeds Not Words
- Narrated by: Helen Duff
- Length: 11 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 2018-02-06
- Language: English
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Jewels
- A Secret History
- Written by: Victoria Finlay
- Narrated by: Victoria Finlay
- Length: 14 hrs and 22 mins
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Throughout history, precious stones have inspired passions and poetry, quests and curses, sacred writings and unsacred actions. Blending adventure travel, geology, exciting new research and her own irresistible charm, Finlay has fashioned a treasure hunt for some of the most valuable, glamorous, and mysterious substances on earth. Jewels is a unique and often exhilarating voyage through history, across cultures, deep into the earth's mantle, and up to the glittering heights of fame, power and wealth.
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Jewels
- A Secret History
- Narrated by: Victoria Finlay
- Length: 14 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 2022-11-03
- Language: English
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Ghosted
- A Love Story
- Written by: Jenn Ashworth
- Narrated by: Helen Duff
- Length: 11 hrs and 6 mins
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One ordinary morning, Laurie's husband, Mark, vanishes, leaving behind his phone and wallet. For weeks, she tells no one, carrying on her job as a cleaner at the local university, visiting her tricky, dementia-suffering father and holing up in her tower-block flat with a bottle to hand. When she finally reports Mark as missing, the police are suspicious. Why did she take so long? Wasn't she worried? It turns out there are many more mysteries in Laurie's account of events, though not just because she glosses over the facts.
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Ghosted
- A Love Story
- Narrated by: Helen Duff
- Length: 11 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 2021-06-10
- Language: English
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How Much the Heart Can Hold
- Seven Stories on Love
- Written by: Carys Bray, Rowan Hisayo Buchanan, Bernardine Evaristo, and others
- Narrated by: Grainne Gillis, Jane Collingwood, Jeff Harding, and others
- Length: 5 hrs and 22 mins
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Love is not a singular concept. In this collection, seven award-winning authors explore seven concepts of love: from philautia (self-love) to agape (love for humanity) and from storge (a natural affection for family) to mania (a frenzied, obsessive love).
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How Much the Heart Can Hold
- Seven Stories on Love
- Narrated by: Grainne Gillis, Jane Collingwood, Jeff Harding, Jilly Bond, Luke Thompson, Raj Ghatak, Sarah Barron
- Length: 5 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 2016-11-03
- 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
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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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Now We Shall Be Entirely Free
- The Waterstones Scottish Book of the Year 2019
- Written by: Andrew Miller
- Narrated by: Joe Jameson
- Length: 13 hrs and 4 mins
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One rain-swept February night in 1809, an unconscious man is carried into a house in Somerset. He is Captain John Lacroix, home from Britain's disastrous campaign against Napoleon's forces in Spain. Gradually Lacroix recovers his health but not his peace of mind - he cannot talk about the war or face the memory of what happened in a village on the gruelling retreat to Corunna. After the command comes to return to his regiment, he sets out instead for the Hebrides, with the vague intent of reviving his musical interests and collecting local folk songs.
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Now We Shall Be Entirely Free
- The Waterstones Scottish Book of the Year 2019
- Narrated by: Joe Jameson
- Length: 13 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 2018-08-23
- Language: English
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The Slowworm's Song
- Written by: Andrew Miller
- Narrated by: James Lailey
- Length: 9 hrs and 24 mins
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An ex-soldier and recovering alcoholic living quietly in Somerset, Stephen Rose has just begun to form a bond with the daughter he barely knows when he receives a summons - to an inquiry into an incident during the Troubles in Northern Ireland. It is the return of what Stephen hoped he had outdistanced. Above all, to testify would jeopardise the fragile relationship with his daughter. And if he loses her, he loses everything. Instead, he decides to write her an account of his life: a confession, a defence, a love letter. Also a means of buying time.
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The Slowworm's Song
- Narrated by: James Lailey
- Length: 9 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 2022-03-03
- Language: English
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