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Author: Listening Books
Author Listening Books
Narrator Various
Duration 1h 40m
The summer 2025 edition of our exclusive member newsletter. This issue includes an interviews with authors Bali Rai and Beverley Watts, lots of book-ish chat, charity updates and our winter competition!
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An Interview With Beverley Watts
Author: Listening Books
Author Listening Books
Narrator Beverley Watts
Duration 21m
An Interview with historical fiction and romance author Beverley Watts. Beverley chats to us about her very popular Shackleford Sisters series.
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An Interview With Susan Elia MacNeal
Author: Listening Books
Author Listening Books
Narrator Susan Elia MacNeal
Duration 18m
An interview with historical crime author, Susan Elia MacNeal. Susan chats to us about her latest book, Mother Daughter Traitor Spy.
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An Interview With Philippa Gregory
Author: Listening Books
Author Listening Books
Narrator Philippa Gregory
Duration 20m
An interview with best-selling author Philippa Gregory. Philippa chats to us about taking a departure from fiction to write her history book, Normal Women.
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An Interview With Glenda Young
Author: Listening Books
Author Listening Books
Narrator Glenda Young
Duration 16m
An interview with cosy crime author Glenda Young. Glenda chats to us about her Helen Dexter cosy mystery series.
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Author: Dave Broom
Author Dave Broom
Narrator The Author
Duration 5h 31m
In this beautifully crafted narrative, award-winning writer Dave Broom examines Scotch whisky from the point of view of its terroir—the land, weather, history, craft and culture that feed and enhance the whisky itself. Travelling around his native Scotland and visiting distilleries from Islay and Harris to Orkney and Speyside, Dave explores t...
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Author: Ben Dark
Author Ben Dark
Narrator The Author
Duration 6h 48m
There is a renewed interest in the nature on our doorsteps, as can be seen in the work of amateur botanists identifying wildflowers and chalking the names on the pavements. But beyond the garden wall lies a wealth of cultivated plants, each with a unique tale to tell. In The Grove, award-winning writer and head gardener Ben Dark reveals the remarka...
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Author: Zora Neale Hurston
Author Zora Neale Hurston
Narrator Nerissa Bradley
Duration 10m
How It Feels To Be Colored Me was first published in "The World Tomorrow" in May 1928. In this autobiographical piece that focuses on race and 1920s America, Hurston reflects on her early childhood in an all-black Florida town and her first experiences in life where she felt "different." Hurston focuses on the similarities we all share and on her o...
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Author: Adam Smith
Author Adam Smith
Narrator Ben Allen
Duration 45h 12m
The Wealth of Nations is an economics book like no other. First published in 1776, Adam Smith's groundbreaking theories provide a recipe for national prosperity that has not been bettered since. It assumes no prior knowledge of its subject, and over 200 years on, still provides valuable lessons on the fundamentals of economics.
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Edgar Allan Poe: The Complete Essays
Author: Edgar Allan Poe
Author Edgar Allan Poe
Narrator Peter Noble
Duration 11h 20m
Edgar Allan Poe was a writer, poet, editor and literary critic. Poe is best known for his poetry and short stories, particularly his tales of mystery and the macabre, and is widely regarded as a central figure of Romanticism in the United States and of American literature. Poe was one of the country's earliest practitioners of the short story and c...
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Author: Sandra Igwe
Author Sandra Igwe
Narrator The Author
Duration 6h 59m
A passionate first-hand account of what it is like being a Black mother coping with postnatal anxiety and depression - and how Black women are let down when they are most vulnerable. Joyful. Graceful. Blessed. Strong. Anxious. Depressed. Stigmatised. Stereotyped. What happens when motherhood isn't what you expected - and when you reach out for su...
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Author: Caroline Boyd
Author Caroline Boyd
Narrator Zoe Zak
Duration 3h 38m
A month-by-month resource offering stage-specific wellness practices to help new mums care for themselves through the first year.A natural, supportive, empowering start to motherhood - for mental, emotional and physical wellness when you need it most.Your new baby is here! Your world has turned upside down! And with all your focus on your precious...
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Author: Susan Clark
Author Susan Clark
Narrator Jane Mcdowell, Katherine Press, Mike Rogers
Duration 8h 43m
Few experiences can compare to the trauma and pain of losing a baby; and the wall of silence that often surrounds that loss can make grieving even harder. Loving You From Here explores the traumatic impact of losing a baby through stillbirth and neonatal death. It features the moving stories of multiple families; some affected recently, some decad...
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Author: Rachel Maddow
Author Rachel Maddow
Narrator The Author
Duration 15h 30m
Brought to you by Penguin.** Winner of the 2021 GRAMMY® Best Spoken Word Album **Award-winning American news presenter Rachel Maddow investigates remarkable stories from around the globe, all leading back to the same crooked source: the unimaginably lucrative and equally corrupting oil and gas industry. From Oklahoma, Texas and Washington, to K...
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Author: Mya-Rose Craig
Author Mya-Rose Craig
Narrator The Author
Duration 9h 30m
Brought to you by Penguin."Birdwatching has never felt like a hobby, or a pastime I can pick up and put down, but a thread running through the pattern of my life, so tightly woven in that there's no way of pulling it free and leaving the rest of my life intact."Meet Mya-Rose - otherwise known as 'Birdgirl'. Birder, environmentalist, diversity activ...
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Author: Lucy Edwards
Author Lucy Edwards
Narrator The Author
Duration 5h 23m
Lucy Edwards is a UK-based blind broadcaster, content creator, Pantene Ambassador and disability activist. At only 17 her world went to black. In an instant Lucy lost her eyesight due to a rare condition called Incontinentia Pigmenti. She had to learn how to navigate her life all over again, the beginning of an extraordinary journey to find self-ac...
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Author: Helen Chandler-Wilde
Author Helen Chandler-Wilde
Narrator The Author
Duration 6h 51m
On New Year's Eve of 2018, journalist Helen Chandler-Wilde lost everything she owned in a storage unit fire in Croydon, where she'd stowed all her possessions after a big break-up. She was left devastated, and forced to re-evaluate her relationship with owning material things. A mix of memoir, self-help and journalism, Lost & Found explores the...
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Author: Zing Tsjeng
Author Zing Tsjeng
Narrator Jacqui Bardelang, Jacqui Ong
Duration 20h 11m
Forgotten Women reaches around the world and its history to rediscover, retell and reinstate the lives of over 190 important and significant women. From Neolithic times to modernity, Zing Tsjeng has traced the women who have shaped their age and revolutionised society. In this book lies the strength, lives and sacrifices of women who have refused t...
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Author: Bea Moise
Author Bea Moise
Narrator Nerissa Bradley
Duration 4h 4m
How do I set appropriate technology boundaries with my neurodivergent child? What is the relationship between screen time and meltdowns? How can I best help my child transition in and out of screen use without dysregulating? Appropriate technology use is a huge issue for many parents, especially those with neurodivergent children. Beatrice Moise, n...
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Author: Adam Hart
Author Adam Hart
Narrator The Author
Duration 13h 2m
On 14 August 1943, Adam Hart's great-grandfather Frank Griffiths took off from RAF Tempsford, the SOE 'Special Duties' airbase in rural England. Frank and his crew were on a secret midnight mission codenamed Operation Pimento, but they were shot down near Annecy in southeast France. Only Frank survived. Though seriously injured, Frank felt it was h...
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Author: Tim MacGabhann
Author Tim MacGabhann
Narrator Aaron Heffernan
Duration 6h 49m
Following an obsessive mind trying (and failing) to find relief, The Black Pool is a gripping thrill-ride through violent, chaotic underworlds. Tracing the roots of an illness through the failures of youth and adolescence and finally back to childhood, it's about all the wrong places where addicts look for transcendence - from work, to relationship...
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