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An Interview With Sarah Bax Horton
Author: Listening Books
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Narrator Sarah Bax Horton
Duration 24m
An interview with Sarah Bax Horton, author of the book One-Armed Jack, which takes a fresh look at the infamous Jack the Ripper case.
View BookAuthor: Liz Cheney
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Author Liz Cheney
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Duration 12h 14m
In the aftermath of the 2020 presidential election, Donald Trump and many around him, including certain other elected Republican officials, intentionally breached their oath to the US Constitution: they ignored the rulings of dozens of courts, plotted to overturn a lawful election, and provoked a violent attack on the Capitol. Liz Cheney, one of th...
View BookAn Interview With Jacquie Bloese
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Narrator Jacquie Bloese
Duration 37m
An interview with author of the novel The French House, Jacquie Bloese.
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Narrator John Marrs
Duration 31m
An interview with thriller writer John Marrs, author of novels including The One and The Passengers.
View BookAn Interview With Paul Pilkington
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Narrator Paul Pilkington
Duration 37m
An interview with crime writer Paul Pilkington, author of the Emma Holden series.
View BookAuthor: Philippa Gregory
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Author Philippa Gregory
Narrator Clare Corbett, Nneka Okoye, James Goode, Joe Jameson, Tania Rodrigues
Duration 27h 17m
Did you know that there are more penises than women in the Bayeux Tapestry? That the Peasant’s Revolt was started and propelled by women, protesting a tax on women? Or that celebrated naturalist Charles Darwin believed not just that women were naturally inferior to men but that they’d evolve to become ever more inferior? These are just...
View BookAuthor: Gary Neville
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Author Gary Neville
Narrator Mark Hadfield
Duration 9h
Football is the people's game. A sport accessible to everyone and enjoyed by millions around the world. But football is broken. Beneath the glamorous sheen of the Premier League, it's a game that's rusting and rotten. The growing influence and wealth of the biggest teams is harming the game, leaving fans out of pocket and other clubs clinging to su...
View BookRivets, Trivets and Galvanised Buckets
Author: Tom Fort
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Author Tom Fort
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Duration 9h 28m
Rivets, Trivets and Galvanised Buckets is The Repair Shop meets The Diary of a Bookseller all conveyed in Tom Fort's signature easy-going writing style. Tom Fort made his name as a writer with his bestselling travel narrative The A303: Highway to the Sun. He now focuses on matters closer to home by celebrating a quintessential cornerstone of any vi...
View BookAuthor: John Valiant
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Author John Valiant
Narrator Alan Carlson
Duration 14h 18m
A stunning account of this century's most intense urban fire, and a panoramic exploration of the rapidly changing relationship between fire and humankind. In May 2016, Fort McMurray, Alberta, the hub of Canada's oil industry, was overrun by wildfire. The multi-billion-dollar disaster turned entire neighbourhoods into firebombs and drove 90,000 peop...
View BookAuthor: Philippe Sands
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Author Philippe Sands
Narrator Adjoa Andoh
Duration 5h 46m
FROM THE WINNER OF THE BAILIE GIFFORD PRIZE THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Through one woman's fight for justice, the award-winning author of East West Street exposes the shocking events that marked the 1965 establishment of the British Indian Ocean Territory. Written with Sands' characteristic expertise, insight and thrilling storytelling, Th...
View BookAuthor: Clive Oppenheimer
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Author Clive Oppenheimer
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Duration 8h 44m
We are made of the same stuff as the breath and cinders of volcanoes. They have long shaped the path of humanity, provoked pioneering explorations and fired up our imaginations. They are fertile ground for agriculture, art and spirituality, as well as scientific advances, and they act as time capsules, capturing the footprints of those who came bef...
View BookAuthor: Lesley-Anne Jones
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Author Lesley-Anne Jones
Narrator Imogen Church
Duration 14h 25m
No comprehensive biography of the time Paul McCartney spent with Wings has ever been published. A period often dismissed as McCartney's 'missing' years, in fact the band lasted for a decade: two years longer than the Beatles, and wielded such impact and influence that they at one point achieved the status as the biggest live band in the world. Band...
View BookBy Your Side: My Life Loving Barbara Windsor
Author: Scott Mitchell
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Author Scott Mitchell
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Duration 10h 53m
In December 2020, while the world was gripped with news of an imminent third lockdown, Scott Mitchell was visiting the care home where his partner and wife of 27 years—Dame Barbara Windsor—was being looked after. At the age of 83, after a career spanning seven decades and a seven-year battle with the debilitating effects of dementia, sh...
View BookAuthor: Rebecca Struthers
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Author Rebecca Struthers
Narrator Anna Ploszajski
Duration 8h 9m
Timepieces are one of humanity's most ingenious innovations. Their invention was more significant for human culture than the printing press, or even the wheel. They have travelled the world with us, from the depths of the oceans to the summit of Everest, and even to the Moon. They regulate our daily lives and have sculpted the social and economic d...
View BookAuthor: Roma Agrawal
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Author Roma Agrawal
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Duration 8h 21m
In Nuts and Bolts, award-winning engineer and broadcaster Roma Agrawal deconstructs our most complex feats of engineering into seven fundamental inventions: the nail, spring, wheel, lens, magnet, string and pump. Each of these objects is itself a wonder of design, the result of many iterations and refinements. Together, they have enabled humanity t...
View BookAuthor: Emily Kenway
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Author Emily Kenway
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Duration 9h 50m
Around the world, millions of people are quietly caring for long-term unwell, elderly or disabled loved ones; one-in-eight people in the UK and a sixth of the total US population, with comparable proportions across the globe. For many, this is a full-time job, saving our economies billions each year. Yet when writer, activist and former policy advi...
View BookAuthor: Natasha Carthew
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Author Natasha Carthew
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Duration 7h 29m
Natasha Carthew grew up in rural poverty in Cornwall, battling limited opportunities, precarious resources, escalating property prices, isolation and a community marked by the ravages of inequality. Her world existed alongside the postcard picture Cornwall, where wealth and privilege converged on sandy beaches and expensive second homes. In the roc...
View BookAuthor: Dr Romie Mushtaq
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Author Dr Romie Mushtaq
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Duration 8h 16m
An eye-opening guidebook for professionals looking to overcome their chronic stress, burnout and Busy Brain symptoms using a simple eight-week plan by Dr Romie Mushtaq. Traditional methods in neurology and psychiatry treat anxiety, ADD and insomnia as three separate diseases. The results are an addictive cycle that Dr Romie Mushtaq defines as the B...
View BookAuthor: Laura Addlington
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Author Laura Addlington
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Duration 7h 11m
Diet Starts Monday is a no-BS guide to body acceptance in a looks-obsessed world. Plus-size TV personality and body confidence advocate Laura Adlington has struggled with her weight (and the weight of other people's opinions) her entire life. Here, in conversation with experts including doctors, psychologists and nutritionists, Laura reveals just h...
View BookAuthor: Jean Menzies
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Author Jean Menzies
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Duration 2h 29m
A gift for the young goddess in your life - with life lessons for living confidently, courageously and fearlessly. Cultures around the world celebrate tales and myths of daring and brave goddesses. These legendary ladies were tenacious, smart and strong. Meet... Osun, the Yoruba goddess of love who refuses to be dismissed because of her gender and...
View BookAuthor: John Guy
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Author John Guy
Narrator Saul Reichlin
Duration 6h 22m
Nothing drove Henry VIII, England's wealthiest and most powerful king, more than producing a legitimate male heir and perpetuating his dynasty. To that end he married six wives, became the subject of the most notorious divorce case of the sixteenth century, and broke with the Pope, all in an age of international competition and warfare, social unre...
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