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Author: Gerald Durrell
Author Gerald Durrell
Narrator Rupert Degas
Duration 5h 23m
A Zoo in My Luggage is the colourful, first-hand account of Gerald Durrell's six-month animal-collecting trip in British Cameroon, and his attempts to create his own zoo. Motivated by a passion for wildlife, and a desire to save endangered species from extinction, Durrell assembles a glorious panoply of exotic animals—including a female baboo...
View BookAuthor: Tom Michell
Author Tom Michell
Narrator Bill Nighy
Duration 6h
Tom Michell is in his roaring twenties: single, free-spirited and seeking adventure. He has a plane ticket to South America, a teaching position in a prestigious Argentine boarding school, and endless summer holidays.What he doesn't need is a pet. What he really doesn't need is a pet penguin.But while on holiday in Uruguay he spots a penguin strugg...
View BookAuthor: Gabriel Zuchtriegel
Author Gabriel Zuchtriegel
Narrator Nick Biadon
Duration 6h 22m
A vast area of Pompeii is being excavated for the first time, revealing astonishing insights into how people really lived. In this revelatory new history, Director of Pompeii Gabriel Zuchtriegel shares the untold stories that are at last emerging. Pompeii is a world frozen in time. There are unmade beds, dishes left drying, tools abandoned by workm...
View BookAuthor: Raynor Winn
Author Raynor Winn
Narrator The Author
Duration 9h 1m
Brought to you by Penguin.The uplifting true story of the couple who lost everything and embarked on a journey of salvation across the South West coastline.OVER 2 MILLION COPIES SOLD WORLDWIDETHE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERINCLUDED IN THE SUNDAY TIMES 2024 LIST OF 'THE TOP 100 BOOKS OF THE PAST FIFTY YEARS'Just days after Raynor Winn learns that Moth,...
View BookAuthor: Gabor Mate
Author Gabor Mate
Narrator Daniel Mate
Duration 11h 41m
Brought to you by Penguin. Can a person literally die of loneliness? Is there a connection between the ability to express emotions and Alzheimer's disease? Is there such a thing as a 'cancer personality'?Drawing on deep scientific research and Dr Gabor Maté's acclaimed clinical work, When the Body Says No provides the answers to critical que...
View BookAuthor: Christopher Stephens, Louise Radnofsky
Author Christopher Stephens, Louise Radnofsky
Narrator Christopher Stephens
Duration 9h 43m
'Sir, we are homosexuals . . .' So began the letter penned by Roger Butler and sent to several British newspaper editors - some of whom were so shocked they thought it was a hoax - in June 1960. Writing such a letter seven years before the decriminalisation of homosexuality was a radical and dangerous move. This is the story of the first man to com...
View BookAuthor: Owain Mulligan
Author Owain Mulligan
Narrator The Author
Duration 9h 29m
Owain Mulligan was never what you'd call a career soldier. Nor even a particularly good one. At weekends he trained with the Territorial Army and dreamt of swapping the mayhem of teaching in a tough school for the adventure of service in Iraq. At least they'd let him wear a helmet in Iraq. But when the job in headquarters he's been expecting doesn'...
View BookAuthor: Sonny Jane Wise
Author Sonny Jane Wise
Narrator Malachi Latchman
Duration 6h 44m
This affirming and thoughtful guide outlines how and why we need to fundamentally shift our thinking about neurodivergent people. We need to accept differences rather than framing them as a problem, abnormality or disorder. At times challenging and radical, Sonny Jane Wise explores the intersections of neurodivergence with disability, gender, sexua...
View BookAuthor: Loren Grush
Author Loren Grush
Narrator Inés del Castillo
Duration 11h 42m
The remarkable true story of America's first women astronauts. When NASA sent astronauts to the moon in the 1960s and 1970s the agency excluded women from the corps. It was an era in which women were steered away from jobs in science and deemed too fragile for space flight. Eventually, though, NASA relented and opened the application process to eve...
View BookAuthor: Danny Baker
Author Danny Baker
Narrator The Author
Duration 9h 52m
Born in 1957 in Deptford, south London, Danny's first job after dropping out of school at the age of 15 was in One Stop Records, a small record shop in London's West End. His career in print journalism began in 1976 when he co-founded the fanzine Sniffin' Glue leading to an offer from the New Musical Express, where his first job was as a receptioni...
View BookAuthor: Jake Hall
Author Jake Hall
Narrator Octavia Nyombi
Duration 10h 48m
The best queer history book you'll listen to this year. Shoulder to Shoulder is a love letter to the LGBTQ+ pioneers of solidarity and coalition. Offering a new global look at forgotten moments when those from marginalised backgrounds stood shoulder to shoulder to build a better future for all. Through astounding research and fascinating storytelli...
View BookAuthor: Danny Baker
Author Danny Baker
Narrator The Author
Duration 9h 13m
Danny Baker is a national treasure with a well-documented - thanks to the recent eight-part BBC TV adaptation - and colourful life. For over a quarter of a century, he has amused and entertained audiences on both radio and television. Beginning his career at the age of 15 in a small record shop in London's West End, Danny went on to become an accla...
View BookAuthor: Danny Baker
Author Danny Baker
Narrator The Author
Duration 9h 18m
Danny Baker's first volume of autobiography, Going to Sea in a Sieve, was a Sunday Times best seller, acclaimed for its nonstop humour and anecdotal flourish. It told the exploits of Danny's extraordinary childhood and the wild living of his teenage years. Now he is 25, and it is 1982, and he embarks on an accidental and anxiety-induced career in t...
View BookAuthor: Joanna Lumley
Author Joanna Lumley
Narrator The Author
Duration 2h 47m
Joanna Lumley is one of Britain's undisputed national treasures, who has lived many lives: a single mum; a voiceover artist; a TV presenter; an author; a former model and Bond girl; a human rights activist for Survival International and the Gurkha Justice Campaign; and as an iconic, award-winning actor, best known for her roles in timeless shows li...
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Narrator David Morely Hale
Duration 11h 28m
One of the many strange effects of the 2020 pandemic has been to make us much more vigilant about the state of our health in general and about minor symptoms in particular. And this, in turn, has made us more conscious that we all feel slightly out of sorts a great deal of the time; maybe even every day. This book is not about what happens when we'...
View BookAuthor: Rachel Clarke
Author Rachel Clarke
Narrator The Author
Duration 11h 14m
As a specialist in palliative medicine, Dr Rachel Clarke chooses to inhabit a place many people would find too tragic to contemplate. Rachel's training was put to the test in 2017 when her beloved GP father was diagnosed with terminal cancer. She learned that nothing - even the best palliative care - can sugar-coat the pain of losing someone you lo...
View BookAuthor: Rachel Clarke
Author Rachel Clarke
Narrator The Author
Duration 7h 58m
Rachel is a palliative care doctor who looked after some of the most gravely unwell patients on the COVID-19 wards of her hospital. Amid the tensions, fatigue and rising death toll, she witnessed the courage of patients and NHS staff alike in conditions of unprecedented adversity. For all the bleakness and fear, she found that moments that could st...
View BookAuthor: Alice Albinia
Author Alice Albinia
Narrator The Author
Duration 13h 8m
One of the largest rivers in the world, the Indus rises in the Tibetan mountains, flows west across northern India and south through Pakistan. For millennia it has been worshipped as a god; for centuries used as a tool of imperial expansion; today it is the cement of Pakistans fractious union. Five thousand years ago, a string of sophisticated citi...
View BookAuthor: Roy Adkins, Lesley Adkins
Author Roy Adkins, Lesley Adkins
Narrator John Telfer
Duration 14h 45m
A landmark book that charts humanity's changing relationship with birds—from the ancient Egyptians to the twenty-first century No other group of animals has had such a complex and lengthy relationship with humankind as birds. They have been kept in cages as pets, taught to speak and displayed as trophies. More practically, they have been used...
View BookAuthor: Rachel Clarke
Author Rachel Clarke
Narrator The Author
Duration 9h 1m
One summer day, nine-year-old Keira suffered catastrophic injuries in a car accident. Though her brain and the rest of her body began to shut down, her heart continued to beat. In an act of extraordinary generosity, Keira's parents and siblings agreed that she would have wanted to be an organ donor. Meanwhile nine-year-old Max had been hospitalised...
View BookAuthor: Azam Ahmed
Author Azam Ahmed
Narrator Sheldon Romero
Duration 11h 5m
Fear is Just a Word begins on an international bridge between Mexico and the United States, as fifty-six-year-old Miriam Rodriguez stalks one of the men she believes was involved in the murder of her daughter Karen. He is her target number eleven, a member of the drug cartel that has terrorised and controlled what was once Miriam's quiet hometown o...
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