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Author: Hamish de Bretton-Gordon
Author Hamish de Bretton-Gordon
Narrator Hamish de Bretton-Gordon
Duration 8h 22m
In this thrilling new book, former tank commander Hamish de Bretton-Gordon OBE offers a unique and timely exploration of the evolution of the tank, on and off the battlefield. Written in close collaboration with the world-renowned Tank Museum, it brings the thrill of hardware together with the sweep of history, telling the tank's origin story on th...
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Author: Joshua Robinson, Jonathan Clegg
Author Joshua Robinson, Jonathan Clegg
Narrator Qarie Marshall
Duration 10h 40m
Bringing unique insight and access to F1's most storied teams and personalities - from Ferrari to Lewis Hamilton to Christian Horner and Daniel Ricciardo -The Formula offers a riveting portrait of the drivers, corporations, cars, rivalries, and audacious gambles that have shaped the sport for half a century. The end result is a high-octane history...
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Author: Martin O'Neill
Author Martin O'Neill
Narrator Martin O'Neill
Duration 7h 11m
In a career spanning five decades, Martin O'Neill has seen it all. In The Changing Game he provides his unique perspective on the events, managers and teams that define football. Bringing his sharp instincts and intellect to look at his own tenures as a manager for Nottingham Forest, Leicester City, Celtic and the Republic of Ireland, as well as ma...
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Author: Wensley Clarkson
Author Wensley Clarkson
Narrator Rupert Farley
Duration 9h 18m
For decades, it has been assumed that the United States of America was the serial killer capital of the world. Now, criminologists believe that Russia (and previously the Soviet Union) has been, secretly, the biggest home of serial killers for almost a century. In Serial Killers of Russia, bestselling true crime author Wensley Clarkson reveals the...
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Author: Antonia Senior
Author Antonia Senior
Narrator Michael Fenner
Duration 14h 37m
Using recently declassified files, STALIN'S APOSTLES explores as never before the treachery of five British men who spied for the Soviet Union: Donald Maclean, Guy Burgess, Kim Philby, John Cairncross and Keeper of the Queen's Pictures Anthony Blunt, all radicalised while at Cambridge University in the 1930s. Their supply of British and US intellig...
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Author: Adrian Goldsworthy
Author Adrian Goldsworthy
Narrator Roger Davis
Duration 16h 31m
The Pax Romana is famous for having provided a remarkable period of peace and stability, rarely seen before or since. Yet the Romans were first and foremost conquerors, imperialists who took by force a vast empire stretching from the Euphrates in the east to the Atlantic coast in the west. Their peace meant Roman victory and was brought about by st...
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Author: Joe Cole
Author Joe Cole
Narrator Jason Flemyng, Sam Wallace
Duration 11h 8m
One of the best players of his era, Joe Cole grew up playing football in North London's estates, and his ability, grit and hard work took him to the very top. But Joe was often mistrusted by managers and out of step with the style of English football in the 2000s. The game was suspicious of creative footballers it considered luxury players - the ki...
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Careless Love: The Unmaking of Elvis Presley
Author: Peter Guralnick
Author Peter Guralnick
Narrator Kevin Stillwell
Duration 31h 7m
The next chapter in the definitive biography of Elvis picks up where Last Train to Memphis closed with Presley's military service in Germany 1958 and ends with his death in Memphis, 1977. Careless Love chronicles the unravelling of the dream that shone so brightly, homing in on his very close, and very complex relationship with his lifelong manager...
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Author: Robert Ross
Author Robert Ross
Narrator The Author, Eric Idle
Duration 14h 4m
Seriously Silly is an intimate portrait of Terry Jones - Python, actor, director, historian, reluctant national treasure and purveyor of sincere silliness - written by the man he chose to tell the story of his life. From his Welsh upbringing in Colwyn Bay, to meeting his lifelong friend Michael Palin at Oxford through revue sketches, anarchic child...
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Author: Ella Risbridger
Author Ella Risbridger
Narrator The Author
Duration 6h 17m
Cowboys and aliens, dukes and dancers, power dynamics, death and domesticity, vampires and veterans, tradwives and single dads and sisters and small-town politics, private jets and princes and horses, hopes and dreams and fears, and so, so much kissing: this is a love letter to romantic fiction, but it's also a book about creativity and creation an...
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We Need to Talk About Autism and Parent-Carer Blame
Author: Alice Running
Author Alice Running
Narrator Christine Hewitt
Duration 5h
Parents of autistic children are often subject to scrutiny of their parenting strategies. At best this can be exhausting and intrusive; at worst it can lead to formal accusations of harm. The consequence is a society where autistic families are unable to access the correct services for their children, increasing risk of family burnout and breakdown...
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Author: Gabor Maté
Author Gabor Maté
Narrator Daniel Maté
Duration 11h 22m
FROM THE MULTI-MILLION-COPY BESTELLING AUTHOR OF WHEN THE BODY SAYS NOThe groundbreaking guide to Attention Deficit Disorder, challenging conventional myths around ADHD and providing practical guidance for children and adults.Struggling with focus, impulsivity, or emotional overwhelm?Looking to better understand ADHD in yourself or your child?In hi...
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Author: Ed Winters
Author Ed Winters
Narrator Ed Winters
Duration 8h 15m
Brought to you by Penguin.Every time we eat, we have the power to radically transform the world we live in.Our choices can help alleviate the most pressing issues we face today: the climate crisis, infectious and chronic diseases, human exploitation and, of course, non-human exploitation. Undeniably, these issues can be uncomfortable to learn about...
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Author: Jenny Evans
Author Jenny Evans
Narrator Jenny Evans
Duration 8h 16m
Cast in a cult film at the age of eighteen, Jenny Evans was on the cusp of something extraordinary; a route out of her hometown, a future of promise. But the new world she was exploring crumbled around her when she was assaulted at a party by a high-profile figure. Don't Let it Break You, Honey is a reckoning: a personal, fiercely compelling accoun...
View BookAuthor: John Whaite
Author John Whaite
Narrator The Author
Duration 6h 12m
'I never thought I'd write a memoir. I never thought I'd do a lot of the things I have done in my thirty-four years, but life has a wonderful way of surprising us.' Well-known as the winner of the third series of The Great British Bake Off and runner up of Strictly Come Dancing with his same-sex dance partner Johannes Radebe, John Whaite's personal...
View BookAuthor: Kate Humble
Author Kate Humble
Narrator The Author
Duration 8h 54m
Thinking on My Feet is an inspiring journal of walks divided into seasonal sections. Discover the joys and benefits of walking, encounters with the natural and urban world, with the familiar and strange, with animals, people and events. Kate charts her feelings and impressions throughout, capturing the perspectives that only a journey on foot allow...
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Author: Harry Hill
Author Harry Hill
Narrator The Author
Duration 7h 37m
After a childhood spent making smoke bombs, killing wasps and carving soap in 70s Kent, Harry Hill then found himself in charge of hundreds of sick people as a junior doctor. Out of his depth and terrified, he chucked it all in to pursue his dream of becoming a stand-up comedian. Battling his way through the 90s comedy circuit he quickly rose to be...
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Author: Paris Fury
Author Paris Fury
Narrator The Author, Reanne Farley
Duration 8h 34m
Paris Fury is Tyson's rock, the wife he thanks for all his success. Both from Traveller families, she married him at 19 and is hands-on mother to their seven children, as well as at his side through every fight. Always glamorous, strong, grounded, and her own woman. When Tyson's struggles with depression, OCD and alcohol have threatened to overwhel...
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Author: Maria Smilios
Author Maria Smilios
Narrator Gina Daniels
Duration 12h 14m
During those dark pre-antibiotic days, when tuberculosis killed 1 in 7 people, white nurses at Sea View, New York's largest municipal hospital, began quitting. Desperate to avert a public health crisis, city officials summoned Black southern nurses, luring them with promises of good pay, a career, and an escape from the strictures of Jim Crow. But...
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Author: Linda Calvey
Author Linda Calvey
Narrator Linda Calvey
Duration 9h 27m
Widely known in the criminal underworld as the 'Black Widow', Linda Calvey spent the first half of her life running with the UK's top gangsters, robbing banks and rubbing shoulders with the Kray twins. That is, until, in 1990, her lover Robbie Cook was murdered at point-blank, and she found herself falsely convicted. Linda was sent away for decades...
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Author: Steven Bartlett
Author Steven Bartlett
Narrator Steven Bartlett
Duration 4h 33m
As an 18-year-old, black, broke, lonely, insecure, university drop-out, from a bankrupt family, I wrote in my diary that I wanted to be a 'Happy Sexy Millionaire' by the age of 25. By 25 I was a multi-millionaire having created a business worth over $300m dollars. Ironically, in achieving everything I set out to, I learnt that I was wrong about alm...
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