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Author: Ross Edgley
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Author Ross Edgley
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Duration 10h 9m
Best-selling author and award-winning adventurer Ross Edgley has been studying the art of resilience for years, applying all he has learned to become the first person in history to swim all the way round Great Britain, breaking multiple world records along the way. Now, Ross turns his attention to mental strength and Stoicism. Ross...
View BookAuthor: Elizabeth Day
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Author Elizabeth Day
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Duration 2h 36m
From the Sunday Times best-selling author of How to Fail. Most failures can teach us something meaningful about ourselves if we choose to listen. In Failosophy Elizabeth Day brings together all the lessons she has learned, from conversations with the guests on her award-winning How to Fail podcast, f...
View BookAuthor: Steve Biddulph
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Author Steve Biddulph
Narrator Damien Warren-Smith
Duration 7h 1m
A word-of-mouth best seller which has become one of the best loved and most successful books in the parenting field. With around 20 percent new material, Steve Biddulph’s Raising Boys is to be rereleased this month with some startling new research on what helps - and what harms - boys. In this expanded and updated edition, Steve Bi...
View BookAuthor: Sarah Knight
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Author Sarah Knight
Narrator Sarah Knight
Duration 4h 37m
When life hands you a big fat f**king lemon, Calm the F**k Down gives you practical ways to manage the situation, not to mention your anxiety about the situation. One hundred percent practical and 0 percent Pollyanna-ish, this is a book that acknowledges all the bad shit that can and probably will happen to you - from breakups and breakdowns to flo...
View BookAuthor: Greg Jenner
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Author Greg Jenner
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Duration 10h 50m
Celebrity, with its neon glow and selfie pout, strikes us as hypermodern. But the famous and infamous have been thrilling, titillating and outraging us for much longer than we might realise. Whether it was the scandalous Lord Byron, whose poetry sent female fans into an erotic frenzy; or the cheetah-owning, coffin-sleeping, one-legged French actres...
View BookAuthor: David Morgan
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Author David Morgan
Narrator Peter Kenny
Duration 9h 47m
The gripping personal story of a Falklands Fighter Ace. David Morgan, RAF officer and poet, relives his experiences during the Falklands War in this vivid memoir. On secondment to the Royal Navy when the Argentine invasion of the Falklands began and personally credited with shooting down two Argentine Skyhawks as well as enemy helicopters, Morgan w...
View BookHow to Teach Classics to Your Dog
Author: Philip Womack
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Author Philip Womack
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Duration 9h 14m
It should have been a beautiful moment between a man and his dog. Philip Womack made a quip about Cerberus, the three-headed hell-hound, but for Una, the beloved lurcher, it was all Greek. Then she ran off after a squirrel. And Womack was left to wonder what else she didn't know about the great civilisations of the past. The Greeks and the Romans l...
View BookAuthor: Sophie Hardach
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Author Sophie Hardach
Narrator Laurence Bouvard
Duration 10h 38m
A celebration of the huge linguistic diversity that is open to all of us at birth, and that has inspired and fascinated humans since the invention of speech. The acclaimed novelist Sophie Hardach – a German native who writes in English – explores languages, and multilingualism, as an expression of human creativity and identity, and a wa...
View BookAuthor: Michael Rosen
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Author Michael Rosen
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Duration 1h 25m
A personal, powerful and resonant account of the Holocaust by one of this country's best-loved children's authors. By turns charming, shocking and heart-breaking, this is the true story of Michael Rosen's search for his relatives who "went missing" during the Second World War – told through prose, poetry, maps and pictures. When Michael was g...
View BookAuthor: Abdul-Ghaaliq Lalkhen
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Author Abdul-Ghaaliq Lalkhen
Narrator Russell Bentley
Duration 9h 4m
Pain is part of human existence but we understand very little of the mechanics of it. We damage ourselves, we feel pain, we seek help from a professional or learn to not do that bad thing again. The story of what goes on in our body is not this simple. Even medical practitioners themselves often fail to grasp the complexities of our minds and bodie...
View BookAuthor: Alison Weir
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Author Alison Weir
Narrator Esther Wane
Duration 17h 43m
The Plantagenet queens of England played a role in some of the most dramatic events in our history. Crusading queens, queens in rebellion against their king, queen seductresses, learned queens, queens in battle, queens who enlivened England with the romantic culture of southern Europe – these determined women often broke through medieval cons...
View BookAuthor: Chelsea Kwakye, Ore Ogunbiyi
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Author Chelsea Kwakye, Ore Ogunbiyi
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Duration 5h 31m
As a minority in a predominantly white institution, taking up space is an act of resistance. Recent Cambridge grads Chelsea and Ore experienced this first-hand, and wrote Taking Up Space as a guide and a manifesto for change.FOR BLACK GIRLS: Understand that your journey is unique. Use this book as a guide. Our wish for you is that you re...
View BookAuthor: John Adair
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Author John Adair
Narrator Kris Dyer
Duration 5h 25m
The success of any organization or individual depends upon making good decisions, arrived at through the use of a sound judgment. Too often, this elusive characteristic has been misperceived as an unchangeable, entrenched element of our character, over which we have little control. In fact, judgment is an art one that can be honed, developed and ma...
View BookAuthor: Patricia Owtram, Jean Owtram
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Author Patricia Owtram, Jean Owtram
Narrator Sally Oliver
Duration 6h 14m
This is the astonishing story of persistence, comradeship and fighting spirit showed by everyday people in bringing the Nazis down. Patricia and Jean Owtram are possibly the only living sisters to have signed the wartime Official Secrets Act. Raised in a Lancashire country house in the 1920s, the family takes in two Austrian Jewish refugees, and th...
View BookAuthor: Mohsin Zaidi
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Author Mohsin Zaidi
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Duration 8h 15m
Mohsin grew up in a deprived pocket of east London; his family was close-knit but very religiously conservative. From a young age Mohsin felt different but in a home where being gay was inconceivable he also felt very alone. Outside of home Mohsin went to a failing inner city school where gang violence was a fact of life. As he grew up life didn't...
View BookEverything is Going to Be K.O.
Author: Kaiya Stone
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Author Kaiya Stone
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Duration 6h 10m
In Everything is Going to be K.O. Kaiya Stone writes about her own experiences of living with specific learning difficulties: from struggling at school to being diagnosed with dyslexia and dyspraxia while at university, to performing her own one-woman stand up show inspired by her journey. Always funny and unfailingly honest, Kaiya...
View BookAuthor: Andrew Marr
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Author Andrew Marr
Narrator Raj Ghatak
Duration 16h 34m
In a brilliantly entertaining, living history of the modern United Kingdom, Andrew Marr traces how radically we have transformed through the course of Queen Elizabeth II's reign. When the Queen stepped into her crown in 1953 at the age of twenty-five, a British expedition was summiting Mount Everest for the first time. Ian Fleming was publishing th...
View BookAuthor: Daisy Upton
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Author Daisy Upton
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Duration 3h 7m
Daisy Upton has two little kids. She loves them - but they drive her mad. So, to try and keep her sanity she started to come up with quick, easy games using stuff from around the house. And @FiveMinuteMum was born. In her first book, she has collected 150+ games that take 5 minutes to set up & 5 minutes to tidy up. From pasta posting to...
View BookAuthor: Rachel Bonkink
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Author Rachel Bonkink
Narrator Victoria Yeates
Duration 6h 47m
Discover the ten ancient principles for more peace of mind in your daily life. Understand why you behave and think as you do, and how to make the changes that will transform your day-to-day experience. With a down-to-earth approach and real-life examples from business and personal life, this book shows you how to make your mind stronger – and...
View BookAuthor: Sean O'Brien
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Author Sean O'Brien
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Duration 9h 7m
Seán O'Brien does not come from a traditional rugby background. He grew up on a farm in Tullow, far from the rugby hotbeds of Limerick and Cork or the fee-paying schools of Dublin. But as he made his way up through the ranks, it soon became clear that he was a very special player and a very special personality. Now, Seán O'Brien tell...
View BookAuthor: Winston Groom
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Author Winston Groom
Narrator Robertson Dean
Duration 17h 23m
Gifted storyteller Winston Groom, the bestselling author of Forrest Gump, has written the fascinating story of three extraordinary heroes who defined aviation during the great age of flight: Charles Lindbergh, Eddie Rickenbacker, and Jimmy Doolittle. These cleverly interwoven tales of their heart-stopping adventures take us from the feats of W...
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