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Rivets, Trivets and Galvanised Buckets
Author: Tom Fort
Author Tom Fort
Narrator The Author
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: Gary Neville
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 BookAuthor: Philippa Gregory
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 BookBy Your Side: My Life Loving Barbara Windsor
Author: Scott Mitchell
Author Scott Mitchell
Narrator The Author
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: Lesley-Anne Jones
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 BookAuthor: Clive Oppenheimer
Author Clive Oppenheimer
Narrator The Author
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: Philippe Sands
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: Natasha Carthew
Author Natasha Carthew
Narrator The Author
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: Emily Kenway
Author Emily Kenway
Narrator The Author
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: Roma Agrawal
Author Roma Agrawal
Narrator Roma Agrawal
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: Rebecca Struthers
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: Dr Romie Mushtaq
Author Dr Romie Mushtaq
Narrator The Author
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: Jean Menzies
Author Jean Menzies
Narrator The Author
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: Laura Addlington
Author Laura Addlington
Narrator The Author
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: John Guy
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...
View BookAuthor: Dean Burnett
Author Dean Burnett
Narrator Matt Addis
Duration 14h 20m
Recommended by the New Scientist. 'Brilliant.' Stylist 'Thoughtful and thought-provoking - you need to read this book' Gina Rippon 'An affecting and illuminating book for anyone who has feelings, and who wants to know why.' Katie Mack Emotions can be a pain. After losing his dad to Covid-19, Dean Burnett found himself wondering what life would be l...
View BookAuthor: John Sweeney
Author John Sweeney
Narrator The Author
Duration 9h 25m
Through Jeffrey Epstein and her family name, daughter of media baron Robert Maxwell, Ghislaine Maxwell, became friends with some of the most powerful people on earth, ex-President Bill Clinton and President-to-be Donald Trump and the second son of the Queen of England, Prince Andrew, the Duke of York. But this is no fairy tale. Hunting Ghislaine se...
View BookAuthor: Nicklas Brendborg
Author Nicklas Brendborg
Narrator Elizabeth de Noma
Duration 7h 15m
The international best seller. A journey into the astonishing nature and true science of longevity. Molecular biologist Nicklas Brendborg takes us on a journey from farthest reaches of the globe to the most cutting-edge research to explore what nature has to teach us about longevity. From immortal lobsters, backwards-aging jellyfish and the centuri...
View BookAuthor: Keith Brymer Jones
Author Keith Brymer Jones
Narrator The Author
Duration 7h 43m
Keith Brymer Jones is the star presenter and judge of Channel 4's The Great Pottery Throw Down, famous for his emotional responses to the heartfelt and personal pieces made by contestants on the show. He is also the ultimate professional craftsman who's done the hard yards to get where he is today, working his way up from being a skivvy in an indus...
View BookAuthor: Abi Morgan
Author Abi Morgan
Narrator Fiona Button
Duration 7h 45m
An ordinary day. The end of ordinary life. One morning in June, Abi had her to-do list—drop the kids to school, get coffee and go to work. Jacob had a bad headache so she added 'pick up steroids'. She returned home and found the man she loved and fought and laughed with for 20 years lying on the bathroom floor. And nothing would ever be the s...
View BookAuthor: Melvyn Bragg
Author Melvyn Bragg
Narrator The Author
Duration 11h 55m
In this captivating memoir, Melvyn Bragg recalls growing up in the Cumbrian market town of Wigton, from his early childhood during the war to the moment he had to decide between staying on or spreading his wings. This is the tale of a boy who lived in a pub and expected to leave school at 15 yet won a scholarship to Oxford. Derailed by a severe bre...
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