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Author: Fern Brady
Author Fern Brady
Narrator The Author
Duration 6h 44m
Fern Brady was told she couldn't be autistic because she's had loads of boyfriends and is good at eye contact. This is a story of how being female can get in the way of being autistic and how being autistic gets in the way of being the 'right kind' of woman.
View BookAuthor: Billy Connolly
Author Billy Connolly
Narrator The Author
Duration 7h 56m
When Billy set out from Glasgow as a young man he never looked back. He played his banjo on boats and trains, under trees, and on top of famous monuments. He danced naked in snow, wind and fire. He travelled by foot, bike, ship, plane, sleigh - even piggy-backed - to get to his next destination. Billy has wandered to every corner of the earth and b...
View BookAuthor: Dom Joly
Author Dom Joly
Narrator The Author
Duration 9h 25m
Conspiracy theories are starting to become so much more than the obsession of fringe individuals. A survey by New Science magazine found that the percentage of people believing in one or more conspiracies had risen from 15% twenty years ago to 35% per cent last year. They are shaping politics, media, the way we view life itself. In The Conspiracy T...
View BookAuthor: Cait Flanders
Author Cait Flanders
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Duration 5h 33m
In her late twenties, Cait Flanders found herself stuck in the consumerism cycle that grips so many of us: earn more, buy more, want more, rinse, repeat. Even after she worked her way out of nearly $30,000 of consumer debt, her old habits took hold again. When she realized that nothing she was doing or buying was making her happy-only keeping her f...
View BookAuthor: Adam Kay
Author Adam Kay
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Duration 6h 6m
The multi-million copy bestsellerBook of the Year at The National Book Awards'Painfully funny. The pain and the funniness somehow add up to something entirely good, entirely noble and entirely loveable.' - Stephen FryWelcome to the life of a junior doctor: 97-hour weeks, life and death decisions, a constant tsunami of bodily fluids, and the hospita...
View BookAuthor: Jahan Khamsehzadeh
Author Jahan Khamsehzadeh
Narrator Nathan Agin
Duration 10h 12m
A comprehensive guide to psilocybin mushrooms and their impact on our psychology, biology, and social development.How—and why—do psychedelics exist? Did psilocybin catalyze our early human ancestors’ social evolution? And how can an integral understanding of psychedelics quite literally change the world? In an ambitious and c...
View BookAuthor: Natalie Y. Gutiérrez, Jennifer Mullen
Author Natalie Y. Gutiérrez, Jennifer Mullen
Narrator L. Malaika Cooper
Duration 7h 30m
If you are a person of color who has experienced repeated trauma-such as discrimination, race-related verbal assault, racial stigmatization, poverty, sexual trauma, or interpersonal violence-you may struggle with intense feelings of anger, mistrust, or shame. You may feel unsafe or uncomfortable in your own body, or struggle with building and keepi...
View BookAuthor: Sarah Bax Horton
Author Sarah Bax Horton
Narrator Charlie Sanderson
Duration 9h 15m
This highly revelatory book, based on original research and completely new analysis, presents a compelling new suspect as the most notorious serial killer of all time. Using a different analytical approach, for the first time, Sarah Bax Horton identifies a named perpetrator as Jack the Ripper by linking eye-witness accounts of the killer's distinct...
View BookAuthor: Anthony Bourdain
Author Anthony Bourdain
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Duration 8h 19m
After twenty-five years of 'sex, drugs, bad behaviour and haute cuisine', chef and novelist Anthony Bourdain decided to tell all - and he meant all. From his first oyster in the Gironde to his lowly position as a dishwasher in a honky-tonk fish restaurant in Provincetown; from the kitchen of the Rainbow Room atop the Rockefeller Center to drug deal...
View BookAuthor: Frantz Fanon
Author Frantz Fanon
Narrator Theo Solomon
Duration 7h 38m
Brought to you by Penguin. Frantz Fanon's urgent, dynamic critique of the effects of racism on the psyche is a landmark study of the black experience in a white world. Drawing on his own life and his work as a psychoanalyst to explore how colonialism's subjects internalize its prejudices, eventually emulating the 'white masks' of their oppressors,...
View BookAuthor: Leigh-Anne Pinnock
Author Leigh-Anne Pinnock
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Duration 7h 42m
Leigh-Anne Pinnock's life changed overnight when she became part of the first ever girl band to win the X-Factor. The multi-platinum selling supergroup Little Mix, went on to become one of the biggest girl bands of all time. Launched into chart-topping global fame, Leigh-Anne was living her childhood dream of becoming a popstar. But behind the scen...
View BookAuthor: Theresa May
Author Theresa May
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Duration 10h 6m
As Prime Minister for three years and Home Secretary for six years, Theresa May confronted a series of issues in which the abuse of power led to devastating results for individuals and significantly damaged the reputation of, and trust in, public institutions and politicians. From the Hillsborough and Grenfell tragedies, to the Daniel Morgan case a...
View BookAuthor: Ronnie O'Sullivan
Author Ronnie O'Sullivan
Narrator Tom Fordyce, Jake Wood
Duration 8h 21m
A teenage snooker prodigy, Ronnie turned professional with the highest of expectations. This pressure, together with a challenging personal life, catapulted Ronnie into a life of excess and addiction. He was winning titles - his first within a year of turning professional - but losing himself and his game as he tried to block out the mental pain an...
View BookAuthor: Audrey Golden
Author Audrey Golden
Narrator Jessica Joslin, Ebony Jonelle
Duration 16h 53m
Factory Records has become the stuff of legend. The histories of the label have been told from many perspectives, from visual catalogues and memoirs to exhibitions. Yet no in-depth history has ever been told from the perspectives of the women who were integral to Factory's cultural significance. The untold history of Factory Records is one of women...
View BookAuthor: Victoria Smith
Author Victoria Smith
Narrator The Author
Duration 9h 54m
In the last few years, as identity politics have taken hold, middle-aged women have found themselves talked and written about as morally inferior beings: the face of bigotry, entitlement and selfishness, to be ignored, pitied or abused. In Hags, Victoria Smith asks why these women are treated with such active disdain. Each chapter takes a different...
View BookAuthor: Mary Gabriel
Author Mary Gabriel
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Duration 41h 44m
With her arrival on the music scene in the early 1980s, Madonna generated nothing short of an explosion - as great as that of Elvis or the Beatles - taking the nation by storm with her liberated politics and breathtaking talent. But Madonna was more than just a pop star. Everywhere, fans gravitated to her as an emblem of a new age, one in which fem...
View BookAuthor: Lucy Worsley
Author Lucy Worsley
Narrator The Author
Duration 13h 47m
Why did Agatha Christie spend her career pretending that she was 'just' an ordinary housewife, when clearly she wasn't? As Lucy Worsley says, 'She was thrillingly, scintillatingly modern'. She went surfing in Hawaii, she loved fast cars, and she was intrigued by the new science of psychology, which helped her through devastating mental illness. She...
View BookAuthor: Johannes Radebe
Author Johannes Radebe
Narrator The Author
Duration 7h 9m
Champion dancer and Strictly Come Dancing professional Johannes Radebe has captured our hearts with his mesmerising talent, bringing joy to millions of fans and wowing the most critical of judges. He is loved not only for his dancing, but for his beautiful, infectious spirit and energy. Jojo: Finally Home is his never-before-told story, where he sh...
View BookAuthor: Professor Mark Williams
Author Professor Mark Williams
Narrator The Author, Dr Danny Penman
Duration 21h 6m
There are moments in life that decide your fate. They ripple into the future and dictate how you experience the world in the moments that follow. What if you could recognise these moments before they seized control of your life? What if you could use them to set sail for a better future? What if all moments, big and small, could be harnessed this w...
View BookAuthor: Jonathan Franklin, Michael Smith
Author Jonathan Franklin, Michael Smith
Narrator The Authors
Duration 8h 18m
In early 2020, the world was on edge. An ominous virus was spreading and no one knew what the coming weeks would bring. Far from the hotspots, the cruise ship Zaandam was preparing to sail from Buenos Aires loaded with 1,200 passengers—British, American, Australian, European and South American tourists, plus 600 crew. Most passengers were ove...
View BookHow Westminster Works...and Why It Doesn't
Author: Ian Dunt
Author Ian Dunt
Narrator The Author
Duration 11h 9m
British politics is broken. Anyone sitting down to watch the news will get the sense that something has gone terribly wrong. We have prime ministers who detonate the economy, secretaries of state who are intellectually incapable of doing the job and MPs who seem temperamentally unsuited to the role. Expertise is denigrated. Lies are rewarded. And d...
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