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Author: Roxanne de Bastion
Author Roxanne de Bastion
Narrator The Author
Duration 8h 51m
All future, freedom and success lay ahead of young pianist Stephen de Bastion in 1930s Hungary. Life whirled headily around cocktails, romance, applause and the buzz of Budapest late into the night. Then, 1939. Stephen's world disintegrates and this becomes a story of his brutal descent, of his time in labour camps, of Mauthausen and Gunskirchen an...
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I Promise It Won't Always Hurt Like This
Author: Clare Mackintosh
Author Clare Mackintosh
Narrator The Author
Duration 5h 3m
Grief is universal, but it's also as unique to each of us as the person we've lost. It can be overwhelming, exhausting, lonely, unreasonable, there when we least expect it and seemingly never-ending. Wherever you are with your grief and whoever you're grieving for, I Promise It Won't Always Hurt Like This is here to support you. To tell you, until...
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Author: Tom Holland
Series: Rubicon, Book 2
Author Tom Holland
Narrator The Author
SeriesRubicon, Book 2
Duration 17h 46m
Rome was first ruled by kings, then became a republic. But in the end, after conquering the world, the Republic collapsed. Rome was drowned in blood. So terrible were the civil wars that the Roman people finally came to welcome the rule of an autocrat who could give them peace. 'Augustus', their new master called himself: 'The Divinely Favoured One...
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Author: Angela Gallop
Author Angela Gallop
Narrator Sandra Duncan
Duration 10h 51m
Kathy Reichs meets Fragile Lives in this fascinating and compelling memoir from the UK's most eminent forensic scientist and some of the most fascinating criminal investigations she has worked on. Never before has criminal justice rested so heavily on scientific evidence. Angela Gallop has been a forensic scientist for over 40 years. After joining...
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Author: Caroline Reid, Christian Sylt
Author Caroline Reid, Christian Sylt
Narrator Matthew Spencer
Duration 16h 1m
The first book to look at the unstoppable rise of Formula One As one of the world's most popular sports, and with races in far corners of the globe, Formula One is big business. Its drivers are among the world's most highly paid athletes, and it costs more than a billion pounds to keep its ten teams ticking over. This is a sport where money - the s...
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Author: Jon Stock
Author Jon Stock
Narrator Richard Armitage, Celia Imrie, Antonia Beamish
Duration 11h 49m
The Royal Waterloo Hospital, London in the 1960s. Six young women lie asleep on low beds - the women are taken from their beds by the nurses and given electroconvulsive therapy before being put to sleep again. All under the predatory eye of Dr William Sargant. THE SLEEP ROOM is a chilling exposé of Sargant's bizarre psychiatric treatments th...
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Author: David Attenborough, Colin Butfield
Author David Attenborough, Colin Butfield
Narrator The Authors
Duration 8h 53m
Ocean is an ambitious history of the pre-Columbian Atlantic Ocean, a story that begins with the formation of the mid-Atlantic ridge some 200 million years ago and ends with the Castilian conquest of the Canary Islands in the fifteenth century. Ocean is informed by the author’s extensive travels in and around the Atlantic Ocean, crossing Newfo...
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Learning from Neurodivergent Leaders
Author: Dr Nancy Doyle
Author Dr Nancy Doyle
Narrator The Author, Jahrys Greenidge, Valerie Antwi
Duration 9h 18m
Neurodivergent people are often thwarted in academic and corporate careers because we don't know the unwritten social codes of large organisations, even though we excel at strategic thinking. Practical, inspiring and no-nonsense, this book is full of essential advice on the core principles of leadership - and how to capitalise on neurodivergent str...
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Author: Amitav Ghosh
Author Amitav Ghosh
Narrator Ranjit Madgavkar
Duration 19h
Wild Fictions brings together Amitav Ghosh's extraordinary writing on the subjects that have obsessed him over the last twenty-five years: literature and language; climate change and the environment; human lives, travel, and discoveries. The spaces that we inhabit, and the way in which we occupy them, is a constant thread throughout this striking a...
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Author: Duncan Barrett
Author Duncan Barrett
Narrator Nuala Calvi, Julie Maisey
Duration 8h 16m
When the Second World War began, there were 10 million children living in Britain. Many were evacuated to the countryside, but others stayed behind and witnessed the Blitz close-up in cities around the UK. Blitz Kids tells the remarkable true stories of children who spent their nights in cold, cramped air-raid shelters, hearing the rumble of planes...
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Author: Philippe Sands
Author Philippe Sands
Narrator The Author
Duration 15h 19m
The house at 38 Londres Street is home to the legacies of two men whose personal stories span continents, nationalities and decades of atrocity: Augusto Pinochet, President of Chile, and Walther Rauff, a Nazi SS officer responsible for the use of gas vans. On the run from justice at the end of the Second World War, Rauff crosses the ocean to southe...
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Author: Ranulph Fiennes
Author Ranulph Fiennes
Narrator Jonathan Keeble, Nathaniel Priestley
Duration 9h 12m
The extraordinary life and adventures of 'the world's greatest living explorer' - perfect for fans of The Moth and the Mountain and Touching the Void On the eve of his 80th birthday, Sir Ranulph Fiennes looks back at his remarkable life and adventures. He's climbed Everest not long after a heart bypass operation, he's run seven marathons on seven c...
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Author: Stanley Tucci
Author Stanley Tucci
Narrator The Author
Duration 7h 48m
Brought to you by Penguin.THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER - DISCOVER THE MOUTHWATERING FOLLOW-UP TO HIS BESTSELLING MEMOIR, TASTE'Sharing food is one of the purest human acts'Food has always been an integral part of Stanley Tucci's life: from stracciatella soup served in the shadow of the Pantheon, to marinara sauce cooked between rehearsals an...
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Author: Alexei Navalny
Author Alexei Navalny
Narrator Matthew Goode
Duration 16h 46m
Brought to you by Penguin.A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERA NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER **WINNER OF THE BRITISH BOOK AWARDS 2024 BOOK OF THE YEAR**Patriot is the unforgettable life story of one of the most fearless and inspiring figures of our time.Alexei Navalny's poisoning in 2020 by the Russian security services was a global news event. In 2024 he died...
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Author: Bear Grylls
Author Bear Grylls
Narrator Alexia Kombou, Omar Malik
Duration 8h 23m
This real-life story will never leave you. This is the incredible true story of a Galilean stonemason who changed the course of the world forever. He lived and died over 2,000 years ago, fulfilling expectations that existed long before his birth. This humble builder-teacher became a magnet for the poor and down trodden, a symbol of love and mercy,...
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Author: Damien Lewis
Author Damien Lewis
Narrator Matt Bates
Duration 10h 14m
FIVE DARING ESCAPES CARRIED OUT BY THE FAMOUS FIGHTING FORCE DURING WWII From the infamous 1944 desert campaign to the unforgiving terrain of the Vosges Mountains; from a perilous escape across Europe aided by Resistance networks to three Captains fleeing an Italian Prisoner of War camp in 1943, and a death-defying return to Britain via boat, tunn...
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Author: Listening Books
Author Listening Books
Narrator Various
Duration 1h 40m
The summer 2025 edition of our exclusive member newsletter. This issue includes an interviews with authors Bali Rai and Beverley Watts, lots of book-ish chat, charity updates and our winter competition!
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An Interview With Beverley Watts
Author: Listening Books
Author Listening Books
Narrator Beverley Watts
Duration 21m
An Interview with historical fiction and romance author Beverley Watts. Beverley chats to us about her very popular Shackleford Sisters series.
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An Interview With Susan Elia MacNeal
Author: Listening Books
Author Listening Books
Narrator Susan Elia MacNeal
Duration 18m
An interview with historical crime author, Susan Elia MacNeal. Susan chats to us about her latest book, Mother Daughter Traitor Spy.
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An Interview With Philippa Gregory
Author: Listening Books
Author Listening Books
Narrator Philippa Gregory
Duration 20m
An interview with best-selling author Philippa Gregory. Philippa chats to us about taking a departure from fiction to write her history book, Normal Women.
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An Interview With Glenda Young
Author: Listening Books
Author Listening Books
Narrator Glenda Young
Duration 16m
An interview with cosy crime author Glenda Young. Glenda chats to us about her Helen Dexter cosy mystery series.
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