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Author: Lucy Worsley
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Author Lucy Worsley
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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: Mary Gabriel
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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: Jonathan Franklin, Michael Smith
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Author Jonathan Franklin, Michael Smith
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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 BookAuthor: Stuart Hills
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Author Stuart Hills
Narrator Roger Clark
Duration 9h 3m
Stuart Hills embarked his Sherman DD tank on to an LCT at 6.45 a.m., Sunday 4 June 1944. He was 20 years old, unblooded, fresh from a public-school background and Officer Cadet training. He was going to war. Two days later, his tank sunk, he and his crew landed from a rubber dinghy with just the clothes they stood in. After that, the struggles thro...
View BookAuthor: Guy Martin
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Author Guy Martin
Narrator Dean Williamson
Duration 9h 34m
Brought to you by Penguin. Guy Martin can't sit still. He has to keep pushing - both himself and whatever machine he is piloting - to the extreme. He's a doer, not a talker.That applies whether Guy's competing in a self-supported 750-mile mountain bike race across Arizona, or trying to reach 300mph in a standing mile on the 800-horsepower motorbike...
View BookAuthor: Dr Anders Hansen
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Author Dr Anders Hansen
Narrator The Author, Nikolas Salmon
Duration 5h 25m
Brought to you by Penguin.'A must read for anyone hoping to understand the human brain' - Dr Anna Lembke, New York Times bestselling author of Dopamine NationAs a species, we've never had it so good. We're living longer and healthier lives than ever before; the sum of human knowledge and endless entertainment are only ever a few clicks away.So why...
View BookI'm Not as Well as I Thought I Was
Author: Ruby Wax
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Author Ruby Wax
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Duration 6h 12m
Brought to you by Penguin.Checking into a psychiatric institution wasn't exactly on Ruby Wax's agenda for 2022 - writing about it wasn't either, but here we are. These days, trying to stay sane in a completely chaotic world makes life incredibly difficult, especially if you're struggling with your mental health. While searching for inner peace and...
View BookAuthor: Ed Yong
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Author Ed Yong
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Duration 14h 17m
Brought to you by Penguin.'Wonderful, mind-broadening... a journey to alternative realities as extraordinary as any you'll find in science fiction' - The Times, Book of the WeekHumans have three or four colour-detecting cones in their retinas. Mantis shrimp have 16. In fact, their eyes seem to have more in common with satellite technology than with...
View BookAuthor: Meredith O'Brien
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Author Meredith O'Brien
Narrator Erin deWard
Duration 9h 22m
About losing one's life as it was once imagined, and the ultimate, uneasy peace that's achieved with the permanent uncertainty which accompanies living with a chronic illness. It begins with numbness on her left leg. Then it spreads. Even though an MRI finds a "mass" on her brainstem, it takes two more years for Meredith O'Brien to learn what is ca...
View BookHow Westminster Works...and Why It Doesn't
Author: Ian Dunt
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Author Ian Dunt
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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...
View BookKatherine of Aragon, The True Queen
Author: Alison Weir
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Author Alison Weir
Narrator Maggie Mash
SeriesSix Tudor Queens, Book 1
Duration 27h 43m
The lives of Henry VIII's queens make for dramatic stories, and Alison Weir writes a series of novels that offer insights into the real lives of the six wives based on extensive research and new theories. In all the romancing, has anyone regarded the evidence that Anne Boleyn did not love Henry VIII? Or that Prince Arthur, Katherine of Aragon's fi...
View BookAnne Boleyn, A King's Obsession
Author: Alison Weir
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Author Alison Weir
Narrator Anna Bentick
SeriesSix Tudor Queens, Book 2
Duration 21h 15m
Anne Boleyn: A King's Obsession by best-selling historian Alison Weir, author of Katherine of Aragon: The True Queen, is the second captivating novel in the Six Tudor Queens series. An unforgettable portrait of the ambitious woman whose fate we know all too well, but whose true motivations may surprise you. Essential listening for fans of Philippa...
View BookJane Seymour, The Haunted Queen
Author: Alison Weir
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Author Alison Weir
Narrator Rose Akroyd
SeriesSix Tudor Queens, Book 3
Duration 18h 29m
Alison Weir, historian and author of the Sunday Times best sellers Katherine of Aragon: The True Queen and Anne Boleyn: A King's Obsession, draws a finely detailed and enthralling portrait of Jane Seymour, Henry VIII's third queen. Essential listening for fans of Philippa Gregory and Elizabeth Chadwick. The woman hau...
View BookAnna of Kleve, Queen of Secrets
Author: Alison Weir
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Author Alison Weir
Narrator Esther Wane
SeriesSix Tudor Queens, Book 4
Duration 18h 32m
Alison Weir, historian and author of the Sunday Times best sellers Katherine of Aragon: The True Queen, Anne Boleyn: A King's Obsession and Jane Seymour: The Haunted Queen, paints a spellbinding portrait of Anna of Kleve, Henry VIII's fourth queen. A German Princess with a guilty secret. The King is in love wi...
View BookKatheryn Howard, The Tainted Queen
Author: Alison Weir
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Author Alison Weir
Narrator Sophie Roberts
SeriesSix Tudor Queens, Book 5
Duration 16h 6m
Alison Weir, historian and author of the Sunday Times best-selling Six Tudor Queens series, relates one of the most tragic stories in English history: Katheryn Howard, Henry VIII's fifth queen. A naive young woman at the mercy of her ambitious family. At just 19, Katheryn Howard is quick to trust and fall in love. She comes to court. She...
View BookKatharine Parr, The Sixth Wife
Author: Alison Weir
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Author Alison Weir
Narrator Beth Eyre
SeriesSix Tudor Queens, Book 6
Duration 19h 17m
Alison Weir, historian and author of the Sunday Times best-selling Six Tudor Queens series, recounts the story of Henry VIII's last wife - Katharine Parr, the queen who survived him. A woman torn between love and duty. Two husbands dead, a boy and a sick man. And now Katharine is free to make her own choice. The ageing king's eye falls...
View BookSeries 5, Episode 3 - Jane McDowell
Author: Listening Books
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Author Listening Books
Narrator Jessica Stone, Jane Mcdowell
Duration 31m
Jessica Stone talks to audiobook narrator and actor Jane McDowell.
View BookOne Two Three Four: The Beatles in Time
Author: Craig Brown
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Author Craig Brown
Narrator Mark McGann, Kate Robbins
Duration 20h 20m
SHORTLISTED for the Baillie Gifford Prize’s 25th Anniversary Winner of Winners award WINNER OF THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 2020 A Spectator Book of the Year A Times Book of the Year A Telegraph Book of the Year A Sunday Times Book of the Year From the award-winning author of Ma’am Darling: 99 Glimpses of Princess Margaret com...
View BookAuthor: Miriam Margolyes
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Author Miriam Margolyes
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Duration 10h 43m
Award-winning actress, bestselling author of her memoir This Much Is True, and Britain's naughtiest national treasure is back, and she's as outrageous as ever. Join us on another unforgettable adventure through the extraordinary life and strong opinions of Miriam Margolyes. 'My new book is called Oh Miriam! - something that has bee...
View BookSeries 5, Episode 2 - Polly Lee
Author: Listening Books
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Author Listening Books
Narrator Jessica Stone, Polly Lee
Duration 35m
Jessica Stone chats to Polly Lee, the narrator of the very successful series, The School for Good and Evil by Soman Chainani.
View BookSeries 5, Episode 1 - Bonnie Garmus
Author: Listening Books, Bonnie Garmus
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Author Listening Books, Bonnie Garmus
Narrator Jessica Stone, Bonnie Garmus
Duration 36m
Jessica Stone interviews author of the hugely successful Lessons in Chemistry, Bonnie Garmus.
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