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Author: Jean Menzies
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Author Jean Menzies
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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: John Guy
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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
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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: Fern Brady
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Author Fern Brady
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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: Melvyn Bragg
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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...
View BookAuthor: Abi Morgan
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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: Keith Brymer Jones
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Author Keith Brymer Jones
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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: Nicklas Brendborg
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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: John Sweeney
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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: Dom Joly
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Author Dom Joly
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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: Billy Connolly
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Author Billy Connolly
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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: Frantz Fanon
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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: Anthony Bourdain
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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: Sarah Bax Horton
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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: Natalie Y. Gutiérrez, Jennifer Mullen
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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: Jahan Khamsehzadeh
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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: Adam Kay
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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: Cait Flanders
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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: Victoria Smith
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Author Victoria Smith
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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: Audrey Golden
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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: Ronnie O'Sullivan
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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...
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