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Queer Villains of Myth and Legend
Author: Dan Jones
Author Dan Jones
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Duration 4h 53m
Hidden in the margins of history books, classical literature, and thousands of years of stories, myths and legends, through to contemporary literature, TV and film, there is a diverse and other-worldly super community of queer heroes to discover, learn from, and celebrate. Be captivated by stories of forbidden love like Patroclus & Achilles (ex...
View BookAuthor: Joanne Lefson
Author Joanne Lefson
Narrator Laura Kirman
Duration 5h 36m
When Joanne Lefson took on a piglet at her animal shelter, the young sow proceeded to eat everything in her stable but a paint brush. In a flash of inspiration, Joanne attempted to introduce the pig to the art of painting - and thus Pigcasso was born. Starting out with a humble canvas on the sanctuary wall, Pigcasso's paintings are now owned by the...
View BookAuthor: Geoff Norcott
Author Geoff Norcott
Narrator The Author
Duration 6h 34m
The British Bloke appears simple and straightforward. He loves football, cricket, beer, sheds, wearing socks and books about the SAS. But beneath that simple exterior lies a mysterious and complex being. In The British Bloke Decoded, writer, comedian and regular bloke, Geoff Norcott peels back the layers of blokedom, revealing the truth behind the...
View BookAuthor: Tristan Gooley
Author Tristan Gooley
Narrator The Author
Duration 7h 54m
Do two trees ever appear identical? No, but why? Every small difference is a clue. Each tree we meet is filled with signs that reveal secrets about the life of that tree and the landscape we stand in. The clues are easy to spot when you know what to look for, but remain invisible to most people. In How to Read a Tree, you'll discover the simple pri...
View BookAuthor: Katherine Rundell
Author Katherine Rundell
Narrator Jamie Parker
Duration 8h 41m
John Donne lived myriad lives. Sometime religious outsider and social disaster, sometime celebrity preacher and establishment darling, John Donne was incapable of being just one thing. He was a scholar of law, a sea adventurer, an MP, a priest, the Dean of St Paul’s Cathedral – and perhaps the greatest love poet in the history of the En...
View BookAuthor: Miguel Delaney
Author Miguel Delaney
Narrator Patrick Moy
Duration 15h 48m
As the 2022 World Cup in Qatar drew to a close, there was a bitter undercurrent to Argentina's triumph. Throughout the tournament, numerous allegations of sportswashing and financial misconduct had been made against the state of Qatar. The question had been asked, who really owns and runs football? Journeying around the globe, journalist Miguel Del...
View BookAuthor: Russell Watson
Author Russell Watson
Narrator The Author
Duration 7h
Russell Watson was at the peak of his success as a much-loved classical singer. He had gone from humble beginnings, working in a factory making nuts and bolts in Salford to singing in working men's clubs to performing to stadiums filled with thousands of fans. But then tragedy struck. In 2006 and 2007 he was diagnosed with two brain tumours. In the...
View BookAuthor: Michael Palin
Author Michael Palin
Narrator The Author
Duration 27h 28m
A new millennium, and a new chapter for Michael Palin unfolds. With a Hemingway travel project testing his confidence, doubts creeping in about his abilities as a writer, the death of his great friend George Harrison and the last of his children leaving home, the dawn of the twenty-first century sees Michael at his most reflective yet. Amidst this...
View BookAuthor: Carol Vorderman
Author Carol Vorderman
Narrator The Author
Duration 11h 27m
This is a book for people who don't normally think about politics. We have a new government and have bid a loud goodbye to the Tories, but the issues that allowed the last government to mismanage and deceive us for so long lie deep. Amidst a landscape of economic turmoil and deepening societal fractures, we need to see a new age of accountability i...
View BookAuthor: History Hit , Dan Snow
Author History Hit , Dan Snow
Narrator The Author, Tristan Hughes
Duration 9h 34m
From battlefields, cathedrals and museums to castles and stately homes, from the Lancastrians and Yorkists to the Roundheads, Royalists and an abundance of kings called Edward (and Henry!), the history of our island nation unravels its rich tapestry beneath our very feet - if only you know where to look. Take, for instance, the Tower of London, whi...
View BookAuthor: Kim Ghattas
Author Kim Ghattas
Narrator Nan McNamara
Duration 16h 33m
For decades, the question has haunted the Arab and Muslim world. Was it always so? When did the extremism, intolerance and bloodletting of today displace the region's cultural promise and diversity? In Black Wave, award-winning journalist and author Kim Ghattas argues that the turning point in the modern history of the Middle East can be located in...
View BookA Working-Class Family Ages Badly
Author: Juno Roche
Author Juno Roche
Narrator Joelle Taylor
Duration 9h 50m
A radically honest and uplifting memoir about defying death and learning to live. Juno Roche was born into a working-class family in London in the '60s, who dabbled in minor criminality. School was a respite, but shortly after beginning their university course, Juno was diagnosed with HIV, then a death sentence. Juno is a survivor; they outlived th...
View BookAuthor: Tom Phillips
Author Tom Phillips
Narrator Nish Kumar
Duration 6h 27m
In the seventy thousand years that modern human beings have walked this earth, we've come a long way. Art, science, culture, trade - on the evolutionary food chain, we're real winners. But, frankly, it's not exactly been plain sailing, and sometimes - just occasionally - we've managed to really, truly, quite unbelievably f--k things up. From Chairm...
View BookAuthor: Sir Chris Hoy
Author Sir Chris Hoy
Narrator The Author
Duration 5h 56m
In elite sport, the margin between victory and defeat is minuscule, and the pressure is immense. Chris has built a glittering sporting career on understanding these moments: how to feel for them, how to cope with them, how to make them count.Last year, he faced another life-changing moment. He found out that the ache in his shoulder was in fact a t...
View BookAuthor: Jenny Eclair
Author Jenny Eclair
Narrator The Author
Duration 10h 59m
How did little Jenny Hargreaves become Jenny Eclair and elbow her way into the male dominated world of 1980s stand-up? Daughter of Major Derek Hargreaves (spy?) and June Hargreaves (spy's wife?) sister of Sara (born to be Head Girl) and Ben (the usurper), Jenny's comedy career took off via drama school, cider, sausage rolls, sleeping with men who l...
View BookAuthor: Listening Books
Author Listening Books
Narrator Jessica Stone
Duration 1h 14m
The winter 2024 edition of our exclusive member newsletter. This issue includes an interview with cosy crime and saga author Glenda Young, lots of book-ish chat and our winter competition!
View BookAuthor: Al Murray
Author Al Murray
Narrator The Author
Duration 8h 21m
Al Murray's passion for military history and the Second World War in particular has always run parallel with his comedy and was brought to the fore with several acclaimed and award-winning television shows and the recent huge success of his podcast We Have Ways of Making You Talk which he hosts with fellow bestselling military author James Holland....
View BookAuthor: Victor Sebestyen
Author Victor Sebestyen
Narrator Elinor Coleman
Duration 16h 6m
Throughout history, the centre of gravity in Budapest and among Hungarians has shifted between this division of East and West—culturally, politically, emotionally. Invaders have come and gone, empires have conquered, occupied for centuries or decades, and left a few footprints behind: the remains of a Roman bath house complete with wonderfull...
View BookAuthor: Nino Strachey
Author Nino Strachey
Narrator The Author
Duration 6h 48m
Surprisingly little has been written about second-generation Bloomsbury who tantalised the original 'Bloomsburies' at Gordon Square parties with their captivating looks and provocative ideas. Young Bloomsbury introduces us to an extraordinarily colourful cast of characters, including novelist and music critic Eddy Sackville-West, 'who wore elaborat...
View BookAuthor: Howard Sounes
Author Howard Sounes
Narrator The Author
Duration 10h 17m
In 1973, Myra Hindley, the most notorious woman in Britain, is serving a life sentence for the Moors murders—a case that shocked the world. Behind bars, she has fallen in love. When Hindley is refused parole, she persuades a sympathetic prison officer and former nun to help her break out of London's grim Holloway prison. The women plan to run...
View BookAuthor: Hugo Vickers
Author Hugo Vickers
Narrator Gregory Cox, Julie Teal, Sandra Duncan, Richard Attlee, Gareth Armstrong
Duration 8h 10m
HRH The Duke of Kent has been at the heart of the British Royal Family throughout his life. His royal duties began when, in 1952, at the age of 16, he walked in the procession behind King George VI's coffin, later paying homage to The Queen at her coronation in 1953. No member of the Royal Family has spoken extensively of the modern reign and their...
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