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Author: Ta-Nehisi Coates
Author Ta-Nehisi Coates
Narrator Ta-Nehisi Coates
Duration 3h 35m
In a profound work that pivots from the biggest questions about American history and ideals to the most intimate concerns of a father for his son, Ta-Nehisi Coates offers a powerful new framework for understanding our nation's history and current crisis. Americans have built an empire on the idea of "race," a falsehood that damages us all but falls...
View BookAuthor: Grayson Perry
Author Grayson Perry
Narrator Jonny Phillips
Duration 3h 56m
Grayson Perry has been thinking about masculinity - what it is, how it operates, why little boys are thought to be made of slugs and snails - since he was a boy. Now, in this funny and necessary book, he turns round to look at men with a clear eye and ask, what sort of men would make the world a better place, for everyone? What would happen if we r...
View BookAuthor: Anne Frank
Author Anne Frank
Narrator Helena Bonham Carter
Duration 10h 8m
The unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of Anne Frank's The Diary of a Young Girl, including the 5 'missing pages' discovered by the Anne Frank Foundation in 2001. Insightfully read by the actress Helena Bonham Carter. In Amsterdam, in the summer of 1942, the Nazis forced teenager Anne Frank and her family into hiding. For over two years, th...
View BookAuthor: Fred Sirieix
Author Fred Sirieix
Narrator Various
Duration 4h 41m
'There's someone out there for all of us...' First Dates, Channel 4's runaway hit TV show, has captured the hearts of the nation. Each week millions of us cosy up on our sofas to watch nervous singletons arrive in the restaurant in the hope of finding love. Now Fred Sirieix, the insatiably charming Maitre'd of the First Dates restaurant, is here to...
View BookAuthor: Meik Wiking
Author Meik Wiking
Narrator Meik Wiking
Duration 3h 15m
Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable, audiobook edition of The Little Book of Hygge, written and read by Meik Wiking. Denmark is often said to be the happiest country in the world. That's down to one thing: hygge. 'Hygge has been translated as everything from the art of creating intimacy to cosiness of the soul to taking pleasure from the...
View BookAuthor: Nina Stibbe
Author Nina Stibbe
Narrator Nina Stibbe
Duration 7h 59m
* * * WINNER OF THE 2014 NATIONAL BOOK AWARDS POPULAR NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR * * * 'I adored this book, and I could quote from it forever. It's real, odd, life-affirming, sharp, loving, and contains more than one reference to Arsenal FC' Nick Hornby,The Believer 'Adrian Mole meets Mary Poppins mashed up in literary north London . . . Enormous...
View BookThe Misadventures of An Awkward Black Girl
Author: Issa Rae
Author Issa Rae
Narrator The Author
Duration 5h 49m
In the bestselling tradition of Sloan Crosley's I Was Told There'd Be Cake and Mindy Kaling's Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?, a collection of humorous essays on what it's like to be unabashedly awkward in a world that regards introverts as hapless misfits, and black as cool. My name is "J" and I'm awkward-and black. Someone once told me those...
View BookAuthor: Steven Gerrard
Author Steven Gerrard
Narrator Michael Ryan
Duration 13h 28m
Steven Gerrard is the former captain of Liverpool football team and of the England national football team, and is the only player ever to have scored in a FA cup final, a league cup final, a UEFA cup final and a champion's league final. His entire career, since 1998, has been spent at Anfield with Liverpool. In this book he charts his full playing...
View BookAuthor: Shami Chakrabarti
Author Shami Chakrabarti
Narrator Shami Chakrabarti
Duration 6h 9m
On 11 September 2001, our world changed. The West's response to 9/11 has morphed into a period of exception. Governments have decided that the rule of law and human rights are often too costly. In On Liberty, Shami Chakrabarti-who joined Liberty, the UK's leading civil rights organization, on 10 September 2001-explores why our fundamental rights an...
View BookAuthor: Emmeline Pankhurst
Author Emmeline Pankhurst
Narrator Susan Duerden
Duration 9h 47m
With insight and great wit, Emmeline's autobiography chronicles the beginnings of her interest in feminism through to her militant and controversial fight for women's right to vote. While Emmeline received a good education, attending an all-girls school and being expected to conform to social norms, she rebelled against conventional women's roles....
View BookWe Need To Talk About...kevin Bridges
Author: Kevin Bridges
Author Kevin Bridges
Narrator Kevin Bridges
Duration 11h 40m
Aged 17, Kevin Bridges walked on stage for the first time and brought the house down. He only had a five-minute set but he discovered he really could earn a living from making people laugh. Kevin began life as a shy, nerve-ridden school-boy. Reaching his teens, he followed his true calling as the class clown. This was a guy going somewhere-off the...
View BookAuthor: David Fontana
Author David Fontana
Narrator Edoardo Ballerini
Duration 3h 46m
As rates of depression and anxiety continue to rise in the modern world, one proposed remedy garnering growing attention is meditation, and mindfulness meditation in particular. This practical and accessible guide shows you how this practice can relieve stress and anxiety, encourage deep mental and physical relaxation, enhance creativity, and relea...
View BookSpike Milligan War Memoirs 1: Adolf Hitler
Author: Spike Milligan
Series: Spike Milligan War Memoirs, Book 1
Author Spike Milligan
Narrator Spike Milligan
SeriesSpike Milligan War Memoirs, Book 1
Duration 3h 24m
'At Victoria station the R.T.O. gave me a travel warrant, a white feather and a picture of Hitler marked "This is your enemy". I searched every compartment, but he wasn't on the train...' In this, the first of Spike Milligan's uproarious recollections of life in the army, our hero takes us from the outbreak of war in 1939 ('it must have been som...
View BookAuthor: Carr Alan
Author Carr Alan
Narrator Carr Alan
Duration 8h 23m
It must seem strange to you that I've called a book Alanatomy. For anyone who has taken the time to see my stand-up performances or watched my chat show, 'Chattyman', knows that my body has hardly been kind to me - in fact there've been times when we've actually stopped talking to each other. Balding, myopic, often flaky with psoriasis, back fat th...
View BookAuthor: Jessica Bennett
Author Jessica Bennett
Narrator Bahni Turpin
Duration 6h 10m
'Engaging, hilarious and practical - I will proudly proclaim myself a card-carrying member of the FFC' - Sheryl Sandberg, COO of Facebook and bestselling author of Lean In. Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable, audiobook edition of Feminist Fight Club by Jessica Bennett, read by Bahni Turpin. This is a call to arms. Are you aged zero to in...
View BookAuthor: Steven D. Levitt
Author Steven D. Levitt
Narrator Stephen J. Dubner
Duration 6h 25m
Modern life can be baffling and chaotic. Is there any way of making sense of it? The answer, explains groundbreaking thinker Steven Levitt, lies in economics. Not ordinary economics, but freakonomics. It is at the heart of everything we see and do and the subjects that bedevil us daily: from parenting to crime, sport to politics, fat to cheating, f...
View BookSpike Milligan War Memories 6: Goodbye Soldier
Author: Spike Milligan
Series: Spike Milligan War Memoirs, Book 6
Author Spike Milligan
Narrator Spike Milligan
SeriesSpike Milligan War Memoirs, Book 6
Duration 8h 27m
'My namer is Maria Antonoinetta Fontana, but everyone call me Toni.' 'I'm Spike, sometimes known as stop thief or hey you.' 'Yeser, I know.' The sixth volume of Spike Milligan's off-the-wall account of his part in World War Two sees our hero doing very little soldiering. Because it's 1946. Rather, he is now part of the Bill Hall Trio-a 'Co...
View BookAuthor: Tanya Burr
Author Tanya Burr
Narrator Laura Riseborough
Duration 5h 19m
Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable, audiobook edition of Love, Tanya, the debut book from Youtube Fashion & Beauty guru Tanya Burr, read by Laura Riseborough. Tanya Burr is the UK's leading young voice in beauty and fashion and one of the country's biggest Youtube stars. Whether it's creating the perfect smoky eye or dressing well fo...
View BookAuthor: Aziz Ansari
Author Aziz Ansari
Narrator Aziz Ansari
Duration 6h 14m
People today have more romantic options than at any point in human history, and thanks to social media, smartphones and online dating, our abilities to connect with these options are staggering. Yet we also have to face new and absurd dilemmas, such as what to think when someone doesn't reply to your text but has time to post a photo of a pizza on...
View BookSpike Milligan War Memoirs 3: Monty
Author: Spike Milligan
Series: Spike Milligan War Memoirs, Book 3
Author Spike Milligan
Narrator Spike Milligan
SeriesSpike Milligan War Memoirs, Book 3
Duration 2h 5m
'It's all over, Von Arnheim has surrendered and he's very angry.' 'This could mean war...' The third volume of Spike Milligan's laugh-a-line account of life as a gunner in World War Two resumes on the eve of victory in North Africa. Now Britain's looniest war hero must combat some of the direst threats a soldier has ever faced-boredom ('Christ, I...
View BookSpike Milligan War Memoirs Book 4: Mussolini
Author: Spike Milligan
Series: Spike Milligan War Memoirs, Book 4
Author Spike Milligan
Narrator Spike Milligan
SeriesSpike Milligan War Memoirs, Book 4
Duration 8h 34m
A voice is calling across the land, "Bombardier Milligan." "Bombadier Milligan is dead," I replied in a disguised voice. The voice replied, "Then he's going to miss his breakfast." The fourth volume of Spike Milligan's legendary account of his time in the army during World War Two begins as he and his regiment land in sunny Italy in 1943 (...
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