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Author: Maeve Binchy
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Author Maeve Binchy
Narrator Kate Binchy
Duration 11h 54m
Maeve's Binchy's much-loved Irish Times writings spanned five decades. She was an accidental journalist whose work first appeared after her father sent in colourful accounts he had received from her travels. From the beginning, her writings reflected the warmth, wit and keen human interest that readers would come to love in her fiction. This timele...
View BookAuthor: Angela Saini
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Author Angela Saini
Narrator Angela Saini
Duration 11h 28m
In Superior, award-winning science writer Angela Saini explores the concept of race, both past and present. At its heart, race is the belief that we are born different, in character and intellectually as well as in appearance. It's the notion that as groups of people we have certain innate qualities that are not only visible but which may also have...
View BookAuthor: Jennifer Worth
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Author Jennifer Worth
Narrator Anne Reid
Duration 5h 5m
In this follow up to 'Call the Midwife', Jennifer Worth, a midwife working in the docklands area of East London in the 1950s tells more stories about the people she encountered. There's Jane, who cleaned and generally helped out at Nonnatus House-she was taken to the workhouse as a baby and was allegedly the illegitimate daughter of an aristocrat....
View BookAuthor: Andrew Taylor
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Author Andrew Taylor
Narrator Stephen Thorne
Duration 7h 39m
By putting our differences and snobberies under a microscope, this audiobook explains many facts about us as a nation, exploring the development of language and our behaviour. Did you know that the court of Richard II spoke in broad Yorkshire? Why don't we speak like we did 40 years ago? Why is one perceived to be richer, taller - and more attracti...
View BookAuthor: Angela Saini
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Author Angela Saini
Narrator Tania Rodrigues
Duration 9h 6m
From intelligence to emotion, for centuries science has told us that men and women are fundamentally different. But this is not the whole story. Shedding light on controversial research and investigating the ferocious gender wars in biology, psychology and anthropology, Angela Saini takes listeners on an eye-opening journey to uncover how women are...
View BookAuthor: Tony Benn
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Author Tony Benn
Narrator Tony Benn
Duration 2h
Tony Benn brings his unmistakable presence to the stage. His only props: a flask of tea, some rubbed tobacco and his trademark pipe. This audiobook is a mix of politics, opinion and debate as he explores the issues of today spiced with memories of the past.
View BookAuthor: Walter Dean Myers
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Author Walter Dean Myers
Narrator J.D. Jackson
Duration 4h 20m
As a fourteen-year-old, he was Malcolm Little, the president of his class and a top student. At sixteen, he was hustling tips at a Boston nightclub. In Harlem, he was known as Detroit Red, a slick street operator. At nineteen, he was back in Boston, leading a gang of burglars. At twenty, he was in prison. It was in prison that Malcolm Little starte...
View BookAuthor: Lyn Macdonald
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Author Lyn Macdonald
Narrator Jan Boyd
Duration 16h 6m
'On the face of it,' writes Lyn Macdonald, 'no one could have been less equipped for the job than these gently nurtured girls who walked straight out of Edwardian drawing rooms into the manifest horrors of the First World War ...' Yet the volunteer nurses rose magnificently to the occasion; in this audiobook they get a chance to tell their own stor...
View BookAuthor: Dave Gorman
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Author Dave Gorman
Narrator Dave Gorman
Duration 2h 43m
Genius: Series 2 sees Dave Gorman and celebrity guests including Chris Addison, Armando Iannucci and Brian Sewell chew over ridiculous, unworkable but sometimes genius inventions, schemes and policies of the public. Genius invites listeners to air those incredible concepts that strike you just before falling into a nice sleep or after one-too-many...
View BookAuthor: Listening Books
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Author Books Listening
Narrator Amy Lloyd
Duration 28m
We chat to the author of popular thriller novels One More Lie and The Innocent Wife.
View BookListening Books: A Collection of Interviews Volume 1
Author: Listening Books
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Author Listening Books
Narrator Various
Duration 5h 1m
Featuring some of our most interesting author interviews over the last 5 years, as first heard in our member newsletter, Connect, this first collection is now available for members to borrow on MP3 CD. The authors featured are: Alan Durant, Ali Sparkes, Anne-Marie Young and Michael Rosen, Barbara Taylor Bradford, Cass Greed, Cressida Cowell, Fenell...
View Book12 Books That Changed the World
Author: Melvyn Bragg
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Author Melvyn Bragg
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Duration 2h
When we think of great events in the history of the world, we tend to think of war, revolution, political upheaval or natural catastrophe. But throughtout history there have been moments of vital importance that have taken place not on the battlefield, but between the pages of a book. Here Melvyn Bragg explores a wide and controversial selection of...
View BookAuthor: Fearne Cotton
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Author Fearne Cotton
Narrator Fearne Cotton
Duration 3h 52m
In Quiet, Fearne Cotton explores why so many of us question whether we are, or will ever be, 'good enough'. Quiet includes interviews with people who have helped Fearne to accept her flaws and love her own imperfections as well as advice on how to drown out misinformation and the sometimes pressurising noise from family, work and friends, which can...
View BookAn Interview With Angela Chadwick
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Author Books Listening
Narrator Angela Chadwick
Duration 18m
We speak to debut author Angela Chadwick about her award-winning novel, XX.
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Author Books Listening
Narrator Simon Lelic
Duration 14m
We speak to the author of the popular thriller novels The House and The Liar's Room. Photo credit Justine Stoddart.
View BookAuthor: Tony Benn
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Author Tony Benn
Narrator Tony Benn
Duration 4h 22m
As a diarist I have chronicled the time through which I have lived in meticulous detail: but all that is history. What matters now is the future for those who will live through it. The past is the past but there may be lessons to be learned which could help the next generation to avoid mistakes their parents and grandparents made. Certainly at my a...
View BookAuthor: Gerard Hoffnung
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Author Gerard Hoffnung
Narrator Humphrey Lyttleton
Duration 2h
Gerard Hoffnung was an artist, musician, broadcaster, raconteur - and genius. A true Renaissance Man, the multi-faceted Hoffnung crammed a great deal into his tragically short span. Using much previously unreleased archive material, this audio biography, presented by Humphrey Lyttelton, looks at every aspect of his life and career. From his childho...
View BookAn Interview With Sue Moorcroft
Author: Listening Books
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Author Books Listening
Narrator Sue Moorcroft
Duration 50m
We chat to the best-selling fiction author whose novels include Just for the Holidays and A Christmas Gift. Photo credit Charlotte Barnes.
View BookAuthor: Clara Parkes
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Author Clara Parkes
Narrator Clara Parkes
Duration 6h 40m
Knitting aficionado and notable artisan Clara Parkes delves into her storied travels with this inspiring and witty New York Times bestselling memoir on a creative life enriched by her adventures around the world. Building on the success of The Yarn Whisperer, Parkes's rich personal essays invite listeners and devoted crafters on excursions to be sa...
View BookAuthor: Bruce Springsteen
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Author Bruce Springsteen
Narrator Bruce Springsteen
Duration 18h 23m
Over the past seven years, Bruce Springsteen has privately devoted himself to writing the story of his life, bringing to these pages the same honesty, humor, and originality found in his songs. Born to Run will be revelatory for anyone who has ever enjoyed Bruce Springsteen, but this book is much more than a legendary rock star's memoir. This is a...
View BookAn Interview With Robin Stevens
Author: Listening Books
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Author Books Listening
Narrator Robin Stevens
Duration 14m
We speak to the author of the very popular children's series, A Murder Most Unladylike.
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