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Author: Angela Hui
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HORTLISTED FOR THE JHALAK PRIZE 2023 SHORTLISTED FOR THE FORTNUM & MASON DEBUT FOOD BOOK AWARD 2023 Growing up in a Chinese takeaway in rural Wales, Angela Hui was made aware at a very young age of just how different she and her family were seen by her local community. From attacks on the shopfront (in other words, their home), to verbal abuse...
View BookAuthor: Monty Don
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Duration 14h 30m
A year at home in the country with Monty Don - the UK's favourite gardener, dog owner, writer and broadcaster - on a personal journey through the natural year, season by season, month by month. My Garden World by Monty Don is a celebration of every living creature that we all share. This year has given us the enforced opportunity to learn more abou...
View BookAuthor: Tom Allen
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Author Tom Allen
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Duration 5h 38m
When I was 16 I dressed in Victorian clothing in a bid to distract people from the fact that I was gay. It was a flawed plan. No Shame is a very funny, candid and emotional ride of a memoir by one of our most beloved comedians. The working-class son of a coach driver and the youngest member of the Noel Coward Society, Tom Allen grew up in '90s subu...
View BookAuthor: Ellie Taylor
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Author Ellie Taylor
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Duration 6h 34m
My Child and Other Mistakes is the honest lowdown on motherhood and all its grisly delights, asking the questions no one wants to admit to asking themselves - do I want a child? Do I have a favourite? Do I wish I hadn't had one and spent the money on a kitchen island instead? Stand-up comic, broadcaster and actress Ellie Taylor is relatable, clever...
View BookAuthor: Adam Kay
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Author Adam Kay
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Duration 8h 42m
This Is Going to Hurt was the publishing phenomenon of the century, read by many millions, loved by at least fifty of them, and adapted into a major TV series. But it was only part of the story. By turns hilarious, heartbreaking and humbling, Undoctored is about what happens when a doctor hangs up his scrubs, but medicine refuses to let go of him....
View BookAuthor: Miriam Margolyes
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Author Miriam Margolyes
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Duration 15h 7m
Award-winning actor, creator of a myriad of memorable characters from Lady Whiteadder to Professor Sprout, Miriam Margolyes is a national treasure. Now, at last, at the age of 80, she has finally decided to tell her extraordinary life story. And it's far richer and stranger than any part she's played. Find out how being conceived in an air-raid gav...
View BookAuthor: Sarah Gilbert, Catherine Green
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Author Sarah Gilbert, Catherine Green
Narrator Heather Long
Duration 10h 37m
On 1st January 2020, Sarah Gilbert, professor of vaccinology at Oxford University, read an article about four people in China with a strange pneumonia. Within two weeks, she and her team had designed a vaccine against a pathogen that no one had ever seen before. Less than 12 months later, vaccination was rolled out across the world to save millions...
View BookAuthor: Billy Connolly
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Author Billy Connolly
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Duration 8h 39m
WINNER OF THE 2022 BRITISH BOOK AWARDS AUDIOBOOK OF THE YEAR: NON-FICTION The funny, frank and full autobiography of the nation's favourite comedian. It's the first time I've done this. Other people have written about me - or for me - but this time, it's just my own life in my own words. In his first full-length autobiography, comedy legend and nat...
View BookAuthor: Prince Harry, The Duke of Sussex
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Author Prince Harry, The Duke of Sussex
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Duration 15h 39m
It was one of the most searing images of the twentieth century: two young boys, two princes, walking behind their mother’s coffin as the world watched in sorrow—and horror. As Princess Diana was laid to rest, billions wondered what Prince William and Prince Harry must be thinking and feeling—and how their lives woul...
View BookAuthor: Katherine Rundell
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Author Katherine Rundell
Narrator Lenny Henry
Duration 3h 8m
'A rare and magical book. I didn't want it to end.' Bill Bryson 'Rundell is the real deal, a writer of boundless gifts and extraordinary imaginative power.' Observer'Rundell's pen is gold-tipped.' Sunday TimesThe world is more astonishing, more miraculous and more wonderful than our wildest imaginings.In this passionately persuasive and sharply fun...
View BookAuthor: Dave Grohl
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Duration 10h 35m
Read by Dave Grohl. Features excerpts from five never-before-heard demos performed by Dave Grohl and an original story exclusive to The Storyteller audiobook. So, I've written a book.Having entertained the idea for years, and even offered a few questionable opportunities ('It's a piece of cake! Just do four hours of interviews, find someone else to...
View BookAuthor: Ed Yong
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Author Ed Yong
Narrator Charlie Anson
Duration 9h 52m
Your body is teeming with tens of trillions of microbes. It's an entire world, a colony full of life. In other words, you contain multitudes. These microscopic companions sculpt our organs, protect us from diseases, guide our behaviour, and bombard us with their genes. They also hold the key to understanding all life on earth. In I Contain Mult...
View BookAuthor: Sue Black
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Author Sue Black
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Duration 11h 20m
Random House presents the audiobook edition of All That Remains by Professor Sue Black, read by the author. Sue Black confronts death every day. As Professor of Anatomy and Forensic Anthropology, she focuses on mortal remains in her lab, at burial sites, at scenes of violence, murder and criminal dismemberment, and when investigating mass fatalitie...
View BookAuthor: Michael Pollan
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Author Michael Pollan
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Duration 13h 35m
Brought to you by Penguin.How to Change Your Mind is a report from what could very well be the future of human consciousness, written and read by Michael Pollan. When LSD was first discovered in the 1940s, it seemed to researchers, scientists and doctors as if the world might be on the cusp of psychological revolution. It promised to shed light on...
View BookAuthor: Thomas Halliday
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Author Thomas Halliday
Narrator Adetomiwa Edun
Duration 11h 6m
Brought to you by Penguin. A dazzlingly original, lyrical and epic encounter with the Earth as it used to beWhat would it be like to visit the ancient landscapes of the past? To experience the Jurassic or Cambrian worlds, to wander among these other lands, as creatures extinct for millions of years roam? In this mesmerizing debut, the award-winning...
View BookAuthor: Ruth Goodman
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Author Ruth Goodman
Narrator Patience Tomlinson
Duration 11h 13m
The Tudor era encompasses some of the greatest changes in our history. But while we know about the historical dramas of the times, what was life really like for a commoner? To answer this question, the renowned 'method historian' Ruth Goodman has slept, washed and cooked as the Tudors did. She is your expert guide to this fascinating era, drawing...
View BookAuthor: Jane Robinson
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Author Jane Robinson
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Duration 8h 30m
Everyone knows three things about the Women’s Institute: that they spent the war making jam; the sensational Calendar Girls were WI; and, more recently, that slow-handclapping of Tony Blair. About 215,000 women in the UK belong to the WI. Their membership crosses class and has recently begun to recruit huge numbers of young women. It was foun...
View BookAuthor: Davina McCall, Dr Naomi Potter
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Author Davina McCall, Dr Naomi Potter
Narrator Dr Nighat Arif, Michael Douglas, Cheryl Phelps-Gardiner, Maryam Grace, Kristin Atherton, Richard Hughes, The Authors
Duration 8h 59m
Menopausing is more than just a book, it’s a movement. An uprising. Menopause affects every woman, and yet so many approach it with shame, fear, misinformation or silence. Why is no one talking about this? Who has the correct information? And how can we get it? That’s how this book has come about. We are going to tell you the tr...
View BookAuthor: Alan Rickman, Alan Taylor
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Author Alan Rickman, Alan Taylor
Narrator Steven Crossley, Alfred Enoch, Bonnie Wright, Rima Horton
Duration 19h 21m
Alan Rickman was one of the world-class actors of his generation, as well as a tireless political activist, an avid traveller and a devoted confidant and friend. Through his never-before-seen diaries—a twenty-five-year passion project—Rickman invites listeners backstage and into his life. A Sunday Times bestseller Alan Rickman remains...
View BookAuthor: Nina Mingya Powles
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Author Nina Mingya Powles
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Duration 6h 3m
Home is many people and places and languages, some separated by oceans. Where is the place your body is anchored? Which body of water is yours? Is it that I've anchored myself in too many places at once, or nowhere at all? The answer lies somewhere between. Nina Mingya Powles first learned to swim in Borneo - where her mother was born and her gra...
View BookLancaster and York: The Wars of the Roses
Author: Alison Weir
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Author Alison Weir
Narrator Maggie Mash
Duration 22h 25m
A riveting account of the Wars of the Roses, from the beloved and bestselling historian Alison Weir The war between the houses of Lancaster and York was characterised by treachery, deceit and bloody battles. Alison Weir's lucid and gripping account focuses on the human side of history. At the centre of the book stands Henry VI, the pious king whose...
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