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Author: Clara Parkes
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...
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An Interview With Michelle Paver
Author: Listening Books, Michelle Paver
Author Listening Books, Michelle Paver
Narrator Michelle Paver
Duration 19m
Michelle Paver is a novelist and children's writer, a number of her books are available to borrow from both our online and MP3 CD library.
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Author: Listening Books, Sarah Perry
Author Listening Books, Sarah Perry
Narrator Sarah Perry
Duration 17m
An interview with Sarah Perry, the author of The Essex Serpent and After Me Comes the Flood. Photo credit Jamie Drew.
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An Interview With Robert Thorogood
Author: Listening Books, Robert Thorogood
Author Listening Books, Robert Thorogood
Narrator Robert Thorogood
Duration 22m
An interview with Robert Thorogood, author of the Death in Paradise television show and the spin-off series of novels.
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An Interview With Kiran Millwood-hargrave
Author: Listening Books
Author Listening Books
Narrator Kiran Millwood-Hargrave
Duration 17m
An interview with Kiran Millwood-Hargrave, author of children's books The Girl of Ink of Stars and The Island at the End of Everything.
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An Interview With David Almond
Author: Listening Books
Author Books Listening
Narrator David Almond
Duration 12m
An interview with David Almond, author of children's books Skellig and A Song for Ella Grey. Photo credit Sarah Jane Palmer.
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Author: Rose Mcgowen
Author Rose Mcgowen
Narrator Rose Mcgowen
Duration 6h 44m
Rose McGowan was born in one cult and came of age in another more visible cult: Hollywood. Brave is her raw, honest, and poignant memoir/manifesto - a no-holds-barred, pull-no-punches account of the rise of a millennial icon, fearless activist, and unstoppable force for change who is determined to expose the truth about the entertainment industry,...
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Author: Andrew Lloyd Webber
Author Andrew Lloyd Webber
Narrator Derek Perkins
Duration 16h 35m
One of the most successful and distinguished artists of our time, Andrew Lloyd Webber has reigned over the musical theatre world for nearly five decades. The winner of numerous awards, including multiple Tonys and an Oscar, Lloyd Webber has enchanted millions worldwide with his music and numerous hit shows, including Jesus Christ Superstar, Evita,...
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Ma'am Darling: 99 Glimpses of Princess Margaret
Author: Craig Brown
Author Craig Brown
Narrator Eleanor Bron
Duration 12h 20m
She made John Lennon blush and Marlon Brando clam up. She cold-shouldered Princess Diana and humiliated Elizabeth Taylor. Andy Warhol photographed her. Jack Nicholson offered her cocaine. Gore Vidal revered her. Dudley Moore propositioned her. Francis Bacon heckled her. Peter Sellers was in love with her. Princess Margaret aroused passion and indig...
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Author: Sara Pascoe
Author Sara Pascoe
Narrator Sara Pascoe
Duration 9h 22m
Women have so much going on, what with boobs and jealousy and menstruating and broodiness and sex and infidelity and pubes and wombs and jobs and memories and emotions and the past and the future and themselves and each other. Here's a book that deals with all of it. Sara Pascoe has joked about feminity and sexuality on stage and screen but now she...
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Qi: The General Sound of Ignorance
Author: John Mitchinson
Author John Mitchinson
Narrator John Mitchinson
Duration 4h 22m
Listen and Learn! The Sound of General Ignorance brings you all the best bits of the number one bestseller The Book of General Ignorance in handy audio form.
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The Second Sex: A Macat Analysis
Author: Rachele Dini
Author Rachele Dini
Narrator The Author
Duration 1h 49m
The Second Sex caused uproar when it appeared in 1949. Simone de Beauvoir sets out groundbreaking ideas on what it meant to be a woman, charting the oppression of "the second sex." She argued that gender identity was shaped by upbringing in a world ruled by men, and her most startling thesis became a rallying cry for the feminist movement: "One is...
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Believe Me: A Memoir of Love, Death and Jazz Chickens
Author: Eddie Izzard
Author Eddie Izzard
Narrator Eddie Izzard
Duration 14h 45m
A memoir of love, death and jazz chickens, Eddie Izzard's fabulous Believe Me is his one and only autobiography . . . 'I know why I'm doing all this,' I said. 'Everything I do in life is trying to get her back. I think if I do enough things . . . that maybe she'll come back.' When Eddie Izzard was six, he and his brother Mark lost their mother. Tha...
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Author: Anthony Beevor
Author Anthony Beevor
Narrator Peter Noble
Duration 18h 9m
Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of Berlin by Antony Beevor, read by Peter Nobel. Berlin: The Downfall 19145 is Antony Beevor's brilliant account of the fall of the Third Reich. The Red Army had much to avenge when it finally reached the frontiers of the Reich in January 1945. Political instructors rammed home the mes...
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Captivate: The Science of Succeeding With People
Author: Vanessa Van Edwards
Author Vanessa Van Edwards
Narrator Vanessa Van Edwards
Duration 7h 28m
Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of Captivate: The Science of Succeeding with People written and read by Vanessa Van Edwards. Wish you knew exactly what to say in awkward social situations? Or that you had a formula for charisma? You need to know how people work. As a human behaviour investigator, Vanessa Van Edwards...
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Author: Ruby Wax
Author Ruby Wax
Narrator Ruby Wax
Duration 7h 14m
A three way encounter between a Monk, a neuroscientist and Ruby Wax sounds like the set up for a joke. Instead it's produced one of the most fascinating, intriguing and informative books about minds and bodies and brains and mindfulness I've ever encountered. A triangulation on what it means to be human. Utterly readable and surprisingly wise. Neil...
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Author: Sigrid Rausing
Author Sigrid Rausing
Narrator Maggie Gyllenhaal
Duration 5h 58m
A searingly powerful memoir about the impact of addiction on a family In the summer of 2012 a woman named Eva was found dead in the London townhouse she shared with her husband, Hans K. Rausing. The couple had struggled with drug addiction for years, often under the glare of tabloid headlines. Now, writing with singular clarity and restraint the ed...
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Truths, Half Truths and Little White Lies
Author: Nick Frost
Author Nick Frost
Narrator Nick Frost
Duration 8h 28m
Nick Frost burst onto our screens in a blaze of camo fatigues and weaponry in the hit cult comedy Spaced. Since then, fans around the world have watched him with a fervent devotion as he fought zombies, rescued aliens and salsa'd his way to box office smash after smash. It's quite a story. But it's not this story. This story isn't the romp from mov...
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Natives: Race and Class In the Ruins of Empire
Author: Akala
Author Akala
Narrator Akala
Duration 10h 5m
From the first time he was stopped and searched as a child, to the day he realised his mum was white, to his first encounters with racist teachers - race and class have shaped Akala's life and outlook. In this unique book he takes his own experiences and widens them out to look at the social, historical and political factors that have left us where...
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When the Body Says No: The Cost of Hidden Stress
Author: Gabor Mate
Author Gabor Mate
Narrator Daniel Mate
Duration 13h 17m
Can a person literally die of loneliness? Is there a connection between the ability to express emotions and Alzheimer's disease? Is there such a thing as a 'cancer personality'? Drawing on deep scientific research and Dr Gabor Mat‚'s acclaimed clinical work, When the Body Says No provides the answers to critical questions about the mind-body...
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The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind and Body In the Healing of Trauma
Author: Der Kolk Bessel Van
Author Der Kolk Bessel Van
Narrator Sean Pratt
Duration 16h 17m
The effects of trauma can be devastating for sufferers, their families and future generations. Here one of the world's experts on traumatic stress offers a bold new paradigm for treatment, moving away from standard talking and drug therapies and towards an alternative approach that heals mind, brain and body.
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