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Curious: True Stories and Loose Connections
Author: Rebecca Front
Author Rebecca Front
Narrator Rebecca Front
Duration 6h 58m
Narrated by the author, and featuring an interview with Jeremy Front. Sometimes things are more ordinary than you think. And sometimes they're a whole lot odder than you can possibly imagine. Rebecca Front has always drawn on experiences from her life in her award-winning acting and comic writing. In her debut book, she reveals herself as a master...
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Author: John Cameron
Author John Cameron
Narrator Ben Adams
Duration 1h 57m
An overview of the positions, tactics, and history of association football written by one of the game's stars. John Cameron was a most interesting figure who played for both Everton and Tottenham. Learn the basics, improve your game knowledge, and reach your soccer playing goals. Do you get a kick out of soccer? Whether you're a youth league player...
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If Only They Didn't Speak English: Notes From Trump's America
Author: John Sopel
Author John Sopel
Narrator John Sopel
Duration 9h 56m
As the BBC's North America Editor, Jon Sopel has had a pretty busy time of it lately. In the 18 months it's taken for a reality star to go from laughingstock to leader of the free world, Jon has travelled the length and breadth of the United States, experiencing it from a perspective that most of us could only dream of: he has flown aboard Air Forc...
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Jamie Vardy: From Nowhere, My Story
Author: Jamie Vardy
Author Jamie Vardy
Narrator Steven Kynman
Duration 6h 55m
An ordinary lad from Sheffield, Jamie Vardy has become known as an against-the-odds footballing hero the world over. Yet a few years ago, things couldn't have been any more different. Rejected as a teenager by his boyhood club, Jamie thought his chance was gone. But from playing pub football and earning œ30 a week at Stocksbridge Park Steels,...
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Charles Dickens and the Great Theatre of the World
Author: Simon Callow
Author Simon Callow
Narrator Simon Callow
Duration 11h 4m
A short life of Dickens which celebrates the impact of the theatre on his life and work. Acclaimed actor and writer Simon Callow captures the essence of Charles Dickens in a sparkling biography that explores the central importance of the theatre to the life of the greatest storyteller in the English language. From his early years as a child enterta...
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Dear Ijeawele: Or A Feminist Manifesto In Fifteen Suggestions
Author: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Narrator Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Duration 1h 1m
From the best-selling author of Americanah and We Should All Be Feminists comes a powerful new statement about feminism today - written as a letter to a friend. I have some suggestions for how to raise Chizalum. But remember that you might do all the things I suggest, and she will still turn out to be different from what you hoped, because sometime...
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Author: Peter Wohlleben
Author Peter Wohlleben
Narrator Peter Wohlleben
Duration 7h 33m
Sunday Times Bestseller 'A paradigm-smashing chronicle of joyous entanglement' Charles Foster Waterstones Non-Fiction Book of the Month (September) Are trees social beings? How do trees live? Do they feel pain or have awareness of their surroundings? In The Hidden Life of Trees Peter Wohlleben makes the case that the forest is a social network. He...
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Author: Rangan Chatterjee
Author Rangan Chatterjee
Narrator Rangan Chatterjee
Duration 5h 42m
Penguin presents the audiobook edition of The Four Pillar Plan, written and read by Dr Rangan Chatterjee. In The Four Pillar Plan, Dr Rangan Chatterjee presents us with an incredibly simple framework for taking control of our health. He divides health into four pillars: diet, rest, sleep and movement. By making small, easily achievable changes in e...
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Believe: Boxing, Olympics and My Life Outside the Gym
Author: Nicola Adams
Author Nicola Adams
Narrator Emma Swan
Duration 4h 35m
Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of Believe by Nicola Adams, read by Emma Swan. At London 2012, Nicola Adams made history. The flyweight boxer - nicknamed the smiling assassin - became the first ever woman to win an Olympic Gold medal for boxing. In Rio 2016, with the nation cheering her on, she did it all over again....
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Author: Anthony Mccarten
Author Anthony Mccarten
Narrator Sean Barrett
Duration 6h 40m
Penguin presents the audiobook edition of The Darkest Hour by Anthony McCarten, read by Sean Barrett. From the prize-winning screenwriter of The Theory of Everything, this is a cinematic, behind-the-scenes account of a crucial moment which takes us inside the mind of one of the world's greatest leaders - and provides a revisionist, more rounded por...
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Author: Daniel Ziblatt
Author Daniel Ziblatt
Narrator Fred Sanders
Duration 8h 30m
Penguin presents the audiobook edition of How Democracies Die by Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt, read by Fred Sanders. Two Harvard professors explain the dangerous world we face today Democracies can die with a coup d'‚tat - or they can die slowly. This happens most deceptively when in piecemeal fashion, with the election of an authoritarian le...
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Author: Meik Wiking
Author Meik Wiking
Narrator Meik Wiking
Duration 4h 27m
Penguin presents the audiobook edition of The Little Book of Lykke written and read by Meik Wiking. Lykke (Luu-kah) (n): Happiness It's easy to see why Denmark is often called the world's happiest country. Not only do they have equal parental leave for men and women, free higher education and trains that run on time, but they burn more candles per...
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Author: Yanis Varoufakis
Author Yanis Varoufakis
Narrator Leighton Pugh
Duration 20h 14m
Varoufakis sparked one of the most spectacular and controversial battles in recent political history when, as finance minister of Greece, he attempted to re-negotiate his country's relationship with the EU. Despite the mass support of the Greek people and the simple logic of his arguments, he succeeded only in provoking the fury of Europe's politic...
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Author: Tim Peake
Author Tim Peake
Narrator Tim Peake
Duration 7h 14m
How does it feel to orbit the earth ten times faster than a speeding bullet? What's it like to eat, sleep and go to the toilet in space? And where to next - the Moon, Mars or beyond? Ask an Astronaut is Tim's personal guide to life in space, based on his historic Principia mission, and the thousands of questions he has been asked since his return t...
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Author: Tara Westover
Author Tara Westover
Narrator Julia Whelan
Duration 12h 10m
Tara Westover grew up preparing for the End of Days, watching for the sun to darken, for the moon to drip as if with blood. She spent her summers bottling peaches and her winters rotating emergency supplies, hoping that when the World of Men failed, her family would continue on, unaffected. She hadn't been registered for a birth certificate. She ha...
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Author: Marcus Speller
Author Marcus Speller
Narrator The Authors
Duration 7h 26m
Downloaded over ten million times a year the Football Ramble podcast has established itself as the essential, independent voice of football punditry. The weekly podcast has resonated with supporters around the world and their sold-out live shows have been a massive hit. This book is a collaboration from all four presenters and will tackle the real...
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How To Stop Brexit (and Make Britain Great Again)
Author: Nick Clegg
Author Nick Clegg
Narrator Nick Clegg
Duration 3h 4m
Keep calm - but do not carry on. There is nothing remotely inevitable about Brexit - except that it will be deeply damaging if it happens. Extricating Britain from Europe will be the greatest challenge this country has faced since the Second World War. And as negotiations with the EU expose the promises of the Brexit campaign to have been hollow...
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Knowing the Score: My Family and Our Tennis Story
Author: Judy Murray
Author Judy Murray
Narrator Judy Murray
Duration 8h 7m
It was the day I put the tennis balls into the tumble dryer that I realised I thought about tennis a little bit differently. What happens when you find you have exceptional children? Do you panic? Put your head in the sand? Or risk everything and jump in head first? As mother to tennis champions Jamie and Andy Murray, Scottish National Coa...
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The Life and Rhymes of Benjamin Zephaniah
Author: Benjamin Zephaniah
Author Benjamin Zephaniah
Narrator Benjamin Zephaniah
Duration 10h 45m
Benjamin Zephaniah, who has travelled the world for his art and his humanitarianism, now tells the one story that encompasses it all: the story of his life. In the early 1980s when punks and Rastas were on the streets protesting about unemployment, homelessness and the National Front, Benjamin's poetry could be heard at demonstrations, outside poli...
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Author: Henry Winter
Author Henry Winter
Narrator Charlie Anson
Duration 14h 3m
'England invented football, codified it, became champions of the world in 1966 but humiliatingly then forgot how to play the greatest game of all. England took their eye off a ball they arrogantly thought they owned, allowing other nations to run off with it.' It has been Fifty Years of Hurt since Bobby Moore lifted the World Cup trophy at Wembl...
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The January Man: A Year of Walking Britain
Author: Christopher Somerville
Author Christopher Somerville
Narrator Christopher Somerville
Duration 8h 58m
In January 2006, a month or two after my father died, I thought I saw him again - a momentary impression of an old man, a little stooped, setting off for a walk in his characteristic fawn corduroys and shabby quilted jacket. After teenage rifts it was walking that brought us closer as father and son; and this 'ghost' of Dad has been walking at my e...
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