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Author: Pete Wicks
Author Pete Wicks
Narrator The Author
Duration 4h 37m
Behind the humour, swearing, dogs and nonsense, Never Enough is a no-holds-barred account of life through Pete Wicks' lens. He shares his mental health trials and approach to life - starting with his journey as a 16-year-old who had the words 'NEVER ENOUGH' tattooed across his body, a marker of a time of anger and sadness, but also of his struggle...
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Author: John Masters
Author John Masters
Narrator Roger Davis
Duration 14h 13m
The second part of the best-selling novelist's dramatic autobiography about his time in the Gurkhas during the Second World War. This is the second part of John Masters's autobiography: how he fought with his Gurkha regiment during World War II until his promotion to command one of the Chindit columns behind enemy lines in Burma. Written by a best-...
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Author John Masters
Narrator Roger Davis
Duration 12h 14m
The first of John Master's evocative memoirs about life in the Gurkhas in India on the cusp of WWII. John Masters was a soldier before he became a best-selling novelist. He went to Sandhurst in 1933 at the age of 18 and was commissioned into the Fourth Gurkha Rifles in time to take part in some of the last campaigns on the turbulent North-West Fron...
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Author: Clive Myrie
Author Clive Myrie
Narrator The Author
Duration 9h 15m
As a Bolton teenager with a paper round, Clive Myrie read all the newspapers he delivered from cover to cover and dreamed of becoming a journalist. In this deeply personal memoir, he tells how his family history has influenced his view of the world, introducing us to his Windrush generation parents, a great grandfather who helped build the Panama C...
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Author: Nadiya Hussain
Author Nadiya Hussain
Narrator The Author
Duration 7h 24m
Funny, heart-wrenching, generous, and true, in Finding My Voice, Nadiya Hussain, shares the unforgettable memories and experiences that have made her the woman she is today. I am writing this for everyone who was told no. 'No, you are not rich enough. No, that is not credible. No, you can't. No, you won't. No, you are not allowed. No, that is not a...
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Author: Rick Reilly
Author Rick Reilly
Narrator The Author
Duration 7h 42m
This is the book Rick Reilly has been writing in the back of his head since he fell in love with the game of golf at 11 years old. He unpacks and explores all of the wonderful, maddening, heart-melting, heart-breaking, cool and captivating things about golf that make the game so utterly addictive. We meet the PGA Tour player who robbed banks by nig...
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Author: Leif Bersweden
Author Leif Bersweden
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Duration 12h 27m
Leif Bersweden has always been fascinated by wild plants. From a young age, his afternoons were spent hunting for and cataloguing the plants in his local area. But it is a landscape that is fast disappearing. Climate change, habitat destruction and declining pollinator populations mean that the future for plant life looks bleaker than ever before....
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Author: Lucy Easthope
Author Lucy Easthope
Narrator The Author
Duration 7h 52m
When a plane crashes, a bomb explodes, a city floods or a pandemic begins, Lucy Easthope's phone starts to ring. THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER AND RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK PROFILED IN THE NEW YORKER, A TELEGRAPH AND NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR Lucy is a world-leading authority on recovering from disaster. She holds governments to account, supports...
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Author: Simon Reeve
Author Simon Reeve
Narrator The Author
Duration 12h 2m
Simon Reeve reveals more of his journeys, tales and lessons for life. Journeys to Impossible Places continues the story Simon started in his phenomenal Sunday Times best seller Step by Step, which traced the first decades of his life from depressed and unemployed teenager through to his early TV programmes. Now Simon takes us on the epic and thrill...
View BookAuthor: Kamala Harris
Author Kamala Harris
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Duration 9h 26m
Brought to you by Penguin.Discover Vice President-elect Kamala Harris's New York Times bestselling book about the core truths that unite us and the shared values that will see us into the future.'A life story that genuinely entrances' Los Angeles TimesThe daughter of immigrants and civil rights activists, Vice President-elect Kamala Harris was rais...
View BookAuthor: Michael Rosen
Author Michael Rosen
Narrator The Author
Duration 6h 18m
Brought to you by Penguin.In our lives, terrible things may happen. Michael Rosen has grieved the loss of a child, lived with debilitating chronic illness, and faced death itself when seriously unwell in hospital. In spite of this he has survived, and has even learned to find joy in life in the aftermath of tragedy.In Getting Better, he shares his...
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Author: Gerald Durrell
Author Gerald Durrell
Narrator Rupert Degas
Duration 6h 1m
Gerald Durrell's last book, The Aye-Aye and I records his final animal-collecting expedition, a trip to Madagascar in 1990, and his efforts to save the elusive and mythical lemuroid known as the Aye-Aye. Prompted by the country's radical deforestation, and slash-and-burn agriculture, Durrell, his wife, and their team of zoologists embark on a missi...
View BookAuthor: Dr Ayan Panja
Author Dr Ayan Panja
Narrator The Author
Duration 5h 1m
Unlike many approaches to health and wellbeing, The Health Fix focuses on the 'why' rather than just the 'what' with a toolkit: Learn how to elegantly tighten up on the 8 factors which affect your health the most day to day Improve your ability to control your habits Understand the interplay between your symptoms and your biology Experience the sub...
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Author: Jill Nalder
Author Jill Nalder
Narrator Russell T. Davies
Duration 9h
When Jill Nalder arrived at drama school in London in the early 1980s, she was ready for her life to begin. With her band of best friends—of which many were talented young gay men with big dreams of their own—she grabbed London by the horns: partying with drag queens at the Royal Vauxhall Tavern, hosting cabarets at her glamorous flat,...
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Author: Dave Davies
Author Dave Davies
Narrator The Author
Duration 11h 16m
The all new memoir by legendary Kinks guitarist Dave Davies. Dave Davies is the co-founder and lead guitarist of epoch-defining band the Kinks, a group with 50 million record sales to their name. In his autobiography, Davies revisits the glory days of the band that spawned so much extraordinary music, and which had such a profound influence on band...
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Author: Laura Goodman
Author Laura Goodman
Narrator The Author
Duration 3h 57m
This audiobook is a celebration of snacks in all their glorious forms, guaranteed to fill your day with snacking joy. It will take you from your morning coffee (cinnamon crumble cakes and cherry-marzipan hand pies) to your evening wine (oeufs durs mayonnaise and mushroom pate) via salsas, hot dips, crispy bits, crab nachos and frozen piña co...
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Author: Tom Phillips
Author Tom Phillips
Narrator Jonn Elledge
Duration 9h 59m
Tom Phillips (Humans; Truth) and Jonn Elledge (The Compendium of Not Quite Everything) team up to debunk the greatest conspiracy theories humans have ever espoused—to teach us how not to fall for them. From the Satanic Panic to the anti-vaxx movement, it's always been human nature to believe we're being lied to by the powers that be (and some...
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Author: Hana Walker-Brown
Author Hana Walker-Brown
Narrator The Author
Duration 7h 42m
An investigation into power, sport and the human brain. A footballer dies of dementia, younger than he should. A 14-year old-rugby player is told to play on through multiple blows. He never wakes up from the last one. A scientist reveals a pattern of brain disease in NFL players and is discredited. A survivor of domestic abuse can't remember detail...
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Author: Valentine Low
Author Valentine Low
Narrator The Author
Duration 10h 6m
The gripping account of how the Royal family really operates from the man who has spent years studying them in his role as Royal correspondent for The Times. Valentine Low asks the important questions: who really runs the show and, as Charles III begins his reign, what will happen next? Throughout history, the British monarchy has relied on its cou...
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Author: Angela Kirwin
Author Angela Kirwin
Narrator The Author
Duration 7h 19m
Come with Angela Kirwin for a journey inside prison like no other. For over a decade she was a social care worker in some of Britain's most notorious prisons. Now she wants to tell the stories of the men she met, because she believes that prison is failing everyone, damaging the most vulnerable people in our societies, creating habitual criminals,...
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Author: Fiona Gell
Author Fiona Gell
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Duration 5h 37m
In Spring Tides, marine biologist Fiona Gell tells the story of a pioneering project to create the very first marine nature reserve on the Isle of Man. Growing up in a traditional fishing family on the island, Fiona spent her time on her grandfather's boat, listening to stories from the local fishermen and combing the beach for mermaid's purses and...
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