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Truths, Half Truths and Little White Lies
Author: Nick Frost
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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...
View BookAuthor: Johnny Marr
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Author Johnny Marr
Narrator Johnny Marr
Duration 9h 30m
Johnny Marr was born in 1960s Manchester to Irish emigrant parents and knew from an early age that he would be a musician. Forming his first band at thirteen, Marr spent his teenage years on the council estates of Wythenshawe playing guitar, devouring pop culture and inventing his own musical style. It wasn't until the early eighties, when Marr tur...
View BookAuthor: Diana Athill
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Author Diana Athill
Narrator Claire Bloom
Duration 4h 30m
Diana Athill made her reputation as a writer with the candour of her memoirs. Now aged ninety, and freed from any inhibitions that even she may once have had, she reflects frankly on the losses and occasionally the gains that old age brings, and on the wisdom and fortitude required to face death. This is a lively narrative of events, lovers and fri...
View BookAuthor: Tina Brown
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Author Tina Brown
Narrator Jilly Bond
Duration 20h 38m
Ten years after her death, Princess Diana remains a mystery. Was she 'the people's princess', who electrified the world with her beauty and humanitarian missions? Or was she a manipulative, media-savvy neurotic who nearly brought down the monarchy? Only Tina Brown, former editor-in-chief of Tatler, England's glossiest gossip magazine, Vanity Fair,...
View BookAuthor: BBC Archive Voices
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Author BBC Archive Voices
Narrator Kenneth Williams
Duration 1h 15m
This fascinating collection of archive interviews with the much-loved comedy actor and diarist begins in 1961, with an appearance on the BBC TV Tonight programme, and culminates in 1987 when Kenneth Williams is a guest on Desert Island Discs. Along the way are several interviews on Parkinson, conversation from The John Dunn Show, and a number of ra...
View BookAuthor: Tony Jacklin
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Author Tony Jacklin
Narrator Stephen Thorne
Duration 11h 16m
It is 37 years since the son of a Scunthorpe lorry driver beat the Americans on their home turf in the US Open - and still Tony Jacklin is the last Briton to lift that hallowed trophy. Coming on the back of his success in the British Open the previous year, 1969, Jacklin's triumph marked a seismic shift in the balance of golfing power, and the star...
View BookEverywoman: One Woman's Truth About Speaking the Truth
Author: Jess Phillips
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Author Jess Phillips
Narrator Jess Phillips
Duration 6h 45m
Random House presents the unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of Everywoman, written and read by Jess Phillips. If you're thinking, 'Jess, who?' then I'm glad that there was something about 'Everywoman' and 'truth' that caught your eye. Or you might already know me as that gobby MP who has a tendency to shout about the stuff I care about. Be...
View BookMa, He Sold Me For A Few Cigarettes
Author: Martha Long
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Author Martha Long
Narrator Brett O'Brien
Duration 15h 15m
Born to a teenage mother in the slums of 1950s Dublin, Martha has to be a fighter from the very start. As her mother moves from man to man, and more children follow, they live hand-to-mouth in squalid, freezing tenements, clothed in rags and forced to beg for food. But just when it seems things can't get any worse, her mother meets Jackser. Despite...
View BookAuthor: Sathnam Sanghera
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Author Sathnam Sanghera
Narrator Pal Aron
Duration 10h 50m
For Sathnam Sanghera, growing up in Wolverhampton in the eighties was a confusing business. On the one hand, these were the heady days of George Michael mix-tapes, Dallas on TV and, if he was lucky, the occasional Bounty bar. On the other, there was his wardrobe of tartan smocks, his 30p-an-hour job at the local sewing factory and the ongoing chall...
View BookAuthor: Charlotte Church
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Author Charlotte Church
Narrator Charlotte Church
Duration 3h 40m
Candid to the last, in her autobiography Charlotte reveals herself as never before. She talks of her life, career, family and loves and impending motherhood with surprising intimacy and, being true to her outspoken reputation, complete honesty. Keeping her feet firmly on the ground, Charlotte Church is a genuine superstar of our times. She combines...
View BookAuthor: Ronnie O'Sullivan
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Author Ronnie O'Sullivan
Narrator Ronnie O'Sullivan
Duration 2h 40m
Ronnie O'Sullivan's autobiography details more than the sporting triumphs of a man the BBC speculates 'could become the world's greatest ever'. It also tells of the infant who was introduced to legendary snooker clubs at an impossibly early age, of the boy who was taking on and defeating all comers at 12 and frightening off the bookies in the proce...
View BookAuthor: Amanda Brown
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Author Amanda Brown
Narrator Sophie Aldred
Duration 6h 3m
Horrifying, heartbreaking and eye-opening, these are the stories, the patients and the cases that have characterised a career spent behind bars. The no-holds-barred memoirs of a GP who went from working at a quiet suburban practice to treating the country's most dangerous criminals - first in young offenders' institutions, then at the notorious Wor...
View BookAuthor: Alison Weir
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Author Alison Weir
Narrator Derek Scott
Duration 30h
A detailed study that sets Henry's personal story against the cultural, social and political background of his court. CONTAINS STRONG LANGUAGE OF THE PERIOD.
View BookBelieve Me: A Memoir of Love, Death and Jazz Chickens
Author: Eddie Izzard
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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...
View BookAuthor: Marian Keyes
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Author Marian Keyes
Narrator Aoife Mcmahon
Duration 12h 49m
You'll be wincing in recognition and scratching your head in incredulity, but like Marian herself you won't be able to stop laughing at the sheer delightful absurdity that is modern life - because each and every one of us is clearly making it up as we go along. She has wonderful and tickling words of advice for those fast approaching fifty.
View BookAuthor: Tom Gregory
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Author Tom Gregory
Narrator Tom Gregory
Duration 4h 31m
Penguin presents the audiobook edition of A Boy in the Water written and read by Tom Gregory. Eltham, South London. 1984: the hot fug of the swimming pool and the slow splashing of a boy learning to swim but not yet wanting to take his foot off the bottom. Fast-forward four years. Photographers and family wait on the shingle beach as a boy in a bri...
View BookAuthor: Maggie O'Farrell
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Author Maggie O'Farrell
Narrator Daisy Donovan
Duration 6h 1m
A childhood illness she was not expected to survive. A teenage yearning to escape that nearly ended in disaster. A terrifying encounter on a remote path. A mismanaged labour in an understaffed hospital. Shocking, electric, unforgettable, this is the extraordinary memoir from Costa Novel-Award winner and Sunday Times bestselling author Maggie O'Farr...
View BookThe Rogue: Searching For the Real Sarah Palin
Author: Joe Mcginniss
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Author Joe Mcginniss
Narrator Arthur Morey
Duration 11h 1m
After three years of research, bestselling journalist Joe McGinniss presents his already controversial and much anticipated investigative chronicle of Sarah Palin as an individual, politician, and cultural phenomenon. On Election Day 2008, McGinniss began his on-the-ground reporting that culminated, famously, in his moving next door to Sarah Palin...
View BookThe Diary of Samuel Pepys, Volume Iii: 1667-1669
Author: Samuel Pepys
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Author Samuel Pepys
Narrator Leighton Pugh
SeriesThe Diary of Samuel Pepys, Book 3
Duration 36h 3m
The Diary of Samuel Pepys is one of the most entertaining documents in English history. Written between 1660 and 1669, as Pepys was establishing himself as a key administrator in the Navy Office, it is an intimate portrait of life in 17th-century England, covering his professional and personal activities, including, famously, his love of music, the...
View BookTop of the Class: Michael Portillo
Author: John Wilson
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Author John Wilson
Narrator John Wilson, Michael Portillo
Duration 13m
In Top of the Class, John Wilson meets leading figures in their fields and takes them back to the places and people they left behind. In this episode from the third series, Michael Portillo back to his former school in Harrow. In his day, it was a boys' grammar school and in this visit to celebrate 100 years of the school, Michael is one of the gue...
View BookThe Diary of Samuel Pepys, Volume Ii: 1664-1666
Author: Samuel Pepys
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Author Samuel Pepys
Narrator Leighton Pugh
SeriesThe Diary of Samuel Pepys, Book 2
Duration 37h 30m
The Diary of Samuel Pepys is one of the most entertaining documents in English history. Written between 1660 and 1669, as Pepys was establishing himself as a key administrator in the naval office, it is an intimate portrait of life in 17th-century England covering his professional and personal activities, including, famously, his love of music, the...
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