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Author: Barack Obama
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Author Barack Obama
Narrator Andre Braugher
Duration 16m
In this tender, beautiful letter to his daughters, President Barack Obama has written a moving tribute to thirteen groundbreaking Americans and the ideals that have shaped our nation. From the artistry of Georgia O'Keeffe, to the courage of Jackie Robinson, to the patriotism of George Washington, President Obama sees the traits of these heroes with...
View BookAuthor: George Orwell
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Author George Orwell
Narrator Jeremy Northam
Duration 8h 54m
Homage to Catalonia is George Orwell's account of his experiences fighting in the Spanish Civil War, and a portrait of disillusionment with his early politics. Orwell's experiences include being shot in the neck by a sniper, and being forced into hiding as factions of the Left battled on the streets of Barcelona. Orwell entered Spain intending to g...
View BookMa'am Darling: 99 Glimpses of Princess Margaret
Author: Craig Brown
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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...
View BookAuthor: James Boswell
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Author James Boswell
Narrator Billy Hartman
Duration 2h 36m
Boswell's biography of his friend and hero Samuel Johnson is an acknowledged classic, full of humorous anecdotes and rich characterisation. Johnson's depression, intellectual brilliance and rough humour is set within a vivid portrayal of 18th century London peopled by personalities of the time such as Sir Joshua Reynolds, John Wilkes, Oliver Goldsm...
View BookAuthor: Andrew Lloyd Webber
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Author Webber Andrew Lloyd
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,...
View BookAuthor: Yeonmi Park
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Author Yeonmi Park
Narrator Eji Kim
Duration 9h 37m
Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable, audiobook edition of In Order to Live written by Yeonmi Park and read by Eji Kim. Yeonmi Park was not dreaming of freedom when she escaped from North Korea. She didn't even know what it meant to be free. All she knew was that she was running for her life, that if she and her family stayed behind they w...
View BookAuthor: Ellen Degeneres
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Author Ellen Degeneres
Narrator Ellen Degeneres
Duration 3h 11m
Ellen DeGeneres published her first book of comic essays, the #1 bestselling My Point...and I Do Have One, way back in 1996. Not one to rest on her laurels, the witty star of stage and screen has since dedicated her life to writing a hilarious new book. That book is this audiobook. After years of painstaking, round-the-clock research, surviving on...
View BookAuthor: Lorna Sage
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Author Lorna Sage
Narrator Maureen O'Reilly
Duration 10h
In one of the most extraordinary memoirs of recent years, Lorna Sage brings alive her experience of growing up in the 1940s and 50s. From her early childhood - dominated by her grandfather, a boozing, womanising vicar - to finding herself pregnant without even realising she has lost her virginity, this portrait of a young girl is unsurpassed.
View BookAuthor: John Aubrey
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Author John Aubrey
Narrator Brian Cox
Duration 2h 37m
John Aubrey's eccentric portraits of the great figures of 17th-century England rank alongside Pepys's diaries for their vivid evocation of the period. Born in 1626, the son of a Wiltshire squire; at the age of 26 Aubrey inherited a family estate encumbered with debt, and finally went bankrupt in the 1670s. At his death in 1697 he left a mass of not...
View BookAuthor: Farida Khalaf
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Author Farida Khalaf
Narrator Lara Sawahla
Duration 7h 36m
In August 2014, Farida, like any ordinary teenage girl, was enjoying the summer holidays before her last year at school. But Farida lived in the mountains of northern Iraq - and what happened next was unimaginable. Her village was an ISIS target. ISIS jihadists murdered the men and boys, including her father and brother, before taking Farida and th...
View BookAuthor: Ian Botham
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Author Ian Botham
Narrator John Telfer
Duration 12h 48m
Voted the greatest English cricketer of the 20th century by the fans, Sir Ian Botham is the English game's one true living legend and his story both on and off the pitch reads like a Boy's Own rollercoaster ride.Born with a natural genius for the game, Botham began breaking records with bat and ball from a young age and soon became the man English...
View BookEric Clapton: The Autobiography
Author: Eric Clapton
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Author Eric Clapton
Narrator Eric Clapton
Duration 5h 30m
Eric Clapton is far more than a rock star. Like Dylan and McCartney he is an icon and a living legend. He has sold tens of millions of records, played sell-out concerts all over the world and been central to every significant musical development of his era. Tracks such as 'Layla', 'Sunshine of Your Love', 'Wonderful Tonight' and 'Tears in Heaven' h...
View BookRebus's Scotland: A Personal Journey
Author: Ian Rankin
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Author Ian Rankin
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Duration 3h 35m
Ian Rankin uncovers the Scotland that the tourist never sees, highlighting the places that inspired the settings for the Inspector Rebus novels. Rankin also reveals the story of Rebus and how he came into being, who he is, and what his - and Rankin's - Scotland is like.
View BookAuthor: Richard Hammond
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Author Richard Hammond
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Duration 3h
From 'Top Gear' to 'Brainiac', Richard Hammond is one of our most popular television presenters. But in September 2006, a high speed crash whilst filming for 'Top Gear' left him fighting for his life. This is his account of life before and after the accident and an honest description of his recovery, full of drama and incident. An adrenalin junkie...
View BookShakespeare: A Very Short Introduction
Author: Germaine Greer
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Author Germaine Greer
Narrator Robin Houston
Duration 4h 50m
In this audiobook Shakespeare is explored as a thinker, unravelling the methods he used to dramatise moral and intellectual issues in a way that made his audience dazzlingly aware of an imaginative dimension to daily life.
View BookAuthor: Christopher Hibbert
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Author Christopher Hibbert
Narrator Christopher Oxford
Duration 15h 45m
Horatio Nelson was a national hero who secured a century of maritime supremacy for his country and became the focus of British identity and aspiration. Christopher Hibbert creates a portrait of the man - at once humble yet ambitious, kind but at times irritable, exceptionally lovable and yet often vain and self-pitying, unswerving in his sense of p...
View BookAuthor: Rose Mcgowen
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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,...
View BookAuthor: Jennifer Worth
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Author Jennifer Worth
Narrator Stephanie Cole
Duration 4h 36m
Jennifer Worth came from a sheltered background when she became a midwife in the Docklands in the 1950s. The conditions in which many women gave birth just half a century ago were horrifying, not only because of their grimly impoverished surroundings, but also because of what they were expected to endure. But while Jennifer witnessed brutality and...
View BookAuthor: Anne Robinson
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Author Anne Robinson
Narrator Anne Robinson
Duration 12h 2m
In this brave and sometimes shocking autobiography, Anne Robinson describes how a doomed marriage helped her on the way from being a good Catholic girl to an alcoholic with a secret custody battle for her two-year-old daughter to overcome. Her early success as a journalist almost ended in her destruction, but with help she rebuilt her life and care...
View BookAuthor: Michael Caine
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Author Michael Caine
Narrator Michael Caine
Duration 10h 18m
It's been a long journey for Maurice Micklewhite - born with rickets in London's poverty-stricken Elephant & Castle - to the bright lights of Hollywood.With a glittering career spanning more than five decades and starring roles which have earned him two Oscars, a knighthood, and an iconic place in the Hollywood pantheon, the man now known to us...
View BookAuthor: Tony Benn
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Author Tony Benn
Narrator Tony Benn
SeriesThe Benn Tapes, Book 1
Duration 1h 54m
Now issued for the first time on audio, this is the first series of Labour MP Tony Benn's behind-the-scenes revelations from the highly acclaimed BBC Radio 4 series. Late each night for over twenty-five years the Labour MP and former Secretary of State Tony Benn sat alone and dictated onto audio his account of the daily events at the heart of gover...
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