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Author: Gerard Hoffnung
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Author Gerard Hoffnung
Narrator Humphrey Lyttleton
Duration 2h
Gerard Hoffnung was an artist, musician, broadcaster, raconteur - and genius. A true Renaissance Man, the multi-faceted Hoffnung crammed a great deal into his tragically short span. Using much previously unreleased archive material, this audio biography, presented by Humphrey Lyttelton, looks at every aspect of his life and career. From his childho...
View BookAuthor: Clara Parkes
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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...
View BookAuthor: Bruce Springsteen
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Author Bruce Springsteen
Narrator Bruce Springsteen
Duration 18h 23m
Over the past seven years, Bruce Springsteen has privately devoted himself to writing the story of his life, bringing to these pages the same honesty, humor, and originality found in his songs. Born to Run will be revelatory for anyone who has ever enjoyed Bruce Springsteen, but this book is much more than a legendary rock star's memoir. This is a...
View BookAuthor: Vince Cable
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Author Vince Cable
Narrator Martyn Read
Duration 13h 10m
Today Vince Cable is best known as "the undisputed heavyweight champion of the credit crunch in Parliament," revered for his prescience and authority on the world economic crisis. But his journey to become Britain's most respected politician has been long, circuitous, and sometimes very painful. In this memoir he tells that story for the first time...
View BookAuthor: Jung Chang
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Author Jung Chang
Narrator Rowena Cooper
Duration 21h 45m
This is the story of three generations of women in a Chinese family and mirrors the tumultuous history of twentieth-century China. Jung Chang's grandmother was born into the feudal China of 1909. Her feet were bound and at the age of 15 she was given to a warlord general as a concubine. Her daughter grew up in occupied Manchuria and became active i...
View BookAuthor: Philip Serrell
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Author Philip Serrell
Narrator Philip Serrell
Duration 2h
From priceless eighteenth-century dining tables hidden away in decaying farm sheds to tattooed travellers with a penchant for Wedgewood china, professional auctioneer Philip Serrell has seen it all. In this audiobook he brings to life a world in which the most valuable antiques frequently turn up in the most unlikely places - and accompanied by the...
View BookAuthor: Nina Bawden
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Author Nina Bawden
Narrator Di Langford
Duration 2h 50m
On the 10th May 2002, author Nina Bawden and her husband, Austen Kark, boarded the 12.45 train from King's Cross en route to Cambridge for a friend's birthday party. A few minutes later the train derailed. Nina was gravely injured and Austen was killed instantly, along with seven others. In this powerful and poignant letter to her husband, Nina use...
View BookAuthor: Elizabeth Day
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Author Elizabeth Day
Narrator Elizabeth Day
Duration 9h 42m
Inspired by her hugely popular podcast, How To Fail, is Elizabeth Day's brilliantly funny, painfully honest and insightful celebration of things going wrong. This is an audiobook for anyone who has ever failed. Which means it's an audiobook for everyone. If I have learned one thing from this shockingly beautiful venture called life, it is this: fai...
View BookNoel Coward; An Audio Biography
Author: Sheridan Morley
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Author Sheridan Morley
Narrator Sheridan Morley
Duration 2h 33m
Playwright, actor, singer, songwriter, poet and scriptwriter, Sir No‰l Coward used his `talent to amuse' to spectacular effect for almost sixty years. Sir Laurence Olivier, Lord Mountbatten and Joyce Carey are just some of the voices heard paying tribute to the elegant star in this audio biography which is linked by the broadcaster and criti...
View BookAuthor: Richard Van Emden
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Author Richard Van Emden
Narrator Bill Wallis
Duration 7h 56m
Harry Patch, 108 years old, is the last British soldier alive to have fought in the trenches of the First World War. From his vivid memories of an Edwardian childhood, the horror of the Great War and fighting in the mud during the Battle of Passchendaele, working on the home front in the Second World War and fame in later life as a veteran, this is...
View BookManchester's Finest: How the Munich Air Disaster Broke the Heart of A Great City
Author: David Hall
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Author David Hall
Narrator Jonathan Keeble
Duration 10h 51m
On 6 February 1958, British European Airways flight 609 crashed in a blizzard on its third attempt to take off from an icy runaway in Munich. On board were the Manchester United football team as well as a number of journalists and other passengers. News of the disaster sent shockwaves around the world. For people who lived in Manchester at the time...
View BookAuthor: Roman Halter
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Author Roman Halter
Narrator Bill Wallis
Duration 9h 58m
This is a story of impossible misfortune and improbable good luck - the compelling and uplifting account of the boy who made it outof the ghetto, survived Auschwitz and Stutthof and endured the Dresden bombing, before escaping to England. CONTAINS STRONG LANGUAGE AND ADULT THEMES
View BookAuthor: Michael Griesbach
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Author Michael Griesbach
Narrator Johnny Heller
Duration 8h 16m
The story of one of America's most notorious wrongful convictions, that of Steven Avery, a Wisconsin man who spent eighteen years in prison for a crime he did not commit and now the subject of the hit series Making a Murderer. But two years after he was exonerated of that crime and poised to reap millions in his wrongful conviction lawsuit, Steven...
View BookAuthor: David Suchet
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Author David Suchet
Narrator David Suchet
Duration 9h 55m
Hercule Poirot, with his distinctive moustache and fastidious ways, is one of Agatha Christie's finest creations and one of the world's best-loved detectives. Through his television performance in ITV's Agatha Christie's Poirot, David Suchet has become inextricably linked with the 'little Belgian', a man whom he has grown to love dearly through an...
View BookAuthor: Nella Last
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Author Nella Last
Narrator Carole Boyd
Duration 11h 33m
In September 1939, housewife and mother, Nella Last, began a diary whose entries, in their regularity, length and quality, have created a record of the Second World War which is powerful, fascinating and unique. When war broke out, Nella's younger son joined the army while the rest of the family tried to adapt to civilian life. Writing each day for...
View BookAuthor: Barack Obama
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Author Barack Obama
Narrator Barack Obama
Duration 6h 10m
Senator Barack Obama reflects on the American ideals that led him into politics. Barack Obama has been hailed by voters of all stripes as a man of uncommon gifts and far-reaching vision. In THE AUDACITY OF HOPE, he draws on his personal experience as a senator and lawyer, professor and father, Christian and skeptic, and finds a shared language abou...
View BookRise Up: The #merky Story So Far
Author: Stormzy
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Author Stormzy
Narrator Various
Duration 4h 52m
In three years Stormzy has risen from one of the most promising musicians of his generation to a spokesperson for a generation. Rise Up is the story of how he got there. It's a story about faith and the ideas worth fighting for. It's about knowing where you're from, and where you're going. It's about following your dreams without compromising who y...
View BookAuthor: Katharine Whitehorn
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Author Katharine Whitehorn
Narrator Katharine Whitehorn
Duration 8h 33m
On her husband's choice of neckwear: 'did you buy that tie?', 'Of course I did - how do you think I got it?', 'I assumed it had been given away free with something.' Katharine Whitehorn pioneered the first of the personal columns. She told us how it really was. She was funny - and smart. 'The Observer's' star columnist for 40 years, much loved for...
View BookAuthor: John McGahern
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Author John McGahern
Narrator John Cormack
Duration 11h 5m
This is the story of John McGahern's childhood; of his mother's death, his father's anger and bafflement, and his own discovery of literature and his ambition to become a writer. At the heart of the book is an unembarrassed homage by a loving son to a woman who protected him and his sisters from his father's unpredictable moods. His memory of walks...
View BookAuthor: Alastair Campbell
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Author Alastair Campbell
Narrator Alastair Campbell
Duration 6h 30m
Taken from Alastair Campbell's daily diaries, these audio extracts chart the rise of New Labour and the tumultuous years of Tony Blair's leadership. Here are recorded an insider's perspectives on the defining events of contemporary politics. Here is Tony Blair, up close and personal. As Blair's press secretary, strategist and trusted confidant, Ala...
View BookAuthor: Sam Kiley
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Author Sam Kiley
Narrator Robin Bowerman
Duration 8h 11m
In the dust and blazing heat of Helmand, the young men of 16 Air Assault Brigade find themselves in the most relentless battles faced by British troops in recent history. As the only writer to have unrestricted access to the front line, Sam Kiley is there to bear witness to the most intense challenges of their lives. Desperate Glory is an unflinchi...
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