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Author: Sarah Millican
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Author Sarah Millican
Narrator Sarah Millican
Duration 7h 3m
Part autobiography, part self help, part confession, part celebration of being a common-or-garden woman, part collection of synonyms for nunny, Sarah Millican's debut book delves into her super normal life with daft stories, funny tales and proper advice on how to get past life's blips - like being good at school but not good at friends, the excite...
View BookAuthor: Plutarch
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Author Plutarch
Narrator Nicholas Farrell
Duration 7h 44m
Although he was Greek, Plutarch wrote his 'Lives' in the first century, a world dominated by the Roman Empire. Here he considers some of the major figures who left their stamp on the history of Rome, including generals, rulers, philosophers and politicians.
View BookRupert Brooke: His Life and Poetry
Author: Mike Read
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Author Mike Read
Narrator Douglas Hodge
Duration 3h
An audiobook about one of the most memorable war poets of the 20th century, including Brooke's poetry, plus a newly discovered poem, rare archive recordings of close friends such as Cathleen Nesbitt and relatives, as well as details of his relationship with a Hawaiian girl and their children. Includes readings of 'The Soldier', 'The Fish', 'The Old...
View BookAuthor: Plutarch
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Author Plutarch
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Duration 7h 31m
Plutarch looked at the great men of the Ancient World and told their stories, in many cases drawing on sources which are no longer available to us. They offer a unique insight into the characters as well as the achievements of men who influenced their age and the empires that their culture dominated.
View BookThe Private World of Kenneth Williams
Author: BBC Audiobooks
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Author BBC Audiobooks
Narrator David Benson
Duration 2h 5m
In this documentary portrait of Kenneth Williams, who died in 1988, the much-loved comedy actor's diaries are drawn upon to illustrate his life and career. David Benson, who won acclaim for his one-man show in which he portrayed Kenneth Williams, reads extracts from the diaries, whilst archive clips from such programmes as Round the Horne and Beyon...
View BookAuthor: Alan Bennett
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Author Alan Bennett
Narrator Alan Bennett
SeriesAlan Bennet's Untold Stories, Book 3
Duration 2h 28m
Untold Stories, Alan Bennett's first major collection of prose since his bestselling Writing Home, brings together the finest and funniest of his writing over the last ten years. Following on from Untold Stories: Part 1: Stories and Part 2: The Diaries (also available from BBC Audiobooks), Part 3: Written on the Body is both a reflection on Alan Be...
View BookAuthor: Chris Gayle
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Author Chris Gayle
Narrator Leroy Osei-Bonsu
Duration 8h 41m
Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable, audiobook edition of Six Machine by Chris Gayle, read by Leroy Osei-Bonsu. 'If the ball's there, hit it. Don't worry about what might happen. Play for the glory. Play for the six' Chris Gayle is the only man to have ever hit a six off the first ball of a Test match. But then producing the impossible is...
View BookAuthor: Ron Stallworth
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Author Ron Stallworth
Narrator The Author
Duration 5h 50m
What happens when a black detective goes undercover in the KKK? An extraordinary true story. In 1978, Ron Stallworth is the first black detective in the history of the Colorado Springs Police Department. In the local paper, he finds a classified ad for the Ku Klux Klan - and a P.O. box for interested enquiries. All he's expecting are some racist br...
View BookAuthor: Raynor Winn
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Author Raynor Winn
Narrator Anne Reid
Duration 11h 1m
Penguin presents the audiobook edition of The Salt Path by Raynor Winn, read by Anne Reid. Just days after Raynor learns that Moth, her husband of 32 years is terminally ill, the couple lose their home and their livelihood. With nothing left and little time, they make the brave and impulsive decision to walk the 630 miles of the sea-swept South Wes...
View BookBeing Jazz: My Life As A (transgender) Teen
Author: Jazz Jennings
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Author Jazz Jennings
Narrator Jazz Jennings
Duration 4h
Jazz Jennings is one of the youngest and most prominent voices in the national discussion about gender identity. At the age of five, Jazz transitioned to life as a girl, with the support of her parents. A year later, her parents allowed her to share her incredible journey in her first Barbara Walters interview, aired at a time when the public was m...
View BookThe Amazing Book Is Not On Fire
Author: Phil Lester
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Author Phil Lester
Narrator The Authors
Duration 4h 25m
If you found The Amazing Book is Not on Fire at least mildly interesting, or even if you didn't read it at all, then you will LOVE our audiobook! Not only do you get us sensually narrating the whole thing in your ears, but there are over three hours of exclusive behind-the-scenes commentary on the book, and irrelevant Dan and Phil banter straight f...
View BookAuthor: Anna Kendrick
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Author Anna Kendrick
Narrator Anna Kendrick
Duration 6h
A collection of humorous autobiographical essays by the Academy Award-nominated actress and star of Up in the Air and Pitch Perfect. "I'm excited to publish my first book, and because I get uncomfortable when people have high expectations, I'd like to use this opportunity to showcase my ineptitude, pettiness, and the frequency with which I embarras...
View BookJulie Andrews: An Intimate Biography
Author: Richard Stirling
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Author Richard Stirling
Narrator Rowena Cooper
Duration 15h 4m
In 'My Fair Lady', Julie Andrews had the biggest hit on Broadway. As the title role in 'Mary Poppins', she won an Academy Award. And 'The Sound of Music' made her the most famous woman in the world and rescued Twentieth Century Fox from bankruptcy. Three years later, 'Star!' almost put the studio back under, and the leading lady of both films fell...
View BookAuthor: Li Cunxin
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Author Li Cunxin
Narrator Paul English
Duration 15h 30m
This is the true story of how one moment in time, by the thinnest thread of a chance, changed the course of a small boy's life in ways that are beyond imagination. Li Cunxin was from a poor peasant village in revolutionary China. One day a delegation from Madame Mao's Beijing Dance Academy arrived at Li's commune school to find suitable children to...
View BookAuthor: Peter Ackroyd
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Author Peter Ackroyd
Narrator William Hope
Duration 5h 45m
Edgar Allan Poe served as a soldier and began his literary career composing verses modelled on Byron. Soon he was trying out his 'prose-tales' - often horror melodramas such as 'The Fall of the House of Usher'. He wrote for and edited a number of literary magazines, and was influential among critics and writers of the American south. His versatile...
View BookParkinson Interviews: The Goons and Peter Sellers
Author: Michael Parkinson
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Author Michael Parkinson
Narrator Michael Parkinson Et Al
Duration 2h 30m
Includes: Two Interviews from The Parkinson Show. Between and 1971 and 1982, Michael Parkinson interviewed some of the greatest show business talents in more than 500 episodes of Parkinson.
View BookFingers In the Sparkle Jar: A Memoir
Author: Chris Packham
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Author Chris Packham
Narrator Chris Packham
Duration 8h 47m
An introverted, unusual young boy, isolated by his obsessions and a loner at school, Chris Packham was only at home in the fields and woods around his suburban home. But when he stole a young kestrel from its nest, he was about to embark on a friendship that would teach him what it meant to love, and that would change him forever. In his rich, lyri...
View BookAuthor: Sue Perkins
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Author Sue Perkins
Narrator Sue Perkins
Duration 8h 43m
When I began writing this book, I went home to see if my mum had kept some of my stuff. What I found was that she hadn't kept some of it. She had kept all of it - every bus ticket, postcard, school report - from the moment I was born to the moment I finally had the confidence to turn round and say 'Why is our house full of this shit?' Sadly, a recy...
View BookAuthor: Terence Rattigan
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Author Terence Rattigan
Narrator Terrence Rattigan
Duration 1h 29m
This fascinating collection of archive interviews with the acclaimed playwright, whose centenary was celebrated in 2011, begins in 1969 with a radio appearance on Out This Week. It culminates with an interview for Kaleidoscope in 1977, recorded a few months before his death. Inbetween are several major radio features on Rattigan's life and work, in...
View BookAuthor: Daniel Smith
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Author Daniel Smith
Narrator Paul Michael Garcia
Duration 7h 15m
In the insightful narrative tradition of Oliver Sacks, Monkey Mind is an uplifting, smart, and very funny memoir of life with anxiety-America's most common psychological complaint. We all think we know what being anxious feels like-it is the instinct that made us run from wolves in the prehistoric age and pushes us to perform in the modern one-but...
View BookAuthor: Carolly Erickson
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Author Carolly Erickson
Narrator Zulema Dene
Duration 12h
A portrait of Queen Victoria and the Victorian era. The author reveals the inner contradictions of the resolute, high-minded and cantankerous woman who became queen at the age of eighteen and reigned until her death sixty-four years later in 1901.
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