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Fingers 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.
View BookAuthor: Stephen Fry
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Author Stephen Fry
Narrator Stephen Fry
Duration 9h 49m
Stephen Fry invites readers to take a glimpse at his life story in the unputdownable More Fool Me. 'Oh dear I am an arse. I expect there'll be what I believe is called an "intervention" soon. I keep picturing it. All my friends bearing down on me and me denying everything until my pockets are emptied. Oh the shame' In his early thirties, Stephen Fr...
View BookAuthor: Alan Titchmarsh
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Author Alan Titchmarsh
Narrator Peter Wickham
Duration 8h 45m
When Alan left school at fifteen little was expected of him. An 'O' level in art is not the most obvious passport to success, but in the ancient greenhouses of the local nursery, Mrs T's little lad found his spiritual home, learning his trade and the strange ways of human nature. But the comfort and familiarity of his home in the Yorkshire Dales wo...
View BookOver the Top and Back: The Autobiography
Author: Tom Jones
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Author Tom Jones
Narrator Jonathan Pryce
Duration 8h
Across six decades, Sir Tom Jones has maintained a vital career in a risky, unstable business notorious for the short lives of its artists. With a drive that comes from nothing but the love for what he does, he breaks through and then wrestles with the vagaries of the music industry, the nature of success and its inevitable consequences. Having rec...
View BookAuthor: Laurie Lee
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Author Laurie Lee
Narrator Laurie Lee
Duration 7h 55m
A wonderfully vivid memoir of Laurie Lee's childhood and youth in a remote Cotswold village. From the moment he is set down in the long grass, 'thick as a forest and alive with grasshoppers', he depicts a world that is both tangibly real yet belonging to a now distant past.
View BookAuthor: Terry Wogan
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Author Terry Wogan
Narrator The Author
Duration 2h 55m
Terry Wogan is one of Britain's most popular and successful broadcasters. Witty, charming and relaxed, he has undoubtedly captured the nation's heart. Here, for the first time, he tells his story, from his beginnings in Limerick to incredible success as a national celebrity, in his own delightfully laconic fashion.
View BookAuthor: Oscar Wilde
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Author Oscar Wilde
Narrator Martin Jarvis
Duration 2h 30m
The affair between Oscar Wilde and Lord Alfred Douglas, the son of the Marquess of Queensbury, led to a series of three trials in 1895, and Wilde's imprisonment for two years. He died three and a half years later in Paris at the age of 46. This recording recreates these sensational trials from the original transcripts.
View BookAuthor: Muhammad Ali
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Author Muhammad Ali
Narrator Dion Graham
Duration 16h 26m
In his own words, the heavyweight champion of the world pulls no punches as he chronicles the battles he faced in and out of the ring in this fascinating memoir edited by Nobel Prize-winning novelist, Toni Morrison. Growing up in the South, surrounded by racial bigotry and discrimination, Ali fought not just for a living, but also for respect and r...
View BookAuthor: Carr Alan
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Author Carr Alan
Narrator Carr Alan
Duration 8h 23m
It must seem strange to you that I've called a book Alanatomy. For anyone who has taken the time to see my stand-up performances or watched my chat show, 'Chattyman', knows that my body has hardly been kind to me - in fact there've been times when we've actually stopped talking to each other. Balding, myopic, often flaky with psoriasis, back fat th...
View BookAuthor: Alison Weir
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Author Alison Weir
Narrator Maggie Mash
Duration 23h 5m
Acclaimed historian Alison Weir looks into the life of the first Tudor queen, revealing the woman behind the image Elizabeth of York would have ruled England, but for the fact that she was a woman. One of the key figures of the Wars of the Roses, daughter of Edward IV and Elizabeth Woodville, she married Henry Tudor to bring peace to a war-torn Eng...
View BookNeil Patrick Harris: Choose Your Own Autobiography
Author: Neil Patrick Harris
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Author Neil Patrick Harris
Narrator The Author
Duration 7h 15m
You've already made a great choice by picking up the audio edition of NEIL PATRICK HARRIS'S CHOOSE YOUR OWN AUTOBIOGRAPHY. This hilarious book has been adapted especially for the audiobook edition so you'll hear all of the same fun and humor from the printed version but you don't have to make any decisions or jump around-just kick back, relax and l...
View BookAuthor: Leonie Frieda
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Author Leonie Frieda
Narrator Anna Massey
Duration 6h 40m
Orphaned in infancy, imprisoned in childhood, heiress to an ancient name and vast fortune, Catherine de Medici was brought up in the Florentine court and married off, by her uncle the Pope, to Henry, Duke of Orleans, son of King Francis I of France. Aged only 14, she suffered cruelly as Henry loved only his beautiful mistress, Diane de Poitiers. Le...
View BookAuthor: Chris Froome
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Author Chris Froome
Narrator Patrick Doherty
Duration 14h 33m
Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of the revealing, inspirational memoir from the British winner of the Tour de France. The Climb tells the extraordinary story of Chris Froome's journey from a young boy in Kenya, riding through townships and past wild animals, and with few opportunities for an aspiring cyclist, to his...
View BookAuthor: Tan France
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Author Tan France
Narrator Tan France
Duration 7h 3m
In this heartfelt, funny, touching memoir, Tan France, star of Netflix's Emmy award-winning Queer Eye, tells his origin story for the first time. With his trademark wit, humor, and radical compassion, Tan reveals what it was like to grow up gay in a traditional South Asian family, as one of the few people of colour in South Yorkshire. He illuminate...
View BookAuthor: Steven Gerrard
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Author Steven Gerrard
Narrator Michael Ryan
Duration 13h 28m
Steven Gerrard is the former captain of Liverpool football team and of the England national football team, and is the only player ever to have scored in a FA cup final, a league cup final, a UEFA cup final and a champion's league final. His entire career, since 1998, has been spent at Anfield with Liverpool. In this book he charts his full playing...
View BookAuthor: Michelle Obama
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Author Michelle Obama
Narrator Michelle Obama
Duration 19h 3m
Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Becoming by Michelle Obama. An intimate, powerful, and inspiring memoir by the former First Lady of the United States 'A genuine page-turner, full of intimacies and reflections' Evening Standard 'A polished pearl of a memoir' New York Times 'A rich, entertaining and candid memoir. And overall Obama's a fun...
View BookAuthor: Lorna Byrne
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Author Lorna Byrne
Narrator Maureen O'Brien
Duration 11h 13m
Byrne is not alone in believing in angels: three quarters of Americans and more than a third of Britons are also convinced that such heavenly helpers exist. If you met a woman who said that she talked to angels every day, you might be forgiven for raising a discreetly cynical eyebrow but somehow, Lorna Byrne is different.Thousands of people say tha...
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