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Author: Kamala Harris
Format: Online
Author Kamala Harris
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Duration 9h 26m
Brought to you by Penguin.Discover Vice President-elect Kamala Harris's New York Times bestselling book about the core truths that unite us and the shared values that will see us into the future.'A life story that genuinely entrances' Los Angeles TimesThe daughter of immigrants and civil rights activists, Vice President-elect Kamala Harris was rais...
View BookAuthor: Michael Rosen
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Author Michael Rosen
Narrator The Author
Duration 6h 18m
Brought to you by Penguin.In our lives, terrible things may happen. Michael Rosen has grieved the loss of a child, lived with debilitating chronic illness, and faced death itself when seriously unwell in hospital. In spite of this he has survived, and has even learned to find joy in life in the aftermath of tragedy.In Getting Better, he shares his...
View BookAuthor: Jill Nalder
Format: Online
Author Jill Nalder
Narrator Russell T. Davies
Duration 9h
When Jill Nalder arrived at drama school in London in the early 1980s, she was ready for her life to begin. With her band of best friends—of which many were talented young gay men with big dreams of their own—she grabbed London by the horns: partying with drag queens at the Royal Vauxhall Tavern, hosting cabarets at her glamorous flat,...
View BookAuthor: Dave Davies
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Author Dave Davies
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Duration 11h 16m
The all new memoir by legendary Kinks guitarist Dave Davies. Dave Davies is the co-founder and lead guitarist of epoch-defining band the Kinks, a group with 50 million record sales to their name. In his autobiography, Davies revisits the glory days of the band that spawned so much extraordinary music, and which had such a profound influence on band...
View BookAuthor: Georgina Lawton
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Author Georgina Lawton
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Duration 8h 7m
In Georgina Lawton's childhood home, her Blackness was never acknowledged; the obvious fact of her brown skin, ignored by her white parents. Over time, secrets and a complex family story became accepted as truth and Georgina found herself complicit in the erasure of her racial identity. It was only when her beloved father died that the truth began...
View BookOne Thousand Days and One Cup of Tea
Author: Vanessa Moore
Format: Online
Author Vanessa Moore
Narrator Stephanie Racine
Duration 9h 56m
Vanessa's husband, Paul, dies suddenly and tragically on their regular Sunday morning swim. How will she cope with her dilapidated house, her teenage children, the patients who depend on her? Will therapy help? Why do mysterious white feathers start appearing in unexpected places? As a clinical psychologist, Vanessa Moore is used to providing thera...
View BookAuthor: Damian Le Bas
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Author Damian Le Bas
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Duration 8h 20m
Random House presents the audiobook edition of The Stopping Places, written and read by Damian Le Bas.*BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week*'I needed to get to the stopping places, so I needed to get on the road. It was the road where I might at last find out where I belonged.'Damian Le Bas grew up surrounded by Gypsy history. His great-grandmother would t...
View BookAuthor: Dr Sohom Das
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Author Dr Sohom Das
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Duration 10h 25m
As a forensic psychiatrist, it's Dr Das' job to treat and rehabilitate what the tabloids might call the 'criminally insane', many of whom assault, rob, rape and even kill. His work takes him to high-security prisons and securely locked hospital wards across the country, as well as inside courtrooms, giving evidence as an expert witness. From the yo...
View BookAuthor: Dec Donnelly, Ant McPartlin
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Author Dec Donnelly, Ant McPartlin
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Duration 5h 17m
THE HILARIOUS AND HEARTWARMING SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Ant and Dec hold a special place in the hearts of TV viewers everywhere. This is their epic story, with never-before-seen photography and the very best tales from their 30 years in TV. From their modest beginnings in Byker Grove through to their "unique" time as pop stars and an award-laden TV...
View BookAuthor: Sadia Azmat
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Author Sadia Azmat
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Duration 5h 56m
Sadia is a comedian who loves sex. She is also a hijab-wearing Muslim woman. The two are in a lifelong relationship, but it's complicated. Sadia Azmat has many different sides to her, she is the good Muslim sister and the loud and proud comedian, she is the quiet and loving friend and the horny and outspoken one. So why does everyone put her in a b...
View BookAuthor: Noga Arikha
Format: Online
Author Noga Arikha
Narrator Fenella Fudge
Duration 8h 16m
As her mother slips into the fog of dementia, a philosopher grapples with the unbreakable links between our bodies and our sense of self. Vanessa wakes from a coma to find she has lost 10 years of memories and that she has become a person she does not recognise. Toussaint, a Haitian immigrant, is haunted by voices. Thomas no longer knows how to ans...
View BookSeries 5, Episode 5 - Emily Woo Zeller
Author: Listening Books
Format: Online
Author Listening Books
Narrator Jessica Stone, Emily Woo Zeller
Duration 38m
Jessica Stone chats to narrator Emily Woo Zeller.
View BookJaney: The Woman That Won't Shut Up
Author: Janey Godley
Format: Online
Author Janey Godley
Narrator The Author
Duration 5h 27m
Janey has been a determined fighter all her life - from her tough Glasgow childhood to becoming the much-loved comedian she is now. It was the strength she needed to survive as a sweary-mouthed woman in the male-dominated comedy clubs of the 1990s. She needed it again when she brought a case against the uncle who'd abused her as a child. A terrifyi...
View BookAuthor: Otto Rosenberg
Format: Online
Author Otto Rosenberg
Narrator Richard Trinder
Duration 4h 37m
Otto Rosenberg is nine and living in Berlin, poor but happy, when his family are first detained. All around them, Sinti and Roma families are being torn from their homes by Nazis, leaving behind schools, jobs, friends and businesses to live in forced encampments outside the city. Otto arrives in Auschwitz aged 15 and is later transferred to Buechen...
View BookAuthor: Edward Chisholm
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Author Edward Chisholm
Narrator Orlando Wells
Duration 12h 50m
A waiter's job is to deceive you. They want you to believe in a luxurious calm because on the other side of that door...is hell. Edward Chisholm's spellbinding memoir of his time as a Parisian waiter takes you below the surface of one of the most iconic cities in the world and right into its glorious underbelly. He inhabits a world of inhuman hours...
View BookAuthor: Bernie Taupin
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Author Bernie Taupin
Narrator The Author, John Lee
Duration 15h 36m
Half of one of the greatest creative partnerships in popular music, Bernie Taupin is the man who wrote the lyrics for Elton John, who conceived the ideas that spawned countless hits, and sold millions and millions of records. Together, they were a duo, a unit, an immovable object. But Taupin, a famously private person, has kept his own account of t...
View BookAuthor: Alaa Aljaleel, Diana Darke
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Author Alaa Aljaleel, Diana Darke
Narrator Peter Noble
Duration 7h 16m
When war came to Alaa Aljaleel's hometown, he made a remarkable decision to stay behind, caring for the people and animals caught in the crossfire, and building a sanctuary for the city's abandoned cats. In turn, he created something unique: a place of tranquility for children living through the bombardment and a glimmer of hope for those watching...
View BookAuthor: Adebayo Akinfenwa
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Author Adebayo Akinfenwa
Narrator Damien Lynch
Duration 6h 46m
According to FIFA, 16-stone Adebayo Akinfenwa is the strongest footballer in the world. With a larger-than-life personality to match, it's no wonder 'The Beast' has become an icon, attracting millions of social media followers, launching his own clothing label, and still banging in the goals for Wycombe Wanderers. With such fame and adoration, it's...
View BookAuthor: Deborah Orr
Format: Online
Author Deborah Orr
Narrator Gabriel Quigley
Duration 10h 15m
Just shy of 18, Deborah Orr left Motherwell - the town she both loved and hated - to go to university. It was a decision her mother railed against from the moment the idea was raised. Win had little agency in the world, every choice was determined by the men in her life. And strangely, she wanted the same for her daughter. Attending university wasn...
View BookAuthor: Aasmah Mir
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Author Aasmah Mir
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Duration 7h 59m
A Glasgow Girl is the coming of age story of Aasmah Mir's childhood growing up in 1970s Glasgow. From a vivacious child to a teenage loner, Aasmah candidly shares the highs and lows of growing up between two cultures - trying to fit in at school and retreating to the safe haven of a home inhabited by her precious but distant little brother and Hele...
View BookAuthor: Andrew Cole
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Author Andrew Cole
Narrator Theo Solomon
Duration 9h 11m
Misconceptions have stalked Andrew Cole like a hatchet-man defender determined to cut him down to size. In the world of modern-day football, his reserved demeanour was often interpreted as surly intransigence. Alongside an aptitude for goalscoring, it was widely believed, ran an attitude problem. In Fast Forward, a candid and inspirational autobiog...
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