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Author: George the Poet
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Author George the Poet
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Duration 9h 20m
George the Poet knows better than anybody the importance of understanding your surroundings. Born to Ugandan parents on the St Raphael's Estate in Neasden, north-west London, George Mpanga has always been aware of his community. It was both his teacher and his inspiration - giving him the language, the experiences, and the skills to become the pers...
View BookAuthor: Mallory Weggeman, Tiffany Yecke Brooks
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Author Mallory Weggeman, Tiffany Yecke Brooks
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Duration 7h 23m
Meet Mallory Weggemann: a Paralympic gold-medalist, world champion swimmer, ESPY winner, and NBC Sports commentator whose extraordinary story will give you the encouragement you need to rise up to meet any challenge you face in life. On January 21, 2008, a routine medical procedure left Mallory paralyzed from her waist down. Less than two years la...
View BookAuthor: Lee Evans
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Author Lee Evans
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Duration 10h 16m
Brought to you by Penguin.Lee Evans is one of the best-loved comedians in the country; a Hollywood star able to sell out arenas in the blink of eye. But he was not always such a roaring success. Read unabridged by the man himself, and with the humour (and the voices!) that he brings to the stage, the audiobook edition of The Life of Lee is his utte...
View BookI Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki
Author: Baek Sehee
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Author Baek Sehee
Narrator Jully Lee
Duration 3h 56m
THE PHENOMENAL KOREAN BESTSELLER TRANSLATED BY INTERNATIONAL BOOKER SHORTLISTEE ANTON HUR 'Will strike a chord with anyone who feels that their public life is at odds with how they really feel inside.' - Red PSYCHIATRIST: So how can I help you? ME: I don't know, I'm – what's the word – depressed? Do I have to go into detail? Baek Seh...
View BookAuthor: Duncan Hamilton
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Author Duncan Hamilton
Narrator Nicholas Guy Smith
Duration 13h 36m
Eric Liddell was as close to a saint as any man in modern history has been. Renowned for his athletic prowess, it was also his deeply entrenched values that set him apart from the crowd. These qualities were never better illustrated than in the 1924 Paris Olympics when, having declined his place in the 100 metres owing to the fact that the race was...
View BookAuthor: Chris Broad
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Author Chris Broad
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Duration 8h 8m
Brought to you by Penguin.When Englishman Chris Broad landed in a rural village in northern Japan he wondered if he'd made a huge mistake. With no knowledge of the language and zero teaching experience, was he was about to be the most quickly fired English teacher in Japan's history?Abroad in Japan charts a decade of living in a foreign land and th...
View BookAuthor: Patti Smith
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Author Patti Smith
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Duration 3h 49m
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the National Book Award-winning author of Just Kids Selected as Book of the Year by the Daily Telegraph, i paper, Metro and Harper's Bazaar 'Magical' GUARDIAN 'A gripping tale of the search for meaning in times of turbulence - expressed with Smith's signature poetic flair' VOGUE 'Extraordinary ... A tense, teasin...
View BookAuthor: Hayley Morris
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Author Hayley Morris
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Duration 5h 36m
Brought to you by Penguin.THE HILARIOUS BOOK FROM TIKTOK AND INSTA SENSATION HAYLEY MORRISBrain: We left the oven on!Me: No don't say that, I've not got time for this!Brain: The house is probably on fire!Me: Stop it, I need to write this book description.Brain: But the blazing fire.Me: We didn't even use the oven today.Brain: But what if -Me: No. W...
View BookAuthor: Noreen Masud
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Author Noreen Masud
Narrator Shazia Nicholls
Duration 7h 48m
Brought to you by Penguin.SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTIONRaw and radical, strange and beguiling - a love letter to Britain's breathtaking flatlands, from Orford Ness to Orkney, and a reckoning with the painful, hidden histories they containFor readers of W. G. Sebald's Rings of Saturn, Amy Liptrot's The Outrun and Richard Mabey's...
View BookAn Interview With Jasper Fforde
Author: Listening Books
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Author Listening Books
Narrator Jasper Fforde
Duration 20m
We interview Jasper Fforde, author of the popular Thursday Next and Nursery Crime novels.
View BookAuthor: Listening Books
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Author Listening Books
Narrator Hugh Fraser
Duration 14m
We interview actor Hugh Fraser, known for playing Captain Hastings in a number of Poirot TV adaptations, as well as narrating many Agatha Christie audiobooks.
View BookAn Interview With Charlie Higson
Author: Listening Books
Format: Online
Author Listening Books
Narrator Charlie Higson
Duration 20m
Charlie is a successful actor, writer and comedian. All five books in his Young Bond series have featured in bestsellers lists and are available in the Listening Books library. Image © Andy Paradise
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Author Listening Books
Narrator Adam Buxton
Duration 20m
We interview comedian, writer and podcaster Adam Buxton about his varied career and his experience writing an autobiography. Photo credit Ben Catchpole.
View BookOut of Africa & Shadows on the Grass
Author: Isak Dinesen
Format: Online
Author Isak Dinesen
Narrator Susan Lyons
Duration 16h 35m
Out of Africa:In this audiobook, the author of Seven Gothic Tales gives a true account of her life on her plantation in Kenya. She tells with classic simplicity of the ways of the country and the natives: of the beauty of the Ngong Hills and coffee trees in blossom: of her guests, from the Prince of Wales to Knudsen, the old charcoal burner, who vi...
View BookAuthor: Charlotte Bradman
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Author Charlotte Bradman
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Duration 9h 29m
Vivid, self-confessional and darkly humorous, The Happy Nomad is the story of how Charlotte Bradman breaks free from her turbulent past, mounting debts and the nine-to-five treadmill, and finds a simpler way of life living full-time in her beloved campervan. Freed from the burden of a thirty-year-old boiler on the edge, temperamental ceilings that...
View BookAuthor: Marina Gibson
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Author Marina Gibson
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Duration 6h 1m
In her early twenties, drifting and directionless, Marina Gibson fled the city for the countryside, and picked up a fishing rod for the first time in years. She was returning to a childhood pursuit and a passion passed on by her mother. Fishing overtook Marina's life as she grew enraptured by the quiet magic of angling. Whiling away hours by a High...
View BookAuthor: Will Tosh
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Author Will Tosh
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Duration 8h 51m
Was Shakespeare gay? The answer is both simpler and more complex than you might think . . . Shakespeare's work was profoundly influenced by the queer culture of his time - much of it totally integrated into mainstream society. From a relentless schooling in Latin and Greek homoeroticism, to a less formal education on the streets and in smoky tavern...
View BookAuthor: Anna Wilson
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Author Anna Wilson
Narrator Rachel Bavidge
Duration 10h 56m
Anna grew up in a house that was loving, even if her mum was ‘a little eccentric’. They knew to keep things clean, to stay quiet, and to look the other way when things started to get ‘a bit much for your mum’. It’s only when her mother reaches her 70s, and Anna has a family of her own, that the cracks really start to a...
View BookAuthor: Chimene Suleyman
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Author Chimene Suleyman
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Duration 6h 9m
In January 2017, Chimene Suleyman was on her way to an abortion clinic in Queens, New York with her boyfriend, the father of her nascent child. It was the last day they would spend together. In an extraordinary sequence of events, Chimene was to discover the truth of her boyfriend's life: that she and many other women had been subtly, patiently and...
View BookAuthor: Freya Bromley
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Author Freya Bromley
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Duration 9h 22m
Freya is still searching. For four years, she's been looking for a way to fill the empty space her brother's death left behind. Ready for another distraction, Freya decides to swim every tidal pool in Britain in a year with her friend Miri. The adventure takes them from a pool hidden in the cliffs of fishing-village Polperro to the quarry lagoon of...
View BookAuthor: Harry Beaufort
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Author Harry Beaufort
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Duration 7h 13m
The 12th Duke of Beaufort, known to his friends as 'Bunter', inherited his Dukedom and Badminton House in 2017, at the age of sixty-five. But he is also a singer and songwriter with the rock group The Listening Device. Now he combines his responsibilities as Duke with his life as a rock performer. In this lively and anecdote-filled memoir, Harry Be...
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