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Author: Thora Hird
Format: MP3 CD
Author Thora Hird
Narrator Thora Hird
Duration 2h 45m
This thoughtful memoir, read by Dame Thora herself, is a fitting tribute to her later years and witness to two of her greatest talents: the ability to tell a story and her determination to stay on top of life even when in severe pain. The audiobook reveals Thora Hird's reflections and her behind-the-scenes stories, from glamorous engagements to dom...
View BookAuthor: Kevin Lewis
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Author Kevin Lewis
Narrator Kevin Lewis
Duration 2h 45m
Kevin Lewis never had a chance. Growing up on a poverty-stricken London council estate, beaten and starved by his parents, bullied at school and abandoned by social services, his life was never his own. Even after he was put into care, he found himself out on the streets caught up in a criminal underworld that knew him as 'The Kid'. Yet Kevin su...
View BookShakespeare the Biography: Volume 1
Author: Peter Ackroyd
Format: MP3 CD
Author Peter Ackroyd
Narrator Simon Callow
Duration 3h
Shakespeare was born in Stratford on 23rd April 1564 and died in the same English country town on the same date in 1616. This audiobook is the first in a series of four and explores the birth and youth of Shakespeare, his family fortunes and misfortunes and his emergence onto the London theatre scene.
View BookThe Private World of Georgette Heyer
Author: Jane Aiken Hodge
Format: MP3 CD
Author Jane Aiken Hodge
Narrator Nash Phyllida
Duration 7h 5m
As an internationally bestselling phenomenon and queen of the Regency Romance, Georgette Heyer is one of the most beloved historical novelists of our time. She's written more than fifty novels - romances, detective stories and contemporary works of fiction - yet her private life was practically inaccessible to any but her closest friends and relati...
View BookThe Gospel According To Chris Moyles
Author: Chris Moyles
Format: MP3 CD
Author Chris Moyles
Narrator Chris Moyles
Duration 2h 30m
Motor Mouth, Loud Mouth, Tubby DJ, and Overpaid Ego. What is the truth? Who is Chris Moyles? And what does he have to say for himself when he's not on the radio? Who is this man they call 'The Saviour of Radio 1'? In this audiobook, Chris dissects the world around him and tackles all sorts of subjects; from interviewing the world's most famous cele...
View BookAuthor: A. N. Wilson
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Author A. N. Wilson
Narrator Bill Wallis
Duration 10h 31m
John Betjamin was by far the most popular poet of the twentieth century. As Poet Laureate, he became a national icon, but behind the public man were doubts and demons. He led a tempestuous emotional life. For much of his 50 year marriage he had a relationship with another woman, Elizabeth Cavendish, who was the daughter of the Duke of Devonshire...
View BookAuthor: Kate Williams
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Author Kate Williams
Narrator Sophie Ward
Duration 16h 35m
A dramatic tale of sex, glamour, intrigue, romance and heartbreak, this audiobook traces the rise and rise of the gorgeous Emma Hamilton. Born into poverty, she clawed her way up through London's underworlds of sex for sale to become England's first media superstar. Nothing could stand in the way of her dreams - except her self-destructive desires....
View BookAuthor: Harry Berstein
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Author Harry Berstein
Narrator Sam Kelly
Duration 8h 57m
Harry Bernsteins' childhood in the industrial north of England in the shadow of the First World War is one of hardship and hostility. His brutish father spends what little he earns at the tailoring shop on drink, while his devoted mother survives on her dreams: that new shoes might secure Harry's admission to a fancy school; that her daughter might...
View BookAuthor: Donald James Wheal
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Author Donald James Wheal
Narrator Michael Jayston
Duration 10h 28m
On the morning of 24th February, 1944, following a devastating Luftwaffe raid, Donald Wheal and his family were homeless refugees with bulging suitcases and faces blackened by soot blast. The morning after the World's End bombing he realised that the ties that had bound him to the past were now broken - a new world and a new fate awaited him. In th...
View BookI Was Vermeer: The Forger Who Swindled the Nazis
Author: Frank Wynne
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Author Frank Wynne
Narrator Richard Burnip
Duration 8h 6m
In 1945, a small-time Dutch art dealer was arrested for selling a forgery of a priceless national treasure - a painting by Vermeer - to Hitler's right-hand man. The charge was treason, the only possible sentence death. And yet Han van Meegeren languished in his dank prison cell, incapable of uttering the words that would set him free: 'I am a forge...
View BookAuthor: Mary Turner Thomson
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Author Mary Turner Thomson
Narrator Carolyn Bonnyman
Duration 6h 47m
In April 2006, Mary Turner Thomson received a call that was to blow her life apart. The woman on the other end of the line calmly told her that she and Will Jordan, Mary's husband and the father of her two younger children, had been married for fourteen years and had five children together. This is the shocking true story of how one man manipulated...
View BookThe Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid: A Memoir
Author: Bill Bryson
Format: MP3 CD
Author Bill Bryson
Narrator Bill Bryson
Duration 7h 29m
Some say that the first hint that Bill Bryson was not of Planet Earth came when his mother sent him to school in lime-green Capri pants. Others think it all started with his discovery, at the age of six, of a woollen jersey of rare fineness. Across the moth-holed chest was a golden thunderbolt. It may have looked like an old college football sweate...
View BookAuthor: Leslie Phillips
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Author Leslie Phillips
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Duration 15h 56m
Leslie Phillips's story begins with a poverty-stricken childhood in north London, made all the worse by his father's death when Leslie was just ten years old. Soon after, he began his acting career, and since then he has worked with Steven Spielberg, Laurence Olivier, Anthony Hopkins and Angelina Jolie, among many others. Best known for his comic r...
View BookProvided You Don't Kiss Me: 20 Years With Brian Clough
Author: Duncan Hamilton
Format: MP3 CD
Author Duncan Hamilton
Narrator John Telfer
Duration 7h 48m
'Look Duncan, you're a journalist. One day you'll write a book about this club. Or, more to the point, about me. So you may as well know what I'm thinking and save it up for later when it won't do any harm to anyone.' Duncan Hamilton was there through all the madness, the success, the failures, the fall-outs, the drink, and the crumbling of Brian C...
View BookAuthor: Nuala Gardner
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Author Nuala Gardner
Narrator Kara Wilson
Duration 10h 29m
This is the inspiring account of a family's struggle to break into their son's autistic world - and how a beautiful retriever dog made the real difference. Dale was still a baby when his parents realised that something wasn't right. Worried, his mother Nuala took him to see several doctors, before finally hearing the word 'autism' for the first tim...
View BookAuthor: Catherine Sanderson
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Author Catherine Sanderson
Narrator Anna Bentinck
Duration 12h 2m
Catherine Sanderson has a job in Paris, the city of her dreams, a handsome Frenchman, a beautiful bilingual toddler, and a charming apartment with breathtaking views. So why does she feel that her life is coming apart? Stuck in a relationship quickly losing its heat, overwhelmed by the burdens of motherhood, and restless in a dead-end administrativ...
View BookTime To Say Hello: The Autobiography
Author: Katherine Jenkins
Format: MP3 CD
Author Katherine Jenkins
Narrator Kate Jarman
Duration 6h 41m
Katherine Jenkins is an international singing superstar who has redefined a music genre: she has brought classical music to the masses and inspired young and old with her incredible voice, her glamorous looks and, above all, her love for music, her country and her fans.
View BookAuthor: Clarissa Dickson Wright
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Author Clarissa Dickson Wright
Narrator Clarissa Dickson Wright
Duration 10h 11m
One of the nation's best-loved cooks, Clarissa has lived her life on a grand scale. Her mother was an Australian heiress, her father a brilliant surgeon. But he was also a tyrannical drunk. Clarissa was determined and clever, though, and her ambition led her, at the age of 21, to be the youngest woman ever to be called to the Bar. Disaster struck w...
View BookRichmal Crompton: The Woman Behind 'just William'
Author: Mary Cadogan
Format: MP3 CD
Author Mary Cadogan
Narrator Martin Jarvis
Duration 6h 33m
Richmal Crompton's William is known even to those who have never read the books featuring his anarchic exploits. For many, William, Ginger, Douglas and Henry - not forgetting the awful Violet Elizabeth - remain an ever-remembered part of our childhood. But what do we know of his publicity-shy creator? In this biography we see the portrait of a witt...
View BookAuthor: BBC Audiobooks
Format: Stream / Download
Author BBC Audiobooks
Narrator Tom Robinson
Duration 52m
In a commemorative programme to mark the anniversary of John Peel's death, Tom Robinson visits `Peel Acres' to meet John's wife Sheila and their four children.
View BookAuthor: Alan Bennett
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Author Alan Bennett
Narrator Alan Bennett
Duration 2h 11m
Alan Bennett reminisces about his early years - from his schooldays to undergraduate life at Oxford University. It was an ordinary childhood - growing up in Leeds taught Alan early on that `life is generally something that happens elsewhere'. Yet the children who long for German bombs to lend their city some wartime glamour; the working class mothe...
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