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Author: Emilie Pine
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Author Emilie Pine
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Duration 5h 4m
"I am afraid of being the disruptive woman. And of not being disruptive enough. I am afraid. But I am doing it anyway." In this vivid and powerful collection of essays, Emilie Pine boldly confronts the past to better understand herself, her relationships and her role in society. She speaks to the business of living as a woman in the 21st century &n...
View BookAuthor: Emma Dabiri
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Author Emma Dabiri
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Duration 3h 12m
Brought to you by Penguin. An incisive - and deeply practical - essay from the acclaimed author of Don't Touch My HairStop the denialAbandon guiltInterrogate capitalismWhen it comes to racial justice, how do we transform demonstrations of support into real and meaningful change? With intellectual rigour and razor-sharp wit, Emma Dabiri cuts through...
View BookAuthor: Nigel Slater
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Author Nigel Slater
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Duration 7h 34m
Written as a diary, and starting in September, this is the story of Nigel Slater's love for winter, its fables and its family feasts. Here are legends and folktales, myths and memoir, all told in Nigel's warm and intimate signature style. Nigel Slater's new book will have everything you need to prepare for midwinter, and at the heart of the book ar...
View BookGerman Easy Learning Audio Course
Author: Rosi McNab
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Author Rosi McNab
Narrator Collins
Duration 3h 40m
The UK’s bestselling audio series for learning a language. The Easy Learning German course is the perfect language learning course for holidays and business trips abroad. The accompanying booklet is also available at: collinsdictionary.com/resources.
View BookAuthor: Kenya Hunt
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Author Kenya Hunt
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Duration 5h 39m
Guhl. Gworl. Gurl. Girl! No matter how you say it, there's undeniable power behind Black Girl Magic. Journalist and writer Kenya Hunt moved to London at the dawn of the Obama administration, just as social media was gaining momentum. Spending the last decade away from home, she writes about the unique love language between Black women, both in the...
View BookAuthor: Dr Max Skittle
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Author Dr Max Skittle
Narrator Kris Dyer
Duration 11h 49m
Welcome to the life of Dr Max Skittle. Therapist, relationship counsellor, social worker, friend, parent-figure - and, yes: doctor.Join Max - and his patients - as he takes us on a rollercoaster journey through a year in the life of a doctor: from infected toenails, to wonky elbows, to erectile disfunction, to bed bugs; the happy couple expecting a...
View BookAuthor: Christopher Berry-Dee
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Author Christopher Berry-Dee
Narrator Colin Mace
Duration 7h 59m
By an expert with over twenty-five years' experience interviewing more than thirty of the most dangerous male and female serial killers of contemporary times, this latest book from the bestselling author explores the darkest corners of these thrill-killers' mindsAs all law-enforcement authorities, including the FBI's elite Behavioral Science Unit,...
View BookAuthor: Alex Jones
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Author Alex Jones
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Duration 7h 32m
Real life parents talk real life parenting!This book isn't a guide or a parenting manual - it's more of a support group for parents who are having their children in their thirties and forties to get together, to celebrate, share experiences, laugh and find joy in what is still the biggest life changing experience any of us will ever go through. It'...
View BookAuthor: Edward Parnell
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Author Edward Parnell
Narrator Sam Woolf
Duration 10h 18m
In his late 30s, Edward Parnell found himself trapped in the recurring nightmare of a family tragedy. For comfort, he turned to his bookshelves, back to the ghost stories that obsessed him as a boy, and to the writers through the ages who have attempted to confront what comes after death. In Ghostland, Parnell goes in search of the ‘seq...
View BookAuthor: Steve Biddulph
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Author Steve Biddulph
Narrator Damien Warren-Smith
Duration 7h 1m
A word-of-mouth best seller which has become one of the best loved and most successful books in the parenting field. With around 20 percent new material, Steve Biddulph’s Raising Boys is to be rereleased this month with some startling new research on what helps - and what harms - boys. In this expanded and updated edition, Steve Bi...
View BookAuthor: Bobby Duffy
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Author Bobby Duffy
Narrator Mark Topping
Duration 6h 56m
Do you eat too much sugar? What proportion of your country are immigrants? What does it cost to raise a child? How much tax do the rich pay? Are we more ignorant than we used to be? Take a minute to answer these questions. No matter how educated you are, this book suggests you are likely to be very wrong indeed. Informed by exclusive research a...
View BookAuthor: Friedrich Nietzsche
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Author Friedrich Nietzsche
Narrator Alex Jennings, Jon Cartwright
Duration 5h 18m
Thus Spoke Zarathustra was conceived and written by Friedrich Nietzsche during the years 1881–1885; the first three parts were published in 1883 and 1884. The book formed part of his ‘campaign against morality’, in which Nietzsche explored the ethical consequences of the ‘death of God’. Heavily critical not only o...
View BookAuthor: Alan Rusbridger
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Author Alan Rusbridger
Narrator Piers Hampton
Duration 12h 33m
Nothing in life works without facts. A society that isn't sure what's true can't function. Without facts there can be no government or law. Science is ignored. Trust evaporates. People everywhere feel ever more alienated from - and mistrustful of - news and those who make it. We no longer seem to know who or what to believe. We are living through a...
View BookAuthor: Sara Pascoe
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Author Sara Pascoe
Narrator Sara Pascoe
Duration 10h 45m
Includes an episode from the second season of Sara Pascoe's award-winning Sex Power Money podcast where Sara talks to Fern Champion. The Sunday Times top 10 best seller Why do some women still expect men to buy their dinner? Why do some men feel depressed after masturbating? What the hell is going on with porn? Co...
View BookAuthor: Toni Morrison
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Author Toni Morrison
Narrator Bahni Turpin
Duration 16h 8m
Spanning four decades, these essays, speeches and meditations interrogate the world around us. They are concerned with race, gender and globalisation. The sweep of American history and the current state of politics. The duty of the press and the role of the artist. Throughout A Mouth Full of Blood our search for truth, moral integrity and expertise...
View BookAuthor: Michel Montaigne
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Author Michel Montaigne
Narrator Clive Chafer
Duration 5h 42m
Michel de Montaigne, one of the foremost writers of the French Renaissance and the originator of the genre of the essay, wrote on subjects ranging from friendship to imagination, from language to conscience. This collection includes twenty-two of Montaigne's essays, including "Of Prognostications," "Of the Custom of Wearing Clothes," "Of Pedantry,"...
View BookAuthor: Nathan Filer
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Author Nathan Filer
Narrator Nathan Filer
Duration 7h 14m
Schizophrenia: whether it's the associations it conjures or the people it brings to mind, it is a word we all have a view on. How we perceive it - and how we treat people living with it - is at the core of how we understand mental health. But what do we really know? How much time do we spend listening? Do we truly comprehend this complex and often...
View BookAuthor: Melvyn Bragg
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Author Melvyn Bragg
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Duration 2h 45m
Melvyn Bragg looks at dialects from around Britain: the Pitmatic of Northumberland, the dialect of (London/Derry), the increasingly elusive Cornish dialect, Pidgin, and Shropshire dialect, and then finishing up with a speculation on the future of English dialects.
View BookAuthor: Julian Barnes
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Author Julian Barnes
Narrator Julian Barnes
Duration 10h 5m
This audiobook is, among many things, a family memoir, an exchange with Barnes' brother (a philosopher), a meditation on morality and the fear of death, a celebration of art, an argument with and about God, and a homage to the French writer Jules Renard. The result is a tour of the mind of this extraordinary author.
View BookAuthor: Melvyn Bragg
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Author Melvyn Bragg
Narrator Melvyn Bragg
SeriesRoutes of English, Book 1
Duration 2h 46m
Melvyn Bragg looks at how English has evolved over 1,000 years, looking at the disappearance of old dialects like that of Cumbria, and how it has been enriched by foreign languages, from Latin, Old French, and then dozens more as conquest, trade and immigration played their part in recent centuries.
View BookAuthor: George Johnson
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Author George Johnson
Narrator Arthur Morey
Duration 8h 24m
When the woman he loved was diagnosed with a metastatic cancer, science-writer George Johnson embarked on a journey to learn everything he could about the disease and the people who dedicate their lives to understanding and combating it. What he discovered is that a revolution is now under way - an explosion of new ideas about what cancer really is...
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