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Author: 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
Narrator Melvyn Bragg
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...
View BookA Journey Beyond the Seas: Voices of the Powerless
Author: Melvyn Bragg
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Author Melvyn Bragg
Narrator Melvyn Bragg
Duration 33m
In this episode taken from the BBC Radio 4 series, Melvyn Bragg voyages to Tasmania to find out what a sentence of transportation to Van Diemen's Land really meant to those who survived the journey 'beyond the seas'. We hear the forgotten voices of people such as Joseph Lingard, a respectable Derbyshire man who was wrongfully convicted of the theft...
View BookAuthor: Daniel Levitin
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Author Daniel Levitin
Narrator Daniel Levitin
Duration 11h 46m
Brought to you by Penguin. Using musical examples from Bach to the Beatles, Levitin reveals the role of music in human evolution, shows how our musical preferences begin to form even before we are born and explains why music can offer such an emotional experience. Music is an obsession at the heart of human nature, even more fundamental to our spec...
View BookAuthor: Alexandra Shulman
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Author Alexandra Shulman
Narrator The Author
Duration 10h 21m
Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable, audiobook edition of Inside Vogue, written and read by Alexandra Shulman. Editor-in-Chief Alexandra Shulman kept a diary of British Vogue's Centenary year. And what a year. She reveals the emotional and logistical minefield of producing the 100th anniversary issue (that Duchess of Cambridge cover surpr...
View BookHumour and Cussing: The Routes of English
Author: Melvyn Bragg
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Author Melvyn Bragg
Narrator Melvyn Bragg
Duration 2h 46m
Melvyn Bragg examines new coinages, puns and wordplay; how accents and social class are entwined; swear words; attempts to stop the evolution of language in its tracks; and, finally, the many varieties of English that are spoken around the world today.
View BookTalking About Detective Fiction
Author: P. D. James
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Author P. D. James
Narrator Patience Tomlinson
Duration 4h 41m
From the birth of crime writing with Wilkie Collins and Dostoevsky, through Conan Doyle to the golden age of crime, with the rise of Agatha Christie, Ngaio Marsh and Margery Allingham, P. D. James brings a lifetime of reading and writing crime fiction to bear on this personal history of the genre. There are chapters on great American crime writers...
View BookAuthor: Peter Ustinov
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Author Peter Ustinov
Narrator John Bird
Duration 1h 15m
Peter Ustinov had an astonishing range of accomplishments and credits to his name. He wrote 23 plays and 13 books, appeared in 50 films, and collected two Oscars, three Emmys and a Grammy. He was also a director, producer, graphic artist, photographer, raconteur and the recipient of many humanitarian awards. In this interview with John Bird, conduc...
View BookAuthor: Lance Armstrong Foundation The
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Author Lance Armstrong Foundation The
Narrator Various
Duration 8h 30m
Since the now ubiquitous LIVESTRONGT wristbands became available in May 2004, the Lance Armstrong Foundation has raised more than $50 million for cancer survivorship programs, and the signature phrase has become a battle cry for those who fight the disease every day. Now, the Lance Armstrong Foundation has compiled, from hours of videotaped intervi...
View BookSo You Want To Talk About Race
Author: Ijeoma Oluo
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Author Ijeoma Oluo
Narrator Bahni Turpin
Duration 7h 44m
A current, constructive, and actionable exploration of today's racial landscape, offering straightforward clarity that readers of all races need to contribute to the dismantling of the racial divide. In So You Want to Talk About Race, Editor-at-Large of the Establishment Ijeoma Oluo offers a contemporary, accessible take on the racial landscape in...
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