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Author: Onjali Q. Raúf
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Author Onjali Q. Raúf
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Duration 3h 39m
No one is too small to make a change. Growing up, there is so much out of our control and to feel frustrated about. But in this inspiring and practical handbook, bestselling children's author and Human Rights campaigner, Onjali Raúf, shares her top ten ways for finding hope, creating change and making a difference. With the help of her favou...
View BookAuthor: Matthew Syed
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Author Matthew Syed
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Duration 2h 52m
Have you ever felt like you want to disagree with someone but don't know how to do it and, more importantly, remain friends afterwards? What Do You Think? is the perfect audiobook to help young people find their voice, flex their social superpowers and communicate exactly what they're thinking, with confidence, empathy and kindness. Listeners will...
View BookAuthor: Subhadra Das
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Duration 8h 24m
Some things are a given. The value of a good education. Time's progress. Death. Except most of the ideas that form Western Civilisation are just that - ideas. Taking cues from Greek philosophy and honed in the Enlightenment, certain notions about humanity and human society grew into the tenets we live by, and we haven't questioned them a great deal...
View BookAuthor: Neil Warnock
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Author Neil Warnock
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Duration 9h 32m
For the very first time, and straight from the horse's mouth, a top manager's intriguing insights into the daily trials and tribulations, the joyous peaks and soul-destroying troughs of life as a football 'gaffer'. Ever wondered how a transfer deal is done? What a manager says during his pre-match team-talk? What he screams from the technical area?...
View BookJames Acaster's Guide to Quitting Social Media
Author: James Acaster
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Author James Acaster
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Duration 6h 55m
When James quit all forms of social media in 2019, he felt like he'd been born anew, but he was worried he'd suffer withdrawal and get lured back online to compete in a never-ending popularity contest with only one possible winner (f--king Zuckerberg). He knew that in order to stay clean, he'd have to replace everything social media used to give hi...
View BookAuthor: Helen Skelton
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Author Helen Skelton
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Duration 6h 2m
Helen Skelton is no stranger to doing hard things, from kayaking the entire length of the Amazon to competing in a boxing match for Sports Relief. Her ability to dig deep and find the inner strength and to carry on no matter the challenge - physical, mental, or emotional - is nothing short of remarkable. Helen grew up on a farm in Cumbria and credi...
View BookAuthor: Liz Cheney
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Author Liz Cheney
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Duration 12h 14m
In the aftermath of the 2020 presidential election, Donald Trump and many around him, including certain other elected Republican officials, intentionally breached their oath to the US Constitution: they ignored the rulings of dozens of courts, plotted to overturn a lawful election, and provoked a violent attack on the Capitol. Liz Cheney, one of th...
View BookAuthor: Nadine Aisha Jassat
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Author Nadine Aisha Jassat
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Duration 5h 21m
From an award-winning poet comes a gripping mystery. "Grandma Farida has Alzheimer's - but I'm going to help her remember a huge secret..." Twelve-year-old Nyla's dad died when she was four, or that's what she's been told. So when Grandma Farida insists she saw him in the local supermarket, Nyla wonders if Grandma is simply "time travelling" again...
View BookRivets, Trivets and Galvanised Buckets
Author: Tom Fort
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Author Tom Fort
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Duration 9h 28m
Rivets, Trivets and Galvanised Buckets is The Repair Shop meets The Diary of a Bookseller all conveyed in Tom Fort's signature easy-going writing style. Tom Fort made his name as a writer with his bestselling travel narrative The A303: Highway to the Sun. He now focuses on matters closer to home by celebrating a quintessential cornerstone of any vi...
View BookAuthor: Alan Partridge
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Duration 7h 54m
Using an innovative 'dual narrative' structure you sometimes see in films, Big Beacon tells the story of how Partridge heroically rebuilt his TV career, rising like a phoenix from the desolate wasteland of local radio to climb to the summit of Mount Primetime and regain the nationwide prominence his talent merits. But then something quite unexpecte...
View BookAuthor: Clive Oppenheimer
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Duration 8h 44m
We are made of the same stuff as the breath and cinders of volcanoes. They have long shaped the path of humanity, provoked pioneering explorations and fired up our imaginations. They are fertile ground for agriculture, art and spirituality, as well as scientific advances, and they act as time capsules, capturing the footprints of those who came bef...
View BookBy Your Side: My Life Loving Barbara Windsor
Author: Scott Mitchell
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Author Scott Mitchell
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Duration 10h 53m
In December 2020, while the world was gripped with news of an imminent third lockdown, Scott Mitchell was visiting the care home where his partner and wife of 27 years—Dame Barbara Windsor—was being looked after. At the age of 83, after a career spanning seven decades and a seven-year battle with the debilitating effects of dementia, sh...
View BookAuthor: Emily Kenway
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Author Emily Kenway
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Duration 9h 50m
Around the world, millions of people are quietly caring for long-term unwell, elderly or disabled loved ones; one-in-eight people in the UK and a sixth of the total US population, with comparable proportions across the globe. For many, this is a full-time job, saving our economies billions each year. Yet when writer, activist and former policy advi...
View BookAuthor: Natasha Carthew
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Duration 7h 29m
Natasha Carthew grew up in rural poverty in Cornwall, battling limited opportunities, precarious resources, escalating property prices, isolation and a community marked by the ravages of inequality. Her world existed alongside the postcard picture Cornwall, where wealth and privilege converged on sandy beaches and expensive second homes. In the roc...
View BookAuthor: Eli Cranor
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Duration 7h 30m
After his son is convicted of murder, Vietnam War veteran Jeremiah Fitzjurls takes over the care of his granddaughter, Joanna, raising her with as much warmth as can be found in an Ozark junkyard outfitted to be an armory. He teaches her how to shoot and fight, but there is not enough training in the world to protect her when the dreaded Ledfords,...
View BookAuthor: Dr Romie Mushtaq
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Duration 8h 16m
An eye-opening guidebook for professionals looking to overcome their chronic stress, burnout and Busy Brain symptoms using a simple eight-week plan by Dr Romie Mushtaq. Traditional methods in neurology and psychiatry treat anxiety, ADD and insomnia as three separate diseases. The results are an addictive cycle that Dr Romie Mushtaq defines as the B...
View BookAuthor: Laura Addlington
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Duration 7h 11m
Diet Starts Monday is a no-BS guide to body acceptance in a looks-obsessed world. Plus-size TV personality and body confidence advocate Laura Adlington has struggled with her weight (and the weight of other people's opinions) her entire life. Here, in conversation with experts including doctors, psychologists and nutritionists, Laura reveals just h...
View BookAuthor: Graham Norton
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Author Graham Norton
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Duration 8h 44m
Carol is a divorced teacher living in a small town in Ireland, her only son now grown. A second chance at love brings her unexpected connection and belonging. The new relationship sparks local speculation: what does a woman like her see in a man like that? What happened to his wife who abandoned them all those years ago? But the gossip only serves...
View BookAuthor: Jean Menzies
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Duration 2h 29m
A gift for the young goddess in your life - with life lessons for living confidently, courageously and fearlessly. Cultures around the world celebrate tales and myths of daring and brave goddesses. These legendary ladies were tenacious, smart and strong. Meet... Osun, the Yoruba goddess of love who refuses to be dismissed because of her gender and...
View BookAuthor: Alan Bissett
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Duration 2h 52m
Have you ever been in a room where there's a loud guy making inappropriate comments, cracking jokes that only he thinks are funny, or leering at the girls in the room? You can feel it in the room, right? That guy, is causing a lot of tension and giving lads everywhere a bad name. This is an audiobook about how not to be that guy. It's an audiobook...
View BookAuthor: Alasdair Beckett-King
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SeriesMontgomery Bonbon, Book 1
Duration 3h 48m
Many people go their whole lives without noticing anything that is afoot, amiss, or even untoward; without ever experiencing that toe-tingling, stomach-twisting sensation that a mystery is about to unfold. Not Bonnie Montgomery – the world's best detective. Not that anyone (other than Grampa Banks) has heard of her... But they might have hear...
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