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The Clearing with Katherine May
- By: Katherine May
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Where would you go to rest and retreat, in good times and bad?Katherine May, author of Wintering and Enchantment, asks her guests to share their idea of a perfect sanctuary. Drawing on memory, inspiration and imagination, she explores the things we seek out when we need to restore our joy, hope and energy. It begins with a forest clearing. What will we find there? A log cabin or a grand hotel? What cherished object or talisman would you bring? And what single work of art, be it a book, record, film or something else, would provide you with enough sustenance to see you through the darkness and...
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Gentle and insightful
- By David on 19-02-26
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Don't Panic
- Douglas Adams and the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
- By: Neil Gaiman
- Narrated by: Simon Jones, Neil Gaiman
- Length: 8 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance58
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Now in audiobook for the first time ever! Read by Simon Jones, the original “Arthur Dent,” and written by #1 New York Times bestselling author Neil Gaiman, Don’t Panic is the definitive chronicle of all things Hitchhiker! First published in 1986 and updated several times since, Don’t...
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Facts for fun but far from from fun
- By LENGTHIAN on 18-05-21
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Don't Panic
- Douglas Adams and the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
- Narrated by: Simon Jones, Neil Gaiman
- Length: 8 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 11-08-20
- Language: English
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Byron
- A Life in Ten Letters
- By: Andrew Stauffer
- Narrated by: Paul Bellantoni
- Length: 11 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Lord Byron was the most celebrated of all the Romantic poets. Troubled, handsome, sexually fluid, disabled, and transgressive, he wrote his way to international fame—and scandal—before finding a kind of redemption in the Greek Revolution. He also left behind the vast trove of thrilling letters (to friends, relatives, lovers, and more) that form the core of this remarkable biography.
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Byron
- A Life in Ten Letters
- Narrated by: Paul Bellantoni
- Length: 11 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 28-01-25
- Language: English
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To the River
- A Journey Beneath the Surface
- By: Olivia Laing
- Narrated by: Kate Reading
- Length: 8 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance105
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Over 60 years after Virginia Woolf drowned in the River Ouse, Olivia Laing set out one midsummer morning to walk its banks, from source to sea. Along the way, she explores the roles that rivers play in human lives, tracing their intricate flow through literature, mythology, and folklore. Lyrical and stirring, To the River is a passionate investigation into how history resides in a landscape - and how ghosts never quite leave the places they love.
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Wonderful book Terrible narrator
- By Ms M L Vandermerwe on 06-03-20
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To the River
- A Journey Beneath the Surface
- Narrated by: Kate Reading
- Length: 8 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 28-05-19
- Language: English
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Talking Classics
- The Shock of the Old
- By: Mary Beard
- Narrated by: Mary Beard
- Length: 5 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Why the ongoing fascination with the ancient world? This witty, approachable book asks why—for better or (sometimes) worse—antiquity continues to exert such a powerful hold on the contemporary imagination. Recalling a formative childhood encounter with a four-thousand-year-old piece of bread in a museum, Beard introduces the idea of thauma, or wonder, that kick-started a lifetime engaging with classics.
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Talking Classics
- The Shock of the Old
- Narrated by: Mary Beard
- Length: 5 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 31-03-26
- Language: English
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Dragon's Reign: A Gay Dragon Shifter Romance
- By: Raythe Reign
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Eight dragon shifters rule the world, but then ordinary human Caden Bryce becomes the ninth, destined to be a mate to one of the eight. Yet all Caden wants is his old life back. Dragon King Valerius, most powerful of all the dragon shifters, is none too pleased to find another dragon in his territory. But when the other dragon shifters come to court Caden, Valerius finds that he wants Caden as his own. Read aloud by the author. Republished from the original feed, mistakes and all, just in its own podcast now.
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The Gutenberg Parenthesis
- The Age of Print and Its Lessons for the Age of the Internet
- By: Professor Jeff Jarvis
- Narrated by: Professor Jeff Jarvis
- Length: 13 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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The age of print is a grand exception in history. For five centuries it fostered what some call print culture – a worldview shaped by the completeness, permanence, and authority of the printed word. As a technology, print at its birth was as disruptive as the digital migration of today. Now, as the internet ushers us past print culture, journalist Jeff Jarvis offers important lessons from the era we leave behind. To understand our transition out of the Gutenberg Age, Jarvis first examines the transition into it.
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The Gutenberg Parenthesis
- The Age of Print and Its Lessons for the Age of the Internet
- Narrated by: Professor Jeff Jarvis
- Length: 13 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 13-12-23
- Language: English
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The Bright Book of Life
- Novels to Read and Reread
- By: Harold Bloom
- Narrated by: Stephen Mendel
- Length: 22 hrs
- Unabridged
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Performance7
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America's most original and controversial literary critic writes trenchantly about forty-eight masterworks spanning the Western tradition—from Don Quixote to Wuthering Heights to Invisible Man—in his first book devoted exclusively to narrative fiction. In this valedictory volume, Yale...
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Fantastic book, fantastic narrator.
- By Anonymous on 09-04-25
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The Bright Book of Life
- Novels to Read and Reread
- Narrated by: Stephen Mendel
- Length: 22 hrs
- Release date: 24-11-20
- Language: English
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The le Carré Cast - A podcast on John le Carré novels
- By: The le Carre Cast
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Exploring the works of John le Carré, each episode looks at a specific novel or an unexplored aspect of his life and work. Join us as we take a deep dive into the world of espionage John le Carré has revealed.
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The Write Stuff
- 40 Episodes from the Panel Game of Literary Correctness
- By: James Walton
- Narrated by: James Walton, Sebastian Faulks, Stephen Fry, and others
- Length: 18 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Highlights from the light-hearted literary quiz chaired by James Walton The Write Stuff is the book-based panel show that takes a witty and whimsical look at well-known authors and their work. Host James Walton challenges the erudite contestants with tricky literary teasers, which they endeavour...
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About time too
- By Laura on 18-05-24
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The Write Stuff
- 40 Episodes from the Panel Game of Literary Correctness
- Narrated by: James Walton, Sebastian Faulks, Stephen Fry, Simon Brett, Natalie Haynes, Sue Limb, Lynne Truss, John O’Farrell, Mark Billingham, Nigel Williams
- Length: 18 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 16-05-24
- Language: English
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The Secrets of Great Mystery and Suspense Fiction
- By: David Schmid, The Great Courses
- Narrated by: David Schmid
- Length: 18 hrs and 56 mins
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Overall33
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Performance29
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Great mystery and suspense writers have created some of the most unforgettable stories in all of literature. Even those who don't consider themselves fans of this intriguing genre are familiar with names such as Hercule Poirot, Sam Spade, Hannibal Lecter, and Robert Langdon, and understand the deep and lasting impact this writing has had on literature as a whole.
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Disappointing
- By Adrian Marriette on 30-06-17
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The Secrets of Great Mystery and Suspense Fiction
- Narrated by: David Schmid
- Series: The Great Courses: Genre Fiction
- Length: 18 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 11-11-16
- Language: English
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Why Bother?
- By: Chris Morris, Peter Cook
- Narrated by: Chris Morris, Peter Cook
- Length: 49 mins
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Overall67
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Performance46
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1994 saw one of Peter Cook's most acclaimed performances since his 1960s' heyday. Chris Morris' surreal and inventive questions brought out the very best of eccentric aristocrat Sir Arthur Streeb-Greebling - a character whom Cook had carried with him through 'Beyond the Fringe' and 'Not Only...
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Two masters at the top of their game
- By Joseph William McQuade on 14-05-18
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Why Bother?
- Narrated by: Chris Morris, Peter Cook
- Length: 49 mins
- Release date: 28-04-06
- Language: English
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Savage Beauty
- The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay
- By: Nancy Milford
- Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne
- Length: 24 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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If F. Scott Fitzgerald was the hero of the Jazz Age, Edna St. Vincent Millay, as flamboyant in her love affairs as she was in her art, was its heroine. A winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Millay was dazzling in the performance of herself. Her voice was likened to an instrument of seduction, and her impact on crowds and on men was legendary. Yet beneath her studied act, all was not well.
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Savage Beauty
- The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay
- Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne
- Length: 24 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 29-03-22
- Language: English
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The Art of Biblical Narrative
- By: Robert Alter
- Narrated by: Andy Ingalls
- Length: 10 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Renowned critic and translator Robert Alter’s The Art of Biblical Narrative has radically expanded our view of the Bible by recasting it as a work of literary art deserving studied criticism. In this seminal work, Alter describes how the Hebrew Bible’s many authors used innovative literary styles and devices such as parallelism, contrastive dialogue, and narrative tempo to tell one of the most revolutionary stories of all time: the revelation of a single God. In so doing, Alter shows, these writers reshaped not only history, but also the art of storytelling itself.
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The Art of Biblical Narrative
- Narrated by: Andy Ingalls
- Length: 10 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 26-11-24
- Language: English
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The Bookseller's Tale
- By: Martin Latham
- Narrated by: Roy McMillan
- Length: 10 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall37
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Performance33
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Brought to you by Penguin. 'The right book has a neverendingness, and so does the right bookshop.' This is the story of our love affair with books, whether we arrange them on our shelves, inhale their smell, scrawl in their margins or just curl up with them in bed. Taking us on a journey through...
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Great listen
- By Ke Donn on 11-09-20
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The Bookseller's Tale
- Narrated by: Roy McMillan
- Length: 10 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 03-09-20
- Language: English
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Twenty Years After
- By: Alexandre Dumas
- Narrated by: Frederick Davidson
- Length: 27 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall60
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Performance50
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Twenty years later, time has weakened the resolve of the Musketeers and dispersed their loyalties. But treasons and stratagems still cry out for justice: civil war endangers the throne of France, while in England, Cromwell threatens to send Charles I to the scaffold. Dumas brings his immortal quartet out of retirement to cross swords with time, the malevolence of men, and the forces of history. But their greatest test is a titanic struggle with the son of Milady, who wears the face of Evil.
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After Simon Vance on others this is disappointing
- By Barry on 14-10-16
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Twenty Years After
- Narrated by: Frederick Davidson
- Series: D'Artagnan: The Musketeers Cycle, Book 2
- Length: 27 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 23-03-09
- Language: English
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The Polish Officer
- By: Alan Furst
- Narrated by: George Guidall
- Length: 11 hrs and 43 mins
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Overall38
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Performance32
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New York Times bestselling author Alan Furst is internationally renowned as master of the European espionage thriller. Unfolding in September of 1939 as Hitler’s Wehrmacht ravages Warsaw, The Polish Officer discloses the clandestine existence of Polish Military Intelligence.
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What a gifted Author
- By Beenz 7 on 21-12-20
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The Polish Officer
- Narrated by: George Guidall
- Series: Night Soldiers, Book 3
- Length: 11 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 01-08-05
- Language: English
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Nostromo
- By: Joseph Conrad
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 17 hrs and 15 mins
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Joseph Conrad’s multilayered masterpiece tells of one nation's violent revolution and one hero's moral degeneration. Conrad convincingly invents an entire country, Costaguana, and sets it afire as warlords compete for power and a fortune in silver.
Señor Gould, adamant that his silver should not become spoil for his enemies, entrusts it to his faithful longshoreman, Nostromo, a local hero of sorts whom Señor Gould believes to be incorruptible.
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Wonderful reading, flawed recording
- By Christopher Marcus on 04-11-19
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The Baby on the Fire Escape
- Creativity, Motherhood, and the Mind-Baby Problem
- By: Julie Phillips
- Narrated by: Marnye Young
- Length: 9 hrs and 13 mins
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What does it mean to create, not in "a room of one's own," but in a domestic space? Do children and genius rule each other out? In The Baby on the Fire Escape, Julie Phillips traverses the shifting terrain where motherhood and creativity converge. With fierce empathy and vivid prose, Phillips evokes the intimate struggles of brilliant artists and writers, including Doris Lessing, Ursula K. Le Guin, Audre Lorde, and Alice Neel. A meditation on maternal identity and artistic greatness, Phillips illuminates some of the most pressing conflicts in contemporary women's lives.
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So much juiciness in this book
- By Emilia on 03-09-25
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The Baby on the Fire Escape
- Creativity, Motherhood, and the Mind-Baby Problem
- Narrated by: Marnye Young
- Length: 9 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 26-04-22
- Language: English
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