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Blitz
- The Club That Created the Eighties
- By: Robert Elms
- Narrated by: Robert Elms
- Length: 8 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall35
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Performance33
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Story33
The short-lived Blitz club in London's Covent Garden was more than somewhere to hang out or be seen: it was a catalyst for cultural explosion, a counter-culture blast against everything Thatcher's leadership had ushered in by the dawn of the 80s. In Blitz, Elms reflects on a club night founded by working-class kids, one whose impact reverberated beyond its doors, through the worlds of Art, Literature, Fashion and Music, and into the present day.
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80s in a nutshell - a blast
- By Joe on 06-03-26
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Blitz
- The Club That Created the Eighties
- Narrated by: Robert Elms
- Length: 8 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 23-09-25
- Language: English
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Catch and Kill
- Lies, Spies and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators
- By: Ronan Farrow
- Narrated by: Ronan Farrow
- Length: 10 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1,439
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Performance1,258
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Story1,254
In a dramatic account of violence and espionage, Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter Ronan Farrow exposes serial abusers and a cabal of powerful interests hell-bent on covering up the truth, at any cost. In 2017, a routine network television investigation led Ronan Farrow to a story...
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Expertly written, poorly voiced
- By Hana on 02-01-20
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Catch and Kill
- Lies, Spies and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators
- Narrated by: Ronan Farrow
- Length: 10 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 15-10-19
- Language: English
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My Friend Leonard
- By: James Frey
- Narrated by: Andy Paris
- Length: 10 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall89
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Performance75
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Story76
Perhaps the most unconventional and literally breathtaking father-son story you'll ever read, My Friend Leonard pulls you immediately and deeply into a relationship as unusual as it is inspiring. The father figure is Leonard, the high-living, recovering coke addict, "West Coast Director of a large Italian-American finance firm" (read: mobster) who helped to keep James Frey clean in A Million Little Pieces.
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touching
- By Pauline tate on 10-04-26
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My Friend Leonard
- Narrated by: Andy Paris
- Length: 10 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 21-10-05
- Language: English
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Mr. Playboy
- Hugh Hefner and the American Dream
- By: Steven Watts
- Narrated by: Ray Porter
- Length: 18 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall12
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Performance11
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Story11
When Hugh Hefner quit his job at Esquire to start a magazine called Playboy, he didn't just want to make money, he wanted to make dreams come true. In this wise and penetrating biography, intellectual historian Steven Watts looks at what Hugh Hefner went on to become and how he took America with him. Hefner became one of the most hated and envied celebrities in America, standing just barely on the wrong side of decency - with as many as seven million subscribers to his magazine.
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Really Interesting
- By JOD on 14-09-25
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Mr. Playboy
- Hugh Hefner and the American Dream
- Narrated by: Ray Porter
- Length: 18 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 06-10-08
- Language: English
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Politics: A Survivor's Guide
- How to Stay Engaged Without Getting Enraged
- By: Rafael Behr
- Narrated by: Rafael Behr
- Length: 10 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall40
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Performance38
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Story38
On New Year's Eve 2019, Rafael Behr had what is clinically known as a massive bloody heart attack. In part, it was the result of his compulsive relationship with politics, working as a journalist in Westminster, on the front line of bitter information wars. When he was discharged from hospital, he asked himself how he would ever re-engage with politics—how would he care enough to write about it—without the stress? Something had to change. In 2021, Rafael published an essay about that experience and some of the lessons he had learned.
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Self-referential
- By Mr. P. O'hara on 14-04-24
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Politics: A Survivor's Guide
- How to Stay Engaged Without Getting Enraged
- Narrated by: Rafael Behr
- Length: 10 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 11-05-23
- Language: English
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The Life And Times Of The Thunderbolt Kid
- Travels Through my Childhood
- By: Bill Bryson
- Narrated by: Bill Bryson
- Length: 6 hrs and 9 mins
- Abridged
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Overall97
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Performance64
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Story65
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...
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Another 'Bill' Classic
- By Susan on 19-10-06
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The Life And Times Of The Thunderbolt Kid
- Travels Through my Childhood
- Narrated by: Bill Bryson
- Length: 6 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 13-09-06
- Language: English
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On Writers and Writing
- By: Margaret Atwood
- Narrated by: Margaret Atwood
- Length: 6 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall96
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Performance83
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Story82
What is the role of the writer? Prophet? High priest of art? Court jester? Or witness to the real world? Looking back on her own childhood and writing career, Margaret Atwood examines the metaphors which writers of fiction and poetry have used to explain - or excuse! - their activities, looking at what costumes they have assumed, what roles they have chosen to play. In her final chapter she takes up the challenge of the title: if a writer is to be seen as "gifted", who is doing the giving and what are the terms of the gift?
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Disappointing
- By TDP on 22-02-21
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On Writers and Writing
- Narrated by: Margaret Atwood
- Length: 6 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 18-11-20
- Language: English
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Future
- Douglas Adams and the Digital World
- By: Douglas Adams
- Narrated by: Douglas Adams, Mitch Benn
- Length: 3 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall12
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Performance11
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Story10
Douglas Adams was a passionate technology enthusiast. His best-selling The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy is full of futuristic tech, and in 1990 he predicted something very like the World Wide Web in the BBC2 film Hyperland. So in 1999, he was the natural choice to present Radio 4’s The Internet: The Last 20th Century Battleground. In it, he looked at the explosion in online communication, the evolution of cyberspace, and the risks and opportunities of the new virtual world.
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Important listening for Douglas Adams completists
- By Christopher Whalen on 09-04-25
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Future
- Douglas Adams and the Digital World
- Narrated by: Douglas Adams, Mitch Benn
- Length: 3 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 05-03-20
- Language: English
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Libertarians on the Prairie
- Laura Ingalls Wilder, Rose Wilder Lane, and the Making of the Little House Books
- By: Christine Woodside
- Narrated by: Gabra Zackman
- Length: 6 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall9
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Performance9
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Story8
Generations of children have fallen in love with the pioneer saga of the Ingalls family, of Pa and Ma, Laura and her sisters, and their loyal dog. Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House books have taught millions of Americans about frontier life, giving inspiration to many and in the process becoming icons of our national identity. Yet few realize that this best-selling series wandered far from the actual history of the Ingalls family and from what Laura herself understood to be central truths about pioneer life.
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Scholarly investigation for Laura Ingalls Wilder fan girls
- By Soo on 24-11-25
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Libertarians on the Prairie
- Laura Ingalls Wilder, Rose Wilder Lane, and the Making of the Little House Books
- Narrated by: Gabra Zackman
- Length: 6 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 15-09-16
- Language: English
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Ottoline Morrell
- Life on the Grand Scale
- By: Miranda Seymour
- Narrated by: Elaine Claxton
- Length: 23 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall7
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Performance7
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Story7
‘A kind of blissography, teeming with bon mots’ Sunday Times A celebrated modern classic that has revolutionised our understanding of the Bloomsbury group and remains the definitive biography of the group’s gloriously eccentric patron, Lady Ottoline Morrell. Met with widespread acclaim and...
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Empathetic retelling
- By Hilary on 30-11-25
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Ottoline Morrell
- Life on the Grand Scale
- Narrated by: Elaine Claxton
- Length: 23 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 04-07-24
- Language: English
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The Swimmer
- The Wild Life of Roger Deakin
- By: Patrick Barkham
- Narrated by: Gordon Griffin
- Length: 17 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5
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Performance5
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Roger Deakin, author of the immortal Waterlog and Wildwood, was a man of unusually many parts. A born writer who nonetheless took decades to write his first book, Roger was also variously—and sometimes simultaneously—maverick ad-man, seller of stripped pine furniture on the Portobello Road, cider-maker, teacher, environmentalist, music promoter, and filmmaker. But above all he was the restorer of ancient Walnut Tree Farm in Suffolk.
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The life of Roger Deakin
- By ElizMo on 09-05-24
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The Swimmer
- The Wild Life of Roger Deakin
- Narrated by: Gordon Griffin
- Length: 17 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 08-02-24
- Language: English
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Goldeneye
- Where Bond was Born: Ian Fleming's Jamaica
- By: Matthew Parker
- Narrated by: Roy McMillan
- Length: 9 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall59
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Performance51
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Story51
THE TOP 10 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Completely fascinating, authoritative and intriguing' William Boyd 'The big bang on Bond books... Beautiful, brilliant' Tony Parsons Goldeneye: the story of Ian Fleming in Jamaica and the creation of British national icon, James Bond. From 1946 until the end...
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Enthralling!
- By james on 20-01-20
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Goldeneye
- Where Bond was Born: Ian Fleming's Jamaica
- Narrated by: Roy McMillan
- Length: 9 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 30-10-14
- Language: English
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From a Soul Friend
- A Vision of Becoming with John O’Donohue
- By: John O'Donohue
- Narrated by: John O'Donohue
- Length: 8 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3
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Performance3
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Visionary Teachings to Explore the Landscape of the Heart Beloved poet and philosopher John O'Donohue created a remarkable body of work on the subjects of spirituality and Celtic mysticism. His gift was evoking hope, solace, and clarity—offering ancient wisdom that could provide desperately...
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Emphatic
- By YVONNE on 08-03-25
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From a Soul Friend
- A Vision of Becoming with John O’Donohue
- Narrated by: John O'Donohue
- Length: 8 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 07-02-23
- Language: English
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Ian Fleming
- The Man Behind James Bond
- By: Andrew Lycett
- Narrated by: Robert Whitfield
- Length: 21 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall53
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Performance33
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Story34
Sportsman, womanizer, naval commander, world-traveler, spy, this suave Old Etonian creator of the Cold War's archetypal secret agent was infinitely more complicated and interesting than his major fictional character, Agent 007.
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Reasonable Biography Spoiled by the Production
- By Amazon Customer on 18-10-07
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Ian Fleming
- The Man Behind James Bond
- Narrated by: Robert Whitfield
- Length: 21 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 14-04-00
- Language: English
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The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956
- An Experiment in Literary Investigation
- By: Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
- Narrated by: Ignat Solzhenitsyn
- Length: 21 hrs and 53 mins
- Abridged
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Overall56
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Performance49
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“BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE 20TH CENTURY.” —Time “It is impossible to name a book that had a greater effect on the political and moral consciousness of the late twentieth century.” —David Remnick, The New Yorker The Nobel Prize winner’s towering masterpiece of world literature...
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Insanity
- By Fritz on 22-01-25
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The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956
- An Experiment in Literary Investigation
- Narrated by: Ignat Solzhenitsyn
- Length: 21 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 13-10-20
- Language: English
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How to Rule the World
- An Education in Power at Stanford University
- By: Theo Baker
- Narrated by: Theo Baker
- Length: 11 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4
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Performance4
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Brought to you by Penguin. A searing critique of the crony-capitalist, talent-scraping culture of the Stanford elites, by a brilliant young journalist When seventeen-year old Theo Baker arrived at Stanford University one brisk September morning, its manicured lawns, palm trees and sparkling...
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How to Rule the World
- An Education in Power at Stanford University
- Narrated by: Theo Baker
- Length: 11 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 19-05-26
- Language: English
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The Oxford Inklings
- Lewis, Tolkien and Their Circle
- By: Colin Duriez
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 6 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4
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Performance4
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The Oxford Inklings tells the story of the friendships, mutual influence, and common purpose of the Inklings - the literary circle which congregated around C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien. Meeting in pubs or Lewis' college rooms, they included an influential array of literary figures. They were, claimed poet and novelist John Wain, bent on 'the task of redirecting the whole current of contemporary art and life'. Tolkien and Lewis expert Colin Duriez unpacks the Inklings' origins, relationships, and the nature of their collaboration.
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The Oxford Inklings
- Lewis, Tolkien and Their Circle
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 6 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 15-09-20
- Language: English
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Men Have Called Her Crazy
- The New York Times bestselling memoir
- By: Anna Marie Tendler
- Narrated by: Anna Marie Tendler
- Length: 8 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall31
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Performance28
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'A stunning self-portrait of a woman trying to make sense of the misogyny and sexism she has faced throughout her life.' - TIME Magazine In early 2021, popular artist Anna Marie Tendler checked herself into a psychiatric hospital following a year of crippling anxiety, depression and self-harm...
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I have never felt more seen, heard, and welcomed
- By Seb Watkins on 13-09-24
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Men Have Called Her Crazy
- The New York Times bestselling memoir
- Narrated by: Anna Marie Tendler
- Length: 8 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 13-08-24
- Language: English
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Chaucer
- A European Life
- By: Marion Turner
- Narrated by: Marion Turner
- Length: 20 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall23
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Performance19
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More than any other canonical English writer, Geoffrey Chaucer lived and worked at the center of political life - yet his poems are anything but conventional. Edgy, complicated, and often dark, they reflect a conflicted world, and their astonishing diversity and innovative language earned Chaucer renown as the father of English literature. Marion Turner, however, reveals him as a great European writer and thinker.
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An unsuitable book for audio
- By Rachel Redford on 14-08-19
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Chaucer
- A European Life
- Narrated by: Marion Turner
- Length: 20 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 10-05-19
- Language: English
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Before I Go
- By: Catherine Cookson
- Narrated by: Christine Rendel
- Length: 7 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall40
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Performance28
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Known for the wit of her writing, Catherine Cookson was the UK's most widely read novelist during her lifetime. When her Estate discovered this never-before-published memoir in the attic of her home, it was an astonishing find. Before I Go is the definitive story of her life, in the author's own candid words.
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A must for Catherine Cookson Fans!<br />
- By Jenny on 20-07-17
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Before I Go
- Narrated by: Christine Rendel
- Length: 7 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 13-07-17
- Language: English
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