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A Daughter of Isis
- The Early Life of Nawal El Saadawi, In Her Own Words
- By: Nawal El Saadawi
- Narrated by: Nadia Albina
- Length: 12 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Bloomsbury presents A Daughter of Isis: The Early Life of Nawal El Saadawi, In Her Own Words by Nawal El Saadawi, read by Nadia Albina In A Daughter of Isis, Nawal El Saadawi, author of Woman at Point Zero and one of the Arab world’s greatest writers, tells the story of the formative years...
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wonderful story, told well
- By karinc10 on 09-12-25
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A Daughter of Isis
- The Early Life of Nawal El Saadawi, In Her Own Words
- Narrated by: Nadia Albina
- Length: 12 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 26-09-24
- Language: English
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Mad about Shakespeare
- From Classroom to Theatre to Emergency Room
- By: Jonathan Bate
- Narrated by: Jonathan Bate
- Length: 9 hrs
- Unabridged
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Overall22
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Performance19
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Story19
‘Enlightening, moving’ SIR IAN MCKELLEN From the acclaimed and bestselling biographer Jonathan Bate, a luminous new exploration of Shakespeare and how his themes can untangle comedy and tragedy, learning and loving in our modern lives. ‘The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and...
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Too much about the author
- By V on 02-12-25
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Mad about Shakespeare
- From Classroom to Theatre to Emergency Room
- Narrated by: Jonathan Bate
- Length: 9 hrs
- Release date: 14-04-22
- Language: English
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One Day I'll Remember This
- Diaries 1987-1995
- By: Helen Garner
- Narrated by: Helen Garner
- Length: 10 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Beginning in 1987, as she embarks on an affair that she knows will be all-consuming and ending in 1995 with the publication of The First Stone and the furore that followed it, Garner reveals the inner life of a woman in love and a great writer at work. With devastating honesty and sparkling humour, she grapples with what it means for her sense of self to be so entwined with another - how to survive as an artist in a partnership that is both enthralling and uncompromising.
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Marvellous
- By ZOK on 09-06-25
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One Day I'll Remember This
- Diaries 1987-1995
- Narrated by: Helen Garner
- Series: Diaries, Book 2
- Length: 10 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 08-05-21
- Language: English
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Where Shall We Run To?
- A Memoir
- By: Alan Garner
- Narrated by: Robert Powell
- Length: 3 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall32
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Performance29
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Story29
A NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR From one of our greatest living writers, comes a remarkable memoir of a forgotten England. 'The war went. We sang in the playground, "Bikini lagoon, an atom bomb’s boom, and two big explosions." David’s father came back from Burma and didn’t eat rice...
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Enchanting
- By Prof J on 04-03-26
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Where Shall We Run To?
- A Memoir
- Narrated by: Robert Powell
- Length: 3 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 16-08-18
- Language: English
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Jan Morris
- A Life - 'Breathtakingly good.' Michael Palin
- By: Sara Wheeler
- Narrated by: Sara Wheeler
- Length: 14 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5
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Performance5
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'Brave, beautifully written and shrewdly researched . . . this is a riveting read by a writer at the top of her game.' The Times 'Seldom have I read such an enthralling biography.' Literary Review 'An exemplary Life, about a strange English writer of rare gifts and peculiar greatness.'...
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Interesting account of a fascinating life..but with flawed narration
- By Drosselmeyer on 02-06-26
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Jan Morris
- A Life - 'Breathtakingly good.' Michael Palin
- Narrated by: Sara Wheeler
- Length: 14 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 07-04-26
- Language: English
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The Life and Rhymes of Benjamin Zephaniah
- The Autobiography
- By: Benjamin Zephaniah
- Narrated by: Benjamin Zephaniah
- Length: 10 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall550
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Performance502
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Story503
*A BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week* Benjamin Zephaniah, who travelled the world for his art and his humanitarianism, tells the one story that encompasses it all: the story of his life. In the early 1980s when punks and Rastas were on the streets protesting about unemployment, homelessness and the...
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Who Knew?!
- By PMPM on 23-08-18
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The Life and Rhymes of Benjamin Zephaniah
- The Autobiography
- Narrated by: Benjamin Zephaniah
- Length: 10 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 09-08-18
- Language: English
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Updike
- By: Adam Begley
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
- Length: 20 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall7
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Performance6
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A masterful, much-anticipated biography of one of the most celebrated figures in American literature: Pulitzer Prize-winning author John Updike - a candid, intimate, and richly detailed look at his life and work. In this magisterial biography, Adam Begley offers an illuminating portrait of John Updike, the acclaimed novelist, poet, short-story writer, and critic who saw himself as a literary spy in small-town and suburban America.
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Waspish about the Eastwick WASP?
- By Welsh Mafia on 06-09-15
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Updike
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
- Length: 20 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 04-11-14
- Language: English
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The Marriage Question
- George Eliot's Double Life
- By: Clare Carlisle
- Narrated by: Clare Carlisle
- Length: 10 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall10
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Performance8
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When she was in her mid-thirties, Marian Evans transformed herself into George Eliot - an author celebrated for her genius as soon as she published her debut novel. During those years she also found her life partner, George Lewes - writer, philosopher and married father of three. After 'eloping' to Berlin in 1854 they lived together for twenty-four years: Eliot asked people to call her 'Mrs Lewes' and dedicated each novel to her 'Husband'. Though they could not legally marry, she felt herself initiated into the 'great experience' of marriage.
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Engaging and informative
- By Lady Macbeth on 21-08-23
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The Marriage Question
- George Eliot's Double Life
- Narrated by: Clare Carlisle
- Length: 10 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 10-08-23
- Language: English
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Fierce Attachments
- A Memoir
- By: Vivian Gornick
- Narrated by: Vivian Gornick
- Length: 6 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance10
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In this deeply etched and haunting memoir, Vivian Gornick tells the story of her lifelong battle with her mother for independence. Gornick's groundbreaking book confronts what Edna O'Brien has called "the principal crux of female despair": the unacknowledged Oedipal nature of the mother-daughter bond. Born and raised in the Bronx, the daughter of "urban peasants," Gornick grows up in a household dominated by her intelligent but uneducated mother's romantic depression over the early death of her husband.
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Not for those with misophonia
- By EEL on 29-06-22
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Fierce Attachments
- A Memoir
- Narrated by: Vivian Gornick
- Length: 6 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 15-03-22
- Language: English
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Storyteller
- The Life of Roald Dahl
- By: Donald Sturrock
- Narrated by: Stephen Thorne
- Length: 23 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall91
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Performance70
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Story70
The authorised biography of one of the greatest storytellers of all time. "Irresistible. I thought I knew quite a lot about Roald Dahl, but now I know much much more. Donald Sturrock's book lucidly describes a complicated life and relates it to the richness of Dahl's storytelling."Quentin Blake...
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Thoroughly enjoyed it, despite minor flaws
- By Amazon Customer on 05-10-11
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Storyteller
- The Life of Roald Dahl
- Narrated by: Stephen Thorne
- Length: 23 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 01-09-11
- 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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Overall120
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Performance106
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Story106
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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To Throw Away Unopened
- By: Viv Albertine
- Narrated by: Jasmine Blackborow
- Length: 9 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall84
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Performance73
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Story74
Every memoir is a battle between reality and invention - but in her follow up to Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys., Viv Albertine has reinvented the genre with her unflinching honesty. To Throw Away Unopened is a fearless dissection of one woman's obsession with the truth - the truth about family, power and her identity as a rebel and outsider. It is a gaping wound of a book, both an exercise in bloodletting and psychological archaeology, excavating what lies beneath: the fear, the loneliness, the anger.
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A read again and again book!
- By Sarah Power on 18-01-19
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To Throw Away Unopened
- Narrated by: Jasmine Blackborow
- Length: 9 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 04-10-18
- Language: English
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Come, Tell Me How You Live
- An Archaeological Memoir
- By: Agatha Christie
- Narrated by: Judith Boyd
- Length: 7 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall52
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Performance48
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Agatha Christie’s personal memoirs about her travels to Syria and Iraq in the 1930s with her archaeologist husband Max Mallowan, where she worked on the digs and wrote some of her most evocative novels. Think you know Agatha Christie? Think again! To the world she was Agatha Christie...
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Highly recommend-lovely story
- By Vivienne Harper on 28-11-16
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Come, Tell Me How You Live
- An Archaeological Memoir
- Narrated by: Judith Boyd
- Length: 7 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 27-08-15
- Language: English
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Boy & Going Solo
- BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramas
- By: Roald Dahl
- Narrated by: Full Cast, Patrick Malahide
- Length: 2 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall85
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Performance72
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Two new BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisations of Roald Dahl's gripping autobiographical stories. These two compelling adaptations, based on Roald Dahl’s real-life tales of his of his boyhood and youthful overseas adventures, celebrate his remarkable life and commemorate his genius. Boy Dahl’s...
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Great story, shame it's only half of the book.
- By Nick on 16-12-18
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Boy & Going Solo
- BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramas
- Narrated by: Full Cast, Patrick Malahide
- Length: 2 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 03-11-16
- Language: English
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Electric Spark
- The Enigma of Muriel Spark - Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize 2025
- By: Frances Wilson
- Narrated by: Sara Vickers
- Length: 13 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall13
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Performance13
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Bloomsbury presents Electric Spark by Frances Wilson, read by Sara Vickers. ‘Absolutely mesmerising’ Spectator ‘I raced through it’ Ali Smith, Guardian ‘Unputdownable’ Financial Times ‘A fire-starter’ New York Times ‘Hypnotic’ TLS ‘Joyously, brilliantly intelligent’ Anne...
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Audio omits things and is badly performed
- By EEL on 21-09-25
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Electric Spark
- The Enigma of Muriel Spark - Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize 2025
- Narrated by: Sara Vickers
- Length: 13 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 05-06-25
- Language: English
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Agatha Christie’s Poirot
- The Greatest Detective in the World
- By: Mark Aldridge, Agatha Christie, Mark Gatiss - introduction
- Narrated by: Clare Corbett
- Length: 11 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall44
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Performance37
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From the very first book publication in 1920 to the recent film release of Death on the Nile, this investigation into Agatha Christie’s Hercule Poirot celebrates a century of probably the world’s favourite fictional detective. This book tells his story decade-by-decade, exploring his...
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A perfect piece for the centenary
- By Nephrite on 12-11-21
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Agatha Christie’s Poirot
- The Greatest Detective in the World
- Narrated by: Clare Corbett
- Length: 11 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 12-11-20
- Language: English
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J. R. R. Tolkien
- Author of the Century
- By: Tom Shippey
- Narrated by: Colin Mace
- Length: 13 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall43
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Performance37
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The definitive critical study of Tolkien’s greatest works by the respected and world renowned Tolkien scholar Professor T.A. Shippey. Following the unprecedented and universal acclaim for The Lord of the Rings, the respected academic and world-renowned Tolkien scholar, Professor Tom Shippey...
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Required reading for Tolkien fans.
- By Charlotte Knowles on 19-07-23
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J. R. R. Tolkien
- Author of the Century
- Narrated by: Colin Mace
- Length: 13 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 23-06-22
- Language: English
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Sufferah
- Memoir of a Brixton Reggae Head
- By: Alex Wheatle
- Narrated by: Troy Glasglow
- Length: 5 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall8
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Performance8
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In this breathtaking memoir, acclaimed writer Alex Wheatle shows how music became his salvation through a childhood marred by abuse and his imprisonment as a young man protesting against systemic racism and police brutality. Abandoned as a baby to the British care system, Alex Wheatle grows up...
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Just Fantastic, Moving, Honest to the Core (Coeur), visceral.
- By Arabee on 19-05-26
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Sufferah
- Memoir of a Brixton Reggae Head
- Narrated by: Troy Glasglow
- Length: 5 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 06-07-23
- Language: English
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Today Everything Changes
- Quick Read
- By: Andy McNab
- Narrated by: Paul Thornley
- Length: 1 hr and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall19
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Performance11
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Abandoned as a baby, Andy McNab's start in life was tough. Growing up in South London with foster parents, and surrounded by poverty, he attended seven schools in as many years, disillusioned and in remedial classes. It wasn’t long before his life descended into petty crime. By the age of...
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Inspiring a feel good book.
- By Barbara on 28-04-13
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Today Everything Changes
- Quick Read
- Narrated by: Paul Thornley
- Length: 1 hr and 29 mins
- Release date: 31-01-13
- Language: English
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In Love with George Eliot
- A Novel
- By: Kathy O’Shaughnessy
- Narrated by: Shiromi Arserio
- Length: 11 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall22
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Performance20
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Who was the real George Eliot? In Love with George Eliot is a glorious debut novel which tells the compelling story of England’s greatest woman novelist as you’ve never heard it before.
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An excellent novel !
- By Anonymous on 22-05-23
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In Love with George Eliot
- A Novel
- Narrated by: Shiromi Arserio
- Length: 11 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 06-10-20
- Language: English
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