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Summer
- By: Karl Ove Knausgaard, Ingvild Burkey - translator
- Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
- Length: 9 hrs and 36 mins
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The conclusion to one of the most extraordinary and original literary projects in recent years, Summer once again intersperses short, vividly descriptive essays with emotionally raw diary entries addressed directly to Knausgaard's newborn daughter. Writing more expansively and, if it is possible, even more intimately and unguardedly than in the previous three volumes, he mines with new depth his difficult memories of his childhood and fraught relationship with his own father.
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Summer
- Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
- Length: 9 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 21-08-18
- Language: English
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Essays
- By: Francis Bacon
- Narrated by: David Timson
- Length: 6 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Sir Francis Bacon, sometimes known as the father of empiricism, was one of the major political figures of his day, his career culminating as Lord Chancellor under King James I in 1617. Bacon wrote widely, but it is the Essays (published in its third edition in 1625, the year before his death) for which he is best known. Deftly written and often displaying a cutting wit, they cover a wide range of subjects including death, love, marriage, ambition and atheism.
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Essays
- Narrated by: David Timson
- Length: 6 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 08-01-22
- Language: English
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Hijab Butch Blues
- A Memoir
- By: Lamya H
- Narrated by: Ashraf Shirazi
- Length: 7 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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A queer hijabi Muslim immigrant survives her coming-of-age by drawing strength and hope from stories in the Quran in this “raw and relatable memoir that challenges societal norms and expectations” (Linah Mohammad, NPR). “A masterful, must-read contribution to conversations on power...
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Hijab Butch Blues
- A Memoir
- Narrated by: Ashraf Shirazi
- Length: 7 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 07-02-23
- Language: English
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Sunday Best
- Travels through the day of rest
- By: Daniel Gray
- Narrated by: George Reid
- Length: 5 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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An evocative celebration of the seventh day in all its rich variety Closed shops and roast dinners. Bulky newspapers and the hum of lawnmowers. Strolls to nowhere in particular and visiting snoozing grandparents. Television theme tunes cueing bath time and a sudden dread of the looming week...
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a bit boring
- By David Thomas on 25-04-25
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Sunday Best
- Travels through the day of rest
- Narrated by: George Reid
- Length: 5 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 10-04-25
- Language: English
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On Witness and Respair
- Essays
- By: Jesmyn Ward
- Narrated by: Jesmyn Ward
- Length: 6 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Bloomsbury presents On Witness and Respair written and read by Jesmyn Ward The collected creative nonfiction of a singular American writer, Jesmyn Ward, including widely shared classics, three never-before-published speeches, and an introductory essay. Respair (noun, obsolete), fresh hope after...
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On Witness and Respair
- Essays
- Narrated by: Jesmyn Ward
- Length: 6 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 02-07-26
- Language: English
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Run Towards the Danger
- Conversations with a Body of Memory
- By: Sarah Polley
- Narrated by: Sarah Polley
- Length: 7 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Sarah Polley's work as an actor, screenwriter and director is celebrated for its honesty, complexity and deep humanity. She brings all those qualities, along with her exquisite storytelling chops, to these six essays. Each one captures a piece of Polley's life as she remembers it, while at the same time examining the fallibility of memory, the mutability of reality in the mind, and the possibility of experiencing the past anew, as the person she is now but was not then. As Polley writes, the past and present are in a “reciprocal pressure dance”.
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Thorough self investigation
- By Joana P. R. Neves on 21-12-23
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Run Towards the Danger
- Conversations with a Body of Memory
- Narrated by: Sarah Polley
- Length: 7 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 29-07-22
- Language: English
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Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century
- Unabridged Selections
- By: Alice Wong
- Narrated by: Alejandra Ospina, Alice Wong
- Length: 8 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Overall52
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One in five people in the United States lives with a disability. Some disabilities are visible, others less apparent—but all are underrepresented in media and popular culture. Now, just in time for the thirtieth anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act, activist Alice Wong brings...
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Everyone should listen!
- By Anonymous on 20-07-20
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Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century
- Unabridged Selections
- Narrated by: Alejandra Ospina, Alice Wong
- Length: 8 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 30-06-20
- Language: English
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Not That Bad
- Dispatches from Rape Culture
- By: Roxane Gay
- Narrated by: Gabrielle Union, Ally Sheedy, Lyz Lenz
- Length: 8 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall55
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Performance48
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Edited and with an introduction by Roxane Gay, the New York Times best-selling and deeply beloved author of Bad Feminist and Hunger, this anthology of first-person essays read by all 30 contributors, including Gabrielle Union, Ally Sheedy and Lyz Lenz, tackles rape, assault and harassment head-on.
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Vital book
- By Amazon Customer on 17-02-20
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Not That Bad
- Dispatches from Rape Culture
- Narrated by: Gabrielle Union, Ally Sheedy, Lyz Lenz
- Length: 8 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 01-01-19
- Language: English
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And Yet...
- By: Christopher Hitchens
- Narrated by: Martyn Swain
- Length: 10 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance5
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And Yet... gathers the previously uncollected essays of the late Christopher Hitchens into a final volume of peerless prose from one of the great thinkers of our times. Christopher Hitchens was an unparalleled, prolific writer who raised the polemical essay to a new art form over a lifetime of thinking and debating the defining issues of our times.
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doesnt do the writing justice
- By Anonymous on 12-12-25
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And Yet...
- Narrated by: Martyn Swain
- Length: 10 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 06-05-21
- Language: English
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Culture and Anarchy
- By: Matthew Arnold
- Narrated by: Michael Maloney
- Length: 6 hrs and 31 mins
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Culture and Anarchy is a series of periodical essays by Matthew Arnold, first published in Cornhill Magazine 1867-68 and collected as a book in 1869. Arnold's famous piece of writing on culture established his High Victorian cultural agenda which remained dominant in debate from the 1860s until the 1950s. According to his view advanced in the book, ‘Culture [...] is a study of perfection’.
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Culture and Anarchy
- Narrated by: Michael Maloney
- Length: 6 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 13-05-13
- Language: English
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Yes, My Accent Is Real
- By: Kunal Nayyar
- Narrated by: Kunal Nayyar
- Length: 6 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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In the spirit of Mindy Kaling’s bestseller Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? or Judd Apatow’s Sick in the Head, a collection of humorous, autobiographical essays from Kunal Nayyar, best known as Raj on CBS’s #1 hit comedy The Big Bang Theory. Of all the charming misfits on television...
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Great listen
- By Kimberley on 20-05-25
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Yes, My Accent Is Real
- Narrated by: Kunal Nayyar
- Length: 6 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 15-09-15
- Language: English
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Real Estate
- Living Autobiography 3
- By: Deborah Levy
- Narrated by: Juliet Stevenson
- Length: 5 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall93
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Performance86
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Brought to you by Penguin. From one of the great thinkers and writers of our time, comes the highly anticipated final instalment in Deborah Levy's critically acclaimed 'Living Autobiography' Following the international critical acclaim of The Cost of Living, this final volume of Deborah Levy's...
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Very interesting and also touching!
- By Maria Johanna Theresia Schobre on 26-06-21
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Real Estate
- Living Autobiography 3
- Narrated by: Juliet Stevenson
- Series: Living Autobiography, Book 3
- Length: 5 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 13-05-21
- Language: English
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Between Meals
- An Appetite for Paris
- By: A. J. Liebling
- Narrated by: Rory Alexander
- Length: 5 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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While on a year of study in Paris in 1927, Liebling acquired the friendship and tutelage of Yves Mirande, 'one of the last great Gastronomes of France', beginning a joyous apprenticeship in the fine art of eating. Told with gluttonous joie de vivre, Between Meals expounds on the delights and pitfalls of a life dedicated to food, from bad rosé ('a pinkish cross between No-Cal and vinegar') to lobster a l'Américaine, to a memorable stay at a Swiss slimming-clinic with a masseur named Sprudli.
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Between Meals
- An Appetite for Paris
- Narrated by: Rory Alexander
- Length: 5 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 07-09-23
- Language: English
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Turning to Birds
- The Power and Beauty of Noticing
- By: Lili Taylor
- Narrated by: Lili Taylor
- Length: 4 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Read by the author, Lili Taylor. Discover an eye-opening world of meaning in small moments with this search for peace in a cacophony of birds – from award winning actor Lili Taylor. During a much-needed break from her work as an actor, Lili Taylor sought silence and instead found the bustling...
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Turning to Birds
- The Power and Beauty of Noticing
- Narrated by: Lili Taylor
- Length: 4 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 08-05-25
- Language: English
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Songs from the Firefront
- a deeply moving memoir in essays from the two-time Booker Prize nominee
- By: Tim Winton
- Length: 8 hrs
- Unabridged
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How do we keep going in a burning world? Songs from the Firefront is a vital and moving memoir in essays from Tim Winton, twice Booker Prize-shortlisted author of Cloudstreet and The Riders. A memoir in essays, Songs from the Firefront is a book about the sacred fragility of existence. Deeply...
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Songs from the Firefront
- a deeply moving memoir in essays from the two-time Booker Prize nominee
- Length: 8 hrs
- Release date: 05-11-26
- Language: English
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An Army of Lovers Cannot Fail
- By: Hélène Giannecchini
- Narrated by: Mia Khan
- Length: 5 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Moved to honour a form of relation often subordinated to romantic and familial ties, and to explore a part of her own history, Hélène Giannecchini pieces together an alternative genealogy of queer ancestors. In searching and sensitive prose, she sifts the past to bring existences deemed 'marginal' into communion with each other, traces of which may remain only in memory and archival fragments.
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An Army of Lovers Cannot Fail
- Narrated by: Mia Khan
- Length: 5 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 17-03-26
- Language: English
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The Buddhist Years
- Collected Writings
- By: Jack Kerouac, Charles Shuttleworth - editor
- Narrated by: T. Ryder Smith
- Length: 10 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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From a young age Kerouac was a spiritual thinker and questioner, and he always considered himself a spiritual writer. Buddhism gave more meaning to Jack’s work as a writer: he was working not for personal accomplishment and glory but for human betterment. And Buddhism justified his lifestyle: with its vision of the material world as empty and illusory, he was free to do what he wanted.
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The Buddhist Years
- Collected Writings
- Narrated by: T. Ryder Smith
- Length: 10 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 06-05-25
- Language: English
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Every Moment is a Life
- Gaza in the Time of Genocide
- By: susan abulhawa, Huzama Habayeb
- Narrated by: Ali Andre Ali, Victoria Nassif, Rasha Zamamiri
- Length: 3 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Compiled by bestselling author susan abulhawa, an Arabic-English bilingual anthology of true stories from eighteen young Palestinian writers trying to survive the genocide in Gaza. In early 2024, writer and activist susan abulhawa managed to enter Gaza twice through the Rafah crossing. There, at...
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Thought provoking and disturbing stories
- By lucyb on 04-03-26
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Every Moment is a Life
- Gaza in the Time of Genocide
- Narrated by: Ali Andre Ali, Victoria Nassif, Rasha Zamamiri
- Length: 3 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 10-02-26
- Language: English
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Charles Dickens: The Travel Collection
- The Uncommercial Traveller, Pictures From Italy, American Notes for General Circulation, 14 essays from Travelling Abroad, & 12 stories from Sketches by Boz
- By: Charles Dickens
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble, Matt Addis, David Timson, and others
- Length: 44 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Charles Dickens: The Travel Collection contains all of Charles Dickens' major published travelogues. Journeying through Italy, America, France, and London, we get a glimpse into nineteenth century European and American culture, as well as a deeper insight into Dickens and his life. Also included here are 12 stories from Sketches by Boz which detail London life during Dickens' life, showcasing his uncanny ability to capture the best and worst of life, and giving us an unparalleled insight into mid-century London.
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Charles Dickens: The Travel Collection
- The Uncommercial Traveller, Pictures From Italy, American Notes for General Circulation, 14 essays from Travelling Abroad, & 12 stories from Sketches by Boz
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble, Matt Addis, David Timson, Thomas Judd, Mark Elstob
- Length: 44 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 30-12-25
- Language: English
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The Hidden Lamp
- Stories from Twenty-Five Centuries of Awakened Women
- By: Zenshin Florence Caplow - editor, Reigetsu Susan Moon - editor
- Narrated by: Caroline McLaughlin, Judith West
- Length: 11 hrs and 5 mins
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The Hidden Lamp is a collection of 100 koans and stories of Buddhist women from the time of the Buddha to the present day. This revolutionary book brings together many teaching stories that were hidden for centuries, unknown until this volume. These stories are extraordinary expressions of freedom and fearlessness, relevant for men and women of any time or place. In this audio, we meet nuns, laywomen practicing with their families, famous teachers honored by emperors, and old women selling tea on the side of the road.
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well formatted giving the story and an explanation of the story
- By W. Laing on 27-04-24
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The Hidden Lamp
- Stories from Twenty-Five Centuries of Awakened Women
- Narrated by: Caroline McLaughlin, Judith West
- Length: 11 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 07-04-16
- Language: English
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