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England Your England
- By: George Orwell
- Narrated by: Peter Noble
- Length: 1 hr and 16 mins
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During The Blitz of 1941, as Nazi bombers flew overhead, George Orwell penned this stirring analysis of England and its people. Whilst not shying away from the difficulties of the nation, and the fractuous nature of its divisions, Orwell places a premium on the country's ability to come together in a time of crisis and protect its democratic values, even in the most dire of circumstances.
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England Your England
- Narrated by: Peter Noble
- Length: 1 hr and 16 mins
- Release date: 10-01-22
- Language: English
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Secret Societies and Subversive Movements
- By: Nesta Helen Webster
- Narrated by: Graham Dunlop
- Length: 16 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Sound interesting? Listen to Secret Societies and Subversive Movements and learn about the author's views on politics, history, and the occult.
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loads of facts and unbiased should be taught in schools
- By Dan jenkins on 10-05-25
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Secret Societies and Subversive Movements
- Narrated by: Graham Dunlop
- Length: 16 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 31-08-23
- Language: English
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Orthodoxy
- By: G. K. Chesterton
- Narrated by: Fred Williams
- Length: 6 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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G. K. Chesterton was a journalist, playwright, poet, biographer, novelist, essayist, literary commentator, editor, orator, artist, and theologian. Orthodoxy is his great apologia for the Christian faith, which was prompted by a serious attack in 1903 against Christianity by well-known newspaper editor Robert Blatchford.
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difficult to follow
- By Clearout NI on 08-05-24
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Orthodoxy
- Narrated by: Fred Williams
- Length: 6 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 14-12-06
- Language: English
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How to Read Now
- By: Elaine Castillo
- Narrated by: Elaine Castillo
- Length: 9 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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How many times have we heard that reading builds empathy? That we can travel through books? How often have we were heard about the importance of diversifying our bookshelves? Or claimed that books saved our lives? These familiar words—beautiful, aspirational—are sometimes even true. But award-winning novelist Elaine Castillo has more ambitious hopes for our reading culture, and in this collection of linked essays, she moves to wrest reading away from the aspirations of uniting people in empathetic harmony and reposition it as thornier, ultimately more rewarding work.
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Powerful and incisive
- By Eliza on 19-06-24
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How to Read Now
- Narrated by: Elaine Castillo
- Length: 9 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 28-12-22
- Language: English
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Climbing Everest
- The Writings of George Mallory
- By: George Mallory
- Narrated by: Tim Pigott-Smith
- Length: 5 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Unabridged selections from George Mallory's collected writings on his mountaineering - and his motivations. Famously impelled to climb Mount Everest simply because it was there, Mallory made three attempts to be the first to reach its summit, and perished on the third. His writing reveals the emotional life of the mountaineer. With eloquence, Mallory captures the struggles and the rewards involved, the climber's sense of triumph, and experiences of staggering beauty.
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A beautiful insight
- By Paul M. on 20-04-19
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Climbing Everest
- The Writings of George Mallory
- Narrated by: Tim Pigott-Smith
- Length: 5 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 21-10-11
- Language: English
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Quote... Unquote
- Highlights from the acclaimed BBC Radio 4 panel show
- By: Nigel Rees
- Narrated by: Nigel Rees, Alan Bennett, Judi Dench, and others
- Length: 1 hr and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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This exclusive compilation was first published to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the 'Quote, Unquote'. It takes a fond look a the show in which celebrity guests are quizzed about quotations, famous and obscure, and invited to contribute their own quotes and anecdotes. From identifying...
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A wonderful collection of BBC radio raconteurs
- By Andrew Simmons on 30-08-16
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Quote... Unquote
- Highlights from the acclaimed BBC Radio 4 panel show
- Narrated by: Nigel Rees, Alan Bennett, Judi Dench, Ian McKellen, Terry Wogan, Glenda Jackson, Peter Ustinov, Denis Healey, David Attenborough
- Length: 1 hr and 52 mins
- Release date: 01-07-12
- Language: English
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The Book of (More) Delights
- Essays
- By: Ross Gay
- Narrated by: Ross Gay
- Length: 6 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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From bestselling author of The Book of Delights and award-winning poet, a book of lyrical mini-essays celebrating the everyday that will inspire readers to rediscover the joys in the world around us. Ross Gay’s essays have been called “exquisite” (Tracy K. Smith), “imperative” (the New...
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Wonderful
- By Shelly on 05-07-25
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The Book of (More) Delights
- Essays
- Narrated by: Ross Gay
- Series: Essays Series, Book 2
- Length: 6 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 19-09-23
- Language: English
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Alligator Tears
- A Memoir in Essays
- By: Edgar Gomez
- Narrated by: Edgar Gomez
- Length: 6 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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A darkly comic memoir-in-essays about the scam of the American Dream and doing whatever it takes to survive in the Sunshine State—from the award-winning author of High-Risk Homosexual “Relatable, funny and deeply heartfelt, this memoir is one not to miss.”—Today “Edgar Gomez is a young...
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Stunning book
- By Juri on 23-03-26
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Alligator Tears
- A Memoir in Essays
- Narrated by: Edgar Gomez
- Length: 6 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 11-02-25
- Language: English
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Nothing Compares to You
- What Sinead O'Connor Means to Us
- By: Sonya Huber, Martha Bayne
- Narrated by: Nikki Massoud, Soneela Nankani, Janet Metzger, and others
- Length: 6 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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An intimate and evocative celebration of the life and legacy of music and political icon Sinéad O’Connor, featuring writers including Neko Case, Sinéad Gleeson, Rayne Fisher-Quann, Porochista Khakpour, and more. More than thirty years ago, Sinéad O’Connor shocked the world by tearing up a...
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Nothing Compares to You
- What Sinead O'Connor Means to Us
- Narrated by: Nikki Massoud, Soneela Nankani, Janet Metzger, Sarah Beth Pfeifer, Aida Reluzco
- Length: 6 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 22-07-25
- Language: English
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The Passengers
- By: Will Ashon
- Narrated by: Elinor Coleman
- Length: 8 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Between October 2018 and March 2021, Will Ashon collected voices—people talking about their lives, needs, dreams, loves, hopes and fears—all of them with some connection to the British Isles. He used a range of methods including letters sent to random addresses, hitchhiking, referrals from strangers and so on. He conducted the interviews in person, on the phone, over the internet or asked people to record themselves. Interview techniques ranged from asking people to tell him a secret to choosing an arbitrary question from a list.
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Could Be Unique
- By Ricci on 14-08-22
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The Passengers
- Narrated by: Elinor Coleman
- Length: 8 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 02-08-22
- Language: English
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Seeing Like A Feminist
- By: Nivedita Menon
- Narrated by: Pallavi Bharti
- Length: 6 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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THE WORLD THROUGH A FEMINIST LENSFor Nivedita Menon, feminism is not about a moment of final triumph over patriarchy but about the gradual transformation of the social field so decisively that old markers shift forever. From sexual harassment charges against international figures to the...
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Seeing Like A Feminist
- Narrated by: Pallavi Bharti
- Length: 6 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 14-02-23
- Language: English
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Styles of Radical Will
- By: Susan Sontag
- Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
- Length: 10 hrs and 1 min
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Styles of Radical Will, Susan Sontag's second collection of essays, extends the investigations she undertook in Against Interpretation with essays on film, literature, politics, and a groundbreaking study of pornography.
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Disappointing after the Against Interpretation collection
- By JCM on 10-05-24
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Styles of Radical Will
- Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
- Length: 10 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 15-05-18
- Language: English
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Lifeform
- By: Jenny Slate
- Narrated by: George Saunders, Jenny Slate, Vanessa Bayer, and others
- Length: 4 hrs and 57 mins
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What happened was this: Jenny Slate was a human mammal who sniffed the air every morning hoping to find another person to love who would love her, and in that period there was a deep dark loneliness that she had to face and befriend, and then we are pleased to report that she did fall in love, and in that period she was like chimes, or a flock of clean breaths, and her spine lying flat was the many-colored planks on the xylophone, but also she was rabid with fear of losing this love, because of past injury.
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Lifeform
- Narrated by: George Saunders, Jenny Slate, Vanessa Bayer, Will Forte
- Length: 4 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 22-10-24
- Language: English
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Curiosity
- By: Alberto Manguel
- Narrated by: John McDonough
- Length: 15 hrs and 47 mins
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Tracing 25 centuries of human history, from the fourth century BC to the present day, Manguel dedicates each of his chapters to a single character - ranging from our best-known thinkers, scientists, and artists to seemingly minor figures of whom we know little more than one inspired utterance - in whom he identifies a particular way of asking the question "why?"
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Curiosity
- Narrated by: John McDonough
- Length: 15 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 28-04-15
- Language: English
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Fates Worse Than Death
- An Autobiographical Collage
- By: Kurt Vonnegut
- Narrated by: Richard Davidson
- Length: 7 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Kurt Vonnegut presents in Fates Worse than Death a veritable cornucopia of his thoughts on what could perhaps best be summed up as "anti-theology", a manifesto for atheism that details Vonnegut's drift from conventional religion, even a tract evidencing belief in the divine held within each individual self--the deity within each individual person present in a universe that otherwise lacks any real order.
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Fates Worse Than Death
- An Autobiographical Collage
- Narrated by: Richard Davidson
- Length: 7 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 03-11-15
- Language: English
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A Widow's Story
- A Memoir
- By: Joyce Carol Oates
- Narrated by: Ellen Parker
- Length: 14 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Unlike anything Joyce Carol Oates has written before, A Widow’s Story is the universally acclaimed author’s poignant, intimate memoir about the unexpected death of Raymond Smith, her husband of forty-six years, and its wrenching, surprising aftermath. A recent recipient of National Book...
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A Widow's Story
- A Memoir
- Narrated by: Ellen Parker
- Length: 14 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 15-02-11
- Language: English
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Incidental Inventions
- By: Elena Ferrante
- Narrated by: Hillary Huber
- Length: 3 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Elena Ferrante is the best-selling author of My Brilliant Friend, now an HBO original series. Collected here for the first time are the seeds of future novels, the timely reflections of this internationally beloved storyteller, the abiding preoccupations of a writer who has been called “one of the great novelists of our time” (New York Times).
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Incidental Inventions
- Narrated by: Hillary Huber
- Length: 3 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 28-01-20
- Language: English
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Coffee Can Investing: The Low-Risk Road to Stupendous Wealth
- By: Saurabh Mukherjea
- Narrated by: Abhinandan Tejaswi
- Length: 5 hrs and 47 mins
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"Most people invest in the usual assets: real estate, gold, mutual funds, fixed deposits and stock markets. It's always the same four or five instruments. All they end up making is a measly 8 to 12 per cent per annum. Those who are exceptionally unfortunate get stuck in the middle of a crash and...
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Coffee Can Investing: The Low-Risk Road to Stupendous Wealth
- Narrated by: Abhinandan Tejaswi
- Length: 5 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 27-02-21
- Language: English
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An Angel Walks Through the Stage and Other Essays
- By: Jon Fosse, May Brit-Akerholot - translator
- Narrated by: Kåre Conradi
- Length: 3 hrs and 41 mins
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Jon Fosse said farewell to theory early in his career, choosing poetry, fiction, and drama as his mediums of choice. Here, however, in a selection from his two books of essays, we see just how incisive a critic and memoirist he can be. Not only including a generous portion of Fosse's writing on literature and theater—including the irresistible "Thomas Bernhard and His Grandfather"—this collection also includes such personal essays such as "My Dear New Norwegian," "Old Houses," and "He Who Didn't Want to Become a Teacher."
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An Angel Walks Through the Stage and Other Essays
- Narrated by: Kåre Conradi
- Length: 3 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 16-07-24
- Language: English
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Everything in Its Place
- First Loves and Last Tales
- By: Oliver Sacks
- Narrated by: Dan Woren
- Length: 8 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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From the bestselling author of On Gratitude and On the Move. In this spirited volume, Oliver Sacks examines the many passions of his own life – both as a doctor engaged with the central questions of human existence, and as a polymath conversant in all the sciences. Why do humans need gardens?...
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Everything in Its Place
- First Loves and Last Tales
- Narrated by: Dan Woren
- Length: 8 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 24-06-21
- Language: English
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