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Author: Rio Ferdinand
Format: Online
Author Rio Ferdinand
Narrator Paul Thornley
Duration 6h 20m
The courageous and moving story of former England and Manchester United footballer Rio Ferdinand's sudden and tragic loss of his wife Rebecca to cancer. Written to help others through their grief, he shares, openly and honestly, the hard journey he's on with his three young children and the support and advice that's getting them through. It was a p...
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Author: James Bowen
Format: Online
Author James Bowen
Narrator Kris Milnes
Duration 6h 5m
When James Bowen found an injured, ginger street cat curled up in the hallway of his sheltered accommodation, he had no idea just how much his life was about to change. James was living hand to mouth on the streets of London and the last thing he needed was a pet. Yet James couldn't resist helping the strikingly intelligent tom cat, whom he quickly...
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Mindfulness Meditation For Pain Relief
Author: Jon Kabat-Zinn
Format: Online
Author Jon Kabat-Zinn
Narrator Jon Kabat-Zinn
Duration 1h 55m
If you're reading this, chances are that your life, or the life of someone you know, is shaped by pain-and by the physical and emotional suffering that usually accompany it. The good news: Jon Kabat-Zinn and his colleagues have helped thousands of people learn to use the power of mindfulness to transform their relationship to pain and suffering, an...
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Author: Clara Parkes
Format: Online
Author Clara Parkes
Narrator Clara Parkes
Duration 6h 40m
Knitting aficionado and notable artisan Clara Parkes delves into her storied travels with this inspiring and witty New York Times bestselling memoir on a creative life enriched by her adventures around the world. Building on the success of The Yarn Whisperer, Parkes's rich personal essays invite listeners and devoted crafters on excursions to be sa...
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An Interview With Michelle Paver
Author: Listening Books, Michelle Paver
Format: Online
Author Listening Books, Michelle Paver
Narrator Michelle Paver
Duration 19m
Michelle Paver is a novelist and children's writer, a number of her books are available to borrow from both our online and MP3 CD library.
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Author: Listening Books, Sarah Perry
Format: Online
Author Listening Books, Sarah Perry
Narrator Sarah Perry
Duration 17m
An interview with Sarah Perry, the author of The Essex Serpent and After Me Comes the Flood. Photo credit Jamie Drew.
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An Interview With Robert Thorogood
Author: Listening Books, Robert Thorogood
Format: Online
Author Listening Books, Robert Thorogood
Narrator Robert Thorogood
Duration 22m
An interview with Robert Thorogood, author of the Death in Paradise television show and the spin-off series of novels.
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An Interview With Kiran Millwood-hargrave
Author: Listening Books
Format: Online
Author Listening Books
Narrator Kiran Millwood-Hargrave
Duration 17m
An interview with Kiran Millwood-Hargrave, author of children's books The Girl of Ink of Stars and The Island at the End of Everything.
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An Interview With David Almond
Author: Listening Books
Format: Online
Author Books Listening
Narrator David Almond
Duration 12m
An interview with David Almond, author of children's books Skellig and A Song for Ella Grey. Photo credit Sarah Jane Palmer.
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Author: Rose Mcgowen
Format: Online
Author Rose Mcgowen
Narrator Rose Mcgowen
Duration 6h 44m
Rose McGowan was born in one cult and came of age in another more visible cult: Hollywood. Brave is her raw, honest, and poignant memoir/manifesto - a no-holds-barred, pull-no-punches account of the rise of a millennial icon, fearless activist, and unstoppable force for change who is determined to expose the truth about the entertainment industry,...
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Author: Andrew Lloyd Webber
Format: Online
Author Andrew Lloyd Webber
Narrator Derek Perkins
Duration 16h 35m
One of the most successful and distinguished artists of our time, Andrew Lloyd Webber has reigned over the musical theatre world for nearly five decades. The winner of numerous awards, including multiple Tonys and an Oscar, Lloyd Webber has enchanted millions worldwide with his music and numerous hit shows, including Jesus Christ Superstar, Evita,...
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Ma'am Darling: 99 Glimpses of Princess Margaret
Author: Craig Brown
Format: Online
Author Craig Brown
Narrator Eleanor Bron
Duration 12h 20m
She made John Lennon blush and Marlon Brando clam up. She cold-shouldered Princess Diana and humiliated Elizabeth Taylor. Andy Warhol photographed her. Jack Nicholson offered her cocaine. Gore Vidal revered her. Dudley Moore propositioned her. Francis Bacon heckled her. Peter Sellers was in love with her. Princess Margaret aroused passion and indig...
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Author: Sara Pascoe
Format: Online
Author Sara Pascoe
Narrator Sara Pascoe
Duration 9h 22m
Women have so much going on, what with boobs and jealousy and menstruating and broodiness and sex and infidelity and pubes and wombs and jobs and memories and emotions and the past and the future and themselves and each other. Here's a book that deals with all of it. Sara Pascoe has joked about feminity and sexuality on stage and screen but now she...
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Qi: The General Sound of Ignorance
Author: John Mitchinson
Format: Online
Author John Mitchinson
Narrator John Mitchinson
Duration 4h 22m
Listen and Learn! The Sound of General Ignorance brings you all the best bits of the number one bestseller The Book of General Ignorance in handy audio form.
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The Second Sex: A Macat Analysis
Author: Rachele Dini
Format: Online
Author Rachele Dini
Narrator The Author
Duration 1h 49m
The Second Sex caused uproar when it appeared in 1949. Simone de Beauvoir sets out groundbreaking ideas on what it meant to be a woman, charting the oppression of "the second sex." She argued that gender identity was shaped by upbringing in a world ruled by men, and her most startling thesis became a rallying cry for the feminist movement: "One is...
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Believe Me: A Memoir of Love, Death and Jazz Chickens
Author: Eddie Izzard
Format: Online
Author Eddie Izzard
Narrator Eddie Izzard
Duration 14h 45m
A memoir of love, death and jazz chickens, Eddie Izzard's fabulous Believe Me is his one and only autobiography . . . 'I know why I'm doing all this,' I said. 'Everything I do in life is trying to get her back. I think if I do enough things . . . that maybe she'll come back.' When Eddie Izzard was six, he and his brother Mark lost their mother. Tha...
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Author: Anthony Beevor
Format: Online
Author Anthony Beevor
Narrator Peter Noble
Duration 18h 9m
Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of Berlin by Antony Beevor, read by Peter Nobel. Berlin: The Downfall 19145 is Antony Beevor's brilliant account of the fall of the Third Reich. The Red Army had much to avenge when it finally reached the frontiers of the Reich in January 1945. Political instructors rammed home the mes...
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Captivate: The Science of Succeeding With People
Author: Vanessa Van Edwards
Format: Online
Author Vanessa Van Edwards
Narrator Vanessa Van Edwards
Duration 7h 28m
Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of Captivate: The Science of Succeeding with People written and read by Vanessa Van Edwards. Wish you knew exactly what to say in awkward social situations? Or that you had a formula for charisma? You need to know how people work. As a human behaviour investigator, Vanessa Van Edwards...
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Author: Ruby Wax
Format: Online
Author Ruby Wax
Narrator Ruby Wax
Duration 7h 14m
A three way encounter between a Monk, a neuroscientist and Ruby Wax sounds like the set up for a joke. Instead it's produced one of the most fascinating, intriguing and informative books about minds and bodies and brains and mindfulness I've ever encountered. A triangulation on what it means to be human. Utterly readable and surprisingly wise. Neil...
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Author: Sigrid Rausing
Format: Online
Author Sigrid Rausing
Narrator Maggie Gyllenhaal
Duration 5h 58m
A searingly powerful memoir about the impact of addiction on a family In the summer of 2012 a woman named Eva was found dead in the London townhouse she shared with her husband, Hans K. Rausing. The couple had struggled with drug addiction for years, often under the glare of tabloid headlines. Now, writing with singular clarity and restraint the ed...
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Truths, Half Truths and Little White Lies
Author: Nick Frost
Format: Online
Author Nick Frost
Narrator Nick Frost
Duration 8h 28m
Nick Frost burst onto our screens in a blaze of camo fatigues and weaponry in the hit cult comedy Spaced. Since then, fans around the world have watched him with a fervent devotion as he fought zombies, rescued aliens and salsa'd his way to box office smash after smash. It's quite a story. But it's not this story. This story isn't the romp from mov...
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