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Out of Africa & Shadows on the Grass
Author: Isak Dinesen
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Author Isak Dinesen
Narrator Susan Lyons
Duration 16h 35m
Out of Africa:In this audiobook, the author of Seven Gothic Tales gives a true account of her life on her plantation in Kenya. She tells with classic simplicity of the ways of the country and the natives: of the beauty of the Ngong Hills and coffee trees in blossom: of her guests, from the Prince of Wales to Knudsen, the old charcoal burner, who vi...
View BookAuthor: Anna Wilson
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Author Anna Wilson
Narrator Rachel Bavidge
Duration 10h 56m
Anna grew up in a house that was loving, even if her mum was ‘a little eccentric’. They knew to keep things clean, to stay quiet, and to look the other way when things started to get ‘a bit much for your mum’. It’s only when her mother reaches her 70s, and Anna has a family of her own, that the cracks really start to a...
View BookStuart Broad: Broadly Speaking
Author: Stuart Broad
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Author Stuart Broad
Narrator The Author, Chris Harper
Duration 7h 54m
THE DEFINITIVE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF ONE OF ENGLAND CRICKET'S GREATEST EVER PLAYERS. Stuart Broad is a competitor - someone who's addicted to Test cricket and the pressure that it brings. For over 17 years, he's been leading England's attack and being responsible for some of the greatest moments in world cricket. Following the 2023 Ashes, he announced h...
View BookAuthor: Harry Beaufort
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Author Harry Beaufort
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Duration 7h 13m
The 12th Duke of Beaufort, known to his friends as 'Bunter', inherited his Dukedom and Badminton House in 2017, at the age of sixty-five. But he is also a singer and songwriter with the rock group The Listening Device. Now he combines his responsibilities as Duke with his life as a rock performer. In this lively and anecdote-filled memoir, Harry Be...
View BookAuthor: Freya Bromley
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Author Freya Bromley
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Duration 9h 22m
Freya is still searching. For four years, she's been looking for a way to fill the empty space her brother's death left behind. Ready for another distraction, Freya decides to swim every tidal pool in Britain in a year with her friend Miri. The adventure takes them from a pool hidden in the cliffs of fishing-village Polperro to the quarry lagoon of...
View BookAuthor: Chimene Suleyman
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Author Chimene Suleyman
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Duration 6h 9m
In January 2017, Chimene Suleyman was on her way to an abortion clinic in Queens, New York with her boyfriend, the father of her nascent child. It was the last day they would spend together. In an extraordinary sequence of events, Chimene was to discover the truth of her boyfriend's life: that she and many other women had been subtly, patiently and...
View BookAuthor: Suzie Fletcher
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Author Suzie Fletcher
Narrator Sarah Durham, The Author
Duration 8h 5m
Suzie Fletcher is the warm and friendly face on TV's The Repair Shop as the resident leather expert - a craft she has honed over four decades and was born out of her love of horses. But while she tends to be the one repairing and offering a gentle kindness to others, Suzie has also been in a process of change, reflection, and healing. In her first...
View BookAuthor: Maggie Hartley
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Author Maggie Hartley
Narrator Penny Mcdonald
Duration 6h 25m
Three young siblings arrive at Maggie's door after being taken into care. Teachers of eight-year-old Bobby spotted distinct hand-shaped bruises on his arm and his dad and stepmother are uncooperative and hostile to Social Services. While they investigate, Bobby, as well as Melodie and Poppy, are looked after in Maggie's home. As the children settle...
View BookAuthor: Emily Katy
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Author Emily Katy
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Duration 6h 44m
To the outside world, Emily looks like a typical girl, with a normal family, living an ordinary life. But inside, Emily does not feel typical, and the older she gets, the more she realises that she is different. As she finally discovers when she is 16, Emily is autistic. Girl Unmasked is the extraordinary story of how she got there - and how she ve...
View BookAuthor: Billy Dee Williams
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Author Billy Dee Williams
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Duration 11h 34m
WHAT HAVE WE HERE? follows Billy Dee Williams from his childhood growing up in Harlem to his days on Broadway and in Hollywood before landing the role in George Lucas' space opera that would win him everlasting fame. Over a 60-year career spanning Broadway, music, movies, and television, Billy's tales and travels include Lawrence Olivier, Marlon Br...
View BookAuthor: Arsène Wenger
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Author Arsène Wenger
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Duration 6h 41m
There is only one Arsène Wenger - and for the very first time, in his own words, this is his story. In this definitive autobiography, the world-renowned, revolutionary football manager discusses his life and career, sharing his leadership principles for success on and off the field. At Arsenal, Wenger won multiple Premier League titles, a re...
View BookAuthor: Billie Jean King
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Author Billie Jean King
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Duration 18h 6m
Brought to you by Penguin. An inspiring and intimate self-portrait of the champion of equality that encompasses her brilliant tennis career, unwavering activism, and an ongoing commitment to fairness and social justice.In this spirited account, Billie Jean King details her life's journey to find her true self. She recounts her groundbreaking tennis...
View BookAuthor: Rory Stewart
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Author Rory Stewart
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Duration 16h 20m
Brought to you by Penguin.From the former Conservative Cabinet minister and co-presenter of 2022's breakout hit podcast The Rest is Politics, a searing insider's account of ten extraordinary years in ParliamentOver the course of a decade from 2010, Rory Stewart went from being a political outsider to standing for prime minister - before being sacke...
View BookAuthor: Pamela Anderson
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Author Pamela Anderson
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Duration 5h 29m
In this honest, layered and unforgettable book that alternates between storytelling and her own poetry, Pamela Anderson breaks the mould of the celebrity memoir while taking back the tale that has been crafted about her. Pamela Anderson's childhood was not easy, but it allowed her to create her own world-surrounded by nature and imaginary friends....
View BookAuthor: Melanie Chisholm
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Author Melanie Chisholm
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Duration 13h 37m
I never told my story before because I wasn't ready. Now, finally, I am. Twenty-five years ago, The Spice Girls, a girlband that began after answering an advert in the paper, released our first single. 'Wannabe' became a hit and from that moment, my life changed for ever. I was suddenly part of one of the biggest music groups in history, releasing...
View BookAuthor: Gyles Brandreth
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Author Gyles Brandreth
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Duration 17h 50m
This is the story of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh - the longest-serving consort to the longest-reigning sovereign in British history. It is an extraordinary story, told with unique insight and authority by an author who knew the prince for more than 40 years. Philip - elusive, complex, controversial, challenging, often humorous, sometimes irasc...
View BookAuthor: Barbara Winton
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Author Barbara Winton
Narrator Kristin Atherton
Duration 8h 42m
The book that inspired major motion picture ONE LIFE, starring Sir Anthony Hopkins and Helena Bonham Carter. Sir Nicholas Winton rescued 669 children from Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia at the brink of World War II. Most never saw their parents again; nearly all left behind were murdered. This is his story. In 1938, 29-year-old 'Nicky' cancelled a sk...
View BookAuthor: Adele Roberts
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Author Adele Roberts
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Duration 6h 48m
Award-winning BBC broadcaster, TV personality and DJ, Adele Roberts, was diagnosed with bowel cancer on the first of October 2021. In the months that followed, with her partner Kate Holderness alongside her, she fought very publicly through the challenges of chemotherapy and life with a stoma, whom she named Audrey. Adele's legions of fans avidly f...
View BookAuthor: Katy Wix
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Author Katy Wix
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Duration 6h 55m
From award-winning comedian and writer Katy Wix comes Delicacy - a different kind of memoir from an astonishing new voice. Twenty-one snapshots of a life - some staccato, raw and shocking, some expansive, meditative and profound, underpinned with moments of startling humour that shatter the darkness - all beginning with a single memory. A memory of...
View BookAuthor: Ione Gamble
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Author Ione Gamble
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Duration 5h 55m
Wellness is oppressive, self love is a trap, hustling is a health risk and it's all the patriarchy's fault. Ione Gamble never imagined that entering adulthood would mean being diagnosed with an incurable illness. Watching identity politics become social media fodder from the confines of her sickbed Ione began to pick apart our obsession with self-c...
View BookAuthor: Alex South
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Author Alex South
Narrator Sofia Zervudachi
Duration 12h 18m
A powerful and affecting look at life in prison Behind These Doors is a provocative, insightful and illuminating interrogation of what it is to live and to work in the UK's most infamous prisons. The individuals Alex introduces us to are, for the most part, living on the margins of society and the impact of the cycles of violence that so often acco...
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