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Author: Boy George
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Author Boy George
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Duration 7h 41m
THE OFFICIAL STORY OF A MUSICAL ICON - TOLD IN FULL FOR THE FIRST TIME IN HIS OWN WORDS'In what might be the most entertaining music memoir since Elton John's Me, Boy George's Karma weaves a meandering path through several decades' of fame, success, crash and burn, before delivering him into a kind of autumnal meditative serenity... This is George...
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Author: Lou Sanders
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Author Lou Sanders
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Duration 4h 38m
This is a book about mistakes. And why we should de-flower shame in all its messy, complicated glory...Hello!It's Lou here...I've poured my heart and guts on to the page and shared my soul in this book. This won't be for everyone but I hope it helps the people it does connect with. We all have stories and I think its useful to share them, I think i...
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Author: John Hull
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Author John Hull
Narrator Nicholas Guy Smith
Duration 8h 7m
"It's a gift. Not a gift I want, but it is a gift." Days before the birth of his first son, writer and academic John M. Hull started to go blind. He would lose his sight entirely, plunged into darkness, unable to distinguish any sense of light or shadow. Isolated and claustrophobic, he sank into a deep depression. Soon, he had forgotten what his w...
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Author: Jennifer Worth
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Author Jennifer Worth
Narrator Juliet Stevenson
Duration 12h 47m
Jennifer Worth came from a sheltered background when she became a midwife in the Docklands in the 1950s. The conditions in which many women gave birth just half a century ago were horrifying, not only because of their grimly impoverished surroundings, but also because of what they were expected to endure. But while Jennifer witnessed brutality and...
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Author: Jennifer Worth
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Author Jennifer Worth
Narrator Juliet Stevenson
Duration 11h 5m
In this follow up to Call the Midwife, Jennifer Worth, a midwife working in the docklands area of East London in the 1950s, tells more stories about the people she encountered. There's Jane, who cleaned and generally helped out at Nonnatus House - she was taken to the workhouse as a baby and was allegedly the illegitimate daughter of an aristocrat....
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Author: Jennifer Worth
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Author Jennifer Worth
Narrator Patience Tomlinson, Clive Mantle
Duration 7h 15m
When the Call the Midwife series became best sellers Jennifer Worth received mountains of letters - not only praising her books, but also from people who remembered the world her books described; life in the East End of London during the late 1940s and early '50s. Often her books touched her audience and they felt moved to write, or they wanted to...
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Author: Helen Skelton
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Author Helen Skelton
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Duration 6h 2m
Helen Skelton is no stranger to doing hard things, from kayaking the entire length of the Amazon to competing in a boxing match for Sports Relief. Her ability to dig deep and find the inner strength and to carry on no matter the challenge - physical, mental, or emotional - is nothing short of remarkable. Helen grew up on a farm in Cumbria and credi...
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An Interview With Sarah Bax Horton
Author: Listening Books
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Author Listening Books
Narrator Sarah Bax Horton
Duration 24m
An interview with Sarah Bax Horton, author of the book One-Armed Jack, which takes a fresh look at the infamous Jack the Ripper case.
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An Interview With Jacquie Bloese
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Author Listening Books
Narrator Jacquie Bloese
Duration 37m
An interview with author of the novel The French House, Jacquie Bloese.
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Author Listening Books
Narrator John Marrs
Duration 31m
An interview with thriller writer John Marrs, author of novels including The One and The Passengers.
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An Interview With Paul Pilkington
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Author Listening Books
Narrator Paul Pilkington
Duration 37m
An interview with crime writer Paul Pilkington, author of the Emma Holden series.
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An Interview With Radhika Sanghani
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Author Listening Books
Narrator Radhika Sanghani
Duration 37m
An interview with writer and journalist Radhika Sanghani, author of novels including Thirty Things I Love About Myself and I Wish We Weren't Related.
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Author: Lesley-Anne Jones
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Author Lesley-Anne Jones
Narrator Imogen Church
Duration 14h 25m
No comprehensive biography of the time Paul McCartney spent with Wings has ever been published. A period often dismissed as McCartney's 'missing' years, in fact the band lasted for a decade: two years longer than the Beatles, and wielded such impact and influence that they at one point achieved the status as the biggest live band in the world. Band...
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By Your Side: My Life Loving Barbara Windsor
Author: Scott Mitchell
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Author Scott Mitchell
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Duration 10h 53m
In December 2020, while the world was gripped with news of an imminent third lockdown, Scott Mitchell was visiting the care home where his partner and wife of 27 years—Dame Barbara Windsor—was being looked after. At the age of 83, after a career spanning seven decades and a seven-year battle with the debilitating effects of dementia, sh...
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Author: Fern Brady
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Author Fern Brady
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Duration 6h 44m
Fern Brady was told she couldn't be autistic because she's had loads of boyfriends and is good at eye contact. This is a story of how being female can get in the way of being autistic and how being autistic gets in the way of being the 'right kind' of woman.
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Author: Melvyn Bragg
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Author Melvyn Bragg
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Duration 11h 55m
In this captivating memoir, Melvyn Bragg recalls growing up in the Cumbrian market town of Wigton, from his early childhood during the war to the moment he had to decide between staying on or spreading his wings. This is the tale of a boy who lived in a pub and expected to leave school at 15 yet won a scholarship to Oxford. Derailed by a severe bre...
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Author: Abi Morgan
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Author Abi Morgan
Narrator Fiona Button
Duration 7h 45m
An ordinary day. The end of ordinary life. One morning in June, Abi had her to-do list—drop the kids to school, get coffee and go to work. Jacob had a bad headache so she added 'pick up steroids'. She returned home and found the man she loved and fought and laughed with for 20 years lying on the bathroom floor. And nothing would ever be the s...
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Author: Keith Brymer Jones
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Author Keith Brymer Jones
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Duration 7h 43m
Keith Brymer Jones is the star presenter and judge of Channel 4's The Great Pottery Throw Down, famous for his emotional responses to the heartfelt and personal pieces made by contestants on the show. He is also the ultimate professional craftsman who's done the hard yards to get where he is today, working his way up from being a skivvy in an indus...
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Author: Billy Connolly
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Author Billy Connolly
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Duration 7h 56m
When Billy set out from Glasgow as a young man he never looked back. He played his banjo on boats and trains, under trees, and on top of famous monuments. He danced naked in snow, wind and fire. He travelled by foot, bike, ship, plane, sleigh - even piggy-backed - to get to his next destination. Billy has wandered to every corner of the earth and b...
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Author: Anthony Bourdain
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Author Anthony Bourdain
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Duration 8h 19m
After twenty-five years of 'sex, drugs, bad behaviour and haute cuisine', chef and novelist Anthony Bourdain decided to tell all - and he meant all. From his first oyster in the Gironde to his lowly position as a dishwasher in a honky-tonk fish restaurant in Provincetown; from the kitchen of the Rainbow Room atop the Rockefeller Center to drug deal...
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Author: Adam Kay
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Author Adam Kay
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Duration 6h 6m
The multi-million copy bestsellerBook of the Year at The National Book Awards'Painfully funny. The pain and the funniness somehow add up to something entirely good, entirely noble and entirely loveable.' - Stephen FryWelcome to the life of a junior doctor: 97-hour weeks, life and death decisions, a constant tsunami of bodily fluids, and the hospita...
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