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Author: Lucy Easthope
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Duration 7h 52m
When a plane crashes, a bomb explodes, a city floods or a pandemic begins, Lucy Easthope's phone starts to ring. THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER AND RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK PROFILED IN THE NEW YORKER, A TELEGRAPH AND NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR Lucy is a world-leading authority on recovering from disaster. She holds governments to account, supports...
View BookAuthor: Valentine Low
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Duration 10h 6m
The gripping account of how the Royal family really operates from the man who has spent years studying them in his role as Royal correspondent for The Times. Valentine Low asks the important questions: who really runs the show and, as Charles III begins his reign, what will happen next? Throughout history, the British monarchy has relied on its cou...
View BookAuthor: Tom Phillips
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Narrator Jonn Elledge
Duration 9h 59m
Tom Phillips (Humans; Truth) and Jonn Elledge (The Compendium of Not Quite Everything) team up to debunk the greatest conspiracy theories humans have ever espoused—to teach us how not to fall for them. From the Satanic Panic to the anti-vaxx movement, it's always been human nature to believe we're being lied to by the powers that be (and some...
View BookAuthor: Laura Goodman
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Author Laura Goodman
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Duration 3h 57m
This audiobook is a celebration of snacks in all their glorious forms, guaranteed to fill your day with snacking joy. It will take you from your morning coffee (cinnamon crumble cakes and cherry-marzipan hand pies) to your evening wine (oeufs durs mayonnaise and mushroom pate) via salsas, hot dips, crispy bits, crab nachos and frozen piña co...
View BookAuthor: Georgina Lawton
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Duration 8h 7m
In Georgina Lawton's childhood home, her Blackness was never acknowledged; the obvious fact of her brown skin, ignored by her white parents. Over time, secrets and a complex family story became accepted as truth and Georgina found herself complicit in the erasure of her racial identity. It was only when her beloved father died that the truth began...
View BookAuthor: Patrick Alley
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Narrator Richard Burnip
Duration 14h 24m
Arms trafficking, offshore accounts and luxury property deals. Super-yachts, private jets and super-car collections. Blood diamonds, suspect oil deals, deforestation and murder. This is the world of Global Witness, the award-winning organisation dedicated to rooting out worldwide corruption. And this is co-founder Patrick Alley's revealing inside t...
View BookHow to Make the Best Coffee at Home
Author: James Hoffman
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Duration 4h 12m
We all expect to be able to buy an excellent cup of coffee from the many brilliant coffee shops available. But what about the coffee we make at home? Shouldn't that be just as good? Coffee guru James Hoffmann runs Square Mile Coffee, as well as creating extremely informative, and popular, kit and coffee reviews for his YouTube and Instagram channel...
View BookAuthor: Jackie Malton
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Author Jackie Malton
Narrator Joan Walker
Duration 9h 23m
HIGHLY COMMENDED FOR BOOK OF THE YEAR AT THE TRUE CRIME AWARDS 2023 When Jackie Malton joined the police force in 1970, male recruits were given a truncheon and female recruits were given a handbag. At every step, she fought sexism and homophobia on top of the rapists, murderers, and armed robbers she tackled in the streets. And when she was harass...
View BookAuthor: Bryan Appleyard
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Author Bryan Appleyard
Narrator John Sackville
Duration 11h 32m
More than any other technology, cars have transformed our culture. Cars have created vast wealth as well as novel dreams of freedom and mobility. They have transformed our sense of distance and made the world infinitely more available to our eyes and our imaginations. They have inspired cinema, music and literature; they have, by their need for roa...
View BookHow to Keep House While Drowning
Author: KC Davis
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Duration 3h 2m
Brought to you by Penguin.This is a book for anyone who feels overwhelmed by life and is looking for an accessible and gentle way to care for their home - and themselves.Have you ever looked at a pile of dishes in the sink and wanted to crawl back into bed? Or found yourself staring at the overflowing recycling bin thinking, Why is my life such a m...
View BookAuthor: Listening Books
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Duration 1h 36m
This edition of our member newsletter features the latest charity updates, book recommendations and interviews with authors Susan Elia MacNeal and Philippa Gregory!
View BookAuthor: Sophie Duncan
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Author Sophie Duncan
Narrator Nicky Diss
Duration 11h 14m
Juliet Capulet is the heartbeat of the world's most famous love story. She is an enduring romantic icon. And she is a captivating, brilliant, passionate teenage girl who is read and interpreted afresh by each new generation. Searching for Juliet takes us from the Renaissance origin stories behind William Shakespeare's child bride to the boy actor w...
View BookAuthor: Tara Isabella Burton
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Author Tara Isabella Burton
Narrator Patricia Santomasso
Duration 9h 48m
Today's defining celebrities have crafted public personae that walk the tightrope between authenticity and artificiality. Ordinary people now follow suit: lovingly tending our 'personal brands' for economic gain and self-expression alike. Instagram culture is part of a story that goes back centuries. The vision that we not only can but should 'make...
View BookAuthor: Ros Atkins
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Duration 7h 58m
A practical and accessible guide to getting across complex information clearly, by BBC presenter and journalist Ros Atkins, creator of the viral 'Ros Atkins on...' explainer videos. Explanation - conveying meaning - is an art. And the BBC presenter and journalist Ros Atkins, creator of the viral 'Ros Atkins on...' explainer videos, is something of...
View BookAuthor: Peter Ross
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Author Peter Ross
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Duration 11h 47m
Churches are all around us. Their steeples remain landmarks in our towns, villages and cities, even as their influence and authority has waned. They contain art and architectural wonders - one huge gallery scattered, like a handful of jewels, across these isles. Award-winning writer Peter Ross sets out to tell their stories, and through them a stor...
View BookAuthor: Daniel Chandler
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Duration 11h 46m
Brought to you by Penguin.Despite the enormous problems we face and widespread dissatisfaction with the status quo, it's surprisingly hard to find a coherent vision of what a better, fairer society would look like.Free and Equal provides that vision. In this hugely ambitious and exhilarating debut, philosopher and economist Daniel Chandler argues t...
View BookAuthor: Gabor Mate, Gordon Neufeld
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Author Gabor Mate, Gordon Neufeld
Narrator Gabor Maté, Daniel Maté
Duration 13h 42m
Brought to you by Penguin. Children take their lead from their friends: being 'cool' matters more than anything else. Shaping values, identity and codes of behaviour, peer groups are often far more influential than parents.But this situation is far from natural, and it can be dangerous - it undermines family cohesion, interferes with healthy develo...
View BookAuthor: Emily Kenway
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Author Emily Kenway
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Duration 9h 50m
Around the world, millions of people are quietly caring for long-term unwell, elderly or disabled loved ones; one-in-eight people in the UK and a sixth of the total US population, with comparable proportions across the globe. For many, this is a full-time job, saving our economies billions each year. Yet when writer, activist and former policy advi...
View BookAuthor: John Sweeney
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Duration 9h 25m
Through Jeffrey Epstein and her family name, daughter of media baron Robert Maxwell, Ghislaine Maxwell, became friends with some of the most powerful people on earth, ex-President Bill Clinton and President-to-be Donald Trump and the second son of the Queen of England, Prince Andrew, the Duke of York. But this is no fairy tale. Hunting Ghislaine se...
View BookAuthor: Dom Joly
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Author Dom Joly
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Conspiracy theories are starting to become so much more than the obsession of fringe individuals. A survey by New Science magazine found that the percentage of people believing in one or more conspiracies had risen from 15% twenty years ago to 35% per cent last year. They are shaping politics, media, the way we view life itself. In The Conspiracy T...
View BookAuthor: Nina Mingya Powles
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Duration 6h 3m
Home is many people and places and languages, some separated by oceans. Where is the place your body is anchored? Which body of water is yours? Is it that I've anchored myself in too many places at once, or nowhere at all? The answer lies somewhere between. Nina Mingya Powles first learned to swim in Borneo - where her mother was born and her gra...
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