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Agatha Christie: First Lady of Crime
- By: HRF Keating - editor, Sophie Hannah
- Narrated by: Sophie Roberts, Hugh Fraser
- Length: 6 hrs and 10 mins
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Agatha Christie was not only the biggest selling writer of detective stories the world has ever known, she was also a mystery in herself, giving only the rarest interviews, declining absolutely to become any sort of public figure and a mystery too in the manner in which she achieved her astonishing success. HRF Keating, a crime novelist and respected reviewer of crime fiction, brought together a dozen distinguished writers from both sides of the Atlantic to throw light on this double mystery.
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Agatha Christie: First Lady of Crime
- Narrated by: Sophie Roberts, Hugh Fraser
- Length: 6 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 01-10-20
- Language: English
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Outlaw Culture
- Resisting Representations
- By: Bell Hooks
- Narrated by: Adenrele Ojo
- Length: 10 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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According to the Washington Post, no one who cares about contemporary African-American cultures can ignore Bell Hooks's electrifying feminist explorations. Targeting cultural icons as diverse as Madonna and Spike Lee, Outlaw Culture presents a collection of essays that pulls no punches. As Hooks herself notes, interrogations of popular culture can be a "powerful site for intervention, challenge and change." And intervene, challenge, and change is what hooks does best.
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Outlaw Culture
- Resisting Representations
- Narrated by: Adenrele Ojo
- Length: 10 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 21-03-23
- Language: English
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On James Baldwin
- By: Colm Toibin
- Narrated by: Gary Furlong
- Length: 3 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Acclaimed Irish novelist Colm Tóibín first read James Baldwin just after turning eighteen. He had completed his first year at an Irish university and was struggling to free himself from a religious upbringing. Inspired by the novel Go Tell It on the Mountain, Tóibín found a writer who would be a lifelong companion and exemplar.
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On James Baldwin
- Narrated by: Gary Furlong
- Length: 3 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 13-05-25
- Language: English
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A Leg to Stand On
- By: Oliver Sacks
- Narrated by: Jonathan Davis, Oliver Sacks
- Length: 7 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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‘Oliver Sacks is a perfect antidote to the anaesthetic of familiarity. His writing turns brains and minds transparent’ - Observer When Oliver Sacks, a physician by profession, injured his leg while climbing a mountain, he found himself in an unusual position – that of patient. The injury...
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A Leg to Stand On
- Narrated by: Jonathan Davis, Oliver Sacks
- Length: 7 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 12-07-18
- Language: English
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Life Honestly
- Strong Opinions from Smart Women
- By: The Pool
- Narrated by: Sam Baker - introduction, Zawe Ashton
- Length: 11 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Within each chapter, you’ll find an un-airbrushed selection of advice, comment and opinion. These are intimate stories from bad sex to bad boys, from workplace inequality to the sheer joy of learning something new, that will spark hope, triumph and occasionally outrage. In Life Honestly you will find fresh perspectives on everything from age milestones to friendship, motherhood and weddings, and why you should always, always, tell someone when you like their earrings.
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A Fantastic Listen
- By Gemma on 19-04-19
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Life Honestly
- Strong Opinions from Smart Women
- Narrated by: Sam Baker - introduction, Zawe Ashton
- Length: 11 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 20-09-18
- Language: English
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The Lives of the Saints
- The Laureate Lectures
- By: Sebastian Barry
- Narrated by: Sebastian Barry
- Length: 2 hrs and 36 mins
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Sebastian Barry's writing career has been as long and varied as it has extraordinary. Intimate, revealing and generous of heart, these three lectures—written and delivered as part of his three-year tenure as the laureate for Irish fiction—reflect on his life and career so far, and some of the formative moments and people he's met along the way.
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The Lives of the Saints
- The Laureate Lectures
- Narrated by: Sebastian Barry
- Length: 2 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 07-04-22
- Language: English
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Exhibitions
- Essays on Art and Atrocity
- By: Jehanne Dubrow
- Narrated by: Dina Pearlman
- Length: 5 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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What happens when beauty intersects with horror? In her newest nonfiction collection, Jehanne Dubrow interrogates the ethical questions that arise when we aestheticize atrocity. The daughter of US diplomats, she weaves memories of growing up overseas among narratives centered on art objects created while working under oppressive regimes.
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Exhibitions
- Essays on Art and Atrocity
- Narrated by: Dina Pearlman
- Length: 5 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 20-05-25
- Language: English
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Aggregated Discontent
- Confessions of the Last Normal Woman
- By: Harron Walker
- Narrated by: Harron Walker
- Length: 7 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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A searing journey through the highs and lows of twenty-first century womanhood from an award-winning journalist beloved for her unflinchingly honest and often comedic appraisals of pop culture, identity, and disillusionment “A delicious reading experience—like hearing your smartest friend...
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Aggregated Discontent
- Confessions of the Last Normal Woman
- Narrated by: Harron Walker
- Length: 7 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 20-05-25
- Language: English
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Prison Writings
- My Life Is My Sun Dance
- By: Leonard Peltier, Harvey Arden - editor
- Narrated by: Tatanka Means, Gary Farmer, Henry Strozier
- Length: 5 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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In September of 2022, twenty-five years after Leonard Peltier received a life sentence for the murder of two FBI agents, the Democratic National Committee unanimously passed a resolution urging President Joe Biden to release him. Peltier has affirmed his innocence ever since his sentencing in 1977—his case was made fully and famously in Peter Matthiessen’s best-selling In the Spirit of Crazy Horse—and many remain convinced he was wrongly convicted. A wise and unsettling book, Prison Writings is both memoir and manifesto, chronicling Peltier’s life in Leavenworth Prison in Kansas.
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Prison Writings
- My Life Is My Sun Dance
- Narrated by: Tatanka Means, Gary Farmer, Henry Strozier
- Length: 5 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 19-11-24
- Language: English
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Walden
- By: Henry David Thoreau
- Narrated by: William Hope
- Length: 5 hrs and 12 mins
- Abridged
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In 1845 Henry David Thoreau, one of the principal New England Transcendentalists, left the town for the country. Beside the lake of Walden, he built himself a log cabin and returned to nature, to observe and reflect, while surviving on $8 a year. From this experience emerged one of the great classics of American literature, a deeply personal reaction against the commercialism and materialism that he saw as the main impulses of mid-19th century America.
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Walden
- Narrated by: William Hope
- Length: 5 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 26-12-04
- Language: English
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Jorge Luis Borges: Una invitación a su lectura
- By: José Emilio Pacheco
- Narrated by: Sergio Alberto Bustos de la Tijera
- Length: 3 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Un legado invaluable que nos invita a seguir leyendo, escribiendo y soñando Este libro constituye un acto de gratitud intelectual, una muestra de deslumbramiento —producto de una fervorosa lectura de sus libros—, pero sobre todo es una invitación a acercarse al autor latinoamericano más...
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primera vez con emilio pacheco
- By Arpeggios on 23-01-25
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Jorge Luis Borges: Una invitación a su lectura
- Narrated by: Sergio Alberto Bustos de la Tijera
- Length: 3 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 26-11-24
- Language: Spanish
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The Ultimate Essays Collection: 29 of the Greatest Essays Ever Written from George Orwell, Thomas Paine, Henry David Thoreau, Virginia Woolf, Zorea Neale Huston, Langston Hughes, Jack London, & More
- Common Sense, Notes on Nationalism, A Modest Proposal, A Room of One’s Own, Common Sense, How it Feels to be Coloured Me, Self-Reliance, The Crack Up, The Weary Blues, Walden, Why I Write, & More
- By: Edgar Allan Poe, Henry David Thoreau, Robert Louis Stevenson, and others
- Narrated by: Robert G. Slade, Ian Porter, Ako Mitchell, and others
- Length: 85 hrs
- Unabridged
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The Ultimate Essays Collection is a wide-ranging collection of 30 classic essays analysing everything from war to love, journalism to race, travel to nature, and much more, read by an award-winning cast of narrators. Included here are essays by some of the greatest writers of all time, including George Orwell; Thomas Paine; Fyodor Dostoyevsky; Henry David Thoreau; Virigina Woolf; Sigmund Freud; Zorea Neale Huston; Langston Hughes; Jack London, and more.
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The Ultimate Essays Collection: 29 of the Greatest Essays Ever Written from George Orwell, Thomas Paine, Henry David Thoreau, Virginia Woolf, Zorea Neale Huston, Langston Hughes, Jack London, & More
- Common Sense, Notes on Nationalism, A Modest Proposal, A Room of One’s Own, Common Sense, How it Feels to be Coloured Me, Self-Reliance, The Crack Up, The Weary Blues, Walden, Why I Write, & More
- Narrated by: Robert G. Slade, Ian Porter, Ako Mitchell, Peter Noble, Karen Cass, Kenneth Jay, Nerissa Bradley, Robin Laing, Malk Williams
- Length: 85 hrs
- Release date: 02-07-26
- Language: English
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Animals Strike Curious Poses
- By: Elena Passarello
- Narrated by: Elena Passarello
- Length: 5 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Beginning with Yuka, a 39,000-year-old mummified woolly mammoth recently found in the Siberian permafrost, each of the 16 essays in Animals Strike Curious Poses investigates a different famous animal named and immortalized by humans. Modeled loosely after a medieval bestiary, these witty, playful, whip-smart essays traverse history, myth, science, and more, bringing each beast vibrantly to life.
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Animals Strike Curious Poses
- Narrated by: Elena Passarello
- Length: 5 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 15-09-21
- Language: English
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Y2K
- How the 2000s Became Everything (Essays on the Future That Never Was)
- By: Colette Shade
- Narrated by: Eva Kaminsky
- Length: 7 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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ONE OF THE NEW REPUBLIC'S BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR “Nothing I’ve read has cut to the heart of the ’00s like Y2K.” — Bustle Perfect for fans of Jia Tolentino and Chuck Klosterman, Y2K is a delightfully nostalgic and bitingly told exploration about how the early 2000s forever changed us...
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Y2K
- How the 2000s Became Everything (Essays on the Future That Never Was)
- Narrated by: Eva Kaminsky
- Length: 7 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 07-01-25
- Language: English
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Meaty
- By: Samantha Irby
- Narrated by: Samantha Irby
- Length: 7 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Meditations on the terror of love; tips for getting your disgusting meat carcass ready for some new, hot sex; a frank self-evaluation upon the occasion of one's 30th birthday; and, finally, the answer to the question on everyone's minds: would dying alone really be so terrible? Blogger and comedian Samantha Irby covers it all with wit and honesty - and serves it with a side of Instagram frittata.
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Funny, moving, easy to listen to
- By Alex Stewart on 26-04-20
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Meaty
- Narrated by: Samantha Irby
- Length: 7 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 31-12-19
- Language: English
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Dear Senthuran
- A Black Spirit Memoir
- By: Akwaeke Emezi
- Narrated by: Akwaeke Emezi
- Length: 8 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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In letters addressed to their friends, to members of their family - both biological and chosen - and to fellow storytellers, Akwaeke describes the shape of a life lived in overlapping realities. Through heartbreak, chronic pain, intimacy with death, becoming a beast, this is embodiment as a nonhuman: outside the boundaries imposed by expectations and legibility. This book is an account of the gruelling work of realignment and remaking necessary to carve out a future for oneself. The result is a black spirit memoir: a powerful, raw unfolding of identity.
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A beautiful & haunting body of literature
- By martina Blackman on 02-09-21
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Dear Senthuran
- A Black Spirit Memoir
- Narrated by: Akwaeke Emezi
- Length: 8 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 29-06-21
- Language: English
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Fierce Pajamas
- Selected Humor Writing from The New Yorker
- By: David Remnick, Henry Finder
- Narrated by: Patrick Frederic, Chris Gannon
- Length: 6 hrs and 1 min
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When Harold Ross founded The New Yorker in 1925, he described it as a “comic weekly.” And although it has become much more than that, it has remained true in its irreverent heart to the founder’s description, publishing the most illustrious literary humorists of the modern era—among them...
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Very poorly produced
- By Geoffrey Thomas on 15-12-23
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Fierce Pajamas
- Selected Humor Writing from The New Yorker
- Narrated by: Patrick Frederic, Chris Gannon
- Length: 6 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 07-12-01
- Language: English
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Walk in My Combat Boots
- True Stories from the Battlefront
- By: James Patterson
- Narrated by: Jason Culp
- Length: 10 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Brought to you by Penguin. 'This book will take your breath away, break your heart, and leave you in awe' President Bill Clinton _______ Soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines speak in their own words about real life in today's armed forces. These are the brutally honest stories usually only...
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A little disappointed
- By Matt.G. on 25-04-21
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Walk in My Combat Boots
- True Stories from the Battlefront
- Narrated by: Jason Culp
- Length: 10 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 08-02-21
- Language: English
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I Want to Talk to You
- And Other Conversations
- By: Diana Evans
- Narrated by: Diana Evans
- Length: 8 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Brought to you by Penguin. Crafted over twenty-five years, I Want to Talk to You invites you into a conversation about literature, art and music, identity, grief and everything in between As a young journalist, Diana Evans was catapulted overnight into the role of culture editor, going on to...
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Some post production issues.
- By Pamela H on 03-12-25
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I Want to Talk to You
- And Other Conversations
- Narrated by: Diana Evans
- Length: 8 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 06-02-25
- Language: English
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Magical/Realism
- Essays on Music, Memory, Fantasy, and Borders
- By: Vanessa Angélica Villarreal
- Narrated by: Vanessa Angélica Villarreal
- Length: 12 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Longlisted for the National Book Award Longlisted for the 2024 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism Shortlisted for the 2025 Housatonic Book Award for Nonfiction Shortlisted for the Reading the West Book Award in Memoir A brilliant, singular collection of essays that looks to music...
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Magical/Realism
- Essays on Music, Memory, Fantasy, and Borders
- Narrated by: Vanessa Angélica Villarreal
- Length: 12 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 14-05-24
- Language: English
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