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How Do We Know We're Doing It Right
- Essays on Modern Life
- By: Pandora Sykes
- Narrated by: Pandora Sykes
- Length: 8 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall443
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Performance360
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Story354
Incisive, wide-ranging and witty, it explores the questions, anxieties and agendas that consume our lives. Pandora Sykes interrogates the stories we’ve been sold and the ones we tell ourselves - from happiness to wellness, womanhood to consumerism - in ways that are both surprising and reassuring.
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Accent too posh but damn good book
- By Amazon Customer on 20-08-20
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How Do We Know We're Doing It Right
- Essays on Modern Life
- Narrated by: Pandora Sykes
- Length: 8 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 16-07-20
- Language: English
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Against Interpretation and Other Essays
- By: Susan Sontag
- Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
- Length: 12 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall25
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Performance22
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Story20
Originally published in 1966, Susan Sontag's first collection of essays is a modern classic and includes the famous essays "Notes on Camp" and "Against Interpretation", as well as, her impassioned discussions of Sartre, Camus, Simone Weil, Godard, Beckett, Levi-Strauss, science-fiction movies, psychoanalysis, and contemporary religious thought.
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- By Pat Kaufman on 17-02-22
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Against Interpretation and Other Essays
- Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
- Length: 12 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 17-04-18
- Language: English
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Powsels and Thrums
- By: Alan Garner
- Narrated by: Robert Powell
- Length: 5 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall13
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Performance13
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‘I salute him with the most heartfelt respect and admiration’ PHILIP PULLMAN ‘Entrancing … a creative manifesto’ TELEGRAPH ‘Mesmerising … vibrating with life and curiosity’ OBSERVER In this lyrical and revelatory memoir, Alan Garner, Booker shortlisted author of Treacle Walker...
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Wonderful
- By Ali S. on 22-09-25
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Powsels and Thrums
- Narrated by: Robert Powell
- Length: 5 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 10-10-24
- Language: English
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Where There's a Will
- By: John Mortimer
- Narrated by: Bill Wallis
- Length: 6 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall24
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Performance20
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Following the best-selling Summer of a Dormouse, Sir John Mortimer - playwright, novelist, octogenarian, and erstwhile QC - offers up more lessons in living and growing old disgracefully. What would we like to leave to our descendants? Not a third-rate painting or our PEPS, according to Sir John, but a love of Shakespeare, a taste for alcohol, the ability to defeat boredom, the importance of never locking the lavatory door, and so on.
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A BIT DISAPPOINTING
- By H. L. Mason on 21-06-14
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Where There's a Will
- Narrated by: Bill Wallis
- Length: 6 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 10-12-12
- Language: English
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The Cost of Living
- Living Autobiography 2
- By: Deborah Levy
- Narrated by: Juliet Stevenson
- Length: 3 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall201
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Performance171
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Story169
Penguin presents the audiobook edition of The Cost of Living by Deborah Levy. A Guardian Best Book of the 21st Century 'Life falls apart. We try to get a grip. We try to hold it together. And then we realize that we don't want to hold it together...' Picking up where Things I Don't Want to Know...
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wonderful
- By HeyDon't. on 06-05-19
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The Cost of Living
- Living Autobiography 2
- Narrated by: Juliet Stevenson
- Series: Living Autobiography, Book 2
- Length: 3 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 05-04-18
- Language: English
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A Slip of the Keyboard
- Collected Non-fiction
- By: Terry Pratchett
- Narrated by: Michael Fenton Stevens
- Length: 9 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall245
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Performance210
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Story210
With a foreword by Neil Gaiman Terry Pratchett has earned a place in the hearts of readers the world over with his bestselling Discworld series – but in recent years he has become equally well-known and respected as an outspoken campaigner for causes including Alzheimer’s research and animal rights.
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Warm, witty with quite a lot of good sense too.
- By Felicity Coudre on 26-07-15
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A Slip of the Keyboard
- Collected Non-fiction
- Narrated by: Michael Fenton Stevens
- Length: 9 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 25-09-14
- Language: English
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Attention
- Writing on Life, Art and the World
- By: Anne Enright
- Narrated by: Anne Enright
- Length: 8 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall2
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Performance2
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Brought to you by Penguin. The first collection of Booker Prize-winning writer Anne Enright's non-fiction writing about culture, literature and her own life For thirty years Anne Enright has been paying attention: casting her lucid and distinctive gaze across the world, literature and her own...
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Attention
- Writing on Life, Art and the World
- Narrated by: Anne Enright
- Length: 8 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 30-10-25
- Language: English
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Hunger
- A Memoir of (My) Body
- By: Roxane Gay
- Narrated by: Roxane Gay
- Length: 5 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall479
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Performance431
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Story429
'I ate and ate and ate in the hopes that if I made myself big, my body would be safe. I buried the girl I was because she ran into all kinds of trouble. I tried to erase every memory of her, but she is still there, somewhere.... I was trapped in my body, one that I barely recognized or understood, but at least I was safe.'
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Fantastic!
- By Amazon Customer on 02-09-17
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Hunger
- A Memoir of (My) Body
- Narrated by: Roxane Gay
- Length: 5 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 03-07-17
- Language: English
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Wildflower
- By: Drew Barrymore
- Narrated by: Drew Barrymore
- Length: 7 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall611
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Performance543
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Story540
Wildflower is a portrait of Drew's life in stories as she looks back on the adventures, challenges and incredible experiences of her earlier years. It includes tales of living on her own at 14 (and how laundry may have saved her life), getting stuck in a gas station overhang on a cross country road trip, saying good-bye to her father in a way only he could have understood and many more adventures and lessons that have led her to the successful, happy,and healthy place she is today.
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Very dramatic, very loud and very irritating.
- By Linda on 14-07-18
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Wildflower
- Narrated by: Drew Barrymore
- Length: 7 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 29-10-15
- Language: English
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Democracy in America
- By: Alexis de Tocqueville
- Narrated by: John Pruden
- Length: 34 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall10
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Performance7
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In 1831, Alexis de Tocqueville, a young French aristocrat and civil servant, made a nine-month journey through eastern America. The result was Democracy in America, a monumental study of the strengths and weaknesses of the nation’s evolving politics. His insightful work has become one of the most influential political texts ever written on America.
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extremely dry
- By Joe McGuchan on 31-08-21
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Democracy in America
- Narrated by: John Pruden
- Length: 34 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 23-08-11
- Language: English
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The Question of Palestine
- By: Edward W. Said
- Narrated by: Peter Ganim
- Length: 12 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5
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Performance4
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A major work by one of the great public intellectuals of the twentieth century, The Question of Palestine was the first book to narrate the modern Palestinian experience in English. Edward Said’s project to ‘bring Palestine into history’ was unquestionably a success – there is no longer a question of whether Palestine had a history before colonization – and yet Palestinian self-determination is as distant as ever.
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Excellent
- By Z.H. on 08-01-25
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The Question of Palestine
- Narrated by: Peter Ganim
- Length: 12 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 26-11-24
- Language: English
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Yes, My Accent Is Real
- By: Kunal Nayyar
- Narrated by: Kunal Nayyar
- Length: 6 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall11
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Performance11
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In the spirit of Mindy Kaling’s bestseller Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? or Judd Apatow’s Sick in the Head, a collection of humorous, autobiographical essays from Kunal Nayyar, best known as Raj on CBS’s #1 hit comedy The Big Bang Theory. Of all the charming misfits on television...
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Great listen
- By Kimberley on 20-05-25
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Yes, My Accent Is Real
- Narrated by: Kunal Nayyar
- Length: 6 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 15-09-15
- Language: English
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A Guest at the Feast
- By: Colm Tóibín
- Narrated by: Colm Tóibín
- Length: 9 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall13
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Performance11
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In his essay about the life of Irish writer John McGahern, Tóibín reveals the tones of melancholy and amusement within both art and the artist. In his extraordinary essay on his cancer diagnosis, Tóibín unpicks the word 'battle', and illuminates the distress, horror and blankness of his experiences. From the shades of light and dark in a Venice without tourists, to the streets of Buenos Aires riddled with disappearances and tied up with dictators and politics, we find ourselves considering law and religion in Ireland as well as in Marilynne Robinson's fiction.
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Captivating series of essays read by the author
- By Miss A. Creamer on 08-09-23
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A Guest at the Feast
- Narrated by: Colm Tóibín
- Length: 9 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 03-11-22
- Language: English
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Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know
- The Fathers of Wilde, Yeats and Joyce
- By: Colm Tóibín
- Narrated by: Colm Tóibín
- Length: 6 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall54
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Performance49
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Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know written and read by Colm Tóibín. 'A father...is a necessary evil.' Stephen Dedalus in Ulysses In Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know, Colm Tóibín turns his incisive gaze to three of Ireland's greatest writers, Oscar Wilde, W.B...
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Fathers and Sons
- By Rachel Redford on 26-11-18
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Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know
- The Fathers of Wilde, Yeats and Joyce
- Narrated by: Colm Tóibín
- Length: 6 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 25-10-18
- Language: English
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On Heroes, Hero-Worship and the Heroic in History
- By: Thomas Carlyle
- Narrated by: James Gillies
- Length: 11 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall7
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Performance6
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Though uncompromising, polemical and argumentative, Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) made a lasting impact on 19th-century culture as a multi-talented man of letters. And though his lengthy history of the French Revolution proved his major scholarly legacy, On Heroes, Hero-Worship and the Heroic in History remains perhaps his most popular and accessible work. It presented his deep-seated belief that ‘Universal History, the history of what man has accomplished in this world, is at bottom the History of the Great Men who have worked here’.
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Unique, bizarre, interesting
- By Gilbert Wakefield on 25-12-22
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On Heroes, Hero-Worship and the Heroic in History
- Narrated by: James Gillies
- Length: 11 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 10-12-21
- Language: English
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Run Towards the Danger
- Conversations with a Body of Memory
- By: Sarah Polley
- Narrated by: Sarah Polley
- Length: 7 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall20
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Performance17
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Sarah Polley's work as an actor, screenwriter and director is celebrated for its honesty, complexity and deep humanity. She brings all those qualities, along with her exquisite storytelling chops, to these six essays. Each one captures a piece of Polley's life as she remembers it, while at the same time examining the fallibility of memory, the mutability of reality in the mind, and the possibility of experiencing the past anew, as the person she is now but was not then. As Polley writes, the past and present are in a “reciprocal pressure dance”.
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Thorough self investigation
- By Joana P. R. Neves on 21-12-23
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Run Towards the Danger
- Conversations with a Body of Memory
- Narrated by: Sarah Polley
- Length: 7 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 29-07-22
- Language: English
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Sister Outsider
- By: Audre Lorde
- Narrated by: Pippa Bennett-Warner
- Length: 6 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall105
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Performance87
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Story88
Brought to you by Penguin. The woman's place of power within each of us is neither white nor surface; it is dark, it is ancient, and it is deep The revolutionary writings of Audre Lorde gave voice to those 'outside the circle of this society's definition of acceptable women'. Uncompromising...
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Audre Lorde, my prophet
- By J D on 26-07-21
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Sister Outsider
- Narrated by: Pippa Bennett-Warner
- Length: 6 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 04-08-20
- Language: English
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Things I Don't Want to Know
- Living Autobiography 1
- By: Deborah Levy
- Narrated by: Juliet Stevenson
- Length: 2 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall154
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Performance131
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Story131
Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Things I Don't Want to Know by Deborah Levy, read by Juliet Stevenson. Things I Don't Want to Know is the first in Deborah Levy's essential three-part 'Living Autobiography' on writing and womanhood. Taking George Orwell's famous essay, 'Why I Write', as...
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Loved it!
- By Annoymous User on 12-02-19
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Things I Don't Want to Know
- Living Autobiography 1
- Narrated by: Juliet Stevenson
- Series: Living Autobiography, Book 1
- Length: 2 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 05-04-18
- Language: English
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Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century
- Unabridged Selections
- By: Alice Wong
- Narrated by: Alejandra Ospina, Alice Wong
- Length: 8 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Overall52
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Performance50
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One in five people in the United States lives with a disability. Some disabilities are visible, others less apparent—but all are underrepresented in media and popular culture. Now, just in time for the thirtieth anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act, activist Alice Wong brings...
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Everyone should listen!
- By Anonymous on 20-07-20
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Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century
- Unabridged Selections
- Narrated by: Alejandra Ospina, Alice Wong
- Length: 8 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 30-06-20
- Language: English
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One Aladdin Two Lamps
- By: Jeanette Winterson
- Narrated by: Dana Haqjoo, Jeanette Winterson
- Length: 6 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall15
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Performance15
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Brought to you by Penguin. I can change the story because I am the story. With her execution looming, a woman is fighting for her life. Every night she tells a story. Every morning, she lives one more day. One Aladdin Two Lamps cracks open the legendary story of Shahrazad in One Thousand and One...
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Thoughtful, well researched and fascinating
- By MarjB on 10-01-26
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One Aladdin Two Lamps
- Narrated by: Dana Haqjoo, Jeanette Winterson
- Length: 6 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 13-11-25
- Language: English
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