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The Story of the Treasure Seekers
- By: E. Nesbit
- Narrated by: Simon Prebble
- Length: 5 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance17
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All six Bastable children—Dora, Oswald, Dicky, Alice, Noel and Horace Octavius—are ambitious adventurers, digging detectives and intrepid treasure seekers by nature. Unfortunately, the Bastable family is currently facing an uncertain financial future. When father takes ill, and his business...
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Wonderful story, fabulous adventures..
- By Amazon Customer on 09-10-20
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The Story of the Treasure Seekers
- Narrated by: Simon Prebble
- Series: The Bastable Family, Book 1
- Length: 5 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 29-04-14
- Language: English
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A Ghost in the Throat
- By: Doireann Ní Ghríofa
- Narrated by: Siobhán McSweeney
- Length: 7 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance100
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In the 1700s, an Irish noblewoman, on discovering her husband has been murdered, drinks handfuls of his blood and composes an extraordinary poem. Eibhlín Dubh Ní Chonaill s Caoineadh Airt Uí Laoghaire, famously referred to by Peter Levi, professor of poetry at Oxford University, as 'the greatest poem written in either Ireland or Britain during the eighteenth century'. In the present day, a young mother narrowly avoids tragedy. On encountering the poem, she becomes obsessed with its parallels with her own life, and sets out to track down the rest of the story.
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just beautiful
- By Mrs. Linda Mc Namee on 15-10-21
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A Ghost in the Throat
- Narrated by: Siobhán McSweeney
- Length: 7 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 08-07-21
- Language: English
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Becoming George
- The Invention of George Sand
- By: Fiona Sampson
- Narrated by: Fiona Sampson
- Length: 10 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Brought to you by Penguin. My friends will respect me, I hope, just as much under my jacket as under my dress... So take me for a man or a woman as you wish. By the age of thirty, the novelist who had been born Aurore Dupin in 1804 had become the internationally renowned George Sand. In English...
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Becoming George
- The Invention of George Sand
- Narrated by: Fiona Sampson
- Length: 10 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 19-02-26
- Language: English
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Afloat
- Small Boats, Swell and Seaspray
- By: David Gange
- Narrated by: David Gange
- Length: 8 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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'Prose that is precise and beautiful as northern light … this book is an absolute delight' MOYA CANNON Join David Gange on a seabound journey along Atlantic coasts and islands, exploring places and ways of life that have been built on small rowed or paddled boats. These small boats outnumber...
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Afloat
- Small Boats, Swell and Seaspray
- Narrated by: David Gange
- Length: 8 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 23-04-26
- Language: English
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Dumbledore
- The Life and Lies of Hogwarts's Renowned Headmaster: An Unofficial Exploration
- By: Irvin Khaytman
- Narrated by: Richard Trinder
- Length: 7 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore, Headmaster of Hogwarts, is one of the most recognizable and mysterious figures in the Harry Potter series. As an unscrupulous beetle-like journalist once said, he's "a biographer's dream." Is he omniscient or limited? Is he benevolent or malevolent? What really drove him in the last years of an extraordinary life? Dumbledore dives between the lines of the Harry Potter books to create a portrait of the controversial Headmaster. We find Dumbledore's hand in every seeming coincidence and consider the impossible decisions he had to make.
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Great Analysis / The References were infuriating!
- By Samantha Mould on 04-01-25
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Dumbledore
- The Life and Lies of Hogwarts's Renowned Headmaster: An Unofficial Exploration
- Narrated by: Richard Trinder
- Series: The Unofficial Harry Potter Character Series
- Length: 7 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 04-07-23
- Language: English
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The Prancing Pony Podcast
- By: The Prancing Pony Podcast
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The Prancing Pony Podcast is a weekly show about the Middle-earth legendarium of J.R.R. Tolkien, hosted - for six seasons - by Alan Sisto and Shawn E. Marchese. Now in its ninth season, Alan is joined by an all-star cast of co-hosts as he explores more of Middle-earth! Alan and all his co-hosts are passionate Tolkien enthusiasts, inviting listeners to enjoy their detailed exploration of Tolkien’s work, with smart but straightforward discussion and a healthy dose of self-effacing humor, pop-culture references, and bad puns. These are the folks you'd want to hang out with at a pub and talk ...
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Best Tolkien podcast around.
- By Amber Ives on 09-08-21
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The History of English Literature (Unabridged)
- By: Perry Keenlyside
- Narrated by: Derek Jacobi
- Length: 5 hrs and 15 mins
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Performance15
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English literature may very well be the greatest body of imaginative writing the world has yet seen. The human experience has been understood, interpreted, and conveyed by writers of genius in a tradition stretching through six or more centuries, from Chaucer to Philip Larking, from Defoe to William Golding.
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Interesting listening
- By Sharon Westgate on 27-02-21
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The History of English Literature (Unabridged)
- Narrated by: Derek Jacobi
- Length: 5 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 31-12-00
- Language: English
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The Haunting Season
- By: Bridget Collins, Natasha Pulley, Kiran Millwood Hargrave, and others
- Narrated by: Gemma Whelan, Juliet Stevenson, Rory Kinnear, and others
- Length: 8 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall239
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Performance214
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Winter, with its unsettling blend of the cosy and the sinister, has long been a popular time for gathering by the bright flame of a candle, or the warm crackling of a fire, and swapping stories of ghosts and strange happenings. Now eight best-selling, award-winning authors, master storytellers of the sinister and the macabre bring this time-honoured tradition to vivid life in a spellbinding collection of new and original haunted tales.
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Bewitching.............menacing... .
- By Susannah on 28-12-21
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The Haunting Season
- Narrated by: Gemma Whelan, Juliet Stevenson, Rory Kinnear, Rosalind Eleazar
- Length: 8 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 21-10-21
- Language: English
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The Secret History of Vladimir Nabokov
- By: Andrea Pitzer
- Narrated by: Susan Boyce
- Length: 15 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance5
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A startling and revelatory examination of Nabokov’s life and works—notably Pale Fire and Lolita—bringing new insight into one of the twentieth century’s most enigmatic authors. Novelist Vladimir Nabokov witnessed the horrors of his century, escaping Revolutionary Russia then Germany under Hitler, and fleeing France with his Jewish wife and son just weeks before Paris fell to the Nazis. He repeatedly faced accusations of turning a blind eye to human suffering to write artful tales of depravity. But does one of the greatest writers in the English language really deserve the label of amoral aesthete bestowed on him by so many critics?
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The Secret History of Vladimir Nabokov
- Narrated by: Susan Boyce
- Length: 15 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 06-03-13
- Language: English
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Victorian Tales of the Weird
- By: Nick Rennison
- Narrated by: Joan Walker, Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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From a dancing automaton running amok at a ball, to a prehistoric beast lurking in the depths of a Yorkshire cave, this anthology explores the nature of the ‘old weird’, and unordinary stories which go outside the boundaries of everyday life. The anthology includes not only stories by well-known writers like Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Jerome K. Jerome, but also by long-forgotten authors such as D. F. Hannigan and Reginald Bacchus.
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Victorian Tales of the Weird
- Narrated by: Joan Walker, Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 17-07-25
- Language: English
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Latest Readings
- By: Clive James
- Narrated by: Graeme Malcolm
- Length: 3 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance11
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In 2010,Clive James was diagnosed with terminal leukemia. Deciding that "if you don't know the exact moment when the lights will go out, you might as well read until they do," James moved his library to his house in Cambridge, where he would "live, read, and perhaps even write". James is the award-winning author of dozens of works of literary criticism, poetry, and history, and this volume contains his reflections on what may well be his last reading list.
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Not Clive reading
- By hobans48 on 08-06-19
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Latest Readings
- Narrated by: Graeme Malcolm
- Length: 3 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 06-10-15
- Language: English
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Jane Austen Stories +
- By: NOISER
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Jane Austen Stories is the new show from the Noiser podcast network, narrated by Dame Julie Andrews.Season One begins with Julie reading an all-time classic of English literature, Pride and Prejudice, in its original masterful form.Join us twice a week as we walk grand estates, take tea with well-dressed gentlewomen, and enter ballrooms to dance with the great and good of the county. But in this tranquil corner of England, not everything is quite as it appears... Can our heroine Elizabeth navigate a world of secrets and simmering passions? Can the Bennet family avoid scandal and destitution? ...
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Petit pays suivi d'un entretien avec l'auteur
- By: Gaël Faye
- Narrated by: Gaël Faye
- Length: 5 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall27
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Performance25
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Avant, Gabriel faisait les quatre cents coups avec ses copains dans leur coin de paradis. Et puis l'harmonie familiale s'est disloquée en même temps que son "petit pays", le Burundi, ce bout d'Afrique centrale brutalement malmené par l'Histoire. Plus tard, Gabriel fait revivre un monde à jamais perdu. Les battements de cœur et les souffles coupés, les pensées profondes et les rires déployés, le parfum de citronnelle, les termites les jours d'orage, les jacarandas en fleur.
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Très beau voyage , merci .
- By Guenola Floch on 13-02-20
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Petit pays suivi d'un entretien avec l'auteur
- Narrated by: Gaël Faye
- Length: 5 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 30-11-16
- Language: French
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Historical Belfast
- By: Jason Burke
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Described in one review as a 'Belfast Tardis', Historical Belfast is Belfast's one and only history podcast on the airwaves. Hosted by historian Jason Burke, it provides an accessible and entertaining insight into the fascinating history of Northern Ireland's capital city, once proclaimed as 'the Athens of the North'.
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Accessible history
- By Amazon Customer on 20-03-25
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Return to Akenfield
- Portrait of an English Village in the 21st Century
- By: Craig Taylor
- Narrated by: Stephen Thorne
- Length: 6 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Thirty-five years after the publication of Ronald Blythe's classic portrait of an English village, Akenfield, Craig Taylor returned to the Suffolk village on which the book was based. He sought out locals who appeared in the original book to learn how their lives had changed, met newcomers, and interviewed Ronald Blythe himself.
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Uncomfortable
- By K. Logan on 02-04-24
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Return to Akenfield
- Portrait of an English Village in the 21st Century
- Narrated by: Stephen Thorne
- Length: 6 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 15-08-07
- Language: English
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The Bed Trick
- Sex and Deception on Trial
- By: Izabella Scott
- Narrated by: Lizzie Schenk
- Length: 7 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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She said she wore a blindfold at all times. She said she didn't know who she was really having sex with. Two former best friends face each other in court at a sex offence trial. Miss X, making the accusation, claims she was tricked into queer sex, many times, by a best friend pretending to be her boyfriend. But that friend, Gayle Newland, tells a different story. They were secret lesbians, she says, lovers in the closet. The boyfriend was imaginary, and part of a role play that had been going on for years.
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The Bed Trick
- Sex and Deception on Trial
- Narrated by: Lizzie Schenk
- Length: 7 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 05-02-26
- Language: English
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The Wrath to Come
- Gone with the Wind and the Lies America Tells
- By: Sarah Churchwell
- Narrated by: Sarah Churchwell
- Length: 12 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall22
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Performance21
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Sarah Churchwell examines one of the most enduringly popular stories of all time, Gone with the Wind, to help explain the divisions ripping the United States apart today. Separating fact from fiction, she shows how histories of mythmaking have informed America's racial and gender politics, the controversies over Confederate statues, the resurgence of white nationalism, the Black Lives Matter movement, the enduring power of the American Dream, and the violence of Trumpism.
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Recommended
- By Emily Scott on 27-01-23
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The Wrath to Come
- Gone with the Wind and the Lies America Tells
- Narrated by: Sarah Churchwell
- Length: 12 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 15-12-22
- Language: English
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Keats
- A Brief Life in Nine Poems and One Epitaph
- By: Lucasta Miller
- Narrated by: Sally Scott
- Length: 10 hrs and 5 mins
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The epitaph John Keats composed for his own gravestone - 'Here lies one whose name was writ in water' - seemingly damned him to oblivion. When he died at the age of 25, having taken a battering from the conservative press, few critics imagined he would be considered one of the great English poets 200 years later, though he himself had an inkling. In this brief life, Lucasta Miller takes Keats' best-known poems - the ones you are most likely to have read - and excavates their backstories.
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Very knowledgeable and engaging
- By Kilmeny on 16-05-26
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Keats
- A Brief Life in Nine Poems and One Epitaph
- Narrated by: Sally Scott
- Length: 10 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 03-02-22
- Language: English
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The Elusive Pimpernel
- By: Baroness Orczy
- Narrated by: Johanna Ward
- Length: 9 hrs and 2 mins
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In this sequel to The Scarlet Pimpernel, Sir Percy Blakeney's arch-enemy travels to England in pursuit of the impudent enemy of the French Republic. Monsieur Chauvelin devises a dastardly plot to annihilate, once and for all, both Sir Percy and his beautiful wife, Marguerite. Lured to France, where the entire town of Boulogne is held hostage on their behalf, they seem to be hopelessly trapped. Will the Scarlet Pimpernel prevail?
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Classic Scarlet Pimpernel
- By Andrew Lyndon-Skeggs on 19-08-19
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The Elusive Pimpernel
- Narrated by: Johanna Ward
- Series: The Scarlet Pimpernel, Book 4
- Length: 9 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 27-10-06
- Language: English
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