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All Made Up
- By: Janice Galloway
- Narrated by: Janice Galloway
- Length: 9 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall26
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Performance23
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Story24
In the second volume of her memoirs, prize-winning author Janice Galloway reveals how the child introduced in This is Not About Me evolved through her teenage years. When she started secondary school, Galloway was still sharing a bed with her mother and was more excited by Latin and school orchestra than by boys. But as she struggled with the physical and emotional changes of adolescence, almost everything she thought she knew began to change. Combining visceral descriptions of puberty, sex and school-room politics with the story of a family's secrets
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Loved it
- By Rosemont on 26-02-23
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All Made Up
- Narrated by: Janice Galloway
- Length: 9 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 04-04-13
- Language: English
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The Luckiest Guy Alive
- By: John Cooper Clarke
- Narrated by: John Cooper Clarke
- Length: 1 hr and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall137
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Performance118
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The godfather of British performance poetry - Daily Telegraph The Luckiest Guy Alive, performed by the author, is the first new book of poetry from Dr John Cooper Clarke for several decades – and a brilliant, scabrous, hilarious collection from one of our most beloved and influential writers...
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Utter brilliance
- By edward on 08-01-19
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The Luckiest Guy Alive
- Narrated by: John Cooper Clarke
- Length: 1 hr and 7 mins
- Release date: 01-11-18
- Language: English
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The Polish Officer
- By: Alan Furst
- Narrated by: George Guidall
- Length: 11 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall38
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Performance32
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Story32
New York Times bestselling author Alan Furst is internationally renowned as master of the European espionage thriller. Unfolding in September of 1939 as Hitler’s Wehrmacht ravages Warsaw, The Polish Officer discloses the clandestine existence of Polish Military Intelligence.
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What a gifted Author
- By Beenz 7 on 21-12-20
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The Polish Officer
- Narrated by: George Guidall
- Series: Night Soldiers, Book 3
- Length: 11 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 01-08-05
- Language: English
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Charlotte Brontë's Life Through Clothes
- By: Dr Eleanor Houghton
- Narrated by: Rachel Atkins
- Length: 9 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1
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Performance0
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Nearly one hundred and seventy years have passed since Charlotte Brontë took her last breath, but astonishingly, witnesses to her life still survive. These were present as she penned the first lines of Jane Eyre, as she walked the cobbled streets of Haworth with her sisters, as she dined with William Makepeace Thackeray at his home in London or as she joined Arthur Bell Nicholls at the altar in the summer of 1854.
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Charlotte Brontë's Life Through Clothes
- Narrated by: Rachel Atkins
- Length: 9 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 05-02-26
- 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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Performance
- 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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The Weird and the Eerie
- By: Mark Fisher
- Narrated by: Tom Lawrence
- Length: 4 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall92
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Performance72
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Story70
What exactly are the weird and the eerie? In this new essay, Mark Fisher argues that some of the most haunting and anomalous fiction of the 20th century belongs to these two modes. The weird and the eerie are closely related but distinct modes, each possessing its own distinct properties. Both have often been associated with horror, yet this emphasis overlooks the aching fascination that such texts can exercise. The weird and the eerie both fundamentally concern the outside and the unknown, which are not intrinsically horrifying, even if they are always unsettling.
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A fantastic view into what makes up the uncanny aspects of our media landscape
- By Amazon Customer on 14-12-21
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The Weird and the Eerie
- Narrated by: Tom Lawrence
- Length: 4 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 13-11-19
- Language: English
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The Seven Basic Plots
- Why We Tell Stories
- By: Christopher Booker
- Narrated by: Liam Gerrard
- Length: 38 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall69
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Performance54
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Story53
This remarkable and monumental book at last provides a comprehensive answer to the age-old riddle of whether there are only a small number of "basic stories" in the world. Using a wealth of examples, from ancient myths and folk tales via the plays and novels of great literature to the popular movies and TV soap operas of today, it reveals that there are seven archetypal themes which recur throughout every kind of storytelling.
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It's all about archetypes. Long but worth the time
- By K. J. Kelly on 23-06-19
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The Seven Basic Plots
- Why We Tell Stories
- Narrated by: Liam Gerrard
- Length: 38 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 05-03-19
- 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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Overall6
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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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The Age of Magical Overthinking
- Notes on Modern Irrationality
- By: Amanda Montell
- Narrated by: Amanda Montell
- Length: 6 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall66
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Performance62
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Story62
In the modern information age, our brain’s coping mechanisms have been overloaded, and our irrationality turned up to eleven. Amanda Montell blends cultural criticism and personal narrative to explore our modern cognitive biases and the power, disadvantages and highlights of magical...
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Absolutely brilliant
- By Here's looking at you kid on 15-07-24
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The Age of Magical Overthinking
- Notes on Modern Irrationality
- Narrated by: Amanda Montell
- Length: 6 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 11-04-24
- Language: English
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An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
- By: David Hume
- Narrated by: Gildart Jackson
- Length: 6 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall32
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Performance27
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Story26
Published in 1748, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding is Scottish empiricist philosopher David Hume's distillation of his mature philosophy. Addressing themes including the limits of human understanding, the compatibility of free will with determinism, weaknesses in the foundations of religion, and the appeal of skepticism, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding is Hume's attempt to revise and clarify the ideas of his earlier A Treatise of Human Nature.
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An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
- By Peter on 14-04-13
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An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
- Narrated by: Gildart Jackson
- Length: 6 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 30-06-11
- Language: English
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Monsters in the Archives
- My Year of Fear with Stephen King
- By: Caroline Bicks
- Narrated by: Caroline Bicks
- Length: 8 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Overall2
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Performance1
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A fascinating, first of its kind exploration of Stephen King and his most iconic early books, based on groundbreaking research and interviews with King - all conducted by the first scholar to be given extended access to his private archives. After Caroline Bicks was named the University of...
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Monsters in the Archives
- My Year of Fear with Stephen King
- Narrated by: Caroline Bicks
- Length: 8 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 21-04-26
- Language: English
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On Memoir
- An A-Z of Life Writing
- By: Blake Morrison
- Narrated by: Blake Morrison
- Length: 12 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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A delightful compendium of musings from the master of life writing, the much-loved Blake Morrison, for those who practise the art of memoir, and those who read it. 'Hallelujah! — now is the perfect time for Morrison’s book On Memoir' THE TIMES 'Lessons in life writing from a master' THE...
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On Memoir
- An A-Z of Life Writing
- Narrated by: Blake Morrison
- Length: 12 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 09-04-26
- Language: English
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The Master and Margarita
- By: Mikhail Bulgakov
- Narrated by: Julian Rhind-Tutt
- Length: 8 hrs and 21 mins
- Abridged
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Overall48
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Performance39
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Story38
The Master and Margarita is one of the most famous and best-selling Russian novels of the 20th century, despite its surreal environment of talking cats, Satan and mysterious happenings. Naxos AudioBooks presents this careful abridgement of a new translation in an imaginative reading by the charismatic Julian Rhind-Tutt. With War and Peace and Crime and Punishment among the Naxos AudioBooks best-sellers, this too promises to be a front title.
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What was that?
- By allan 1 on 28-02-21
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The Master and Margarita
- Narrated by: Julian Rhind-Tutt
- Length: 8 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 25-04-11
- Language: English
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Talking Scared
- By: Neil McRobert
- Original Recording
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Performance1
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Conversations with the biggest names in horror fiction. A podcast for horror readers who want to know where their favourite stories came from . . . and what frightens the people who wrote them.
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It’s good to be scared
- By Philip J Morris on 09-08-23
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The Twitnam Summer
- Friendship, Satire and the Writing of Gulliver’s Travels
- By: Hester Grant
- Narrated by: Lucy Scott
- Length: 10 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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'A rollicking, brilliant book' GARETH RUSSELL 'Hugely enjoyable' SUNDAY TIMES A rollicking narrative history set during the extraordinary summer of 1726 when Jonathan Swift arrived in London from Dublin, with a draft of Gulliver’s Travels in his bag. Jonathan Swift settled into his great...
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The Twitnam Summer
- Friendship, Satire and the Writing of Gulliver’s Travels
- Narrated by: Lucy Scott
- Length: 10 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 04-06-26
- Language: English
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Anthony Powell
- Dancing to the Music of Time
- By: Hilary Spurling
- Narrated by: Sophie Aldred
- Length: 16 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall17
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Performance16
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The long-awaited portrait of a literary master from one of our generation's greatest biographers. Anthony Powell: the literary genius who gave us A Dance to the Music of Time, an undisputed classic of English literature. Spanning 12 spectacular volumes and written over 25 years, his comic masterpiece teems with idiosyncratic characters, capturing 20th-century Britain through war and peace. Drawing on Powell's letters and journals, and the memories of those who knew him, Hilary Spurling explores his life.
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Let down by an uncomprending narrator
- By E. Owen on 03-09-22
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Anthony Powell
- Dancing to the Music of Time
- Narrated by: Sophie Aldred
- Length: 16 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 25-10-18
- Language: English
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A Piece of Work
- Playing Shakespeare and Other Stories
- By: Simon Russell Beale
- Narrated by: Simon Russell Beale
- Length: 11 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall19
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Performance19
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'Extraordinary. A fabulous read' SIMON SCHAMA 'Wonderful. He writes with eloquence and wit' NICHOLAS HYTNER Simon Russell Beale is one of Britain's most recognisable and well-loved actors. He has played many roles on stage, film, television and radio - ranging from Winston Churchill to Stalin...
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Shakespeare and so much more
- By S C DYKES on 01-02-26
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A Piece of Work
- Playing Shakespeare and Other Stories
- Narrated by: Simon Russell Beale
- Length: 11 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 05-09-24
- Language: English
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Queer as Folklore
- The Hidden Queer History of Myths and Monsters
- By: Sacha Coward
- Narrated by: Will Watt
- Length: 11 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall43
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Performance38
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Join any Pride march and you are likely to see a glorious display of papier-mâché unicorn heads trailing sequins, drag queens wearing mermaid tails and more fairy wings than you can shake a trident at. But these are not just accessories: they are queer symbols with historic roots. Queer as Folklore is an exhilarating journey across centuries and continents which reveals the unsung heroes and villains of storytelling, magic and fantasy.
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Excellent
- By Mr D Jones on 19-09-25
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Queer as Folklore
- The Hidden Queer History of Myths and Monsters
- Narrated by: Will Watt
- Length: 11 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 29-08-24
- Language: English
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Electric Spark
- The Enigma of Muriel Spark - Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize 2025
- By: Frances Wilson
- Narrated by: Sara Vickers
- Length: 13 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall15
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Performance15
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Bloomsbury presents Electric Spark by Frances Wilson, read by Sara Vickers. ‘Absolutely mesmerising’ Spectator ‘I raced through it’ Ali Smith, Guardian ‘Unputdownable’ Financial Times ‘A fire-starter’ New York Times ‘Hypnotic’ TLS ‘Joyously, brilliantly intelligent’ Anne...
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Audio omits things and is badly performed
- By EEL on 21-09-25
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Electric Spark
- The Enigma of Muriel Spark - Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize 2025
- Narrated by: Sara Vickers
- Length: 13 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 05-06-25
- Language: English
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Mrs Dalloway
- Penguin Classics
- By: Virginia Woolf
- Narrated by: Anjli Mohindra
- Length: 8 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall37
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Performance31
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On a June morning in 1923, Clarissa Dalloway is preparing for a party and remembering her past. Elsewhere in London, Septimus Smith is suffering from shell-shock and on the brink of madness. Their days interweave and their lives converge as the party reaches its glittering climax. Here, Virginia Woolf perfected the interior monologue and the novel's lyricism and accessibility have made it one of her most popular works.
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Wonderful
- By P Bradley on 21-11-19
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Mrs Dalloway
- Penguin Classics
- Narrated by: Anjli Mohindra
- Length: 8 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 26-09-19
- Language: English
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