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I Shop, Therefore I Am
- The 90s, Harvey Nicks – and Me
- By: Mary Portas
- Narrated by: Mary Portas
- Length: 8 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall21
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Performance20
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It’s the 1990s: Britpop is dominating the charts, Kate Moss and Naomi Campbell stare out from the cover of every glossy magazine and British fashion is ripe for reinvention. Leading the charge is a twenty-something Mary Portas who has been brought in to revitalise the department store Harvey Nichols, at the time more likely to be associated with dowagers than daring designers.
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Just amazing
- By Anonymous on 31-03-26
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I Shop, Therefore I Am
- The 90s, Harvey Nicks – and Me
- Narrated by: Mary Portas
- Length: 8 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 02-10-25
- Language: English
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Bobbed Hair and Bathtub Gin
- Writers Running Wild in the Twenties
- By: Marion Meade
- Narrated by: Lorna Raver
- Length: 11 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall26
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Performance22
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Story22
This is an exuberant group portrait of four extraordinary writers, Zelda Fitzgerald, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Dorothy Parker, and Edna Ferber, whose loves, lives, and literary endeavors captured the spirit of the 1920s.
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Bobbed Hair and Bathtub Gin
- Writers Running Wild in the Twenties
- Narrated by: Lorna Raver
- Length: 11 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 22-12-04
- Language: English
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Nothing to Be Frightened Of
- By: Julian Barnes
- Narrated by: Julian Barnes
- Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall74
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Performance55
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Story54
Julian Barnes' new book is, among many things, a family memoir, an exchange with his brother (a philosopher), a meditation on morality and the fear of death, a celebration of art, an argument with and about God, and homage to the French writer Jules Renard. Though he warns us that 'this is not my autobiography', the result is a tour of the mind of one of our most brilliant writers.
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Frustrating but worth persevering with.
- By A Reader on 15-06-09
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Nothing to Be Frightened Of
- Narrated by: Julian Barnes
- Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 19-03-09
- Language: English
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The Lives of Lucian Freud
- Youth 1922 - 1968
- By: William Feaver
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 24 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall52
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Performance42
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Story42
In Youth, the first of two volumes, Feaver conjures Freud’s early childhood: Sigmund Freud’s grandson, born into a middle-class Jewish family in Weimar Berlin, escaping Nazi Germany in 1934 before being dropped into successive English public schools. Following Freud through art school, his time in the navy during the war, his post-war adventures in Paris and Greece, and his return to Soho - consorting with duchesses and violent criminals, out on the town with Greta Garbo and Princess Margaret - Feaver traces a brilliant, difficult young man’s coming of age.
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Great story about Lucian Freud
- By diana lowe on 29-08-20
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The Lives of Lucian Freud
- Youth 1922 - 1968
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 24 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 17-10-19
- Language: English
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Jane's Fame
- How Jane Austen Conquered the World
- By: Claire Harman
- Narrated by: Claire Harman
- Length: 10 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Part biography and part cultural history, this celebrated book not only tells the captivating story of Jane Austen's life as a writer, but also her literary legacy. Award-winning biographer Claire Harman traces the growth of Jane Austen's fame and the changing status of her work, a story of personal struggle, family intrigue, accident, advocacy and sometimes surprising neglect.
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Jane's Fame
- How Jane Austen Conquered the World
- Narrated by: Claire Harman
- Length: 10 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 28-10-25
- Language: English
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The Boy Between
- A Mother and Son's Journey from a World Gone Grey
- By: Josiah Hartley, Amanda Prowse
- Narrated by: Amanda Prowse, Josiah Hartley
- Length: 8 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall109
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Performance99
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Story100
Josiah was 19 with the world at his feet when things changed. Without warning, the new university student's mental health deteriorated to the point that he planned his own death. His mother, bestselling author Amanda Prowse, found herself grappling for ways to help him, with no clear sense of where that could be found. This is the book they wish had been there for them during those dark times.
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Thankyou
- By doriss49 on 04-11-20
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The Boy Between
- A Mother and Son's Journey from a World Gone Grey
- Narrated by: Amanda Prowse, Josiah Hartley
- Length: 8 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 01-11-20
- Language: English
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The Disappearing Act
- The Impossible Case of MH370
- By: Florence de Changy
- Narrated by: Laurence Bouvard
- Length: 17 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall84
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Performance74
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Story73
‘People often say that non-fiction books read like fast-moving thrillers, but this one genuinely does… This is a splendid book – and highly recommended.’ Daily Mail A remarkable piece of investigative journalism into one of the most pervasive and troubling mysteries of recent memory. 01...
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A disappointment
- By Allister on 14-04-21
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The Disappearing Act
- The Impossible Case of MH370
- Narrated by: Laurence Bouvard
- Length: 17 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 04-02-21
- Language: English
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Yellow Notebook
- Diaries Volume I 1978-1987
- By: Helen Garner
- Narrated by: Helen Garner
- Length: 7 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall9
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Performance8
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Story8
Helen Garner has kept a diary for almost all her life. But until now, those exercise books filled with her thoughts, observations, frustrations and joys have been locked away, out of bounds, in a laundry cupboard. Finally, Garner has opened her diaries and invited readers into the world behind her novels and works of non-fiction. Yellow Notebook: Diaries Volume I spans a decade beginning in the late 1970s just after the publication of her first novel, Monkey Grip.
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Finding a religion
- By Brenda M. on 26-04-25
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Yellow Notebook
- Diaries Volume I 1978-1987
- Narrated by: Helen Garner
- Series: Diaries, Book 1
- Length: 7 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 01-01-21
- Language: English
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Bob Mortimer & Paul Whitehouse
- Audible Sessions: FREE Exclusive Interview
- By: Holly Newson
- Narrated by: Bob Mortimer, Paul Whitehouse
- Length: 31 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall701
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Performance571
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Story560
When life got in the way of Mortimer and Whitehouse's friendship, they found their connection dwindled to occasional catch ups and one-off phone calls. Then, conveniently, they were both diagnosed with heart disease! And they realised life is short, and they should spend it together, doing what they love: fishing. Following the success of their BBC series, Gone Fishing, Mortimer and Whitehouse have created an audiobook of the same name, which is their love letter to the joys of angling, and the simple wonder of just having a laugh with your mates.
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Legends
- By Marc on 19-05-21
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Bob Mortimer & Paul Whitehouse
- Audible Sessions: FREE Exclusive Interview
- Narrated by: Bob Mortimer, Paul Whitehouse
- Length: 31 mins
- Release date: 05-06-19
- Language: English
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The Tower and the Ruin
- J.R.R. Tolkien's Creation
- By: Michael D. C. Drout
- Narrated by: Michael D. C. Drout
- Length: 11 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4
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Performance4
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Story4
A leading scholar draws on fifty years of reading and studying J.R.R. Tolkien to explain how he created an entire world.
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Author is a chronic sesquipedalian. A rough read.
- By Dave on 19-03-26
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The Tower and the Ruin
- J.R.R. Tolkien's Creation
- Narrated by: Michael D. C. Drout
- Length: 11 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 02-12-25
- Language: English
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Working
- Researching, Interviewing, Writing
- By: Robert A. Caro
- Narrated by: Robert A Caro
- Length: 7 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall116
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Performance105
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Story105
In Working he offers a captivating account of his life as a writer, describing the sometimes staggering lengths to which he has gone in order to produce his books and offering priceless insights into the art and craft of non-fiction writing. Anyone interested in investigative journalism and the pursuit of truth, in the writer’s process and the creation of literature, in the art of interviewing or simply the psychology of excellence will find a masterclass in all these subjects.
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Slow start but eventually becomes great & exciting
- By Yoda on 30-06-19
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Working
- Researching, Interviewing, Writing
- Narrated by: Robert A Caro
- Length: 7 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 25-04-19
- Language: English
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Samuel Pepys
- The Unequalled Self
- By: Claire Tomalin
- Narrated by: Jill Balcon
- Length: 6 hrs and 22 mins
- Abridged
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Overall136
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Performance101
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Story101
Samuel Pepys kept a diary in which he wrote with astonishing candour about the life he saw around him in London in the 1660s, and about his private desires and ambitions. The diary was kept for fewer than 10 years of his long life: Claire Tomalin tells the whole story of the Fleet Street tailor's son who made himself rich and powerful, an MP and adviser to royalty.
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Essential reading before you read the diaries.
- By MrPower on 23-07-20
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Samuel Pepys
- The Unequalled Self
- Narrated by: Jill Balcon
- Length: 6 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 14-02-05
- Language: English
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Logical Family
- A Memoir
- By: Armistead Maupin
- Narrated by: Armistead Maupin
- Length: 7 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall92
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Performance84
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Story84
Random House presents the audiobook edition of Logical Family: A Memoir, written and read by Armistead Maupin. Born in the mid-twentieth century and raised in the heart of conservative North Carolina, Armistead Maupin lost his virginity to another man “on the very spot where the first shots of...
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Thank you Mr. Maupin
- By the typist on 18-10-17
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Logical Family
- A Memoir
- Narrated by: Armistead Maupin
- Length: 7 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 05-10-17
- Language: English
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Country Girl
- By: Edna O'Brien
- Narrated by: Edna O’Brien
- Length: 16 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall100
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Performance72
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Story72
Edna O'Brien was born in 1930. Her brilliant debut novel, The Country Girls, was banned in her native Ireland upon its publication in 1960. Since then she has gone on to produce some of the finest writing of the 20th century. In Country Girl we hear of a life of high drama and contemplation, of encounters with Hollywood giants, pop stars, and literary titans. It is a life gorgeously, sometimes painfully remembered, in prose that sparkles with the effortless gifts of a master.
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More... everything
- By Alison on 07-01-13
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Country Girl
- Narrated by: Edna O’Brien
- Length: 16 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 27-09-12
- 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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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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Ottoline Morrell
- Life on the Grand Scale
- By: Miranda Seymour
- Narrated by: Elaine Claxton
- Length: 23 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall7
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Performance7
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‘A kind of blissography, teeming with bon mots’ Sunday Times A celebrated modern classic that has revolutionised our understanding of the Bloomsbury group and remains the definitive biography of the group’s gloriously eccentric patron, Lady Ottoline Morrell. Met with widespread acclaim and...
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Empathetic retelling
- By Hilary on 30-11-25
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Ottoline Morrell
- Life on the Grand Scale
- Narrated by: Elaine Claxton
- Length: 23 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 04-07-24
- Language: English
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An Odyssey: A Father, A Son and an Epic
- SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 2017
- By: Daniel Mendelsohn
- Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot
- Length: 10 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall32
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Performance29
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 2017 SHORTLISTED FOR THE LONDON HELLENIC PRIZE 2017 WINNER OF THE PRIX MÉDITERRANÉE 2018 From the award-winning, best-selling writer: a deeply moving tale of a father and son’s transformative journey in reading – and reliving – Homer’s epic...
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Intriguing insight into the story of the Odyssey
- By SJ on 18-03-21
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An Odyssey: A Father, A Son and an Epic
- SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 2017
- Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot
- Length: 10 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 11-09-17
- Language: English
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James Joyce
- Author of Ulysses
- By: Edna O'Brien
- Narrated by: Stanley Townsend
- Length: 5 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall17
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Performance16
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Edna O'Brien depicts James Joyce as a man hammered by Church, State and family, yet from such adversities he wrote works 'to bestir the hearts of men and angels'. The journey begins with Joyce the arrogant youth, his lofty courtship of Nora Barnacle, their hectic sexuality, children, wanderings...
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brilliant book really enjoyed it Edna is excellent
- By Stephanie on 01-09-20
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James Joyce
- Author of Ulysses
- Narrated by: Stanley Townsend
- Length: 5 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 18-06-20
- Language: English
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Douglas Adams
- The Ends of the Earth
- By: Arvind Ethan David
- Narrated by: Arvind Ethan David, Douglas Adams, Sam Barnett, and others
- Length: 6 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall21
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Performance19
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Story19
Douglas Adams, the legendary author of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy and Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency is one of the most beloved authors of all time. Twenty-five years after his death, his books continue to be read by new generations and his creations along with his ultimate answer to life, the universe, and everything being “42,” have seeped deep into public consciousness.
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Too much politics and economics
- By Amazon Customer on 08-07-25
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Douglas Adams
- The Ends of the Earth
- Narrated by: Arvind Ethan David, Douglas Adams, Sam Barnett, Stephen Fry
- Length: 6 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 24-06-25
- Language: English
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The Illuminated Man
- Life, Death and the Worlds of J. G. Ballard
- By: Christopher Priest, Nina Allan
- Narrated by: Hilary Maclean, Nina Allan, Roger May
- Length: 18 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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When it became clear that Christopher would not have time to finish this biography, Nina promised him that she would complete it, patching together with her own voice the gaps that remained. If the book began as a tribute from Priest to Ballard, it is now also a love story written by Nina for Christopher.
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The Illuminated Man
- Life, Death and the Worlds of J. G. Ballard
- Narrated by: Hilary Maclean, Nina Allan, Roger May
- Length: 18 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 23-04-26
- Language: English
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