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Four Sisters
- The Lost Lives of the Romanov Grand Duchesses
- By: Helen Rappaport
- Narrated by: Karen Cass
- Length: 16 hrs and 8 mins
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Performance86
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On 17 July 1918, four young women walked down twenty-three steps into the cellar of a house in Ekaterinburg. The eldest was twenty-two, the youngest only seventeen. Together with their parents and their thirteen-year-old brother, they were all brutally murdered. Their crime: to be the daughters...
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Best book on the romanov sisters
- By Miss Burlesque on 07-09-21
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Four Sisters
- The Lost Lives of the Romanov Grand Duchesses
- Narrated by: Karen Cass
- Length: 16 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 31-07-14
- Language: English
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The Hidden Face of Eve
- Women in the Arab World
- By: Nawal El Saadawi
- Narrated by: Raghad Chaar
- Length: 13 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Nawal El Saadawi writes out of a powerful sense of the violence and injustice which permeated her society. Her experiences working as a doctor in villages around Egypt, witnessing prostitution, honour killings and sexual abuse, including female circumcision, drove her to give voice to this suffering. She goes on to explore the causes of the situation through a discussion of the historical role of Arab women in religion and literature. Saadawi argues that the veil, polygamy and legal inequality are incompatible with the essence of Islam or any human faith.
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The Hidden Face of Eve
- Women in the Arab World
- Narrated by: Raghad Chaar
- Length: 13 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 11-07-24
- Language: English
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Bunny Mellon
- The Life of an American Style Legend
- By: Meryl Gordon
- Narrated by: Vanessa Cortland
- Length: 17 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall10
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Performance8
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A biography of Bunny Mellon, the style icon and American aristocrat who designed the White House Rose Garden for her friend JFK and served as a living witness to 20th Century American history, operating in the high-level arenas of politics, diplomacy, art and fashion. Bunny Mellon, who died in...
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Bunny Mellon
- The Life of an American Style Legend
- Narrated by: Vanessa Cortland
- Length: 17 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 26-09-17
- Language: English
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The Mirror and the Palette
- Rebellion, Revolution and Resilience: 500 Years of Women's Self-Portraits
- By: Jennifer Higgie
- Narrated by: Jennifer Higgie
- Length: 9 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall24
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Performance22
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Until the 20th century, art history was, in the main, written by white, western men who tended to write about other white, western men. The idea that women in the West have always made art was rarely cited as a possibility. Yet, they have - and, of course, continue to do so - often against tremendous odds, from laws to religion and the pressures of family and public disapproval. Feminism has shaken up the story of art and, for the first time, cast light on the often-brilliant work by women artists who were often ignored, patronised or marginalised.
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Great audio
- By diana lowe on 10-02-22
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The Mirror and the Palette
- Rebellion, Revolution and Resilience: 500 Years of Women's Self-Portraits
- Narrated by: Jennifer Higgie
- Length: 9 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 30-03-21
- Language: English
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Toksvig's Almanac 2021
- An Eclectic Meander Through the Historical Year by Sandi Toksvig
- By: Sandi Toksvig
- Narrated by: Sandi Toksvig
- Length: 9 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall480
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Performance432
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Story426
Let Sandi Toksvig guide you on an eclectic meander through the calendar, illuminating neglected corners of history to tell tales of the fascinating figures you didn't learn about at school. From popes who gave birth during papal processions, to the inventor of Scrabble, to pioneering civil rights activist Ida B. Wells, who refused to give up her seat on a train decades before Rosa Parks was born. As witty and entertaining as it is instructive, this is an essential companion to each day of the year.
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Fabulous!
- By Pen Name on 23-11-20
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Toksvig's Almanac 2021
- An Eclectic Meander Through the Historical Year by Sandi Toksvig
- Narrated by: Sandi Toksvig
- Length: 9 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 12-11-20
- Language: English
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Rise Up Women!
- The Remarkable Lives of the Suffragettes
- By: Diane Atkinson
- Narrated by: Deryn Edwards
- Length: 22 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall46
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Performance40
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Story38
On 6 February 1918, after campaigning for over 50 years, British women were finally granted the vote. In November 1919, the first woman MP, Lady Nancy Astor, was elected to the House of Commons. History was made. A hundred years on, it is time to reflect on the daring and painful struggle women undertook to break into a political system that excluded them.
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Not Just the Pankhursts
- By Dr on 14-02-18
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Rise Up Women!
- The Remarkable Lives of the Suffragettes
- Narrated by: Deryn Edwards
- Length: 22 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 08-02-18
- Language: English
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The Abandoners
- Of Mothers and Monsters
- By: Begoña Gómez Urzaiz, Lizzie Davis - translator
- Length: 8 hrs
- Unabridged
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Performance4
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‘The best kind of book: the one you didn’t know you were craving until it appeared . . . self-interrogative, intricately perceptive. I absolutely inhaled it’ JIA TOLENTINO ‘A very richly interesting exploration of a complex subject. Begoña Gómez Urzaiz tells the stories with such...
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More ways than one can imagine
- By MD on 29-03-25
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The Abandoners
- Of Mothers and Monsters
- Length: 8 hrs
- Release date: 29-08-24
- Language: English
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Milk
- An Intimate History of Breastfeeding
- By: Joanna Wolfarth
- Narrated by: Hollie Hales, Joanna Wolfarth
- Length: 8 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall10
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Performance10
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- 'Illuminating . . . an important book' Sunday Times - 'A fascinating journey through the social, cultural and historical meanings of breastfeeding. A sublime book' Elinor Cleghorn, author of Unwell Women - 'Erudite, intimate and compelling . . . a long-overdue history' Leah Hazard, author of...
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A thorough investigation of breastfeeding through art and culture!
- By Anonymous on 10-03-25
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Milk
- An Intimate History of Breastfeeding
- Narrated by: Hollie Hales, Joanna Wolfarth
- Length: 8 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 19-01-23
- Language: English
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The Five
- The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper
- By: Hallie Rubenhold
- Narrated by: Louise Brealey
- Length: 10 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3,233
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Performance2,889
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Polly, Annie, Elizabeth, Catherine and Mary-Jane are famous for the same thing, though they never met. They came from Fleet Street, Knightsbridge, Wolverhampton, Sweden and Wales. They wrote ballads, ran coffeehouses and lived on country estates; they breathed ink dust from printing presses and escaped people traffickers. What they had in common was the year of their murders: 1888. The person responsible was never identified, but the character created by the press to fill that gap has become far more famous than any of these five women.
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An Insight in to the lives of the poorest women
- By Jock on 19-04-19
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The Five
- The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper
- Narrated by: Louise Brealey
- Length: 10 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 26-02-19
- Language: English
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Femina
- The instant Sunday Times bestseller – A New History of the Middle Ages, Through the Women Written Out of It
- By: Janina Ramirez
- Narrated by: Janina Ramirez
- Length: 11 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall375
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Performance335
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Story332
Brought to you by Penguin. Extraordinary women have held positions of power throughout history. But, aside from the select few, why do we not hear about them? The middle ages are seen as a bloodthirsty time of Vikings, Saints and Kings: a patriarchal society that oppressed and excluded women...
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Superb
- By Campesque on 05-08-22
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Femina
- The instant Sunday Times bestseller – A New History of the Middle Ages, Through the Women Written Out of It
- Narrated by: Janina Ramirez
- Length: 11 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 21-07-22
- Language: English
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Lara
- The Untold Love Story That Inspired Doctor Zhivago
- By: Anna Pasternak
- Narrated by: Antonia Beamish
- Length: 11 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall13
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Performance13
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‘Riveting, tragic tale’ New Yorker ‘Anna Pasternak has produced an irresistible account of joy, suffering and passion’ Financial Times The heartbreaking story of the passionate love affair between Boris Pasternak and Olga Ivinskaya – the tragic true story that inspired Doctor Zhivago...
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A superbly well narrated, informative and enlightening window into personal cost of love in the twentieth century USSR
- By Deborah D on 22-11-16
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Lara
- The Untold Love Story That Inspired Doctor Zhivago
- Narrated by: Antonia Beamish
- Length: 11 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 25-08-16
- Language: English
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Women of History: Karnataka's Forgotten Heroes
- Tales of Courage, Patriotism and Inspiring Fortitude
- By: Uma Yoganand
- Narrated by: Uma Yoganand
- Length: 1 hr and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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FROM THE SHORES OF ULLAL TO THE HEART OF THE DECCAN A HISTORY WRITTEN IN FIRE. For too long, the legends of Karnataka have been dictated by conquerors, relegating the true history of valor to whispers. But historian Dr. Asha Rao is about to challenge the official record. Her discovery of three silent artifacts: A Portuguese battle dispatch, a scroll carrying an ancient ballad, and a powerful Mughal decree, opens a portal to three extraordinary lives that history was determined to forget.
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Women of History: Karnataka's Forgotten Heroes
- Tales of Courage, Patriotism and Inspiring Fortitude
- Narrated by: Uma Yoganand
- Length: 1 hr and 8 mins
- Release date: 11-05-26
- Language: English
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Twilight Cities
- Lost Capitals of the Mediterranean
- By: Katherine Pangonis
- Narrated by: Katherine Pangonis
- Length: 11 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall20
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Performance15
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Katherine Pangonis explores five forgotten cities of the Mediterranean: Syracuse, Antioch, Ravenna, Tyre and Carthage. Each of these of these ancient cities has a claim to have been the centre of the world in its own time. Their fascinating entwined history takes in Alexander the Great, the Byzantine general Maniakes, and the Roman, Byzantine, Arab and Norman conquests. All were once major power centres that have declined into relative obscurity - but their glory still lingers for those who seek it out.
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Highly recommend it!
- By Anonymous on 07-08-23
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Twilight Cities
- Lost Capitals of the Mediterranean
- Narrated by: Katherine Pangonis
- Length: 11 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 06-07-23
- Language: English
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Madame Curie
- A Biography
- By: Eve Curie
- Narrated by: Nina Yndis
- Length: 16 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3
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Performance3
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Marie Sklodowska Curie (1867–1934) was the first woman scientist to win worldwide acclaim and was, indeed, one of the great scientists of the twentieth century. Written by Curie’s daughter, the renowned international activist Eve Curie, this biography chronicles Curie’s legendary achievements in science, including her pioneering efforts in the study of radioactivity and her two Nobel Prizes in Physics and Chemistry.
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Madame Curie
- A Biography
- Narrated by: Nina Yndis
- Length: 16 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 25-02-25
- Language: English
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The Women Are Not Fine
- The Dark History of a Poisonous Sisterhood
- By: Hope Reese
- Narrated by: Alexandra Boulton
- Length: 5 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3
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Performance3
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'Compelling' TELEGRAPH 'Such a compelling account of a small but significant dark corner of history... Profound, angry, and tender all at once' VIRGINIA FEITO, author of MRS MARCH 'An insightful, empathetic and well-researched account of a deeply fascinating and macabre true story' KATE MOORE...
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A fascinating and gripping tale
- By Weaver on 31-07-25
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The Women Are Not Fine
- The Dark History of a Poisonous Sisterhood
- Narrated by: Alexandra Boulton
- Length: 5 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 11-07-25
- Language: English
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Sex: Lessons From History
- By: Fern Riddell
- Narrated by: Fern Riddell
- Length: 8 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall41
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Performance38
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A powerful new cultural history of sex written by one of the UK's most prominent historians. Sex, for the entirety of human history, has never been about reproduction. Statistically speaking, only one out of every one thousand sexual acts between a man and a woman will result in a pregnancy. And...
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Absolutely wonderful and extremely informative.
- By stanleh on 14-05-25
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Sex: Lessons From History
- Narrated by: Fern Riddell
- Length: 8 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 22-06-21
- Language: English
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Queens of Jerusalem
- The Women Who Dared to Rule
- By: Katherine Pangonis
- Narrated by: Katherine Pangonis
- Length: 10 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall25
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Performance20
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In 1187 Saladin's armies besieged the holy city of Jerusalem. He had previously annihilated Jerusalem's army at the battle of Hattin, and behind the city's high walls a last-ditch defence was being led by an unlikely trio - including Sibylla, Queen of Jerusalem. They could not resist Saladin, but, if they were lucky, they could negotiate terms that would save the lives of the city's inhabitants.
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Interesting but narration is off putting
- By Clare Glazsher on 27-09-21
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Queens of Jerusalem
- The Women Who Dared to Rule
- Narrated by: Katherine Pangonis
- Length: 10 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 18-02-21
- Language: English
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Bad Girls of Ancient Greece
- Myths and Legends from the Baddies that Started it all
- By: Lizzy Tiffin
- Narrated by: Madeleine Leslay
- Length: 9 hrs
- Unabridged
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Performance3
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You’ve heard all about the ‘brilliant men’ of ancient myth, but what about the scheming and scandalous women who were so often lost in their shadow? Bad Girls of Ancient Greece contains profiles of wayward wives, mad mothers, scandalous sisters and damsels, that quite frankly, caused...
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A slang-efied overview of Greek myth, with some humor and wit, but some errors in the text - so take it with a pinch of salt.
- By Briony on 23-10-25
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Bad Girls of Ancient Greece
- Myths and Legends from the Baddies that Started it all
- Narrated by: Madeleine Leslay
- Length: 9 hrs
- Release date: 06-06-24
- Language: English
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The Women Who Wouldn't Wheesht
- By: Susan Dalgety, Lucy Hunter Blackburn
- Narrated by: Lucy Paterson
- Length: 10 hrs and 20 mins
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Overall80
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Performance75
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On the 25th anniversary of the Scottish Parliament, this book captures an important moment in contemporary history: how a grassroots women's movement, harking back to the suffragettes and second wave feminists of the 1970s and 1980s, took on the political establishment - and changed the course of history. Through a collection of over thirty essays and photographs, some of the women involved tell the story of the five-year campaign to protect women's sex-based rights.
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Thank you for your bravery and determination
- By Anonymous on 01-07-24
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The Women Who Wouldn't Wheesht
- Narrated by: Lucy Paterson
- Length: 10 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 13-06-24
- Language: English
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Pretty Iconic
- A Personal Look at the Beauty Products that Changed the World
- By: Sali Hughes
- Length: 9 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall81
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Performance78
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Story77
Over 200 iconic products that are among the best and most influential in the beauty world – past, present and future. ‘Sali Hughes has created a universe filled with galaxies of beauty secrets’ Charlotte Tilbury Packed full of beauty wisdom, Pretty Iconic takes us from the evocative smell...
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A must for beauty addicts
- By Jane Bailey on 28-10-16
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Pretty Iconic
- A Personal Look at the Beauty Products that Changed the World
- Length: 9 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 20-10-16
- Language: English
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