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Turner
- The Extraordinary Life and Momentous Times of J. M. W. Turner
- By: Franny Moyle
- Narrated by: John Sackville
- Length: 17 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall43
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Performance35
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Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable, audiobook edition of Turner by Franny Moyle, read by John Sackville. The extraordinary life of J. M. W Turner, one of Britain's most admired, misunderstood and celebrated artists J. M. W. Turner is Britain's most famous landscape painter. Yet beyond...
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Very detailed but enjoyable
- By DSirus on 23-10-21
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Turner
- The Extraordinary Life and Momentous Times of J. M. W. Turner
- Narrated by: John Sackville
- Length: 17 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 07-07-16
- 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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Perfect Bound
- A memoir of trauma, heartbreak and the words that saved me
- By: Lindsay Nicholson
- Narrated by: Leda Hodgson
- Length: 9 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall14
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Performance14
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A Mail on Sunday Best Memoir 2024 ‘Truly compelling.’ Cathy Rentzenbrink ‘Breathtaking … I loved it.’ Fern Britton ‘Courageous. Inspiring. Hopeful.’ Alastair Campbell 'Gripping’ Observer ‘Brave and raw’ Daily Mail 'An amazing story, powerfully told' Mail on Sunday An...
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Roller coaster of a life
- By Dools_18 on 29-03-25
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Perfect Bound
- A memoir of trauma, heartbreak and the words that saved me
- Narrated by: Leda Hodgson
- Length: 9 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 18-07-24
- Language: English
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The Mystery of Charles Dickens
- By: A. N. Wilson
- Narrated by: Mark Meadows
- Length: 9 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall16
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Performance11
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Filled with the twists, pathos and unusual characters that sprang from this novelist's extraordinary imagination, The Mystery of Charles Dickens looks back from the legendary writer's death to recall the key events in his life. In doing so, A.N. Wilson seeks to understand Dickens' creative genius and enduring popularity. Following his life from cradle to grave, it becomes clear that Dickens's fiction drew from his own experiences. Dickens knew first-hand the poverty and pain his characters endured, including the scandal of a failed marriage.
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Very enjoyable
- By Sefton on 26-09-20
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The Mystery of Charles Dickens
- Narrated by: Mark Meadows
- Length: 9 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 01-08-20
- Language: English
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Here Comes the Fun
- A Year of Making Merry
- By: Ben Aitken
- Narrated by: Ben Aitken
- Length: 8 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall11
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Performance10
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Story10
Ben Aitken wasn't getting enough. He knew it and so did everyone else. He was grumpy, increasingly boring, mostly joyless. So, he joined a lawn bowls club. A week later, he doubled down on the doldrums by learning to dance like they do in Bollywood. Then—with an almost entirely reformed selfhood winking appealingly just around the corner—he started swimming in cold water and was back to square one. Despite the setbacks, it was becoming clear to him that the very pursuit of fun was a great way of not feeling naff. And so he made a vow to have as much of the f-stuff as he possibly could
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Another excellent book!
- By l waters on 12-11-25
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Here Comes the Fun
- A Year of Making Merry
- Narrated by: Ben Aitken
- Length: 8 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 25-05-23
- Language: English
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Make It Ours
- Crashing the Gates of Culture with Virgil Abloh
- By: Robin Givhan
- Narrated by: Robin Givhan
- Length: 11 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall2
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Performance1
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Brought to you by Penguin. From Pulitzer Prize-winning culture critic Robin Givhan comes a groundbreaking chronicle of the legacy of Virgil Abloh, whose iconic rise to the top of the fashion industry transformed our ideas about the connection between who we are and what we wear In 2018...
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Make It Ours
- Crashing the Gates of Culture with Virgil Abloh
- Narrated by: Robin Givhan
- Length: 11 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 26-06-25
- Language: English
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Charles Dickens
- A Life
- By: Claire Tomalin
- Narrated by: Alex Jennings
- Length: 16 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall622
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Performance454
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Story453
The unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of Charles Dickens: A Life, the major new biography from the highly acclaimed Claire Tomalin, published for the 200th anniversary of his birth. Charles Dickens was a phenomenon: a demonicly hardworking journalist, the father of ten children, a...
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As lively a story as a good novel
- By Kirstine on 27-01-12
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Charles Dickens
- A Life
- Narrated by: Alex Jennings
- Length: 16 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 20-12-11
- Language: English
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Catch and Kill
- Lies, Spies and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators
- By: Ronan Farrow
- Narrated by: Ronan Farrow
- Length: 10 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1,437
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Performance1,256
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Story1,252
In a dramatic account of violence and espionage, Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter Ronan Farrow exposes serial abusers and a cabal of powerful interests hell-bent on covering up the truth, at any cost. In 2017, a routine network television investigation led Ronan Farrow to a story...
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Expertly written, poorly voiced
- By Hana on 02-01-20
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Catch and Kill
- Lies, Spies and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators
- Narrated by: Ronan Farrow
- Length: 10 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 15-10-19
- Language: English
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Didion & Babitz
- By: Lili Anolik
- Narrated by: Emma Roberts, Lili Anolik
- Length: 12 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall19
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Performance18
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Story18
With deftness and skill, journalist Lili Anolik uses Babitz, Babitz's brilliance of observation, Babitz's incisive intelligence and, most of all, Babitz's diary-like letters, as the key to unlocking Didion. Franklin Avenue was the making of one great American writer: Joan Didion, a mystery behind her dark glasses and cool expression, her marriage to John Gregory Dunne as tortured as it was enduring. It was also the breaking and then the remaking - and thus the true making - of another great American writer: Eve Babitz.
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Thoroughly enjoyable telling
- By SamR on 04-05-25
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Didion & Babitz
- Narrated by: Emma Roberts, Lili Anolik
- Length: 12 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 05-12-24
- Language: English
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Arrangements in Blue
- Notes on Love and Making a Life
- By: Amy Key
- Narrated by: Amy Key
- Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall43
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Performance41
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Story41
When poet Amy Key was growing up, she looked forward to a life shaped by romance, fuelled by desire, longing and the conventional markers of success that come when you share a life with another person. But that didn't happen for her. Now in her forties, she sets out to explore the realities of a life lived in the absence of romantic love. Using Joni Mitchell's seminal album Blue - an album that shaped Key's expectations of love - as her guide, she examines the unexpected life she has created for herself.
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Unique
- By Siún Carden on 26-04-23
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Arrangements in Blue
- Notes on Love and Making a Life
- Narrated by: Amy Key
- Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 06-04-23
- Language: English
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Coco Chanel
- The Legend and the Life
- By: Justine Picardie
- Narrated by: Karen Cass
- Length: 10 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall17
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Performance16
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SLEEK. CHIC. NOTORIOUSLY GUARDED. WELCOME TO THE SECRET WORLD OF COCO CHANEL. Justine Picardie’s definitive biography explores the dark mysteries hidden beneath the shimmering surface of a fabled fashion icon. Unveiling remarkable details about Coco Chanel’s traumatic childhood and her...
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Beautifully written and read
- By Amazon Customer on 10-01-25
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Coco Chanel
- The Legend and the Life
- Narrated by: Karen Cass
- Length: 10 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 31-08-23
- Language: English
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Rural Hours
- The Country Lives of Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Townsend Warner and Rosamond Lehmann
- By: Harriet Baker
- Narrated by: Harriet Baker
- Length: 11 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall21
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Performance20
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Brought to you by Penguin. 1917. Virginia Woolf arrives at Asheham, on the Sussex Downs, immobilized by nervous exhaustion and creative block. 1930. Feeling jittery about her writing career, Sylvia Townsend Warner spots a modest workman’s cottage for sale on the Dorset coast. 1941. Rosamond...
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divine
- By queen on 03-05-25
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Rural Hours
- The Country Lives of Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Townsend Warner and Rosamond Lehmann
- Narrated by: Harriet Baker
- Length: 11 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 04-04-24
- Language: English
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A Daughter of Isis
- The Early Life of Nawal El Saadawi, In Her Own Words
- By: Nawal El Saadawi
- Narrated by: Nadia Albina
- Length: 12 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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In A Daughter of Isis, Nawal El Saadawi, author of Woman at Point Zero and one of the Arab world’s greatest writers, tells the story of the formative years which shaped an iconic voice in global feminism. In poignant and moving prose we learn about her relationships with her family, her traumatic experience of female genital mutilation at seven years old and escaping suitors at ten and her journey from the rural Egyptian village of her birth to metropolitan Cairo to study medicine.
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wonderful story, told well
- By karinc10 on 09-12-25
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A Daughter of Isis
- The Early Life of Nawal El Saadawi, In Her Own Words
- Narrated by: Nadia Albina
- Length: 12 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 26-09-24
- Language: English
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The Great Shark Hunt
- Strange Tales from a Strange Time (The Gonzo Papers, Book 1)
- By: Hunter S. Thompson
- Narrated by: Scott Sours
- Length: 29 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Originally published in 1979, The Great Shark Hunt, the first volume of the bestselling 'Gonzo Papers' is Hunter S. Thompson’s largest and, arguably, most important work. These essays cover Nixon to napalm, Las Vegas to Watergate, Carter to cocaine, offering brilliant commentary and outrageous humour, in signature Thompson style.
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The Great Shark Hunt
- Strange Tales from a Strange Time (The Gonzo Papers, Book 1)
- Narrated by: Scott Sours
- Series: The Gonzo Papers, Book 1
- Length: 29 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 26-02-26
- Language: English
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Beautiful Shadow
- A Life of Patricia Highsmith
- By: Andrew Wilson
- Narrated by: Laurel Lefkow
- Length: 21 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall14
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Performance12
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Patricia Highsmith - author of Strangers on a Train and The Talented Mr Ripley - had more than her fair share of secrets. During her life, she felt uncomfortable about discussing the source of her fiction and refused to answer questions about her private life. Yet after her death in February 1995, Highsmith left behind a vast archive of personal documents - diaries, notebooks and letters - which detail the links between her life and her work.
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Very complete account
- By Lianne Harrison on 16-01-25
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Beautiful Shadow
- A Life of Patricia Highsmith
- Narrated by: Laurel Lefkow
- Length: 21 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 18-03-21
- Language: English
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The King's Painter
- The Life and Times of Hans Holbein
- By: Franny Moyle
- Narrated by: Barnaby Edwards
- Length: 16 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall20
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Performance20
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Hans Holbein the Younger is chiefly celebrated for his beautiful and precisely realised portraiture, which includes representations of Henry VIII, Thomas More, Thomas Cromwell, Anne of Cleves, Jane Seymour and an array of the Tudor lords and ladies he encountered during the course of two sojourns in England. But beyond these familiar images, which have come to define our perception of the world of the Henrician court, Holbein was a protean and multi-faceted genius.
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Great history book
- By A. McLaren on 16-10-24
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The King's Painter
- The Life and Times of Hans Holbein
- Narrated by: Barnaby Edwards
- Length: 16 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 12-05-22
- Language: English
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Kutchinsky's Egg
- A Family Story of Love, Loss and Obsession
- By: Serena Kutchinsky
- Narrated by: Serena Kutchinsky
- Length: 11 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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‘Extraordinary’ SOPHIE ELMHIRST, author of Maurice and Maralyn ‘Sparkles with passion, greed and mystery’ OLIVER BULLOUGH, author of Butler to the World ‘Spellbinding’ LAURA MILLER, Slate ‘A jewel of a thriller’ CAROL WOOLTON, author of If Jewels Could Talk When she was ten years...
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Kutchinsky's Egg
- A Family Story of Love, Loss and Obsession
- Narrated by: Serena Kutchinsky
- Length: 11 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 26-03-26
- Language: English
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The Adventures of Miss Barbara Pym
- By: Paula Byrne
- Narrated by: Antonia Beamish
- Length: 17 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall53
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Performance49
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English novelist Barbara Pym’s career was defined, in many senses, by rejection. Her first novel Some Tame Gazelle was turned down by every publisher she sent it out in 1935, finally published only 15 years later. Though she picked up a publisher from there and received modest praise, the publishing industry grew restless and her sales spiralled downwards. By her seventh novel, she had been dropped. This brilliant biography, brimming with Pym’s private diaries and intimate letters, offers a first full insight into Barbara Pym’s life and how it informed her writing.
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Excellent Woman
- By Dan Smith on 03-05-21
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The Adventures of Miss Barbara Pym
- Narrated by: Antonia Beamish
- Length: 17 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 15-04-21
- Language: English
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Miss Dior
- A Story of Courage and Couture
- By: Justine Picardie
- Narrated by: Justine Picardie
- Length: 11 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall38
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Performance32
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Miss Dior paints a portrait of the enigmatic woman behind the designer Christian Dior: his beloved younger sister, Catherine, who inspired his most famous perfume and shaped his vision of femininity. Justine Picardie's journey takes her to Occupied Paris, where Christian honed his couture skills while Catherine dedicated herself to the French Resistance, until she was captured by the Gestapo and deported to the German concentration camp of Ravensbrück.
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Misleading Cover and Title but okay
- By Felicity Maddison on 01-01-22
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Miss Dior
- A Story of Courage and Couture
- Narrated by: Justine Picardie
- Length: 11 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 07-09-21
- Language: English
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Hilma af Klint
- A Biography
- By: Julia Voss, Anne Posten - translator
- Narrated by: Doria Bramante
- Length: 11 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall7
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Performance7
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The Swedish painter Hilma af Klint (1862-1944) was forty-four years old when she broke with the academic tradition in which she had been trained to produce a body of radical, abstract works the likes of which had never been seen before. Today, it is widely accepted that af Klint was one of the earliest abstract academic painters in Europe. But this is only part of her story. Not only was she a working female artist, she was also an avowed clairvoyant and mystic.
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longwinded and boring
- By Geir Bernhardsen on 12-09-25
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Hilma af Klint
- A Biography
- Narrated by: Doria Bramante
- Length: 11 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 26-09-23
- Language: English
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