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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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Overall73
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Performance54
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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 Peepshow
- The Murders at 10 Rillington Place
- By: Kate Summerscale
- Narrated by: Nicola Walker
- Length: 9 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall191
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Performance181
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Story181
In 1953, the bodies of three young women are found by a tenant in the walls of a Notting Hill house. He tells the police that he chanced upon them while trying to put up a shelf for his transistor radio. As a series of further horrors are discovered, the eyes of a nation turn to 10 Rillington Place. In this riveting tale of violence, misogyny and tabloid frenzy, Kate Summerscale lifts the veil on what really happened inside the house - and suggests a new solution to one of the twentieth century's most notorious crimes.
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Exceptional study of a crime
- By Spin2009 on 08-10-24
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The Peepshow
- The Murders at 10 Rillington Place
- Narrated by: Nicola Walker
- Length: 9 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 03-10-24
- Language: English
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The Life of Charlotte Brontë
- By: Elizabeth Gaskell
- Narrated by: Penelope Rawlins, Lucy Scott, Sarah Lambie, and others
- Length: 19 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall9
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Performance8
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Elizabeth Gaskell’s biography of her friend Charlotte Brontë—the first full-length biography of a woman novelist by a woman novelist—is a true classic. It transports us with a deft hand straight into 19th-century Haworth, Yorkshire and crafts an extensive account of Brontë’s life, quoting throughout from letters she sent and received. From her challenging, isolated childhood to her death shortly before the age of 39, newly married and pregnant, the enigmatic author of Jane Eyre is portrayed with enormous care.
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the best Brontë biography
- By Kindle-klant on 24-12-25
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The Life of Charlotte Brontë
- Narrated by: Penelope Rawlins, Lucy Scott, Sarah Lambie, Nigel Pilkington, Georgina Sutton, David Timson
- Length: 19 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 08-10-24
- Language: English
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For Your Eyes Only
- Ian Fleming and James Bond
- By: Ben Macintyre
- Narrated by: Ben Macintyre
- Length: 5 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall19
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Performance19
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Story19
One morning in February 1952, a journalist called Ian Fleming sat down at his desk and set about creating a fictional secret agent. James Bond was born and would go on to become one of the most successful, enduring and lucrative creations in literature. But Bond's world of glamour and romance, gadgets and cocktails, espionage and villainy wasn't entirely drawn from imagination: Fleming's background and his experiences as an intelligence officer during the Second World War were all formative parts in the creation of the world's most famous spy.
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Really good!
- By Binky on 27-02-26
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For Your Eyes Only
- Ian Fleming and James Bond
- Narrated by: Ben Macintyre
- Length: 5 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 04-09-25
- Language: English
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The Last Leonardo
- The Secret Lives of the World’s Most Expensive Painting
- By: Ben Lewis
- Narrated by: Peter Noble
- Length: 12 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall60
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Performance53
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Story53
In 2017 the Salvator Mundi was sold at auction for $450m. But is it a real da Vinci? In a thrilling narrative built on formidable research, Ben Lewis tracks the extraordinary journey of a masterpiece lost and found, lied and fought over across the centuries. In 2017, Leonardo da Vinci’s small...
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Excellent
- By theone901 on 01-05-19
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The Last Leonardo
- The Secret Lives of the World’s Most Expensive Painting
- Narrated by: Peter Noble
- Length: 12 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 18-04-19
- Language: English
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Love from Boy
- Roald Dahl's Letters to his Mother
- By: Donald Sturrock
- Narrated by: Andrew Wincott, Thomas Judd
- Length: 7 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall60
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Performance53
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'Dear Mama, I am having a lovely time here. We play football every day here. The beds have no springs . . .' So begins the first letter that a nine-year-old Roald Dahl penned to his mother, Sofie Magdalene, under the watchful eye of his boarding-school headmaster. For most of his life, Roald...
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Dearest Mama
- By Rachel Redford on 20-06-16
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Love from Boy
- Roald Dahl's Letters to his Mother
- Narrated by: Andrew Wincott, Thomas Judd
- Length: 7 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 02-06-16
- Language: English
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For the Sun After Long Nights
- The Story of Iran's Women-Led Uprising
- By: Fatemeh Jamalpour, Nilo Tabrizy
- Narrated by: Fatemeh Jamalpour, Nilo Tabrizy
- Length: 10 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1
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LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD A moving exploration of the 2022 women-led protests in Iran, as told through the interwoven stories of two Iranian journalists “Unlike anything I’ve read . . . A searing, courageous, and ultimately beautiful book filled with the spirit of the...
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Amazing!
- By Anonymous on 04-04-26
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For the Sun After Long Nights
- The Story of Iran's Women-Led Uprising
- Narrated by: Fatemeh Jamalpour, Nilo Tabrizy
- Length: 10 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 16-09-25
- Language: English
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The Vanity Fair Diaries: 1983-1992
- By: Tina Brown
- Narrated by: Tina Brown
- Length: 16 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall158
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Performance143
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Story143
The Vanity Fair Diaries is the story of an Englishwoman barely out of her 20s who arrives in New York City with a dream. Summoned from London in hopes that she can save Condé Nast's troubled new flagship Vanity Fair, Tina Brown is immediately plunged into the maelstrom of the competitive New York media world and the backstabbing rivalries at the court of the planet's slickest, most glamour-focused magazine company.
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Really don’t waste your time or money......
- By Suzanne M. on 14-01-18
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The Vanity Fair Diaries: 1983-1992
- Narrated by: Tina Brown
- Length: 16 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 14-11-17
- Language: English
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The Unexpected Joy of Being Sober
- Discovering a Happy, Healthy, Wealthy Alcohol-Free Life
- By: Catherine Gray
- Narrated by: Catherine Gray
- Length: 10 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall2,675
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Performance2,311
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Story2,306
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Gray's tale of going sober is uplifting and inspiring' - The Evening Standard 'An icon of the Quit Lit movement' - Condé Nast Traveller 'Fascinating' - Bryony Gordon 'Not remotely preachy' - The Times 'Jaunty, shrewd and convincing' - Sunday Telegraph 'Admirably...
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Intelligent, thought-provoking & inspiring
- By K-Mart on 19-01-18
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The Unexpected Joy of Being Sober
- Discovering a Happy, Healthy, Wealthy Alcohol-Free Life
- Narrated by: Catherine Gray
- Series: The Unexpected Joy
- Length: 10 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 28-12-17
- Language: English
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What Remains
- A Memoir of Fate, Friendship, and Love
- By: Carole Radziwill
- Narrated by: Carole Radziwill
- Length: 5 hrs and 57 mins
- Abridged
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A stunning, tragic memoir about John F. Kennedy Jr., his wife Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy, and his cousin Anthony Radziwill, by Radziwill’s widow. What Remains is a vivid and haunting memoir about a girl from a working-class town who becomes an award-winning television producer and marries a...
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What Remains
- A Memoir of Fate, Friendship, and Love
- Narrated by: Carole Radziwill
- Length: 5 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 26-09-05
- Language: English
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Theroux The Keyhole
- When the world went weird (and so did I)
- By: Louis Theroux
- Narrated by: Louis Theroux
- Length: 8 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1,382
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Performance1,187
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Story1,184
Come round to Louis Theroux’s house where the much-loved TV documentary-maker, podcaster and bestselling author of Gotta Get Theroux This finds himself in unexpected danger . . . Like millions of others, Louis’ plans were mothballed by the onset of Covid. Unable to escape to the porn sets...
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When Louis met...childcare responsibilities
- By Will Shelf on 14-11-21
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Theroux The Keyhole
- When the world went weird (and so did I)
- Narrated by: Louis Theroux
- Length: 8 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 11-11-21
- Language: English
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Blitz
- The Club That Created the Eighties
- By: Robert Elms
- Narrated by: Robert Elms
- Length: 8 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall25
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Performance25
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The short-lived Blitz club in London's Covent Garden was more than somewhere to hang out or be seen: it was a catalyst for cultural explosion, a counter-culture blast against everything Thatcher's leadership had ushered in by the dawn of the 80s. In Blitz, Elms reflects on a club night founded by working-class kids, one whose impact reverberated beyond its doors, through the worlds of Art, Literature, Fashion and Music, and into the present day.
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80s in a nutshell - a blast
- By Joe on 06-03-26
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Blitz
- The Club That Created the Eighties
- Narrated by: Robert Elms
- Length: 8 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 23-09-25
- Language: English
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Agatha Christie’s Marple
- Expert on Wickedness
- By: Mark Aldridge, Agatha Christie
- Narrated by: Jane Slavin
- Length: 11 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall20
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Performance19
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A new investigation from Dr Mark Aldridge, exploring a lifetime of Agatha Christie’s Miss Jane Marple. Winner of the 2025 H.R.F Keating Award for the best 2024 biography or critical book related to crime fiction. In Agatha Christie’s Marple: Expert on Wickedness,‘Agathologist’ Dr Mark...
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Breathy and oddly punctuated narration
- By twigs way on 04-01-25
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Agatha Christie’s Marple
- Expert on Wickedness
- Narrated by: Jane Slavin
- Length: 11 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 12-09-24
- 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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A Memoir of My Former Self
- A Life in Writing
- By: Hilary Mantel
- Narrated by: Anne Enright, Aurora Dawson Hunte, Ben Miles, and others
- Length: 15 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall49
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Performance43
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Story43
From her unique childhood to her all-consuming fascination with Thomas Cromwell that grew into the Wolf Hall Trilogy, Hilary Mantel had a celebrated career as a novelist. Alongside this, she long contributed to newspapers and journals, unspooling stories from her own life and illuminating the world as she found it. This strand of Hilary's writing was an integral part of how she thought of herself. 'Ink is a generative fluid,' she explains. 'If you don't mean your words to breed consequences, don't write at all.' A Memoir of My Former Self collects the finest of this writing over four decades.
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A great selection of a great writer's talent
- By Rachel Redford on 02-12-23
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A Memoir of My Former Self
- A Life in Writing
- Narrated by: Anne Enright, Aurora Dawson Hunte, Ben Miles, Bill Hamilton, Jane Wymark, Lydia Leonard, Nicholas Pearson, Sarah Waters
- Length: 15 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 19-10-23
- Language: English
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Journey of a Lifetime
- By: Alan Whicker
- Narrated by: Alan Whicker
- Length: 8 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall91
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Performance62
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Story63
This sumptuous book to accompany the major BBC TV series of the same name, is a glorious celebration of 50 years in front of the camera. For as long as most can remember, Whicker has roamed far and wide in search of the eccentric, the ludicrous and the socially-revealing aspects of everyday life as lived by some of the more colourful of the world's inhabitants.
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Entertaining and incisive
- By Kirstine on 23-11-14
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Journey of a Lifetime
- Narrated by: Alan Whicker
- Length: 8 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 22-09-09
- Language: English
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The House of Beckham
- Geld, Sex und Macht
- By: Tom Bower
- Narrated by: Dennis Wilkesmann
- Length: 19 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Der Schöne und das Biest - Der Blick hinter die Kulissen des Power-Paars David Beckham und Victoria Adams trafen sich Ende der 1990er-Jahre, als er ein aufstrebender Fußballer und sie noch ein Spice Girl war. Ein Vierteljahrhundert später ist das Ehepaar Beckham längst auf anderen Gebieten tätig: ihre Tätigkeiten als globale Stilikonen, Fashiondesigner und Marken-Testimonials lassen sie sich fürstlich bezahlen.
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The House of Beckham
- Geld, Sex und Macht
- Narrated by: Dennis Wilkesmann
- Length: 19 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 02-04-26
- Language: English
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The Autobiography of Mark Twain
- By: Mark Twain, Edited by Charles Neider - editor
- Narrated by: Michael Anthony
- Length: 20 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall9
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Performance5
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Here is one of the great autobiographies of the English language - exuberant, wonderfully contemporary in spirit, by a man twice as large as life who—he said so himself—had no trouble remembering everything that had ever happened to him and a lot of things besides.
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Hmm
- By Mister Peridot on 02-07-17
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The Autobiography of Mark Twain
- Narrated by: Michael Anthony
- Length: 20 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 27-01-11
- Language: English
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Hitch-22
- A Memoir
- By: Christopher Hitchens
- Narrated by: Christopher Hitchens
- Length: 17 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1,539
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Performance1,267
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Story1,259
In this long-awaited and candid memoir, Hitchens re-traces the footsteps of his life to date, from his childhood in Portsmouth, with his adoring, tragic mother and reserved Naval officer father; to his life in Washington DC, the base from which from he would launch fierce attacks on tyranny of all kinds. Along the way, he recalls the girls, boys and booze; the friendships and the feuds; the grand struggles and lost causes; and the mistakes and misgivings that have characterised his life.
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Honest but difficult listening
- By Penny on 18-06-16
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Hitch-22
- A Memoir
- Narrated by: Christopher Hitchens
- Length: 17 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 26-12-11
- Language: English
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On Writing
- A Memoir of the Craft
- By: Stephen King
- Narrated by: Stephen King, Joe Hill, Owen King
- Length: 9 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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CELEBRATING 50 YEARS OF WRITING with fresh testimonials from fellow writers about why they love Stephen King and On Writing—and a few new words on the joy of writing from King himself. *ONE OF TIME MAGAZINE’S TOP 100 NONFICTION BOOKS OF ALL TIME* Immensely helpful and illuminating to any...
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On Writing
- A Memoir of the Craft
- Narrated by: Stephen King, Joe Hill, Owen King
- Length: 9 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 04-10-00
- Language: English
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