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Tell Me the Truth About Love
- 13 Tales from Couples Therapy
- By: Susanna Abse
- Narrated by: Susanna Abse
- Length: 7 hrs and 27 mins
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Drawing on more than 30 years of therapeutic encounters with people facing hurdles in their love lives, former chair of the British Psychoanalytic Council Susanna Abse takes us deep inside one of the most fascinating realms there is: other people's relationships. From dealing with infidelity to navigating our changing role within a single relationship over the course of a lifetime, Tell Me the Truth About Love sheds vivid light on the human heart and its struggle to both embrace life's greatest gift and protect itself from pain.
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Fairly interesting, though the title is misleading
- By David M Sumner-Smith on 03-10-22
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Tell Me the Truth About Love
- 13 Tales from Couples Therapy
- Narrated by: Susanna Abse
- Length: 7 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 19-05-22
- Language: English
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Between Meals
- An Appetite for Paris
- By: A. J. Liebling
- Narrated by: Rory Alexander
- Length: 5 hrs and 20 mins
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While on a year of study in Paris in 1927, Liebling acquired the friendship and tutelage of Yves Mirande, 'one of the last great Gastronomes of France', beginning a joyous apprenticeship in the fine art of eating. Told with gluttonous joie de vivre, Between Meals expounds on the delights and pitfalls of a life dedicated to food, from bad rosé ('a pinkish cross between No-Cal and vinegar') to lobster a l'Américaine, to a memorable stay at a Swiss slimming-clinic with a masseur named Sprudli.
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Between Meals
- An Appetite for Paris
- Narrated by: Rory Alexander
- Length: 5 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 07-09-23
- Language: English
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There Are Places in the World Where Rules Are Less Important than Kindness
- By: Carlo Rovelli, Erica Segre, Simon Carnell
- Narrated by: Roy McMillan
- Length: 6 hrs and 22 mins
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One of our most beloved scientists, a fearless free spirit, Carlo Rovelli is also a masterful storyteller. In this collection of writings, the logbook of an intelligence always on the move, he follows his curiosity and invites us on a voyage through science, literature, philosophy and politics. Written with his usual clarity and wit, these pieces, most of which were first published in Italian newspapers, range widely across time and space....
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How joined up science can improve the world
- By papapownall on 28-11-20
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There Are Places in the World Where Rules Are Less Important than Kindness
- Narrated by: Roy McMillan
- Length: 6 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 05-11-20
- Language: English
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Make It Make Sense
- The Bedside Table Essential For Women In Their Twenties
- By: Bel Hawkins, Lucy Blakiston
- Narrated by: Bel Hawkins, Lucy Blakiston
- Length: 7 hrs and 3 mins
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S--t You Should Care about was launched as a WordPress blog by three best friends in the back of a political science lecture. Today it's a global ecosystem of content - two podcasts, 3.5 million Instagram followers and a daily newsy. They are your culture vultures, news agents and (reluctant) agony aunts all rolled into one. Make It Make Sense is a collage of cultural analysis, anecdotes, personal essays, poems, and lists, interplayed like a conversation between friends.
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Make It Make Sense
- The Bedside Table Essential For Women In Their Twenties
- Narrated by: Bel Hawkins, Lucy Blakiston
- Length: 7 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 19-09-24
- Language: English
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The Essays
- A Selection
- By: Michel Montaigne, M. A. Screech
- Narrated by: Thomas Judd
- Length: 16 hrs and 55 mins
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To overcome a crisis of melancholy after the death of his father, Montaigne withdrew to his country estates and began to write, and in the highly original essays that resulted he discussed themes such as fathers and children, conscience and cowardice, coaches and cannibals, and, above all, himself.
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Wonderful
- By BristolVoyage on 15-09-23
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The Essays
- A Selection
- Narrated by: Thomas Judd
- Length: 16 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 25-02-21
- Language: English
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Letters to a Young Contrarian
- By: Christopher Hitchens
- Narrated by: James Adams
- Length: 3 hrs and 40 mins
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In the book that he was born to write, provocateur and best-selling author Christopher Hitchens inspires future generations of radicals, gadflies, mavericks, rebels, angry young (wo)men, and dissidents. Who better to speak to that person who finds him or herself in a contrarian position than Hitchens, who has made a career of disagreeing in profound and entertaining ways.
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enjoyed this
- By Leo on 27-06-21
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Letters to a Young Contrarian
- Narrated by: James Adams
- Length: 3 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 07-07-20
- Language: English
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The Vast Extent
- On Seeing and Not Seeing Further
- By: Lavinia Greenlaw
- Narrated by: Lavinia Greenlaw
- Length: 9 hrs and 52 mins
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From the celebrated poet, novelist and memoirist, The Vast Extent is an ingenious constellation of "exploded essays" about light and image, seeing and the unseen. Each is a record of how thought builds and ideas emerge, aligning art, myth, strange voyages, scientific scrutiny and a poet's response so that they cast light upon each other. Ranging across caves, seasickness, early photography, boredom, wonder, mountains, mice, the body and its shadow, Lavinia Greenlaw invites us to travel such questions as how we might describe what we have never seen before.
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The Vast Extent
- On Seeing and Not Seeing Further
- Narrated by: Lavinia Greenlaw
- Length: 9 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 02-01-24
- Language: English
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A Guest at the Feast
- By: Colm Tóibín
- Narrated by: Colm Tóibín
- Length: 9 hrs and 37 mins
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In his essay about the life of Irish writer John McGahern, Tóibín reveals the tones of melancholy and amusement within both art and the artist. In his extraordinary essay on his cancer diagnosis, Tóibín unpicks the word 'battle', and illuminates the distress, horror and blankness of his experiences. From the shades of light and dark in a Venice without tourists, to the streets of Buenos Aires riddled with disappearances and tied up with dictators and politics, we find ourselves considering law and religion in Ireland as well as in Marilynne Robinson's fiction.
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Captivating series of essays read by the author
- By Miss A. Creamer on 08-09-23
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A Guest at the Feast
- Narrated by: Colm Tóibín
- Length: 9 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 03-11-22
- Language: English
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You’re Embarrassing Yourself
- By: Desiree Akhavan
- Narrated by: Desiree Akhavan
- Length: 5 hrs and 19 mins
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When it comes to shame, Desiree Akhavan knows what she’s talking about—whether it’s winning the title of The Ugliest Girl at her high school, acquiescing to the nose job she was lovingly forced into by her Iranian parents, or losing her virginity to a cokehead she met in a support group for cutters. In You're Embarrassing Yourself, Desiree goes to the rawest places—the lifelong struggle to be at peace in one’s body, the search for home as the child of immigrants, the anxious underbelly of artistic ambition—in pursuit of wisdom, catharsis, and lolz.
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You’re Embarrassing Yourself
- Narrated by: Desiree Akhavan
- Length: 5 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 13-08-24
- Language: English
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The Lion and the Unicorn
- By: George Orwell
- Narrated by: Peter Noble
- Length: 3 hrs and 1 min
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George Orwell's moving reflections on the English character and his passionate belief in the need for political change. 'The Lion and the Unicorn' was written in London during the worst period of the Blitz. It is vintage Orwell, a dynamic outline of his belief in socialism, patriotism and an English revolution. His fullest political statement, it has been described as 'one of the most moving and incisive portraits of the English character' and is as relevant now as it ever has been.
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The real Orwell
- By Marc on 24-11-22
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The Lion and the Unicorn
- Narrated by: Peter Noble
- Length: 3 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 07-01-22
- Language: English
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The View from the Cheap Seats
- Selected Nonfiction
- By: Neil Gaiman
- Narrated by: Neil Gaiman
- Length: 15 hrs and 29 mins
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The View from the Cheap Seats draws together, for the first time ever, myriad nonfiction writing by international phenomenon and Sunday Times best-selling author Neil Gaiman. From Make Good Art, the speech he gave at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia that went viral, to pieces on artists and legends including Terry Pratchett, Lou Reed and Ray Bradbury, the collection offers a glimpse into the head and heart of one of the most acclaimed writers of our time.
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Moving, beautiful and always funny
- By Josh McCullough on 23-09-16
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The View from the Cheap Seats
- Selected Nonfiction
- Narrated by: Neil Gaiman
- Length: 15 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 31-05-16
- Language: English
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Too Famous
- The Rich, the Powerful, the Wishful, the Damned, the Notorious - Twenty Years of Columns, Essays and Reporting
- By: Michael Wolff
- Narrated by: Holter Graham
- Length: 12 hrs and 51 mins
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Best-selling author of Fire and Fury, Siege and Landslide and chronicler of the Trump White House Michael Wolff dissects more of the major monsters, media moguls and vainglorious figures of our time. His scalpel opens their lives, careers and always equivocal endgames with the same vividness and wit he brought to his evisceration of the former president. These brilliant and biting profiles form a mesmerising portrait of the hubris, overreach and periodic self-destruction of some of the most famous faces of the last 20 years.
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Disappointing
- By Peter F. on 02-11-21
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Too Famous
- The Rich, the Powerful, the Wishful, the Damned, the Notorious - Twenty Years of Columns, Essays and Reporting
- Narrated by: Holter Graham
- Length: 12 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 02-11-21
- Language: English
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In Pursuit of Happiness
- Mating, Marriage, Motherhood, Money, Mayhem
- By: Stacey Duguid
- Narrated by: Stacey Duguid
- Length: 11 hrs and 4 mins
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Three years ago, Stacey Duguid's happily ever after imploded messily, snottily, disastrously, and she is still clearing up the debris. The dream marriage she'd spent an entire lifetime pursuing shattered, leaving her half a person and angry. Who suggested 'happily ever after' was even a given thing? In this collection of essays, Stacey draws upon her own life to touch upon everything taboo today: divorce, dating and sex in mid-life, affairs, miscarriage, drugs, and challenges the societal expectations and ideologies of needing a partner to live a full life.
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Loved it
- By Mac on 29-02-24
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In Pursuit of Happiness
- Mating, Marriage, Motherhood, Money, Mayhem
- Narrated by: Stacey Duguid
- Length: 11 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 14-09-23
- Language: English
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Run Towards the Danger
- Conversations with a Body of Memory
- By: Sarah Polley
- Narrated by: Sarah Polley
- Length: 7 hrs and 56 mins
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Sarah Polley's work as an actor, screenwriter and director is celebrated for its honesty, complexity and deep humanity. She brings all those qualities, along with her exquisite storytelling chops, to these six essays. Each one captures a piece of Polley's life as she remembers it, while at the same time examining the fallibility of memory, the mutability of reality in the mind, and the possibility of experiencing the past anew, as the person she is now but was not then. As Polley writes, the past and present are in a “reciprocal pressure dance”.
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Thorough self investigation
- By Joana P. R. Neves on 21-12-23
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Run Towards the Danger
- Conversations with a Body of Memory
- Narrated by: Sarah Polley
- Length: 7 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 29-07-22
- Language: English
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On Connection
- By: Kae Tempest
- Narrated by: Kae Tempest
- Length: 2 hrs and 28 mins
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This is a meditation on the power of creative connection. Drawing on 20 years' experience as a writer and performer, Kae Tempest explores how and why creativity - however we choose to practise it - can cultivate greater self-awareness and help us establish a deeper relationship to ourselves and the world. Honest, tender and written with piercing clarity, On Connection is a call to arms that speaks to a universal yet intimate truth.
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Impassioned brilliance- this is the beautiful thing
- By Pixieface on 17-10-20
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On Connection
- Narrated by: Kae Tempest
- Length: 2 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 29-09-20
- Language: English
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Further Under the Duvet
- By: Marian Keyes
- Narrated by: Catriona Keyes
- Length: 11 hrs and 7 mins
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Slide "Further Under the Duvet", get yourself comfortable, and let Marian take you places you've never been before. Places like the Irish air-guitar championships, a shopping trip to Bloomingdales with a difference, and Cannes with a chronic case of Villa-itis. Along the way you'll encounter knicker-politics, fake tans, sticky-out ears and passionate love affairs both with make-up and Toblerones.
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further under the duvet
- By Annette on 20-08-06
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Further Under the Duvet
- Narrated by: Catriona Keyes
- Length: 11 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 08-06-06
- Language: English
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Migraine
- By: Oliver Sacks
- Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
- Length: 12 hrs and 45 mins
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Migraine is an age-old – the first recorded instances date back over two thousand years – and often debilitating condition, affecting a 'substantial minority' of the population across the globe. In Migraine, Oliver Sacks offers at once a medical account of its occurrence and management; an exploration of its physical, physiological, and psychological underpinnings and consequences; and a meditation on the nature and experience of health and illness.
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Very interesting view on the problem
- By Anonymous User on 11-11-22
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Migraine
- Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
- Length: 12 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 10-01-19
- Language: English
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The Periodic Table
- By: Primo Levi
- Narrated by: Neville Jason
- Length: 9 hrs and 32 mins
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The Periodic Table by Primo Levi is an impassioned response to the Holocaust: Consisting of 21 short stories, each possessing the name of a chemical element, the collection tells of the author's experiences as a Jewish-Italian chemist before, during, and after Auschwitz in luminous, clear, and unfailingly beautiful prose. It has been named the best science book ever by the Royal Institution of Great Britain and is considered to be Levi's crowning achievement.
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Returno to Torino
- By Welsh Mafia on 24-06-16
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The Periodic Table
- Narrated by: Neville Jason
- Length: 9 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 07-12-15
- Language: English
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Funny Weather
- Art in an Emergency
- By: Olivia Laing
- Narrated by: Sophie Aldred
- Length: 9 hrs and 41 mins
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Funny Weather brings together a career’s worth of Laing’s writing about art and culture, examining its role in our political and emotional lives. She profiles Jean-Michel Basquiat and Georgia O’Keefe, interviews Hilary Mantel and Ali Smith, writes love letters to David Bowie and Freddie Mercury, and explores loneliness and technology, women and alcohol, sex and the body.
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A wonderful inspiring hopeful read
- By Anonymous User on 10-08-20
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Funny Weather
- Art in an Emergency
- Narrated by: Sophie Aldred
- Length: 9 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 16-04-20
- Language: English
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The Road to Wigan Pier
- By: George Orwell
- Narrated by: Jeremy Northam
- Length: 7 hrs and 37 mins
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A graphic and biting polemic that still holds a fierce political relevance and impact despite being written over half a century ago. First published in 1937 it charts George Orwell's observations of working-class life during the 1930s in the industrial heartlands of Yorkshire and Lancashire. His depictions of social injustice and rising unemployment, the dangerous working conditions in the mines amid general squalor and hunger also bring together many of the ideas explored in his later works and novels.
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Censored? A classic?
- By boudica on 17-08-18
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The Road to Wigan Pier
- Narrated by: Jeremy Northam
- Length: 7 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 08-03-12
- Language: English
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