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    • 5 out of 5 stars 69 ratings
    • William Hanson and Jordan North are unlikely best friends. William's a posh etiquette expert, and Jordan's an expert in all things common. In this hit...
    • By: Alan Partridge
    • Narrated by: Alan Partridge
    • Length: 6 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 30-09-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 9,687 ratings
    • Journalist, presenter, broadcaster, husband, father, vigorous all-rounder – Alan Partridge – a man with a fascinating past and an amazing future....

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    • My Very Funny Memoir
    • By: Jenny Eclair
    • Narrated by: Jenny Eclair
    • Length: 10 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 03-10-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 159 ratings
    • Daughter of Major Derek Hargreaves (spy?) and June Hargreaves (spy's wife?) sister of Sara (born to be Head Girl) and Ben (the usurper), Jenny's comedy career took off via drama school, cider, sausage rolls, sleeping with men who looked like they lived under a carpet, punk poetry, anorexia,...

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    • By: Jarvis Cocker
    • Narrated by: Jarvis Cocker
    • Length: 6 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 26-05-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 871 ratings
    • We all have a random collection of the things that made us—photos, tickets, clothes, souvenirs, stuffed in a box, packed in a suitcase, crammed into a drawer....

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    • By: Daisy May Cooper
    • Narrated by: Daisy May Cooper, Paul Cooper
    • Length: 7 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 28-10-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,524 ratings
    • Life hasn't always been straightforward for Daisy May Cooper: growing up in rural poverty in Gloucestershire with her brother, Chaz, she had to work a myriad of low-paid and unrewarding jobs just to make ends meet....

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    • By: Chris Broad
    • Narrated by: Chris Broad
    • Length: 8 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 05-10-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,045 ratings
    • When Englishman Chris Broad landed in a rural village in northern Japan he wondered if he'd made a huge mistake. With no knowledge of the language and zero teaching experience, was he was about to be the most quickly fired English teacher in Japan's history....

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    • Learning to live again
    • By: Louise Thompson
    • Narrated by: Louise Thompson
    • Length: 6 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 23-05-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 462 ratings
    • Louise was like any other excited mother-to-be during her first pregnancy, but no one could have predicted what happened when she gave birth. During an emergency c-section, she had severe complications and fought for her life over a number of days, whilst her son was taken into NICU....

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    • Unexpected Truths About Fulfilment, Love and Success
    • By: Steven Bartlett
    • Narrated by: Steven Bartlett
    • Length: 4 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 25-03-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,750 ratings
    • We are losing ourselves. We're chasing the wrong things, asking the wrong questions, and polluting our minds. It's time to stop, it's time to resist and it's time to rethink the fundamental social blueprint that our lives are built upon....

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    • How ’90s TV (Almost) Prepared Me for Life
    • By: Josh Widdicombe
    • Narrated by: James Acaster, Josh Widdicombe
    • Length: 9 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 16-09-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,116 ratings
    • In his first memoir, Josh Widdicombe tells the story of a strange rural childhood, the kind of childhood he only realised was weird when he left home and started telling people about it....

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    • A Comedian's Guide to Autism
    • By: Pierre Novellie
    • Narrated by: Pierre Novellie
    • Length: 10 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 18-07-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 146 ratings
    • Comedian Pierre Novellie was on stage when a heckler suggested he was autistic. Usually, this disruption would be water off a duck's back but two things made this heckler different: first, he was himself autistic. Second, he turned out to be absolutely right....

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    • Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression - and the Unexpected Solutions
    • By: Johann Hari
    • Narrated by: Johann Hari
    • Length: 9 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 23-01-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4,265 ratings
    • From the New York Times best-selling author of Chasing the Scream, a radically new way of thinking about depression and anxiety....

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    • My Autobiography
    • By: Limmy
    • Narrated by: Limmy
    • Length: 8 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 21-02-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4,946 ratings
    • Hello! I’m Brian Limond, aka Limmy. You might know me from Limmy’s Show. Or you might not know me at all. Don’t worry if you don’t....

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    • My Journey from Cancer, to Near Death, to True Healing
    • By: Anita Moorjani
    • Narrated by: Anita Moorjani
    • Length: 7 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 08-03-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 101 ratings
    • In this book, Anita shares how after fighting cancer for almost four years, her body began shutting down. As her organs failed, she entered into an extraordinary near-death experience where she would realize her inherent worth and the actual cause of her disease.

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    • A True Story of Betrayal and a Shocking Family Secret
    • By: Helen Naylor
    • Narrated by: Helen Naylor
    • Length: 10 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 25-11-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 210 ratings
    • My Mother, Munchausen’s and Me is a heartbreaking, honest, and brave account of a daughter unravelling the truth about her mother and herself. It’s a story of a stolen childhood, mental illness, and the redemptive power of breaking a complex and toxic bond....

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    • How One Woman Stopped Drinking and Started Living
    • By: Clare Pooley
    • Narrated by: Karen Cass
    • Length: 10 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 28-12-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,143 ratings
    • Like many women, Clare Pooley found the juggle of a stressful career and family life a struggle, so she left her successful career to look after her family....

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    • Memoirs of a Car Tragic
    • By: Chris Harris
    • Narrated by: Chris Harris
    • Length: 5 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 09-11-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 356 ratings
    • Chris Harris has driven more cars than most people could ever dream of. His vast knowledge is legendary. And now for the first time, Harris is going all out, taking us down the road of his life-long adventure with the automobile....

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    • By: Cathy Glass
    • Narrated by: DeNica Fairman
    • Length: 7 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 31-08-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 72 ratings
    • Damian longs for home, but one man stands in his way....

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    • By: Marian Keyes
    • Narrated by: Marian Keyes
    • Length: 6 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 14-02-08
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 204 ratings
    • Many think that Marian leads a glitzy life of limos, television, and showbiz parties - but she would argue that she spends the majority of her life writing alone, wearing her PJs....

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    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • No gimmicks; just Great Company.Join Jamie every Wednesday as he's joined by great guests for great conversation: it's GREAT COMPANYA JamPot Original ...
    • Thrown Away Children, Book 1
    • By: Louise Allen
    • Narrated by: Melanie Crawley
    • Series: Thrown Away Children, Book 1
    • Length: 8 hrs
    • Release date: 08-07-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 141 ratings
    • In her brand-new series Thrown Away Children, Louise Allen shares the harrowing stories she is exposed to as a foster mother. The first in the series, Stella's Story, tells the astonishing true story of a young girl scarred by an abusive past....

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