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Fierce Poise
- Helen Frankenthaler and 1950s New York
- By: Alexander Nemerov
- Narrated by: Alison Fraser
- Length: 8 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4
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Performance4
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A National Book Critics Circle finalist One of Vogue's Best Books of the Year A dazzling biography of one of the twentieth century's most respected painters, Helen Frankenthaler, as she came of age as an artist in postwar New York “The magic of Alexander Nemerov's portrait of Helen...
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Not sure I learned so much
- By Optimistic fool on 19-02-23
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Fierce Poise
- Helen Frankenthaler and 1950s New York
- Narrated by: Alison Fraser
- Length: 8 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 23-03-21
- Language: English
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The Making of Poetry
- Coleridge, the Wordsworths and Their Year of Marvels
- By: Adam Nicolson
- Narrated by: Roger Davis
- Length: 12 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall27
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Performance25
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Story24
SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD 2019 Wordsworth and Coleridge as you’ve never seen them before in this new book by Adam Nicolson, brimming with poetry, art and nature writing. Proof that poetry can change the world. It is the most famous year in English poetry. Out of it came The...
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Immersion achieved
- By Mr. P. G. Harris on 23-10-19
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The Making of Poetry
- Coleridge, the Wordsworths and Their Year of Marvels
- Narrated by: Roger Davis
- Length: 12 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 30-05-19
- Language: English
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Flesh
- ‘A powerful and incredibly validating feminist read’ Lili Reinhart
- By: Charli Howard
- Narrated by: Charli Howard
- Length: 7 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1
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Performance1
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Choose yourself. Reclaim your body. Become whole. The deeply personal and uniquely empowering call to arms from author, model and activist, Charli Howard. 'Powerful and incredibly validating' Lily Reinhart 'Extraordinary' Glamour 'Fierce and tender' Yrsa Daley-Ward 'Urgent and timely' Emma...
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Love this book!
- By GracusRomanus on 15-03-26
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Flesh
- ‘A powerful and incredibly validating feminist read’ Lili Reinhart
- Narrated by: Charli Howard
- Length: 7 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 05-03-26
- Language: English
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No One Round Here Reads Tolstoy
- Memoirs of a Working-Class Reader
- By: Mark Hodkinson
- Narrated by: Mark Hodkinson
- Length: 11 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall29
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Performance25
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Story24
Mark Hodkinson grew up among the terrace houses of Rochdale in a house with just one book. His dad kept it on top of a wardrobe with other items of great worth - wedding photographs and Mark's National Cycling Proficiency certificate. If Mark wanted to read it, he was warned not to crease the pages or slam shut the covers. Today, Mark is an author, journalist and publisher. He still lives in Rochdale but is now snugly ensconced (or is that buried?) in a 'book cave' surrounded by 3,500 titles - at the last count.
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A Paean to Reading
- By Mrs. Ann M. Mcmahon on 05-03-22
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No One Round Here Reads Tolstoy
- Memoirs of a Working-Class Reader
- Narrated by: Mark Hodkinson
- Length: 11 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 03-02-22
- Language: English
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Georgia O'Keeffe
- A Life
- By: Roxana Robinson
- Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne
- Length: 29 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall7
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Performance7
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When Roxana Robinson’s definitive biography of O’Keeffe was first published in 1989, it received rave reviews and was named a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. This new edition features a new foreword by the author, setting O’Keefe in an artistic context over the last thirty years since the book was first published, as well as previously unpublished letters of the young O’Keeffe to her lover, Arthur MacMahon. This book also relates the story of Robinson’s own encounter with the artist.
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Awfully written and far too long winded. Avoid unless you have trouble sleeping.
- By Alison Druce on 03-01-25
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Georgia O'Keeffe
- A Life
- Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne
- Length: 29 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 20-12-22
- Language: English
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Eminent Victorians
- By: Lytton Strachey
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 11 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall7
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Performance6
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Story6
Eminent Victorians, Lytton Strachey's wonderfully witty and Wildean quartet of biographies, stands out as one of the most radical and groundbreaking works of its genre. With relentless precision, Strachey explores the lives of four exemplars of the Victorian age: Cardinal Manning, Florence Nightingale, Thomas Arnold and General Gordon, irreverently bringing to light the flaws, strengths, ambitions and hypocrisies of these treasured legends.
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narration marred by mispronunciations
- By Saba Risaluddin on 30-06-25
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Eminent Victorians
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 11 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 26-10-20
- Language: English
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House of Glass
- The story and secrets of a twentieth-century Jewish family
- By: Hadley Freeman
- Narrated by: Hadley Freeman
- Length: 10 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall401
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Performance336
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Story332
The Sunday Times bestseller ‘An utterly engrossing book’ Nigella Lawson ‘Remarkable and gripping’ Edmund de Waal 'A near-perfect study of Jewish identity in the 20th century … I don’t hesitate to call it a masterpiece’ Telegraph After her grandmother died, Hadley Freeman travelled...
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Great story but better read than listened to
- By LPD on 03-06-20
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House of Glass
- The story and secrets of a twentieth-century Jewish family
- Narrated by: Hadley Freeman
- Length: 10 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 05-03-20
- Language: English
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Dry
- A Memoir
- By: Augusten Burroughs
- Narrated by: Augusten Burroughs
- Length: 8 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall276
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Performance235
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Story235
From the New York Times Bestselling author of Running With Scissors comes the story of one man trying to out-drink his memories, outlast his demons, and outrun his past. "I was addicted to "Bewitched" as a kid. I worshipped Darren Stevens the First. When he'd come home from work and Samantha...
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listened twice. love it.
- By G M F on 12-04-18
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Dry
- A Memoir
- Narrated by: Augusten Burroughs
- Length: 8 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 20-06-03
- Language: English
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Dickens the Enchanter
- Inside the Explosive Imagination of the Great Storyteller
- By: Peter Conrad
- Narrated by: David Rintoul, Peter Conrad
- Length: 12 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3
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Performance3
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Bloomsbury presents Dickens the Enchanter: Inside the Explosive Imagination of the Great Storyteller by Peter Conrad, read by David Rintoul and Peter Conrad A kaleidoscopic investigation of Dickens’s imagination and the world he created. See Dickens as never before in this creative biography...
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Dickens the Enchanter
- Inside the Explosive Imagination of the Great Storyteller
- Narrated by: David Rintoul, Peter Conrad
- Length: 12 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 27-02-25
- Language: English
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Wainwright: The Biography
- By: Hunter Davies
- Narrated by: Stephen Thorne
- Length: 12 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Overall68
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Performance63
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Story62
Alfred Wainwright's unique hand-drawn and hand-written Pictorial Guides to the Lakeland Fells have been an inspiration to walkers for over 40 years. Yet despite many bestselling books and three television series, Wainwright remained an intensely private person. With full access to Alfred Wainwright's private letters and unpublished material, Hunter Davies reveals a man more passionate, witty and generous than readers of his guides have come to expect.
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Great overview of everything Wainwright
- By Debbieanne on 06-11-20
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Wainwright: The Biography
- Narrated by: Stephen Thorne
- Length: 12 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 01-03-13
- Language: English
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The Mighty Dead
- Why Homer Matters
- By: Adam Nicolson
- Narrated by: Dugald Bruce Lockhart
- Length: 9 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall62
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Performance49
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Story49
Longlisted for the 2014 Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction (now the Bailie Gifford) ‘A thrilling and complex book, enlarges our view of Homer … There’s something that hits the mark on every page’ Claire Tomalin, Books of the Year, New Statesman Where does Homer come from? And why does...
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Fascinating book, woeful narration
- By Steven on 27-08-16
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The Mighty Dead
- Why Homer Matters
- Narrated by: Dugald Bruce Lockhart
- Length: 9 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 26-02-15
- Language: English
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A Tale of Love and Darkness
- By: Amos Oz
- Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
- Length: 23 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall103
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Performance94
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Story95
It is the story of a boy growing up in the war-torn Jerusalem of the 40s and 50s in a small apartment crowded with books in 12 languages and relatives speaking nearly as many. His mother and father, both wonderful people, were ill-suited to each other. When Oz was 12 and a half years old, his mother committed suicide - a tragedy that was to change his life. He leaves the constraints of the family and the community of dreamers, scholars, and failed businessmen to join a kibbutz.
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Epic story of last 150 years of Israel
- By Allan O. on 19-10-20
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A Tale of Love and Darkness
- Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
- Length: 23 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 04-10-16
- Language: English
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Blythe Spirit
- The Remarkable Life of Ronald Blythe: WINNER OF THE NEW ANGLE PRIZE 2025
- By: Ian Collins
- Narrated by: David Holt
- Length: 13 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall8
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Performance7
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'Tender and revelatory, Blythe Spirit gives us both the patron saint of the English countryside and a frank portrait of a complex figure' MARK COCKER, COUNTRY LIFE BOOKS OF THE YEAR 'Moving, candid, vivid, it is all that we could hope for in a memoir of this unique and treasured writer' ROWAN...
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A marvellous biography
- By rosy on 08-03-26
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Blythe Spirit
- The Remarkable Life of Ronald Blythe: WINNER OF THE NEW ANGLE PRIZE 2025
- Narrated by: David Holt
- Length: 13 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 07-11-24
- Language: English
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The Orientalist
- Solving the Mystery of a Strange and Dangerous Life
- By: Tom Reiss
- Narrated by: Paul Michael
- Length: 15 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall14
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Performance13
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Part history, part cultural biography, and part literary mystery, The Orientalist traces the life of Lev Nussimbaum, a Jew who transformed himself into a Muslim prince and became a best-selling author in Nazi Germany. Born in 1905 to a wealthy family in the oil-boom city of Baku, at the edge...
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The Orientalist
- Solving the Mystery of a Strange and Dangerous Life
- Narrated by: Paul Michael
- Length: 15 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 04-04-17
- Language: English
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Lonesome Traveler
- By: Jack Kerouac
- Narrated by: Andrew Eiden
- Length: 5 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall2
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Performance2
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In his first autobiographical work, Jack Kerouac reveals exhilarating stories of the years he spent traveling, while writing his acclaimed novels. His journeys took him from California deserts crisscrossed by train tracks to the bullfights of Mexico to the Beat nightlife of New York City and across the Atlantic to Paris, Morocco, and London. He also writes about relationship, jobs, and the nature of life on the road. Here are echoes of landscapes that appear in some of his novels, including The Dharma Bums and Desolation Angels.
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Lonesome Traveler
- Narrated by: Andrew Eiden
- Length: 5 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 15-07-25
- Language: English
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Making History
- The Storytellers Who Shaped the Past
- By: Richard Cohen
- Narrated by: Richard Cohen
- Length: 26 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall11
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Performance10
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'A huge, fizzing omnium-gatherum of a book . . . marvellous' Daily Telegraph 'Witty, wise and elegant . . . a classic of history itself' The Spectator 'Grave and witty, suave yet pointed . . . full of energy' Hilary Mantel 'An enthralling investigation . . . consistently entertaining' The Times...
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An education and a pleasure for your mind
- By Julian Hughes on 15-06-22
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Making History
- The Storytellers Who Shaped the Past
- Narrated by: Richard Cohen
- Length: 26 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 17-03-22
- Language: English
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Meet the Georgians
- Epic Tales from Britain’s Wildest Century
- By: Robert Peal
- Narrated by: Nicola Coughlan, Adjoa Andoh, Ash Hunter
- Length: 8 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall32
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Performance30
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‘The way Robert Peal describes Georgian England, you’d be mad not to want to live there yourself’ GUARDIAN Anne Bonny and Mary Read, pirate queens of the Caribbean Tipu Sultan, the Indian ruler who kept the British at bay Olaudah Equiano, the former slave whose story shocked the world Mary...
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Interesting but glib
- By Liz on 10-08-21
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Meet the Georgians
- Epic Tales from Britain’s Wildest Century
- Narrated by: Nicola Coughlan, Adjoa Andoh, Ash Hunter
- Length: 8 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 08-07-21
- Language: English
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Boy in a China Shop
- Perfect for fans of THE GREAT POTTERY THROW DOWN and OUR WELSH CHAPEL DREAM
- By: Keith Brymer Jones
- Narrated by: Keith Brymer Jones
- Length: 7 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall286
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Performance260
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Story259
The inspirational memoir from the star of OUR WELSH CHAPEL DREAM and THE GREAT POTTERY THROWDOWN Readers LOVE Boy In A China Shop: 'What a brilliant book. Keith is so charming and funny and my goodness what a hard worker. I loved it. Get it and read it - enjoy.' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'This book was...
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Genuinely surprised, in a good way
- By stu on 26-06-22
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Boy in a China Shop
- Perfect for fans of THE GREAT POTTERY THROW DOWN and OUR WELSH CHAPEL DREAM
- Narrated by: Keith Brymer Jones
- Length: 7 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 03-02-22
- Language: English
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Masquerade
- The Lives of Noël Coward
- By: Oliver Soden
- Narrated by: Oliver Soden
- Length: 22 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall39
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Performance35
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Story34
'This is the biography - truthful, sympathetic and thorough - that Coward deserves' DAILY TELEGRAPH The voice, the dressing-gown, the cigarette in its holder, remain unmistakable. There is rarely a week when one of Private Lives, Hay Fever, and Blithe Spirit is not in production somewhere in the...
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Interesting in parts but long winded in places.
- By Alison St Pierre on 21-04-23
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Masquerade
- The Lives of Noël Coward
- Narrated by: Oliver Soden
- Length: 22 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 16-03-23
- Language: English
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Mad World
- Evelyn Waugh and the Secrets of Brideshead
- By: Paula Byrne
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 15 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall48
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Performance40
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Story40
A terrifically engaging and original biography about one of England’s greatest novelists, and the glamorous, eccentric, debauched and ultimately tragic family that provided him with the most significant friendships of his life and inspired his masterpiece, “Brideshead Revisited”. Evelyn...
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Engrossing for fans of Waugh
- By Paul Jesson on 08-04-23
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Mad World
- Evelyn Waugh and the Secrets of Brideshead
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 15 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 19-08-21
- Language: English
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