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Michelangelo, God's Architect
- The Story of His Final Years and Greatest Masterpiece
- By: William E. Wallace
- Narrated by: Simon Callow
- Length: 8 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall16
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Performance14
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Story14
Michelangelo, God's Architect is the first book to tell the full story of Michelangelo's final two decades, when the peerless artist refashioned himself into the master architect of St. Peter’s Basilica and other major buildings. When the Pope handed Michelangelo control of the St. Peter’s project in 1546, it was a study in architectural mismanagement, plagued by flawed design and faulty engineering.
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A captivating read by Simon Callow
- By Audio addict on 29-11-19
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Michelangelo, God's Architect
- The Story of His Final Years and Greatest Masterpiece
- Narrated by: Simon Callow
- Length: 8 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 15-10-19
- Language: English
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Philip Larkin
- Life, Art and Love
- By: James Booth
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
- Length: 19 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall21
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Performance20
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Story21
Philip Larkin (1922-1985) is one of the most beloved poets in English. Yet after his death a largely negative image of the man himself took hold; he has been portrayed as a racist, a misogynist and a narcissist. Now Larkin scholar James Booth, for seventeen years a colleague of the poet's at the University of Hull, offers a very different portrait. Drawn from years of research and a wide variety of Larkin's friends and correspondents, this is the most comprehensive portrait of the poet yet published.
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Good literary analysis embedded in a grating hagiography
- By Aravis on 26-06-15
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Philip Larkin
- Life, Art and Love
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
- Length: 19 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 04-11-14
- Language: English
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A Moment of War
- By: Laurie Lee
- Narrated by: David Sibley
- Length: 4 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall31
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Performance28
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Story27
Brought to you by Penguin. A Moment of War is the powerful and harrowing final book in Laurie Lee's acclaimed trilogy that began with Cider with Rosie Laurie Lee was still a young man when he decided to fight for the Republican cause in Spain's civil war. But though he braved icy, storm-swept...
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historic masterpiece
- By Ralph Welsman on 25-12-23
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A Moment of War
- Narrated by: David Sibley
- Series: Cider with Rosie, Book 3
- Length: 4 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 24-03-22
- Language: English
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Speak Memory
- An Autobiography Revisited
- By: Vladimir Nabokov
- Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
- Length: 9 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall75
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Performance59
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Story58
Speak, Memory, first published in 1951 as Conclusive Evidence and then assiduously revised in 1966, is an elegant and rich evocation of Nabokov’s life and times, even as it offers incisive insights into his major works, including Lolita, Pnin, Despair, The Gift, The Real Life of Sebastian Knight, and The Luhzin Defense.
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Great!
- By Hussain on 13-04-13
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Speak Memory
- An Autobiography Revisited
- Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
- Length: 9 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 23-11-10
- Language: English
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Girl With Dove
- A Life Built By Books
- By: Sally Bayley
- Length: 7 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall7
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Performance7
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Story7
‘The word “mesmerising” is frequently applied to memoirs, but seldom as deservedly as in the case of Girl With Dove’ Financial Times ‘Reading is a form of escape and an avid reader is an escape artist…’ Brilliantly original, funny and clever Honor Clark, Spectator, Book of the Year...
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Incantatory story of becoming
- By Fair_enough on 13-12-20
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Girl With Dove
- A Life Built By Books
- Length: 7 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 18-05-18
- Language: English
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BAD BLOOD
- By: Lorna Sage
- Narrated by: Jenny Agutter
- Length: 3 hrs and 1 min
- Abridged
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Overall45
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Performance36
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Story36
From a childhood of gothic proportions in a vicarage on the Welsh borders, through adolescence, leaving herself teetering on the brink of the 1960's, Lorna Sage vividly and wittily brings to life a vanished time and place and illuminates the lives of three generations of women. Lorna Sage’s...
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Slow read
- By prinders on 13-01-15
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BAD BLOOD
- Narrated by: Jenny Agutter
- Length: 3 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 04-03-11
- Language: English
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Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
- By: Jeanette Winterson
- Narrated by: Jeanette Winterson
- Length: 6 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1,278
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Performance1,100
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Story1,096
When Jeanette Winterson left home at 16 because she was in love with a woman, Mrs. Winterson asked her: "Why be happy when you could be normal?" This book is the story of a life's work to find happiness. It is the story of how the painful past returned to haunt Jeanette's later life, and send her on a journey into madness and out again, in search of her real mother. It is also a book about other people's stories, showing how fiction and poetry can form a string of guiding lights, a life raft which supports us when we are sinking.
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Oranges Is Not The Only Book
- By Blake's Tyger on 23-12-12
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Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
- Narrated by: Jeanette Winterson
- Length: 6 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 12-03-12
- Language: English
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The Man with the Golden Typewriter
- By: Ian Fleming, Fergus Fleming
- Narrated by: Julian Rhind-Tutt
- Length: 13 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall40
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Performance39
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Story38
On 16 August 1952, Ian Fleming wrote to his wife, Ann, "My love, This is only a tiny letter to try out my new typewriter and to see if it will write golden words since it is made of gold". And he did write golden words: 14 best-selling James Bond books and an equally energetic flow of letters to his wife, publisher, editors, fans, friends and critics, charting 007's progress....
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Fleming, the man, so likable and charming
- By SirChutney on 02-12-18
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The Man with the Golden Typewriter
- Narrated by: Julian Rhind-Tutt
- Length: 13 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 03-11-15
- Language: English
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Toni at Random
- The Iconic Writer’s Legendary Editorship
- By: Dana A. Williams
- Narrated by: Deanna Anthony
- Length: 10 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1
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Performance1
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NPR SPRING PICK An insightful exploration that unveils the lesser-known dimensions of this legendary writer and her legacy, revealing the cultural icon’s profound impact as a visionary editor who helped define an important period in American publishing and literature. A multifaceted genius...
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Toni at Random
- The Iconic Writer’s Legendary Editorship
- Narrated by: Deanna Anthony
- Length: 10 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 17-06-25
- Language: English
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Everything is Everything
- As seen on BBC's CLIVE MYRIE'S CARIBBEAN ADVENTURE
- By: Clive Myrie
- Narrated by: Clive Myrie
- Length: 9 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall266
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Performance255
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Story256
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING MEMOIR, NOW UPDATED WITH NEW MATERIAL Readers LOVE Everything is Everything: 'Clive Myrie is one heck of an author' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'Well written and thought provoking. One to come back to again' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'Thoughtful, analytical, deeply caring and, at times...
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Riveting book. Highly recommended
- By Amazon Customer on 18-09-23
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Everything is Everything
- As seen on BBC's CLIVE MYRIE'S CARIBBEAN ADVENTURE
- Narrated by: Clive Myrie
- Length: 9 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 14-09-23
- Language: English
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Radical Wordsworth
- The Poet Who Changed the World
- By: Jonathan Bate
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 16 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall37
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Performance35
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Story35
A Times and Sunday Times Best Book of 2020 ‘Radical Wordsworth deserves to take its place as the finest modern introduction to his work, life and impact’ Financial Times ‘Richly repays reading … It is hard to think of another poet who has changed our world so much’ Sunday Times A...
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Wordsworth explained
- By Mrs J West on 01-05-22
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Radical Wordsworth
- The Poet Who Changed the World
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 16 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 02-04-20
- Language: English
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Awake!
- William Blake and the Power of the Imagination
- By: Mark Vernon
- Narrated by: Michael Page
- Length: 8 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5
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Performance5
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Story5
In the 200 years since Blake's death, the visionary artist, poet, and writer has become a household name, often beloved. Yet many struggle to comprehend his kaleidoscopic ideas; how they speak to human longings and the challenges of living in anxious times. Philosopher and psychotherapist Mark Vernon provides a fresh route into Blake, taking him at his word.
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Great book - lifeless reading
- By Andrew Marathia on 29-12-25
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Awake!
- William Blake and the Power of the Imagination
- Narrated by: Michael Page
- Length: 8 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 09-12-25
- Language: English
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The Many Lives of Anne Frank
- By: Ruth Franklin
- Narrated by: Erin Bennett
- Length: 12 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall2
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Performance2
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In this innovative biography, Ruth Franklin explores the transformation of Anne Frank (1929–1945) from ordinary teenager to icon, shedding new light on the young woman whose diary of her years in hiding, now translated into more than seventy languages, is the most widely read work of literature to arise from the Holocaust. Comprehensively researched but experimental in spirit, this book chronicles and interprets Anne’s life as a Jew in Amsterdam during World War II while also telling the story of the diary—its multiple drafts, its discovery, its reception, and its message for today’s world.
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Important take on a well known life
- By cat38 on 23-02-26
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The Many Lives of Anne Frank
- Narrated by: Erin Bennett
- Length: 12 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 27-01-25
- 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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Overall284
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Performance258
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Story257
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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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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Overall1
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Performance1
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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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Somewhere Towards the End
- By: Diana Athill
- Narrated by: Claire Bloom
- Length: 4 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall49
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Performance29
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Story29
What is it like to be old? Diana Athill, born in 1917, made her reputation as a writer with the candour of her memoirs. In Somewhere Towards the End she reflects frankly on the losses and occasionally the gains that old age brings, and on the wisdom and fortitude required to face death. This is a lively narrative of events, lovers and friendships: the people and experiences that have taight her to regret very little, to resist despondency and to question the beliefs and customs of her own generation.
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An interesting perspective of ageing and death.
- By Alison St Pierre on 18-09-12
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Somewhere Towards the End
- Narrated by: Claire Bloom
- Length: 4 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 29-04-09
- Language: English
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The Fortunate Pilgrim
- By: Mario Puzo
- Narrated by: John Kenneth
- Length: 9 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall31
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Performance28
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Story28
Lucia Santa has traveled 3,000 miles of dark ocean, from the mountain farms of Italy to the streets of New York, hoping for a better life. Instead, she finds herself in Hell's Kitchen, in a bad marriage, raising six children on her own. As Lucia struggles to hold her family together, her daughter confronts the adult world of work and romance while her eldest son is drawn into the Mafia. Meanwhile, her youngest son aspires to American pursuits she cannot understand.
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Definitely Mario Puzos best work
- By Anonymous on 10-08-22
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The Fortunate Pilgrim
- Narrated by: John Kenneth
- Length: 9 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 22-09-09
- Language: English
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Memoirs
- By: Kingsley Amis
- Narrated by: Joseph Kloska
- Length: 14 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall13
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Performance12
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Story12
Elegant, provocative and hugely entertaining, Kingsley Amis's memoirs are filled with anecdotes, experiences and portraits of famous friends, family, acquaintances (and a few eminent foes). From his childhood days to Oxford and army life, his travels abroad and his years as a successful novelist, Memoirs offers extraordinary insights into a unique literary life.
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A good storyteller.
- By C E WATSON on 18-06-24
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Memoirs
- Narrated by: Joseph Kloska
- Length: 14 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 17-12-20
- Language: English
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The Hare with Amber Eyes
- A Hidden Inheritance
- By: Edmund de Waal
- Narrated by: Michael Maloney
- Length: 10 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall382
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Performance245
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Story246
Winner of the 2010 COSTA Biography Award. A total of 264 wood and ivory carvings, none of them larger than a matchbox: potter Edmund de Waal was entranced when he first encountered the collection in the Tokyo apartment of his Great Uncle Iggie. Later, when Edmund inherited the ‘netsuke’, they unlocked a story far larger than he could ever have imagined.…
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Just not for me
- By Mark on 04-04-11
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The Hare with Amber Eyes
- A Hidden Inheritance
- Narrated by: Michael Maloney
- Length: 10 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 24-03-11
- Language: English
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Down and Out in Paris and London
- Penguin Modern Classics
- By: George Orwell
- Narrated by: Thomas Judd
- Length: 6 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall28
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Performance24
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Story25
Brought to you by Penguin. George Orwell's vivid memoir of his time living among the desperately poor and destitute, Down and Out in Paris and London is a moving tour of the underworld of society. 'You have talked so often of going to the dogs - and well, here are the dogs, and you have reached...
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surprising
- By Ra on 05-02-26
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Down and Out in Paris and London
- Penguin Modern Classics
- Narrated by: Thomas Judd
- Length: 6 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 07-01-21
- Language: English
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