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Still Writing
- The Perils and Pleasures of a Creative Life
- By: Dani Shapiro
- Narrated by: Dani Shapiro
- Length: 6 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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“Still Writing offers up a cornucopia of wisdom, insights, and practical lessons gleaned from Dani Shapiro's long experience as a celebrated writer and teacher of writing. The beneficiaries are beginning writers, veteran writers and everyone in between.” —Jennifer Egan From Dani Shapiro...
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A powerful and empowering experience
- By Kindle Customer on 31-10-23
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Still Writing
- The Perils and Pleasures of a Creative Life
- Narrated by: Dani Shapiro
- Length: 6 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 15-09-20
- Language: English
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A Piece of Work
- Playing Shakespeare and Other Stories
- By: Simon Russell Beale
- Narrated by: Simon Russell Beale
- Length: 11 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Simon Russell Beale is one of Britain's most recognisable and well-loved actors. He has played many roles on stage, film, television and radio - ranging from Winston Churchill to Stalin, George Smiley to King Arthur. But ever since his appearance at school as a glamorous Desdemona, complete with false eyelashes that rendered him half-blind, he has been captivated by Shakespeare.
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Shakespeare and so much more
- By S C DYKES on 01-02-26
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A Piece of Work
- Playing Shakespeare and Other Stories
- Narrated by: Simon Russell Beale
- Length: 11 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 05-09-24
- Language: English
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Charlotte Brontë
- A Life
- By: Claire Harman
- Narrated by: Claire Harman
- Length: 15 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance88
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Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable, audiobook edition of Charlotte Brontë: A Life written and read by Claire Harman. Raised motherless on remote Yorkshire moors, watching five beloved siblings sicken and die, haunted by unrequited love: Charlotte Brontë's life has all the drama and...
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Charlotte Bronte's true memoir
- By a.hopewell on 26-07-17
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Charlotte Brontë
- A Life
- Narrated by: Claire Harman
- Length: 15 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 29-10-15
- Language: English
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Zero
- The Biography of a Dangerous Idea
- By: Charles Seife
- Narrated by: Bob Souer
- Length: 6 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall37
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Performance32
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In Zero, science journalist Charles Seife follows this innocent-looking number from its birth as an Eastern philosophical concept to its struggle for acceptance in Europe, its rise and transcendence in the West, and its ever-present threat to modern physics.
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Very clever
- By elissaple on 01-02-23
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J. R. R. Tolkien
- Author of the Century
- By: Tom Shippey
- Narrated by: Colin Mace
- Length: 13 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall43
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Performance37
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The definitive critical study of Tolkien’s greatest works by the respected and world renowned Tolkien scholar Professor T.A. Shippey. Following the unprecedented and universal acclaim for The Lord of the Rings, the respected academic and world-renowned Tolkien scholar, Professor Tom Shippey...
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Required reading for Tolkien fans.
- By Charlotte Knowles on 19-07-23
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J. R. R. Tolkien
- Author of the Century
- Narrated by: Colin Mace
- Length: 13 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 23-06-22
- Language: English
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Goodbye to All That
- By: Robert Graves
- Narrated by: Martin Jarvis
- Length: 4 hrs and 58 mins
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Overall284
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Performance244
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A famous autobiographical account of life as a young soldier in the first World War trenches. Robert Graves, who went on to write I, Claudius, has given to posterity here one of the all-time great insights into the experience of war.
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Lots missing
- By Chloe on 08-05-16
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Goodbye to All That
- Narrated by: Martin Jarvis
- Length: 4 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 26-02-08
- Language: English
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A Private Spy
- The Letters of John le Carré 1945-2020
- By: John le Carré
- Narrated by: David Harewood, Florence Pugh
- Length: 16 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall27
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Performance20
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John le Carré was one of the greatest novelists of his generation but also had an extraordinary life, from his childhood with a con man father to his inimitable career as a writer. From his involvement in the Cold War, time in Berlin, travels to Vietnam and engagement with world leaders, his experiences were truly remarkable. This collection of letters reveals John le Carré—the man, the writer and his world—for the first time and most intimately.
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An extraordinary life in letters
- By Crawford jamieson on 28-02-23
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A Private Spy
- The Letters of John le Carré 1945-2020
- Narrated by: David Harewood, Florence Pugh
- Length: 16 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 13-10-22
- Language: English
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Square Haunting
- Five Women, Freedom and London Between the Wars
- By: Francesca Wade
- Narrated by: Corrie James
- Length: 13 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall76
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Performance61
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In London during the interwar years, five women's lives intertwined around one address. Mecklenburgh Square, on the radical fringes of Bloomsbury, was home to activists, experimenters and revolutionaries; among them were the modernist poet H. D., detective novelist Dorothy L. Sayers, classicist Jane Harrison, economic historian Eileen Power, and author and publisher Virginia Woolf.
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Reading could be better
- By EEL on 11-07-20
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Square Haunting
- Five Women, Freedom and London Between the Wars
- Narrated by: Corrie James
- Length: 13 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 07-04-20
- Language: English
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The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
- By: Sylvia Plath, Karen V. Kukil - editor
- Narrated by: Tanya Eby
- Length: 30 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall17
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Performance12
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Published in their entirety, Sylvia Plath's journals provide an intimate portrait of the writer who was to produce in the last seven months of her life some of the most extraordinary poems of the 20th century. Faithfully transcribed from the 23 journals and journal fragments owned by Smith College, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath includes two journals that Plath's husband, Ted Hughes, unsealed just before his death in 1998.
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On the fence
- By Zoe on 03-06-19
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The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
- Narrated by: Tanya Eby
- Length: 30 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 28-05-19
- Language: English
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Ian Fleming
- The Man Behind James Bond
- By: Andrew Lycett
- Narrated by: Robert Whitfield
- Length: 21 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall53
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Performance33
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Sportsman, womanizer, naval commander, world-traveler, spy, this suave Old Etonian creator of the Cold War's archetypal secret agent was infinitely more complicated and interesting than his major fictional character, Agent 007.
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Reasonable Biography Spoiled by the Production
- By Amazon Customer on 18-10-07
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Ian Fleming
- The Man Behind James Bond
- Narrated by: Robert Whitfield
- Length: 21 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 14-04-00
- Language: English
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Tolstoy
- By: A. N. Wilson
- Narrated by: John Telfer
- Length: 21 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall31
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Performance26
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In this biography of Count Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy, A. N. Wilson narrates the complex drama of the writer's life: his childhood of aristocratic privilege but emotional deprivation, his discovery of his literary genius after aimless years of gambling and womanizing, and his increasingly disastrous marriage. Wilson sweeps away the long-held belief that Tolstoy's works were the exact mirror of his life and instead traces the roots of Tolstoy's art to his relationship with God, with women, and with Russia.
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A fascinating biography
- By Kirstine on 12-04-16
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Tolstoy
- Narrated by: John Telfer
- Length: 21 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 11-06-15
- Language: English
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To Throw Away Unopened
- By: Viv Albertine
- Narrated by: Jasmine Blackborow
- Length: 9 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall84
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Performance73
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Every memoir is a battle between reality and invention - but in her follow up to Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys., Viv Albertine has reinvented the genre with her unflinching honesty. To Throw Away Unopened is a fearless dissection of one woman's obsession with the truth - the truth about family, power and her identity as a rebel and outsider. It is a gaping wound of a book, both an exercise in bloodletting and psychological archaeology, excavating what lies beneath: the fear, the loneliness, the anger.
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A read again and again book!
- By Sarah Power on 18-01-19
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To Throw Away Unopened
- Narrated by: Jasmine Blackborow
- Length: 9 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 04-10-18
- Language: English
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Chaucer
- A European Life
- By: Marion Turner
- Narrated by: Marion Turner
- Length: 20 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall22
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Performance19
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More than any other canonical English writer, Geoffrey Chaucer lived and worked at the center of political life - yet his poems are anything but conventional. Edgy, complicated, and often dark, they reflect a conflicted world, and their astonishing diversity and innovative language earned Chaucer renown as the father of English literature. Marion Turner, however, reveals him as a great European writer and thinker.
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An unsuitable book for audio
- By Rachel Redford on 14-08-19
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Chaucer
- A European Life
- Narrated by: Marion Turner
- Length: 20 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 10-05-19
- Language: English
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Village Christmas
- And Other Notes on the English Year
- By: Laurie Lee
- Narrated by: David Sibley
- Length: 5 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall20
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Performance17
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Brought to you by Penguin. From the author of Cider With Rosie, Village Christmas is a moving, lyrical portrait of England through the changing years and seasons. Laurie Lee left his childhood home in the Cotswolds when he was nineteen, but it remained with him throughout his life until, many...
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A portrait from between WW1 & WW2 of English country life.
- By Amazon Customer on 17-01-26
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Village Christmas
- And Other Notes on the English Year
- Narrated by: David Sibley
- Length: 5 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 24-03-22
- Language: English
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Charles Dickens and the Great Theatre of the World
- By: Simon Callow
- Narrated by: Simon Callow
- Length: 11 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall47
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Performance33
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A short life of Dickens which celebrates the impact of the theatre on his life and work. Two hundred years after his death, Dickens’s work is more popular than ever, in a variety of media, most of them undreamed of during his lifetime. Over the last few decades of intensive research, Dickens the man has become much better known to us and the sheer originality of his personality blazes forth as never before.
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Brilliant story and performance
- By A ALLEN on 26-12-22
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Charles Dickens and the Great Theatre of the World
- Narrated by: Simon Callow
- Length: 11 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 06-02-12
- Language: English
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Literary Rivals
- Feuds and Antagonisms in the World of Books
- By: Richard Bradford
- Narrated by: Jonathan Coote
- Length: 11 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Novelists, poets and playwrights live double lives, sharing the real world with everyone else while spending a good deal of time in a universe of their own making. When they fall out with each other, they are able to kindle feuds and antagonisms as passionate and public as workers in any trade. Richard Bradford’s highly entertaining audiobook looks at some of the closest and most complex relationships in literary history, examining their dramatic effects on literature itself.
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thoroughly enjoyable journey
- By lyndsay on 05-06-25
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Literary Rivals
- Feuds and Antagonisms in the World of Books
- Narrated by: Jonathan Coote
- Length: 11 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 16-10-14
- Language: English
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Working
- Researching, Interviewing, Writing
- By: Robert A. Caro
- Narrated by: Robert A Caro
- Length: 7 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall113
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Performance102
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In Working he offers a captivating account of his life as a writer, describing the sometimes staggering lengths to which he has gone in order to produce his books and offering priceless insights into the art and craft of non-fiction writing. Anyone interested in investigative journalism and the pursuit of truth, in the writer’s process and the creation of literature, in the art of interviewing or simply the psychology of excellence will find a masterclass in all these subjects.
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Slow start but eventually becomes great & exciting
- By Yoda on 30-06-19
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Working
- Researching, Interviewing, Writing
- Narrated by: Robert A Caro
- Length: 7 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 25-04-19
- Language: English
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North Face of Soho
- By: Clive James
- Narrated by: Clive James
- Length: 4 hrs and 48 mins
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Overall134
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Performance107
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Read by the author, Clive James. From Fleet Street to the television, North Face of Soho is the fascinating and hilarious fourth volume of memoir from much-loved author, poet and broadcaster Clive James. '[James] delivers his gags with honed elegance' – Sunday Times It is 1968. Newly married...
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Clive James on Top Form. What More Could We Ask?
- By Dinah on 25-10-14
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North Face of Soho
- Narrated by: Clive James
- Length: 4 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 05-06-07
- Language: English
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Douglas Adams
- The Ends of the Earth
- By: Arvind Ethan David
- Narrated by: Arvind Ethan David, Douglas Adams, Sam Barnett, and others
- Length: 6 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall21
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Douglas Adams, the legendary author of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy and Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency is one of the most beloved authors of all time. Twenty-five years after his death, his books continue to be read by new generations and his creations along with his ultimate answer to life, the universe, and everything being “42,” have seeped deep into public consciousness.
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Too much politics and economics
- By Amazon Customer on 08-07-25
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Douglas Adams
- The Ends of the Earth
- Narrated by: Arvind Ethan David, Douglas Adams, Sam Barnett, Stephen Fry
- Length: 6 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 24-06-25
- Language: English
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As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning
- By: Laurie Lee
- Narrated by: Laurie Lee
- Length: 7 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall107
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Performance92
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Brought to you by Penguin. As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning is the moving follow-up to Laurie Lee's acclaimed Cider with Rosie Abandoning the Cotswolds village that raised him, the young Laurie Lee walks to London. There he makes a living labouring and playing the violin. But, deciding to...
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superb
- By alex bowling on 03-09-22
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As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning
- Narrated by: Laurie Lee
- Series: Cider with Rosie, Book 2
- Length: 7 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 24-03-22
- Language: English
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