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Prose & Cons
- The English Language in Just a Minute
- By: Gyles Brandreth
- Narrated by: Gyles Brandreth
- Length: 6 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5
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Performance4
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In this wildly entertaining A to Z of verbal acrobatics, Gyles takes you on a whirlwind tour of our mother tongue – from the origins of words and correct grammar and punctuation, to similes, euphemisms and record breaking tongue twisters (try getting your mouth around floccinaucinihilipification!). An idiosyncratic blend of history, word play, anecdote, and hyperbole, all in 60-second instalments, this is Gyles Brandreth at his word-perfect, Just-a-Minute best. You’ll never mix your metaphors again...
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Money for old rope
- By Maltravers on 24-10-24
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Prose & Cons
- The English Language in Just a Minute
- Narrated by: Gyles Brandreth
- Length: 6 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 10-10-24
- Language: English
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Philomena
- By: Martin Sixsmith
- Narrated by: John Curless
- Length: 15 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall451
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Performance405
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Story412
Falling pregnant as a teenager in 1952, Philomena Lee was sent to the convent in Co. Tipperary to be looked after as a fallen woman. She cared for her baby for three years until the Church took him and sold him, like countless others, to America for adoption. She spent the next 50 years secretly searching for him, unaware that he was searching for her from across the Atlantic.
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Glory Be!!!
- By mollyeyre on 18-07-14
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Philomena
- Narrated by: John Curless
- Length: 15 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 17-12-13
- Language: English
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Story Solution
- 23 Actions All Great Heroes Must Take
- By: Eric Edson
- Narrated by: Eric Edson
- Length: 10 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5
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Performance5
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Eric Edson has developed a new tool for bringing depth and passion to any screenplay or novel - the 23 Actions All Great Heroes Must Take. It's an easy-to-understand paradigm that provides writers and filmmakers the interconnecting, powerful storytelling elements they need. With true insight, this accomplished screenwriter and university professor pinpoints the story structure reasons most new spec scripts don't sell.
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An exceptional technique with pertinent examples
- By Rebecca on 07-08-24
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Story Solution
- 23 Actions All Great Heroes Must Take
- Narrated by: Eric Edson
- Length: 10 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 03-11-21
- Language: English
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Learn Italian with Paul Noble for Beginners – Part 3
- Italian Made Easy with Your 1 million-best-selling Personal Language Coach
- By: Paul Noble
- Length: 4 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall48
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Performance29
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Story25
No grammar tests. No memory drills. No chance of failure. Welcome to Learn with Paul Noble – a unique, tried and tested language learning method that has been used by almost a million people to speak fluently and confidently in no time at all. Take a simple, relaxed approach to learning a...
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Thoroughly enjoyed the course!
- By amanda kostadinov on 02-03-15
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Learn Italian with Paul Noble for Beginners – Part 3
- Italian Made Easy with Your 1 million-best-selling Personal Language Coach
- Length: 4 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 25-03-11
- Language: English
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Freud
- A Very Short Introduction
- By: Anthony Storr
- Narrated by: Neville Jason
- Length: 3 hrs and 55 mins
- Abridged
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Overall78
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Performance50
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Story51
Sigmund Freud revolutionized the way in which we think about ourselves. From its beginnings as a theory of neurosis Freud developed psychoanalysis into a general psychology, which became widely accepted as the predominant mode of discussing personality and interpersonal relationships. Anthony Storr goes one step further and investigates the status of Freud's legacy today and the disputes that surround it.
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Informative and good to listen to
- By Sissi on 12-11-15
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Freud
- A Very Short Introduction
- Narrated by: Neville Jason
- Length: 3 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 26-12-04
- Language: English
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Short Stories in Swedish for Beginners
- By: Olly Richards
- Narrated by: Caspar Rundegren
- Length: 4 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall10
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Performance9
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Story9
Short Stories in Swedish for Beginners has been made especially for students from beginner to low-intermediate level, designed to give a sense of achievement, a feeling of progress and most importantly - enjoyment! Mapped to A1-B1 on the Common European Framework of Reference, these eight captivating stories are designed to give you a sense of achievement and a feeling of progress when listening.
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Great selection of stories
- By Gabby on 19-09-20
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Short Stories in Swedish for Beginners
- Narrated by: Caspar Rundegren
- Length: 4 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 30-04-20
- Language: English
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Humble Inquiry
- The Gentle Art of Asking Instead of Telling
- By: Edgar H. Schein
- Narrated by: Sean Pratt
- Length: 3 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall103
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Performance83
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Story85
Communication is essential in a healthy organization. But all too often when we interact with people - especially those who report to us - we simply tell them what we think they need to know. This shuts them down. To generate bold new ideas, to avoid disastrous mistakes, to develop agility and flexibility, we need to practice Humble Inquiry. Ed Schein defines Humble Inquiry as "the fine art of drawing someone out, of asking questions to which you do not know the answer, of building a relationship based on curiosity and interest in the other person."
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Yes okay it's good
- By Cathy and Fiona Glanville on 26-11-15
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Humble Inquiry
- The Gentle Art of Asking Instead of Telling
- Narrated by: Sean Pratt
- Length: 3 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 23-07-14
- Language: English
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Where Angels Fear to Tread
- By: E. M. Forster
- Narrated by: Edward Petherbridge
- Length: 5 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall125
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Performance114
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Story114
When attractive, impulsive English widow Lilia takes a holiday in Italy, she causes a scandal by marrying Gino, a dashing and highly unsuitable Italian 12 years her junior. Her prim, snobbish in-laws make no attempt to hide their disapproval, and when Lilia's decision eventually brings disaster, her English relatives embark on an expedition to face the uncouth foreigner.
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WHY can't the horrid voice of Audible WAIT?
- By Julia on 11-06-23
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Where Angels Fear to Tread
- Narrated by: Edward Petherbridge
- Length: 5 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 17-08-15
- Language: English
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Metaphors We Live By
- By: George Lakoff, Mark Johnson
- Narrated by: Sean Pratt
- Length: 9 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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The now-classic Metaphors We Live By changed our understanding of metaphor and its role in language and the mind. Metaphor, authors George Lakoff and Mark Johnson explain, is a fundamental mechanism of mind, one that allows us to use what we know about our physical and social experience to provide understanding of countless other subjects. Because such metaphors structure our most basic understandings of our experience, they are "metaphors we live by"—metaphors that can shape our perceptions and actions without our ever noticing them.
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Metaphors We Live By
- Narrated by: Sean Pratt
- Length: 9 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 12-11-25
- Language: English
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Algospeak
- The instant New York Times bestseller - How Social Media is Transforming the Future of Language
- By: Adam Aleksic
- Narrated by: Adam Aleksic
- Length: 5 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall23
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Performance21
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Brought to you by Penguin. From the rise of leetspeak and words such as “unalive” to the trend of adding “-core” to different influencer aesthetics, the internet has ushered in an unprecedented linguistic upheaval. We’re entering an entirely new era of etymology, heralded by the...
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Fascinating
- By Wendyhawthorn on 27-03-26
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Algospeak
- The instant New York Times bestseller - How Social Media is Transforming the Future of Language
- Narrated by: Adam Aleksic
- Length: 5 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 17-07-25
- Language: English
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Pinocchio
- By: Carlo Collodi
- Narrated by: Stephen Mangan
- Length: 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall20
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Performance18
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When Geppetto makes a wooden puppet of a little boy, he is astonished when the puppet comes to life! But Pinocchio dreams of being a real boy.... A magical retelling of the classic tale, read by Stephen Mangan.
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Good to Read
- By Anna on 13-04-24
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Pinocchio
- Narrated by: Stephen Mangan
- Length: 23 mins
- Release date: 04-10-12
- Language: English
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How to Kill a Language
- Power, Resistance and the Race to Save Our Words
- By: Sophia Smith Galer
- Length: 7 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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‘Beautiful, thought-provoking, and compelling' SUSIE DENT 'An extremely moving, passionate plea' CAL FLYN ________________________________ As Sophia Smith Galer’s Nonna lay dying, she realised it wasn’t just a beloved grandmother she was losing – it was the language she spoke, too. From...
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How to Kill a Language
- Power, Resistance and the Race to Save Our Words
- Length: 7 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 07-05-26
- Language: English
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Letter from America Collection
- By: Alistair Cooke
- Narrated by: Alistair Cooke
- Length: 13 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance1
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For more than half a century, Alistair Cooke entertained millions of listeners across the globe with his weekly BBC radio programme Letter from America. An outstanding observer of the American scene, he became one of the world's best-loved broadcasters and had the distinction of presenting the longest running one-man show in radio history. Following the sad death of Alistair Cooke after 58 years in broadcasting, this impressive collection features all three volumes of Letters from America.
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Letter from America Collection
- Narrated by: Alistair Cooke
- Length: 13 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 02-12-21
- Language: English
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A Swim in a Pond in the Rain
- By: George Saunders
- Narrated by: George Saunders, Phylicia Rashad, Nick Offerman, and others
- Length: 14 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall172
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Performance145
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Story143
For the last twenty years, George Saunders has been teaching a class on the Russian short story to his MFA students at Syracuse University. In A Swim in a Pond in the Rain, he shares a version of that class with us, offering some of what he and his students have discovered together over the years. Paired with iconic short stories by Chekhov, Turgenev, Tolstoy, and Gogol, the seven essays in this book are intended for anyone interested in how fiction works and why it’s more relevant than ever in these turbulent times.
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a useful introduction but ultimately boring
- By Peter Buchanan on 10-06-21
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A Swim in a Pond in the Rain
- Narrated by: George Saunders, Phylicia Rashad, Nick Offerman, Glenn Close, Keith David, Rainn Wilson, BD Wong, Renée Elise Goldsberry
- Length: 14 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 12-01-21
- Language: English
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Dark Alliance
- The CIA, the Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion
- By: Gary Webb
- Narrated by: Christian Rummel
- Length: 20 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall71
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Performance64
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In July 1995, San Jose Mercury-News reporter Gary Webb found the Big One - the blockbuster story every journalist secretly dreams about - without even looking for it. A simple phone call concerning an unexceptional pending drug trial turned into a massive conspiracy involving the Nicaraguan Contra rebels, L.A. and Bay Area crack cocaine dealers, and the Central Intelligence Agency.
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Not what I was expecting
- By Benjamin on 20-05-14
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Dark Alliance
- The CIA, the Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion
- Narrated by: Christian Rummel
- Length: 20 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 24-12-13
- Language: English
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Benny the Blue Whale
- A Descent into Story, Language and the Madness of ChatGPT
- By: Andy Stanton
- Narrated by: Andy Stanton, Nish Kumar
- Length: 10 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall6
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Performance6
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Bestselling children's author Andy Stanton has made a career out of writing differently—from the unconventional ‘hero' of his bestselling Mr Gum series to his penchant for absurdist plots, his children's books are anything but formulaic. When a friend introduces him to ChatGPT, the new large language chatbot, Andy is as sceptical as he is curious. Can this jumble of algorithms really mimic the spontaneity of human thought? Could it one day replace human authors like him for good? And are we soon to be ruled over by despotic robot overlords.
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Very clever, very silly exploration of AI and the art of writing
- By J Hurry on 01-01-26
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Benny the Blue Whale
- A Descent into Story, Language and the Madness of ChatGPT
- Narrated by: Andy Stanton, Nish Kumar
- Length: 10 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 05-12-23
- Language: English
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The Art of Persuasion
- By: Juliet Erickson
- Narrated by: Juliet Erickson
- Length: 6 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance3
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You may think you know what you want in life, but having the idea, the goal, the means, the business plan or the enthusiasm will only get you halfway there. Whatever it is that you want to make happen - whether a new business, community project or innovative idea - the one crucial factor by which it will stand or fall is how well you can communicate it to others. This invaluable audiobook explains just why good communication is so critical and reveals the secrets of honing your skills to ensure your goal is realised.
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nothing special
- By Skhan on 04-01-26
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The Art of Persuasion
- Narrated by: Juliet Erickson
- Length: 6 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 07-03-19
- Language: English
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To Let
- The Forsyte Saga, Book 3
- By: John Galsworthy
- Narrated by: Neil Hunt
- Length: 9 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall21
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Performance20
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“So many people have written and claimed that their families were the original of the Forsytes,” wrote Galsworthy, “that one has almost been encouraged to believe in the typicality of an imagine species.” It is the Spring of 1920, 34 years on from the beginning of the Saga. “Young Jolyon” is married to Irene after her divorce from Soames, and they now have a son, Jon. Soames has re-married and has a daughter, Fleur. A new generation of Forsytes comes of age and the Saga continues.
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Beautiful reading of a masterpiece of human insight.
- By Mel Graham on 22-03-24
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To Let
- The Forsyte Saga, Book 3
- Narrated by: Neil Hunt
- Series: The Forsyte Saga (Recorded Books), Book 3, The Forsyte Chronicles, Book 3
- Length: 9 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 19-03-14
- Language: English
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Left Out
- The Inside Story of Labour Under Corbyn
- By: Gabriel Pogrund, Patrick Maguire
- Narrated by: Matthew Spencer
- Length: 15 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance394
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From the peak of Jeremy Corbyn's popularity and the shock hung parliament of 2017 to Labour's humbling in 2019 and the election of Keir Starmer, Left Out draws on unrivalled access throughout the party and to both leaders' inner circles to provide a blistering narrative exposé of the Labour Party during one of the most tumultuous and significant episodes in its history. It reveals a party riven by factionalism and at war over ideology, then incapacitated by crisis and indecision.
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Very good although too charitable to Corbyn.
- By Emily Senior on 16-09-20
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Left Out
- The Inside Story of Labour Under Corbyn
- Narrated by: Matthew Spencer
- Length: 15 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 04-09-20
- Language: English
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Writing Creativity and Soul
- By: Sue Monk Kidd
- Narrated by: Jane Oppenheimer, Ann Kidd Taylor
- Length: 5 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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After taking up writing at the age of thirty, Sue Monk Kidd has created some of the world's most treasured stories. In Writing Creativity and Soul she shares exactly how she did it - from plunging her innermost depths, to voyaging to sacred spaces, to studying the precise methods of the greats and refining her own. Laying her creative journey bare, Sue explores the moments in which she lost her voice and when she found it again, as well as the profound insights she gained along the way.
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Writing Creativity and Soul
- Narrated by: Jane Oppenheimer, Ann Kidd Taylor
- Length: 5 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 23-10-25
- Language: English
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