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    • Alan Bennett: Untold Stories

    • Read by Alan Bennett
    • By: Alan Bennett
    • Narrated by: Alan Bennett
    • Length: 10 hrs
    • Release date: 08-12-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 30 ratings

    • Funny, thoughtful, and fascinating, this wonderful series of essays and stories read by the author offers an extraordinary journey into an exceptional career of an award-winning writer....

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    • Under the Duvet

    • 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 203 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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    • Love's Executioner

    • By: Irvin D. Yalom
    • Narrated by: C.M. Carlson
    • Length: 10 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 18-04-16
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 721 ratings
    • The collection of 10 absorbing tales by master psychotherapist Irvin D. Yalom uncovers the mysteries, frustrations, pathos, and humor at the heart of the therapeutic encounter....

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    • Orwell: The Essays

    • By: George Orwell
    • Narrated by: Peter Noble
    • Length: 10 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 10-01-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 83 ratings

    • A wide-ranging selection of George Orwell's essays, written in the clear-eyed, passionate and uncompromising style that has earned him a reputation as one of Britain's greatest writers....

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    • Where There's a Will

    • By: John Mortimer
    • Narrated by: Bill Wallis
    • Length: 6 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 10-12-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 23 ratings
    • Following the best-selling Summer of a Dormouse, Sir John Mortimer - playwright, novelist, octogenarian, and erstwhile QC - offers up more lessons in living and growing old disgracefully....

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    • Cultural Amnesia

    • Notes in the Margin of My Time
    • By: Clive James
    • Narrated by: Clive James
    • Length: 6 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 08-04-08
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 250 ratings
    • An almanac combining a survey of modern culture with an index of who-was-who and what-was-what, Cultural Amnesia is a unique take on the places and faces that shaped the 20th century....

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    • Aspects of the Novel

    • By: E. M. Forster
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
    • Length: 4 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 01-01-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings

    • E. M. Forster's Aspects of the Novel is an innovative and effusive treatise on a literary form that, at the time of publication, had only recently begun to enjoy serious academic consideration....

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    • Letters to a Young Contrarian

    • By: Christopher Hitchens
    • Narrated by: James Adams
    • Length: 3 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 07-07-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 62 ratings

    • In the book that he was born to write, provocateur and best-selling author Christopher Hitchens inspires future generations of radicals, gadflies, mavericks, rebels, angry young (wo)men, and dissidents....

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    • To Throw Away Unopened

    • By: Viv Albertine
    • Narrated by: Jasmine Blackborow
    • Length: 9 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 04-10-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 82 ratings

    • What was I fighting for? Even now I'm not sure. Something so old and so deep, it has no words, no shape, no logic....

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    • The Alan Clark Diaries

    • In Power 1983-1992
    • By: Alan Clark
    • Narrated by: Alan Clark
    • Length: 3 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 16-12-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 145 ratings
    • This was Alan Clark’s first volume of diaries and the only one that he recorded....

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    • On Connection

    • By: Kae Tempest
    • Narrated by: Kae Tempest
    • Length: 2 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 29-09-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 285 ratings

    • Honest, tender and written with piercing clarity, On Connection is a call to arms that speaks to a universal yet intimate truth....

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    • A Time for all Things

    • Collected Essays and Sketches
    • By: Ruskin Bond
    • Narrated by: Vikrant Chaturvedi
    • Length: 16 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 18-12-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating

    • A lifetime of reading and writing, observation and contemplation is distilled in this comprehensive volume of the best essays, profiles and sketches by Ruskin Bond, the masterly and compassionate chronicler of the small details and lambent moments that capture the essence of a meaningful life....

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    • On the Genealogy of Morals

    • A Polemic
    • By: Friedrich Nietzsche
    • Narrated by: Duncan Steen
    • Length: 6 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 04-06-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 71 ratings
    • In On the Genealogy of Morals, Nietzsche furthers his pursuit of a clarity that is less tainted by imposed prejudices....

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    • The Practicing Stoic

    • By: Ward Farnsworth
    • Narrated by: John Lescault
    • Length: 9 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 25-12-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 680 ratings

    • The great insights of the Stoics are spread over a wide range of ancient sources. This book brings them all together for the first time. It systematically presents what the various Stoic philosophers said on every important topic, accompanied by an eloquent commentary that is clear and concise....

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    • The Lion and the Unicorn

    • By: George Orwell
    • Narrated by: Peter Noble
    • Length: 3 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 07-01-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 30 ratings

    • George Orwell's moving reflections on the English character and his passionate belief in the need for political change....

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    • The Examined Life

    • How We Lose and Find Ourselves
    • By: Stephen Grosz
    • Narrated by: Peter Marinker
    • Length: 5 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 24-08-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 16 ratings

    • Echoing Socrates' statement that the unexamined life not worth living, psychoanalyst Stephen Grosz draws on his twenty-five years of work and more than 50,000 hours of conversations to form a collection of beautifully rendered tales that illuminate the human experience....

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    • The Wave in the Mind

    • Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination
    • By: Ursula K. Le Guin
    • Narrated by: Christina Moore
    • Length: 10 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 31-07-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 13 ratings

    • Join Ursula K. Le Guin as she explores a broad array of subjects, ranging from Tolstoy, Twain, and Tolkien to women's shoes, beauty, and family life. With her customary wit, intelligence, and literary craftsmanship, she offers a diverse and highly engaging set of stories....

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