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Looking for wonder and some reprieve from the everyday, Anna Funder slips into the pages of her hero George Orwell. As she watches him create his writing self, she tries to remember her own. When she uncovers his forgotten wife, it's a revelation. Eileen O'Shaughnessy's literary brilliance shaped Orwell's work and her practical nous saved his life. But why—and how—was she written out of the story? Using newly discovered letters from Eileen to her best friend, Funder recreates the Orwells' marriage, through the Spanish Civil War and WW II in London.

The Life of the Author: William Shakespeare delivers a fresh and exciting new take on the life of William Shakespeare, offering listeners a biography that brings to the foreground his working life as a poet, playwright, and actor. It also explores the nature of his relationships with his friends, colleagues, and family and asks important questions about the stories we tell about Shakespeare based on the evidence we actually have about the man himself.

The heartbreaking story of the passionate love affair between Boris Pasternak and Olga Ivinskaya - the tragic true story that inspired Doctor Zhivago. Though Stalin spared the life of Boris Pasternak, the writer's lover, typist and literary muse Olga was sent twice to Siberian labour camps because of her association with him, miscarrying their child on her first visit. When released, she always assumed that Boris would leave his wife for her, but he failed to do so.

Warned not to write—and certainly not to bite—these women put pen to paper anyway and wrote themselves into history. From the fourteenth century through to the present day, women who write have been understood as mad, undisciplined, or dangerous. Female writers have always had to find ways to overcome or challenge these beliefs. Some were cautious and discreet, some didn’t give a damn, but all lived complex, eventful, and often controversial lives.

Anna Karenina is one of the most nuanced characters in world literature, and we return to her and the novel she propels again and again. Remarkably, there has not yet been an examination of Leo Tolstoy specifically through the lens of this novel. Critic and Professor Bob Blaisdell unravels Tolstoy’s family, literary, and day-to-day life during the period that he conceived, drafted, abandoned, and revised Anna Karenina. In the process, we see where Tolstoy’s life and his art intersect in obvious and unobvious ways.

Multiaward-winning statisticians, directors and cofounders of the Gapminder Foundation Ola and Anna Rosling talk to Audible about the release of Factfulness: Ten Reasons We’re Wrong about the World - and Why Things Are Better than You Think. Continuing on with the work of legendary scientist and public educator Hans Rosling, the two introduce their revolutionary audiobook and begin to explain the many reasons behind the widespread ignorance of the global population.

A biography of the remarkable, and in her time scandalous, seventeenth-century writer Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle.

Looking for wonder and some reprieve from the everyday, Anna Funder slips into the pages of her hero George Orwell. As she watches him create his writing self, she tries to remember her own... When she uncovers his forgotten wife, it's a revelation. Eileen O'Shaughnessy's literary brilliance shaped Orwell's work and her practical nous saved his life. But why - and how - was she written out of the story? Using newly discovered letters from Eileen to her best friend, Funder recreates the Orwell's marriage, through the Spanish Civil War and WWII in London.

«E noi, che cosa stiamo diventando? E io, cosa sono diventato?» si chiede Paolo Nori. E la risposta viene da una lontananza che in verità brucia distanze e porta con sé, come fosse turbine di visioni, di fatti, di sentimenti, e naturalmente di poesia, la vita di Anna Achmatova. «Vogliamo raccontare» dice Nori «la storia di Anna Achmatova, una poetessa russa nata nei pressi di Odessa nel 1889 e morta a Mosca nel 1966.

From the beginning of their lives, the Olivier sisters stood out: surprisingly emancipated, strikingly beautiful, markedly determined and alarmingly 'wild'. Rupert Brooke was said to be in love with all four of them; D. H. Lawrence thought they were frankly 'wrong'; and Virginia Woolf found them curiously difficult to read. The sisters seemed always to be one step ahead of their time. Margery and Daphne studied at Cambridge when education was still thought by some to be damaging to ovaries.

Joining us in the Audible Studios to discuss her latest books, Breaking Mad and Breaking Mum & Dad, is TV presenter, qualified therapist and Mind ambassador Anna Williamson. First finding fame on iconic children’s television shows on CITV, Nickelodeon and the Disney Channel, Anna decided to use her own experiences suffering with severe panic attacks and anxiety to help others.

Goliarda, petite fille intrépide, veut devenir Jean Gabin, c’est décidé. Née dans une famille socialiste de Catane, profondément opposée au fascisme, la petite fille au caractère bien trempé essaie de récolter cinq lires pour aller au cinéma. Le film ? Le "Quai des brumes". Le mythique acteur la subjugue. Insoumise, en quête d’aventure, Goliarda parcourt sa ville sicilienne haute en couleurs et esquive les autres enfants, bandits imaginaires, qui peuplent ses rues.

Hailed by critics as "monumental" ( Boston Globe) and "utterly romantic" ( New York magazine), Véra, the story of Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov, brings to shimmering life one of the greatest literary love stories of our time. Vladimir Nabokov, author of Lolita, Pale Fire, and Speak, Memory, wrote his books first for himself and secondly for his wife.

Departures is a call to action for female explorers everywhere, and in this interview, we talk to Anna about her writing process, her favourite travel moments to date and her top tips for embarking on an enjoyable, eye-opening and life-altering solo journey.

Anna Day joins us in the Audible Studios to chat about a quirky, refreshing and deceptively dark tale - her book The Fandom. The Fandom details the story of the young and adventurous Violet who, whilst attending a Comic Con event, inexplicably finds herself becoming part of the narrative of her favourite story, The Gallows Dance. Anna chats to us about this exciting debut audiobook, its themes and the secrets behind its success.

Doris Lessing broke the rules. Born in Iran and raised in Rhodesia, she moved to Britain with little more than an unpublished novel in her suitcase. Once an ardent Communist, she distanced herself from the movement long before it's attraction faded for others. Always prolific, Lessing continued to explore uncharted territory with her series of science-fiction novels. Based on numerous interviews and sources, this book is a timely portrait of a fascinating woman.

Relegated during her lifetime to the pulpy genre of mystery, Patricia Highsmith has emerged since her death in 1995 as one of “our greatest modernist writers” (Gore Vidal). Presented for the first time, this one-volume assemblage of her diaries and notebooks posthumously discovered behind Highsmith’s linens and culled from more than 8,000 pages by her devoted editor, Anna von Planta—traces the mesmerizing double-life of an artist who “[worked] like mad to be something”.

Un albero disegnato da Marcello Mastroianni, la rabbia e l'orgoglio di Oriana Fallaci dietro le quinte, le lunghe camminate per Roma con Ennio Flaiano. Nella sua carriera Anna Maria Mori ha incrociato nomi altisonanti che hanno sconvolto culturalmente l'ultima metà del Novecento e di cui racconta con sensibilità e acume. Nessuno di loro però è riuscito a farle dimenticare le sue umili origini, la lontananza dalla città natale, gli anni di studio in collegio, la gavetta, il sogno femminista, la maternità.

Danielle Flood, a journalist born of the wartime love triangle that inspired the one in Graham Greene's The Quiet American, searches for her father after surviving a bizarre youth of privilege, estrangement, and cruelty. As she yearns for her father's love and presence, Danielle's beautiful French and Vietnamese mother leaves her in burlesque house dressing rooms in the American Midwest, in convent schools in Long Island and Dublin, and with strangers in New York City.

In this audiobook, you're going to see how other people went through some unimaginably horrific times - and got through them better off. The intention of Getting Through the Muck is for you to feel inspired, motivated, and find a deep knowingness that you can get through anything.