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Air-Borne
- The Hidden History of the Life We Breathe
- By: Carl Zimmer
- Narrated by: Joe Ochman
- Length: 11 hrs
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In Air-borne, Carl Zimmer, Baillie Gifford-shortlisted author of She Has Her Mother’s Laugh and science columnist for The New York Times, traces the history and pre-history of the young science of aerobiology, from Antonie van Leeuwenhoek’s discovery of microbes under his hand-made microscopes in the seventeenth century to Darwin’s revelation, while aboard the Beagle in the middle of the Atlantic, that this invisible life can soar across the planet – he found sixty-seven different North African species that had travelled thousands of miles from the Sahara.
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Air-Borne
- The Hidden History of the Life We Breathe
- Narrated by: Joe Ochman
- Length: 11 hrs
- Release date: 27-02-25
- Language: English
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Time Come
- Selected Prose
- By: Linton Kwesi Johnson, Paul Gilroy - introduction
- Narrated by: Ben Onwukwe - introduction, Linton Kwesi Johnson
- Length: 7 hrs and 15 mins
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Recognized as one of the great poets of modern times, and as a deeply respected and influential political and cultural activist and social critic, Linton Kwesi Johnson is also a prolific writer of non-fiction. Here, he selects some of his most powerful prose for the first time. Written over many decades, it is a body of work that draws creatively and critically on Johnson’s own Jamaican roots and on Caribbean history to explore the politics of race and ethnicity that continue to inform the Black British experience.
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Listening to Linton.
- By tagster on 22-05-23
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Time Come
- Selected Prose
- Narrated by: Ben Onwukwe - introduction, Linton Kwesi Johnson
- Length: 7 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 13-04-23
- Language: English
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The Paris Express
- By: Emma Donoghue
- Narrated by: Justin Avoth
- Length: 9 hrs
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It is 1895. A high-speed steam train is the emblem of progress. Industry and invention are creating ever greater wealth and poverty. One autumn day an anarchist boards the Granville to Paris Express. The train carries others from all over the globe: the railway workers who have built a life together away from their wives, a little boy travelling alone for the first time, an artist far from home, a wealthy statesman and his invalid wife, and a young woman with a secret hidden under her dress.
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The Paris Express
- Narrated by: Justin Avoth
- Length: 9 hrs
- Release date: 20-03-25
- Language: English
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When It Rained for a Million Years
- By: Paul Farley
- Narrated by: Paul Farley
- Length: 2 hrs
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A family cohabits with a horse; three riots are tucked up safely in their beds; a tumbleweed takes up a career in comedy; the giant flag crossing a football crowd has a strange effect on those underneath; a rampaging fifty-foot poem brings terror to a city… As always in Paul Farley’s work, the quotidian and the cosmic are braided together in surprising, funny, or disconcerting ways. And as always, his poems inhabit and explore intermediate, uncertain spaces, a fertile terrain found between the obscurity of the cave and the light of knowledge linked to power.
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When It Rained for a Million Years
- Narrated by: Paul Farley
- Length: 2 hrs
- Release date: 13-03-25
- Language: English
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Lost Wonders
- 10 Tales of Extinction from the 21st Century
- By: Tom Lathan, Claire Kohda
- Narrated by: Tom Lathan
- Length: 10 hrs and 49 mins
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Many scientists believe that we are currently living through the Earth’s sixth mass extinction, with species disappearing at a rate not seen for tens of millions of years – a trend that will only accelerate as climate change and other pressures intensify. What does it mean to live in such a time? And what exactly do we lose when a species goes extinct? In Lost Wonders conservationist and science writer Tom Lathan tells the stories of ten species that have lived, died out and been declared extinct since the turn of the twenty-first century.
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Lost Wonders
- 10 Tales of Extinction from the 21st Century
- Narrated by: Tom Lathan
- Length: 10 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 07-11-24
- Language: English
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The Endless Country
- A Personal Journey Through Turkey's First Hundred Years
- By: Sami Kent
- Narrated by: Ojan Genc, Sami Kent
- Length: 11 hrs and 29 mins
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The Endless Country takes a journey through Turkey’s past – the nation the author’s father left decades ago and he returns to as a young man. It is not about Erdogan or Atatürk, the two towering Presidents who have book-ended that history, and at times have appeared impossible to escape. Instead Sami Kent’s book goes deep beyond them, revealing a history as rich, layered and absurd as his family’s favourite dessert, künefe: a shredded wheat pastry with a core of melted cheese, a topping of pistachios, and a drowning of syrup.
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Much to learn
- By JPW on 24-11-24
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The Endless Country
- A Personal Journey Through Turkey's First Hundred Years
- Narrated by: Ojan Genc, Sami Kent
- Length: 11 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 27-06-24
- Language: English
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The Utopians
- Six Attempts to Build the Perfect Society
- By: Anna Neima
- Narrated by: Tania Rodrigues
- Length: 11 hrs and 42 mins
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The Utopians is the remarkable story of six experimental communities - Santiniketan-Sriniketan in India, Dartington Hall in England, Atarashiki Mura in Japan, the Institute for the Harmonious Development of Man in France, the Bruderhof in Germany and Trabuco College in America - that sprang up in the aftermath of the First World War.
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A mixed experience
- By Philip on 27-02-22
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The Utopians
- Six Attempts to Build the Perfect Society
- Narrated by: Tania Rodrigues
- Length: 11 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 10-06-21
- Language: English
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A Letter to My Transgender Daughter
- By: Carolyn Hays
- Narrated by: Erin Bennett
- Length: 10 hrs and 28 mins
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When Carolyn Hays’s child made clear to the family that they were all wrong, he was not a boy, but, in fact, a girl, the Hays shifted pronouns, adopted a nickname and encouraged her to dress as she felt comfortable. One ordinary day, a caseworker from the Department of Children and Families knocked on their door to investigate an anonymous complaint about the upbringing of their transgender child. It was this threat that instilled in them a deep-seated fear for their child’s safety in the Republican state they called home. And so, they uprooted their lives.
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Pure love
- By Elettra (Rebel Angel) on 31-10-24
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A Letter to My Transgender Daughter
- Narrated by: Erin Bennett
- Length: 10 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 15-09-22
- Language: English
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Milk
- On Motherhood and Madness
- By: Alice Kinsella
- Narrated by: Alice Kinsella
- Length: 6 hrs and 34 mins
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A map of motherhood, Milk is at once a gentle and meditative story of one woman’s experience of new motherhood as well as a confronting and often painful examination of the experience of having children in contemporary Ireland. Alice Kinsella is a young mother, giving birth to her son in her mid-twenties, adrift in a new town and navigating her newly accompanied life. A powerful and yet delicate mix of the personal and political, Milk is an unflinching and unique memoir that looks at the experience of motherhood against the backdrop of a seemingly changed Ireland.
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So raw & tender, pure poetry.
- By Ann on 16-05-23
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Milk
- On Motherhood and Madness
- Narrated by: Alice Kinsella
- Length: 6 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 09-03-23
- Language: English
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Fans
- A Journey into the Psychology of Belonging
- By: Michael Bond
- Narrated by: Michael Bond
- Length: 5 hrs and 54 mins
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Fans takes the listener on a journey through a constellation of fandoms, and along the way demonstrates some fundamental truths about the human condition. Part behavioural study, part entertainment, at its heart the book is a story of collectives, of what happens to us when we interact with people who share our passions. The human brain is wired to reach out, and while our groupish tendencies can bring much strife (religious intolerance, racism, war, etc.), they are also the source of some of our greatest satisfactions.
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fascinating and varied
- By E on 01-08-24
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Fans
- A Journey into the Psychology of Belonging
- Narrated by: Michael Bond
- Length: 5 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 11-05-23
- Language: English
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On Agoraphobia
- By: Graham Caveney
- Narrated by: Graham Caveney
- Length: 4 hrs and 15 mins
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When Graham Caveney was in his early 20s, he began to suffer from what was eventually diagnosed as agoraphobia. What followed were decades of managing his condition and learning to live within the narrow limits it imposed on his life: no motorways, no dual carriageways, no shopping centres, limited time outdoors. Graham’s quest to understand his illness brought him back to his first love: books. From Harper Lee’s Boo Radley, Ford Madox Ford, Emily Dickinson and Shirley Jackson: the literary world is replete with examples of agoraphobics—once you go looking for them.
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Engaging, both interesting and intimate
- By Anonymous User on 03-09-23
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On Agoraphobia
- Narrated by: Graham Caveney
- Length: 4 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 28-04-22
- Language: English
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Father and Son
- A memoir about family, the past and mortality
- By: Jonathan Raban
- Narrated by: James Langton
- Length: 12 hrs and 31 mins
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On 11 June 2011, three days short of his sixth-ninth birthday, Jonathan Raban suffered a stroke which left him unable to use the right side of his body, wheelchair-bound in a rehab facility and endlessly frustrated by his newfound physical limitations. As he resisted the overbearing ministrations of the nurses helping him along the road to recovery, Raban began to reflect not only on the measure of his own life but the extraordinary story of his parents’ early marriage, conducted for three years by letter while his father fought in the Second World War.
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Great Writer, Great Last Book.
- By John Nigel Needs on 20-11-23
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Father and Son
- A memoir about family, the past and mortality
- Narrated by: James Langton
- Length: 12 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 14-09-23
- Language: English
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They Dream in Gold
- By: Diabou Mai Sennaar
- Narrated by: Julia Kwamya
- Length: 11 hrs and 41 mins
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Bonnie and Mansour are meant to be: two children abandoned by their mothers from opposite sides of the Black Atlantic, who find each other in New York in 1968 and set about making music that will change the world. Mansour’s sound is unique: a fusion of Senegalese prayer songs, and the wild beats of East Coast American jazz. His voice soars and lifts, carrying away the hearts of all who hear him; carrying away Bonnie, a lost American girl with her own troubled past. As they travel together from New York to Paris, to Rio and Switzerland, Mansour’s music forges connections and breaks new ground.
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They Dream in Gold
- Narrated by: Julia Kwamya
- Length: 11 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 08-08-24
- Language: English
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May Day
- By: Jackie Kay
- Narrated by: Jackie Kay
- Length: 1 hr and 30 mins
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May Day is the long-awaited collection from one of our best-loved poets and former Makar of Scotland, Jackie Kay. As the title suggests, these poems cast an eye over several decades of political activism, from the international solidarity of the Glasgow of Kay’s childhood, accompanying her parents’ Socialist campaigns, through the feminist, LGBT+ and anti-racist movements of the 80s and 90s, up to the present day when a global pandemic intersects with the urgency of Black Lives Matter.
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Bad day at the office
- By Mrs P. on 29-04-24
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May Day
- Narrated by: Jackie Kay
- Length: 1 hr and 30 mins
- Release date: 25-04-24
- Language: English
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Days of Light
- By: Megan Hunter
- Length: 5 hrs and 30 mins
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Easter Sunday, 1938. Ivy is nineteen and ready for her life to finally begin. At Cressingdon, her sprawling, bohemian family and their friends gather for lunch and to await the arrival of a longed-for guest. Britain is on the cusp of war, but in the idyllic Sussex countryside anything feels possible. It is a single, enchanted afternoon that ends in tragedy and will change Ivy’s life forever.
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Days of Light
- Length: 5 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 17-04-25
- Language: English
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Lampedusa
- By: Steven Price
- Narrated by: Jonathan Aris
- Length: 9 hrs and 37 mins
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Set in a sun-drenched Sicily, among the decadent Italian aristocracy of the late 1950s, Steven Price’s Lampedusa explores the final years of Giuseppe Tomasi, last prince of Lampedusa, as he struggles to complete his only novel, The Leopard. In 1955, Giuseppe Tomasi was diagnosed with advanced emphysema; shortly after, he began work on a novel that would fail to be published before his death four years later. When The Leopard at last appeared, it won Italy’s Strega Prize and became the greatest Italian novel of the century.
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Lampedusa
- Narrated by: Jonathan Aris
- Length: 9 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 20-02-20
- Language: English
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Everything in Its Place
- First Loves and Last Tales
- By: Oliver Sacks
- Narrated by: Dan Woren
- Length: 8 hrs and 28 mins
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In several of the compassionate case histories collected here, Sacks considers for the first time the enigmas of depression, psychosis, and schizophrenia, and in others he returns to conditions that have long fascinated him: Tourette’s syndrome, ageing, dementia and hallucinations. In counterpoint to these elegant investigations of what makes us human, this volume also includes pieces that celebrate Sacks’s love of the natural world – and his last meditations on life in the 21st century. Everything in Its Place gives us an intimate portrait of a master writer and thinker at work.
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Everything in Its Place
- First Loves and Last Tales
- Narrated by: Dan Woren
- Length: 8 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 24-06-21
- Language: English
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bandit country
- By: James Conor Patterson
- Narrated by: James Conor Patterson
- Length: 1 hr and 4 mins
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bandit country is written in the very particular dialect of the Irish border, as Ulster Scots and Ulster Gaelic shade into the language and culture of post-Celtic Tiger Ireland. Spectres of characters both mythic and real thread through these poems, giving them a slippery, ghostly quality. bandit country is a haunting exploration of this place and its people, looking back to the Troubles and forward towards Brexit—and to the ever-looming fences and boundaries with which we must reckon, collectively and urgently.
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Excellent poems, delivered with perfect narration
- By Niall Cunniffe on 02-04-23
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bandit country
- Narrated by: James Conor Patterson
- Length: 1 hr and 4 mins
- Release date: 01-09-22
- Language: English
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The Boy from the Sea
- By: Garrett Carr
- Narrated by: Stanley Townsend
- Length: 11 hrs
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1973. In a close-knit community on Ireland’s west coast, a baby is found abandoned on the beach. Named Brendan Bonnar by Ambrose, the fisherman who adopts him, Brendan will become a source of fascination and hope for a town caught in the storm of a rapidly changing world. Bookended by the arrival and departure of a single mesmerizing boy, Garrett Carr's The Boy From the Sea is an exploration of the ties that make us and bind us, as a family and community move irresistibly towards the future.
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The Boy from the Sea
- Narrated by: Stanley Townsend
- Length: 11 hrs
- Release date: 06-02-25
- Language: English
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Annie John
- By: Jamaica Kincaid
- Narrated by: Robin Miles
- Length: 4 hrs and 19 mins
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An adored only child, Annie has until recently lived a peaceful and content life. She is inseparable from her beautiful mother, a powerful and influential presence, who sits at the very centre of the little girl’s existence. Loved and cherished, Annie grows and thrives within her mother’s shadow. When she turns twelve, however, Annie’s life changes, in ways that are often mysterious to her.
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Annie John
- Narrated by: Robin Miles
- Length: 4 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 07-07-22
- Language: English
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