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  • Under the Duvet cover art

    • 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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    • 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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    • 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 720 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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    • 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 679 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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    • Self-Reliance

    • The Unparalleled Vision of Personal Power from America's Greatest Transcendental Philosopher
    • By: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Mitch Horowitz - Abridged and Introduced by
    • Narrated by: Mitch Horowitz
    • Length: 48 mins
    • Release date: 08-12-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 17 ratings
    • Self-Reliance is a life-changing experience - its message of nonconformity, self-expression, and personal independence can awaken you to a new, and better, way of living....

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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 144 ratings
    • This was Alan Clark’s first volume of diaries and the only one that he recorded....

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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 15 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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    • 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 Maine Woods

    • By: Henry David Thoreau
    • Narrated by: Duncan Brownlehe
    • Length: 9 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 19-03-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating

    • Thoreau gives an account of three canoe and hiking journeys - by himself and with others - through the mostly uninhabited forests of Maine in the 1850s....

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    • The Conspiracy Against the Human Race

    • A Contrivance of Horror
    • By: Thomas Ligotti
    • Narrated by: Jon Padgett
    • Length: 11 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 22-10-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings

    • In Thomas Ligotti's first nonfiction outing, an examination of the meaning (or meaninglessness) of life through an insightful, unsparing argument that proves the greatest horrors are not the products of our imagination but instead are found in reality.

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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 284 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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    • Figures in a Landscape

    • People and Places
    • By: Paul Theroux
    • Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
    • Length: 16 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 07-06-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 17 ratings

    • Drawing together a fascinating body of writing from over 14 years of work, Figures in a Landscape ranges from profiles of cultural icons to intimate personal remembrances....

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    • The Glimpses of the Moon

    • By: Edith Wharton
    • Narrated by: Kate Harper
    • Length: 8 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 06-07-09
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 104 ratings
    • Nick Lansing and Susy Branch are young, attractive but impoverished New Yorkers. They are in love and decide to marry, but realise their chances of happiness are slim....

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    • I Wasn't Strong Like This When I Started Out

    • True Stories of Becoming a Nurse
    • By: Lee Gutkind
    • Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
    • Length: 8 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 04-08-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 18 ratings
    • This collection of true narratives reflects the dynamism and diversity of nurses who provide the first vital line of patient care....

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    • Culture and Anarchy

    • By: Matthew Arnold
    • Narrated by: Michael Maloney
    • Length: 6 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 13-05-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 13 ratings
    • Culture and Anarchy is a series of periodical essays by Matthew Arnold, first published in Cornhill Magazine 1867-68 and collected as a book in 1869....

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    • Dad Is Fat

    • By: Jim Gaffigan
    • Narrated by: Jim Gaffigan
    • Length: 5 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 07-05-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 40 ratings
    • In Dad is Fat, stand-up comedian Jim Gaffigan, who’s best known for his legendary riffs on Hot Pockets, bacon, manatees, and McDonald's, expresses all the joys and horrors of life with five young children....

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