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  • Michel de Montaigne: The Complete Essays cover art

    • Michel de Montaigne: The Complete Essays

    • By: Michel de Montaigne
    • Narrated by: Peter Wickham
    • Length: 53 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 12-10-21
    • Language: English
    • 2.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings

    • In 1572, Montaigne - nobleman, humanist, and thoroughly Renaissance man - retired to the seclusion of his estate in the Dordogne and started to write. From his pen poured a stream of "essays" - attempts to capture the observations that came to him on an idiosyncratic range of subjects....

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    • Frantumaglia

    • A Writer’s Journey
    • By: Elena Ferrante
    • Narrated by: Hillary Huber
    • Length: 13 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 03-01-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings

    • Consisting of over 20 years of letters, essays, reflections, and interviews, Frantumaglia is a unique depiction of an author who embodies a consummate passion for writing. Ferrante answers many of her listeners’ questions....

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  • Tony Robinson's Weird World of Wonders! British cover art

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    • How They Croaked

    • The Awful Ends of the Awfully Famous
    • By: Georgia Bragg
    • Narrated by: L. J. Ganser
    • Length: 3 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 11-08-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Best-selling author Georgia Bragg delights young people with her quirky characters and unique subject matter....

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  • God, Human, Animal, Machine cover art

    • God, Human, Animal, Machine

    • Technology, Metaphor, and the Search for Meaning
    • By: Meghan O'Gieblyn
    • Narrated by: Rebecca Lowman
    • Length: 9 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 24-08-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 19 ratings

    • From the author of the critically acclaimed Interior States comes a strikingly original exploration of what it might mean to be authentically human in the age of artificial intelligence....

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    • Coming to England

    • By: Floella Benjamin
    • Narrated by: Baroness Floella Benjamin
    • Length: 2 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 09-06-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings

    • This is the incredible story of Floella's journey from Trinidad to London, as part of the Windrush generation, to the House of Lords....

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  • Claiming My Place: Coming of Age in the Shadow of the Holocaust cover art

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  • The Funny Life of Sharks cover art

    • The Funny Life of Sharks

    • By: James Campbell, Rob Jones
    • Narrated by: James Campbell
    • Length: 2 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 18-08-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating

    • Take a deep dive into the ridiculously funny life of sharks (and some things that have nothing to do with sharks but are still splendidly funny) according to James Campbell, comedian extraordinaire...

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  • The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog cover art

    • The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog

    • And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist's Notebook -- What Traumatized Children Can Teach Us About Loss, Love, and Healing
    • By: Bruce D. Perry, Maia Szalavitz
    • Narrated by: Chris Kipiniak
    • Length: 13 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 24-09-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 471 ratings

    • How does trauma affect a child's mind—and how can that mind recover? In the classic The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog, Dr. Perry explains what happens to the brains of children exposed to extreme stress and shares their lessons of courage, humanity, and hope....

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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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  • The Narrow Road to the Interior and Hojoki cover art

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    • The Essays

    • A Selection
    • By: Michel Montaigne, M. A. Screech
    • Narrated by: Thomas Judd
    • Length: 16 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 25-02-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 4 ratings

    • A survey of one of the giants of Renaissance thought, The Essays: A Selection collects some of Michel de Montaigne's most startling and original works, translated from the French and edited with an introduction and notes by M. A. Screech in Penguin Classics....

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  • The Book You Were Born to Write cover art

    • The Book You Were Born to Write

    • Everything You Need to (Finally) Get Your Wisdom onto the Page and into the World
    • By: Kelly Notaras
    • Narrated by: Kelly Notaras
    • Length: 7 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 26-11-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 11 ratings

    • A guide to writing a full-length transformational nonfiction book, from an editor with two decades' experience working with authors from all walks of life....

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  • Wonderbook (Revised and Expanded) cover art

    • Wonderbook (Revised and Expanded)

    • The Guide to Creating Imaginative Fiction
    • By: Jeff VanderMeer
    • Narrated by: Ryan Burke, Tanya Eby, Adam Verner
    • Length: 13 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 28-01-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings

    • Wonderbook has become the definitive guide to writing science fiction and fantasy by offering an accessible, example-rich approach that emphasizes the importance of playfulness as well as pragmatism....

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    • Royal Books and Holy Bones

    • Essays in Medieval Christianity
    • By: Eamon Duffy
    • Narrated by: Eamon Duffy
    • Length: 14 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 04-08-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings

    • In these vivid and approachable essays, Eamon Duffy engages with some of the central aspects of Western religion in the thousand years between the decline of pagan Rome and the rise of the Protestant Reformation....

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    • Coventry

    • By: Rachel Cusk
    • Narrated by: Antonia Beamish
    • Length: 7 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 17-10-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 15 ratings

    • After the publication of Outline, Transit and Kudos - in which Rachel Cusk redrew the boundaries of fiction - this writer of uncommon brilliance returns with a series of essays that offers new insights on the themes at the heart of her life's work....

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    • True Stories & Other Essays

    • By: Francis Spufford
    • Narrated by: Francis Spufford
    • Length: 12 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 14-08-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings

    • An irresistible collection of favorite writings from an author celebrated for his bravura style and sheer unpredictability. Francis Spufford’s welcome first volume of collected essays gathers an array of his compelling writings from the 1990s to the present....

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    • A Modest Proposal

    • By: Jonathan Swift
    • Narrated by: Robert Blumenfeld
    • Length: 9 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 24-01-11
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • A Modest Proposal, is a Juvenalian satirical essay written and published anonymously by Jonathan Swift in 1729....

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  • The Situation and the Story cover art

    • The Situation and the Story

    • The Art of Personal Narrative
    • By: Vivian Gornick
    • Narrated by: Vivian Gornick
    • Length: 4 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 31-03-22
    • Language: English
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    • How does one pull from one's own boring, agitated self the truth-speaker who will tell the story a personal narrative needs to tell? That is the question The Situation and the Story asks—and answers....

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