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Beautiful Writers
- A Journey of Big Dreams and Messy Manuscripts–with Tricks of the Trade from Bestselling Authors
- By: Linda Sivertsen
- Narrated by: Linda Sivertsen, Leanne Woodward, Tom Perkins
- Length: 13 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Imagine you're at a dinner party with some of the most successful authors of our time. "Book Mama" and Beautiful Writers Podcast cocreator Linda Sivertsen is the host. As she shares her story of the many hilarious, outrageous, and practical things she did to launch her bestselling writing career, your favorite writers chime in with their own anecdotes, leaving you enlightened and newly inspired. The wisdom in this book will nourish anyone who appreciates the art of storytelling and dreams of living a creative life.
By: Linda Sivertsen
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Empire's Son, Empire's Orphan
- The Fantastical Lives of Ikbal and Idries Shah
- By: Nile Green
- Narrated by: Keval Shah
- Length: 13 hrs and 30 mins
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In literary circles of the mid-twentieth century, father and son, Ikbal and Idries Shah, spread seductive accounts of a mystical Middle East. Pitching themselves as the authentic voice of the Muslim world, they penned travelogues and exotic potboilers alongside weighty tomes on Islam and politics.
By: Nile Green
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Blood and Lightning
- On Becoming a Tattooer
- By: Dustin Kiskaddon
- Narrated by: Chaz Allen
- Length: 8 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Dustin Kiskaddon draws on his own apprenticeship with Matt, the owner of Oakland's Premium Tattoo, and takes us behind the scenes into the complex world of professional tattooers. We join people who must routinely manage a messy and carnal type of work. Blood and Lightning brings us through the tattoo shop, where the smell of sterilizing agents, the hum of machines, and the sound of music spill out onto the back patio.
By: Dustin Kiskaddon
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Word Monkey
- By: Christopher Fowler
- Narrated by: Sean Pertwee
- Length: 13 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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This is the memoir Christopher Fowler always wanted to write about 'writing'. It's the story of how a young bookworm growing up in a house where there was nothing to read but knitting pamphlets and motorcycle manuals became a writer—a 'word monkey'—and pursued a sort of career in popular fiction. And it's a book full of brilliant insights into the pleasures and pitfalls of his profession, dos and don'ts for would-be writers, and astute observations on favorite (and not-so-favorite) novelists.
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A Reference Book That Made Me Laugh and Cry
- By S K NOWLER on 02-07-24
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Connection Is a Song
- Coming Up and Coming Out Through the Music of the '90s
- By: Anna Doble
- Narrated by: Anna Doble
- Length: 7 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Connection is a Song is a journey through the sounds of the 1990s; the story of a life-defining love of music and the tracks that shaped this girl's adventures through the decade. It travels from the impossibly mournful 'Nothing Compares 2 U' by Sinead O'Connor to the delirium of the KLF's '3 a.m. Eternal' via the cartoon swagger of EMF's 'Unbelievable', Madonna's terrifyingly sexy 'Vogue' and the guitar indie heart of the '90s where Elastica's 'Connection' beats Blur and Oasis in Anna's own Battle of Britpop.
By: Anna Doble
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The House of Beckham
- Money, Sex and Power
- By: Tom Bower
- Narrated by: Ciaran Saward
- Length: 14 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Through extensive research, expert sourcing and interviews with insiders, Britain’s most celebrated investigative biographer, Tom Bower, has unearthed a succession of revelations that give surprising insight into the reality of ‘Brand Beckham’. Exploring the couple’s relationship, and the truth about their football and fashion careers, their finances and their new life in Miami, The House of Beckham unravels the extraordinary reality of the business-savvy cultural icons to tell an engrossing, often astonishing story of money, sex and power.
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Bitchy
- By linda c edward lcedward on 21-06-24
By: Tom Bower
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Beautiful Writers
- A Journey of Big Dreams and Messy Manuscripts–with Tricks of the Trade from Bestselling Authors
- By: Linda Sivertsen
- Narrated by: Linda Sivertsen, Leanne Woodward, Tom Perkins
- Length: 13 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Imagine you're at a dinner party with some of the most successful authors of our time. "Book Mama" and Beautiful Writers Podcast cocreator Linda Sivertsen is the host. As she shares her story of the many hilarious, outrageous, and practical things she did to launch her bestselling writing career, your favorite writers chime in with their own anecdotes, leaving you enlightened and newly inspired. The wisdom in this book will nourish anyone who appreciates the art of storytelling and dreams of living a creative life.
By: Linda Sivertsen
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Empire's Son, Empire's Orphan
- The Fantastical Lives of Ikbal and Idries Shah
- By: Nile Green
- Narrated by: Keval Shah
- Length: 13 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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In literary circles of the mid-twentieth century, father and son, Ikbal and Idries Shah, spread seductive accounts of a mystical Middle East. Pitching themselves as the authentic voice of the Muslim world, they penned travelogues and exotic potboilers alongside weighty tomes on Islam and politics.
By: Nile Green
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Blood and Lightning
- On Becoming a Tattooer
- By: Dustin Kiskaddon
- Narrated by: Chaz Allen
- Length: 8 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Dustin Kiskaddon draws on his own apprenticeship with Matt, the owner of Oakland's Premium Tattoo, and takes us behind the scenes into the complex world of professional tattooers. We join people who must routinely manage a messy and carnal type of work. Blood and Lightning brings us through the tattoo shop, where the smell of sterilizing agents, the hum of machines, and the sound of music spill out onto the back patio.
By: Dustin Kiskaddon
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Word Monkey
- By: Christopher Fowler
- Narrated by: Sean Pertwee
- Length: 13 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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This is the memoir Christopher Fowler always wanted to write about 'writing'. It's the story of how a young bookworm growing up in a house where there was nothing to read but knitting pamphlets and motorcycle manuals became a writer—a 'word monkey'—and pursued a sort of career in popular fiction. And it's a book full of brilliant insights into the pleasures and pitfalls of his profession, dos and don'ts for would-be writers, and astute observations on favorite (and not-so-favorite) novelists.
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A Reference Book That Made Me Laugh and Cry
- By S K NOWLER on 02-07-24
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Connection Is a Song
- Coming Up and Coming Out Through the Music of the '90s
- By: Anna Doble
- Narrated by: Anna Doble
- Length: 7 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Connection is a Song is a journey through the sounds of the 1990s; the story of a life-defining love of music and the tracks that shaped this girl's adventures through the decade. It travels from the impossibly mournful 'Nothing Compares 2 U' by Sinead O'Connor to the delirium of the KLF's '3 a.m. Eternal' via the cartoon swagger of EMF's 'Unbelievable', Madonna's terrifyingly sexy 'Vogue' and the guitar indie heart of the '90s where Elastica's 'Connection' beats Blur and Oasis in Anna's own Battle of Britpop.
By: Anna Doble
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The House of Beckham
- Money, Sex and Power
- By: Tom Bower
- Narrated by: Ciaran Saward
- Length: 14 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Through extensive research, expert sourcing and interviews with insiders, Britain’s most celebrated investigative biographer, Tom Bower, has unearthed a succession of revelations that give surprising insight into the reality of ‘Brand Beckham’. Exploring the couple’s relationship, and the truth about their football and fashion careers, their finances and their new life in Miami, The House of Beckham unravels the extraordinary reality of the business-savvy cultural icons to tell an engrossing, often astonishing story of money, sex and power.
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Bitchy
- By linda c edward lcedward on 21-06-24
By: Tom Bower
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These Foolish Things
- A Memoir
- By: Dylan Jones
- Narrated by: David Thorpe, Dylan Jones
- Length: 16 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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These Foolish Things captivatingly charts Dylan's life: from his peripatetic childhood and late adolescence in 1970s London - a city then alive with possibility - to his award-winning tenure at what would become one of the most dynamic magazines of its era, GQ.
By: Dylan Jones
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Straight Acting
- The Many Queer Lives of William Shakespeare
- By: Will Tosh
- Narrated by: Will Tosh
- Length: 8 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Straight Acting is a surprising portrait of Shakespeare's queer lives - his own and those in his plays and poems. It is a journey back in time and through Shakespeare's England, revealing a culture that both endorsed and supressed same-sex desire. It is a call to stop making Shakespeare act straight and to recognise how queerness powerfully shaped the life and career of the world's most famous playwright.
By: Will Tosh
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Self-Portrait
- Collected Writings
- By: Jack Kerouac, Charles Shuttleworth - editor, Paul Maher Jr. - editor
- Narrated by: T. Ryder Smith
- Length: 15 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Jack Kerouac’s archive is vast. Throughout his life he was constantly writing, and he meticulously saved and catalogued his material. The result is that beyond the work published in his lifetime there has been a rich stream of posthumous writing that is far from tapped. This collection of previously unpublished writing culled from the Kerouac archive, and as a companion to Paul Maher Jr.'s Becoming Kerouac, spans Kerouac’s adult life, from a journal written at age seventeen to autobiographical reflections a few years before his death.
By: Jack Kerouac, and others
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Hospital Sketches
- An Army Nurse’s True Account of Her Experiences During the Civil War
- By: Louisa May Alcott
- Narrated by: Anne Hancock
- Length: 2 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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In the novel Little Women, Mr. March goes off to war. But in real life, it was Jo March (Louisa May Alcott herself, an avowed abolitionist) who traveled to Washington to nurse Northern soldiers. This is Alcott’s memoir but she chose to use the pseudonym “Tribulation Periwinkle” to tell her story. Despite the subject matter, her account is full of amusing anecdotes as she makes her way alone from Concord, Massachusetts to DC, trying to finagle a free ticket and convinced she will drown during the journey.
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An Evening with Edgar Allan Poe: with Poems and Short Stories by E.A. Poe
- By: Katherine Ashe, Edgar Allan Poe
- Narrated by: Christopher Kendrick
- Length: 1 hr and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Soon after Virginia, his young wife has died, Poe is urged by friends to marry again. Poe considers his life, from his early childhood with his actress mother to his marriage to his beloved cousin when she was fourteen. Originally commissioned from Katherine Ashe as a one-man play for New York City Historic House Trust's Poe Cottage in the Bronx, "An Evening..." is a brief, lyrical biography with selections from Poe's poems and a short stories that illuminate his writing and his life.
By: Katherine Ashe, and others
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In Pursuit of Love
- The Search for Victor Hugo's Daughter
- By: Mark Bostridge
- Narrated by: John Hastings
- Length: 10 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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From Normandy to the Caribbean Islands, this innovative biographical pursuit follows Adèle Hugo on her reckless journey of unrequited love – and the writer who chased after her more than 150 years later. In Pursuit of Love is part memoir and part travelogue, as well as an invigorating new approach to the writing of biography.
By: Mark Bostridge
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The Bookshop Woman
- By: Nanako Hanada, Catriona Anderson - translator
- Narrated by: Yuriri Naka
- Length: 5 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Nanako Hanada's life is in crisis. Recently separated from her husband, living in youth hostels and internet cafes, her work is going no better. Book sales at the eccentric Village Vanguard bookstore in Tokyo, which Nanako manages, are dwindling. Fallen out of love in all aspects of her life, Nanako realises how narrow her life has become, with no friends outside of her colleagues, and no hobbies apart from reading and arranging books. That's when Nanako joins a meet-up site where people meet for 30-minute bursts to find romance, build a network, or just share ideas.
By: Nanako Hanada, and others
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Polymath
- The Life and Professions of Dr. Alex Comfort, Author of The Joy of Sex
- By: Eric Laursen
- Narrated by: Michael Butler Murray
- Length: 31 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Laursen's book relates the event-filled life of a brilliant and complex figure, including his victory over a possibly career-ending disability, his tumultuous second marriage, his struggles with the scientific establishment, and the fascinating story of the making of The Joy of Sex.
By: Eric Laursen
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World Class
- Purpose, Passion, and the Pursuit of Greatness on and off the Field
- By: Grant Wahl, Dr. Céline Gounder
- Narrated by: Dr. Céline Gounder, Mark Mravic, Eric Wahl, and others
- Length: 12 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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After Grant Wahl died of an aortic aneurysm at the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar, collapsing in his press seat during a quarterfinal match, tributes to Wahl poured in from around the globe. Wahl was beloved for good reason—he was kind, generous, and unflinching in the face of injustice. He was also clearly one of the best journalists covering sports of his generation. Spanning four decades of storytelling, World Class collects for the first time the finest work of Grant Wahl.
By: Grant Wahl, and others
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Naked Portrait
- A Memoir of Lucian Freud
- By: Rose Boyt
- Narrated by: Rose Boyt
- Length: 12 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Rose Boyt explores her complicated relationship with her beloved father, the renowned artist Lucian Freud, through the diary and other accounts of sitting for him, naked or otherwise. Enthralled by his genius, it was only after his death that she began to question the version of events she had come to accept. The shock of the truth is profound but what emerges is her love and compassion not just for herself as a vulnerable young woman, but for the man himself, who is shown in all his brilliant complexity.
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Boring
- By Karin on 02-07-24
By: Rose Boyt
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The Editor
- How Publishing Legend Judith Jones Shaped Culture in America
- By: Sara B. Franklin
- Narrated by: Eunice Wong
- Length: 11 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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When twenty-five-year-old Judith Jones began working as a secretary at Doubleday’s Paris office in 1949, she spent most of her time wading through manuscripts in the slush pile and passing on projects—until one day, a book caught her eye. She read it in one sitting, then begged her boss to consider publishing it. A year later, Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl became a bestseller. It was the start of a culture-defining career in publishing.
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A joy from beginning to end
- By Jenny on 18-06-24
By: Sara B. Franklin
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Bear with Me, Amma
- Memoirs of M.T. Vasudevan Nair
- By: M.T. Vasudevan Nair, Gita Krishnankutty - translator
- Narrated by: Jeremy Francis
- Length: 6 hrs
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MT, as he is popularly known, is one of the most illustrious writers and film-makers from modern Kerala. His life’s work has won him the Jnanpith Award, the Sahitya Akademi Award, the National Film Award and the Padma Bhushan, among others. MT grew up in the village of Kudallur in Kerala and his writings constantly evoke the landscape of the years he spent there. Many of the characters in his stories are based on people who lived in this region and the stories themselves often retell incidents that happened there.
By: M.T. Vasudevan Nair, and others