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Letters to the Midwife
- By: Jennifer Worth
- Narrated by: Patience Tomlinson, Clive Mantle
- Length: 7 hrs and 15 mins
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When the Call the Midwife series became best sellers Jennifer Worth received mountains of letters - not only praising her books, but also from people who remembered the world her books described; life in the East End of London during the late 1940s and early '50s. Often her books touched her audience and they felt moved to write, or they wanted to share their own memories.A prolific letter writer herself, Jennifer always corresponded and this book includes some fascinating letters she received.
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More than I expected
- By R. Card on 22-11-15
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Letters to the Midwife
- Narrated by: Patience Tomlinson, Clive Mantle
- Series: Call the Midwife
- Length: 7 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 13-02-14
- Language: English
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Last Stop Auschwitz
- My Story of Survival
- By: Eddy de Wind, David Colmer
- Narrated by: Boris Hiestand
- Length: 7 hrs and 15 mins
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Eddy de Wind, a Dutch doctor and psychiatrist, was shipped to Auschwitz with his wife, Friedel, whom he had met and married at the Westerbork labour camp in the Netherlands. At Auschwitz, they made it through the brutal selection process and were put to work. Each day, each hour became a battle for survival. For Eddy, this meant negotiating with the volatile guards in the medical barracks. For Friedel, it meant avoiding the Nazis’ barbaric medical experiments.
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heartbreaking
- By Mrs. Lindsay P. Tonner on 17-04-20
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Last Stop Auschwitz
- My Story of Survival
- Narrated by: Boris Hiestand
- Length: 7 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 09-01-20
- Language: English
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Desolation Peak
- Collected Writings
- By: Jack Kerouac, Charles Shuttleworth - editor
- Narrated by: Christian Rummel
- Length: 7 hrs and 10 mins
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In the summer of 1956, Jack Kerouac hitchhiked from Mill Valley, California, to the North Cascades to spend two months serving as a fire lookout for the US Forest Service. Taking only the Diamond Sutra for reading material, he intended to spend his time in deep contemplation and to achieve enlightenment.
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Desolation Peak
- Collected Writings
- Narrated by: Christian Rummel
- Length: 7 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 08-11-22
- Language: English
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Talking with Psychopaths and Savages
- Letters from Serial Killers
- By: Christopher Berry-Dee
- Narrated by: Stephen Perring
- Length: 8 hrs and 55 mins
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This is Christopher back to his original and best - exploring the downright creepy correspondence with murderers, serial killers and psychopaths behind bars, with exclusive scans of letters and eerily designed envelopes.
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Talking with Psychopaths and Savages
- Letters from Serial Killers
- Narrated by: Stephen Perring
- Length: 8 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 25-05-23
- Language: English
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The 38 Letters from J.D. Rockefeller to His Son
- Perspectives, Ideology, and Wisdom
- By: J. D. Rockefeller
- Narrated by: Rick Font
- Length: 5 hrs and 28 mins
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The 38 letters written by Rockefeller to his son imparting his perspectives, ideology, and wisdom to his son.
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Great Lessons
- By James Woods on 05-09-24
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The 38 Letters from J.D. Rockefeller to His Son
- Perspectives, Ideology, and Wisdom
- Narrated by: Rick Font
- Length: 5 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 14-08-23
- Language: English
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Letters of Note: Correspondence Deserving of a Wider Audience
- By: Shaun Usher
- Narrated by: Alan Cumming, Benedict Cumberbatch, Gillian Anderson, and others
- Length: 11 hrs and 31 mins
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Letters of Note, the book based on the beloved website of the same name, became an instant classic on publication in 2013, selling hundreds of thousands of copies. This new edition sees the collection of the world's most entertaining, inspiring and unusual letters updated with 14 riveting new missives and a new introduction from curator Shaun Usher.
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Maybe not an audiobook
- By andrew on 10-02-22
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Letters of Note: Correspondence Deserving of a Wider Audience
- Narrated by: Alan Cumming, Benedict Cumberbatch, Gillian Anderson, Juliet Stevenson, Mark Strong, Noma Dumezweni, Stephen Fry, Colin Salmon, Crystal Clarke, Toby Jones, Jordan Stephen, Phyllis Ho, Ferdinand Kingsley, Louise Brealey, various
- Length: 11 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 28-10-21
- Language: English
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The Virago Book of Friendship
- By: Rachel Cooke
- Narrated by: Lucy Price-Lewis
- Length: 9 hrs and 59 mins
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It's hard to get inside friendship: its particular intensity; its singular ease; the way it can wax and wane; its ability to cause uncommon pain. This is the territory of novels and letters, poems and graphic novels - which is where The Virago Book of Friendship steps in. Celebratory, but also explanatory and wide in scope - from the Bible to Yellowface, from school friends to the loss of friends in old age - this wonderful book includes Jane Austen, Nora Ephron, Toni Morrison, Vivian Gornick, Helen Garner, LM Montgomery, Dolly Alderton - among nearly one hundred others.
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The Virago Book of Friendship
- Narrated by: Lucy Price-Lewis
- Length: 9 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 05-09-24
- Language: English
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Meet David Sedaris: Series Nine
- By: David Sedaris
- Narrated by: David Sedaris
- Length: 2 hrs and 48 mins
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Named by Time as America's Favourite Humorist, the uniquely perceptive and hilarious David Sedaris reads from his essays and diaries for his ninth series for Radio 4. This is the complete recording of Meet David Sedaris Series Nine, which was broadcast on Radio 4.
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Excellent and funny as always
- By SJO on 22-01-24
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Meet David Sedaris: Series Nine
- Narrated by: David Sedaris
- Series: Meet David Sedaris, Book 9
- Length: 2 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 14-12-23
- Language: English
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London Journal
- By: James Boswell
- Narrated by: Qarie Marshall
- Length: 13 hrs and 7 mins
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Between the years of 1762 and 1763, James Boswell kept a journal of his time in London. During his time, he met the renowned writer, moralist, and lexicographer Samuel Johnson, with whom Boswell would form a close relationship. This account, told with much detail and candor, was one of the various journals written by Boswell, but it is the journal that has undergone the least amount of censorship, leading it, and the racy material within, to be deemed a best seller upon publication.
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outrageous but fascinating
- By CKC on 11-10-20
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London Journal
- Narrated by: Qarie Marshall
- Length: 13 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 29-11-19
- Language: English
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84 Charing Cross Road
- By: Helene Hanff
- Narrated by: Juliet Stevenson, John Nettles
- Length: 2 hrs and 11 mins
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Told in a series of letters, this true story of the correspondence between a New York writer and a London bookseller has touched the hearts of thousands.
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Truth Stranger than Fiction
- By Amazon Customer on 03-06-07
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84 Charing Cross Road
- Narrated by: Juliet Stevenson, John Nettles
- Length: 2 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 13-02-07
- Language: English
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The Diary of a Bookseller
- By: Shaun Bythell
- Narrated by: Peter Kenny
- Length: 8 hrs and 23 mins
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Shaun Bythell owns The Bookshop, Wigtown - Scotland's largest second-hand bookshop. It contains 100,000 books, spread over a mile of shelving, with twisting corridors and roaring fires, and all set in a beautiful, rural town by the edge of the sea. A book-lover's paradise? Well, almost... In these wry and hilarious diaries, Shaun provides an inside look at the trials and tribulations of life in the book trade, from struggles with eccentric customers to wrangles with his own staff, who include the ski-suit-wearing, bin-foraging Nicky.
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A wry dissection of independent bookselling
- By Joan Trinder on 04-03-24
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The Diary of a Bookseller
- Narrated by: Peter Kenny
- Length: 8 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 10-10-23
- Language: English
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Patricia Highsmith: Her Diaries and Notebooks
- By: Patricia Highsmith
- Narrated by: Caroline Hewitt
- Length: 41 hrs and 51 mins
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Patricia Highsmith's first novel was picked up by Hitchcock and was a world-wide success. Her second novel was meant to tell everything about her true inside and dare what no-one had dared to write before: a lesbian love-story with a happy ending. But when she eventually relented to publish it under a pseudonym, it was a decision that would shape her life more than she could have guessed at the time. Henceforth she would vent her inner life either encoded in her future novels or—unbeknownst to most—in the 18 diaries and 38 notebooks she kept throughout her life.
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Patricia Highsmith: Her Diaries and Notebooks
- Narrated by: Caroline Hewitt
- Length: 41 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 16-11-21
- Language: English
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The Man with the Golden Typewriter
- By: Ian Fleming, Fergus Fleming
- Narrated by: Julian Rhind-Tutt
- Length: 13 hrs and 11 mins
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On 16 August 1952, Ian Fleming wrote to his wife, Ann, "My love, This is only a tiny letter to try out my new typewriter and to see if it will write golden words since it is made of gold". And he did write golden words: 14 best-selling James Bond books and an equally energetic flow of letters to his wife, publisher, editors, fans, friends and critics, charting 007's progress....
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Fleming, the man, so likable and charming
- By SirChutney on 02-12-18
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The Man with the Golden Typewriter
- Narrated by: Julian Rhind-Tutt
- Length: 13 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 03-11-15
- Language: English
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I Shall Bear Witness
- The Diaries of Victor Klemperer 1933-41
- By: Victor Klemperer
- Narrated by: Roger Davis
- Length: 27 hrs and 4 mins
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A publishing sensation, the publication of Victor Klemperer's diaries brings to light one of the most extraordinary documents of the Nazi period. The son of a rabbi, Klemperer was by 1933 a professor of languages at Dresden. Over the next decade he, like other German Jews, lost his job, his house and many of his friends. Klemperer remained loyal to his country, determined not to emigrate and convinced that each successive Nazi act against the Jews must be the last.
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Klemperer's Genius
- By Andrea Liu on 11-02-22
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I Shall Bear Witness
- The Diaries of Victor Klemperer 1933-41
- Narrated by: Roger Davis
- Length: 27 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 03-02-22
- Language: English
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The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister: Vol. 1
- I Know My Own Heart
- By: Anne Lister, Helena Whitbread - editor
- Narrated by: Kristin Atherton
- Length: 15 hrs and 16 mins
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Discover the extraordinary diaries of the real Anne Lister. When this volume of Anne Lister's diaries was first published in 1988, it was hailed as a vital piece of lost lesbian history. The editor, Helena Whitbread, had spent years painstakingly researching and transcribing Lister's extensive journals, much of which were written in an elaborate code - what Lister called her 'crypthand', which allowed her to record her life in intimate, and at times, explicit, detail. Until then, Anne Lister's lesbianism had been supressed or hinted at; this was the first time her story had been told.
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Fred
- By Joules wellibob on 22-09-24
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The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister: Vol. 1
- I Know My Own Heart
- Narrated by: Kristin Atherton
- Length: 15 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 26-10-23
- Language: English
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The Pillow Book
- By: Sei Shōnagon
- Narrated by: Georgina Sutton
- Length: 11 hrs and 9 mins
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The Pillow Book of Sei Shōnagon is a fascinating, detailed account of Japanese court life in the closing years of the 10th century. Written by a lady of the court at the height of Heian culture, this book enthrals with its lively gossip, witty observations and subtle impressions. Lady Shōnagon was an erstwhile rival of Lady Murasaki, whose novel, The Tale of Genji, fictionalized the elite world Lady Shōnagon so eloquently relates.
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A fascinating contemporaneous insight...
- By Double D on 03-03-23
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The Pillow Book
- Narrated by: Georgina Sutton
- Length: 11 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 19-03-22
- Language: English
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November 1942
- An Intimate History of the Turning Point of the Second World War
- By: Peter Englund, Peter Graves - translator
- Narrated by: Mark Bramhall
- Length: 18 hrs and 40 mins
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At the beginning of November 1942, it looked as if the Axis powers could still win the Second World War; at the end of that month, everyone realized that it was just a matter of time before they would lose. In between was El Alamein, Guadalcanal, the French North Africa landings, the Japanese retreat in New Guinea, and the Soviet encirclement of the German 6th Army at Stalingrad. It may have been the most important month of the 20th century. In this riveting historical marvel, Peter Englund has reduced an epoch-making event to its basic component: the individual experience.
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Compendious and deeply moving
- By Howard on 18-06-24
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November 1942
- An Intimate History of the Turning Point of the Second World War
- Narrated by: Mark Bramhall
- Length: 18 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 02-11-23
- Language: English
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The Letters of Jane Austen
- By: Jane Austen
- Narrated by: Kate Reading
- Length: 9 hrs and 35 mins
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“I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.” Jane Austen at her witty, observant, intelligent, and sympathetic best, in this collection of her letters written to family and friends. Compiled by her niece Fanny Knight’s son Edward Hugessen Knatchbull-Hugessen (the first Baron Brabourne), and edited by Sarah Chauncey Woolsey, this collection includes a preface written by the editor and notes from Lord Brabourne. It was originally published in 1892.
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The Letters of Jane Austen
- Narrated by: Kate Reading
- Length: 9 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 23-01-24
- Language: English
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My Unapologetic Diaries
- By: Joan Collins
- Narrated by: Glynis Barber, Joan Collins
- Length: 11 hrs and 17 mins
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Joan Collins has been a diarist from the age of 12, writing enthusiastically over the years. She dictated most of these entries in real time into a mini-tape recorder at the end of the day, and now she is spilling the beans - well, nearly all of them. What you will discover was written when Joan 'felt like it' between 1989 and 2009. Whether it is an encounter with a superstar or a member of the royal family, or her keen and honest insights into other celebrities at dinner parties and events, Joan is honest and unapologetic.
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Not read by Dame Joan
- By M A WILDE on 18-10-21
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My Unapologetic Diaries
- Narrated by: Glynis Barber, Joan Collins
- Length: 11 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 14-10-21
- Language: English
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The Letters of Private Wheeler
- An Eyewitness in Action at the Battle of Waterloo (Military Memoirs)
- By: B.H. Liddell Hart
- Narrated by: Roger Davis
- Length: 12 hrs and 38 mins
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These letters, in the form of a frank and amusing diary, were written by a private in Wellington's army who fought throughout the Napoleonic Wars. Private Wheeler's record covers the Peninsular Campaign, keeping order during the coronation of Louis XVIII (whom he called 'an old bloated poltroon') and his later posting to Corfu.
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Badly narrated
- By JB on 15-11-22
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The Letters of Private Wheeler
- An Eyewitness in Action at the Battle of Waterloo (Military Memoirs)
- Narrated by: Roger Davis
- Length: 12 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 28-07-22
- Language: English
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