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A House in St John’s Wood
- In Search of My Parents
- Di: Matthew Spender
- Letto da: Laurence Kennedy
- Durata: 14 ore e 9 min
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An intimate portrait of Stephen Spender’s extraordinary life written by Matthew Spender, shifting between memoir and biography, with new insights drawn from personal recollections and his father’s copious unpublished archives. Stephen Spender’s life was a vivid prism on the twentieth...
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A House in St John’s Wood
- In Search of My Parents
- Letto da: Laurence Kennedy
- Durata: 14 ore e 9 min
- Data di pubblicazione: 27/08/2015
- Lingua: Inglese
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The Forgotten Soldier
- He wasn’t a soldier, he was just a boy
- Di: Charlie Connelly
- Letto da: Adrian Palmer
- Durata: 8 ore e 25 min
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Bestselling author Charlie Connelly returns with a First World War memoir of his great uncle, Edward Connelly, who was an ordinary boy sent to fight in a war the likes of which the world had never seen. But this is not just his story; it is the story of all the young forgotten soldiers who...
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The Forgotten Soldier
- He wasn’t a soldier, he was just a boy
- Letto da: Adrian Palmer
- Durata: 8 ore e 25 min
- Data di pubblicazione: 23/10/2014
- Lingua: Inglese
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The Strangest Family
- The Private Lives of George III, Queen Charlotte and the Hanoverians
- Di: Janice Hadlow
- Letto da: Adjoa Andoh
- Durata: 27 ore e 10 min
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An intensely moving account of George III’s doomed attempt to create a happy, harmonious family, written with astonishing emotional force from a stunning new history writer. George III came to the throne in 1760 as a man with a mission. He wanted to be a new kind of king, one whose power was...
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The Strangest Family
- The Private Lives of George III, Queen Charlotte and the Hanoverians
- Letto da: Adjoa Andoh
- Durata: 27 ore e 10 min
- Data di pubblicazione: 02/07/2015
- Lingua: Inglese
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At the Coalface
- The memoir of a pit nurse
- Di: Joan Hart, Veronica Clark
- Letto da: Maggie Ollerenshaw
- Durata: 9 ore e 36 min
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A heart-warming story of a woman who devoted her life to helping others. This is the memoir of Joan, who started nursing in the 1940s and whose experiences took her into the Yorkshire mining pits and through the tumult of the 1984-85 miners’ strike. Joan Hart always knew what she wanted to do...
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At the Coalface
- The memoir of a pit nurse
- Letto da: Maggie Ollerenshaw
- Durata: 9 ore e 36 min
- Data di pubblicazione: 16/07/2015
- Lingua: Inglese
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The Times Great Scottish Lives
- Obituaries of Scotland’s Finest
- Di: The Times, Magnus Linklater - editor, Times Books - editor
- Letto da: Angus King
- Durata: 14 ore e 55 min
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Discover the fascinating lives of the iconic figures that have shaped Scotland from the early nineteenth century to the present day. Explore the rich history of Scotland’s cultural, social and political landscape, with more than 100 obituaries carefully curated from The Times archive. The...
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The Times Great Scottish Lives
- Obituaries of Scotland’s Finest
- Letto da: Angus King
- Durata: 14 ore e 55 min
- Data di pubblicazione: 05/10/2017
- Lingua: Inglese
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Game of Spies
- The Secret Agent, the Traitor and the Nazi, Bordeaux 1942-1944
- Di: Paddy Ashdown
- Durata: 12 ore e 11 min
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Spies, bed-hopping, treachery and executions – this story of espionage in wartime Bordeaux is told for the first time. Game of Spies uncovers a lethal spy triangle at work during the Second World War. The story centres on three men – on British, one French and one German – and the duels...
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Game of Spies
- The Secret Agent, the Traitor and the Nazi, Bordeaux 1942-1944
- Durata: 12 ore e 11 min
- Data di pubblicazione: 22/09/2016
- Lingua: Inglese
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Cameron at 10
- The Inside Story 2010–2015
- Di: Anthony Seldon, Peter Snowdon
- Letto da: Dugald Bruce Lockhart
- Durata: 19 ore e 31 min
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Five years in the making, ‘Cameron at 10’ is the gripping inside story of the Cameron premiership, based on over 300 in-depth interviews with senior figures in 10 Downing Street, including the Prime Minister himself. As dusk descended on 11 May 2010, David Cameron entered 10 Downing Street...
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Cameron at 10
- The Inside Story 2010–2015
- Letto da: Dugald Bruce Lockhart
- Durata: 19 ore e 31 min
- Data di pubblicazione: 10/09/2015
- Lingua: Inglese
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The Evolution of Everything
- How Ideas Emerge
- Di: Matt Ridley
- Letto da: Steven Crossley
- Durata: 13 ore e 9 min
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We are taught that the world is a top-down place. Acclaimed author, Matt Ridley, shows just how wrong this is in his compelling new book. We are taught that the world is a top-down place. Generals win battles; politicians run countries; scientists discover truths; artists create genres...
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The Evolution of Everything
- How Ideas Emerge
- Letto da: Steven Crossley
- Durata: 13 ore e 9 min
- Data di pubblicazione: 24/09/2015
- Lingua: Inglese
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Joining the Dots
- A Woman In Her Time
- Di: Juliet Gardiner
- Letto da: Eve Karpf
- Durata: 5 ore e 50 min
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‘An accomplished and intensely evocative memoir … A journey of courage and determination … Joining the Dots … will become in time an integral part of our understanding of postwar Britain’ Daniel Kynaston, Books of the Year, Observer How has Britain changed – politically, economically...
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Joining the Dots
- A Woman In Her Time
- Letto da: Eve Karpf
- Durata: 5 ore e 50 min
- Data di pubblicazione: 10/08/2017
- Lingua: Inglese
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Queen Victoria
- A Life of Contradictions
- Di: Matthew Dennison
- Letto da: Clare Corbett
- Durata: 5 ore e 13 min
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A fresh, witty, accessible life of Queen Victoria. Not since Lytton Strachey has the irony, contradictions and influence of this Queen been treated with such flourish or biographical insight. Reigning over a lifetime, Queen Victoria embodied the spirit of the contradictory era to which she lent...
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Queen Victoria
- A Life of Contradictions
- Letto da: Clare Corbett
- Durata: 5 ore e 13 min
- Data di pubblicazione: 06/10/2016
- Lingua: Inglese
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The Invention of Murder
- How the Victorians Revelled in Death and Detection and Created Modern Crime
- Di: Judith Flanders
- Durata: 18 ore e 11 min
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A deeply engaging and completely original book about nineteenth-century Britain’s fascination with good quality murder. Murder in nineteenth-century Britain was ubiquitous – not necessarily in quantity but in quality. This was the era of penny-bloods, early crime fiction and melodramas for...
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The Invention of Murder
- How the Victorians Revelled in Death and Detection and Created Modern Crime
- Durata: 18 ore e 11 min
- Data di pubblicazione: 20/01/2011
- Lingua: Inglese
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The Third Man
- Life at the Heart of New Labour
- Di: Peter Mandelson
- Durata: 5 ore e 49 min
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READ BY PETER MANDELSON. The hotly anticipated memoir of one of New Labour’s three founding architects. READ BY PETER MANDELSON. Peter Mandelson is one of the most influential politicians of modern times. The Third Man is his story – of a life played out in the backroom and then on the...
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The Third Man
- Life at the Heart of New Labour
- Durata: 5 ore e 49 min
- Data di pubblicazione: 22/07/2010
- Lingua: Inglese
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Our Vinnie
- The true story of Yorkshire’s notorious criminal family
- Di: Julie Shaw
- Letto da: Jim Millea
- Durata: 9 ore e 6 min
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The infamous Canterbury Estate in Bradford, a hotbed of crime, drink and drugs, was a law unto itself in the ’70s. So when one of their own was wronged in any way, the community always had its own way of dealing with it. The first title in a series of gritty family sagas, Our Vinnie accounts...
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Our Vinnie
- The true story of Yorkshire’s notorious criminal family
- Letto da: Jim Millea
- Durata: 9 ore e 6 min
- Data di pubblicazione: 06/11/2014
- Lingua: Inglese
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Bob Servant Hero Of Dundee
- Di: Neil Forsyth
- Letto da: Cameron Stewart
- Durata: 4 ore e 57 min
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Cyber hero Bob Servant became a cult classic in the best-selling Delete This At Your Peril. Now this much-anticipated sequel tells the life story of one of Scotland's unsung heroes. From his days in the Merchant Navy to his creation of a window-cleaning round and his time as a cheeseburger...
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Bob Servant Hero Of Dundee
- Letto da: Cameron Stewart
- Durata: 4 ore e 57 min
- Data di pubblicazione: 01/05/2012
- Lingua: Inglese
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To Catch A King
- Charles II's Great Escape
- Di: Charles Spencer
- Letto da: Richard Trinder
- Durata: 9 ore e 18 min
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How did the most wanted man in the country outwit the greatest manhunt in British history? In January 1649, King Charles I was beheaded in London outside his palace of Whitehall and Britain became a republic. When his eldest son, Charles, returned in 1651 to fight for his throne, he was crushed...
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To Catch A King
- Charles II's Great Escape
- Letto da: Richard Trinder
- Durata: 9 ore e 18 min
- Data di pubblicazione: 05/10/2017
- Lingua: Inglese
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After the Flood
- What the Dambusters Did Next
- Di: John Nichol
- Letto da: Peter Noble
- Durata: 11 ore e 48 min
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After the famous dams raid, thousands of equally daring missions were flown in WWII by 617 Squadron. Find out about them here, from former RAF Tornado Navigator and Gulf War veteran John Nichol. The role RAF 617 Squadron in the destruction of the dams at the heart of the industrial Ruhr has been...
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After the Flood
- What the Dambusters Did Next
- Letto da: Peter Noble
- Durata: 11 ore e 48 min
- Data di pubblicazione: 02/07/2015
- Lingua: Inglese
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This Long Pursuit
- Reflections of a Romantic Biographer
- Di: Richard Holmes
- Letto da: Steven Crossley
- Durata: 12 ore e 1 min
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‘A masterly performance by the greatest literary biographer of his generation’ Oldie In this kaleidoscope of stories spanning art, science and poetry, award-winning writer Richard Holmes travels across three centuries, through much of Europe and into the lively company of many earlier...
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This Long Pursuit
- Reflections of a Romantic Biographer
- Letto da: Steven Crossley
- Durata: 12 ore e 1 min
- Data di pubblicazione: 06/10/2016
- Lingua: Inglese
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Romans In Britain
- Di: Guy de la Bédoyère
- Letto da: Guy de la Bédoyère
- Durata: 2 ore e 55 min
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A guided tour of Roman Britain with historian Guy de la Bédoyère, as heard on BBC Radio 4. In 55 BC, Julius Caesar invaded Britain, which was then on the edge of the known world. But he was unable to conquer it. Where Caesar failed the Emperor Claudius, in AD 43, succeeded and the...
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Romans In Britain
- Letto da: Guy de la Bédoyère
- Durata: 2 ore e 55 min
- Data di pubblicazione: 01/10/2012
- Lingua: Inglese
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Full Steam Ahead
- How the Railways Made Britain
- Di: Peter Ginn, Ruth Goodman
- Durata: 6 ore e 48 min
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The Age of Railways was an era of extraordinary change which utterly transformed every aspect of British life – from trade and transportation to health and recreation. Full Steam Ahead reveals how the world we live in today is entirely shaped by the rail network, charting the glorious...
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Full Steam Ahead
- How the Railways Made Britain
- Durata: 6 ore e 48 min
- Data di pubblicazione: 28/07/2016
- Lingua: Inglese
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All The King's Men
- The British Soldier from the Restoration to Waterloo
- Di: Saul David
- Letto da: Sean Barrett
- Durata: 18 ore e 40 min
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The unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of Saul David's comprehensive history, All The King's Men: The British Soldier from the Restoration to Waterloo, read by the actor Sean Barrett. "The British soldier," wrote a Prussian officer who served with Wellington, "is vigorous, well fed, by...
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All The King's Men
- The British Soldier from the Restoration to Waterloo
- Letto da: Sean Barrett
- Durata: 18 ore e 40 min
- Data di pubblicazione: 29/03/2012
- Lingua: Inglese
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