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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 204 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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    • 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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    • 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 725 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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    • Where There's a Will

    • By: John Mortimer
    • Narrated by: Bill Wallis
    • Length: 6 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 10-12-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 23 ratings
    • Following the best-selling Summer of a Dormouse, Sir John Mortimer - playwright, novelist, octogenarian, and erstwhile QC - offers up more lessons in living and growing old disgracefully....

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    • Cultural Amnesia

    • Notes in the Margin of My Time
    • By: Clive James
    • Narrated by: Clive James
    • Length: 6 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 08-04-08
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 250 ratings
    • An almanac combining a survey of modern culture with an index of who-was-who and what-was-what, Cultural Amnesia is a unique take on the places and faces that shaped the 20th century....

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    • The Challenge of Things

    • Thinking Through Troubled Times
    • By: A. C. Grayling
    • Narrated by: Philip Franks
    • Length: 8 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 16-06-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 24 ratings
    • The Challenge of Things joins earlier collections like The Reason of Things and Thinking of Answers but this time to collect Grayling's recent writings on the world in a time of war and conflict....

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  • The Complete Essays of Montaigne cover art

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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 72 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 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 682 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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    • 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 145 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 16 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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    • In Gratitude

    • By: Jenny Diski
    • Narrated by: Kim Hicks
    • Length: 7 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 31-05-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 21 ratings
    • In August 2014 Jenny Diski was diagnosed with inoperable lung cancer and given 'two or three years' to live. She didn't know how to react. All responses felt scripted, laden with cliché....

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    • Letters to a Young Contrarian

    • By: Christopher Hitchens
    • Narrated by: James Adams
    • Length: 3 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 07-07-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 62 ratings

    • In the book that he was born to write, provocateur and best-selling author Christopher Hitchens inspires future generations of radicals, gadflies, mavericks, rebels, angry young (wo)men, and dissidents....

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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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    • To Throw Away Unopened

    • By: Viv Albertine
    • Narrated by: Jasmine Blackborow
    • Length: 9 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 04-10-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 82 ratings

    • What was I fighting for? Even now I'm not sure. Something so old and so deep, it has no words, no shape, no logic....

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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 6 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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    • 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 18 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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