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Biographies & Memoirs
Audible’s collection of Biographies & Memoirs are written by famous, inspirational and interesting people from around the world. From engaging personal stories written (and read by) your favourite celebrity, to inspiring memoirs on overcoming adversity and the historic life and times of people who've changed the world, Audible has over 20,000 titles you can listen to.Most Popular
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I'm Glad My Mom Died
- By: Jennette McCurdy
- Narrated by: Jennette McCurdy
- Length: 6 hrs and 26 mins
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A heartbreaking and hilarious memoir by iCarly and Sam & Cat star Jennette McCurdy about her struggles as a former child actor—including eating disorders, addiction, and a complicated relationship with her overbearing mother—and how she retook control of her life....
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Couldn’t stop listening!
- By Anonymous User on 12-08-2022
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The Resilience Project
- Finding Happiness Through Gratitude, Empathy and Mindfulness
- By: Hugh van Cuylenburg
- Narrated by: Hugh van Cuylenburg
- Length: 4 hrs and 56 mins
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Hugh van Cuylenburg was a primary school teacher volunteering in northern India when he had a life-changing realisation: despite the underprivileged community the children were from, they were remarkably positive....
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Hugh keep up the great work.
- By Paul on 01-12-2019
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The Year I Met My Brain
- A Travel Companion for Adults Who Have Just Found Out They Have ADHD
- By: Matilda Boseley
- Narrated by: Matilda Boseley
- Length: 9 hrs and 13 mins
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Matilda Boseley's adult ADHD diagnosis was a massive, earth-shattering event. She was given a prescription but had no idea what ADHD meant for her identity, her relationships or her future....
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There are better books out there.
- By misterg on 02-12-2023
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Roger Rogerson
- From Hero Cop to Convicted Murderer – The Inside Story
- By: Duncan McNab
- Narrated by: Andrew Martin
- Length: 11 hrs and 46 mins
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Once one of the most highly decorated police officers in New South Wales, Rogerson would brag of the crims he killed. For too long, the whispers of corruption around him were ignored. But his unholy alliances with heroin dealers and underworld figures would eventually bring about his downfall.
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Boring storytelling. Couldn’t get past chapter 3
- By Mellissa Raphael on 28-04-2024
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Showing Up
- Get Comfortable Being Uncomfortable
- By: Nedd Brockmann, Hamish Blake - foreword
- Narrated by: Nedd Brockmann
- Length: 6 hrs and 53 mins
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Get comfortable with being uncomfortable–the story of a 23-year-old tradie who put his body ‘through hell and back 10 times’ to prove that anything is possible when you break past your own barriers....
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Amazing
- By Amazon Customer on 18-11-2023
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This Much Is True
- By: Miriam Margolyes
- Narrated by: Miriam Margolyes
- Length: 15 hrs and 7 mins
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Award-winning actor, creator of a myriad of memorable characters from Lady Whiteadder to Professor Sprout, Miriam Margolyes is a national treasure....
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Wondeful, laugh-out-loud, and touching. And certainly honest.
- By Anonymous User on 19-09-2021
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I'm Glad My Mom Died
- By: Jennette McCurdy
- Narrated by: Jennette McCurdy
- Length: 6 hrs and 26 mins
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A heartbreaking and hilarious memoir by iCarly and Sam & Cat star Jennette McCurdy about her struggles as a former child actor—including eating disorders, addiction, and a complicated relationship with her overbearing mother—and how she retook control of her life....
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Couldn’t stop listening!
- By Anonymous User on 12-08-2022
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The Resilience Project
- Finding Happiness Through Gratitude, Empathy and Mindfulness
- By: Hugh van Cuylenburg
- Narrated by: Hugh van Cuylenburg
- Length: 4 hrs and 56 mins
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Hugh van Cuylenburg was a primary school teacher volunteering in northern India when he had a life-changing realisation: despite the underprivileged community the children were from, they were remarkably positive....
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Hugh keep up the great work.
- By Paul on 01-12-2019
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The Year I Met My Brain
- A Travel Companion for Adults Who Have Just Found Out They Have ADHD
- By: Matilda Boseley
- Narrated by: Matilda Boseley
- Length: 9 hrs and 13 mins
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Matilda Boseley's adult ADHD diagnosis was a massive, earth-shattering event. She was given a prescription but had no idea what ADHD meant for her identity, her relationships or her future....
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There are better books out there.
- By misterg on 02-12-2023
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Roger Rogerson
- From Hero Cop to Convicted Murderer – The Inside Story
- By: Duncan McNab
- Narrated by: Andrew Martin
- Length: 11 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Once one of the most highly decorated police officers in New South Wales, Rogerson would brag of the crims he killed. For too long, the whispers of corruption around him were ignored. But his unholy alliances with heroin dealers and underworld figures would eventually bring about his downfall.
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Boring storytelling. Couldn’t get past chapter 3
- By Mellissa Raphael on 28-04-2024
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Showing Up
- Get Comfortable Being Uncomfortable
- By: Nedd Brockmann, Hamish Blake - foreword
- Narrated by: Nedd Brockmann
- Length: 6 hrs and 53 mins
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Get comfortable with being uncomfortable–the story of a 23-year-old tradie who put his body ‘through hell and back 10 times’ to prove that anything is possible when you break past your own barriers....
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Amazing
- By Amazon Customer on 18-11-2023
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This Much Is True
- By: Miriam Margolyes
- Narrated by: Miriam Margolyes
- Length: 15 hrs and 7 mins
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Award-winning actor, creator of a myriad of memorable characters from Lady Whiteadder to Professor Sprout, Miriam Margolyes is a national treasure....
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Wondeful, laugh-out-loud, and touching. And certainly honest.
- By Anonymous User on 19-09-2021
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Enforcer
- The Real Story of One of Australia’s Most Feared Outlaw Bikers
- By: Caesar Campbell, Donna Campbell
- Narrated by: Dave Ferguson
- Length: 6 hrs and 55 mins
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Among members of the outlaw motorcycle clubs, Caesar Campbell is a legend....
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👍
- By Anonymous User on 24-10-2020
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Shoe Dog
- A Memoir by the Creator of Nike
- By: Phil Knight
- Narrated by: Norbert Leo Butz, Phil Knight - introduction
- Length: 13 hrs and 21 mins
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Nike founder and CEO Phil Knight shares the inside story of the company's early days as an intrepid start-up and its evolution into one of the world's most iconic, game-changing, and profitable brands....
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- By You can’t afford not to buy it on 17-04-2018
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How to Build a Car
- By: Adrian Newey
- Narrated by: Richard Trinder
- Length: 12 hrs and 26 mins
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The world's foremost designer in Formula One, Adrian Newey OBE is arguably one of Britain's greatest engineers and this is his fascinating, powerful memoir....
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Great stories, amusing pronunciations by narrator
- By Adam on 31-01-2023
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Crimes of the Cross
- The Anglican Paedophile Network of Newcastle, Its Protectors and the Man Who Fought for Justice
- By: Anne Manne
- Narrated by: Fiona Macleod
- Length: 13 hrs and 29 mins
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For many years, Newcastle was the centre of an extensive paedophile network run by members of the Anglican church – and protected by parishioners and community members who looked the other way. Anne Manne reveals how this network was able to avoid detection for so long....
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Emotional
- By Alisha on 19-04-2024
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Lost Connections
- Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression - and the Unexpected Solutions
- By: Johann Hari
- Narrated by: Johann Hari
- Length: 9 hrs and 20 mins
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From the New York Times best-selling author of Chasing the Scream, a radically new way of thinking about depression and anxiety....
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Some good ideas, a lot of incomplete science.
- By Michael H on 17-06-2019
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Silent Sisters
- A True Story
- By: Joanne Lee, Ann Cusack
- Narrated by: Melanie Crawley
- Length: 8 hrs and 28 mins
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For over 20 years, Joanne Lee's mother kept the remains of three newborn babies hidden in her wardrobe. For the first time since exposing her mother's crimes, Joanne breaks her silence over her family's horrific ordeal....
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Amazing Book & Amazingly secret told
- By Anonymous User on 22-03-2022
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Yeah, Nah!
- A Celebration of Life and the Words That Make Us Who We Are
- By: William McInnes
- Narrated by: William McInnes
- Length: 6 hrs and 58 mins
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Have you ever bunged it on? Behaved like a drongo? Added mayo to a story? Lost your Reg Grundies? Join bestselling storyteller William McInnes as he offers his own take on our colourful and colloquial way with words....
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Love Hill, William narrated this himself
- By Ms. C. Bates on 03-02-2024
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For Love of Country
- Leave the Democrat Party Behind
- By: Tulsi Gabbard
- Narrated by: Tulsi Gabbard
- Length: 7 hrs and 33 mins
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Tulsi Gabbard was the rising star of the Democratic Party. But the growing wokeness, racism, and intolerance were more than she could stomach, and she left. This is her story....
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Poor Charlie’s Almanack
- The Essential Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger
- By: Charles T. Munger
- Narrated by: Grover Gardener
- Length: 13 hrs and 9 mins
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"Spend each day trying to be a little wiser than you were when you woke up," Charles T. Munger advises in Poor Charlie’s Almanack. Originally published in 2005, this compendium of 11 talks, delivered by the legendary Berkshire Hathaway....
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First Review!
- By Anonymous User on 05-12-2023
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Different, Not Less
- A Neurodivergent's Guide to Embracing Your True Self and Finding Your Happily Ever After
- By: Chloé Hayden
- Narrated by: Chloé Hayden
- Length: 7 hrs and 2 mins
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A neurodivergent's guide to embracing your true self and finding your happily ever after. Growing up, Chloé Hayden felt like she'd crash-landed on an alien planet where nothing made sense....
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Hi Chloe :))
- By Amazon Customer on 15-11-2022
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Unbreakable
- By: Jelena Dokic
- Narrated by: Kellie Jones
- Length: 10 hrs and 15 mins
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This is a story of Jelena Dokic's survival. How she survived as a refugee twice. How she survived on the tennis court to become world number four. But, most importantly, how she survived her father, Damir Dokic, the tennis dad from hell....
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Awful!
- By Carol F. on 22-01-2023
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Windswept & Interesting
- My Autobiography
- By: Billy Connolly
- Narrated by: Billy Connolly
- Length: 8 hrs and 38 mins
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In his first full-length autobiography, comedy legend and national treasure Billy Connolly reveals the truth behind his windswept and interesting life....
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Hilarious, Honest and Definitely Interesting
- By Chuffers on 18-11-2021
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Ask Jules
- Love Yourself and Live Your Dream
- By: Jules Robinson
- Narrated by: Jules Robinson
- Length: 5 hrs and 31 mins
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Since finding love on Married at First Sight, Jules Robinson has had a whirlwind five years–she got married (for real), had a baby, and became a purpose-driven entrepreneur....
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Oh Miriam!
- Stories from an Extraordinary Life
- By: Miriam Margolyes
- Narrated by: Miriam Margolyes
- Length: 10 hrs and 43 mins
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Join us on another unforgettable adventure through the extraordinary life and strong opinions of Miriam Margolyes....
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Grandmother to the neglected
- By evan w on 24-09-2023
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Run for Your Life
- The Remarkable True Story of a Family Forced into Hiding After Leaking Russian Secrets
- By: Sue Williams
- Narrated by: Sue Williams
- Length: 7 hrs
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What started out as a great adventure turned into a terrifying nightmare when Nick Stride and his family were forced to flee for their lives from one of the richest, most powerful men in the world....
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Paddle Your Own Canoe
- One Man's Fundamentals for Delicious Living
- By: Nick Offerman
- Narrated by: Nick Offerman
- Length: 10 hrs and 50 mins
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Parks and Recreation actor Nick Offerman shares his humorous fulminations on life, manliness, meat, and much more in his first book....
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Bacon
- By Johnpocalypse on 28-07-2015
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The Voice Inside
- By: John Farnham, Poppy Stockell
- Length: Not Yet Known
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From a childhood in London and Melbourne through to pop stardom in the 1960s, the critical success enjoyed with the release of the highest-selling Australian album of all time, and a decades-long touring career, the John Farnham story is, at first glance, one filled with remarkable highlights.
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Wishful Drinking
- By: Carrie Fisher
- Narrated by: Carrie Fisher
- Length: 3 hrs and 6 mins
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In Wishful Drinking, Carrie Fisher tells the true and intoxicating story of her life with inimitable wit....
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Hilarious, witty and blisteringly candid
- By Jacquie Jackman on 28-12-2016
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I Don't Need Therapy
- (And Other Lies I've Told Myself)
- By: Toni Lodge
- Narrated by: Toni Lodge
- Length: 5 hrs and 34 mins
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In this hilarious warm hug of a book, Toni Lodge exposes the lies she has told herself about who she is and what she is capable of, inviting us on a riotous romp that will make you laugh, cringe, cry and utterly rethink the truth behind the stories we tell ourselves....
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Emotional Journey.
- By Josh on 10-03-2023
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Autobiography of a Yogi
- By: Paramahansa Yogananda
- Narrated by: Ben Kingsley
- Length: 17 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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When Autobiography of a Yogi first appeared in 1946, it was acclaimed as a landmark work in its field....
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Superb Insight Into Indian Life and Spirituality
- By meredith on 29-06-2015
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Rambling Man
- My Life on the Road
- By: Billy Connolly
- Narrated by: Billy Connolly
- Length: 7 hrs and 55 mins
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The hilarious book from the nation's favourite comedian, Billy Connolly....
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He’s a classic
- By Great on 01-12-2023
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Hustle Harder, Hustle Smarter
- By: Curtis 50 Cent Jackson
- Narrated by: Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson
- Length: 8 hrs and 16 mins
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Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson opens up about his amazing comeback—from tragic personal loss to massive success as cable’s highest-paid executive.
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Surprisingly great!
- By Anonymous User on 31-12-2020
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I Can't Make This Up
- Life Lessons
- By: Neil Strauss - contributor, Kevin Hart
- Narrated by: Kevin Hart
- Length: 11 hrs and 15 mins
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Superstar comedian and Hollywood box-office star Kevin Hart turns his immense talent to the written word by writing some words....
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29 year old female photographer
- By Stacey on 11-06-2017
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Servo
- Tales from the Graveyard Shift
- By: David Goodwin
- Narrated by: Barton Welch
- Length: 8 hrs and 53 mins
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For anyone who's ever toiled under the unforgiving fluorescent lights of a customer service job, SERVO is a side-splitting and darkly mesmeric coming-of-age story from behind the anti-jump wire that will have you gritting your teeth, then cackling at the absurdity.
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I was surprised
- By Brett Rees on 01-05-2024
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Plans for Your Good
- A Prime Minister's Testimony of God's Faithfulness
- By: Scott Morrison, Mike Pence
- Narrated by: Scott Morrison, Mike Pence
- Length: 7 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Scott Morrison, Australia's 30th Prime Minister (2018-2022), offers a unique insider's account of a Christian who was open about his faith and operated at the top level of politics for more than a decade. During one of the toughest periods since the second world war, covering drought, wildfires, a global pandemic and recession, he chronicles God's faithfulness throughout, win or lose, public criticism or public success.
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René Meulensteen: United, Sir Alex & Me
- My Life in Football
- By: René Meulensteen
- Narrated by: Finlay Robertson
- Length: 9 hrs and 9 mins
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Meulensteen's story begins in a provincial region of Holland; a student of the game, René explains how he fought through red tape and bureaucracy to establish himself as a coach with principles he firmly believed in, and how those visionary methods saw him land a remarkable position at the world's biggest club, overseeing the technical development of their most precious department—the youth system.
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Underclass
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- By: Dr Jessica Taylor
- Narrated by: Dr Jessica Taylor
- Length: 9 hrs and 57 mins
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Dr. Jessica Taylor grew up on a council estate where brutality and coercion were normalised, and where substance abuse was a day-to-day occurrence. Now one of the UK's most spirited advocates for women's rights, and a leading chartered psychologist helping women and girls subjected to violence and trauma, Jessica shares her own personal journey for the very first time.
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The Devil in the White City
- By: Erik Larson
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
- Length: 14 hrs and 57 mins
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While Burnham overcame politics, infighting, personality clashes and Chicago's infamous weather to transform the swamps of Jackson Park into the greatest show on Earth, Holmes built his own edifice just west of the fairground. He called it the World's Fair Hotel. In reality, it was a torture palace, a gas chamber, a crematorium. These two disparate but driven men are brought to life in this mesmerizing, murderous tale of the legendary Fair that transformed America and set it on course for the twentieth century.
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House of Skulls with Marc Fennell
- By: Marc Fennell
- Narrated by: Marc Fennell
- Length: 3 hrs and 40 mins
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In the basement of one of the world's most prestigious universities, there was a classroom lined with a collection of human skulls from around the globe. Join award-winning journalist Marc Fennell (It Burns, Nut Jobs, Stuff the British Stole) as he takes you on a captivating global journey through the mysterious Morton Cranial Collection.
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Somebody I Used to Know
- By: Wendy Mitchell
- Narrated by: Wendy Mitchell
- Length: 9 hrs and 38 mins
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How do you build a life when all that you know is changing? How do you conceive of love when you can no longer recognise those who mean the most to you? A phenomenal memoir, Somebody I Used to Know is both a heart-rending tribute to the woman Wendy Mitchell once was, and a brave affirmation of the woman dementia has seen her become.
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Plans for Your Good
- A Prime Minister's Testimony of God's Faithfulness
- By: Scott Morrison, Mike Pence
- Narrated by: Scott Morrison, Mike Pence
- Length: 7 hrs and 28 mins
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Scott Morrison, Australia's 30th Prime Minister (2018-2022), offers a unique insider's account of a Christian who was open about his faith and operated at the top level of politics for more than a decade. During one of the toughest periods since the second world war, covering drought, wildfires, a global pandemic and recession, he chronicles God's faithfulness throughout, win or lose, public criticism or public success.
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René Meulensteen: United, Sir Alex & Me
- My Life in Football
- By: René Meulensteen
- Narrated by: Finlay Robertson
- Length: 9 hrs and 9 mins
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Meulensteen's story begins in a provincial region of Holland; a student of the game, René explains how he fought through red tape and bureaucracy to establish himself as a coach with principles he firmly believed in, and how those visionary methods saw him land a remarkable position at the world's biggest club, overseeing the technical development of their most precious department—the youth system.
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Underclass
- A Memoir
- By: Dr Jessica Taylor
- Narrated by: Dr Jessica Taylor
- Length: 9 hrs and 57 mins
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Dr. Jessica Taylor grew up on a council estate where brutality and coercion were normalised, and where substance abuse was a day-to-day occurrence. Now one of the UK's most spirited advocates for women's rights, and a leading chartered psychologist helping women and girls subjected to violence and trauma, Jessica shares her own personal journey for the very first time.
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The Devil in the White City
- By: Erik Larson
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
- Length: 14 hrs and 57 mins
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While Burnham overcame politics, infighting, personality clashes and Chicago's infamous weather to transform the swamps of Jackson Park into the greatest show on Earth, Holmes built his own edifice just west of the fairground. He called it the World's Fair Hotel. In reality, it was a torture palace, a gas chamber, a crematorium. These two disparate but driven men are brought to life in this mesmerizing, murderous tale of the legendary Fair that transformed America and set it on course for the twentieth century.
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House of Skulls with Marc Fennell
- By: Marc Fennell
- Narrated by: Marc Fennell
- Length: 3 hrs and 40 mins
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In the basement of one of the world's most prestigious universities, there was a classroom lined with a collection of human skulls from around the globe. Join award-winning journalist Marc Fennell (It Burns, Nut Jobs, Stuff the British Stole) as he takes you on a captivating global journey through the mysterious Morton Cranial Collection.
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Somebody I Used to Know
- By: Wendy Mitchell
- Narrated by: Wendy Mitchell
- Length: 9 hrs and 38 mins
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How do you build a life when all that you know is changing? How do you conceive of love when you can no longer recognise those who mean the most to you? A phenomenal memoir, Somebody I Used to Know is both a heart-rending tribute to the woman Wendy Mitchell once was, and a brave affirmation of the woman dementia has seen her become.
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Enchanted Islands
- A Mediterranean Odyssey – A Memoir of Travels through Love, Grief and Mythology
- By: Laura Coffey
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It started with a boy, of course. Seeking solace from the pain of heartbreak and her father's illness, Laura Coffey embarks on what was meant to be a simple holiday. But her newfound fascination with ancient Greek myths transforms her trip into a six-month odyssey, around tiny archipelagos and mystical Mediterranean islands thought to be the setting of Odysseus's epic journey. As she chases one of the most conflicted, flawed and yet beloved heroes through his fantastical sea-kingdoms, looking for the places where geography and mythology collide, she discovers the wild beauty of the islands.
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The Lessons
- How I Learnt to Manage My Mental Health and How You Can Too
- By: Nile Wilson
- Narrated by: Nile Wilson
- Length: 4 hrs and 57 mins
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Nile Wilson has always been one of life's winners; a charismatic young man with an Olympic bronze medal in the Horizontal Bar at just 21 years old. But after a serious neck injury, forcing him to retire early and miss taking part in the Tokyo Olympics, Nile's world fell apart. Swamped with depression, anxiety and addictive behaviours, his mental health went over a cliff. Over the past few years, Nile has had to face down his demons and accept his new reality, and this is the book he wish he'd been given before it all began.
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The Diaries of Mr Lucas
- By: Hugo Greenhalgh
- Narrated by: Will Watt
- Length: 7 hrs and 44 mins
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For 60 years, Mr George Leo John Lucas led a double life. By day, he was a civil servant at the Board of Trade, but by night—unable to live openly as a gay man before the Sexual Offences Act of 1967—he was a fixture of London's colorful underground gay scene, a twilight world of petty crime, louche pubs and public lavatories. He was also an obsessive diary writer.
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Thorns, Lust and Glory
- The Betrayal of Anne Boleyn
- By: Estelle Paranque
- Narrated by: Anna Wilson-Jones
- Length: 8 hrs and 17 mins
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Anne Boleyn has mesmerised the English public for centuries. Her tragic execution, orchestrated by her own husband, never ceases to intrigue. How did this courtier's daughter become the queen of England, and what was it that really tore apart this illustrious marriage, making her the whore of England, an abandoned woman executed on the scaffold? While many stories of Anne Boleyn's downfall have been told, few have truly traced the origins of her tragic fate.
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Metamorphoses
- In Search of Franz Kafka
- By: Karolina Watroba
- Narrated by: Deborah Balm
- Length: 7 hrs and 14 mins
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In 2024, exactly one hundred years after his death at the age of 40, readers and listeners all over the world will reach for the works of Franz Kafka. Many of them will want to learn more about the enigmatic man behind the classic books filled with mysterious courts and monstrous insects. Who, exactly, was Franz Kafka? Karolina Watroba, the first Germanist ever elected as a Fellow of Oxford's All Souls College, will tell Kafka's story beyond the boundaries of language, time and space, travelling from the Prague of Kafka's birth through the work of contemporary writers in East Asia.
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My Fishing Life
- A Story of the Sea
- By: Ashley Mullenger
- Narrated by: Ashley Mullenger
- Length: 7 hrs and 37 mins
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The sea has captivated people ever since humans first set sail on it; its beauty, its force, the mysteries it holds. For the few who make their living from it, trying to understand it, to second guess its ever-changing moods, creates an addiction to salt water that keeps us coming back. My Fishing Life documents the reality of that life. This book lifts the lid on what it's like to be one of the country's very few female fishermen, and also do justice to an iconic industry that, while it feeds and impacts almost all of us, remains one of our most mysterious and misunderstood.
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Feather Trails
- A Journey of Discovery Among Endangered Birds
- By: Sophie A. H. Osborn
- Narrated by: Tia Rider
- Length: 15 hrs and 56 mins
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In Feather Trails, wildlife biologist and birder Sophie A. H. Osborn reveals how the harmful environmental choices we’ve made—including pesticide use, the introduction of invasive species, lead poisoning, and habitat destruction—have decimated Peregrine Falcons, Hawaiian Crows, and California Condors.
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Across Mountains, Land and Sea
- One Boy’s Extraordinary Journey
- By: Arman Azadi
- Narrated by: Nicholas Khan
- Length: 7 hrs and 22 mins
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Arman is just a boy when he is forced to leave his home and embark on the most extraordinary journey. Separated from family and friends, he travels across mountains, land and sea to find refuge. After encountering bandits, war and wolves, and surviving a hazardous boat crossing, he arrives at Dover, clinging to the underside of a lorry. Little did he know, his journey had just begun. What follows is a struggle for self-understanding, and the great strength it takes to overcome the trauma we carry.
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My Family and Other Seedlings
- A Year on a Dorset Allotment
- By: Lalage Snow
- Narrated by: Lally Snow
- Length: 9 hrs and 36 mins
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A few years ago Lally Snow moved to a Dorset village with her husband and three small children, having spent over a decade as a war photographer, foreign correspondent and film maker living in Kabul. She covered the conflict there as well as other wars from Gaza to Eastern Ukraine, and Iraq. In the late winter of 2021-22, Lally decided to rent an allotment, despite having only a rudimentary knowledge of gardening. She was starting from scratch and setting herself the dual challenge of growing an allotment at the same time as growing a family.
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Legacy
- By: Nick Compton
- Narrated by: Nick Compton
- Length: 9 hrs and 7 mins
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Nick Compton had it all. A literal golden boy, to many observers it would seem that he was born to be a great in the sporting arena coming as he did from an incredible sporting ancestry. HIs grandfather Sir Denis Compton played cricket for England and football for Arsenal. Honed at an elite English boarding school, with a telegenic profile perfectly suited to the modern media environment, Nick appeared to be blessed with that rare ability to be able to stride out and face down the world's quickest bowlers, to survive and thrive in the danger zone at the hands of the hurtling new ball.
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The Last Secret Agent
- By: Jude Dobson, Pippa Latour Doyle
- Narrated by: Jilly Bond
- Length: 7 hrs and 49 mins
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Born in 1921, Pippa Latour was a covert special operations agent who parachuted into a field in Nazi-occupied Normandy. Trained by the British as a Special Operations Executive, Pippa was lauded for her fluency with languages and her coding ability—both attributes she put to remarkable use as she posed as a teenage soap seller, often selling soap to the German soldiers, and sending back information via code to the UK.
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The Last Victim
- By: Tracy Hall, Summer Land
- Narrated by: Tracy Hall
- Length: 7 hrs and 55 mins
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When Who the Hell is Hamish? hit podcast platforms in 2019, Tracy Hall quickly became known as the last victim of one of the world's most prolific con men, Hamish McLaren. At last, Tracy is sharing the full story of how she overcame financial and emotional betrayal in this fast-paced, witty and empowering true crime memoir.