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City of Destruction
- The Malabar House, Book 5
- By: Vaseem Khan
- Narrated by: Maya Saroya
- Length: 10 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 24
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 23
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 23
A political rally ends in tragedy when Persis kills a lone gunman as he attempts to assassinate India's divisive Home Minister, a man calling for war with neighbouring Pakistan. With the Malabar House team tasked to hunt down his co-conspirators, Persis is given a second case when the burned body of an unidentified white man is found on a Bombay beach. Meanwhile, Scotland Yard criminalist Archie Blackfinch, lies in a hospital fighting for his life, as all around him the country tears itself apart as a prelude to war...
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4 out of 5 stars
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Description of post partition India
- By Robert Ian Charles Parkinson on 28-12-24
- City of Destruction
- The Malabar House, Book 5
- By: Vaseem Khan
- Narrated by: Maya Saroya
This series gets better and better
Reviewed: 22-12-24
Superb characterisation, complex plotting, beautiful pacing, and a wonderful evocation of 1940s and 50s India. In Persis Wadia, Khan has created a compelling hero.
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The Running Grave
- Cormoran Strike, Book 7
- By: Robert Galbraith
- Narrated by: Robert Glenister
- Length: 34 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 6,048
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 5,706
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Story5 out of 5 stars 5,704
The Universal Humanitarian Church is, on the surface, a peaceable organisation that campaigns for a better world. Yet Strike discovers that beneath the surface there are deeply sinister undertones, and unexplained deaths. In order to try to rescue Will, Strike's business partner Robin Ellacott decides to infiltrate the cult and she travels to Norfolk to live incognito amongst them. But in doing so, she is unprepared for the dangers that await her there or for the toll it will take on her.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Love them more than ever
- By Abra Brash on 27-09-23
- The Running Grave
- Cormoran Strike, Book 7
- By: Robert Galbraith
- Narrated by: Robert Glenister
Superb story & narration as usual
Reviewed: 11-10-23
I couldn't read a book of this length. It has to be 35 hours of listening-reading. The latest Strike audiobook is one of my genuine annual highpoints. This book lives up to the extremely high standard Rowling & Glenister have set over the years. Can't wait for the new Strike TV programme later in the year and the new book next year.
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Fake Heroes
- Ten False Icons and How they Altered the Course of History
- By: Otto English
- Narrated by: Otto English
- Length: 17 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 200
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 176
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 176
Having exposed some of the greatest lies ever told in Fake History, journalist Otto English turns his attention to some of history's biggest (and most beloved) figures. Whether it's virtuous leaders in just wars, martyrs sacrificing all for a cause, or innovators changing the world for the better, down the centuries supposedly great men and women have risen to become household names, martyrs, demigods, saints and heroes. But just how deserving are they of their reputations? Otto English dives into the hidden lives of some of history's biggest names.
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3 out of 5 stars
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It’s ok.
- By Conrad on 08-08-23
- Fake Heroes
- Ten False Icons and How they Altered the Course of History
- By: Otto English
- Narrated by: Otto English
I wish this type of history was taught in schools
Reviewed: 03-06-23
As a teacher I sorely wish the balanced approach of English (both in this book, and in his first, Fake History) was adopted in our schools. He sees both the positive and negative in all of the "heroes" of the title. Unfortunately, schools in the UK seem to teach history (and other subjects) in ways that create the monomyths an kleos explained in numerous fabulous examples in this book. Having just finished Fake Heroes I intend to go back and relisten to Fake History. More, please.
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The Full English
- A Journey in Search of a Country and Its People
- By: Stuart Maconie
- Narrated by: Stuart Maconie
- Length: 12 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 114
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 101
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 101
Stuart Maconie is one of the keenest observers of English identity. Who better to take the temperature of the nation at this uncertain waymark on our national journey? Deftly weaving history and politics in engaging, conversational prose, The Full English is a love-letter to England written in Maconie’s inimitable style. As we wend our way through towns and cities, by Megabus and Avanti train, we meet a rich cast of characters and delve into the seldom-explored crevices of our national psyche.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Well researched and presented
- By peter smith on 29-04-23
- The Full English
- A Journey in Search of a Country and Its People
- By: Stuart Maconie
- Narrated by: Stuart Maconie
Not bad for a pie-eater
Reviewed: 29-04-23
Maconie has become a respected observer and commentator of the eccentricities and foibles of the life and lives on this island. As usual in English Journey he ploughs his own furrow. Just when you thought you could pigeon hole him he extolls a view that is the diametric opposite. Always thought provoking and often frustrating (and frustrated), in Full English he travels the same journey as J B Priestley had 90 years earlier in English Journey. He finds an England both ascending and descending, changed radically and unaltered. By the end of the book it is hard to judge whether he hates what England has become, or loves it in all its glorious contradictions. Either way, he is always phenomenally interesting and extremely, extremely funny.
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The Ink Black Heart
- Cormoran Strike, Book 6
- By: Robert Galbraith
- Narrated by: Robert Glenister
- Length: 32 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 8,650
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 8,034
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 8,003
When frantic, dishevelled Edie Ledwell appears in the office begging to speak to her, private detective Robin Ellacott doesn't know quite what to make of the situation. The co-creator of a popular cartoon, The Ink Black Heart, Edie is being persecuted by a mysterious online figure who goes by the pseudonym of Anomie. Edie is desperate to uncover Anomie's true identity. Robin decides that the agency can't help with this—and thinks nothing more of it until a few days later, when she reads the shocking news that Edie has been tasered and then murdered in Highgate Cemetery.
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2 out of 5 stars
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SO disappointing plus update
- By mollyeyre on 30-08-22
- The Ink Black Heart
- Cormoran Strike, Book 6
- By: Robert Galbraith
- Narrated by: Robert Glenister
Different, but worth it
Reviewed: 23-12-22
I was put off getting this for a long time by the negative reviews regarding the "messages" that form multiple chapters. I really wish I hadn't been. The narrative is very different because of this, and initially difficult to follow. However, if you stick with it you get used to it. Eventually, I realised that, given the nature of the story, the format she uses is entirely fitting and correct. She's the most successful author in the UK for a reason. Complex, beautiful and unconventional. Also, Glenister is magnificent. My favourite Strike audiobook to date.
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The Botanist
- Washington Poe, Book 5
- By: M. W. Craven
- Narrated by: John Banks
- Length: 11 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 621
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 582
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 580
Detective Sergeant Washington Poe can count on one hand the number of friends he has. And he'd still have his thumb left. There's the guilelessly innocent civilian analyst, Tilly Bradshaw of course. Insanely brilliant, she's a bit of a social hand grenade. He's known his beleaguered boss, Detective Inspector Stephanie Flynn for years as he has his nearest neighbour, full-time shepherd/part-time dog sitter, Victoria. And then there's Estelle Doyle. Dark and dangerous and sexy as hell.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Another really good one
- By mollyeyre on 02-06-22
- The Botanist
- Washington Poe, Book 5
- By: M. W. Craven
- Narrated by: John Banks
Stiff Little Fingers
Reviewed: 05-06-22
Hits you like the guitar riff and pounding drums after the pause on Alternative Ulster live on Hanx.
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Fake History
- Ten Great Lies and How They Shaped the World
- By: Otto English
- Narrated by: Otto English
- Length: 11 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 546
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 492
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 487
A fun, authoritative and alternative history of the world that exposes some of the biggest lies ever told and how they've been used over time. Lincoln did not believe all men were created equal. The Aztecs were not slaughtered by the Spanish Conquistadors. And Churchill was not the man that people love to remember. Journalist and author Otto English takes apart 10 of the greatest lies from history and shows how our present continues to be twisted and manipulated by the fabrications of the past.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Avoid unless you’re a fully paid up left wing communist 😬
- By Ewell Crooks on 17-09-21
- Fake History
- Ten Great Lies and How They Shaped the World
- By: Otto English
- Narrated by: Otto English
Never trust a received wisdom
Reviewed: 22-04-22
This book does what we should all do, but very few actually do - analyse in depth any claim that is taken for granted to such an extent that it has become essentially accepted as truth. In doing so we may find that received wisdom is actually simply an opinion for which there is an alternative view that has, for too long been ignored. This book does not claim any moritorium on the truth, it simply explains (with plentiful evidence) that there are always two sides to any opinion, even opinions which claim to be absolute truths.
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Still Life
- By: Val McDermid
- Narrated by: Cathleen McCarron
- Length: 13 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,700
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,541
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,539
On a freezing winter morning, fishermen pull a body from the sea. It is quickly discovered that the dead man was the prime suspect in a decade-old investigation, when a prominent civil servant disappeared without trace. DCI Karen Pirie was the last detective to review the file and is drawn into a sinister world of betrayal and dark secrets. But Karen is already grappling with another case, one with even more questions and fewer answers. A skeleton has been discovered in an abandoned camper van and all clues point to a killer who never faced justice - a killer who is still out there.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Poor narration
- By Flossie_Chick on 13-09-20
- Still Life
- By: Val McDermid
- Narrated by: Cathleen McCarron
One of the best she's ever written
Reviewed: 12-11-21
I've read a lot of Val Mcdermid over the years. The standard has always been high, but this book is one of her very best. Also, great to see her increasingly bringing some political commentary into the narrative at the margins.
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The Deficit Myth
- Modern Monetary Theory and How to Build a Better Economy
- By: Stephanie Kelton
- Narrated by: Stephanie Kelton
- Length: 10 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 390
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 320
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 314
Any ambitious proposal - ranging from fixing crumbling infrastructure to Medicare for all or preventing the coming climate apocalypse - inevitably sparks questions: how can we afford it? How can we pay for it? Stephanie Kelton points out how misguided those questions really are by using the bold ideas of modern monetary theory (MMT), a fundamentally different approach to using our resources to maximise our potential as a society.
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2 out of 5 stars
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A sophomoric fantasy.
- By SwissTony on 09-09-20
- The Deficit Myth
- Modern Monetary Theory and How to Build a Better Economy
- By: Stephanie Kelton
- Narrated by: Stephanie Kelton
A very important book
Reviewed: 14-06-20
This book may redefine public discourse on economics in the years to come. God knows it's long overdue! Kelton's narrative is compelling and written in lucid, easily accessible language that will leave many reassessing the grotesque austerity of the past decade. A rare book in that having read it I suspect many will conclude: "this changes everything".
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