cynthia
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The Diary of Two Nobodies
- By: Giles Wood, Mary Killen
- Narrated by: Mary Killen, Giles Wood
- Length: 6 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,095
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 960
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 952
What is life for Giles and Mary outside the willow-patterned cocoon? Giles is a countryman who relishes solitude. His wife, Mary, thrives in company and enjoys frequent escapes to London. After 30 years in a marriage of opposites, Giles and Mary have adapted to a life of domestic misunderstandings within comical misadventures.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Marriage - eject or sit it out?
- By Rachel Redford on 27-12-17
- The Diary of Two Nobodies
- By: Giles Wood, Mary Killen
- Narrated by: Mary Killen, Giles Wood
Honesty in a marriage
Reviewed: 16-05-24
I liked everything about this story. It is very unusual…it comes across as very natural and honest. I think they ought to be given a role in marriage counselling.
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How They Broke Britain
- By: James O'Brien
- Narrated by: James O'Brien
- Length: 10 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,915
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,798
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,798
Our economy has tanked, our freedoms are shrinking, and social divisions are growing. Our politicians seem most interested in their own careers, and much of the media only make things worse. We are living in a country almost unrecognisable from the one that existed a decade ago. But whose fault is it really? Who broke Britain and how did they do it?
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3 out of 5 stars
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Needlessly unbalanced
- By allan doherty on 23-11-23
- How They Broke Britain
- By: James O'Brien
- Narrated by: James O'Brien
Unpleasant voice
Reviewed: 03-02-24
This book is frightening in its aggressive, one-sided writing. Not much point in reading it except it allows you to understand why Britain is a broken country when such extremism is present in such vocal parts of our society.
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American Journey
- On the Road with Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, and John Burroughs
- By: Wes Davis
- Narrated by: Mitch Crawford
- Length: 11 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 1
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 1
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Story4 out of 5 stars 1
In 1913, an unlikely friendship blossomed between Henry Ford and famed naturalist John Burroughs. When their mutual interest in Ralph Waldo Emerson led them to set out in one of Ford's Model Ts to explore the Transcendentalist's New England, the trip would prove to be the first of many excursions that would take Ford and Burroughs, together with Thomas Edison, across America.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Interesting stories that give real insight into the three men
- By cynthia on 26-12-23
- American Journey
- On the Road with Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, and John Burroughs
- By: Wes Davis
- Narrated by: Mitch Crawford
Interesting stories that give real insight into the three men
Reviewed: 26-12-23
Overall a very good account. The beginning did not draw you in…a summary of each man would have helped to establish the context
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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 6,115
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 5,767
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Story5 out of 5 stars 5,765
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
Narrator good. Book far too long.
Reviewed: 31-10-23
Basically a good story and at first I was very involved and looked forward to listening in. Then I should think it was during the overly long descriptions of events at the farm when I felt the loss of momentum…I also found the constant interjections of excerpts from the Ai Chi very, very irritating.
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France on Trial
- The Case of Marshal Pétain
- By: Julian Jackson
- Narrated by: Michael Chance
- Length: 14 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 40
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 35
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Story5 out of 5 stars 35
Few images more shocked the French population during the Occupation than the photograph of Marshal Philippe Pétain - the great French hero of the First World War - shaking the hand of Hitler on 20 October 1940. In the radio speech after this meeting, Pétain said 'It is I alone who will be judged by History.' Five years later, in July 1945, the hour of judegment - if not yet the judgement of History - arrived.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent
- By cynthia on 28-07-23
- France on Trial
- The Case of Marshal Pétain
- By: Julian Jackson
- Narrated by: Michael Chance
Excellent
Reviewed: 28-07-23
An excellent account of the history of Petain’s trial. The historical context is given in a skilful way…never becomes too lengthy. But at the same time there are the telling details which add so much to the quality of this book. Really liked how at the end the continuing significance of Vichy, etc is described as shown in the last presidential election. A fair and balanced assessment of Petain and the Vichy regime…still a touchy subject with the French.
Excellent narrator
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Bismarck's War
- The Franco-Prussian War and the Making of Modern Europe
- By: Rachel Chrastil
- Narrated by: Sarah Borges
- Length: 17 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 19
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Performance3.5 out of 5 stars 19
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 19
Bismarck's War tells the story of one of the most shocking reversals of fortune in modern European history. The culmination of a globally violent decade, the Franco-Prussian War was deliberately engineered by Bismarck, both to destroy French power and to unite Germany. It could not have worked better, but it also had lurking inside it the poisonous seeds of all the disasters that would ravage the twentieth century.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Narration is intrusive and annoying for non-fiction
- By Amazon Customer on 04-07-23
- Bismarck's War
- The Franco-Prussian War and the Making of Modern Europe
- By: Rachel Chrastil
- Narrated by: Sarah Borges
Disliked narrator .Interesting book though obviously lots about battles.
Reviewed: 04-07-23
Disliked narrator…particularly method of giving dates..so irritating. Interesting book…lots about battles…would have preferred more about why war came about and it’s important consequences
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