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Loosely Based on a Made-Up Story
- A Non-Memoir
- By: James Blunt
- Narrated by: James Blunt
- Length: 6 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 1,171
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 1,128
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Story5 out of 5 stars 1,128
While James Blunt's crimes against music are well-documented, he also has some stories that are not. In Loosely Based On A Made-Up Story, James reveals his most riotous anecdotes to date for your amusement - and his parents' horror - in this highly anticipated non-memoir. From his questionable Norfolk roots, eccentric family, boarding school antics, misjudged military service, rise to music stardom and tour escapades, James delves into his (surprisingly) fascinating life to date.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Outstanding!
- By Chris on 02-12-23
- Loosely Based on a Made-Up Story
- A Non-Memoir
- By: James Blunt
- Narrated by: James Blunt
What a guy.
Reviewed: 15-07-24
I have no idea what to believe whether James B has done shed loads of drugs or none at all. But his book is a novel way of putting 2 fingers up to much of todays society very entertaining and he seems a really decent bloke to me.
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You Are Here
- By: David Nicholls
- Narrated by: Lydia Leonard, Lee Ingleby
- Length: 8 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,895
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 1,847
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,847
Marnie is stuck. Stuck working alone in her London flat, stuck battling the long afternoons and a life that increasingly feels like it's passing her by. Michael is coming undone. Reeling from his wife's departure, increasingly reclusive, taking himself on long, solitary walks across the moors and fells. When a persistent mutual friend and some very English weather conspire to bring them together, Marnie and Michael suddenly find themselves alone on the most epic of walks and on the precipice of a new friendship. But can it survive the journey?
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great performances, such a funny and touching story
- By Clare M. on 01-05-24
- You Are Here
- By: David Nicholls
- Narrated by: Lydia Leonard, Lee Ingleby
I’m no walker
Reviewed: 22-06-24
I really enjoyed this story. David Nicholls has such an enchanting way of storytelling. I seriously do not enjoy walking long distances, usually bored with descriptions of views and thought this book was not for me but I loved the way the relationship developed. I’ve met many people that do revel in walking miles usually rather silent, saturnine ones but in this case both Michael and Marnie had plenty to contribute.
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A Good Girl's Guide to Murder
- By: Holly Jackson
- Narrated by: Luke Poli, Kristin Atherton, Clare Corbett, and others
- Length: 12 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,506
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,384
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,382
The case is closed. Five years ago, schoolgirl Andie Bell was murdered by Sal Singh. The police know he did it. Everyone in town knows he did it. But having grown up in the same small town that was consumed by the crime, Pippa Fitz-Amobi isn't so sure. When she chooses the case as the topic for her final project, she starts to uncover secrets that someone in town desperately wants to stay hidden. And if the real killer is still out there, how far will they go to keep Pip from the truth?
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5 out of 5 stars
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Read this book!!!
- By Susan binder on 28-12-21
- A Good Girl's Guide to Murder
- By: Holly Jackson
- Narrated by: Luke Poli, Kristin Atherton, Clare Corbett, Jot Davies, Maryam Grace, Olivia Forrest
WOW
Reviewed: 13-04-24
What can I say but wow. Page turning, original, so well written and beautifully read.
I loved it.
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The Old Wives Tale
- By: Arnold Bennett
- Narrated by: Eileen Atkins
- Length: 2 hrs and 23 mins
- Abridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 6
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 5
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Story5 out of 5 stars 4
Spanning nearly half a century, The Old Wives Tale is epic in scale and scope, tracing as it does the effects of time on two sisters and their surroundings. The novel is a domestic story told with tenderness, and is concerned not with heroic statesmen or soldiers, but with small details of daily life in a way which demonstrates Bennett’s great debt to French realist writers. The action is concentrated mainly within the provincial town of Bursley, a startling contrast to Paris where Sophia and Gerald elope.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Braving it out
- By sue tid on 02-03-24
- The Old Wives Tale
- By: Arnold Bennett
- Narrated by: Eileen Atkins
Braving it out
Reviewed: 02-03-24
Beautifully written, beautifully read. People and life stay the same no matter what decade they’re in.
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Odd Boy Out
- By: Gyles Brandreth
- Narrated by: Gyles Brandreth
- Length: 14 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 561
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 506
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 501
There are few people Gyles Brandreth doesn't know or hasn't met. Now a grandparent, he traces his steps back to being a three-year-old tearing around 1950s London on his tricycle, to boarding school where he had an appendix removed simply to get out of football, to Bedales, where he met Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, to balancing his growing love of theatre with his love for educating, the 'woolly jumper years', the stint as an MP, the years of close friendship with the queen, to becoming a septuagenarian Twitter star and stalwart fixture in British entertainment.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Interesting, well read, and informative read.
- By deepforest on 15-01-22
- Odd Boy Out
- By: Gyles Brandreth
- Narrated by: Gyles Brandreth
Hallelujah for the Odd Boy
Reviewed: 08-02-24
I thoroughly enjoyed listening to Gyles and his hilarious anecdotes. His boundless energy and enthusiasm like Tigger, propel him through life. He is not arrogant, but has a genuine way with him which at the end I found very moving.
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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 6,045
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 5,703
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Story5 out of 5 stars 5,701
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
Crikey
Reviewed: 28-01-24
Crikey what an imagination has JK. Rowling. What can I say as I am stunned by the length of the Running Grave but somehow not stunned by the story.
JK has a fertile and brilliant imagination and writes wonderfully, but why am I not convinced this time round by the storyline. I’m assuming it’s taken from real life with some imaginative additions.
Certainly amazed at the expertise of Robert Glenister switching apparently effortlessly from female to male, to different male. But somehow reluctantly I don’t think this is as good as some reviews would have you believe. Chapter 133 was a Corm monologue how on earth did he piece together such detailed analysis of the murderer’s movements? Suspension of disbelief.
Nevertheless it kept me listening to the end. I could never have read the written version it would have been to heavy to be read at night. Although I’m pretty sure I fell asleep numerous times during the Audible version and missed some important chapters!
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Barbara Pym: A BBC Radio Drama Collection
- Some Tame Gazelle, No Fond Return of Love, Crampton Hodnet & More
- By: Barbara Pym
- Narrated by: Miriam Margolyes, Hannah Gordon, Samantha Bond, and others
- Length: 16 hrs and 33 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 39
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 34
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 34
Barbara Pym is one of the 20th-century's wittiest, and most underrated, novelists. Her perceptive comedies of manners, centred around the domestic lives and loves of unassuming middle-class Englishwomen, won her many devoted readers and saw her hailed as a modern-day Jane Austen. Yet she spent 15 years out of print in the 1960s and '70s, until Philip Larkin championed her work in the Times Literary Supplement. Her seventh novel was subsequently shortlisted for the Booker Prize, and writers from Jilly Cooper to Alexander McCall Smith continue to laud her talent today.
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5 out of 5 stars
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EXCELLENT WITTY GOOD CLEAN FUN A BOUNTY OF A COLLECTION
- By Highlight on 29-03-22
- Barbara Pym: A BBC Radio Drama Collection
- Some Tame Gazelle, No Fond Return of Love, Crampton Hodnet & More
- By: Barbara Pym
- Narrated by: Miriam Margolyes, Hannah Gordon, Samantha Bond, Rebecca Front, Penny Downie, Amanda Root, Annette Crosbie, Penelope Wilton, full cast
Saner times
Reviewed: 22-11-23
I thoroughly enjoyed this collection and sad when it ended but excited to hear barbara pym voice at the end
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Then and Now
- By: W. Somerset Maugham
- Narrated by: Andrew Wincott
- Length: 7 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 18
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 18
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 17
Maugham found a parallel to the turmoil of our own times in the duplicity, intrigue, and sensuality of the Italian Renaissance. Then and Now enters the world of Machiavelli, and covers three important months in the career of that crafty politician, worldly seducer, and high priest of schemers.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Is this how The Prince was conceived and written?
- By DAVID on 31-07-20
- Then and Now
- By: W. Somerset Maugham
- Narrated by: Andrew Wincott
Here and There
Reviewed: 31-07-23
It’s difficult to assess this story I usually love Somerset Maugham but this time although interesting it became almost like a history lesson with only the futile romantic attempts of Machiavelli to lighten the load.
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The Trial
- By: Rob Rinder
- Narrated by: Josh Dylan
- Length: 10 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 2,726
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 2,612
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 2,609
Follow Adam on his first gripping case that will take him from the murky world of Chambers to the splendour of the Old Bailey. Filled with twists, turns and a cast of unforgettable characters, The Judge is the enthralling fiction debut by broadcaster and barrister Rob Rinder.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Needs a Much More Experienced Narrator
- By Stephen Power on 29-06-23
- The Trial
- By: Rob Rinder
- Narrated by: Josh Dylan
GREAT
Reviewed: 20-07-23
I’ve thoroughly enjoyed The Trial a real page turner. Fascinating insight into the legal world beautifully read with gusto particularly I enjoyed the character of Adam’s mum. What this story did reveal was the very real dilemmas facing a committed, aspiring barrister who wanted justice and truth.
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The Marriage Portrait
- By: Maggie O'Farrell
- Narrated by: Genevieve Gaunt
- Length: 13 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,521
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,377
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,369
Florence, the 1560s. Lucrezia, third daughter of Cosimo de' Medici, is free to wander the palazzo at will, wondering at its treasures and observing its clandestine workings. But when her older sister dies on the eve of marriage to Alfonso d'Este, ruler of Ferrara, Modena and Reggio, Lucrezia is thrust unwittingly into the limelight: the duke is quick to request her hand in marriage and her father to accept on her behalf.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Second time for me
- By Amazon Customer on 31-08-22
- The Marriage Portrait
- By: Maggie O'Farrell
- Narrated by: Genevieve Gaunt
Frustrating
Reviewed: 10-07-23
I enjoyed the story but found the artistic licence infuriating. It distorted historical facts too much.
Beautiful descriptions but inappropriate at times particularly during penultimate chapter when Lucretia was struggling to survive.
I enjoyed the voice of the narrator she conveyed the atmosphere brilliantly although the voice of Alphonso and other male voices weren’t so effective.
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