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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 203 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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    • 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 721 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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    • The Conspiracy Against the Human Race

    • A Contrivance of Horror
    • By: Thomas Ligotti
    • Narrated by: Jon Padgett
    • Length: 11 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 22-10-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings

    • In Thomas Ligotti's first nonfiction outing, an examination of the meaning (or meaninglessness) of life through an insightful, unsparing argument that proves the greatest horrors are not the products of our imagination but instead are found in reality.

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    • How to Be Alone

    • If You Want to, and Even If You Don't
    • By: Lane Moore
    • Narrated by: Lane Moore
    • Length: 6 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 06-11-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 119 ratings

    • How to Be Alone is a must-listen for anyone whose childhood still feels unresolved, who spends more time pretending to have friends online than feeling close to anyone in real life, who tries to have genuine, deep conversations in a roomful of people who'd rather you not....

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    • The Periodic Table

    • By: Primo Levi
    • Narrated by: Neville Jason
    • Length: 9 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 07-12-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 145 ratings
    • The Periodic Table by Primo Levi is an impassioned response to the Holocaust: Consisting of 21 short stories, each possessing the name of a chemical element....

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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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    • The Trials of Oscar Wilde

    • By: Gyles Brandreth
    • Narrated by: Martin Jarvis
    • Length: 2 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 10-05-06
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 57 ratings
    • This compelling dramatic recreation has been carefully compiled from the original trial transcripts....

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    • United States: Essays 1952-1992

    • By: Gore Vidal
    • Narrated by: Jeff Cummings
    • Length: 60 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 31-12-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings

    • Gore Vidal’s reputation as America’s finest essayist is an enduring one. This collection, chosen by the author from 40 years of work, contains about two-thirds of what he published in various magazines and journals....

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    • A Time for all Things

    • Collected Essays and Sketches
    • By: Ruskin Bond
    • Narrated by: Vikrant Chaturvedi
    • Length: 16 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 18-12-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating

    • A lifetime of reading and writing, observation and contemplation is distilled in this comprehensive volume of the best essays, profiles and sketches by Ruskin Bond, the masterly and compassionate chronicler of the small details and lambent moments that capture the essence of a meaningful life....

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    • Frantumaglia

    • A Writer’s Journey
    • By: Elena Ferrante
    • Narrated by: Hillary Huber
    • Length: 13 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 03-01-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings

    • Consisting of over 20 years of letters, essays, reflections, and interviews, Frantumaglia is a unique depiction of an author who embodies a consummate passion for writing. Ferrante answers many of her listeners’ questions....

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    • Summer

    • By: Karl Ove Knausgaard, Ingvild Burkey - translator
    • Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
    • Length: 9 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 21-08-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings

    • The conclusion to one of the most extraordinary and original literary projects in recent years, Summer once again intersperses short, vividly descriptive essays with emotionally raw diary entries addressed directly to Knausgaard's newborn daughter....

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    • Themes and Variations

    • An Essay
    • By: David Sedaris
    • Narrated by: David Sedaris
    • Length: 30 mins
    • Release date: 28-04-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 88 ratings

    • In this surprising essay, international bestselling humor writer David Sedaris shares the rewards of a book tour and his devoted readers’ worst-kept secrets....

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    • One Man's Meat

    • By: E. B. White
    • Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
    • Length: 11 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 23-06-16
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • In print for over 50 years, One Man's Meat continues to delight listeners with E. B. White's witty, succinct observations on daily life at a Maine saltwater farm....

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    • Tell Me the Truth About Love

    • 13 Tales from Couples Therapy
    • By: Susanna Abse
    • Narrated by: Susanna Abse
    • Length: 7 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 19-05-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 70 ratings

    • Drawing on more than 30 years of therapeutic encounters with people facing hurdles in their love lives, former chair of the British Psychoanalytic Council Susanna Abse takes us deep inside one of the most fascinating realms there is: other people's relationships....

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    • The Wave in the Mind

    • Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination
    • By: Ursula K. Le Guin
    • Narrated by: Christina Moore
    • Length: 10 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 31-07-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 13 ratings

    • Join Ursula K. Le Guin as she explores a broad array of subjects, ranging from Tolstoy, Twain, and Tolkien to women's shoes, beauty, and family life. With her customary wit, intelligence, and literary craftsmanship, she offers a diverse and highly engaging set of stories....

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    • Die Welt von Gestern

    • Erinnerungen eines Europäers
    • By: Stefan Zweig
    • Narrated by: Peter Vilnai
    • Length: 17 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 04-10-13
    • Language: German
    • 5 out of 5 stars 24 ratings
    • Mit den Erinnerungen eines Europäers hat Stefan Zweig seine persönliche, zugleich eine der besten Analysen der Jahrzehnte...

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    • Mantel Pieces

    • Royal Bodies and Other Writing from the London Review of Books
    • By: Hilary Mantel
    • Narrated by: Olivia Dowd, Hilary Mantel - introduction
    • Length: 10 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 01-10-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 32 ratings

    • A collection of essays and memoir from two-time Booker Prize winner and international best seller Hilary Mantel....

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