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Knave of Spades
- The Growing Pains of a Gardener
- Narrado por: Alan Titchmarsh
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In this warm, funny memoir, Alan Titchmarsh takes us from gardener's apprentice to favourite TV presenter.
When Alan left school at 15, little was expected of him. An 'O' level in art is not the most obvious passport to success, but in the ancient greenhouses of the local nursery, Mrs T's little lad found his spiritual home, learning his trade and the strange ways of human nature.
But the comfort and familiarity of his home in the Yorkshire Dales would soon be left behind as he journeyed south to college and then to Kew Gardens, where he encountered rare plants collected by Captain Cook and a varied assortment of eccentrics in the world's most famous garden.
Spells as a teacher and editor followed, until fate took a hand when he landed a job on the BBC's Nationwide as their gardening presenter. His childhood dream of inheriting the mantle of gardening god Percy Thrower was beginning to come true.
From the first faltering steps in radio and television, to a career in broadcasting and writing, Knave of Spades is a wonderfully warm and self-deprecatingly honest memoir. Alan Titchmarsh shows us just why he has become not only our favourite gardener, but a popular writer and broadcaster too.
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 38
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Gass’ new novel moves from World War II Europe to a small town in postwar Ohio. In a series of variations, Gass gives us a mosaic of a life - futile, comic, anarchic - arranged in an array of vocabularies, altered rhythms, forms and tones, and broken pieces with music as both theme and structure, set in the key of middle C. It begins in Graz, Austria, 1938. Joseph Skizzen's father, pretending to be Jewish, leaves his country for England with his wife and two children to avoid any connection with the Nazis, who he foresees will soon take over his homeland....
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4 out of 5 stars
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All the world was a stage. But not for all the wor
- De Darwin8u en 06-07-14
De: William H. Gass
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How It All Began
- De: Penelope Lively
- Narrado por: Katherine Kellgren
- Duración: 7 h y 38 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 458
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 391
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 389
When Charlotte Rainsford, a retired schoolteacher, is accosted by a petty thief on a London street, the consequences ripple across the lives of acquaintances and strangers alike. A marriage unravels after an illicit love affair is revealed through an errant cell phone message; a posh yet financially strapped interior designer meets a business partner who might prove too good to be true.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wonderful and beautifully written
- De Molly-o en 02-15-12
De: Penelope Lively
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Time Pieces
- A Dublin Memoir
- De: John Banville
- Narrado por: John Lee
- Duración: 4 h y 39 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 31
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 26
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 26
As much about the life of the city as it is about a life lived, sometimes, in the city, John Banville's "quasi-memoir" is as layered, emotionally rich, witty, and unexpected as any of his novels. Born and bred in a small town a train ride away from Dublin, Banville saw the city as a place of enchantment when he was a child, a birthday treat, the place where his beloved, eccentric aunt lived.
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5 out of 5 stars
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‘loved it!
- De SandyK en 02-24-24
De: John Banville
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No Cunning Plan
- De: Sir Tony Robinson
- Narrado por: Tony Robinson
- Duración: 14 h y 7 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 91
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 78
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 77
Sir Tony Robinson is a much-loved actor, presenter and author with a stellar career lasting over 50 years. Now, in his long-awaited autobiography, he reveals how the boy from South Woodford went from child stardom in the first stage production of Oliver!, a pint-size pickpocket desperately bleaching his incipient moustache, to comedy icon Baldrick, the loyal servant and turnip aficionado in Blackadder.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great audible book as read by Sir Tony Robinson
- De Michael Thomas Fortson en 04-15-21
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Flesh Wounds
- De: Richard Glover
- Narrado por: Richard Glover
- Duración: 7 h y 12 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 34
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 33
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 33
A mother who invented her past, a father who was often absent, a son who wondered if this could really be his family...Richard Glover's favourite dinner-party game is called 'Who's Got the Weirdest Parents?' It's a game he always thinks he'll win. There was his mother, a deluded snob who made up large swathes of her past and who ran away with Richard's English teacher, a Tolkien devotee, nudist and stuffed toy collector.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Such a Meaningful Reflection
- De Awarenessing en 11-28-15
De: Richard Glover
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Property
- Stories Between Two Novellas
- De: Lionel Shriver
- Narrado por: Lionel Shriver
- Duración: 14 h y 10 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 46
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 44
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 43
A striking new collection of ten short stories and two novellas that explores the idea of property in every meaning of the word, from the acclaimed New York Times best-selling author of the National Book Award finalist So Much for That and the international best seller We Need to Talk About Kevin.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Painful and drawn out
- De JR en 06-27-18
De: Lionel Shriver
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A Clergyman's Daughter
- De: George Orwell
- Narrado por: Richard Brown
- Duración: 10 h y 17 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 156
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 140
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 140
Dorothy Hare, the dutiful daughter of a rector in Suffolk, spends her days performing good works and cultivating good thoughts, pricking her arm with a pin when a bad thought arises. She does her best to reconcile her father’s fanciful view of his position in the world with such realities as the butcher’s bill. But even Dorothy’s strength has its limits, and one night, as she works feverishly on costumes for the church-school play, she blacks out. When she comes to, she finds herself on a London street, clad in a sleazy dress and unaware of her identity.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Bottom-Shelf Orwell, but still G-D Orwell
- De Darwin8u en 08-11-19
De: George Orwell
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Wait for Me!
- Memoirs
- De: Deborah Mitford Duchess of Devonshire
- Narrado por: Anne Flosnik
- Duración: 14 h y 17 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 120
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 85
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 87
Deborah Mitford, Duchess of Devonshire, is the youngest of the famously witty brood that includes the writers Jessica and Nancy, who wrote when Deborah was born, "How disgusting of the poor darling to go and be a girl." Deborah's effervescent memoir chronicles her remarkable life, from an eccentric but happy childhood in the Oxfordshire countryside, to tea with Adolf Hitler and her controversially political sister Unity in 1937, to her marriage to the second son of the Duke of Devonshire.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The last of the Mitford Sisters
- De Irene en 01-11-11
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Staying On
- De: Paul Scott
- Narrado por: Paul Shelley
- Duración: 9 h y 1 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 87
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 73
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 72
Tusker and Lily Smalley stayed on in India. Given the chance to return ‘home’ when Tusker, once a Colonel in the British Army, retired, they chose instead to remain in the small hill town of Pankot, with its eccentric inhabitants and archaic rituals left over from the days of the Empire. Only the tyranny of their imposing landlady threatens to upset the quiet rhythm of their days.
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3 out of 5 stars
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A Pleasant Meander
- De Ian C Robertson en 09-22-14
De: Paul Scott
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A Fatal Inversion
- De: Barbara Vine
- Narrado por: William Gaminara
- Duración: 10 h y 13 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 98
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 85
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 86
In the long, hot summer of 1976, a group of young people is camping in Wyvis Hall. Adam, Rufus, Shiva, Vivien and Zosie hardly ask why they are there or how they are to live; they scavenge, steal and sell the family heirlooms. Ten years later, the bodies of a woman and child are discovered in the Hall’s animal cemetery. Which woman? And whose child?
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5 out of 5 stars
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Oh my!
- De Jill en 06-15-14
De: Barbara Vine
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The Loved One
- De: Evelyn Waugh
- Narrado por: Simon Prebble
- Duración: 3 h y 24 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 104
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 85
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 86
Following the death of a friend, the poet and pets' mortician Dennis Barlow finds himself entering the artificial Hollywood paradise of the Whispering Glades Memorial Park. Within its golden gates, death, American-style, is wrapped up and sold like a package holiday - and Dennis gets drawn into a bizarre love triangle with Aimée Thanatogenos, a naïve Californian corpse beautician, and Mr. Joyboy, a master of the embalmer's art.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Satire? Or just mean spirited?
- De 🔥 Phx17 🔥 en 02-08-23
De: Evelyn Waugh
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The Testament of Gideon Mack
- De: James Robertson
- Narrado por: Tom Cotcher
- Duración: 15 h y 59 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 66
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 35
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 35
For Gideon Mack, faithless minister, unfaithful husband, and troubled soul, the existence of God, let alone the Devil, is no more credible than that of ghosts or fairies - until the day he falls into a gorge and is rescued by someone who might just be Satan.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fantastic
- De Christopher en 07-06-08
De: James Robertson
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The Keys to the Street
- De: Ruth Rendell
- Narrado por: Simon Russell Beale
- Duración: 11 h y 20 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 99
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 78
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 79
Mary Jago had donated her own bone marrow to save the life of someone she didn’t know. And this generous act led directly to the bitter break-up of her affair with Alistair. For him, it was as though her beauty had been plundered. But the man whose life she had saved would change Mary’s life in a way she could never have imagined.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Mystery with humor and insight
- De Ida Hagman en 10-02-12
De: Ruth Rendell
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A Narrow Door
- De: Joanne Harris
- Narrado por: Alex Kingston, Steven Pacey
- Duración: 12 h y 53 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 169
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 154
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 151
Rebecca Buckfast has spilled blood to reach this position. Barely 40, she is just starting to reap the harvest of her ambition. As the new regime takes on the old guard, the ground shifts. And with it, the remains of a body are discovered.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Optional heading
- De TanyaB en 01-17-22
De: Joanne Harris
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A Pleasure and a Calling
- A Novel
- De: Phil Hogan
- Narrado por: Michael Page
- Duración: 7 h y 50 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 129
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 113
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 113
You won't remember Mr. Heming. He was the estate agent who showed you around your comfortable home, suggested a financial package, negotiated a price with the owner, and called you with the good news. The less good news is that, all these years later, he still has the key. That's absurd, you laugh. Of all the many hundreds of houses he has sold, why would he still have the key to mine? The answer is; he has the keys to them all. William Heming's most at home in a stranger's private things.
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4 out of 5 stars
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The Invisible Man
- De Janice en 02-05-15
De: Phil Hogan