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Publisher
HighBridge Audio
Pub. Date
2023
Edition
Unabridged ed.
Description
Gabrielle Bates's electric debut collection Judas Goat plumbs the depths of intimate relationships. The book's eponymous animal is used to lead sheep to slaughter, while its own life is spared, and its harrowing existence echoes through this spellbinding collection of forty poems, which wrestle with betrayal and forced obedience, violence and young womanhood, and the "forbidden felt language" of sexual and sacred love. These poems conjure encounters...
Author
Publisher
HighBridge Audio
Pub. Date
2023
Edition
Unabridged ed.
Description
A resplendent life in sonnets from the author of Four-Legged Girl, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize "The sonnet, like poverty, teaches you what you can do / without," Diane Seuss writes in this brilliant, candid work, her most personal collection to date. These poems tell the story of a life at risk of spilling over the edge of the page, from Seuss's working-class childhood in rural Michigan to the dangerous allures of New York City and back again....
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Publisher
Bolinda audio
Pub. Date
2023
Edition
Unabridged ed.
Description
When I was younger I wanted to be an interesting, sophisticated, semi-heroic, multi-layered person. BUT that kind of perfect is impossible. Being an actual tw*t is much more the real me. Sorry to boast, but I am a champion tw*t. In The Tw*t Files I will tell you about all the times I?ve been a total and utter tw*t. The moments where I?ve misunderstood stuff and messed up. In my life these have been key because: Mistakes tell us about ourselves. Mistakes...
Author
Publisher
HighBridge Audio
Pub. Date
2022
Edition
Unabridged ed.
Description
In the summer of 1956, Jack Kerouac hitchhiked from Mill Valley, California, to the North Cascades to spend two months serving as a fire lookout for the US Forest Service. Taking only the Diamond Sutra for reading material, he intended to spend his time in deep contemplation and to achieve enlightenment. Kerouac's experience on Desolation Peak forms the climax of his novel The Dharma Bums and has also been depicted in part 1 of Desolation Angels and...
Author
Publisher
Bolinda audio
Pub. Date
2022
Edition
Unabridged ed.
Description
2019. Dawn. The River Humber. A misty February walk. Surprise early daffodils. A picture taken. Then forgotten. Because five hours later my world shattered. My mother jumped off the Humber Bridge. Had those yellow flowers not delayed me, I might have been there. Could I have stopped her? In the aftermath of this violent act, I turned to my writing, to my beloved siblings, to our only uncle. I was forced to look at events that led to this suicide attempt....
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Publisher
Bolinda/HarperCollins UK
Pub. Date
2023
Edition
Unabridged ed.
Description
David Baddiel would love for there to be a God. He has spent a lot of time fantasising about how much better life would be if there actually was such a thing as a Superhero Dad who chased off Death. Unfortunately for him, there isn?t. Or at least, that is Baddiel?s view in this audiobook, which argues that it is indeed the very intensity of his, and everyone else?s, desire for God to exist that proves His non-existence. Anything so deeply wished-for,...
Author
Publisher
Bolinda audio
Pub. Date
2017
Edition
Unabridged ed.
Description
When big-shot literary agent Peter Katz receives an unfinished manuscript entitled The Book of Mirrors, he is intrigued. The author, Richard Flynn is writing a memoir about his time at Princeton in the late '80s, documenting his relationship with the famous Professor Joseph Wieder. One night in 1987, Wieder was brutally murdered in his home and the case was never solved. Peter Katz is hell-bent on getting to the bottom of what happened that night...
8) Country girl
Author
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
Unabridged ed.
Description
I thought of life's many bounties, to have known the extremities of joy and sorrow, love, corssed love and unrequited love, success and failure, fame and slaughter, to have read in the newspapers that as a writer I was past my sell-by date, yet regardless, to go on writing and reading, to be lucky enough to live in these two intensities that have buttressed my whole life . . . The publication of Edna O'Brien's memoir is one of the major literary events...
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Publisher
BBC Digital Audio
Pub. Date
2017
Edition
Unabridged ed.
Description
Two new BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisations of Roald Dahl?s gripping autobiographical stories These two compelling adaptations, based on Roald Dahl?s real-life tales of his boyhood and youthful overseas adventures, celebrate his remarkable life and commemorate his genius. Boy (CD 1) Dahl?s childhood was one of excitement, wonder, terror and sadness. From his fascination with the local sweetshop to the Great Mouse Plot, the horrors of boarding school,...
Author
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Pub. Date
2022
Edition
Unabridged ed.
Description
'Every page sparkles.' Claire Tomalin 'Crackling with gusto and sympathetic intelligence' Andrew Motion 'A triumph.' Matt Haig 'Stylish, scholarly and gripping' Rose Tremain John Donne lived myriad lives. Sometime religious outsider and social disaster, sometime celebrity preacher and establishment darling, John Donne was incapable of being just one thing. He was a scholar of law, a sea adventurer, an MP, a priest, the Dean of St Paul's Cathedral...
Author
Publisher
ABC Audio
Pub. Date
2021
Edition
Unabridged ed.
Description
Helen Garner has kept a diary for almost all her life. But until now, those exercise books filled with her thoughts, observations, frustrations and joys have been locked away, out of bounds, in a laundry cupboard. Finally, Garner has opened her diaries and invited readers into the world behind her novels and works of non-fiction. Yellow Notebook: Diaries Volume I spans a decade beginning in the late 1970s just after the publication of her first novel,...
Author
Publisher
Bolinda audio
Pub. Date
2021
Edition
Unabridged ed.
Description
Amy Winston is a hard-drinking, bed-hopping, hot-shot young book editor on a downward spiral. Having made her name and fortune by turning an average thriller writer into a Lee Child, Amy is given the unenviable task of steering literary great Helen Owen back to publication. When Amy knocks on the door of their beautiful townhouse in West London, Helen and her husband, the novelist Malcolm Taylor are conducting a silent war of attrition. The townhouse...
Author
Publisher
Bolinda audio
Pub. Date
2017
Edition
Unabridged ed.
Description
Once We Were Sisters is the story of Maxine and Sheila Kohler. Growing up in the suffocating gentility of 1950s South Africa, the girls plan grand lives for themselves that will bring them out of the long shadow cast by their father's death and their overbearing mother's bullying. Maxine is just shy of her 40th birthday when her husband, a brilliant and respected surgeon, drives their car off the road and kills her. Devastated, Sheila returns to South...
Author
Publisher
Bolinda/Audible audio
Pub. Date
2016
Edition
Unabridged ed.
Description
On 16 August 1952, Ian Fleming wrote to his wife, Ann, "My love, This is only a tiny letter to try out my new typewriter and to see if it will write golden words since it is made of gold". And he did write golden words: 14 best-selling James Bond books and an equally energetic flow of letters to his wife, publisher, editors, fans, friends and critics, charting 007's progress with correspondence that ranged from badgering Jonathan Cape about his quota...
Author
Series
Merrily Watkins volume 10
Publisher
Bolinda audio
Pub. Date
2023
Edition
Unabridged ed.
Description
December, and the river is rising. The village of Ledwardine has never been flooded in living memory. Within days it will be an island. There's no electricity. The church is serving as a temporary mortuary for two people who drowned. Only one man feels safer. An aggressively-atheist author has been moved, for his own safety, Rushdie-style, into a secluded house just outside the village. Fundamentalist Christians have hated him for years. Now he's...
Author
Publisher
Vintage Digital
Pub. Date
2021
Edition
Unabridged ed.
Description
Brought to you by Penguin. THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A TIME 100 Must-Read Book of 2020 A Washington Post Notable Work of Non-Fiction 2020 A searing indictment of racial injustice in America - inspired by the life and work of James Baldwin - to help us understand the present moment, and imagine a new future into being The struggles of Black Lives Matter and the attempt to achieve a new America have been challenged by the presidency of Donald Trump,...
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