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The Madman's Library by Edward Brooke-Hitching (Omnibus)
Edward Brooke-Hitching’s curiosity over books made him seek out many oddities.
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4 Extra
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Millions Like Us: Women's Lives in War and Peace 1939-1949 (Omnibus)
Women's wartime experiences revealed in Virginia Nicholson's account.
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4 Extra
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The Amur River by Colin Thubron (Omnibus)
Robert Powell reads Colin Thubron’s account of his epic river journey, from source to sea.
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The Boy from the Sea by Garrett Carr
When a baby boy is found abandoned on a beach in Donegal, a local fisherman takes him in.
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If Then by Jill Lepore (Omnibus)
The true story of how a forgotten data company in '60s America invented the future.
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Nature Cure by Richard Mabey (Omnibus)
Britain's pioneering nature writer on the link between mental health and the natural world
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Antwerp: the Glory Years by Michael Pye (Omnibus)
A vivid and lively account of the city in its 16th century heyday.
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Shakedowns in Hyperspace by Naomi Wood
A darkly comic and brilliantly original series for Radio 4 from the acclaimed Naomi Wood.
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Holding the Line by Barbara Kingsolver
Barbara Kingsolver's first book; an eyewitness account of a woman-led strike in Arizona.
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Poldark: The Miller's Dance by Winston Graham (Omnibus)
Richard Goulding concludes the ninth book in Winston Graham's popular Poldark series.
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Mistresses by Linda Porter (Omnibus)
Sex and scandal at the court of Charles II: the women who shared the king's bed.
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Disco by Nick Walker
Defence: Serious Case Operations investigate the murder of a military bandsman in Burnley.
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Lone Wolf by Adam Weymouth
A lone wolf's journey through Europe highlights our conflicted relationship with nature.
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Albion by Anna Hope
A fractured family prepares to bury the man who once dominated their lives.
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Daughters of the Bamboo Grove by Barbara Demick
China's one-child policy explored through the story of twin girls, separated in 2001.
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Please Live by Lana Estemirova
A moving memoir by the daughter of assassinated human rights activist Natalya Estemirova.
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The Vanishing Futurist by Charlotte Hobson (Omnibus)
Early in 1914, Gerty Freely travels from Cornwall to Russia to work as a governess.
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White Nights by Dostoevsky
Dostoevsky's short story is a tale of love and loneliness in 19th-century St Petersburg.
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Summer by Edith Wharton
Wharton's classic 1917 tale of forbidden passion, read by Lydia Wilson.
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Unearthing the Past by Sarah Dunant
A beguiling series of essays centred on the Renaissance icon Isabella d'Este.
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Taste: My Life Through Food by Stanley Tucci (Omnibus)
Actor, director and gourmand Stanley Tucci reads his intimate memoir of a culinary life.
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Private Angelo by Eric Linklater
Eric Linklater's witty and compassionate satire on the folly of war. Read by Carl Prekopp.
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The Secret Painter by Joe Tucker
The story of the artist Eric Tucker, often dubbed the 'secret Lowry'. Read by Paul Ready.
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My Week With Marilyn by Colin Clark (Omnibus)
The charming memoir of a young man's brief, but luminous, friendship with Marilyn Monroe.
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Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day by Winifred Watson (Omnibus)
A spinster lands a job which turns out to be a real education.
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Beautiful Strangeness by Rebecca Stott
Five original essays on how the mysterious is woven into the ordinary and the everyday.
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Heartstones by Ruth Rendell
Elvira,16, suffering with anorexia, has rivals for her widowed father's attention
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Passing by Nella Larsen (Omnibus)
Chicago 1925: Clare and Irene meet once again after decades - one has hidden her identity.
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The Spire by William Golding
In Golding's novel, one man's obsession endangers an entire community in Medieval England.
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Wolf Moon: A Woman's Journey into the Night by Arifa Akbar
An elegant exploration of how the night shapes the mind, culture and society.
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On Consolation by Michael Ignatieff (Omnibus)
William Hope reads five profound and inspirational essays on the language of consolation.
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Speed of Light by Laura Cumming
Laura Cumming explores a 19th-century technological revolution in photography.
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Metaphysical Animals by Clare MacCumhaill & Rachael Wiseman (Omnibus)
The story of how four brilliant friends approached philosophy after the Second World War.
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My Name Escapes Me by Sir Alec Guinness (Omnibus)
Sir Alec Guinness reads from his own bestselling diary entries from 1995 to 1996.
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An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro
The classic 1986 novel from the Nobel Prize-winning author of The Remains of the Day.
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I Didn't Get Where I Am Today by David Nobbs (Omnibus)
David Nobbs, creator of Reginal Perrin, reads from his autobiography.
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Trauma Industrial Complex by Darren McGarvey
The Orwell Prize-winner explores how oversharing became a product in our digital world.
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Florie by Colette
A beautiful dancer falls for a young juggler but is art more important than love?
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4 Extra
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Lake Wobegon Days by Garrison Keillor
“In Lake Wobegon…. I knew summer was an experiment that didn’t work"
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Crooked Cross by Sally Carson
Sally Carson's rediscovered 1934 novel about the rise of Hitler.
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