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A gruesome discovery, and an honest man trying to hold on to his humanity and his life forms the mystery at the heart of a work which is both a gripping whodunit and a sharply satirical novel. Africas first Nobel Laureate in Literature returns to the novel after almost 50 years with an excoriating satire on the nature of power and an unforgettable portrait of contemporary Nigeria

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The Don't Touch Garden , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 59min

Mirror, mirror on the wall, the old joke says. "I am my mother after all." But which? Born in 1938 and adopted soon after, Kate Foley grew up in London during WWII. The Don't Touch Garden explores what it is to be adopted, both for the child and the adoptive parents, through a wide range of poetic styles and complex emotions. An absorbing account of the legacy of being an adopted child. Forthright and tender, this moving sequence reflects Foley's unflinching gaze into the mirror in a sometimes excoriating attempt to discern traces of her belonging and to make peace with the past. Joy Howard, poet, publisher and former fostering services manager. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Kate Foley. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/109219/bk_acx0_109219_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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The Ode Less Travelled: Unlocking the Poet Within , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 542min

Stephen Fry believes that if you can speak and read English, you can write poetry. But it is no fun if you don't know where to start or have been led to believe that anything goes. Stephen, who has long written poems, and indeed has written long poems, for his own private pleasure, invites you to discover the incomparable delights of metre, rhyme and verse forms. Whether you want to write a Petrarchan sonnet for your lover's birthday, an epithalamion for your sister's wedding or a villanelle excoriating the government's housing policy, The Ode Less Travelled will give you the tools and the confidence to do so. Brimful of enjoyable exercises, witty insights and simple step-by-step advice, The Ode Less Travelled guides the listener towards mastery and confidence in the Mother of the Arts. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Stephen Fry. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rhuk/002807/bk_rhuk_002807_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Is It Just Me or Is Everything Shit?, Hörbuch, Digital, 121min

If you hate loft living, bar-clubs, Tony Blair, chick lit, global warming sceptics, Keane, loyalty cards, IKEA, Kabala, bling, and Richard Curtis...then you need Is It Just Me or Is Everything Shit?, an encyclopaedic attack on modern culture and the standard reference work for everyone who believes everything is shit. Which it is. This audiobook is for the large percentage of the population interested in saying NO to the phoney ideas, cretinous people, useless products and doublespeak that increasingly dominate our lives. It is designed for everyone who thinks they may have mislaid their soul in a Coffee Republic. Never before has there been a book so completely full of shit. This very funny, well-informed, belligerent rant adds up to an excoriating broadside against consumer capitalism that the authors hope will sell loads of copies. Read by the stars of Channel 4's Green Wing. Language: English. Narrator: Stephen Mangan, Julian Rhind-Tutt. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/twuk/000077/bk_twuk_000077_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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The Cameron Delusion: Updated Edition of 'The Broken Compass' , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 380min

The struggle between the main political parties has been reduced to an unpopularity contest, in which voters hold their noses and sigh as they trudge to the polls. Peter Hitchens explains how and why British politics has sunk to this dreary level - the takeover of the parties and the media by conventional left-wing dogmas which then call themselves 'the centre ground'. The Tory party under David Cameron has become a pale-blue twin of New Labour, offering change without alteration. Hitchens, a former Lobby reporter, examines and mocks the flock mentality of most Westminster journalists, explains how unattributable lunches guide coverage and why so many reporters - once slavish admirers of Labour - now follow the Tory line. This updated edition of Hitchens' The Broken Compass (2009) features a brand new introduction. In an excoriating analysis, Hitchens examines the Tory Party's record in government and opposition, dismissing it as a failure on all fronts but one - the ability to win office without principle. The one thing it certainly isn't is conservative. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Peter Hitchens. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/018634/bk_adbl_018634_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Letter to a Christian Nation , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 115min

Forty-four percent of the American population is convinced that Jesus will return to judge the living and the dead sometime in the next 50 years," writes Sam Harris. "Imagine the consequences if any significant component of the U.S. government actually believed that the world was about to end and that its ending would be glorious. The fact that nearly half of the American population apparently believes this, purely on the basis of religious dogma, should be considered a moral and intellectual emergency." In response to his award-winning best seller The End of Faith, Sam Harris received thousands of letters from Christians excoriating him for not believing in God. Letter to A Christian Nation is his courageous and controversial reply. Using rational argument, Harris offers a measured refutation of the beliefs that form the core of fundamentalist Christianity. Addressing current topics ranging from intelligent design and stem-cell research to the connections between religion and violence, Letter to A Christian Nation boldly challenges the influence that faith has on public life in the U.S. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jordan Bridges. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/sans/000808/bk_sans_000808_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Dad You Suck , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 323min

Written with self-excoriating candour and the driest humour, a book about being a dad from one of our best loved journalists. "For me the hardest task of fatherhood was always the oppressive obligation to lead by example. My sons have been present on countless occasions when I have, as we say in my homeland, completely lost my shit. During these stressful moments I have often wished to turn to them as a judge might to a jury and say, 'Please strike the next few minutes from the record', but many of those instances are chronicled here. It's not because I'm any less ashamed now; it's because if I left them out there wouldn't be enough for a book. "Perhaps this is my life's true purpose: maybe I'm here to teach my sons that self-esteem comes and goes - it can get rolled right out of you at short notice but that you still can get by in life without any, as long as you don't want to be a contestant on The Apprentice. That, at least, is my experience. And for what it's worth, my example." ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Tim Dowling. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/hcuk/002880/bk_hcuk_002880_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Lady Chatterley's Lover , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 838min

Set in the relentlessly grey-skied, grey-walled world of a Midlands coal mining village just after the First World War, this tells the story of the love that developed between Lady Chatterley and Oliver Mellors, her husband's gamekeeper. The full text was not published in the United Kingdom until 1960, more than 30 years after it had been written, because of its explicit content and use of prohibited words. And yet, one cannot help wondering whether without its excoriating and often still accurate depiction of the British upper classes, the book might have been less harshly received. Furthermore, Lawrence defied the tide of the times by illustrating the universally dehumanising effects of industrialisation, which was already swiftly turning most aspects of human interaction and emotion into commercial commodities such as the fun, fun, fun to be had simply because one had paid for an outing or holiday. Lady Chatterley's Lover explores social forces that are deeply entrenched to this day. But above all, it is a warm and meaningful contemplation of love and its sexual expression that reminds us that more than money, status and social approval, shared tenderness is the key to human happiness. Original artwork by Magda Allani. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Magda Allani. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/slbr/000058/bk_slbr_000058_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Dunbar: King Lear Retold (Hogarth Shakespeare) , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 447min

Random House presents the audiobook edition of Dunbar by Edward St Aubyn, read by Henry Goodman. 'I really did have an empire, you know,' said Dunbar. 'Have I ever told you the story of how it was stolen from me?' Henry Dunbar, the once all-powerful head of a global corporation, is not having a good day. In his dotage he handed over care of the family firm to his two eldest daughters, Abby and Megan. But relations quickly soured, leaving him doubting the wisdom of past decisions.... Now imprisoned in a care home in the Lake District with only a demented alcoholic comedian as company, Dunbar starts planning his escape. As he flees into the hills, his family is hot on his heels. But who will find him first, his beloved youngest daughter, Florence, or the tigresses Abby and Megan, so keen to divest him of his estate? Edward St Aubyn is renowned for his masterwork, the five Melrose novels, which dissect with savage and beautiful precision the agonies of family life. Dunbar is a devastating family story and an excoriating novel for and of our times - an examination of power, money and the value of forgiveness. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Henry Goodman. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rhuk/002956/bk_rhuk_002956_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Diary of a Mad Diva , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 410min

Winner of the 2015 Grammy for Best Spoken Word Album Following up the phenomenal success of her headline-making New York Times bestseller I Hate Everyone...Starting With Me, the unstoppable Joan Rivers is at it again. When her daughter Melissa gives her a diary for Christmas, at first Joan is horrified - who the hell does Melissa think she is? That fat pig, Bridget Jones? But as Joan, being both beautiful and introspective, begins to record her day-to-day musings, she realizes she has a lot to say. About everything. And everyone, God help them. The result? A no-holds-barred, delightfully vicious and always hilarious look at the everyday life of the ultimate diva. Follow Joan on a family vacation in Mexico and on trips between New York and Los Angeles where she mingles with the stars, never missing a beat as she delivers blistering critiques on current events, and excoriating insights about life, pop culture, and celebrities (from A to D list), all in her relentlessly funny signature style. This is the Diary of a Mad Diva. Forget about Anais Nin, Anne Frank, and that whiner Sylvia Plath. For the first time in a century, a diary by someone that’s actually worth reading. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Joan Rivers. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/peng/002377/bk_peng_002377_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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