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ID: 753709

Title: More: A Memoir of Open Marriage

Author: Molly Roden Winter

Narrator: Molly Roden Winter

Format: Unabridged

Length: 08:43:42

Language: English

Release date: 03-14-24

Publisher: PGRH UK

Genres: Biography & Memoir, Non-Fiction, Health & Wellness, Marriage & Family, Social Science

Summary:

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The instant New York Times bestselling memoir that everyone is talking about

Molly Roden Winter was a mother of small children with a husband, Stewart, who often worked late. One night when Stewart missed the kids bedtimeagainshe stormed out of the house to clear her head. At a bar, she met Matt, a flirtatious younger man. When Molly told her husband that Matt had asked her out, she was surprised that Stewart encouraged her to accept.

So began Mollys unexpected open marriage and, with it, a life-changing journey of self-discovery. Molly signs up for dating sites, enters into passionate flings, and has sex in hotels and public places around New York City. For Molly its a mystery why she wants what she wants. In therapy sessions, fuelled by the discovery that her parents had an open marriage, too, she grapples with her past and what it means to be a mother and a whole person.

Molly and Stewart, who also begins to see other people, set ground rules: Dont date an ex. Dont date someone in the neighbourhood. Dont go to anyones home. And above all, dont fall in love. In the years that follow, they break most of their rules, even the most important one. They grapple with jealousy, insecurity, and doubts, all the while wondering: Can they love others and stay true to their love for each other? Can they make the impossible work?

More is an electric debut that offers both steamy fun and poignant reflections on motherhood, daughterhood, marriage, and self-fulfilment. With warmth, humour, and style, Molly Roden Winter delivers an unputdownable journey of a woman becoming her most authentic self.

'This book about open marriage is going to blow up your group chat' The Washington Post

©2024 Molly Roden Winter (P)2024 Penguin Audio

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ID: 733664

Title: Alfred Lord Tennyson: In Memoriam, Idylls of the King, Maud & more: A BBC Radio Collection

Author: Alfred Tennyson

Narrator: Andrew Sachs, Charles Tennyson, Full Cast , Hallam Tennyson, Holliday Grainger, John Sir Gielgud, Jonathan Keeble, Mary Wimbush, Melvyn Bragg, Peggy Ashcroft, Rachel Bavidge, Ruth Padel, Tim Pigott-Smith

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:51:36

Language: English

Release date: 03-14-24

Publisher: PGRH UK

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, Classics

Summary:

A definitive collection of Tennysons finest works

Alfred Lord Tennyson is one of Britains greatest and most popular poets. Even during his lifetime, he was considered a national institution: Queen Victoria appointed him Poet Laureate in 1850, a position he held for 42 years, and in 1884 he became the first writer to be granted a baronetcy. In a long and fruitful career, he penned numerous classic works, and this BBC Radio collection showcases some of the very best.

We begin with two of his masterpieces, dramatised by award-winning poet Michael Symmons Roberts. The Idylls of the King is an extraordinary epic poem that infuses the legend of King Arthur with a passionate intensity. Told here in five acts, it stars Tim Pigott-Smith. Considered one of the finest elegies, In Memoriam was written in response to the sudden death of his friend Arthur Hallam. This drama weaves the peerless poem into the story behind it, and stars Holliday Grainger, James Cooney and Ashley Margolis.

Crossing the Bar plunges us into Tennysons stirring sea-narratives, with sea-songs performed by a cappella trio Coope, Boyes and Simpson. It includes the poems The Kraken, The Sea Fairies, Enoch Arden, The Voyage of Maeldune and Crossing the Bar - read by John Dougall, Rachel Bavidge, Sam Dale, Jasmine Callan, Stuart McLoughlin and Joseph Kloska.

In Maud, Tennysons dark, lyrical verses tell of a disturbed young man roaming the windswept hills, madly in love and haunted by loss. Dramatised for radio in 1969, Harold brings to life the story of Englands last Anglo-Saxon King, starring Gabriel Woolf.

Next up are readings of Tennysons best-loved poems, including seven written in the language of his native Lincolnshire and introduced by his great-grandson Hallam Tennyson. Aylmers Field, his Victorian version of the Romeo and Juliet story, is read by Andrew Sachs; while Peggy Ashcroft reads his celebrated lyrical ballad The Lady of Shalott. The Lotos-Eaters, inspired by the tale of Odysseus and his mariners, is read by Sir John Gielgud. The Northern Farmer, The Parsons Daughter, The Church Warden and the Curate, Owd Roa, The Village Wife, The Northern Cobbler and The Spinsters Sweet-Arts are read by Edward Campion and Mary Wimbush. Lastly, The Charge of the Light Brigade is read by Alfred Badel, and The Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington, read by the poet's grandson Sir Charles Tennyson.

We conclude with a pair of fascinating documentaries exploring the poets life and work.

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ID: 695000

Title: Island of Mists and Miracles

Author: Victoria Mas

Narrator: Olivia Vinall

Format: Unabridged

Length: 04:40:04

Language: English

Release date: 03-14-24

Publisher: PGRH UK

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Literary Fiction, Feminist Fiction

Summary:

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Sometimes the truth lies in the things you cannot see.

In 1830 a young novice called Catherine Labouré was granted a vision of the Virgin Mary. Nearly 200 years later, Sister Anne is also waiting for a sign.

Which is why she accepts a mission to go to a tiny community on an island just off the coast of Brittany. Her only companion there is a sceptical, chain-smoking older nun who just wants to be left in peace.

On the island she meets Hugo, the son of a devout family who prefers to look for the meaning of life amid the stars; Madenn, a grandmother whose daughter was killed in a crash and who finds meaning in routine; Isaac, Madenn's grandson, an otherworldly teenager who doesn't fit in but who befriends Hugo, and Julia, a sickly child. If anyone needs a miracle, it is her.

But it is not Sister Anne who receives a vision. Instead it is Isaac who is found on a promontary, transfixed, unable to utter more than the words 'I see'. The event soon becomes headline news and the world descends on the small island, opening old wounds and unleashing a chain of events none of them could have foreseen.

©2024 Victoria Mas (P)2024 Penguin Audio

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ID: 738308

Title: Human Stain

Author: Philip Roth

Narrator: Dennis Boutsikaris

Format: Unabridged

Length: 13:11:09

Language: English

Release date: 03-14-24

Publisher: PGRH UK

Genres: Religion & Spirituality, Fiction & Literature, Literary Fiction, Religious Fiction

Summary:

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The American psyche is channelled into the gripping story of one man. This is the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Philip Roth at his very best.

It is 1998, the year America is plunged into a frenzy of prurience by the impeachment of a president. In a small New England town a distinguished professor, Coleman Silk, is forced to retire when his colleagues allege that he is a racist. The charge is unfounded, the persecution needless, but the truth about Silk would astonish even his most virulent accuser. Coleman Silk has a secret that he has kept for fifty years. This is the conclusion to Roths brilliant trilogy of post-war America a story of seismic shifts in American history and a personal search for renewal and regeneration.

'An extraordinary book - bursting with rage, humming with ideas, full of dazzling sleights of hand' Sunday Telegraph

©2000 Philip Roth (P)2024 Penguin Audio

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ID: 738310

Title: Portnoy's Complaint

Author: Philip Roth

Narrator: Ron Silver

Format: Unabridged

Length: 08:27:12

Language: English

Release date: 03-14-24

Publisher: PGRH UK

Genres: Religion & Spirituality, Fiction & Literature, Literary Fiction, Religious Fiction

Summary:

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'The most outrageously funny book about sex written' Guardian

Portnoy's Complaint n. [after Alexander Portnoy (1933-)]:A disorder in which strongly-felt ethical and altruistic impulses are perpetually warring with extreme sexual longings, often of a perverse nature.

Portnoy's Complaint tells the tale of young Jewish lawyer Alexander Portnoy and his scandalous sexual confessions to his psychiatrist.

As narrated by Portnoy, he takes the reader on a journey through his childhood to adolescence to present day while articulating his sexual desire, frustration and neurosis in shockingly candid ways.

Hysterically funny and daringly intimate, Portnoy's Complaint was an immediate bestseller upon its publication and elevated Roth to an international literary celebrity.

©1967, 1968, 1969 Philip Roth (P)2024 Penguin Audio

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ID: 738309

Title: Nemesis

Author: Philip Roth

Narrator: Dennis Boutsikaris

Format: Unabridged

Length: 05:14:39

Language: English

Release date: 03-14-24

Publisher: PGRH UK

Genres: Religion & Spirituality, Fiction & Literature, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, Religious Fiction

Summary:

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It's the sweltering summer of 1944, and Newark is in the grip of a terrifying epidemic.

Decent, athletic twenty-three year old playground director Bucky Cantor is devoted to his charges and ashamed with himself because his weak eyes have excluded him from serving in the war alongside his contemporaries. As polio begins to ravage Bucky's playground - child by helpless child - Roth leads us through every emotion such a pestilence can breed: the fear, the panic, the anger, the bewilderment, the suffering and the pain.

'The genius of Philip Roth...back at his imperious best in this heartbreaking tale... The eloquence of Roth's storytelling makes Nemesis one of his most haunting works' Daily Mail

'Cantor is one of Roth's best creations and the atmosphere of terror is masterfully fashioned' Sunday Telegraph

'Very fine, very unsettling' Douglas Kennedy, The Times

©2010 Philip Roth (P)2024 Penguin Audio

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ID: 700831

Title: Underground Library

Author: Jennifer Ryan

Narrator: Fenella Woolgar

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12:49:35

Language: English

Release date: 03-12-24

Publisher: Pan Macmillan

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Historical Fiction

Summary:

Read by Fenella Woolgar, known for her role as Sister Hilda in BBC series Call the Midwife.

When the Blitz threatens the heart of a London neighbourhood, three young women must use their fighting spirit to keep their community together in this heartwarming novel from the author of The Kitchen Front.

On the day Juliet Lansdown reports to work for the first time at Bethnal Green Library, it isn’t the bustling hub she’s been expecting. But, in the face of German attacks, she’s intent on making it a place where everyone feels safe and welcome.

Katie Upwood is thrilled to be working at the library, too, though she’s only there until she heads off to university in autumn. But, after the death of her sweetheart on the front line and some unexpected family strife, she’s more in need of support herself.

Sofie Baumann, a Jewish refugee without any family to lean on, finds comfort and friendship in

Bethnal Green’s rapidly growing literary scene and escapes to the library every chance she gets.

But, with her asylum in London tied to a domestic work visa issued by an unscrupulous employer, her position is vulnerable.

When bombs damage the library, Juliet can’t bear to give up on her safe haven of books, so she relocates the stacks to an underground station, where the city’s residents shelter nightly. The three women must work together to overcome their own troubles and keep the library - the beating heart of their community - open to all . . .

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ID: 731593

Title: 2020: A Reckoning

Author: Eric Klinenberg

Narrator: Dan John Miller, Eric Klinenberg

Format: Unabridged

Length: 15:23:35

Language: English

Release date: 03-07-24

Publisher: PGRH UK

Genres: Non-Fiction, Social Science

Summary:

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Renowned sociologist and best-selling author Eric Klinenberg turns a year of devastation into a year of revelation in this wise, deeply researched and cathartic account of the pandemic.

What unites us? What divides us? What do we value? Sociologist Eric Klinenberg had been studying what crises reveal about societies for over two decades when his home of New York became the deadliest hot spot of the global pandemic. In this book he tells the deeply reported stories of dseven ordinary people trying to survive at the epicentre of the crisis, and combines them with data gathered from around the world to provide unprecedented insights into what societies are made of, why they come together or fall apart, and how they shape our lives.

'Compellingly reveals what the pandemic laid bare about our culture, our institutions, and ourselves' Matthew Desmond, author of Evicted

'A book that's at once intimate and far-ranging, that reveals the importance of social solidarity and also its fragility' Elizabeth Kolbert, author of The Sixth Extinction

'A gripping, deeply moving account' SIDDHARTHA MUKHERJEE, author of The Song of the Cell

©2024 Eric Klinenberg (P)2024 Penguin Audio

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ID: 731592

Title: How to Connect

Author: Thich Nhat Hanh

Narrator: John Sackville

Format: Unabridged

Length: 01:29:57

Language: English

Release date: 03-07-24

Publisher: PGRH UK

Genres: Non-Fiction, Health & Wellness, Philosophy, Mindfulness & Meditation, Naturopathy & New Age

Summary:

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One breath, one step is all we need to feel at home and comfortable in the here and now

In this enlightening series world-renowned spiritual leader Thich Nhat Hanh shares the essential foundations of mindful practise and mediation.

From unlocking the connection to our inner self, forging deeper and more meaningful bonds with those around us to discovering a true sense of oneness with our natural world, this is the essential guide to help you master the art of connection.

The monk who taught the world mindfulness Time

©2020 Thich Nhat Hanh (P)2024 Penguin Audio

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ID: 686040

Title: I Married a Communist

Author: Philip Roth

Narrator: Malcolm Hillgartner

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12:46:39

Language: English

Release date: 03-07-24

Publisher: PGRH UK

Genres: Religion & Spirituality, Fiction & Literature, Literary Fiction, General, Religious Fiction

Summary:

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The Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Philip Roth turns his gaze on 30s and 40s America in this magnificent successor to American Pastoral.

Ira Ringold is an American roughneck who transforms himself from a ditch-digger in 1930s New Jersey, to a radio hotshot in the 1940s. In his heyday as a star - and as a bullying supporter of 'progressive' political causes - Ira marries Hollywood's leading lady, Eve Frame. Their glamorous honeymoon is short-lived, however, and it is the publication of Eve's scandalous bestselling exposé that identifies Ira as 'an American taking his orders from Moscow'. In this story of cruelty, betrayal, and revenge friends become deadly enemies, parents and children estranged, lovers blacklisted and the great felled from vertiginous heights.

'Knotted with energy, barely wasting a scene or word in its cracking velocity' Mail on Sunday

'A passionate and coruscating American tragedy' Financial Times

© 1998 Philip Roth (P)2023 Penguin Audio

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