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Himmler’s Curtains

A Memoir of Trauma and Identity after the Holocaust

de Simon Weisz ...

*Shortlisted for Footnote x Counterpoints Writing Prize*A moving and personal memoir telling the story of a family grappling with trauma and identity in the wake of the Holocaust.A finely honed journey across time and place, affecting and powerful, and deeply relevant for our times.’ - Philippe Sands'Simon Weisz’s evocation of heartless mid-twentieth-century Europe, as public and private worlds so ... Leer más

$24.99 USD

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*Shortlisted for Footnote x Counterpoints Writing Prize*A moving and personal memoir telling the story of a family grappling with trauma and identity in the wake of the Holocaust.A finely honed journey across time and place, affecting and powerful, and deeply relevant for our times.’ - Philippe Sands'Simon Weisz’s evocation of heartless mid-twentieth-century Europe, as public and private worlds so
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Himmler’s Curtains

A Memoir of Trauma and Identity after the Holocaust

de Simon Weisz ...

Narrado por Simon Weisz ...

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8 hora 28 minutos

Brought to you by Penguin.For the first eighteen years of Simon Weisz’s life his parents were at pains to keep their past concealed from him. All he knew for sure was that they had grown up in Hungary and that they had arrived in Britain after the Second World War. It was only as he reached manhood that they started to confide their carefully guarded secrets to him: that they were Jewish, and that ... Leer más

$18.99 USD

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Brought to you by Penguin.For the first eighteen years of Simon Weisz’s life his parents were at pains to keep their past concealed from him. All he knew for sure was that they had grown up in Hungary and that they had arrived in Britain after the Second World War. It was only as he reached manhood that they started to confide their carefully guarded secrets to him: that they were Jewish, and that
... Leer más

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The Response

A Story of Fire and Flood in Britain’s New World of Extremes

de David Shukman ...

Narrado por David Shukman ...

Completo

9 hora 28 minutos

Brought to you by Penguin.Wildfires burning dozens of houses in London suburbs. Downpours so severe they can drown people trapped in basements. Record heatwaves paralysing our railways and hospitals.This sounds like fiction but it isn’t. The climate is turning far more hostile than many realise, and tragedies are now happening on our doorstep. Even in Britain, one of the richest nations in the ... Leer más

$18.99 USD

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Brought to you by Penguin.Wildfires burning dozens of houses in London suburbs. Downpours so severe they can drown people trapped in basements. Record heatwaves paralysing our railways and hospitals.This sounds like fiction but it isn’t. The climate is turning far more hostile than many realise, and tragedies are now happening on our doorstep. Even in Britain, one of the richest nations in the
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You Are an Artist

Assignments to Spark Creation

de Sarah Urist Green ...

Narrado por Sarah Urist Green ...

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5 hora 44 minutos

**“There are more than 50 creative prompts for the artist (or artist at heart) to explore. Take the title of this book as affirmation, and get started.” —Fast CompanyMore than 50 assignments, ideas, and prompts to expand your world and help you make outstanding new things to put into it**Curator Sarah Urist Green left her office in the basement of an art museum to travel and visit a diverse range ... Leer más

$15.99 USD

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**“There are more than 50 creative prompts for the artist (or artist at heart) to explore. Take the title of this book as affirmation, and get started.” —Fast CompanyMore than 50 assignments, ideas, and prompts to expand your world and help you make outstanding new things to put into it**Curator Sarah Urist Green left her office in the basement of an art museum to travel and visit a diverse range
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Becoming George

The Invention of George Sand

de Fiona Sampson ...

Narrado por Fiona Sampson ...

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10 hora 43 minutos

A long-overdue reappraisal of the groundbreaking nineteenth-century writer who reshaped the literary and social norms of her age.By the age of thirty, the young woman who was born Aurore Dupin in 1804 in a Paris garret had become the internationally renowned George Sand. In English, her novels were outselling even Victor Hugo. Her enormous and radical corpus would grow to include seventy novels, ... Leer más

$25.99 USD

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A long-overdue reappraisal of the groundbreaking nineteenth-century writer who reshaped the literary and social norms of her age.By the age of thirty, the young woman who was born Aurore Dupin in 1804 in a Paris garret had become the internationally renowned George Sand. In English, her novels were outselling even Victor Hugo. Her enormous and radical corpus would grow to include seventy novels,
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Made in America

The dark history that led to Donald Trump, from the award-winning political broadcaster

de Edward Stourton ...

Narrado por Edward Stourton ...

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6 hora 9 minutos

**Brought to you by Penguin.Trump’s second term, even more than his first, is often called ‘unprecedented’. But history shows that Trump and his policies are as American as apple pie…**Much of what Donald Trump does seems maverick and even mad. His actions and policy pronouncements are a stark rupture from the American style of leadership that we have lived with all our lives. But whether we like ... Leer más

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**Brought to you by Penguin.Trump’s second term, even more than his first, is often called ‘unprecedented’. But history shows that Trump and his policies are as American as apple pie…**Much of what Donald Trump does seems maverick and even mad. His actions and policy pronouncements are a stark rupture from the American style of leadership that we have lived with all our lives. But whether we like
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A Short History of America

From Tea Party to Trump

de Simon Jenkins ...

Narrado por Simon Jenkins ...

Completo

10 hora 15 minutos

Brought to you by Penguin.The global powerhouse that is the United States of America is younger even than the British Museum, Guinness and the flushing toilet. In 2026 it will celebrate its 250th birthday. How did this vast land, long inhabited by diverse indigenous cultures, come to be dominated by English speakers? How has it grappled with the stark contradictions between its ideals of liberty ... Leer más

$18.99 USD

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Brought to you by Penguin.The global powerhouse that is the United States of America is younger even than the British Museum, Guinness and the flushing toilet. In 2026 it will celebrate its 250th birthday. How did this vast land, long inhabited by diverse indigenous cultures, come to be dominated by English speakers? How has it grappled with the stark contradictions between its ideals of liberty
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If We Tolerate This

The rise of the far right and what we can do to stop it

de Daniel Trilling ...

Narrado por Rory Kinnear ...

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4 hora 54 minutos

Read by Rory Kinnear (Black Mirror, James Bond, Toxic Town)From political journalist Daniel Trilling, If We Tolerate This is a vital look at Britain's alarming shift towards far-right politics and what can be done to reverse it.The language of the far right is now in the mouths of our mainstream political leaders, from Labour to the Conservatives.In 2025 we saw the biggest far-right march in ... Leer más

$20.12 USD

Read by Rory Kinnear (Black Mirror, James Bond, Toxic Town)From political journalist Daniel Trilling, If We Tolerate This is a vital look at Britain's alarming shift towards far-right politics and what can be done to reverse it.The language of the far right is now in the mouths of our mainstream political leaders, from Labour to the Conservatives.In 2025 we saw the biggest far-right march in
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The World of the Cold War

1945-1991

de Vladislav Zubok ...

Narrado por Rufus Wright ...

Completo

13 hora 16 minutos

**Brought to you by Penguin.A sweeping, original history of the Cold War, from an acclaimed historian of the USSR**Why did the Cold War erupt so soon after the Second World War? How did it escalate so rapidly, spanning five continents over six decades? And what led to the spectacular collapse of the Soviet Union?In this comprehensive guide to the most widespread conflict in contemporary history, ... Leer más

$18.99 USD

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**Brought to you by Penguin.A sweeping, original history of the Cold War, from an acclaimed historian of the USSR**Why did the Cold War erupt so soon after the Second World War? How did it escalate so rapidly, spanning five continents over six decades? And what led to the spectacular collapse of the Soviet Union?In this comprehensive guide to the most widespread conflict in contemporary history,
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Murder in Paris '68

A True Story of Death and Glamour

de Edward Chisholm ...

Narrado por Orlando Wells ...

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12 hora 30 minutos

A riveting true crime investigation into the 1960s Parisian underworld and an unsolved murder that brought the country to its knees.An intimate, shocking true story from the Parisian demi-monde of the 1960s, Murder in Paris '68 evokes an era when the high-life and the low-life went hand in hand. It was a time when the French New Wave of cinema was taking the world by storm, a time of glamour, ... Leer más

$25.99 USD

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A riveting true crime investigation into the 1960s Parisian underworld and an unsolved murder that brought the country to its knees.An intimate, shocking true story from the Parisian demi-monde of the 1960s, Murder in Paris '68 evokes an era when the high-life and the low-life went hand in hand. It was a time when the French New Wave of cinema was taking the world by storm, a time of glamour,
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BARE

'You have to read this book' MICK JAGGER

de Lorna Tucker ...

Narrado por Lorna Tucker ...

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4 hora 25 minutos

I, Lorna Tucker, have lived a life that most of you can't even begin to imagine...The unflinching true story of one woman's fight to survive living on the streets of London - from Britain's most exciting filmmaker'You need to read this' MICK JAGGER'Truly changes your perception of what the words 'strength' and 'endurance' mean' CUBA GOODING JR'Heartbreaking and uplifting' KA... ... Leer más

$31.99 USD

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I, Lorna Tucker, have lived a life that most of you can't even begin to imagine...The unflinching true story of one woman's fight to survive living on the streets of London - from Britain's most exciting filmmaker'You need to read this' MICK JAGGER'Truly changes your perception of what the words 'strength' and 'endurance' mean' CUBA GOODING JR'Heartbreaking and uplifting' KA...
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Chasing Aliens

Faith and Conspiracy in the UFO Heartlands - 'So interesting and beautifully written' Jon Ronson

de Daniel Lavelle ...

Narrado por Daniel Lavelle ...

Completo

7 hora 29 minutos

**Brought to you by Penguin.From Orwell Prize-winning Daniel Lavelle comes a wild road trip chasing aliens through the UFO heartlands**The US government has been investigating unidentified aerial phenomena in a secret division of the Department of Defence. A former intelligence official urged the US to disclose evidence of UFOs after saying the government possesses ‘intact and partially intact’ ... Leer más

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**Brought to you by Penguin.From Orwell Prize-winning Daniel Lavelle comes a wild road trip chasing aliens through the UFO heartlands**The US government has been investigating unidentified aerial phenomena in a secret division of the Department of Defence. A former intelligence official urged the US to disclose evidence of UFOs after saying the government possesses ‘intact and partially intact’
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