Fatty Batter
How Cricket Saved My Life (Then Ruined It)
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Michael Simkins
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Michael Simkins
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That place is a peculiarly English arcadia of occasional wondrous beauty, forests of comforting statistics, and the endless life-affirming rituals of defeat, humiliation, and disappointment - the perfect net practise for life.
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5 out of 5 stars
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An Anglican giant among pygmies
- De John en 06-20-12
De: Alan Partridge
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Ordinary Thunderstorms
- A Novel
- De: William Boyd
- Narrado por: Gideon Emery
- Duración: 12 h y 4 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 236
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 151
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 151
One May evening in London, Adam Kindred, a young climatologist in town for a job interview, is feeling good about the future as he sits down for a meal at a little Italian bistro. He strikes up a conversation with a solitary diner at the next table, who leaves soon afterward. With horrifying speed, this chance encounter leads to a series of malign accidents, through which Adam loses everything—home, family, friends, job, reputation, passport, credit cards, cell phone—never to get them back.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Amazing Story Teller
- De Dorothy en 09-07-14
De: William Boyd
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A Life Too Short
- The Tragedy of Robert Enke
- De: Ronald Reng
- Narrado por: John Telfer
- Duración: 13 h y 24 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 37
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 37
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 37
Why does an international footballer with the World at his feet decide to take his own life? On November 10, 2009, the German national goalkeeper Robert Enke stepped in front of a passing train. He was 32 years old. Viewed from the outside, Enke had it all. Here was a professional goalkeeper who had played for a string of Europe's top clubs, including Jose Mourinho's Benfica and Louis Van Gaal's Barcelona. Enke was destined to be his country's first choice for years. But beneath the veneer of success lay a darker story.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Depression is real, this story brings it home.
- De Bob Seavers en 12-13-19
De: Ronald Reng
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Netherland
- De: Joseph O'Neill
- Narrado por: Jefferson Mays
- Duración: 8 h y 35 m
- Versión completa
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 335
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 151
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 152
Alone and un-tethered, feeling lost in the country he had come to regard as home, Hans stumbles upon the vibrant New York subculture of cricket, where he revisits his lost childhood and, thanks to a friendship with a charismatic and charming Trinidadian named Chuck Ramkissoon, begins to reconnect with his life and his adopted country. Ramkissoon, a Gatsby-like figure who is part idealist and part operator, introduces Hans to an "other" New York populated by immigrants and strivers of every race and nationality.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Get Your Post-Colonial Gatsby ON!
- De Darwin8u en 04-13-12
De: Joseph O'Neill
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An American Caddie in St. Andrews
- Growing Up, Girls, and Looping on the Old Course
- De: Oliver Horovitz
- Narrado por: Oliver Horovitz
- Duración: 9 h y 15 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 252
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 223
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 224
In the middle of Oliver Horovitz's high school graduation ceremony, his cell phone rang: It was Harvard. He'd been accepted, but he couldn't start for another year. A caddie since he was 12 and a golfer sporting a 1.8 handicap, Ollie decided to spend his gap year in St. Andrews, Scotland - a town with the UK's highest number of pubs per capita, and home to the Old Course, golf's most famous 18 holes - where he enrolls in the St. Andrews Links Trust caddie trainee program.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fabulous read
- De David en 06-02-16
De: Oliver Horovitz
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Lionel Asbo
- State of England
- De: Martin Amis
- Narrado por: Alex Jennings
- Duración: 9 h y 42 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 131
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 116
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 120
Lionel Asbo, a terrifying yet weirdly loyal thug (self-named after England's notorious "Anti-Social Behaviour Order"), has always looked out for his ward and nephew, the orphaned Desmond Pepperdine. He provides him with fatherly career advice (always carry a knife, for example) and is determined they should share the joys of pit bulls (fed with lots of Tabasco sauce), Internet porn, and all manner of more serious criminality. Des, on the other hand, desires nothing more than books to read and a girl to love .
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4 out of 5 stars
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Jēz...us! Just don't buy it for your Grans.
- De Darwin8u en 01-03-13
De: Martin Amis
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A Pleasure and a Calling
- A Novel
- De: Phil Hogan
- Narrado por: Michael Page
- Duración: 7 h y 50 m
- Versión completa
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 130
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 114
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 114
You won't remember Mr. Heming. He was the estate agent who showed you around your comfortable home, suggested a financial package, negotiated a price with the owner, and called you with the good news. The less good news is that, all these years later, he still has the key. That's absurd, you laugh. Of all the many hundreds of houses he has sold, why would he still have the key to mine? The answer is; he has the keys to them all. William Heming's most at home in a stranger's private things.
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4 out of 5 stars
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The Invisible Man
- De Janice en 02-05-15
De: Phil Hogan
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Lie in Wait
- De: G. J. Minett
- Narrado por: Joe Jameson
- Duración: 11 h y 7 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 32
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 27
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 26
Owen Hall drives into a petrol station to let his passenger use the facilities. She never comes back - and what's more, it seems she never even made it inside. When Owen raises a fuss, the police are called - and soon identify Owen himself as a possible culprit, not least because they already have him in the frame for another more sinister crime. Owen's always been a little different, and before long others in the community are baying for his blood. But this is a case where nothing is as it seems - least of all Owen Hall....
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4 out of 5 stars
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LIE IN WAIT..
- De ZacharyKindle Customer en 08-06-17
De: G. J. Minett
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The '86 Fix
- De: Keith A. Pearson
- Narrado por: Andy Cresswell
- Duración: 10 h y 40 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 67
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 62
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 62
Everything wrong with Craig Pelling's life can be traced back to one moment in 1986. But fate hasn't finished with him yet. When a series of unfortunate events pushes him to breaking point, he's thrown a lifeline - a trip back to 1986, to relive one weekend as his 16-year-old self. Does the key to a better future lie in reverting one decision he made over 30 years ago?
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fun and engaging read!
- De Wendy Hoffman en 11-18-17
De: Keith A. Pearson
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The Swimming Pool Library
- De: Alan Hollinghurst
- Narrado por: Samuel West
- Duración: 12 h y 22 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 314
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 241
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 242
This novel centres on the friendship of William Beckwith, a young gay aristocrat who leads a life of privilege and promiscuity, and the elderly Lord Nantwich, who is searching for someone to write his biography.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Strong stuff
- De Peregrine en 05-15-11
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Standing by the Wall
- The Collected Slough House Novellas
- De: Mick Herron
- Narrado por: Gerard Doyle
- Duración: 8 h y 17 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 204
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 172
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 172
Espionage. Blackmail. Revenge. Cunning. Slapstick. State secrets dating back to the fall of the Berlin Wall. All this and more in a tight package of five novellas by Mick Herron, CWA Gold Dagger-winning author of Slow Horses.
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5 out of 5 stars
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More Please
- De Katy en 01-27-23
De: Mick Herron
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Us: A Novel
- De: David Nicholls
- Narrado por: David Haig
- Duración: 14 h y 9 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 869
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 774
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 778
Douglas Petersen may be mild-mannered, but behind his reserve lies a sense of humor that seduces beautiful Connie into a second date...and eventually into marriage. Now, almost three decades later, they live more or less happily in the London suburbs with their moody seventeen year-old son, Albie. Then Connie tells him she thinks she wants a divorce. The timing couldn’t be worse. Connie has planned a month-long tour of European capitals, a chance to experience the world’s greatest works of art as a family, and she can’t bring herself to cancel. And maybe going ahead is for the best anyway? Douglas is privately convinced that this landmark trip will rekindle the romance in the marriage, and might even help him to bond with Albie. Narrated from Douglas’s endearingly honest, slyly witty, and at times achingly optimistic point of view, Us is the story of a man trying to rescue his relationship with the woman he loves, and learning how to get closer to a son who’s always felt like a stranger.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great novel - my favorite in years
- De Mark en 07-21-15
De: David Nicholls
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Their Finest
- A Novel
- De: Lissa Evans
- Narrado por: Peter Wickham
- Duración: 12 h y 46 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 38
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 36
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 35
It is 1940. France has fallen, and only a narrow strip of sea lies between Great Britain and invasion. The war could go either way, and everyone must do their bit. Young copywriter Catrin Cole is drafted into the Ministry of Information to help write women into propaganda films - something that the men aren't very good at. She is quickly seconded to the ministry's latest endeavor: a heartwarming tale of bravery and rescue at Dunkirk. It's all completely fabricated, of course, but what does that matter when the nation's morale is at stake?
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5 out of 5 stars
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Love the "dry" British humor.
- De Colleen Farrar en 04-11-17
De: Lissa Evans
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Gironimo!
- Riding the Very Terrible 1914 Tour of Italy
- De: Tim Moore
- Narrado por: Gildart Jackson
- Duración: 12 h y 32 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 79
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 75
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 75
Twelve years after Tim Moore toiled around the route of the Tour de France, he senses his achievement being undermined by the truth about "Horrid Lance". His rash response is to take on a fearsome challenge from an age of untarnished heroes: the notorious 1914 Giro d'Italia. History's most appalling bike race was an ordeal of 400-kilometer stages filled with cataclysmic storms, roads strewn with nails, and even the loss of an eye by one competitor - and it was all on a diet of raw eggs and red wine.
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3 out of 5 stars
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A long slog of punisihing whimsy
- De Andrew en 04-06-16
De: Tim Moore
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The Bone Clocks
- De: David Mitchell
- Narrado por: Jessica Ball, Leon Williams, Colin Mace, y otros
- Duración: 24 h y 30 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 4,093
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 3,662
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 3,670
Following a scalding row with her mother, 15-year-old Holly Sykes slams the door on her old life. But Holly is no typical teenage runaway: A sensitive child once contacted by voices she knew only as "the radio people," Holly is a lightning rod for psychic phenomena. Now, as she wanders deeper into the English countryside, visions and coincidences reorder her reality until they assume the aura of a nightmare brought to life.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Not Short Listed, This Time
- De Mel en 09-23-14
De: David Mitchell
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High Dive
- De: Jonathan Lee
- Narrado por: Doyle Gerard
- Duración: 11 h y 51 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 108
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 93
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 90
Taking us inside one of the 20th century's most ambitious assassination attempts - "making history personal", as one character puts it - High Dive moves between the luxurious hospitality of a British tourist town and the troubled city of Belfast, Northern Ireland, at the height of the armed struggle between the Irish Republican Army and those loyal to the UK government.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Humor? Not Funny.
- De W Perry Hall en 04-10-16
De: Jonathan Lee
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The Wicked Girls
- De: Alex Marwood
- Narrado por: Anna Bentinck
- Duración: 14 h y 12 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 3,823
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 3,463
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 3,459
On a fateful summer morning in 1986, two 11-year-old girls meet for the first time. By the end of the day, they will both be charged with murder. Twenty-five years later, journalist Kirsty Lindsay is reporting on a series of sickening attacks on young female tourists in a seaside vacation town when her investigation leads her to interview carnival cleaner Amber Gordon. For Kirsty and Amber, it's the first time they've seen each other since that dark day so many years ago.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I didn't want to like these girls...
- De Lesley en 08-30-13
De: Alex Marwood