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Searching for Novak

INTERNATIONAL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR

by Mark Hodgkinson ...

Narrated by Nigel Barden ...

Unabridged

8 hours 38 min

International Sports Book of the Year 2025 - Charles Tyrwhitt Sports Book Awards'A fantastic and fascinating exploration of the life of a great champion... Full of compelling insight.' - Tom Hiddleston'This book captures the deep complexities in Novak's mind and his life and how he's dealt with them in a thoughtful, soul-searching way.' - Chris Evert'A fascinating insight into the greatest tennis ... Read more

$31.99 USD

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International Sports Book of the Year 2025 - Charles Tyrwhitt Sports Book Awards'A fantastic and fascinating exploration of the life of a great champion... Full of compelling insight.' - Tom Hiddleston'This book captures the deep complexities in Novak's mind and his life and how he's dealt with them in a thoughtful, soul-searching way.' - Chris Evert'A fascinating insight into the greatest tennis
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Believe

Achieving the Impossible - How cycling's greatest sprinter made history at the Tour de France

by Mark Cavendish ...

Narrated by Mark Cavendish, Nigel Barden ...

Unabridged

7 hours 14 min

**Brought to you by Penguin.The final word on a record-breaking career from cycling's most formidable sprinter**Mark Cavendish is the stand-out British cyclist of our most golden generation. With his 35th Tour de France win in 2024, he became the outright all-time record holder for the most stage victories at the world's greatest cycling event. Breaking the record that had lasted for 48 years, ... Read more

$18.79 USD

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**Brought to you by Penguin.The final word on a record-breaking career from cycling's most formidable sprinter**Mark Cavendish is the stand-out British cyclist of our most golden generation. With his 35th Tour de France win in 2024, he became the outright all-time record holder for the most stage victories at the world's greatest cycling event. Breaking the record that had lasted for 48 years,
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Growing Wings

The Inside Story of Red Bull Racing

by Ben Hunt ...

Narrated by Nigel Barden ...

Unabridged

8 hours 52 min

Packed with intrigue, high-stakes schemes, and adrenalin-fueled action on-and-off the track, the brilliant and gripping inside story of Formula One’s most fascinating, swagger-rich, and win-at-all-costs team, Red Bull, now celebrating its twentieth anniversary.A propulsive, dramatic thrill ride, Growing Wings chronicles two incredible decades of racing as it tells the story of one of F1’s boldest ... Read more

$28.99 USD

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Packed with intrigue, high-stakes schemes, and adrenalin-fueled action on-and-off the track, the brilliant and gripping inside story of Formula One’s most fascinating, swagger-rich, and win-at-all-costs team, Red Bull, now celebrating its twentieth anniversary.A propulsive, dramatic thrill ride, Growing Wings chronicles two incredible decades of racing as it tells the story of one of F1’s boldest
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Pressure

How the people who power Formula One thrive at the limits

by Simon Lazenby ...

Narrated by Simon Lazenby, Nigel Barden ...

Unabridged

10 hours 55 min

**Brought to you by Penguin.As lead presenter for Sky Sports Formula One live coverage, Simon Lazenby is at the centre of Grand Prix race-weekend action. In this book, he takes us off camera to give us exclusive, behind-the-scenes access to the people who power this multi-billion-pound sport.**Drawing on over a decade’s accumulated first-hand knowledge and connections across the paddock, Simon ... Read more

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**Brought to you by Penguin.As lead presenter for Sky Sports Formula One live coverage, Simon Lazenby is at the centre of Grand Prix race-weekend action. In this book, he takes us off camera to give us exclusive, behind-the-scenes access to the people who power this multi-billion-pound sport.**Drawing on over a decade’s accumulated first-hand knowledge and connections across the paddock, Simon
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How to Not Know

The Value of Uncertainty in a World that Demands Answers

by Simone Stolzoff ...

Narrated by Simone Stolzoff ...

Unabridged

5 hours 47 min

"Spectacular." ―Daniel PinkA guide to dealing with uncertainty at a time when our lives have never felt less certain.From our careers to our politics to our personal lives, the future is unknown. And yet, our capacity to tolerate this uncertainty is in decline. How to Not Know will help you prepare for and even appreciate the uncertainty that surrounds us.Through gripping stories of people ... Read more

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"Spectacular." ―Daniel PinkA guide to dealing with uncertainty at a time when our lives have never felt less certain.From our careers to our politics to our personal lives, the future is unknown. And yet, our capacity to tolerate this uncertainty is in decline. How to Not Know will help you prepare for and even appreciate the uncertainty that surrounds us.Through gripping stories of people
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The Escape

The Tour, the Cyclist and Me

by David Walsh, Pippa York ...

Narrated by Annie Wallace, Gerry O’Brien, Stephanie Racine, David Rintoul, Joe Eyre ...

Unabridged

9 hours 54 min

Winner of the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award 2025A Sunday Times Best Book of 2025A Guardian Best Sports Book 2025A unique memoir from British cycling’s most fascinating competitor.In the summer of 2020, sportswriter David Walsh invited Pippa York began a series of journeys following the Tour de France. A nostalgic voyage through the world’s most competitive bike... ... Read more

$28.99 USD

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Winner of the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award 2025A Sunday Times Best Book of 2025A Guardian Best Sports Book 2025A unique memoir from British cycling’s most fascinating competitor.In the summer of 2020, sportswriter David Walsh invited Pippa York began a series of journeys following the Tour de France. A nostalgic voyage through the world’s most competitive bike...
... Read more

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Frankly

The Sunday Times bestselling memoir from Scotland's first female and longest-serving First Minister

by Nicola Sturgeon ...

Narrated by Nicola Sturgeon ...

Unabridged

14 hours 58 min

**Compellingly read by the author, Nicola Sturgeon.Now with a new Foreword by the author.‘A triumph. Frankly is the most insightful and stylishly open memoir by a politician since Barack Obama’s Dreams From My Father’Andrew O’Hagan'Nicola Sturgeon tells her remarkable story with great skill and unflinching honesty'Alan Johnson**The enduring popularity of Nicola Sturgeon, the first female and ... Read more

$22.81 USD

**Compellingly read by the author, Nicola Sturgeon.Now with a new Foreword by the author.‘A triumph. Frankly is the most insightful and stylishly open memoir by a politician since Barack Obama’s Dreams From My Father’Andrew O’Hagan'Nicola Sturgeon tells her remarkable story with great skill and unflinching honesty'Alan Johnson**The enduring popularity of Nicola Sturgeon, the first female and
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Captives and Companions

A History of Slavery and the Slave Trade in the Islamic World

by Justin Marozzi ...

Narrated by Richard Trinder ...

Unabridged

19 hours 42 min

Slavery in the Islamic world has a complex and controversial history. In the earliest days of Islam, Arab Muslims enslaved men, women, and children as the spoils of war. In the following centuries, young boys were imported to imperial Islamic courts in enormous numbers. Some were castrated to serve as guardians of sacred spaces, while others were "harvested" by the Ottomans to serve in the sultan ... Read more

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Slavery in the Islamic world has a complex and controversial history. In the earliest days of Islam, Arab Muslims enslaved men, women, and children as the spoils of war. In the following centuries, young boys were imported to imperial Islamic courts in enormous numbers. Some were castrated to serve as guardians of sacred spaces, while others were "harvested" by the Ottomans to serve in the sultan
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Becoming George

The Invention of George Sand

by Fiona Sampson ...

Narrated by Fiona Sampson ...

Unabridged

10 hours 43 min

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, ... Read more

$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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Finding My Voice

A story of strength, self-belief and S Club

by Rachel Stevens ...

Narrated by Rachel Stevens ...

Unabridged

4 hours 29 min

The inspirational and honest first book from S Club legend Rachel StevensWhether as part of the iconic S Club or as a successful solo artist, Rachel Stevens was in the eye of the Noughties pop storm when she was catapulted to fame in her teens. The whirlwind of celebrity life brought glamour, glitz and BRITs, but not everything was as it seemed behind the smile.Constantly stereotyped and ... Read more

$27.99 USD

The inspirational and honest first book from S Club legend Rachel StevensWhether as part of the iconic S Club or as a successful solo artist, Rachel Stevens was in the eye of the Noughties pop storm when she was catapulted to fame in her teens. The whirlwind of celebrity life brought glamour, glitz and BRITs, but not everything was as it seemed behind the smile.Constantly stereotyped and
... Read more
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Life Is Rosi

Grandma, Me and Our Diaries at 23

by Jess Robinson ...

Narrated by Jess Robinson ...

Unabridged

9 hours 22 min

'This is a unique juxtaposition of the shatteringly honest diaries of two Jewish girls fighting to survive — Grandma Rosi in the Holocaust and two generations later Jess in today's grubby showbiz world. It appalled, uplifted and delighted me. I wish I’d written it.' MIRIAM MARGOLYES'Deeply moving… fascinating' The Mail on Sunday'I loved every word of it. Funny, fascinating, infuriating and so ... Read more

$24.99 USD

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'This is a unique juxtaposition of the shatteringly honest diaries of two Jewish girls fighting to survive — Grandma Rosi in the Holocaust and two generations later Jess in today's grubby showbiz world. It appalled, uplifted and delighted me. I wish I’d written it.' MIRIAM MARGOLYES'Deeply moving… fascinating' The Mail on Sunday'I loved every word of it. Funny, fascinating, infuriating and so
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Changeover

A Young Rivalry and a New Era of Men's Tennis

by Giri Nathan ...

Narrated by Aden Hakimi ...

Unabridged

8 hours 54 min

NATIONAL BESTSELLERNAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2025 BY* THE NEW YORKER * NPR * TOWN & COUNTRY *The story of Carlos Alcaraz, Jannik Sinner, and their epic rivalry, as told by "the best tennis writer in America" (Brian Phillips, The Ringer).For more than two decades, Novak Djokovic, Rafael Nadal, and Roger Federer dominated men’s tennis so thoroughly that it became ... ... Read more

$24.99 USD

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NATIONAL BESTSELLERNAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2025 BY* THE NEW YORKER * NPR * TOWN & COUNTRY *The story of Carlos Alcaraz, Jannik Sinner, and their epic rivalry, as told by "the best tennis writer in America" (Brian Phillips, The Ringer).For more than two decades, Novak Djokovic, Rafael Nadal, and Roger Federer dominated men’s tennis so thoroughly that it became ...
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