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Book Cover for: Swimming Home, Deborah Levy

Swimming Home

Deborah Levy
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#ICYMI: Our guest pick is Booker-nominated author of acclaimed novels inc Swimming Home, Hot Milk, & The Man Who Saw Everything, Deborah Levy. Her new novel, August Blue, comes out this Spring. Here’s what she’s listening to on @spiraclehq: https://t.co/Vk3lDSC6ja @naxos_uk https://t.co/OA0ptk9Iro

Paperback, 2012

$16.00$8.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: The Birthday Party, Laurent Mauvignier

The Birthday Party

Laurent Mauvignier
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Read Lydia's full list of listens here: https://t.co/nlCmzRastu Lydia Leonard is a Tony Award nominated actress. She can be seen in Gentleman Jack and The Crown. For Spiracle editions, she reads Laurent Mauvignier's The Birthday Party. @FitzcarraldoEds @dlb

Paperback, 2023

$18.95$9.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf

To the Lighthouse

Virginia Woolf
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Despite playing Virginia Woolf once, I have shamefully never read To the Lighthouse, so what better way to finally resolve that than to listen to the wonderful Juliet Stevenson read it. - Lydia Leonard #spiracleedition https://t.co/b1dGj7bFqE

Paperback, 1989

$9.99$4.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: The Way of all Flesh, Samuel Butler

The Way of all Flesh

Samuel Butler
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Looking for a great #audiobook listen? Read why @SpiracleHQ Co-Founder, Kate Bland chose Samuel Butler’s THE WAY OF ALL FLESH narrated by Malcolm Sinclair as this week’s Staff Pick (even though, she admits, she might not have picked up a paper copy!): https://t.co/I34bOIpjFt https://t.co/mO54BAOKVj

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Book Cover for: Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Other Tales, Robert Louis Stevenson

Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Other Tales

Robert Louis Stevenson
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Robert Louis Stevenson's masterpiece of the duality of good and evil in man's nature sprang from the darkest recesses of his own unconscious – during a nightmare from which his wife awakened him, alerted by his screams. Listen now: https://t.co/7yhRWClm6D

Paperback, 2008

$7.95$3.97 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Milk Blood Heat, Dantiel W. Moniz

Milk Blood Heat

Dantiel W. Moniz
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Madeleine Knowles, Editor of @NBmagazineUK, walks and listens to audiobooks. She chooses.. Dantiel W. Moniz's Milk Blood Heat Machelle Williams' recital of Moniz’s sublime and visceral writing is sure to force listeners to pause and reflect. https://t.co/uLJHngPwfX https://t.co/QFjqgUGjc6

Paperback, 2022

$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Swimming Home, Deborah Levy

Swimming Home

Deborah Levy
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Today marks the last day of Audiobook Month! Have you discovered any new authors/ narrators/ books that you love? If not, here is Josh Cohen's favourite: Swimming Home by Deborah Levy

Paperback, 2012

$16.00$8.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Hunger, Knut Hamsun

Hunger

Knut Hamsun
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'What psychological innovation did Knut Hamsun grasp, and articulate so skilfully, in his novel Hunger which enables it to remain so fresh, original, and compelling? James Clammer, Guest Picker for Spiracle Audiobooks. https://t.co/L3LEdKbSgo @JamesClammer #writinginspiration https://t.co/naSGWKCa3q

Paperback, 1998

$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: When We Cease to Understand the World, Benjamin Labatut

When We Cease to Understand the World

Benjamin Labatut
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Spiracle curator Leigh Wilson speaks to Benjamin Labatut, author of When We Cease to Understand the World, in a discussion which spans the tensions between myth and science and the endeavour of attempting to write beyond the bounds of human rationality https://bit.ly/3O06xa8 https://t.co/oXjL2rXNGA

Paperback, 2021

$17.95$8.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: The Yellow Wallpaper, Charlotte Perkins Gilman

The Yellow Wallpaper

Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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If you are a new mum or soon-to-be, these books offer two sides of childbirth: the Squire by Enid Bagnold read by @julietaubrey1 and The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. The Yellow Wallpaper read by Lydia Leonard is currently offered for free from Spiracle. https://t.co/Qa9CYMQjQ7

Paperback, 2024

$8.99$4.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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