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Title: Byfleet to the Bush
Author: Jacqueline Pearce
Narrator: Jacqueline Pearce
Format: Unabridged
Length: 4 hrs and 22 mins
Language: English
Release date: 02-07-13
Publisher: Fantom Films
Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes
Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians

Publisher's Summary:
The actress Jacqueline Pearce is best known to television audiences as the villainous Servalan from the fondly remembered Blakes Seven (BBC, 1978-1981). But her career has taken her from RADA to Hollywood, via starring roles in international comedy films, Hammer Horror, BBC Shakespeare, and Londons West End. So how did she end up living in the African bush with her belongings in black bin-bags? Find out with this gripping memoir of an extraordinary life - from Byfleet to the Bush.
Jacquelines motherless upbringing in suburban Byfleet was unconventional and her education at the hands of nuns left her emotionally scarred. Through the course of her erratic career, she found love, laughter, heartache, breakdowns, fame, obscurity, and sex drugs and rock and roll. On the way, she encountered such stars as Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, Sammy Davis Jr, Jerry Lewis, Alan Bates, John Hurt, Dervla Kirwan, and Rupert Penry-Jones. Candid, vivid, mordant and funny, this is an unusual and enchanting memoir.

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Title: Secrets of Beethoven
Subtitle: His Journal Reveals
Author: Kenneth Sowards
Narrator: Kenneth Sowards
Format: Unabridged
Length: 15 mins
Language: English
Release date: 03-12-15
Publisher: Sowards Publishing
Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 2 votes
Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians

Publisher's Summary:
Director: a person in charge of an activity.
Whether you realize it or not, you are the director of your life. A person is thought of as a director if he is in charge of an opera or a movie production etc. This book points out that we are all directors of our lives. We are either struggling directors, or powerful directors, or somewhere in between.
As a director you choose the cast, the location, and the theme of the story. Every minute of every day you are creating the movie of your life. I wrote this brief biography to illustrate how studying great directors of the past can enable us to live powerful lives today.
Times change, however the human condition never changes. Jealousy, ambition, fear, and self-doubt were the same in Roman times as they are today. Gleaning facts and stories from biography enables us to unfold amazing concepts that we can use today to improve our lives.
Why you should listen to this book:
By applying the principles in this audiobook you will gain the inspiration to become a successful director who is in total control of your life. As you listen to this biography , you will:
My promise to you: You will see the world in a new way!

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Title: The Ecstasy of Influence
Subtitle: Nonfictions, Etc.
Author: Jonathan Lethem
Narrator: Jonathan Lethem
Format: Unabridged
Length: 16 hrs and 24 mins
Language: English
Release date: 11-08-11
Publisher: Random House Audio
Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 31 votes
Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians

Publisher's Summary:
Whats a novelist supposed to do with contemporary culture? And whats contemporary culture supposed to do with novelists? In The Ecstasy of Influence, Jonathan Lethem, tangling with what he calls the white elephant role of the writer as public intellectual, arrives at an astonishing range of answers.
A constellation of previously published pieces and new essays as provocative and idiosyncratic as any hes written, this volume sheds light on an array of topics from sex in cinema to drugs, graffiti, Bob Dylan, cyberculture, 9/11, book touring, and Marlon Brando, as well as on a shelfs worth of his literary models and contemporaries: Norman Mailer, Paula Fox, Bret Easton Ellis, James Wood, and others. And, writing about Brooklyn, his father, and his sojourn through two decades of writing, Lethem sheds an equally strong light on himself.

Critic Reviews:
"Conceptual ambition, sense of purpose and a fans evangelical devotion distinguish this collection from the typical novelists gathering of nonfiction miscellany.....impressively rich....In addition to being a writer who blurs the distinction between genre fiction (sci-fi, detective, western) and postmodern literature (a term he questions), Lethem writes with a commitment to sharing his enthusiasm for whatever obsesses him....While the results illuminate his formative influences and artistic development, they also cast considerable light on the culture at large, which is both reflected in Lethems work and has profoundly shaped it.....Intensifying that intimacy, he shares his complicated relationships.... high ambitions and a strong sense of purpose."- (Kirkus Reviews)
"Peppery nonfiction....provocative tour de force....thoughtful and rambunctious....dynamically juxtaposed and connected....to create a jazzy, patchwork memoir....hilarious....fresh, erudite, zestful, funny frolic in the great fields of creativity." (Booklist)
Hefty and remarkable.....These byways, all of which make room for eccentric flights as well as proper essays, augment the charm and impact of what Lethem prefers to call an 'autobiographical collage,' a phrase he lifts from Vonnegut. This influence seems only natural, for dominating all is Lethem's prime concern always: the novel....generous....exciting....openhearted, unconventional." (The New York Times Book Review)

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Title: Van Gogh's Inner Struggle
Subtitle: Secrets of Van Gogh, Book 2
Author: Liesbeth Heenk
Narrator: Denise Kahn
Format: Unabridged
Length: 1 hr and 43 mins
Language: English
Release date: 12-06-17
Publisher: Amsterdam Publishers
Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians

Publisher's Summary:
A fascinating look into the life of a tortured genius.
Using Van Gogh's letters as a primary source, the author discusses the artist's life, his approach to his work, and his mental illness. The letters vividly show the artist's life was no bed of roses. Whereas Van Gogh perfectly knew what was sellable, he continued to produce what he considered as honest, truthful art, regardless of current taste. He did not expect the art-buying public to understand the rough appearance of his work. Van Gogh acknowledged that being an artist simply involved struggle, but he believed that one would benefit from adversity, both personally and professionally.
"No victory without a battle, no battle without suffering."
In Van Gogh's case, it seems to have been a never-ending battle against poverty, isolation, and adversity. Given his circumstances - being financially dependent upon his brother Theo, not selling any work, and getting minimal recognition - his achievements are utterly amazing.
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Title: Mansfield Park
Author: Jane Austen
Narrator: Alison Larkin
Format: Unabridged
Length: 17 hrs and 52 mins
Language: English
Release date: 12-05-17
Publisher: Alison Larkin Presents
Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 2 votes
Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians

Publisher's Summary:
Award-winning Jane Austen narrator Alison Larkin is back with this hugely entertaining recording of Mansfield Park, followed by fascinating bonus material!
Eleven-year-old Fanny Price is "adopted" by wealthy relatives and leaves her life of poverty in Portsmouth for a much better life at Mansfield Park. Dependent, vulnerable, and often ignored, her only true friend in her new family is her cousin Edmund. When the reckless, flirtatious Crawfords arrive at Mansfield Park, Fanny must stand up for her principles in order to protect her heart.
Mansfield Park is followed by opinions on the novel by Austen's family and friends, never before heard on audio.
Like most writers, Jane Austen was very interested in what her family and friends thought of her books. She wrote down their opinions of Mansfield Park, recording both the bad and the good. These opinions dating from 1814 and 1815 will give solace to any writer whose work has been criticized, and will amuse and delight Austen fans worldwide.
"Alison Larkin's narration will captivate listeners from the first sentence. Her delicate voice and perfect English accent sweep the listener back in time, right into the lives of the characters.... Austen's nineteenth-century writing style flows off Larkin's tongue, making the dense passages easy to understand." - AudioFile Magazine