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The Book About Getting Older
The essential comforting guide to ageing with wise advice for the highs and lows
2021
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The honest, compassionate and vital guide to getting older, from dementia to finances, medication to care homes'The most important book about the second half of your life you'll ever read. I wish everyone in the UK could be under Dr Lucy's care' SANDI TOKSVIG'This warm and compassionate book gets to the heart of older age' THE BRITISH GERIATRICS SOCIETY________Now more than ever, we need to talk about...
The Golden Rule
A Compassionate Guide to Ageing Well, Caring for Loved Ones and Living Later Life with Confidence
2024
EN
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A new way to think about ageing - for ourselves and the people we love. With warmth and wisdom, geriatrician Dr Lucy Pollock shows us how'The Golden Rule is part manifesto for better integration and appreciation between generations, and part reflection on a career spent looking after our elders, [. . .] with good humour, sanity, wisdom and quite a few jokes' The Times__Plan A: stay young forever
The Book About Getting Older
The essential comforting guide to ageing with wise advice for the highs and lows
- Narrated by
- Lucy Pollock
Unabridged
9 hours 49 min
2021
EN
Brought to you by Penguin.The most important book you'll ever read about the second half of your life now.Now more than ever, we need to talk about getting older.Many of us are living to a very great age. But how do we give those we love, and eventually ourselves, long lives that are as happy and healthy as possible?Dr Lucy's book gives us answers to the questions we can voice - and those that we can't....
The Golden Rule
A Compassionate Guide to Ageing Well, Caring for Loved Ones and Living Later Life with Confidence
- Narrated by
- Lucy Pollock
Unabridged
8 hours 20 min
2024
EN
Brought to you by Penguin.In a society obsessed with staying young, how can we age with confidence?Today, we are living longer lives, and have choices now as never before about how we will age.What will make us happy?What are we frightened of, and what might allay those fears?What changes, made right now, will help us to flourish as we age?This book contains lessons Lucy Pollock learned from thirty years of work...
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Does My Dog Love Me?
Understanding how your dog sees the world
- Narrated by
- Graeme Hall
Unabridged
5 hours 43 min
2024
EN
**Brought to you by Penguin.Have you ever wondered what your dog is really thinking?**Our dogs mean the world to us and as owners we do our best to make sure they feel happy and loved, whilst also keeping them in line when needed. But wouldn’t it be so much easier if we spoke the same language and could ask what they were thinking or feeling?In his latest book, top dog trainer, Graeme Hall, reveals the secrets to understanding what your furry companion is trying to ...
Philosophy and Life
Exploring the Great Questions of How to Live
- Narrated by
- Justin Avoth
Unabridged
14 hours 13 min
2023
EN
Brought to you by Penguin.From the eminent philosopher, an authoritative exploration of the great questions of how to live'There is a question everyone has to ask and answer - in fact, has to keep on asking and keep on answering. It is, 'How should I live my life?' meaning, 'What values shall I live by? 'What sort of person should I be? What shall I aim for?' The great majority of people do not ask this question, they merely answer it unthinkingly, by a...
Downfall
Putin, Prigozhin, and the fight for the future of Russia
- Narrated by
- Mark Galeotti
Unabridged
6 hours 3 min
2024
EN
Brought to you by Penguin.In the early years of Vladmir Putin’s Russia, Yevgeny Prigozhin emerged as one of the President’s most trusted assets. By 2023, he had become a dangerous warlord – and also one of Putin’s chief rivals in Russia’s tumultuous political climate, exiled after leading an attempted coup, and shortly after killed in a mysterious plane crash.But what is the truth about this enigmatic figure, his role in the war with Ukraine, and the chaos ...
Coming of Age
How Adolescence Shapes Us
- Narrated by
- Katherine Press
Unabridged
7 hours 28 min
2024
EN
**Brought to you by Penguin.Why do teenagers act as they do?**** A GUARDIAN AND TELEGRAPH BEST PAPERBACK PICK **What we experience during adolescence shapes us for life, but psychologist Lucy Foulkes shows that too often we fear, dismiss or even try to prevent aspects of it that are crucial to our development. Drawing on decades of psychological research, and including profoundly moving interviews, Coming of Age gets beneath the recent myt...
Myself and Other Animals
A posthumous work from the beloved conservationist to celebrate the centenary of his birth
- Narrated by
- Julian WadhamAnne Dover
Unabridged
10 hours 44 min
2024
EN
**Brought to you by Penguin.A final posthumous work from the beloved conservationist and naturalist Gerald Durrell, to celebrate the centenary of his birth, with a new foreword written by HRH Princess Anne.**Myself and Other Animals is a new book mosaicked from unpublished autobiographies, uncollected pieces and previously published extracts from Durrell’s work and archives. The result is an extraordinary journey through Durrell’s life in his own words, edited and ...
Lest We Forget
100 Stories of Love, Loss and Heroism
- Narrated by
- Tessa Dunlop
Unabridged
11 hours 24 min
2025
EN
A moving account of how war is remembered – and by whom'Impressive. A hundred individual histories, skillfully assembled, built into a poignant meditation on why they still matter' David Olusoga'Brilliant' Piers MorganShortlisted for the Military History Matters Book of the Year Award 2026Bestselling historian Tessa Dunlop travels the length and breadth of the United Kingdom on a quest to uncover a ...
A Story is a Deal
How to use the science of story to motivate and persuade
- Narrated by
- Will Storr
Unabridged
6 hours 16 min
2025
EN
A fascinating exploration of how to use the power of storytelling to create irresistible pitches, build passionate brand loyalty, motivate teams and lead with charisma.'Will Storr is a genius' Rory Sutherland'A captivating and enlightening read . . Will Storr is an unusually talented and insightful writer' Adam Grant'Storr shares profound insights' Seth Godin'Whip smart, insightful and ridiculo...
Taken As Red
How Labour Won Big and the Tories Crashed the Party
- Narrated by
- Anushka Asthana
Unabridged
10 hours 26 min
2024
EN
How Labour took power and what they're doing with it'Taken As Red stands out for its balance and the depth of its reporting' The Guardian'Revelatory and insightful.' Tim ShipmanIn Taken As Red acclaimed political journalist Anushka Asthana takes us behind the scenes of the 2024 general election campaign.As the political landscape undergoes a seismic shift, this gripping account pro...











