Biography & Memoir audiobooks

Into Iraq

By: Michael Palin

Narrated by: Michael Palin

Length: 2 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Brought to you by Penguin.

In March 2022, Michael Palin travelled the length of the River Tigris through Iraq to get a sense of what life is like in a region of the world that once formed the cradle of civilisation, but that in recent times has witnessed turmoil and appalling bloodshed. It was a journey of sharp, often brutal contrasts. At one... Read more

I Don't Talk to Dead Bodies - The Curious Encounters of a Forensic Psychiatrist (Unabridged)

By: Rhona Morrison

Narrated by: Rhona Morrison

Length: 6 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Prepare to be intrigued, amazed and astonished as you join Dr Rhona Morrison on an often funny, and at times downright bizarre, thought-provoking and eye-opening rollercoaster ride through some of the most curious encounters of her career as a leading forensic psychiatrist. Delve into the minds of real people, whose actions may shock and stun... Read more

Undoctored

By: Adam Kay

Narrated by: Adam Kay & Richard Coles

Length: 9 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

This is Going to Hurt was the publishing phenomenon of the century, read by many millions, loved by at least fifty of them, and adapted into a major TV series. But it was only part of the story.

By turns hilarious, heartbreaking and humbling, Undoctored is about what happens when a doctor hangs up his scrubs, but medicine refuses to let go of... Read more

W niełasce u Pana Boga

By: Aleksander Minkowski

Narrated by: Artur Ziajkiewicz

Length: 9 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Utwór stanowiący autobiografię Aleksandra Minkowskiego. Historia ludzi żyjących w dobie socjalizmu w Polsce, zaangażowanych w działania socjalistycznych związków czy należących do PZPR. Liczne opisy zdarzeń, miejsc i postaci składają się na skomplikowaną opowieść, w której występują postacie związane z ówczesnym życiem politycznym i kulturalnym... Read more

How to Be a Sister

By: Eileen Garvin

Narrated by: Eileen Garvin

Length: 6 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Eileen Garvin’s older sister, Margaret, was diagnosed with severe autism at age three. Growing up alongside Margaret wasn’t easy: Eileen often found herself in situations that were simultaneously awkward, hilarious, and heartbreaking. For example, losing a blue plastic hairbrush could leave Margaret inconsolable for hours, and a quiet Sunday... Read more

Świadek

By: Teresa Lewandowska

Narrated by: Maciej Motylski

Length: 2 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Tylko wojna może cię nauczyć, ile warte jest ludzkie życie.Mały chłopiec, nieświadomy przyszłości, jaka go czeka, mimowolnie staje się świadkiem wielkiej historii. Dzieciństwo spędzone na Kresach Wschodnich, ucieczka przed banderowcami w czasie II wojny światowej i dorosłość w odbudowującej się Polsce – oto trzy filary opowieści, która ukazuje... Read more

The Race to the Top

By: Nazir Afzal

Narrated by: Nazir Afzal

Length: 7 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

A New Statesman ‘most anticipated title of the year’ ‘Compelling.’ David Lammy MP ‘Refreshing,’ Pragya Agarwal A powerful intervention roundly debunking the myth of progress in racial equality — particularly in the workplace — and offering a... Read more

What Are You Doing Here?

By: Floella Benjamin

Narrated by: Floella Benjamin

Length: 14 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

This audio edition is read by the author, Floella Benjamin.

Winner at the 2022 Parlimentary Book Awards

Baroness Floella Benjamin is an inspiration, an actress and much-loved children’s television presenter who is a member of the House of Lords. But how did the girl from Trinidad end up lunching with the Queen?

In What Are You Doing Here? Floella... Read more

The People's Game: How to Save Football

By: Gary Neville

Narrated by: Mark Hadfield

Length: 9 hours

Abridged: No

A PASSIONATE AND PERSONAL ACCOUNT OF HOW FOOTBALL HAS LOST ITS SOUL BY FORMER PLAYER AND LEADING PUNDIT, GARY NEVILLE.
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The beautiful game is under threat. The greed and selfishness of the biggest clubs is harming the game - leaving other clubs struggling for financial survival and supporters behind.

It's time to fix football.
... Read more

Juho 34-63

By: Juhani Syrjä

Narrated by: Riku J. Korhonen

Length: 8 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Kolmekymppinen perheenisä Juho paiskii palkkatöitä kaupan lihamestarina laman painaessa harteita. Hän painaa pitkää päivää vaimon ja lapsikatraan hengenpitimiksi, ja johtajien ja muitten herrojen sikailun seuraaminen kylällä kismittää. Onneksi Juhon onni kääntyy 30-luvun lopulle tultaessa, ja rahaa alkaa karttua. Sota on viedä ilon jälleen,... Read more

480 Codorus Street Book II

By: Sandra L. Kearse-Stockton

Narrated by: Veleka Gray

Length: 8 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

480 Codorus Street Book II, Trials and tribulations is a continuation of 480 Codorus Street Book I - Surviving Unpredictability's. The life of a young Negro girl whose life started in York, Pennsylvania in the 1940s. This book covers the continued challenges that she faces during her life from 1973 to 1988. These years would test Sandra's... Read more

From Bluegrass to Blue Water

By: John Palmer

Narrated by: Chris Monteiro

Length: 6 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

The philosophy found in this work is the product of a childhood on a tobacco and cattle farm in central Kentucky, education at various schools, and a three-decade career in the US Navy while simultaneously contributing as a husband, father, and grandfather. The remainder of this book will be separated into phases reflective of the major changes... Read more

His Eye Is on the Sparrow

By: Ethel Waters & Charles Samuels

Narrated by: Grover Gardner & Robin Miles

Length: 12 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Ethel Waters’s His Eye Is on the Sparrow stands as perhaps the greatest autobiography of a Black female performer, capturing both the horror and the joy of the African American woman’s experience through the often bitter yet always forgiving voice of an indomitable spirit. This edition is supplemented with a new historical preface. Read more

Without Stopping

By: Paul Bowles

Narrated by: Tom Zahner

Length: 14 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Paul Bowles, the acclalmed author of The Shelterlng Sky, offers movlng, powerful, subtle, and fasclnatlng lnslghts lnto hls llfe, hls wrltlng, and hls world. Read more

A Brown Girl's Epiphany

By: Aurelia Dávila Pratt

Narrated by: Aurelia Dávila Pratt

Length: 4 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

You already have all you need to step into the fullness of your power.

Each of us has traumas, triggers, and painful experiences that have shaped our existence in this world. We carry these burdens with us as we navigate the realities of our lives. Learning to embody the truth of imago Dei is our catalyst for healing. We are each made in the... Read more

Democratic Justice

By: Brad Snyder

Narrated by: James Fouhey

Length: 37 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

The definitive biography of Felix Frankfurter, Supreme Court justice and champion of twentieth-century American liberal democracyThe conventional wisdom about Felix Frankfurter―Harvard law professor and Supreme Court justice―is that he struggled to fill the seat once held by Oliver Wendell Holmes. Scholars have portrayed Frankfurter as a... Read more

George Michael

By: James Gavin

Narrated by: Paul Bellantoni

Length: 18 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

George Michael was an extravagantly gifted, openhearted soul singer whose work was both pained and smolderingly erotic. He was a songwriter of true craft and substance, and his music swept the world, starting in the mid-1980s. His fabricated image—that of a hypermacho sex god—loomed large in the pop culture of his day. It also hid—for a time—the... Read more

CHARYTÍN \ (Spanish edition)

By: Charytin

Narrated by: Charytin

Length: 9 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

“Así siento que ha sido toda mi vida: un huracán, un torbellino, un tsunami arrasador que siempre me ha traído grandes alegrías, me las ha quitado, para volverme a traer más en este incesante vaivén. ¡O tal vez el huracán soy yo! Porque allá donde voy, me dicen que siempre se arma un revolú.” - CharytínDesde una infancia dolorosa con complicados... Read more

Nightfly

By: Peter Jones

Narrated by: Michael Butler Murray

Length: 11 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Donald Fagen will forever be associated with Steely Dan, the band he formed with Walter Becker and four other musicians in 1972.



The smooth, radio-friendly veneer of the duo's songs made Steely Dan internationally popular and famous in the 1970s, but the polish glossed over the underlying layers of anger, disappointment, sleaze, and often... Read more

Aura

By: Hillary Leftwich

Narrated by: Hillary Leftwich

Length: 6 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Aura is more than a memoir—it’s a spell book for survival, a powerful promise from mother to son, and an intimate examination of power, spirituality, and the abuse of both.Hillary Leftwich weaves together the stories of her life to create startlingly raw memories that are both personal and profoundly universal. She explores the devastating... Read more

You Owe You

By: Eric Thomas, PhD

Narrated by: Eric Thomas, PhD & Cary Hite

Length: 7 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “Eric Thomas moves, inspires, encourages, and challenges people to reach their full potential. You Owe You is flat-out brilliant, and he ain’t lied yet!”—Deion Sanders, Coach Prime
 
No matter your story or your struggle, Eric Thomas—celebrated motivational guru, educator, and problem-solver to many of the top... Read more

Blood & Ink

By: Joe Pompeo

Narrated by: Robert Petkoff

Length: 10 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Vanity Fair’s Joe Pompeo investigates the notorious 1922 double murder of a high-society minister and his secret mistress, a Jazz Age mega-crime that propelled tabloid news in the 20th century.On September 16, 1922, the bodies of Reverend Edward Hall and Eleanor Mills were found beneath a crabapple tree on an abandoned farm outside of New... Read more

The Fight of Our Lives

By: Iuliia Mendel

Narrated by: Jennifer Jill Araya

Length: 7 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

“Moving.” —The Washington Post

When Ukrainian journalist Iuliia Mendel got the call she had been hired to work for President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, she had no idea what was to come.

In this frank and moving inside account, Zelenskyy’s former press secretary tells the story of his improbable rise from popular comedian to the president of Ukraine.... Read more

A Croft in the Hills

By: Katharine Stewart

Narrated by: Ruth Urquhart

Length: 5 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

A Croft in the Hills captures, in simple, moving descriptions, what it was really like trying to make a living out of a hill croft near Loch Ness fifty years ago. A couple and their young daughter, fresh from city life, immerse themselves in the practicalities of looking after sheep, cattle and hens, mending fences, baking bread, and surviving... Read more