Will She Do?
By: Eileen Atkins
Narrated by: Eileen Atkins
Length: 10 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
'She is the cur's cods, the terrier's testicles, the business. I will go farther and declare that Atkins is the finest actor appearing in the world right now' - A. A. Gill
'Yes, she will: this vivid, honest memoir by a great actress and a natural writer goes down a treat' Tom Stoppard
Will She Do? is the story of a girl from a council estate in... Read more
Spider Woman
By: Lady Hale
Narrated by: Lady Hale
Length: 11 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: No
Brought to you by Penguin.
Lady Hale is an inspirational figure admired for her historic achievements and for the causes she has championed. Spider Woman is her story.
As 'a little girl from a little school in a little village in North Yorkshire', she only went into the law because her headteacher told her she wasn't clever enough to study... Read more
One Girl And Her Dogs
By: Emma Gray
Narrated by: Helen McAlpine
Length: 7 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
EMMA GRAY'S NEW BOOK 'MY FARMING LIFE' ('A HEARTWARMING TALE OF LIFE ON THE LAND' Alan Titchmarsh) IS OUT NOW
What happens when you swap 'I do' for pastures new?
When twenty-three-year-old shepherdess Emma Gray breaks off her engagement, the chance to take over an isolated Northumberland farm seems just the fresh start she needs. But while the... Read more
The Habit of Excellence
By: Lt Col Langley Sharp
Narrated by: Lt Col Langley Sharp
Length: 9 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
Brought to you by Penguin.
The official British Army book on what makes its leadership so successful, and how to become a better leader yourself - whatever your field.
The British Army stands or falls on the quality of its leadership. The stakes couldn't be higher. In The Habit of Excellence, Lieutenant Colonel Langley Sharp MBE - head of the... Read more
Autobiografía
By: Hristo Stoichkov & Vladimir Pamukov
Narrated by: Hristo Stoichkov
Length: 20 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No
Hristo Stoichkov, El Pistolero del legendario Dream Team del FC Barcelona, nos trae su auténtica autobiografía. El máximo goleador de la Copa Mundial de 1994 nos revela su alma sin maquillaje, pretensiones ni cohibiciones. Directo, volcánico y fiel a su imagen de aquella época en la que millones de seguidores admiraban al mágico Nº8.
En este... Read more
Jacob's Story
By: Louise Allen
Narrated by: Stewart Crank
Length: 8 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No
Officers from the RSPCA investigate reports of animal cruelty and neglect on a farm, only to discover a 5-year-old boy curled up asleep in a dog bed, amidst filth and squalor.
He has severe physical and cognitive impairments, and no one outside the family seems to know of the existence of little Jacob.
When he arrives in the Allen household, a... Read more
High Hopes
By: Steve Garrigan
Narrated by: Steve Garrigan
Length: 6 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
A stunningly told and deeply personal memoir from the lead singer of Irish rockband Kodaline.
Lead singer of the hugely successful Irish rock band Kodaline, Steve Garrigan plays to thousands of fans worldwide - his business is being in the spotlight. But for years, Steve was privately battling his own demons.
Here in this deeply personal memoir,... Read more
How to Lose Everything
By: Christa Couture
Narrated by: Christa Couture
Length: 4 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
Christa Couture has come to know every corner of grief—its shifting blurry edges, its traps, its pulse of love at the centre and the bittersweet truth that sorrow is a powerful and wise emotion. From the amputation of her leg as a cure for bone cancer at a young age to her first child’s single day of life, the heart transplant and subsequent... Read more
View audiobookThunderer
By: Julian Stockwin
Narrated by: Christian Rodska
Length: 11 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: No
1812. Arriving back in England after his successes in the Adriatic, Captain Sir Thomas Kydd is bestowed with honours. In London he's greeted by the Prince Regent who, despite Kydd's protestations that he's happy with his present command, insists he be given a bigger ship - HMS Thunderer, a 74-gun ship of the line. But she's old, and being part... Read more
View audiobookCathy Goes to Canberra
By: Cathy McGowan
Narrated by: Cathy McGowan
Length: 6 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
Whenever anyone tells you that only the big parties or star candidates have a chance of winning a seat in federal parliament, just say 'Cathy McGowan'. Running as a community-backed independent candidate, Cathy won the previously safe Liberal seat of Indi in 2013 and again in 2016 and passed Indi on to another independent in 2019 – a first in... Read more
View audiobookLa familia grande
By: Camille Kouchner
Narrated by: Pastora Vega
Length: 5 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
Esta es la historia de una familia que amaba reunirse, comer, beber, reír, bailar y discutir. Que amaba el sol y el hedonismo de los días de verano. Este es el testimonio abrumador de una mujer que se atreve a revelar un secreto que guardó durante años. Un secreto que ahoga la memoria, que oprime, que anula el placer para siempre, que baila al... Read more
View audiobookSteak Machine
By: Geoffrey Le Guilcher
Narrated by: Julien Buys
Length: 3 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
Un CV imaginaire, une fausse identité, et un crâne rasé... Steak Machine est le récit d'une infiltration de quarante jours dans un abattoir industriel. Dans ce reportage glaçant, le journaliste Geoffrey Le Guilcher partage et raconte le quotidien des ouvriers : les giclées de sang dans les yeux, les doigts qui se bloquent et les défonces... Read more
View audiobookSimply Proust
By: Jack Jordan
Narrated by: Caroline Holmes
Length: 4 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
Marcel Proust (1871-1922) was born in Paris during a time of great social and political upheaval, a ferment that is dealt with extensively in his monumental work In Search of Lost Time. He was a sickly child and spent the earlier part of his short life pursuing a variety of sometimes frivolous activities, which led to his not being taken... Read more
View audiobookMonsters
By: Alison Croggon
Narrated by: Larissa Gallagher
Length: 8 hours 56 minutes
Abridged: No
"This figure I see in the foreground, this me. How monstrous am I? What does it mean to be a monster? From Latin monstrum, meaning an abomination . . . grotesque, hideous, ugly, ghastly, gruesome, horrible . . .
"I was born as part of a monstrous structure—the grotesque, hideous, ugly, ghastly, gruesome, horrible relations of power that... Read more
One Writer's Beginnings
By: Eudora Welty
Narrated by: Eudora Welty
Length: 3 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
The Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner’s timeless lectures that became a New York Times bestselling classic regarded as a “profound and priceless as guidance for anyone who aspires to write” (Los Angeles Times).
Born in 1909 in Jackson, Mississippi, Eudora Welty shares details of her upbringing that show us how her family and her... Read more
Bill Pickett: The Life of the Legendary Rodeo and Wild West Show Performer
By: Charles River Editors
Narrated by: Jim Johnston
Length: 1 hour 17 minutes
Abridged: No
The Wild West made legends out of many men and women through the embellishment of their stories, but it was Buffalo Bill Cody who truly brought the Wild West to life and provided the images that people still associate with the 19th century West today. Though he had a long career that spanned service in the Civil War, trapping, and even a stint... Read more
View audiobookA Sailor, A Chicken, An Incredible Voyage
By: Guirec Soudée
Narrated by: Trevor Lawless
Length: 9 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: No
“Exciting, funny, and occasionally heart-stopping … readers can stay home and dry, but feel like they are on the high seas.”—BOOKLIST
A man and his chicken sail 45,000 nautical miles in this powerful story of following your dreams no matter what stands in your way.
When Guirec Soudée was 21 years old, he bought a 30-foot sailboat and set out... Read more
How to Be Sad
By: Helen Russell
Narrated by: Helen Russell
Length: 10 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: No
""In any human life there are going to be periods of unhappiness. That is part of the human experience. Learning how to be sad is a natural first step in how to be happier.""—Meik Wiking, CEO of the Happiness Research Institute""How to Be Sad is a poignant, funny, and deeply practical guide to better navigating one of our most misunderstood... Read more
View audiobookIn the Weeds
By: Tom Vitale
Narrated by: Tom Vitale
Length: 8 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: No
Anthony Bourdain's long time director and producer takes readers behind the scenes to reveal the insanity of filming television in some of the most volatile places in the world and what it was like to work with a legend.
In the nearly two years since Anthony Bourdain's death, no one else has come close to filling the void he left. His passion... Read more
Bad Fat Black Girl
By: Sesali Bowen
Narrated by: Sesali Bowen
Length: 6 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
“Sesali Bowen is poised to give Black feminism the rejuvenation it needs. Her trendsetting writing and commentary reaches across experiences and beyond respectability. I and so many Black girls still figuring out who they are in this world will gain so much from whatever she has to say.”—Charlene A. Carruthers, activist and author of... Read more
View audiobookThe Redemption Of Bobby Love
By: Bobby Love & Cheryl Love
Narrated by: Harvey Reaves & Cheri VandenHeuvel
Length: 9 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
The inspiring, dramatic, and heartwarming true account of an escaped convict and his wife of thirty-five plus years who never knew his secret, which captured the imaginations of millions on Humans of New York.
Bobby and Cheryl Love were living in Brooklyn, happily married for decades, when the FBI and NYPD appeared at their door and demanded to... Read more
An Embarrassment of Critch's
By: Mark Critch
Narrated by: Mark Critch
Length: 7 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
NATIONAL BESTSELLER
The heartfelt and hilarious story of beloved Canadian comedian Mark Critch's journey from Newfoundland to the national stage--and back home again.
One of Mark Critch's earliest acting gigs was in a Newfoundland tourist production alongside a cast of displaced fishery workers. Since, he's found increasing opportunities to take... Read more
Believe
By: Suresh Raina & Bharat Sundaresan
Narrated by: Siddhant
Length: 4 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
Believe, Sachin Tendulkar told him - and he took it to heart, getting the word etched on his arm as a tattoo.
In this book, Suresh Raina takes us through the challenges he faced as a young cricketer. He was bullied in school and at cricket camps, but he always punched above his weight, overcoming every adversity life threw at him and never giving... Read more
Speaking Of Films
By: Satyajit Ray
Narrated by: Luke Kenny
Length: 7 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
India’s greatest film-maker on the art and craft of films. Exactly fifty years ago, in 1955, the release of Pather Panchali heralded the arrival of a master in the world of cinema. Over the next forty years, Satyajit Ray came to be regarded as one of the world’s finest film-makers ever. Today, more than a decade after his death, he continues to... Read more
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