Essays audiobooks
El espacio de la imaginación
By: Ian McEwan
Narrated by: Jordi Boixaderas
Length: 54 minutes
Abridged: No
¿Son compatibles la libertad estética y el compromiso político? McEwan reflexiona a partir de Orwell y Camus. En 1940 George Orwell publicó el ensayo «En el vientre de la ballena», en el que se pregunta cómo pueden conjugar los escritores la integridad estética y el compromiso político. ¿Son compatibles? ¿Cuál debe prevalecer por encima del... Read more
View audiobookAli's Well That Ends Well
By: Ali Wentworth
Narrated by: Ali Wentworth
Length: 4 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
New York Times bestselling author Ali Wentworth offers a comedic look at family, friendship, and lessons learned during the Covid-19 pandemic in her new collection of laugh-out-loud comic vignettes.Like many, Ali Wentworth spent the pandemic seesawing between highs, lows, and baking an unnecessary amount of chocolate cake. Between binging every... Read more
View audiobookUndelivered
By: Jeff Nussbaum
Narrated by: Adam Gifford, Brian Bowles, Elisa Roth, Garrick...
Length: 10 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No
"There may be no more important listen regarding the fate of the nation's democracy than this historical record."- AudioFile
This program is read by the author and full cast, includes actual audio clips from historical and political figures, and has actors narrating the entire undelivered speeches throughout.
A fascinating insight into notable... Read more
There Are Places in the World Where Rules Are Less Important Than Kindness
By: Carlo Rovelli
Narrated by: Landon Woodson
Length: 6 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
A delightful intellectual feast from the bestselling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics, The Order of Time, and Anaximander
One of the world’s most prominent physicists and fearless free spirit, Carlo Rovelli is also a masterful storyteller. His bestselling books have introduced millions of readers to the wonders of modern physics and his... Read more
Manifesto comunista - Abridged
By: Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels
Narrated by: José Paulo Netto
Length: 1 hour 53 minutes
Abridged: Yes
No final de fevereiro de 1848, foi publicado em Londres um pequeno panfleto que acabaria por se tornar o documento político mais importante de todos os tempos: o Manifesto Comunista, de Karl Marx e Friedrich Engels. Passado mais de um século e meio, a atualidade e o vigor deste texto continuam reconhecidos por intelectuais das mais diversas... Read more
View audiobookThe Last Days of Roger Federer
By: Geoff Dyer
Narrated by: Richard Burnip
Length: 11 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: No
One of Esquire's best books of spring 2022
An extended meditation on late style and last works from "one of our greatest living critics" (Kathryn Schulz, New York).
When artists and athletes age, what happens to their work? Does it ripen or rot? Achieve a new serenity or succumb to an escalating torment? As our bodies decay, how do we keep on? In... Read more
Managing Expectations
By: Minnie Driver
Narrated by: Minnie Driver
Length: 6 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: No
A charming, poignant, and mesmerizing memoir in essays from beloved actor and natural-born storyteller Minnie Driver, chronicling the way life works out even when it doesn’t.In this intimate, beautifully crafted collection, Driver writes and narrates with disarming charm and candor about her bohemian upbringing between England and Barbados; her... Read more
View audiobookProzac Monologues
By: Willa Goodfellow
Narrated by: Willa Goodfellow
Length: 5 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: No
She was going to stab her doctor, but she wrote a book instead.Years later, Willa Goodfellow revisits this account of her antidepressant-induced hypomania that hijacked a Costa Rican vacation and tells the rest of the story: the wrong medications, an overlooked diagnosis of Bipolar 2, and finally a path to recovery.Prozac Monologues: A Voice... Read more
View audiobookGentle and Fierce
By: Vanessa Berry
Narrated by: Vanessa Berry
Length: 4 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
To be gentle is to resist the privileging of command above compassion. It is a quiet voice, a persistent whisper, calm and consoling. Ferocity is an armour, a forceful expression of resolve and protection. To be fierce is to know the intensity of the edges of feeling. It is the voice that calls out, intending to be heard. Gentle and Fierce... Read more
View audiobookThe Food Diaries
By: Elizabeth Butel
Narrated by: Julie McGregor
Length: 1 hour 27 minutes
Abridged: No
Eating when you're hungry ... how simple is that? Not so simple for Josie and the friends she met when she took herself off to One Step, the local Overeaters Anonymous Group. She heard about Rachel's extended family, who thought meeting meant eating. She met Christopher who could only stomach one coloured food at a time. There was Olga who used... Read more
View audiobookRaven Smith’s Men
By: Raven Smith
Narrated by: Raven Smith
Length: 7 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
'A brilliant writer.' Russell Tovey ‘Thoroughly entertaining.’ OTEGHA UWAGBA ‘Funny and beautifully revealing.’ BELLA MACKIE ... Read more
View audiobook깊이에 눈뜨는 시간
By: 라문숙
Narrated by: 조예신
Length: 4 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
나이 든다는 건 때때로 쓸쓸하지만 사소한 즐거움을 잃지 않는 한 삶은 다시 채워지고, 다정해지며, 더 그윽해진다 중년 여성의 존재 의식과 마음의 풍경을 담은 사유 에세이 삶이 천천히 시들어가고 있다고 느낄 때, 그럴 때 우리는 무얼 할 수 있을까? 한 살 한 살 나이를 먹어가면서 내 마음 같지 않게 흘러간 삶, 관계, 일상을 담담하게 바라보기란 누구에게나 쉽지 않다. 전작 『전업주부입니다만』을 통해 언제나 곁에 있지만 제대로 보지 못했던 존재, 전업주부의 삶을 고백을 토해내듯 단정하면서도 날카로운 언어로 담아내 많은 여성 독자들의 공감을 이끌어냈던 라문숙 작가가 신작 에세이 『깊이에 눈뜨는 시간』으로... Read more
View audiobookOnam in a Nightie
By: Anjana Menon
Narrated by: Mary Joseph
Length: 6 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
In India's tropical paradise, stands a town wrapped around a giant roundabout, where a canny caretaker with a French connection holds sway. Vying for his attention are two competing neighbours. Appu holds lessons for the living but Maya cares only for the dead. And a gastronome dog plays ball girl to tennis-loving nuns. At the centre is an... Read more
View audiobookBucket to Greece
By: V.D. Bucket
Narrated by: David Vickery
Length: 5 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No
The delightfully comic account of a British couple and their imported cats starting over in a new country continues in Bucket to Greece Volume 3. Victor and Marigold really feel the heat of May when the ever precarious water supply runs dry, and Victor suffers self-doubt over his burgeoning mastery of the Greek language. No longer cheffing at... Read more
View audiobookForest Walking
By: Peter Wohlleben & Jane Billinghurst
Narrated by: Sean Sonier
Length: 6 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
Awaken your senses and make the most out of your next walk in the woods—with Peter Wohlleben, New York Times-bestselling author of The Hidden Life of Trees.
“This book will fast-track you into the joys of spending time amongst the trees.”—Tristan Gooley, author of The Lost Art of Reading Nature’s Signs and How to Read Water
"You'll be changed... Read more
Truth's Table
By: Ekemini Uwan, Christina Edmondson & Michelle Hi...
Narrated by: Christina Edmondson, Michelle Higgins & Ekemini...
Length: 9 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
FINALIST FOR THE NAACP IMAGE AWARD • A collection of essays and stories documenting the lived theology and spirituality we need to hear in order to lean into a more freeing, loving, and liberating faith—from the hosts of the beloved Truth’s Table podcast
“The liberating work of Truth’s Table creates breathing room to finally have those... Read more
I'll Show Myself Out
By: Jessi Klein
Narrated by: Jessi Klein
Length: 6 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No
An instant New York Times bestseller, I'll Show Myself Out is the eagerly anticipated second essay collection from Jessi Klein, author of the acclaimed debut You’ll Grow Out of It.Longlisted for the PEN Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay “Sometimes I think about how much bad news there is to tell my kid, the endlessly long,... Read more
View audiobookStart Without Me
By: Gary Janetti
Narrated by: Gary Janetti
Length: 3 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: No
This program is read by the author.
From New York Times bestselling author, and Family Guy writer Gary Janetti comes Start Without Me, a collection of hilarious, laugh out loud, true life stories about the small moments that add up to a big life.
Gary Janetti is bothered. By a lot of things. And thank God he’s here to tell us.
In Start Without Me,... Read more
The Travellers Gazette BOX SET
By: Mr Punch
Narrated by: Eileen Atkins, Nigel Davenport, Alex Jennings, ...
Length: 4 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: No
We follow in the footsteps of the intrepid British traveller as they explore the world both At Home and Abroad, told entirely in the words of those who were there. In TWO volumes.TRAVEL at HOME Gazette: A fascinating ramble through the towns and villages of the British Isles during the last 400 years in the company of Jane Austen, William... Read more
View audiobookTravel Abroad Gazette
By: Mr Punch
Narrated by: Eileen Atkins, Nigel Davenport, Alex Jennings, ...
Length: 2 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
We follow in the footsteps of the intrepid British traveller as they explore the far-flung shores of the world. In the company of some of the world’s finest Chroniclers, we join Charles Darwin, Kenneth Williams, James Boswell, Freya Stark, Sir Ernest Shackleton, Fanny Trollope, Mungo Park, Nancy Mitford, Wilfred Thesiger, Horace Walpole, Evelyn... Read more
View audiobookTravel At Home Gazette
By: Mr Punch
Narrated by: Eileen Atkins, Nigel Davenport, Alex Jennings, ...
Length: 2 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
Join us on a fascinating ramble through the towns and villages of the British Isles during the last four hundred years in the company of some of its most illustrious chroniclers, including Jane Austen, William Cobbett, Daniel Defoe, Sir Walter Scott, Virginia Woolf, Francis Kilvert, Celia Fiennes, Chips Channon, Fanny Burney and many... Read more
View audiobookCricket Ka Commonwealth
By: Ramachandra Guha & Ketan Mishra
Narrated by: Kandarp Relhan
Length: 15 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
When Ramachandra Guha began following the game in the early 1960s, India was utterly marginal to the world of cricket: the country still hadn't won a Test match overseas; by the time he joined the Board of Control for Cricket in India, fifty years later, India had become world cricket's sole superpower.Cricket ka Commonwealth, the Hindi... Read more
View audiobook伤心的水
By: 尤今
Narrated by: 方馨
Length: 4 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: No
尤今惯常以如刃的目光读大地,以细腻的心思读生活,再以璀璨的笔杆,抒写缤纷的世界。 她说:"小时看漫画,常常看到牧牛的童子坐在牛背上吹笛子,因此把牛目为浪漫的象征;年龄稍长,读及牛的颂诗,又把牛当成是劳动的楷模。成长之后,背着行囊,足履四海,才发现牛和世间万物一样,没有一个固定不变的"模式"。 同样是云,却美丑不一。同样是河,却有悲有喜。同样是泥,却大好大坏。把囿限于模子之内的目光看世界,不但辜负了大地,也糟蹋了万物。" 《伤心的水》一书内收了一百篇袖珍小品,叙述了一百则喜怒哀乐的故事。人间有爱,万物有情,即使是一滴水珠、一片树叶,也有感觉,只要用心眼去体会,便能通过它们,听到一条河、一棵树的故事;而当小河汇人大海、小树扎根于大地时,我们便也同时能够听到惊涛拍岸的澎湃、听到根须入土... Read more
View audiobookLoving Edie
By: Meredith May
Narrated by: Candace Thaxton
Length: 8 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
From the author of The Honey Bus comes a wild and emotional memoir of family and self-discovery, featuring a lovable golden retriever named Edie
Meredith May had a difficult childhood, with a mother who was physically present but emotionally absent. She learned early on to fend for herself, and never had to care for anyone else. When she and her... Read more