Essays audiobooks

Gentle 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

Raven 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

깊이에 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

Onam 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

Forest 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

Start 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

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

Bucket 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

Travel 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

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

Travel 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

Cricket 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

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

Southbound

By: Anjali Enjeti

Narrated by: Anjali Enjeti

Length: 8 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

A move at age ten from a Detroit suburb to Chattanooga in 1984 thrusts Anjali Enjeti into what feels like a new world replete with Confederate flags, Bible verses, and whiteness. It is here that she learns how to get her bearings as a mixed-race brown girl in the Deep South and begins to understand how identity can inspire, inform, and shape a... Read more

Call Me Chef, Dammit!

By: Andre Rush

Narrated by: Chef Andre Rush

Length: 8 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Read by the author.What does it take to go from growing up in a Mississippi housing project to becoming a master sergeant and a celebrity chef serving in the White House under four United States presidents?Call Me Chef, Dammit! is the inspiring story of Andre Rush, who became an overnight sensation in 2018, after a photograph of his now-famous... Read more

Loving 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

Playing with Myself

By: Randy Rainbow

Narrated by: Randy Rainbow

Length: 7 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

This program is read by the author with a special appearance from his mom.

An intimate and light-hearted memoir by viral sensation and three-time Emmy-nominated musical comedian Randy Rainbow that takes readers through his life—the highs, the lows, the lipstick, the pink glasses, and the show tunes.

Randy Rainbow, the man who conquered the... Read more

Triage

By: Richard Russo

Narrated by: Richard Russo

Length: 50 minutes

Abridged: No

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Empire Falls

One of the most valuable spaces for an artist is the inner life—the sacred place where, outside of the constraints of time and space, meaning is extracted from raw experience and fashioned into art. In this timely new essay, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Richard Russo discusses the work... Read more

Some of My Best Friends

By: Tajja Isen

Narrated by: Tajja Isen

Length: 7 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

A fearless, “funny, poignant, and super-smart” (Ms. magazine) essay collection about race, justice, and the limits of good intentions.

In this “inspiring, determined work of personal narrative and cultural criticism” (Saeed Jones, author of How We Fight for Our Lives), essayist and award-winning voice actor Tajja Isen explores the absurdity of... Read more

Charithravarthanam

By: Romila Thapar

Narrated by: Anu Alphy Xavier

Length: 17 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

പാസ്റ്റ് അസ് പ്രസന്‍റെ ( The Past As Present ) എന്ന ഇംഗ്ലീഷ് പുസ്തകത്തിന്‍റെ മലയാള പരിഭാഷയാണ് ചരിത്രാവര്‍ത്തനം. സോയ് ജോസാണ് പുസ്തകത്തിന്‍റെ പരിഭാഷ നിര്‍വഹിച്ചത്. മതം, വർഗീയത, സ്വത്വബോധം, മതഗ്രന്ഥങ്ങൾ, സ്ത്രീ സമത്വവാദം, അക്കാദമികരംഗത്തെ വർഗീയവത്കരണം, ചരിത്രപഠനം എന്നിവയെക്കുറിച്ച് ഇന്ത്യയിലെ വിഖ്യാത ചരിത്രകാരിയായ റൊമില ഥാപ്പർ നടത്തിയ പഠനങ്ങൾ.... Read more

La conquista de América contada para escépticos

By: Juan Eslava Galán

Narrated by: Salvador Serrano

Length: 24 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Sobre la turbulenta relación entre España y América y sus orígenes se ha escrito mucho, pero hasta ahora no habíamos podido disfrutar de las palabras de Eslava Galán para contarnos esta historia recurrente, llena de contradicciones, alianzas, traiciones y desencuentros. Detrás de la historia que todos conocemos, están las vidas de los personajes... Read more

Love That Story

By: Jonathan Van Ness

Narrated by: Jonathan Van Ness

Length: 5 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

The Emmy-nominated host of Netflix’s Queer Eye follows up his New York Times-bestselling memoir, Over The Top, with this collection of thought-provoking essays on grief and healing, cannabis reform, LGBTQIA+ rights, imposter syndrome, personal style, the HIV safety net, and of, course, how to make your hairdresser love you.In his New York... Read more

Home Cooking

By: Laurie Colwin

Narrated by: Rebecca Lowman

Length: 5 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Weaving together memories, recipes, and wild tales of years spent in the kitchen, the acclaimed author of Happy All the Time delivers a beloved cookbook manifesto on the joys of sharing food and entertaining. • With a foreword by Ruth Reichl.

“As much memoir as cookbook and as much about eating as cooking.” —The New York Times Book Review

From the... Read more