Essays audiobooks

El pueblo soy yo

By: Enrique Krauze

Narrated by: Miguel Ángel Álvarez

Length: 10 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Un manifiesto a favor de la libertad y la palabra. La democracia es frágil, mortal. Hace más de 2 mil años fue pervertida por los demagogos de Atenas. Y, hace un año en Estados Unidos, fue vulnerada por el carisma incendiario de Donald Trump. Su debilidad también es harto conocida en Latinoamérica: las dictaduras de izquierda y de derecha... Read more

El poder vacío

By: Lorenzo Meyer

Narrated by: Beto Moreno

Length: 6 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

«Tras el agotamiento del priismo, México está embarcado en una gran aventura: escribir un nuevo capítulo de su historia.» El poder vacío no escatima ideas para exprimir (en el sentido barroco de «explicar») la naturaleza de la política, su crítica y la estructura social en nuestro país, lo que constituye el bagaje para analizar, por momentos... Read more

Perros e hijos de perra

By: Arturo Pérez-Reverte

Narrated by: Javier Portugués (Portu)

Length: 1 hour 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Las mejores historias de perros y hombres. «He tenido cinco perros. No hay compañía más silenciosa y grata. No hay lealtad tan conmovedora como la de sus ojos atentos, sus lengüetazos y su trufa próxima y húmeda. Nada tan asombroso como la extrema perspicacia de un perro inteligente. No existe mejor alivio para la melancolía y la soledad que su... Read more

All American Christmas

By: Rachel Campos-Duffy & Sean Duffy

Narrated by: Rachel Campos-Duffy, Sean Duffy, Dana Perino, J...

Length: 6 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

A #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!Pull up a chair, pour some eggnog, and enjoy the Christmas spirit with friends… From the wind-swept, snowy ranges of Wyoming to Florida beaches glowing with Christmas lights, All American Christmas traces holiday traditions across the United States. In this beautiful personal keepsake, Rachel Campos-Duffy and Sean... Read more

Black British Lives Matter

By: Lenny Henry & Marcus Ryder

Narrated by: Alexandra Wilson, Ben Onwukwe, David Adjaye, Da...

Length: 10 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Featuring essays from David Olusoga, Dawn Butler MP, Kit de Waal, Kwame Kwei-Armah, and many more. In response to the international outcry at George Floyd's death, Lenny Henry and Marcus Ryder have commissioned this collection of essays to discuss how and why we need to fight for Black lives to matter - not just for Black people but for society... Read more

Manual de vida

By: Epicteto

Narrated by: Miguel Ángel Jenner

Length: 2 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Conocer lo que puedes controlar y lo que no, intentar llevar una vida plena, definir la persona que queremos ser... Cualquiera que se acerque a los textos recogidos en esta obra descubrirá que la contemplación del mundo implica un conocimiento activo —los ejemplos de Epicteto están extraídos de la vida cotidiana— y que contemplar es, en un... Read more

Where the Trout Are All as Long as Your Leg

By: John Gierach

Narrated by: David Colacci

Length: 1 hour 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Brilliant, witty, perceptive essays about fly-fishing, the natural world, and life in general by the acknowledged master of fishing writers.



Fly-fishing's finest scribe, John Gierach, takes us from a nameless stream on a nameless ranch in Montana to a secret pool off a secret creek where he caught a catfish as a five-year-old, to a brook full of... Read more

Eloquence of the Sardine

By: Antony Shugaar & Bill François

Narrated by: Graham Halstead

Length: 5 hours

Abridged: No

If we listen to the ocean, what do we hear? What can it teach us? How can it change us?Written by a marine scientist (and winner of French eloquence competitions), this work of narrative nonfiction blends Bill François’s personal story with that of sea creatures to create an original and exciting work. In poetic prose, he describes his unlikely... Read more

Pup Culture

By: Victoria Lily Shaffer

Narrated by: Victoria Lily Shaffer

Length: 4 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

INCLUDES A FOREWORD READ BY PAUL SHAFFER!

Prepare yourself for every step of the dog adoption process and make your new best friend’s life the happiest and healthiest it can be with these fostering and adoption tips and tales from dog-loving expert Victoria Schaffer.

Adopting a dog and making them the newest member of your family can sometimes... Read more

A Short History of Spaghetti with Tomato Sauce

By: Massimo Montanari

Narrated by: Noah Michael Levine

Length: 1 hour 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Intellectually engaging and deliciously readable, a stereotype-defying history of how one of the most recognisable symbols of Italian cuisine and national identity is the product of centuries of encounters, dialogue, and exchange. Is it possible to identify a starting point in history from which everything else unfolds—a single moment that can... Read more

Stealing Baby Jesus

By: Bernadette Nason

Narrated by: Bernadette Nason

Length: 6 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Inspired by her mother's attempts to create joyful traditions in tough times, and by Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, Bernadette Nason has been forever striving to find the perfect Christmas, even though childhood memories haunt her. When she reads that her hometown of Winchester, UK, is vying for the coveted title of "the Most Christmassy... Read more

Diddly Squat

By: Jeremy Clarkson

Narrated by: Jeremy Clarkson

Length: 2 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Brought to you by Penguin.

Welcome to Jeremy's farm. It's an idyllic spot, offering picturesque views across the Cotswolds, bustling hedgerows, woodlands and natural springs. Jeremy always liked the idea being a farmer. But, while he was barrelling around the world having more fun with cars than was entirely reasonable, it seemed obvious that the... Read more

Tu mundo y el mío

By: John Green

Narrated by: Raúl Arrieta

Length: 9 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Una ingeniosa, emocionante y personal colección de textos del aclamado autor de Bajo la misma estrella y Buscando a Alaska. El Antropoceno es la era geológica actual, una época caracterizada por el profundo impacto que el ser humano está teniendo sobre el planeta. Con su especial sensibilidad para lo extraño, lo importante y lo sorprendente,... Read more

Hot Mess

By: Matt Winning

Narrated by: Matt Winning

Length: 8 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

What is climate change, who's to blame, and what the f**k can we do about it? Award-winning comedian and climate change researcher Dr Matt Winning explains all.

For fans of Randall Munro's WHAT IF? Matt Parker's HUMBLE PI and anyone looking for practical tips on how to stop the end of the world!

Dr Matt Winning is a stand-up comedian and... Read more

A Political Philosophy

By: Roger Scruton

Narrated by: Kris Dyer

Length: 9 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Bloomsbury presents A Political Philosophy by Roger Scruton, read by Kris Dyer.

In this timely new edition of his classic book A Political Philosophy, celebrated conservative philosopher Roger Scruton interrogates contemporary values, virtues and morality.

What principles should govern our relations to animals, the nation state, the environment... Read more

Woodrow on the Bench

By: Jenna Blum

Narrated by: Ann Marie Gideon

Length: 5 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

“When I say Jenna Blum’s upcoming Woodrow on the Bench wrecked me and that I’m now sobbing eating all the chocolate, I mean it in the best way possible.”—Jodi Picoult ""Jenna Blum's wonderful moving memoir, is a “girl and her dog” story for the ages!”—Garth Stein, author of The Art of Racing in the RainThe New York Times and internationally... Read more

Please Scream Inside Your Heart

By: Dave Pell

Narrated by: John Parsons, Peter Coyote, L. J. Ganser & Dave...

Length: 13 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

From the publisher of the NextDraft newsletter comes a cathartic and humorous ride through the unnerving, maddening hellscape of the 2020 press cycle, reestablishing the line between "real" news and real life.Please lower your shoulder restraint and keep your hands and feet in. You’re about to board a roller coaster ride through a year that was... Read more

Desde la ciudad nerviosa

By: Enrique Vila-Matas

Narrated by: Víctor Velasco

Length: 6 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Un libro muy particular sobre Barcelona, compuesto de una selección de artículos periodísticos que nos brinda una visión caleidoscópica del mundo de Enrique Vila-Matas, mezcla de paradoja e ironía, literatura y vida. La primera de las cuatro partes que componen este libro puede leerse como una recopilación de cuentos y va seguida de... Read more

Tacky

By: Rax King

Narrated by: Rax King

Length: 7 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

An irreverent and charming collection of deeply personal essays about the joys of low pop culture and bad taste, exploring coming of age in the 2000s in the age of Hot Topic, Creed, and frosted lip gloss—from the James Beard Award-nominated writer of the Catapult column "Store-Bought Is Fine”

Tacky is about the power of pop... Read more

The Science of Health

By: Scientific American

Narrated by: Suzie Althens

Length: 4 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

This audiobook contains a collection of columns written by Claudia Wallis, an award-winning science journalist whose work has appeared in the New York Times, Time, Fortune, and the New Republic. Claudia was the science editor at Time and the former managing editor of Scientific American Mind.Together, these stories will demystify recent medical... Read more

A Farewell to Calm

By: John Crace

Narrated by: George Weightman

Length: 6 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

**JOHN CRACE'S NEW BOOK DEPRAVED NEW WORLD IS AVAILABLE NOW** Infectiously entertaining political satire, from the author of Decline and Fail and I, Maybot. Throughout another year of bluster and bedlam in Westminster, John Crace's brilliantly acerbic political sketches have once more provided the nation with a much-needed injection of... Read more

Letters of Note: Dogs

By: author

Narrated by: Louise Brealey, Simon Callow, Crystal Clarke, S...

Length: 2 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

An irresistible new volume of affectionate missives about our man's best friend from the author of the bestselling Letters of Note collections.

In Letters of Note: Dogs, Shaun Usher brings together a delightful collection of correspondence about our canine friends, featuring affectionate accounts of pups' playful misdemeanours, heartfelt tributes... Read more

Juden auf Wanderschaft

By: Joseph Roth

Narrated by: Norbert Wendel

Length: 2 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

In seinem Essay aus dem Jahr 1927 beschreibt Joseph Roth die Lebensumstände und die Notlage der Juden Osteuropas in der Mitte der 1920er Jahre, die in der Folge des Ersten Weltkrieges, der russischen Revolution und der Neuziehung der Staatsgrenzen nach dem Versailler Vertrag aus dem Baltikum, Polen und Russland vermehrt in den Westen... Read more

Secrets of a Champion Student-Athlete

By: Obadele Thompson

Narrated by: Jeremy Gee

Length: 4 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

DO YOU REALLY KNOW WHAT SEPARATES CHAMPIONS FROM OTHERS?

"This book is a treasure for all student-athletes. Obadele shares his wisdom on how to achieve excellence on and off the field."

- Mike "Coach K" Krzyzewski, Hall of Fame NCAA Champion Coach, Duke University

Learn from Olympic medalist, NCAA champion, Academic All-American, and attorney... Read more