Essays audiobooks

Seelensegeln

By: Désirée Meier

Narrated by: Elias Meier & Christine Dietrich

Length: 9 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Désirée und Elias kündigen ihre gut bezahlten, sicheren Jobs und entscheiden sich für ein alternatives Leben außerhalb der durchorganisierten Zivilisation. Eine Segelyacht ist ab sofort ihr Zuhause. Als blutige Anfänger wagen sie sich ins Abenteuer "Meer". Schnell stellen sie fest, dass intensive, existentielle Naturerfahrungen und zutiefst... Read more

El río sin orillas

By: Juan José Saer

Narrated by: Gustavo Bonfigli

Length: 10 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

La escritura de Juan José Saer ha sido reconocida por la crítica especializada como una de las más valiosas y renovadoras en el ámbito de la lengua española contemporánea. Para Saer, narrar, antes que nada, es delimitar un espacio y una voz. Con este libro vuelve al lugar donde sitúa su mundo narrativo: el litoral. En El río sin orillas, la... Read more

Happy to Be Here

By: Elizabeth Berg

Narrated by: Elizabeth Berg

Length: 4 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

"Happy to be Here" is Berg's third collection of Facebook posts. Her first, "Make Someone Happy," was written in response to her many fans' requests that she put her posts together in a book that they could take on the plane, to the beach, or give to others. The book did indeed make people happy and so she followed up with a second book, "Still... Read more

Tatalog

By: Harish Bhatt

Narrated by: Arish Bhiwandiwala

Length: 5 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Tatalog presents eight riveting and hitherto untold stories about the strategic and operational challenges that TATA companies have faced over the past two decades and the forward thinking and determination that have raised the brand to new heights. From Tata Indica, the first completely Indian car; to the jewellery brand Tanishq; and... Read more

Dreamers: How Young Indians are Changing their world

By: Snigdha Poonam

Narrated by: Richa Syal

Length: 8 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

*SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2018 CROSSWORD JURY AWARD FOR NON FICTION*

More than half of India is under the age of twenty-five and the country is set to have the youngest population in the world by 2021. But India's millennials are nothing like their counterparts in the West.

In a world that's marked by unprecedented connectivity and... Read more

Eleven Ways to Love Part 11: The Smartphone Freed Me

By: Nadika Nadja

Narrated by: Swasti Shree Sharma

Length: 53 minutes

Abridged: No

People have been telling their love stories for thousands of years. It is the greatest common human experience. And yet, love stories coach us to believe that love is selective, somehow, that it can be boxed in and easily defined. This is a collection of eleven remarkable essays that widen the frame of reference: transgender romance; body image... Read more

Equipaje de mano: Crónicas de viaje

By: Juan Pablo Meneses

Narrated by: Alex Ortega

Length: 5 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Un viaje por los Estados Unidos buscando un pueblo cercano a Tampa donde se reúnen muchos de los hombres más raros de Norteamérica, freaks que trabajan en circos divirtiendo al público con sus deformidades; un recorrido por España en busca de Aguaviva, un pueblo español que ha sido repoblado con argentinos cesantes; un vuelo a Iquitos, en la... Read more

Slowly Down the Ganges

By: Eric Newby

Narrated by: James Bryce

Length: 14 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

‘Slowly Down the Ganges’ is seen as a vintage Newby masterpiece, alongside ‘A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush’ and ‘Love and War in the Apennines’. Told with Newby's self-deprecating humour and wry attention to detail, this is a classic of the genre and a window into an enchanting piece of history. On his forty-forth birthday,... Read more

A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush

By: Eric Newby

Narrated by: James Bryce

Length: 10 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

A classic of travel writing, ‘A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush’ is Eric Newby’s iconic account of his journey through one of the most remote and beautiful wildernesses on earth. It was 1956, and Eric Newby was earning an improbable living in the chaotic family business of London haute couture. Pining for adventure, Newby sent... Read more

NoirEs sous surveillance

By: Robyn Maynard

Narrated by: Mireille Métellus

Length: 14 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Prix des Libraires du Québec 2019 | Essai La vérité a souvent un goût amer. Nous ne savons comment accepter nos histoires. Faut-il s’en tenir aux faits et dire la vérité ? Cet ouvrage monumental si richement documenté est précieux, il nous tire de l’oubli et du silence. Que savons-nous de l’esclavage au Canada ? Que savons-nous de la répression... Read more

The Book of Eating

By: Adam Platt

Narrated by: Adam Platt

Length: 8 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

A wildly hilarious and irreverent memoir of a globe-trotting life lived meal-to-meal by one of our most influential and respected food critics.As the son of a diplomat growing up in places like Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Japan, Adam Platt didn’t have the chance to become a picky eater. Living, traveling, and eating in some of the most far-flung... Read more

Essays One

By: Lydia Davis

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

A selection of essays on writing and reading by the master short-fiction writer Lydia Davis.

Lydia Davis is a writer whose originality, influence, and wit are beyond compare. Jonathan Franzen has called her “a magician of self-consciousness,” while Rick Moody hails her as "the best prose stylist in America." And for Claire Messud, “Davis's signal... Read more

Kölner Sagen und Legenden

By: Kristina Hammann

Narrated by: Michael Nowack

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Ach war das ein Leben in Köln! Des Abends bettete man sich zur Ruh und wenn man sich am nächsten Tage erhob, fand man alles aufs Vortrefflichste gerichtet. So ein schönes Leben hatten die Kölner früher also, als es die wundersamen Heinzelmännchen noch gab und diese kleinen Wesen den Kölnern ihre harte tagtägliche Arbeit abnahmen. Warum dies... Read more

La aventura de los romanos en Hispania

By: Juan Antonio Cebrián

Narrated by: Por confirmar

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Año 218 a.C., dos legiones romanas bajo el mando de Cneo Escipión desembarcan por sorpresa en la península Ibérica. Tienen como objetivo cortar las vías de suministro de los cartagineses, una estrategia más en el trascurso de la Segunda Guerra Púnica. Será el primer movimiento de un largo proceso que culminará con la invasión y colonización de... Read more

Stealing Home

By: Ron Seybold

Narrated by: Ron Seybold

Length: 7 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

"Tenderly poignant, wise and affecting." KirkusIn an epic road trip with his Little League son, a divorced dad's eight-ballpark journey tries to rescue his fatherhood--and learn how his dad's suicide might not doom him to repeat a father's mistakes. The rarest outcome in sports is baseball's perfect game. One team does everything right, forcing... Read more

Around the World in 60 Seconds

By: Nuseir Yassin

Narrated by: Nuseir Yassin

Length: 7 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

60 seconds. That’s how long it takes to dispel stereotypes in Mexico. Throw a house party for strangers in Israel. Change perspectives in Nebraska. Make friends in Japan. And connect millions of people all over the world.In 2016, Nuseir Yassin quit his job to travel for 1,000 consecutive days. But instead of the usual tourist traps, Nas set out... Read more

Nash

By: Nash Grier

Narrated by: Emily Tremaine

Length: 6 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

The first-ever book about Nash Grier, one of the biggest digital superstars in the world.

When he was still in high school, Nash Grier had no idea his life was about to change—forever. With the launch of the popular Vine app came the beginning of Nash’s career as a viral social media sensation. Now, in his official biography, the... Read more

Algren at Sea, Centennial Edition, 1909–2009

By: Nelson Algren

Narrated by: Richard Poe

Length: 17 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Nelson Algren’s two travel writing books describe his journeys through the seamier sides of great American cities and the international social and political landscapes of the mid-1960s. Algren at Sea brings them together in one volume.Notes from a Sea Diary offers one of the most remarkable appraisals of Ernest Hemingway ever written. Aboard the... Read more

The Adventures of a Curious Cat

By: Curious Zelda

Narrated by: Georgia Maguire

Length: 3 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

'Curiosity is more than a desire to discover. It's a lifestyle, and a purrvilege. It's hours of observing a fly on the wall. It's entering the sock drawer just before it closes. It's sniffing the lampshade one more time . . .'

Such is the wisdom of Curious Zelda: social media star, agony aunt, yoga teacher, cat. In The Adventures of a Curious Cat... Read more

The Shitshow

By: Steve Lowe & Alan McArthur

Narrated by: Miles Jupp

Length: 5 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

It was shit. Then the shit hit the fan. Would someone find a way of making it worse? Of course they would! Welcome to THE SHITSHOW...'

There's a lot going on these days. Trump, Brexit, Call the Midwife . . . The rise of the robots . . . The rise of Easy Peelers . . .

The authors of the bestselling Is It Just Me Or Is Everything Shit? series... Read more

99 Bottles

By: André Hueston Mack

Narrated by: André Hueston Mack

Length: 6 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

A highly opinionated wine guide from one of the country’s most celebrated — and unorthodox — sommeliers and winemakers In this entertaining, informative, and thoroughly unconventional wine guide, award-winning sommelier, winemaker, and wine educator André Mack presents listeners with the 99 bottles that have most impacted his life. Instead of... Read more

Miracle on 10th Street

By: Madeleine L'Engle

Narrated by: Pamela Almand

Length: 4 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

The bestselling author of A Wrinkle in Time reflects on themes such as advent, epiphany, faith, and wonder in this Christmas holiday classic.For more than fifty years, Madeleine L'Engle has delighted and inspired readers with her warm, eloquent prose and inspirational poetry. She continues this tradition with Miracle on 10th Street, a collection... Read more

Malaya

By: Cinelle Barnes

Narrated by: Cinelle Barnes

Length: 7 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

From Cinelle Barnes, author of the memoir Monsoon Mansion, comes a moving and reflective essay collection about finding freedom in America.Out of a harrowing childhood in the Philippines, Cinelle Barnes emerged triumphant. But as an undocumented teenager living in New York, her journey of self-discovery was just beginning.Because she couldn’t... Read more

Great Australian Sporting Stories

By: Ian Heads & Norman Tasker

Narrated by: Chris Chapple

Length: 10 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

'Heads and Tasker, legends themselves, set out to write a book that would continue the trail laid by early-days sporting scribes of long ago. I could not put it down.' John Coates AC, President of the Australian Olympic Committee

'I know readers will enjoy the many stories and anecdotes that Heads and Tasker have accumulated over more than a... Read more