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Astrophysics For People In A Hurry
Author: Neil DeGrasse Tyson
Author Neil DeGrasse Tyson
Narrator Neil DeGrasse Tyson
Duration 3h 41m
What is the nature of space and time? How do we fit within the universe? How does the universe fit within us? There's no better guide through these mindexpanding questions than acclaimed astrophysicist and bestselling author Neil deGrasse Tyson. But today, few of us have time to contemplate the cosmos. So Tyson brings the universe down to Earth suc...
View BookAuthor: David Sheff
Author David Sheff
Narrator Anthony Heald
Duration 11h 28m
What had happened to my beautiful boy? To our family? What did I do wrong? Those are the wrenching questions that haunted every moment of David Sheff's journey through his son's drug addiction. David's story is a first: a teenager's addiction from the parent's point of view-a real-time chronicle of the shocking descent into substance abuse and the...
View BookAuthor: Tom Gregory
Author Tom Gregory
Narrator Tom Gregory
Duration 4h 31m
Penguin presents the audiobook edition of A Boy in the Water written and read by Tom Gregory. Eltham, South London. 1984: the hot fug of the swimming pool and the slow splashing of a boy learning to swim but not yet wanting to take his foot off the bottom. Fast-forward four years. Photographers and family wait on the shingle beach as a boy in a bri...
View BookChurchill: Walking With Destiny
Author: Andrew Roberts
Author Andrew Roberts
Narrator Stephen Thorne
Duration 50h 56m
Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Churchill by Andrew Roberts, read by Stephen Thorne. Winston Churchill towers over every other figure in twentieth-century British history. By the time of his death at the age of 90 in 1965, many thought him to be the greatest man in the world. There have been over a thousand previous biographies of Churchi...
View BookAuthor: Michael Katakis
Author Michael Katakis
Narrator Michael Katakis
Duration 3h 25m
Once upon a time, Michael Katakis lived in a place of big dreams, bright colours and sleight of hand. That place was America. One night, travelling where those who live within illusions should never go, he stared into the darkness and glimpsed a faded flag where shadows gathered, revealing another America. It was a broken place, bred from fear and...
View BookAuthor: Agatha Christie
Author Agatha Christie
Narrator Richard E. Grant
Duration 8h 13m
"Anyone who murdered Colonel Protheroe," declared the parson, brandishing a carving knife above a joint of roast beef, "would be doing the world at large a service!" It was a careless remark for a man of the cloth. And one which was to come back and haunt the clergyman just a few hours later. From seven potential murderers, Miss Marple must seek ou...
View BookBrief Answers To the Big Questions
Author: Stephen Hawking
Author Stephen Hawking
Narrator Ben Whishaw
Duration 4h 52m
The world-famous cosmologist leaves us with his final thoughts on the universe's biggest questions in this brilliant posthumous work. Throughout his extraordinary career, Stephen Hawking expanded our understanding of the universe and unravelled some of its greatest mysteries. But even as his theoretical work on black holes, imaginary time and multi...
View BookAuthor: Jo Brand
Author Jo Brand
Narrator Jo Brand
Duration 7h 10m
When Jo Brand hosted Have I Got News For You late last year, her calm explanation of the effects of sexism on women to a bemused all-male cast turned into a viral phenomenon. There has been a whole tradition of books over hundreds of years where a father shares his wisdom with his son - started by Lord Chesterfield in the 18th century - while women...
View BookAuthor: Dan Snow
Author Dan Snow
Narrator Dan Snow
Duration 12h 8m
In On This Day in History, Dan Snow, Britain's favourite historian, tells the story of an important event that happened on each day of the year. From the signing of the Armistice treaty at 11 a.m. on the 11th day of the 11th month in 1918 to Rosa Parks refusing to give up her bus seat on 1 December 1955, our past is full of all kinds of fascinating...
View BookThe Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare
Author: Giles Milton
Author Giles Milton
Narrator Jonathan Keeble
Duration 12h 19m
Shortly after the outbreak of the WW2, a country house called The Firs in Buckinghamshire was requisitioned by the War Office. Sentries were posted at the entrance gates, and barbed wire was strung around the perimeter fence. To local villagers it looked like a prison camp. But the truth was far more sinister. This rambling Edwardian mansion had be...
View BookAuthor: Lucy Worsley
Author Lucy Worsley
Narrator Lucy Paterson
Duration 13h 49m
Best-selling author and historian Lucy Worsley tracks a new course through Queen Victoria's life, examining how she transformed from dancing princess to the Widow of Windsor and became one of Britain's greatest monarchs along the way. Taking 24 significant days from Victoria's life, from her birth, her wedding and her coronation to her husband's de...
View BookAuthor: Tom Shore
Author Tom Shore
Narrator Luke De Lacey
Duration 11h 43m
This is one of the great untold stories of the 20th century. It is a firsthand account of a mission by an SAS soldier sent behind the Iron Curtain by MI6 to find someone who didn't necessarily want to be found and how, on a follow-up mission, he found himself manoeuvring against a mysterious KGB officer and a murder plot by Kremlin hardliners. If t...
View BookAuthor: Neal Bascomb
Author Neal Bascomb
Narrator Peter Noble
Duration 10h 2m
When captured Royal Flying Corps pilots Captain David Gray, Captain Caspar Kennard and 2nd Lieutenant Cecil Blain had arrived at Holzminden - or 'Hellminden' as its occupants called it - the Germans' highest-security prison complex had seemed impregnable. 'The Black Hole' was ruled by the iron fist of Camp Commandant Carl Niemayer, under whose brut...
View BookAuthor: Michelle Obama
Author Michelle Obama
Narrator Michelle Obama
Duration 19h 3m
Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Becoming by Michelle Obama. An intimate, powerful, and inspiring memoir by the former First Lady of the United States 'A genuine page-turner, full of intimacies and reflections' Evening Standard 'A polished pearl of a memoir' New York Times 'A rich, entertaining and candid memoir. And overall Obama's a fun...
View BookAuthor: Matthew Walker
Author Matthew Walker
Narrator John Sackville
Duration 13h 40m
Sleep is one of the most important aspects of our life, health and longevity and yet it is increasingly neglected in twenty-first-century society, with devastating consequences: every major disease in the developed world - Alzheimer's, cancer, obesity, diabetes - has very strong causal links to deficient sleep. Until very recently, science had no a...
View BookAuthor: Stephen Hawking
Author Stephen Hawking
Narrator Michael Jackson
Duration 5h 47m
"Lively and provocative... Mr. Hawking clearly possesses a natural teacher's gifts-easy, good-natured humor and an ability to illustrate highly complex proposition with analogies plucked from daily life." -The New York Times "Charming and Lucid...( A book of) sunny brilliance". - The New Yorker "This book marries a child's wonder to a genius...
View Book21 Lessons For the 21st Century
Author: Yuval Noah Harari
Author Yuval Noah Harari
Narrator Derek Perkins
Duration 11h 47m
How can we protect ourselves from nuclear war, ecological cataclysms and technological disruptions? What can we do about the epidemic of fake news or the threat of terrorism? What should we teach our children? Yuval Noah Harari takes us on a thrilling journey through today's most urgent issues. The golden thread running through his exhilarating new...
View BookAuthor: Robert T. Kiyosaki
Author Robert T. Kiyosaki
Narrator Maksim Kiryaev
Duration 9h 43m
Anniversary edition of the financial bestseller of all time! Rich Dad, Poor Dad was published 20 years ago for the first time and at once achieved wide readership. By the anniversary of the financial bestseller, Robert Kiyosaki has prepared the new edition with updates for the present-day world and today's market conditions including nine additiona...
View BookAuthor: Rhonda Byrne
Author Rhonda Byrne
Narrator Rhonda Byrne
Duration 4h 26m
YOU HOLD IN YOUR HANDS A GREAT SECRET. It has been passed down through the ages, highly coveted, hidden, lost, stolen, and bought for vast sums of money. Fragments of this Great Secret have been found in the oral traditions, in literature, in religions and philosophies throughout the centuries. It has been understood by some of the most prominent p...
View BookAuthor: Audio Improvement
Author Audio Improvement
Narrator Improvement Audio
Duration 55m
Learn how you can apply the main lessons & principles from The One Thing in a quick, easy listen! What is the ONE thing that is most imperative for your success? What is the ONE thing keeping you from reaching your life? In a world where more is better, we are drowning in choices. We are taught from the time we are little that it is okay to multita...
View BookAuthor: Brene Brown
Author Brene Brown
Narrator Brene Brown
Duration 8h 10m
Leadership is not about titles, status and power over people. Leaders are people who hold themselves accountable for recognising the potential in people and ideas, and developing that potential. This is a book for everyone who is ready to choose courage over comfort, make a difference and lead. When we dare to lead, we don't pretend to have the rig...
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