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Author: Jo Brand
Format: Online
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: Michelle Obama
Format: Online
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: Es Bart Van
Format: Online
Author Es Bart Van
Narrator Es Bart Van
Duration 8h 49m
This is a necessary book - painful, harrowing, tragic, but also uplifting' The Times Little Lien wasn't taken from her Jewish parents - she was given away in the hope that she might be saved. Hidden and raised by a foster family in Amsterdam during the Nazi occupation, she survived the war only to find that her real parents had not. Much later, she...
View BookAuthor: Diarmaid Macculloch
Format: Online
Author Diarmaid Macculloch
Narrator David Rintoul
Duration 26h 38m
Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Thomas Cromwell by Diarmid MacCulloch, read by David Rintoul. Thomas Cromwell is one of the most famous - or notorious - figures in English history. Born in obscurity in Putney, he became a fixer for Cardinal Wolsey in the 1520s. After Wolsey's fall, Henry VIII promoted him to a series of ever greater offic...
View BookBeing Jazz: My Life As A (transgender) Teen
Author: Jazz Jennings
Format: Online
Author Jazz Jennings
Narrator Jazz Jennings
Duration 4h
Jazz Jennings is one of the youngest and most prominent voices in the national discussion about gender identity. At the age of five, Jazz transitioned to life as a girl, with the support of her parents. A year later, her parents allowed her to share her incredible journey in her first Barbara Walters interview, aired at a time when the public was m...
View BookAuthor: Ron Stallworth
Format: Online
Author Ron Stallworth
Narrator The Author
Duration 5h 50m
What happens when a black detective goes undercover in the KKK? An extraordinary true story. In 1978, Ron Stallworth is the first black detective in the history of the Colorado Springs Police Department. In the local paper, he finds a classified ad for the Ku Klux Klan - and a P.O. box for interested enquiries. All he's expecting are some racist br...
View BookIn Extremis: The Life of War Correspondent Marie Colvin
Author: Lindsey Hilsum
Format: Online
Author Lindsey Hilsum
Narrator Lindsey Hilsum
Duration 13h 25m
Marie Colvin was glamorous, hard-drinking, braver than the boys, with a troubled and rackety personal life. With fierce compassion and honesty, she reported from the most dangerous places in the world, fractured by conflict and genocide, going in further and staying longer than anyone else. In Sri Lanka in 2001, Marie was hit by a grenade and lost...
View BookRise Up: The #merky Story So Far
Author: Stormzy
Format: Online
Author Stormzy
Narrator Various
Duration 4h 52m
In three years Stormzy has risen from one of the most promising musicians of his generation to a spokesperson for a generation. Rise Up is the story of how he got there. It's a story about faith and the ideas worth fighting for. It's about knowing where you're from, and where you're going. It's about following your dreams without compromising who y...
View BookSurprisingly Down To Earth, and Very Funny: My Autobiography
Author: Brian Limond
Format: Online
Author Brian Limond
Narrator Brian Limond
Duration 8h 7m
Hello! I'm Brian Limond, aka Limmy. You might know me from Limmy's Show. Or you might not know me at all. Don't worry if you don't. They asked me to write a book about mental health, because I sometimes talk about my mental health in tweets and interviews, like suicidal thoughts and anxiety, and what I've done to try to deal with it. I said to them...
View BookAuthor: Aeham Ahmad
Format: Online
Author Aeham Ahmad
Narrator Nezar Alderazi
Duration 10h 34m
Penguin presents the audiobook edition of The Pianist of Yarmouk by Aeham Ahmad, read by Nezar Alderazi. One morning on the outskirts of Damascus, two starving friends were walking through their war-ravaged city. They entered a once familiar street that had now been turned to rubble - concrete bridges towered over them like tombs and houses were tu...
View BookAuthor: Richard Shepherd
Format: Online
Author Richard Shepherd
Narrator Richard Shepherd
Duration 11h 53m
Meet the forensic pathologist, Dr Richard Shepherd. He solves the mysteries of unexplained or sudden death. He's a detective in his own right. And he has one, ultimate and pressing question to answer: How did this person die? Unnatural Causes is an unputdownable record of an extraordinary life, a unique insight into a remarkable profession, and abo...
View BookSuch Sweet Possession: The Lives and Loves of Anne Lister
Author: Mary Cooper
Format: Online
Author Mary Cooper
Narrator Various
Duration 2h 19m
Meet Anne Lister, the 18th Century landowner, industrialist, explorer, lesbian and feminist icon. This is her story... Anne was different from society's expectations of a woman at the time: she not only did not wish to marry, but she also did not want to conform. Anne was only interested in women and had 'marriage' ceremonies with Mariana Lawton a...
View BookAuthor: Philip Pullman
Format: Online
Author Philip Pullman
Narrator Simon Mason
Duration 13h 8m
Penguin Presents the audio edition of Daemon Voices, written and read by Philip Pullman with an introduction by Simon Mason. In over 30 essays, written over 20 years and recorded by the author himself in his home city of Oxford, one of the world's great story-tellers meditates on the art of story-telling. Warm, engaging and often amusing collection...
View BookAuthor: Cathy Glass
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Author Cathy Glass
Narrator Denica Fairman
Duration 8h 58m
When Stevie's social worker tells Cathy, an experienced foster carer, that Stevie, 14, is gender fluid she isn't sure what that term means and looks it up. Stevie, together with his younger brother and sister, have been brought up by their grandparents as their mother is in prison. But the grandparents can no longer cope with Stevie's behaviour so...
View BookFirst Man In: Leading From the Front
Author: Ant Middleton
Format: Online
Author Ant Middleton
Narrator Ant Middleton
Duration 7h
Special forces training is no walk in the park. The rules are strict and they make sure you learn the hard way, pushing you beyond the limits of what is physically possible. There is no mercy. Even when you are bleeding and broken, to admit defeat is failure. After 13 years service in the military, with 4 years as a Special Boat Service (SBS) snipe...
View BookAuthor: Cathy Rentzenbrink
Format: Online
Author Cathy Rentzenbrink
Narrator Jenny Funnell
Duration 6h 34m
In the summer of 1990, Cathy's brother Matty was knocked down by a car on the way home from a night out, two weeks before receiving his GCSE results. Sitting by his unconscious body in hospital, holding his hand and watching his heartbeat on the monitors, Cathy and her parents willed him to survive. They did not know then that there are many fates...
View BookAuthor: Marian Keyes
Format: Online
Author Marian Keyes
Narrator Aoife Mcmahon
Duration 12h 49m
You'll be wincing in recognition and scratching your head in incredulity, but like Marian herself you won't be able to stop laughing at the sheer delightful absurdity that is modern life - because each and every one of us is clearly making it up as we go along. She has wonderful and tickling words of advice for those fast approaching fifty.
View BookAuthor: Clare Mackintosh
Format: Online
Author Clare Mackintosh
Narrator Clare Mackintosh
Duration 7h 43m
For eight years, Clare Mackintosh wrote for Cotswold Life about the ups and downs of life with a young family in the countryside. In this memoir she brings together all of those stories - and more - for the first time. From keeping chickens to getting the WI drunk, longing for an Aga to dealing with nits, Clare opens the door to family life with wa...
View BookAuthor: Elizabeth Day
Format: Online
Author Elizabeth Day
Narrator Elizabeth Day
Duration 9h 42m
Inspired by her hugely popular podcast, How To Fail, is Elizabeth Day's brilliantly funny, painfully honest and insightful celebration of things going wrong. This is an audiobook for anyone who has ever failed. Which means it's an audiobook for everyone. If I have learned one thing from this shockingly beautiful venture called life, it is this: fai...
View BookAuthor: James Herriot
Format: Online
Author James Herriot
Narrator Christopher Timothy
Duration 11h 11m
Every Little Thing: The Warm and Joyful Memoirs of the World's Most Belvoed Animal Doctor provide a perfect opportunity for existing fans of Herriot's work to reacquaint themselves with his writing, and for those who've never read him to hear what generations of animal lovers have already discovered: James Herriot is that rarest of creatures, a gen...
View BookAuthor: James Herriot
Format: Online
Author James Herriot
Narrator Christopher Timothy
Duration 11h 30m
After serving in the Royal Air Force in World War II, James Herriot gladly returns home to Yorkshire to his beloved family and multitude of patients, with many more tender, funny, sad and wise stories to tell us. Touching our hearts with laughter and wisdom, lifting our spirits with compassion and goodness, James Herriot never fails to delight.
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