Author: David Graeber
Author David Graeber
Narrator Christopher Ragland
Duration 12h 38m
Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Bullshit Jobs by David Graeber, read by Christopher Ragland. Be honest: if your job didn't exist, would anybody miss it? Have you ever wondered why not? Up to 40% of us secretly believe our jobs probably aren't necessary. In other words: they are bullshit jobs. This book shows why, and what we can do about...
View BookAuthor: Howard Linskey
Author Howard Linskey
Narrator Kieran Bew
Duration 10h 28m
Penguin presents the audiobook edition of The Chosen Ones by Howard Linskey, read by Kieran Bew. Eva Dunbar wakes in a large metal box. She has no idea who has taken her. She has no way out... Eva isn't the first young woman to disappear. Detective Ian Bradshaw, heading up the search, has no leads - and precious little time. When at last a body is...
View BookThe Darker the Night, the Brighter the Stars
Author: Paul Broks
Author Paul Broks
Narrator Simon Bubb
Duration 11h 19m
Penguin presents the audiobook edition of The Darker the Night, the Brighter the Stars by Paul Broks, read by Simon Bubb. A man's wife dies. What next? The next day is next, and the next, and so on. He smothers his sorrow and gets on with the days. He's a Stoic. Tranquillity is the goal, but his brain won't rest. As a neuropsychologist he has spent...
View BookAuthor: Nuala Ellwood
Author Nuala Ellwood
Narrator Tara Fitzgerald
Duration 9h 3m
Sixty seconds after she wakes from a coma, Maggie's world is torn apart. The police tell her that her daughter Elspeth is dead. That she drowned when the car Maggie had been driving plunged into the river. Maggie remembers nothing. When Maggie begs to see her husband Sean, the police tell her that he has disappeared. He was last seen on the day of...
View BookAuthor: William Trevor
Author William Trevor
Narrator Tara Fitzgerald
Duration 5h 31m
Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Last Stories by William Trevor, read by Niamh Cusack, Stephen Hogan and Tara Fitzgerald. In this final collection of ten exquisite, perceptive and profound stories, William Trevor probes into the depths of the human spirit. Here we encounter a tutor and his pupil, whose lives are thrown into turmoil when th...
View BookAuthor: Vashti Harrison
Author Vashti Harrison
Narrator Various
Duration 1h 23m
Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Little Leaders by Vashti Harrison, read by Cathy Tyson, Jade Anouka, Pippa Bennett-Warner, Nneka Okoye, Nikki Amuka-Bird. Meet the little leaders. They're brave. They're bold. They changed the world. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Featuring 40 trailblazing black women in the world's history, this book educates a...
View BookThe Missing Pieces of Sophie Mccarthy
Author: B.M. Carroll
Author B.M. Carroll
Narrator Various
Duration 10h 42m
Penguin presents the audiobook edition of The Missing Pieces of Sophie McCarthy by B. M. Carroll, read by Kirsty Gillmore, Jane Drinkwater, Natasha Jacobs, Stan Pretty, Olivia Beardsley, Adam Fitzgerald and Katrina Bowker. She's the victim. But is she so innocent? Sophie McCarthy is known for her determination, ambition and brilliance at work. She'...
View BookAuthor: Stephen Fry
Author Stephen Fry
Narrator Stephen Fry
Duration 15h 33m
No one loves and quarrels, desires and deceives as boldly and brilliantly as Greek gods and goddesses. They are like us, only more so - their actions and adventures scrawled across the heavens above. From the birth of the universe to the creation of humankind, Stephen Fry - who fell in love with these stories as a child - retells these myths for ou...
View BookAuthor: Jack Grimwood
Author Jack Grimwood
Narrator Daniel Weyman
Duration 11h 8m
Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Nightfall Berlin by Jack Grimwood, read by Daniel Weyman. In 1986, news that East-West nuclear-arms negotiations are taking place lead many to believe the Cold War may finally be thawing. For British intelligence officer Major Tom Fox, however, it is business as usual. Ordered to arrange the smooth repatria...
View BookAuthor: Gillian Mcallister
Author Gillian Mcallister
Narrator Various
Duration 12h 39m
Penguin presents the audiobook edition of No Further Questions by Gillian McAllister, read by Imogen Church, Charlie Sanderson, Andy Cresswell, Jan Cramer, Penny Andrews, Cassie Layton, Rachael Beresford and Malk Williams. 'Horribly plausible, unbearably tense' Sunday Mirror The police say she's guilty. She insists she's innocent. She's your sister...
View BookAuthor: Josie Silver
Author Josie Silver
Narrator Eleanor Tomlinson
Duration 10h 27m
Penguin presents the audiobook edition of One Day in December by Josie Silver, read by Eleanor Tomlinson and Charlie Anson. Laurie is pretty sure love at first sight doesn't exist. After all, life isn't a scene from the movies, is it? But then, through a misted-up bus window one snowy December day, she sees a man who she knows instantly is the one....
View BookAuthor: Tommy Caldwell
Author Tommy Caldwell
Narrator Johnathan Mcclain
Duration 13h 30m
Penguin Audio presents The Push by Tommy Caldwell, read by Johnathan McClain. A dramatic, inspiring memoir by legendary rock climber Tommy Caldwell, the first person to free climb the Dawn Wall of Yosemite's El Capitan. On January 14, 2015, Tommy Caldwell, along with his partner, Kevin Jorgeson, summited what is widely regarded as the hardest climb...
View BookAuthor: Lesley Pearse
Author Lesley Pearse
Narrator Katy Sobey
Duration 14h 55m
Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Remember Me by Lesley Pearse, read by Kerry Howard. She made one mistake, and now she'll never see home again . . . Mary, a Cornish mariner's daughter, makes the biggest mistake of her short life when she steals a silk hat. Convicted and sentenced to be transported to Australia, she endures horrific conditi...
View BookAuthor: Rose Tremain
Author Rose Tremain
Narrator Rose Tremain
Duration 4h 47m
Random House presents the audiobook edition of Rosie: Scenes from a Vanished Life, written and read by Rose Tremain. Rose Tremain grew up in post-war London, a city of grey austerity, still partly in ruins, where both food and affection were fiercely rationed. The girl known then as 'Rosie' and her sister Jo spent their days longing for their grand...
View BookAuthor: Lesley Pearse
Author Lesley Pearse
Narrator Sophie Ablett
Duration 17h 36m
Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Secrets by Lesley Pearse, read by Sophie Ablett. Without her mother she is alone in the world . . . Twelve-year-old Adele is placed in a bleak, cruel children's home after a family tragedy drives her mother to madness. But when trust is betrayed Adele has no choice but to run away . . . Alone and friendless...
View BookAuthor: Deborah Levy
Author Deborah Levy
Narrator Gabrielle Glaister
Duration 2h 36m
Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Swallowing Geography by Deborah Levy, read by Gabrielle Glaister. Like her namesake Jack Kerouac, J.K. is always on the road, travelling Europe with her typewriter in a pillowcase. From J.K.'s irreverent, ironic perspective, Levy charts a new, dizzying, end-of-the-century world of shifting boundaries and di...
View BookAuthor: Deborah Levy
Author Deborah Levy
Narrator Sophie Ward
Duration 4h 24m
Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Swimming Home by Deborah Levy, read by Sophie Ward. A poet, his wife, her daughter and their friends arrive at the French Riviera. The prospect of a long hot summer stretches ahead of them. At their villa, they find a body in the swimming pool. But this body is very much alive. It is Kitty Finch: self-procl...
View BookAuthor: Ben Platts-Mills
Author Ben Platts-Mills
Narrator Sam Woolf
Duration 9h 30m
Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Tell Me the Planets by Ben Platts-Mills, read by Sam Woolf. Matthew has a meticulously logical mind. He is intelligent, compassionate and fiercely loyal. He also has a brain injury. When Matthew underwent surgery to remove a life-threatening cyst in the middle of his brain, he was left with extreme fatigue,...
View BookAuthor: Damien Dibben
Author Damien Dibben
Narrator George Blagden
Duration 10h 42m
Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Tomorrow by Damian Dibben, read by George Blagden. Tomorrow tells the story of a 217-year-old dog and his search for his lost master. His adventures take him through the London Frost Fair, the strange court of King Charles I, the wars of the Spanish succession, Versailles, the Golden Age of Amsterdam, 19th...
View BookAuthor: Lesley Pearse
Author Lesley Pearse
Narrator Sally Scott
Duration 26h 11m
Two young sisters sent far, far from home ... When tragedy deprives little Dulcie Taylor and her sister May of their parents, they are sent first to an orphanage and then shipped off to begin a new life in Australia. But the 'better life' the sisters are promised in this new and exciting country turns out to be a lie. It seems everyone who ever sto...
View BookAuthor: Anthony Mosawi
Author Anthony Mosawi
Narrator Katie Leung
Duration 7h 30m
Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Trust No One by Anthony Mosawi, read by Katie Leung. My name is Sara Eden. My name is Sara Eden. My name is Sara Eden. My name is Sara Eden. This is all Sara Eden knows about herself. She was found at the age of ten, abandoned in a vat of water - a homemade sensory-deprivation chamber. Someone had placed he...
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