Author: Lord Byron
Author Lord Byron
Narrator Jonathan Keeble
Duration 15h 18m
Lord Byron's satirical take on the legend of Don Juan is a moving and witty poem that sees the young hero in a reversal of roles. Juan sheds his image as a womanizer and instead becomes the victim of circumstance as he is relentlessly pursued by every woman he meets. Comprising seventeen cantos of rhyming iambic pentameter, the poem is a crisp and...
View BookAuthor: Victor Hugo
Author Victor Hugo
Narrator Bill Homewood
Duration 67h 53m
Les Mis‚rables is set in Paris after the French Revolution. In the sewers and backstreets we encounter 'the wolf-like tread of crime', and assassination for a few sous is all in a day's work. We weep with the unlucky and heart-broken Fantine, and we exult with the heroic revolutionaries of the barricades; but above all we thrill to the steadfast co...
View BookAuthor: Matthew Lewis
Author Matthew Lewis
Narrator Nicholas Boulton
Duration 14h 59m
A masterpiece of gothic fiction, The Monk is a cautionary tale of madness, horror, lust and despair. Father Ambrosio, the most pious and venerated monk in all of Madrid, is held as a paragon of virtue. But after thirty years of study and prayer, evil thoughts begin to permeate his mind. As two plots cleverly converge, torture, murder, incest, rape,...
View BookAuthor: Robert Plomin
Author Robert Plomin
Narrator Robert Plomin
Duration 8h 25m
Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Blueprint written and read by Robert Plomin. The blueprint for our individuality lies in the 1% of DNA that differs between people. Our intellectual capacity, our introversion or extraversion, our vulnerability to mental illness, even whether we are a morning person - all of these aspects of our personality...
View BookAuthor: Leonard Cohen
Author Leonard Cohen
Narrator Leonard Cohen
Duration 3h 12m
Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Book of Longing written and read by Leonard Cohen. Book of Longing is Leonard Cohen's first book of new poetry since Book of Mercy was published two decades ago. It collects Cohen's poetry written between the 1980s and 2006, when this book was first published. Book of Longing demonstrates the range and dept...
View BookThe Book You Wish Your Parents Had Read
Author: Philippa Perry
Author Philippa Perry
Narrator Philippa Perry
Duration 8h 22m
Every parent wants their child to be happy and every parent wants to avoid screwing them up. But how do you achieve that? In this absorbing, clever and funny book, renowned psychotherapist Philippa Perry tells us what really matters and what behaviour it is important to avoid - the vital dos and don'ts of parenting. Instead of mapping out the 'perf...
View BookThe Boy Who Followed His Father Into Auschwitz
Author: Jeremy Dronfield
Author Jeremy Dronfield
Narrator John Sackville
Duration 11h 55m
Penguin presents the audiobook edition of The Boy Who Followed His Father into Auschwitz by Jeremy Dronfield, read by John Sackville. In 1939, Gustav Kleinmann, a Jewish upholsterer in Vienna, was seized by the Nazis. Along with his teenage son, Fritz, he was sent to Buchenwald in Germany. There began an unimaginable ordeal that saw the pair beaten...
View BookAuthor: Lesley Pearse
Author Lesley Pearse
Narrator Georgia Maguire
Duration 20h 7m
Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Charlie by Lesley Pearse. Her family is threatened and only she can save it . . . When sixteen-year-old Charlie witnesses a brutal attack on her mother by two strangers she is shocked and terrified. But after talking to the police she realises that her father's business dealings can't be so innocent. With h...
View BookAuthor: Serhii Plokhy
Author Serhii Plokhy
Narrator Leighton Pugh
Duration 13h 35m
On the morning of 26 April 1986 Europe witnessed the worst nuclear disaster in history: the explosion of a reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Soviet Ukraine. The outburst put the world on the brink of nuclear annihilation. In the end, less than five percent of the reactor's fuel escaped, but that was enough to contaminate over half of...
View BookAuthor: Tom Fletcher
Author Tom Fletcher
Narrator Tom Fletcher
Duration 4h 48m
The darkly magical new story about the monsters under the bed, from bestselling author of The Christmasaurus, Tom Fletcher. What silently waits in the shadows at night? What's under your bed, keeping just out of sight? Do you ever hear strange, creaking noises at night? Ever wonder what makes those noises? Lucy Dungston always did. Until, one morni...
View BookAuthor: Philip Pullman
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 BookEmpire of Salt Series Book 1: Darien
Author: Conn Iggulden
Series: Empire of Salt, Book 1
Author Conn Iggulden
Narrator Daniel Weyman
SeriesEmpire of Salt, Book 1
Duration 10h 5m
Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Darien by C.F. Iggulden, read by Daniel Weyman. TWELVE FAMILIES. ONE THRONE. WELCOME TO THE EMPIRE OF SALT. The city of Darien stands at the weary end of a golden age. Twelve families keep order with soldiers and artefacts, spies and memories, clinging to a peace that shifts and crumbles. The people of the...
View BookInspector Hulda Hermannsdottir Book 1: The Darkness
Author: Ragnar Jonasson
Series: Inspector Hulda Hermannsdottir, Book 1
Author Ragnar Jonasson
Narrator Amanda Redman
SeriesInspector Hulda Hermannsdottir, Book 1
Duration 5h 23m
Penguin presents the audiobook edition of The Darkness by Ragnar Jonasson, read by Amanda Redman. Before Detective Inspector Hulda Hermannsd¢ttir of the Reykjavik Police is forced into early retirement she is told to investigate a cold case of her choice, and she knows just the one. A young woman who was looking for asylum found dead on remote...
View BookAuthor: Claire Douglas
Author Claire Douglas
Narrator Hannah Daniel
Duration 9h 19m
COULD YOUR DREAM HOME BE YOUR WORST NIGHTMARE? After what happened in London, Kirsty needs a fresh start with her family. And running a guesthouse in the Welsh mountains sounds idyllic. But then their first guest arrives. Selena is the last person Kirsty wants to see. It's seventeen years since she tore everything apart. Why has she chosen now to w...
View BookAuthor: Conn Iggulden
Author Conn Iggulden
Narrator Geoffrey Beavers
Duration 16h 22m
Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of Dustan by Conn Iggulden, read by Geoffrey Beevers From acclaimed historical writer Conn Iggulden comes a novel set in the red-blooded days of Anglo-Saxon England. This is the original game for the English throne. In the year 937, King ’thelstan, grandson of Alfred the Great, readies...
View BookAuthor: Niall Ferguson
Author Niall Ferguson
Narrator Jonathan Keeble
Duration 16h 11m
Penguin presents the unabridged audiobook edition of Empire by Niall Ferguson, read by Jonathan Keeble. Once vast swathes of the globe were coloured imperial red and Britannia ruled not just the waves, but the prairies of America, the plains of Asia, the jungles of Africa and the deserts of Arabia. Just how did a small, rainy island in the North At...
View BookAuthor: Lesley Pearse
Author Lesley Pearse
Narrator Lucinda Dryzek
Duration 12h 27m
Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Father Unknown by Lesley Pearse, read by Lucinda Dryzek. Orphaned, lost. Who is she really? One young woman's search across the globe for a past - and a future . . . Losing her adopted mother threatens all she's ever had . . . Daisy was adopted. But when her mother dies, she finds her secure existence throw...
View BookAuthor: Zadie Smith
Author Zadie Smith
Narrator Nikki Amuka-Bird
Duration 13h 57m
Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Feel Free by Zadie Smith, read by Nikki Amuka-Bird. From the MAN BOOKER PRIZE- and WOMEN'S PRIZE-SHORTLISTED author of Changing My Mind and Swing Time - discover a second unmissable collection of essays from Zadie Smith 'Generous, courageous, and tough-minded... [A] classic English essayist in the vein of O...
View BookFeminists Don't Wear Pink (and Other Lies)
Author: Scarlett Curtis
Author Scarlett Curtis
Narrator Various
Duration 5h 21m
Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Feminists Don't Wear Pink (and other lies) curated and read by Scarlett Curtis with additional narration from Nico Parker, Natasia Demetriou, Pippa Bennett-Warner, Rosie Akerman and Grace Campbell. We asked 52 women: what does the F word mean to you? The result is extraordinary. "Brilliant, hysterical, trut...
View BookAuthor: Lesley Pearse
Author Lesley Pearse
Narrator Alison Dowling
Duration 14h 25m
The unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of Forgive Me, a compelling story of a daughter uncovering her mother's secret past from the No. 1 bestselling author, Lesley Pearse. Read by the actress Alison Dowling. Cheltenham, 1991. When Eva Patterson returns home from work one day, a devastating scene awaits her. Her mother, Flora, lies dead in...
View BookAuthor: M.J. Arlidge
Author M.J. Arlidge
Narrator Ian Porter
Duration 14h 19m
Penguin presents the audiobook of A Gift for Dying written by M. J. Arlidge, read by Ian Porter. Could you live with knowing how you'll die? Adam Brandt is used to dealing with all kinds of people - as a consulting psychologist with the Chicago Police Department he has faced his share of criminals. But Kassie Wojcek is like no one else he's encount...
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