Biography & Memoir audiobooks

The Queen: History in an Hour

By: Sinead Fitzgibbon

Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble

Length: 1 hour 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Love history? Know your stuff with History in an Hour. Elizabeth II is the longest lived and, after Queen Victoria, second longest reigning monarch of the United Kingdom. From her coronation in 1953 to her Diamond Jubilee in 2012, Queen Elizabeth II has stood on the world stage as the figurehead for Britain. The... Read more

The Afghan Wars: History in an Hour

By: Rupert Colley

Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble

Length: 1 hour 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Love history? Know your stuff with History in an Hour. Britain has invaded Afghanistan twice before in the nineteenth century. Both times tenacious Afghan fighters defended their country to humiliating British defeats. The Soviet Union also discovered what a tough enemy the Afghans are after nearly a decade of conflict from... Read more

Blue Water, Green Skipper

By: Stuart Woods

Narrated by: Stephen Collins

Length: 6 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Stuart Woods had never owned more than a dinghy before setting out on one of the world’s most demanding sea voyages, navigating single-handedly across the Atlantic. How, at the age of thirty-seven, did this self-proclaimed novice go from small ponds to the big sea?

Now with a new afterword that looks back at how one transatlantic race changed his... Read more

Confessions of a Male Nurse

By: Michael Alexander

Narrated by: John Sackville

Length: 7 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

From the people who brought you the bestselling Confessions of a GP. From stampeding nudes to inebriated teenagers, young nurse Michael Alexander never really knew what he was getting himself into. But now, sixteen years since he was first launched into his nursing career – as the only man in a gynaecology ward – he’s pretty... Read more

Stan Getz

By: Donald Maggin

Narrated by: John Lescault

Length: 15 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Long before the success of his bossa nova Grammy winner “The Girl from Ipanema,” Stan Getz was a fixture in the pantheon of jazz greats. From his recording of “Early Autumn” with the Woody Herman band in 1949, which catapulted him to stardom at age twenty-two, to the 1961 jazz/classical masterpiece “Focus,” to the 1990 release of “Apasionado,”... Read more

South Africa: History in an Hour

By: Anthony Holmes

Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble

Length: 1 hour 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Love history? Know your stuff with History in an Hour. With the passing of Nelson Mandela, ‘the father of the nation’, comes the end of an era, and the moment to look back on his remarkable saving, and remaking, of South Africa. After years of oppression and racial inequality, concentrated violence and apartheid, Mandela led... Read more

One Day I Will Write About This Place

By: Binyavanga Wainaina

Narrated by: Ivanno Jeremiah

Length: 10 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Binyavanga Wainaina tumbled through his middle-class Kenyan childhood out of kilter with the world around him. Here he takes us through his chaotic school days, his attempt to study in South Africa, a moving family reunion in Uganda, and his travels around Kenya. The landscape in front of him always claims his main attention, but he also evokes... Read more

John Betjeman In His Own Words

By: John Betjeman

Narrated by: John Betjeman

Length: 1 hour 49 minutes

Abridged: No

In this fascinating collection of interviews from the BBC radio and TV archive, John Betjeman (Poet Laureate 1972) talks about his life and career as one of the foremost poets of the 20th Century.

The interviews included are: Asian Club, broadcast on BBC Radio, 7 July 1959 (featuring Arthur Russell and studio audience); People of Today,... Read more

Caveat Emptor

By: Ken Perenyi

Narrated by: Dan Butler

Length: 9 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

The true story of America's greatest art forger! Ten years ago, an FBI investigation was about to expose a scandal in the art world that would have been front-page news in New York and London. After a trail of fake paintings of astonishing quality led federal agents to art dealers, renowned experts, and the major auction houses, the... Read more

The Upside

By: Abdel Sellou

Narrated by: Ray Chase

Length: 5 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

My gift? Insensitivity. I was a human fortress inside - Superman and his colleagues were nothing. I was convinced that the world counted on real, and rare, superheroes... and that I was one of them. The highest-grossing non-English-language film of all time, The Intouchables reveals the life of a charismatic con man, Abdel Sellou (played by... Read more

The Whitney I Knew

By: BeBe Winans & Tim Willard

Narrated by: BeBe Winans

Length: 5 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Here is the Whitney only family would know... Somewhere outside the glare of the concert spotlights... behind the tawdry entertainment news headlines... beyond the crush of the scandal-seeking paparazzi... lies the truth about Whitney Houston. And few individuals are better qualified to show us that complicated, funny, generous, troubled,... Read more

I Will Carry You

By: Angie Smith

Narrated by: Pam Turlow

Length: 5 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Angie Smith was eighteen weeks pregnant with her fourth daughter, Audrey Caroline, when doctors discovered conditions leaving Audrey "incompatible with life." Faced with the decision whether to terminate the pregnancy, Angie and her husband chose to carry Audrey for as long as she had life. This began what turned out to be three months of... Read more

Bertrand Russell The First Media Academic? (Archive On 4)

By: Robin Ince

Narrated by: Robin Ince

Length: 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Bertrand Russell was one of the greatest thinkers of the last century. His contributions to the fields of mathematics and philosophy are widely acknowledged as some of the most important of their kind. But he also brought his brand of rationalism and intellect to an audience far beyond the academic and political circles he routinely mixed with.... Read more

No Greater Love

By: Levi Benkert & Candy Chand

Narrated by: Kelly Ryan Dolan

Length: 5 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

How far would you go to save the life of a child? California businessman Levi Benkertwas playing with his children in the park when he received an urgent phone call from a friend asking him to drop everything and fly to Ethiopia to help organize a rescue orphanage for children destined to be murdered as part of a tribal superstition known as... Read more

Deep in the Wave

By: Bear Woznick

Length: 4 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

For world-class surfer Bear Woznick, the ocean has always been the center of his universe. He's spent his entire life with it; riding its waves, learning from it, loving it. The ocean also nourishes the soul as Bear shows us on his surfboard.

In DEEP IN THE WAVE, listeners ride along with Woznick through the calmest of tides and most turbulent... Read more

Lunch in Paris

By: Elizabeth Bard

Narrated by: Ann Marie Lee

Length: 7 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

In Paris for a weekend visit, Elizabeth Bard sat down to lunch with a handsome Frenchman—and never went home again.

Was it love at first sight? Or was it the way her knife slid effortlessly through her pavé au poivre, the steak's pink juices puddling into the buttery pepper sauce? Lunch in Paris is a memoir about a young American woman caught up... Read more

A Lucky Child

By: Thomas Buergenthal

Narrated by: Thomas Buergenthal & Don Hagen

Length: 5 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Thomas Buergenthal, now a Judge in the International Court of Justice in The Hague, tells his astonishing experiences as a young boy in his memoir A LUCKY CHILD. He arrived at Auschwitz at age 10 after surviving two ghettos and a labor camp. Separated first from his mother and then his father, Buergenthal managed by his wits and some remarkable... Read more

Frederick Douglass

By: William McFeely

Narrated by: Robert Sevra

Length: 18 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Pulitzer Prize-winning author McFeely captures the power and the contemplative nature of Douglass, while shedding light on the insecurities and humanity of the man himself. The power of this landmark biography lies in McFeely's ability to bring to life not only the charismatic man, but the age as well-detailing the struggle for emancipation in... Read more

Bailout

By: Neil Barofsky

Narrated by: Joe Barrett

Length: 9 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

An insider of both the Bush and Obama administrations offers an irrefutable indictment of the mishandling of the $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program bailouts and the extreme degree to which our government officials—from both parties—served the interests of Wall Street at the expense of the public.From his first day on the job as the... Read more

What's Tha Up To?

By: Martyn Johnson

Narrated by: Martyn Johnson

Length: 6 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

'I've turned boys into men and policemen into coppers,' said the Sergeant. 'Policemen have got brains, but coppers, they've got brains and common sense.'

No two days were ever the same for bobby-on-the-beat Martyn Johnson. Come rain or come shine, he patrolled his patch with a sharp eye for troublemakers and a kind word for those in need of a... Read more

What's Tha Up To Nah?

By: Martyn Johnson

Narrated by: Martyn Johnson

Length: 6 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

'Many times I heard people say that you'll have no friends if you're a policeman. How wrong they were. If you were right with them, they were right with you.'

PC Martyn Johnson is back on the beat with more hilarious and heart-warming stories from the golden age of policing. With his nose for trouble and a knack for mischief, there's no such... Read more

Have Mother, Will Travel

By: Claire Fontaine & Mia Fontaine

Narrated by: Claire Fontaine & Mia Fontaine

Length: 10 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Glamour magazine called Come Back, the first nonfiction collaboration by Claire and Mia Fontaine, the “best mother-daughter memoir,” while the New York Times Book Review praised it as, “a testament to the power of the love.” The Fontaines are back with Have Mother, Will Travel, a beautiful, thoughtful, insightful, inspiring book that brilliantly... Read more

The Iceman

By: Anthony Bruno

Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot

Length: 8 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

At home, Richard Kuklinski was a dedicated suburban family man; on the street, he was the Iceman, a professional hit man and lethal scam artist, a man so heartless he kept one of his victims frozen for over two years to disguise the time of death. His personal body count was over one hundred, but the police couldn’t touch him. Then undercover... Read more

Love Is the Cure

By: Elton John

Narrated by: Elton John

Length: 5 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

A deeply personal account of Elton John's life during the era of AIDS and an inspiring call to action.

In the 1980s, Elton John saw friend after friend, loved one after loved one, perish needlessly from AIDS. He befriended Ryan White, a young Indiana boy ostracized because of his HIV infection. Ryan's inspiring life and devastating death led... Read more