Biography & Memoir audiobooks

Look Who It Is! - Abridged

By: Alan Carr

Narrated by: Alan Carr

Length: 4 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Famed for his gentle innocence and brilliant observational wit, comedian Alan Carr describes his childhood growing up in a football-mad family in Northampton and his rise to become one of Britain’s best-loved comedians. ‘Puberty had been unkind. Whereas it had come in the night and left the other boys with chiselled, stubbly... Read more

Clips From A Life - Abridged

By: Denis Norden

Narrated by: Denis Norden & Stephen Thorne

Length: 5 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Classic stills from the life of one of Britain's most cherished entertainers. This is the extraordinary life story of comic legend Denis Norden, told in momentary snapshots by the master British comedian himself. Containing reminiscences of a career stretching back to the golden age of the radio, through the heyday of cinema... Read more

Space Between the Stars - Abridged

By: Deborah Santana

Narrated by: Deborah Santana

Length: 6 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Deborah Santana is best known for her marriage to music icon Carlos Santana–a thirty-year bond that endures to this day. But as a girl growing up in San Francisco in the 1960s, daughter of a white mother and a black father–the legendary blues guitarist Saunders King–her life was charged with its own drama long before she married.

In this... Read more

It’s Not What You Think - Abridged

By: Chris Evans

Narrated by: Chris Evans

Length: 7 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The story of how one council estate lad made good, really very good, and survived – just about – to tell the tale… Chris Evans’s extraordinary career has seen him become one of the country’s most successful broadcasters and producers. From The Big Breakfast to Don’t Forget Your Toothbrush and TFI Friday, Chris changed the TV... Read more

Um livro sobre a Marquesa de Santos - Abridged

By: Capistrano de Abreu

Narrated by: Cido Tavares

Length: 35 minutes

Abridged: Yes

O historiador Capistrano de Abreu faz neste texto sucinto uma biografia bem completa daquela que é uma das mais célebres personagens femininas do Brasil Império: Domitila de Castro do Canto e Melo, a Marquesa de Santos, amante de D. Pedro I. Do nascimento à morte em São Paulo, são apresentados todos os fatos relevantes de sua vida, incluindo... Read more

Cartas para Arianna Huffington e John Cleese mais jovens - Abridged

By: Arianna Huffington & John Cleese

Narrated by: Ana Maria Moraes

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

ESTE É UM EPISÓDIO DA OBRA "CARTA PARA O MEU JOVEM EU", DE JANE GRAHAM, QUE APRESENTAM CARTAS PARA ARIANNA HUFFINGTON E JOHN CLEESE MAIS JOVENS. SE QUISER LER TODAS AS CARTAS LEIA A OBRA COMPLETA. Se a viagem no tempo fosse uma possibilidade, o que você diria ao seu eu adolescente, caso o encontrasse? Em Carta Para Meu Jovem Eu, personalidades... Read more

Good Morning Nantwich - Abridged

By: Phill Jupitus

Narrated by: Phill Jupitus

Length: 5 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: Yes

What possesses a right-minded comedian to quit the day job for life as a breakfast radio DJ? The opening DJ on the Beeb’s new alternative radio channel, 6Music, Phill Jupitus was a maverick on the flat landscape of inane commercial breakfast radio. Disregarding the prescriptive chart-led schedule and showing no fear in the... Read more

Step Out on Nothing - Abridged

By: Byron Pitts

Narrated by: Byron Pitts

Length: 6 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: Yes

It was August 25, 2006, my first on-camera studio open for the CBS News broadcast 60 Minutes. Executive Producer Jeff Fager poked his head in the dressing room." Good luck, Brotha! You've come a long way to get here. You've earned it."
…If only he knew. My mind flashed back to elementary school, when a therapist had informed my mother, "I'm... Read more

Worth the Fighting For - Abridged

By: John McCain & Mark Salter

Narrated by: John McCain

Length: 5 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: Yes

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Senator John McCain tells the story of his great American journey, from the U.S. Navy to his electrifying campaign for the presidency in 2000, interwoven with heartfelt portraits of the mavericks who have inspired him through the years.

After five and a half years as a prisoner of war in Vietnam, naval aviator John McCain... Read more

Queen Victoria’s Highland Journals - Abridged

By: Mr Punch

Narrated by: Virginian McKenna OBE

Length: 2 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Queen Victoria’s Highland Journals performed by VIRGINIA McKENNA in a dramatised setting “...these journals offer us so many insights into the paraphernalia that accompanied the royal progress north... Virginia McKenna reads beautifully.” (Sunday Times) “This quirky and vivid aural tapestry is jam-packed with sound effects... and is further... Read more

No Such Thing as a Bad Day - Abridged

By: Hamilton Jordan

Narrated by: Hamilton Jordan

Length: 4 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Since serving in the Carter White House in the late 1970s, Hamilton Jordan has survived non-Hodgkins lymphoma, melanoma, and prostate cancer. Read more

Scott of the Antarctic: The Diary of Captain Scott - Abridged

By: Mr Punch

Narrated by: Edward Fox OBE & Gordon Fithen

Length: 2 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Scott of the Antarctic: The Diary of Captain Scott performed by EDWARD FOX in a dramatised setting “One to consider for a winter jaunt is Edward Fox’s stiff-upper-lip reading of Scott’s Last Journey.” (The Spectator) “The audio’s editors have made a good selection, from the courageous good cheer and sea shanties at the beginning to the last... Read more

The Third Man - Abridged

By: Peter Mandelson

Narrated by: Peter Mandelson

Length: 5 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: Yes

READ BY PETER MANDELSON. The hotly anticipated memoir of one of New Labour’s three founding architects. READ BY PETER MANDELSON. Peter Mandelson is one of the most influential politicians of modern times. The Third Man is his story – of a life played out in the backroom and then on the frontline of the Labour Party during... Read more

It’s Not Me, It’s You! - Abridged

By: Jon Richardson

Narrated by: Jon Richardson

Length: 3 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A control freak looks for love (women who leave wet teaspoons in sugar bowls need not apply). ‘I haven’t woken up with a cup of tea by the bed for seven years. It seems such a small thing but it’s one of a thousand things I miss about having someone around to take care of me. I have spent my entire adult life getting things... Read more

The Letters of Jane Austen - Abridged

By: Mr Punch

Narrated by: Fiona Shaw CBE

Length: 2 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The Letters of Jane Austen performed by FIONA SHAW in a dramatised setting “Frequently indiscreet and occasionally acerbic or heartless, Jane Austen’s letters are always engaging. Fiona Shaw gives a sensitive reading”. (Daily Telegraph) “Fiona Shaw as Jane Austen babbles like a little brook of a petit-point life in Hampshire and Bath”. (The... Read more

The Letters of Charlotte Brontë - Abridged

By: Mr Punch

Narrated by: Imogen Stubbs

Length: 2 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The Letters of Charlotte Brontë performed by IMOGEN STUBBS in a dramatised setting “Imogen Stubb’s reading of her letters show us a character so fine, so sympathetic that in the end we are uplifted... by her account of life in the dark, dank vicarage at Haworth.” (Good Book Guide) “These provide a welcome addition to our collection of... Read more

The Letters & Journals of Lord Nelson - Abridged

By: Mr Punch

Narrated by: Charles Dance OBE

Length: 2 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The Letters & Journals of Lord Nelson performed by CHARLES DANCE in a dramatised setting “Letters and journals always make lively intimate listening. It is Nelson who opens up with almost shocking frankness in courteous, suddenly passionate love letters to Emma Hamilton” (The Independent) Viscount Horatio Nelson (1758-1805), known as... Read more

The Letters of Lord Byron - Abridged

By: Mr Punch

Narrated by: Robert Powell

Length: 2 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The Letters of Lord Byron performed by ROBERT POWELL in a dramatised setting “If you want to see into man’s soul, start with this self-portrait. IT’S MAGNIFICENT”. (The Guardian) “...these are a splendid introduction, leading us from his university days, setting up a bear to sit for a fellowship at Cambridge, to his very last few weeks of... Read more

Memoirs of a Third World Millennial - Abridged

By: Chijioke Osuji

Narrated by: Chijioke Osuji

Length: 1 hour 18 minutes

Abridged: Yes

This book is a coming of age story, an immersive exploration of a young writer's journey to find his voice in the Third World, while navigating the unending swarms of distraction, hormones and angst that the 21st century throws at him. The personal stories in this debut memoir present Osuji as a voice unafraid to be vulnerable and... Read more

The Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth - Abridged

By: Mr Punch

Narrated by: Jenny Agutter OBE & Robin Welch

Length: 2 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth performed by JENNY AGUTTER in a dramatised setting “The English countryside at the end of the 18th century is brought almost photographically before us and Jenny Agutter brings her splendidly to life.” (Good Book Guide) “...Her prose and obvious love of nature rival her brother’s poetic interpretations...... Read more

Der blaue Himmel trügt - Abridged

By: Reinhold Stecher

Narrated by: Reinhold Stecher

Length: 1 hour 7 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Erinnern – gedenken – mahnen Wie Bischof Reinhold Stecher die NS-Diktatur und den Krieg erlebt hat Bischof Reinhold Stecher hat als Zeitzeuge immer wieder an die Gräuel des nationalsozialistischen Terrorregimes erinnert, an diese "unselige Zeit, die kein Altgold heroischer Verklärung verdient". Dieses Hörbuch ergänzt die Lesungen von... Read more

Eine Frau ist eine Frau ist eine Frau - Abridged

By: Phenix Kühnert

Narrated by: Phenix Kühnert

Length: 5 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Der Kampf für Gerechtigkeit und trans* Rechte? – ein Kampf für uns alle! Eine Rose ist eine Rose ist eine Rose ist eine Rose … Sprache, Identität und vor allem: Empathie Der Name einer Sache verkörpert deren Bild, unsere Vorstellung davon und die damit verbundenen Gefühle. Oder: Eine Sache wird zur Sache durch ihre Benennung. Doch wie können... Read more

Ich weiß nicht, warum ich noch lebe - Abridged

By: Friedrich Orter

Narrated by: Friedrich Orter, Christina Trefny & Florentin G...

Length: 1 hour 2 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Fritz Orter hat weit mehr gesehen, als seinem Publikum zugemutet werden konnte. Viele Jahrzehnte lang berichtete er als Reporter von den gefährlichsten Orten der Welt. In einem bewegenden Rückblick skizziert er seine Erlebnisse, erzählt von seinen Grenzerfahrungen und von ergreifenden Schicksalen. Und von einer großen Hoffnung, die seine Arbeit... Read more

Educating Esmé - Abridged

By: Esmé Raji Codell

Narrated by: Esmé Raji Codell

Length: 2 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Codell's portrait of an inner-city elementary school is funny, poignant, and inspiring. Read more