Biography & Memoir audiobooks

علي إمام المتقين الجزء الثاني - Abridged

By: عبد الرحمن الشرقاوي

Narrated by: أحمد إسماعيل

Length: 24 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: Yes

بإسلوبه الساحر و الروائي الرائع أنهى الشرقاوي الجزء الأول من هذا الكتاب الممتع باستتباب الخلافة لعلي بن ابي طالب رضي الله عنه عدا الشام التي استقل بها معاوية بن ابي سفيان والذي رفض البيعة لعليّ كخليفة للمسلمين مطالبًا بالقصاص من قتلة عثمان و لكنه في الحقيقة كان طامعا في الملك و الخلافة...!! في هذا الجزء من الكتاب يتناول الكاتب الأحداث التي تلت... Read more

الفاروق عمر - Abridged

By: عبد الرحمن الشرقاوي

Narrated by: حسام حجازي

Length: 14 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: Yes

لم تتحقق الدولة الإسلامية بصورتها المثلى في عهد أيٍّ من عهود الخلفاء والحكام مثلما تحققت في عهد الخليفة الثاني عمر بن الخطابةرضي الله عنه الذي جمع بين النزاهة والحزم، والرحمة والعدل، والهيبة والتواضع، والشدة والزهد. ونجح الفاروق في سنوات خلافته العشر في أن يؤسس أقوى إمبراطورية عرفها التاريخ، فقامت دولة الإسلام بعد سقوط إمبراطورتي لفرس والروم ،... Read more

American Soldier - Abridged

By: Tommy R. Franks

Narrated by: Tommy R. Franks

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

To America, he was a hero.To his troops, he was a soldier.Now hear his story.The Commander in Chief of the United States Central Command from July 2000 through July 2003, General Tommy Franks made history by leading American and Coalition forces to victory in Afghanistan and Iraq -- the decisive battles that launched the war on terrorism.In this... Read more

American Lion - Abridged

By: Jon Meacham

Narrated by: John H. Mayer

Length: 10 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The definitive biography of a larger-than-life president who defied norms, divided a nation, and changed Washington forever

Andrew Jackson, his intimate circle of friends, and his tumultuous times are at the heart of this remarkable book about the man who rose from nothing to create the modern presidency. Beloved and hated, venerated and... Read more

The Recollections of Rifleman Harris - Abridged

By: Rifleman Harris

Narrated by: Jason Salkey

Length: 53 minutes

Abridged: Yes

This audiobook is read by Jason Salkey, who played Harris in the SHARPE films, with sound effects provided by the 95th Rifles Re-enactment Society. A musical score by Adam Wakeman adds to this lavish production. A great deal of time and care has been spent creating an audiobook which truly honours the rifleman of the Peninsula. Read more

Clapton - Abridged

By: Eric Clapton

Narrated by: Bill Nighy

Length: 5 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: Yes

“I found a pattern in my behavior that had been repeating itself for years, decades even. Bad choices were my specialty, and if something honest and decent came along, I would shun it or run the other way.”

With striking intimacy and candor, Eric Clapton tells the story of his eventful and inspiring life in this poignant and honest autobiography.... Read more

William Conrad - Abridged

By: Charles Tranberg

Narrated by: Nat Segaloff

Length: 5 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: Yes

William Conrad (1920–1994) was one of the most prolific and recognizable voices of the golden age of radio drama on such programs as The Whistler, Escape, Suspense, Favorite Story, Lux Radio Theater, and many others, but it was his performance as Marshal Matt Dillon on the radio version of Gunsmoke that made him a radio institution. In addition... Read more

Saving Graces - Abridged

By: Elizabeth Edwards

Narrated by: Elizabeth Edwards

Length: 4 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: Yes

She charmed America with her smart, likable, down-to-earth personality as she campaigned for her husband, then vice-presidential candidate John Edwards. She inspired millions as she valiantly fought advanced breast cancer after being diagnosed only days before the 2004 election. She touched hundreds of similarly grieving families when her own... Read more

A Prison Diary Volume I - Abridged

By: Jeffrey Archer

Narrated by: Andrew Sachs

Length: 5 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The sun is shining through the bars of my window on what must be a glorious summer day. I've been incarcerated in a cell five paces by three for twelve and a half hours, and will not be let out again until midday; eighteen and a half hours of solitary confinement. There is a child of seventeen in the cell below me who has been charged with... Read more

محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم - Abridged

By: توفيق الحكيم

Narrated by: عادل بو حسون

Length: 7 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: Yes

هذا الكتاب هو سيرة حوارية جميلة يتناول فيها توفيق الحكيم قصة حياة النبى صلى الله عليه وسلم، لكن بشكلٍ مغاير لما اعتدنا عليه في كتب السيرة فقد خطر للحكيم أن يضع هذه السيرة على هذا النحو الغريب ، فعكف على الكتب المعتمدة والأحاديث الموثوق بها واستخلص منها ما حدث بالفعل وما قيل بالفعل . وحاول على قدر طاقته أن يضع كل ذلك في موضعه كما وقع في الأصل،... Read more

محمد رسول الحرية - Abridged

By: عبد الرحمن الشرقاوي

Narrated by: أحمد إسماعيل

Length: 16 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: Yes

في هذا الكتاب أراد المؤلف الكبير عبد الرحمن الشرقاوي أن يكتب سيرة الحبيب المصطفى - صلى الله عليه وسلم - منطلقاً من قوله تعالى "قُلْ إِنَّمَا أنَا بَشَرٌ مِثْلُكُمْ". لذا فقد جاءت الصفحات لتصور بشرية النبي وتكتب سيرة إنسان اتسع قلبه لآلام البشر ومشكلاتهم وأحلامهم وكونت تعاليمه حضارة زاهرة خصبة أغنت الوجدان لقرون طوال، ودفعت سلالات من الأحياء فى... Read more

Love Stories - Abridged

By: Larry King

Narrated by: Jill Eikenberry

Length: 4 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Larry King, whose previous books have sold more than one million copies, tells the moving and heartwarming stories of couples who met by chance and fell in love during World War II, based on his original interviews.

Poignant, inspiring, humorous, and unforgettable, these are the stories of men and women who, amid the chaos of a devestating war,... Read more

Frankie - Abridged

By: Frankie Dettori

Narrated by: Andrew Sachs

Length: 3 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Frankie Dettori is a unique character in modern-day Britain: a millionaire champion jockey irresistible to the punters; a charismatic personality with an easy charm and immaculate dress sense that make him an instant favourite on TV chat shows; and a celebrity with a fascinating life story encompassing drama, passion, death and... Read more

Undaunted Courage - Abridged

By: Stephen E. Ambrose

Narrated by: Cotter Smith

Length: 4 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: Yes

From the New York Times bestselling author of Band of Brothers and D-Day, the definitive book on Lewis and Clark’s exploration of the Louisiana Purchase, the most momentous expedition in American history and one of the great adventure stories of all time.

In 1803 President Thomas Jefferson selected his personal secretary, Captain Meriwether... Read more

Classic Letters BOX SET - Abridged

By: Mr Punch

Narrated by: Fiona Shaw CBE, Imogen Stubbs & Robert Powell

Length: 7 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A three-volume collection of moving letters from the private writings of three of the most popular writers of the 19th century, presented 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) “If you want to see... Read more

Are You Somebody? - Abridged

By: Nuala O'Faolain

Narrated by: Nuala O'Faolain

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

Are You Somebody is a moving and fascinating portrait of both Ireland and one of its most popular and respected commentators. This gem of honesty and insight had its first life as the introduction to a collection of Nuala O'Faolain's Irish Times columns that became a number-one bestseller in Ireland. It now stands alone. Ireland has fallen in... Read more

Seabiscuit - Abridged

By: Laura Hillenbrand

Narrated by: Campbell Scott

Length: 5 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: Yes

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the author of the runaway phenomenon Unbroken comes a universal underdog story about the horse who came out of nowhere to become a legend.

Seabiscuit was one of the most electrifying and popular attractions in sports history and the single biggest newsmaker in the world in 1938, receiving more coverage than ... Read more

Ludwig Thoma - Abridged

By: Ludwig Thoma

Narrated by: Horst Rankl

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

Die Highlights aus dem Schaffen des bärbeißig-ironischen Bayern sind greifbar! Es sind die schönsten der witzigen "Lausbubengeschichten", natürlich der unvergessene "Münchner im Himmel" und andere der glänzenden Satiren aus Thomas Feder. Darüber hinaus möchten aber auch einige weniger bekannte "Schmankerl" entdeckt werden. Ein Schmaus für alle,... Read more

Papa Hemingway - Abridged

By: A.E. Hotchner

Narrated by: Robert Stack

Length: 1 hour 50 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Between 1948 and 1961, Ernest Hemingway and A. E. Hotchner traveled together, fished the waters off Cuba, hunted in Idaho, and ran with the bulls in Pamplona. Everywhere they went, they talked. For fourteen years, Hotchner and Hemingway shared their thoughts and as Hemingway reminisced about his childhood, recalled the Paris literary scene of... Read more

Bobby Moore - Abridged

By: Tina Moore

Narrated by: Tina Moore

Length: 2 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: Yes

THE STORY WHICH INSPIRED THE MAJOR ITV DRAMA TINA AND BOBBY. Bobby Moore’s untimely death in 1993, at the age of 51, had a profound impact on the people of this country. As the only English football captain ever to raise the World Cup, he was not just a football icon but a national one. Yet Bobby was an intensely... Read more

خامس الخلفاء عمر بن عبد العزيز - Abridged

By: عبد الرحمن الشرقاوي

Narrated by: حسام حجازي

Length: 9 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: Yes

لعمر بن عبد العزيز شهرة ومكانة عند عامة المسلمين وباحثيهم، ومرجع ذلك لأعماله المثيرة والتوجهات التي عمل على تثبيتها في الدولة الإسلامية الواسعة التي قامت على المبادئ التي وضعها الرسول صلى الله عليه وسلم، وعمل الحلفاء الأولون على تطبيقها في تنظيم الدولة وتوجهات الأمة. يستعرض هذا الكتاب سيرة خامس الخلفاء بقلم الأديب الكبير عبد الرحمن الشرقاوي من... Read more

Shooting History - Abridged

By: Jon Snow

Narrated by: Jon Snow

Length: 5 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The compelling autobiography of one of the great and most committed newsmen of our time: full, frank, and occasionally very funny, Jon Snow’s memoirs are as revealing about the great and the not-so-good as about his own passionate involvement in the reporting of world affairs Read by the author. Jon Snow is perhaps... Read more

Heat - Abridged

By: Bill Buford

Narrated by: Bill Buford

Length: 5 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: Yes

From one of our most interesting literary figures – former editor of Granta, former fiction editor at The New Yorker, acclaimed author of Among the Thugs – a sharp, funny, exuberant, close-up account of his headlong plunge into the life of a professional cook.

Expanding on his James Beard Award-winning New Yorker article, Bill Buford gives us a... Read more

Life Is So Good - Abridged

By: George Dawson & Richard Glaubman

Narrated by: LeVar Burton

Length: 5 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: Yes

George Dawson was a slave's grandson who learned to read at age 98 and lived to the age of 103. In this remarkable memoir, he reflects on his life and shares valuable lessons in living, as well as a fresh, firsthand view of America during the entire sweep of the twentieth century. Dawson's irresistible voice and view of the world are captured... Read more