Biography & Memoir audiobooks

Downfall

By: Nadine Dorries

Narrated by: Lucy Price-Lewis

Length: 8 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

14 YEARS 5 PRIME MINISTERS THE PARTY IS OVER After decades in the hands of malevolent players and two years of disastrous leadership, the Conservative party stands at the edge of the abyss. From the humiliation of Liz... Read more

Backup is Three Hours Away

By: Mark Tregellas

Narrated by: Timothy Knightley

Length: 7 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Embark on a gripping adventure with Mark 'Trigger' Tregellas in Backup is Three Hours Away, a true crime memoir chronicling nearly three decades of policing Victoria's remote coastal region. Trigger never knew what each shift would bring – tragedy, laughter, adventure, danger – sometimes all on the same day.

Trigger's personal journey, fuelled by... Read more

Finding Margaret

By: Andrew Pierce

Narrated by: Andrew Pierce

Length: 10 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Finding Margaret is the moving story of journalist and broadcaster Andrew Pierce's search for his birth mother. As he was approaching fifty, Pierce decided that it was finally time to track down his biological mother. He knew that he had lived in a Roman Catholic orphanage in Cheltenham for more than two years and was adopted at the age of three... Read more

Getting Back Up Again

By: Craig Semple

Narrated by: Craig Semple

Length: 3 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

'The core is hope and belief. Find it. Nourish it. Build on it.'

After nearly twenty-five years as a cop - riding high on the excitement, danger and stress of his work, feeling invincible - Craig Semple realised he could no longer outrun the symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder. The sudden and devastating collapse of his mental health led... Read more

Over the Rainbow

By: Alex James

Narrated by: Alex James

Length: 3 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Brought to you by Penguin.

A raucous, behind-the-scenes account of the year Blur got back together

There is nothing that can touch the sound made by a close-knit group of people who have been playing together for years and years and years, playing as though their lives depended on it. For many years, all our lives did, and actually, I’d suddenly... Read more

Urchin on the Beat

By: Uwe Netto

Narrated by: Charles Fox

Length: 5 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Urchin on the Beat is the captivating second volume of Uwe Siemon-Netto's memoir series, detailing his tumultuous teenage years in post-war Germany. The story picks up in 1947, where young Uwe endures daily persecution in the Soviet-controlled zone, targeted by his Communist teacher for being a Christian. Desperate for freedom, he escapes to... Read more

The Last Kilo

By: T. J. English

Narrated by: Christian Barillas

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

From true-crime legend T. J. English, the epic, behind-the-scenes saga of “Los Muchachos,” one of the most successful cocaine trafficking organizations in American history—a story of glitz, glamour, and organized crime set against 1980’s Miami.Despite what Scarface might lead one to believe, violence was not the dominant characteristic of the... Read more

Why So Serious?

By: Mike Singer

Narrated by: Roger Wayne

Length: 11 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

A revealing, intimate biography of basketball savant and enigmatic NBA superstar Nikola Jokic, filled with news-breaking interviews and deep reporting from Mike Singer, the Nuggets’ former beat writer for the Denver Post.Why So Serious? takes readers on Nikola Jokic’s long, strange, and incredibly unlikely journey to becoming the heartbeat of... Read more

Abundant Ever After

By: Cathy Heller

Narrated by: Cathy Heller

Length: 7 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

A must-have guide to creating the most expansive life from the host of the mega-hit podcast Abundant Ever After, Cathy Heller.

Abundant Ever After is a powerful guide for anyone ready to step into their light, unleash their most authentic self, and transform their lives. With three years of immersive study in Jewish mysticism in Jerusalem and... Read more

The Last Tsar

By: Tsuyoshi Hasegawa

Narrated by: Gareth Armstrong

Length: 13 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

“Elegantly written and magisterially researched” (Robert Service, author of A History of Modern Russia), the definitive story behind the self-destruction of the autocratic Romanov dynasty, by the world’s foremost expert

When Tsar Nicholas II fell from power in 1917, Imperial Russia faced a series of overlapping crises, from war to social unrest.... Read more

Ingrained

By: Callum Robinson

Narrated by: Callum Robinson

Length: 8 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2025 ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE IN NONFICTIONFor fans of H Is for Hawk and Shop Class as Soulcraft comes a captivating literary memoir, immersing readers in the life of a Scottish carpenter as he perfects his craft, builds a business, and reflects on what inheritance and shared responsibility really mean.The eldest... Read more

Good Time Girl

By: Heather Gay

Narrated by: Heather Gay

Length: 8 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

The instant New York Times bestselling author of Bad Mormon and breakout star of The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City returns with a hilarious, illustrative, and deeply reflective book about life and love as a former Mormon, mother, and reality TV star.

In Bad Mormon, Heather Gay pulled back the veil on her orthodox adolescence and marriage in... Read more

Bald

By: Stuart Heritage

Narrated by: Graham Mack

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

This is a guide to life in the club that nobody wants to join.



Nobody chooses to be bald. Nobody wants to look into the mirror and be confronted with an absence. Nobody gains any comfort from having a slightly better idea of what their skull looks like.



Stuart Heritage has been bald for two years. But before he accepted the inevitable, he spent a... Read more

Long Live

By: Nicole Pomarico

Narrated by: Heidi Rew

Length: 4 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Covering the Taylor Swift multiverse from all angles with a uniquely fascinating journey through fandom history, exclusive interviews, and behind-the-scenes detail on her career across all eras—including The Tortured Poets Department—this lush package is the ultimate fan guide for Swifties.

From MySpace comments to T-Party invites to Secret... Read more

Raised by a Serial Killer

By: April Balascio

Narrated by: April Balascio

Length: 13 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

The untold story behind the hit true crime podcast The Clearing, this unforgettable memoir traces one daughter’s moving quest to understand her larger-than-life childhood as she searches for the truth about her father, the serial killer Edward Wayne Edwards.

One evening in 2009, April Balascio was searching online, as she had been every night,... Read more

The Irish Experiment

By: Zach Tuohy & Catherine Murphy

Narrated by: Zach Tuohy

Length: 7 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Whether it's committing to a tackle, being a dad or writing a memoir, if Zach Tuohy goes in, he goes 'all in'.

Like most Irishmen, Zach Tuohy's first love was Gaelic football. But when an Australian football club came knocking with a professional contract, the then-seventeen-year-old leapt at the opportunity to travel across the world and come... Read more

Build, Don't Talk: Things You Wish You Were Taught in School

By: Raj Shamani

Narrated by: Raj Shamani

Length: 5 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

School taught us specific subjects, like maths and history. But the most important situations we face as adults were never discussed with us when we were students. We weren't taught these skills in school, and this makes all the success stories we hear about seem out of reach; it makes us feel dumb. We aren't dumb, we just don't know how to work... Read more

Five Trips

By: Kendis Gibson

Narrated by: Kendis Gibson

Length: 7 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Five Trips chronicles Emmy Award–winning journalist Kendis Gibson’s personal journey through five psychedelic experiences, exploring the access issues faced by the BIPOC community in using psychedelics for mental health conditions, set against the backdrop of his challenges as a Black journalist at ABC network and the racial treatment that... Read more

Your Mom's Gonna Love Me

By: Matt Rife

Narrated by: Matt Rife

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

One part memoir, one part comedy special, one part crazy first date. Just you and Matt between the covers. What could be better?

Matt Rife is well aware that he’s both the most loved and the most controversial comic in America today. And honestly, he thinks that’s your problem.

Matt reveals (without apology, of course) what led him to becoming... Read more

Giant Love

By: Julie Gilbert

Narrated by: Maggi-Meg Reed

Length: 14 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

A book that explores the great American novelist and playwright Edna Ferber, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Ficton, whose work was made into many Academy Award-winning movies; the writing of her controversial, international best-selling novel about Texas, and the making of George Stevens’ Academy Award winning epic film of the same name,... Read more

The Troublemaker

By: Mark L. Clifford

Narrated by: Kayden Lukakis

Length: 8 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

The astonishing story of the billionaire businessman Jimmy Lai who became one of Hong Kong’s leading activists for democracy and is today China’s most famous political prisoner.

Jimmy Lai escaped mainland China when he was twelve years old, at the height of a famine that killed tens of millions. In Hong Kong, he hustled; no work was beneath him,... Read more

The Cure for Women

By: Lydia Reeder

Narrated by: Sara Sheckells

Length: 14 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

How Victorian male doctors used false science to argue that women were unfit for anything but motherhood—and the brilliant doctor who defied them. After Elizabeth Blackwell became the first woman to graduate from medical school, more women demanded a chance to study medicine. Barred entrance to universities like Harvard, women built their own... Read more

Ich trug den gelben Stern (Ungekürzt)

By: Inge Deutschkron

Narrated by: Chris Nonnast

Length: 7 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Ein Dokument über Entrechtung, Verfolgung, Deportation und Tod, über Illegalität und Identitätsverlust und zugleich stiller menschlicher Hilfsbereitschaft. Viele Angehörige der älteren Generation erinnern sich noch daran, wie die Nazis ihre Kindheit missbrauchten, ohne dass sie dies damals erfassen konnten. Wie aber erlitten die Söhne und... Read more

The Innermost House

By: Cynthia Blakeley

Narrated by: Cynthia Blakeley

Length: 10 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Raised in a nineteenth-century saltbox house in Wellfleet, Massachusetts, Cynthia Blakeley was both surrounded by generations of immediate and extended family and isolated by the mysteries locked inside her affectionate yet elusive mother and short-fused father. While she and her sisters and cousins roamed the Outer Cape—drinking in the dunes,... Read more