Essays audiobooks

Manual de vida

By: Epicteto

Narrated by: Miguel Ángel Jenner

Length: 2 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Conocer lo que puedes controlar y lo que no, intentar llevar una vida plena, definir la persona que queremos ser... Cualquiera que se acerque a los textos recogidos en esta obra descubrirá que la contemplación del mundo implica un conocimiento activo —los ejemplos de Epicteto están extraídos de la vida cotidiana— y que contemplar es, en un... Read more

Stealing Baby Jesus

By: Bernadette Nason

Narrated by: Bernadette Nason

Length: 6 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Inspired by her mother's attempts to create joyful traditions in tough times, and by Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, Bernadette Nason has been forever striving to find the perfect Christmas, even though childhood memories haunt her. When she reads that her hometown of Winchester, UK, is vying for the coveted title of "the Most Christmassy... Read more

Hot Mess

By: Matt Winning

Narrated by: Matt Winning

Length: 8 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

What is climate change, who's to blame, and what the f**k can we do about it? Award-winning comedian and climate change researcher Dr Matt Winning explains all.

For fans of Randall Munro's WHAT IF? Matt Parker's HUMBLE PI and anyone looking for practical tips on how to stop the end of the world!

Dr Matt Winning is a stand-up comedian and... Read more

Tu mundo y el mío

By: John Green

Narrated by: Raúl Arrieta

Length: 9 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Una ingeniosa, emocionante y personal colección de textos del aclamado autor de Bajo la misma estrella y Buscando a Alaska. El Antropoceno es la era geológica actual, una época caracterizada por el profundo impacto que el ser humano está teniendo sobre el planeta. Con su especial sensibilidad para lo extraño, lo importante y lo sorprendente,... Read more

Diddly Squat

By: Jeremy Clarkson

Narrated by: Jeremy Clarkson

Length: 2 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Brought to you by Penguin.

Welcome to Jeremy's farm. It's an idyllic spot, offering picturesque views across the Cotswolds, bustling hedgerows, woodlands and natural springs. Jeremy always liked the idea being a farmer. But, while he was barrelling around the world having more fun with cars than was entirely reasonable, it seemed obvious that the... Read more

A Political Philosophy

By: Roger Scruton

Narrated by: Kris Dyer

Length: 9 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Bloomsbury presents A Political Philosophy by Roger Scruton, read by Kris Dyer.

In this timely new edition of his classic book A Political Philosophy, celebrated conservative philosopher Roger Scruton interrogates contemporary values, virtues and morality.

What principles should govern our relations to animals, the nation state, the environment... Read more

Woodrow on the Bench

By: Jenna Blum

Narrated by: Ann Marie Gideon

Length: 5 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

“When I say Jenna Blum’s upcoming Woodrow on the Bench wrecked me and that I’m now sobbing eating all the chocolate, I mean it in the best way possible.”—Jodi Picoult ""Jenna Blum's wonderful moving memoir, is a “girl and her dog” story for the ages!”—Garth Stein, author of The Art of Racing in the RainThe New York Times and internationally... Read more

Please Scream Inside Your Heart

By: Dave Pell

Narrated by: John Parsons, Peter Coyote, L. J. Ganser & Dave...

Length: 13 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

From the publisher of the NextDraft newsletter comes a cathartic and humorous ride through the unnerving, maddening hellscape of the 2020 press cycle, reestablishing the line between "real" news and real life.Please lower your shoulder restraint and keep your hands and feet in. You’re about to board a roller coaster ride through a year that was... Read more

Desde la ciudad nerviosa

By: Enrique Vila-Matas

Narrated by: Víctor Velasco

Length: 6 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Un libro muy particular sobre Barcelona, compuesto de una selección de artículos periodísticos que nos brinda una visión caleidoscópica del mundo de Enrique Vila-Matas, mezcla de paradoja e ironía, literatura y vida. La primera de las cuatro partes que componen este libro puede leerse como una recopilación de cuentos y va seguida de... Read more

A Farewell to Calm

By: John Crace

Narrated by: George Weightman

Length: 6 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

**JOHN CRACE'S NEW BOOK DEPRAVED NEW WORLD IS AVAILABLE NOW** Infectiously entertaining political satire, from the author of Decline and Fail and I, Maybot. Throughout another year of bluster and bedlam in Westminster, John Crace's brilliantly acerbic political sketches have once more provided the nation with a much-needed injection of... Read more

Letters of Note: Dogs

By: author

Narrated by: Louise Brealey, Simon Callow, Crystal Clarke, S...

Length: 2 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

An irresistible new volume of affectionate missives about our man's best friend from the author of the bestselling Letters of Note collections.

In Letters of Note: Dogs, Shaun Usher brings together a delightful collection of correspondence about our canine friends, featuring affectionate accounts of pups' playful misdemeanours, heartfelt tributes... Read more

The Science of Health

By: Scientific American

Narrated by: Suzie Althens

Length: 4 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

This audiobook contains a collection of columns written by Claudia Wallis, an award-winning science journalist whose work has appeared in the New York Times, Time, Fortune, and the New Republic. Claudia was the science editor at Time and the former managing editor of Scientific American Mind.Together, these stories will demystify recent medical... Read more

Tacky

By: Rax King

Narrated by: Rax King

Length: 7 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

An irreverent and charming collection of deeply personal essays about the joys of low pop culture and bad taste, exploring coming of age in the 2000s in the age of Hot Topic, Creed, and frosted lip gloss—from the James Beard Award-nominated writer of the Catapult column "Store-Bought Is Fine”

Tacky is about the power of pop... Read more

Juden auf Wanderschaft

By: Joseph Roth

Narrated by: Norbert Wendel

Length: 2 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

In seinem Essay aus dem Jahr 1927 beschreibt Joseph Roth die Lebensumstände und die Notlage der Juden Osteuropas in der Mitte der 1920er Jahre, die in der Folge des Ersten Weltkrieges, der russischen Revolution und der Neuziehung der Staatsgrenzen nach dem Versailler Vertrag aus dem Baltikum, Polen und Russland vermehrt in den Westen... Read more

Secrets of a Champion Student-Athlete

By: Obadele Thompson

Narrated by: Jeremy Gee

Length: 4 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

DO YOU REALLY KNOW WHAT SEPARATES CHAMPIONS FROM OTHERS?

"This book is a treasure for all student-athletes. Obadele shares his wisdom on how to achieve excellence on and off the field."

- Mike "Coach K" Krzyzewski, Hall of Fame NCAA Champion Coach, Duke University

Learn from Olympic medalist, NCAA champion, Academic All-American, and attorney... Read more

How to Get Successful by F*cking Up Your Life

By: Anna David

Narrated by: Kellie Mitchell (Female Synthesized Voice)

Length: 3 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

This recording has been digitally produced, by DeepZen Limited, using a synthesized version of an audiobook narrator’s voice under license. DeepZen uses Emotive Speech Technology to create digital narrations that offer a similar listening experience to human narration.Anna David was, in every way, groomed for success. She grew up in an affluent... Read more

The Last Resort

By: Douglas Rogers

Narrated by: Kevin Hanssen

Length: 12 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Born and raised in Zimbabwe, Douglas Rogers is the son of white farmers living through that country's long and tense transition from postcolonial rule. He escaped the dull future mapped out for him by his parents for one of adventure and excitement in Europe and the United States. But when Zimbabwe's president Robert Mugabe launched his violent... Read more

Baggage

By: Alan Cumming

Narrated by: Alan Cumming

Length: 8 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

""An intimate look at the making of a man, an actor, an advocate—and most importantly—a happy human being. A wonderful book that is funny, honest, fearless, and generous in its vulnerability."" —Douglas Stuart, Booker Prize-winning author of Shuggie BainThere is absolutely no logical reason why I am here. The life trajectory my nationality and... Read more

India: A Million Mutinies Now

By: V. S. Naipaul

Narrated by: Sam Dastor

Length: 24 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Arising out of Naipaul’s lifelong obsession and passion for a country that is at once his and totally alien, India: A Million Mutinies Now relates the stories of many of the people he met traveling there more than fifty years ago. He explores how they have been steered by the innumerable frictions present in Indian society—the contradictions and... Read more

Sorry Not Sorry

By: Alyssa Milano

Narrated by: Alyssa Milano

Length: 7 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Alyssa Milano’s sharply observed, uproarious, and deeply intimate ode to the life she has lived and the issues that matter most.
 
Alyssa Milano, actress and activist, delivers here a collection of powerful personal essays that get to the heart of her life, career, and all-out humanitarianism. These essays are unvarnished and elegant, funny and... Read more

Mister Big ou la glorification des amours toxiques

By: India Desjardins

Narrated by: Marie-Claude Guérin

Length: 3 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

"La fiction pourrait-elle influencer notre perspective du monde, et plus particulièrement nos relations amoureuses? En décortiquant la relation entre Mister Big et Carrie, deux personnages centraux de la série Sex and the City, India Desjardins tente de démontrer, avec un regard bienveillant, que cette relation présentait tous les traits de la... Read more

Ofendiditos

By: Lucía Lijtmaer

Narrated by: Lucía Lijtmaer

Length: 1 hour 31 minutes

Abridged: No

¿Dónde están las verdaderas amenazas a la libertad de expresión? ¿Se está criminalizando la protesta?  En los últimos tiempos saltan a la prensa noticias como la censura del cartel de una exposición de Egon Schiele, se genera debate en torno a un cuadro de Balthus o a la Lolita de Nabokov... ¿Nos invade una oleada de neopuritanismo? ¿Se instaura... Read more

El día que aprendí que no sé amar

By: Aura García-Junco

Narrated by: Marysol Cantú

Length: 5 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Seamos «progres», conservadores o quimeras, el peso otorgado a la idea de exclusividad en una relación amorosa es un tema que levanta pasiones. En el fondo se nos educa para aspirar a una utopía: al día en que finalmente descubramos el Amor Verdadero y encontremos a nuestra media naranja. Pero la fantasía del amor romántico, lejos de ser la... Read more

La agonia de Francia

By: Manuel Chaves Nogales

Narrated by: Oscar Lopez

Length: 4 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

En noviembre de 1936, Manuel Chaves Nogales, descorazonado por el rumbo que está tomando la guerra civil, decide abandonar España e instalarse con su familia en París. Allí colaborará con la prensa francesa y latinoamericana e incluso pondrá en marcha una publicación semiartesanal sobre la actualidad española dirigida a los exiliados... Read more