Essays audiobooks

Souvenir

By: Michael Bracewell

Narrated by: Tom Lawrence

Length: 2 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

'The best evocation I've read of London in the '80s' Neil Tennant

'I loved Souvenir . . . it rescued some things for me - a certain aesthetic, a philosophical engagement with time and poignant beauty and lived history that I have found myself looking for, and not finding, elsewhere in recent years . . . the book gave me new hope' John Burnside

'A... Read more

The Dark Tourist

By: Dom Joly

Narrated by: Dom Joly

Length: 7 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Ever since he can remember, Dom Joly has been fascinated by travel to odd places. In part this stems from a childhood spent in war-torn Lebanon, where instead of swapping marbles in the schoolyard, he had a shrapnel collection -- the schoolboy currency of Beirut. Dom's upbringing was interspersed with terrifying days and nights spent hunkered in... Read more

Chewing the Fat

By: Jay Rayner

Narrated by: Jay Rayner

Length: 2 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

'This is Rayner at his rambunctious best: upfront, full-fat, and always deliciously written.' Nigella Lawson 'A sophisticated palate and a fiery, comic tongue. Jay Rayner's food writing is brilliant.' Stanley Tucci Why are gravy stains on your shirt at the dinner table to be admired? Does bacon improve everything? And is gin really the... Read more

The Secret History of Food

By: Matt Siegel

Narrated by: Roger Wayne

Length: 5 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

An irreverent, surprising, and entirely entertaining look at the little-known history surrounding the foods we know and love
Is Italian olive oil really Italian, or are we dipping our bread in lamp oil? Why are we masochistically drawn to foods that can hurt us, like hot peppers? Far from being a classic American dish, is apple pie actually . . .... Read more

Smriti Satatoi Sukher

By: Pratibha Basu

Narrated by: Madhubanti Mitra

Length: 30 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

প্রতিভা বসু র এই স্মৃতিচারণ নিছকই এক বিশ্ব ভ্রমনের বৃত্তান্ত নয । স্মৃতির আযনায ধরা পড়েছে অসংখ্য জায়গা, মুহূর্ত এবং মানুষের প্রতিচ্ছবি। সর্বোপরি তাঁর জীবনসংগী বুদ্ধদেব বসুর এক অসামান্য ঘরোয়া চিত্র যা তাঁদের দুজনের যুগ্ম জীবনের এক ভালোবাসার জলছবি। শুনুন - শুধুমাত্র স্টোরিটেল এ! Read more

سيمفونية عشق

By: أحمد الغزي

Narrated by: محمد الشموتي

Length: 3 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

"لا تكتُب حرفاً وأنتَ تبكي إثر فراق، فسيظلُّ ما كتبت ملحاً يُرشُّ على جُرحكَ كلما قرأته" خواطر ومقتطفات يعرضها الكاتب أحمد الغزي دفقة شعورية تؤنس وحدتك استمع إلى كتاب "سيمفونية عشق" للكاتب أحمد الغزي على تطبيق كتاب صوتي Read more

لذة القراءة في أدب الرواية

By: أيمن الغزالى

Narrated by: محمود ربيعي

Length: 2 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

لم يكن من الضروري جمع هذه المقالات في كتاب لولا أهميتها، حيث أنها تشكل بمجموعها رؤية جادة في قراءة الأدب الروائي المعاصر، إذ تعتبر هذه المقدمات مدخل نقدي حول ما وصلت إليه الرواية وما ثار حولها في السنوات الأخيرة، وذلك تماشياً مع القلق الروائي الذي بات واضحاً مع ازدياد الهم الفكري والاجتماعي والسياسي في العالم. وما تتضمنه هذه المقدمات، هو شيء... Read more

Material Girls

By: Kathleen Stock

Narrated by: Kathleen Stock

Length: 8 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

'A clear, concise, easy-to-read account of the issues between sex, gender and feminism . . . an important book' Evening Standard

'A call for cool heads at a time of great heat and a vital reminder that revolutions don't always end well' Sunday Times

Material Girls is a timely and trenchant critique of the influential theory that we all have an... Read more

Suppose a Sentence

By: Brian Dillon

Narrated by: Peter Berkrot

Length: 6 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

A captivating meditation on the power of the sentence by the author of Essayism, a 2018 New Yorker book of the year.



In Suppose a Sentence, Brian Dillon, whom John Banville has called "a literary flâneur in the tradition of Baudelaire and Walter Benjamin," has written a sequel of sorts to Essayism, turning his attention to the oblique and complex... Read more

An Area of Darkness

By: V. S. Naipaul

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 10 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

A classic of modern travel writing, An Area of Darkness is Nobel laureate V. S. Naipaul’s profound reckoning with his ancestral homeland and an extraordinarily perceptive chronicle of his first encounter with India.Traveling from the bureaucratic morass of Bombay to the ethereal beauty of Kashmir, from a sacred ice cave in the Himalayas to an... Read more

God, Human, Animal, Machine

By: Meghan O'Gieblyn

Narrated by: Rebecca Lowman

Length: 9 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

A strikingly original exploration of what it might mean to be authentically human in the age of artificial intelligence, from the author of the critically-acclaimed Interior States. • "At times personal, at times philosophical, with a bracing mixture of openness and skepticism, it speaks thoughtfully and articulately to the most crucial issues... Read more

Travels with my suitcase

By: Teresa Beck-Swindale

Narrated by: Teresa Beck-Swindale

Length: 5 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

A musician on the road travels with an ear to the ground.This story of a search for sound involves encounters with random buskers, sublime jazz festivals, quirky folk musicians and singers of many nationalities.Tales of suitcases, sculptures and instrumental characters collide in a compendium of discoveries across the island state of Tasmania,... Read more

Agitación. Sobre el mal de la impaciencia: Sobre el mal de la impaciencia

By: Jorge Freire

Narrated by: Miguel Coll

Length: 2 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Un inteligente análisis de uno de los males contemporáneos: aquel que sufre el Homo agitatus. Merecedor del XI Premio Málaga de Ensayo. En este audiolibro, Freire sostiene que, si la sociedad ha adoptado las hechuras de un carnaval perpetuo, detenerse a pensar es una buena forma de insumisión. Y lo hace siguiendo al francés Blaise Pascal que,... Read more

فقه العشق

By: يوسف زيدان

Narrated by: عائشة الخراط

Length: 44 minutes

Abridged: No

"أرسلت تسألني ما الفارق بين العشق والاشتهاء الغرائزي؟ فأجبتها: الغرائز لذات دفينة والاشتهاء إلحاح الملح الحارق، وكلاهما عمومي. أما العشق فهو شديد الخصوصية، يثير عواصف إشتهاء العاشق نحو المعشوق وحده، ويخمدها تجاه الآخرين. ولهذا، فالعشق تهذيب للغرائز والشهوات. ومن علامات العشق، الحيرة. لأننا حين نعشق، نرى الكون بشكل مختلف، فتغمرنا الدهشة ويعربد... Read more

아름다운 것은 무엇을 남길까

By: 박완서

Narrated by: 전해리

Length: 5 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

작가 박완서 문학 30주년을 기념해서 그가 써왔던 산문들을 추려 엮은 산문집. 이 책은 1977년에 발간된 첫번째 산문집 '꼴찌에게 보내는 갈채' 에서부터 1990년에 간행된 '나는 왜 작은 일에만 분개하는가'를 포함하여 모두 7권의 산문집 중에서 대표작들만 모았다. 모두 4부로 나누어 1부에서는 생활, 2부에서는 고향, 3부에서는 여행, 4부에서는 삶의 깨달음을 다루고 있다. 투박한 듯하면서도 폐부를 찌르는 듯한 그의 글솜씨가 일상의 삶들을 소재로 한 산문들에서 더욱 진가를 발휘한다. 평범한 속에서 온갖 이야기들을 끌어내었던 그의 글솜씨가 다름아닌 함께 살아나가는 사람들과 자연에 대한 애정에서 비롯된 것임을... Read more

Center, Center

By: James Whiteside

Narrated by: James Whiteside

Length: 6 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

“James Whiteside is an electrifying performer, an incredible athlete, and an artist, through and through.  To know James is to love him; with Center Center, you are about to fall in love.” —Jennifer Garner

“A frank examination and celebration of queerness.”
—Good Morning America
 
A daring, joyous, and inspiring memoir-in-essays from the American... Read more

White Girls

By: Hilton Als

Narrated by: Kevin R. Free

Length: 10 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

"This book will change you." --Chicago Tribune

White Girls is about, among other things, blackness, queerness, movies, Brooklyn, love (and the loss of love), AIDS, fashion, Basquiat, Capote, philosophy, porn, Eminem, Louise Brooks, and Michael Jackson. Freewheeling and dazzling, tender and true, it is one of the most daring and provocative books... Read more

What About the Baby?

By: Alice McDermott

Narrated by: Angela Dawe

Length: 6 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

A collection of essays, lectures, and observations on the art of writing fiction from Alice McDermott, winner of the National Book Award and unmatched "virtuoso of language and image" (Rebecca Steinitz, The Boston Globe)

What About the Baby? Some Thoughts on the Art of Fiction gathers the bestselling novelist Alice McDermott’s pithiest wisdom... Read more

La Felicità Vera Dov`È?

By: Andrzej Stanislaw Budzinski

Narrated by: Giulia Segreti

Length: 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Breve viaggio alla scoperta di dove trovare finalmente la felicità. 
Le felicità è nelle piccolo cose: vediamo se è proprio così...Sicuramente non si deve andare da nessuna parte... è un movimento molto intenso.... però immobile...uhm
MOVIMENTO IMMOBILE?FAMMI PENSARE...?SIGNIFICA, SE NON SBAGLIO...FARE TANTA STRADA SENZA SPOSTARMI...?MI... Read more

Ética como erótica

By: Victor Raúl Jaramillo

Narrated by: Bryan Gómez

Length: 1 hour 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Este cuerpo del que hablo —carne jadeante y coronada de emociones— también es piel gramatical con su sintaxis y su semántica; organismo anímico con sus altibajos forjadores de satisfacciones y congojas, de alegrías y desganos; esqueleto intelectivo con sus dudas y certezas, con sus ensayos, sus errores y sus posibles descubrimientos. Cuerpo... Read more

A Funny Thing Happened On The Way

By: Nancy Spain

Narrated by: Nathalie Buscombe

Length: 7 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

The superb classic memoir from a dazzlingly eccentric and endlessly fascinating author and feminist icon - a woman very much ahead of her time - including her time spent on the glorious island of Skiathos

'A happy, hilarious book' Daily Express

Nancy Spain was one of the most celebrated - and notorious - writers and broadcasters of the 50s and... Read more

Amores viajeros

By: Pepa Ubeda

Narrated by: Claudia Pannone

Length: 6 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

"37 relatos basados en hechos reales. Historias de amor y desamor, miedo y armonía, vergüenza y valor, soledad y reconciliación, culpa y agradecimiento, realidad y quimera. El viaje condiciona la pasión o la necesidad de esas historias; la gastronomía, otra forma de pasión, adoba de misterio lo extraordinario a través de ajustes de cuentas, a... Read more

If You Lived Here You'd Be Famous by Now

By: Via Bleidner

Narrated by: Via Bleidner

Length: 7 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

This program is read by the author.

If You Lived Here You'd Be Famous by Now is an insider’s collection of funny and warmhearted stories about coming of age in the Los Angeles suburb famed for birthing the Kardashian-Jenners and the Bling Ring.

For Via Bleidner, transferring to Calabasas High from the private Catholic school she’s attended since... Read more

Out on a Limb

By: Andrew Sullivan

Narrated by: Andrew Sullivan

Length: 20 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Andrew Sullivan, “one of the most influential journalists of the last three decades” (The New York Times) and founding editor of The Daily Dish presents a collection of 60 his most iconic and powerful essays of social and political commentary from The New Republic, The Atlantic, The New York Times Magazine, New York magazine, and more.

Over the... Read more