Medicine audiobooks

Preventable

By: Devi Sridhar

Narrated by: Devi Sridhar

Length: 13 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Brought to you by Penguin.

Preventable uses the spellbinding story of the COVID-19 pandemic to show how global politics shape our health.

Professor Devi Sridhar has risen to prominence for her vital roles in communicating science to the public and speaking truth to power. In Preventable she highlights lessons learned from outbreaks past and... Read more

Food Isn’t Medicine

By: Joshua Wolrich

Narrated by: Joshua Wolrich

Length: 5 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Brought to you by Penguin.

Losing weight is not your life's purpose.


Do carbs make you fat?
Could the keto diet cure mental health disorders?
Are eggs as bad for you as smoking?

No, no and absolutely not. It's all what Dr Joshua Wolrich defines as 'nutribollocks' and he is on a mission to set the record straight.

As an NHS doctor with personal... Read more

Wonderful Adventures of Mrs Seacole in Many Lands

By: Mary Seacole

Narrated by: Yasmin Mwanza

Length: 8 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Brought to you by Penguin.

This Penguin Classic is performed by Yasmin Mwanza. This definitive recording includes an introduction by Sarah Salih.

Written in 1857, this is the autobiography of a Jamaican woman whose fame rivalled Florence Nightingale's during the Crimean War. Seacole's offer to volunteer as a nurse in the war met with racism and... Read more

Expert

By: Roger Kneebone

Narrated by: Roger Kneebone

Length: 8 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Brought to you by Penguin.

What could a lacemaker have in common with vascular surgeons? A Savile Row tailor with molecular scientists? A fighter pilot with jazz musicians? At first glance, very little. But Roger Kneebone, an expert on experts, has spent his life finding unexpected connections.

Kneebone maps out a path we're all following,... Read more

Unnatural Causes

By: Dr Richard Shepherd

Narrated by: Dr Richard Shepherd

Length: 11 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Meet the forensic pathologist, Dr Richard Shepherd, in the true crime book of the year - brought to you by Penguin.

'The dead do not hide the truth and they never lie. Through me the dead can speak . . .'

He solves the mysteries of unexplained or sudden death.
He has performed over 23,000 autopsies, including investigating some of the most... Read more

Brave New Girl

By: Chloe Brotheridge

Narrated by: Chloe Brotheridge

Length: 7 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Brave New Girl, written and read by Chloe Brotheridge.

Be the most confident version of yourself

How would you act if you didn't care what people thought?

Who would you be, if you knew for sure that you were worthy, loved and accepted?

What would you do if you knew failure was just a stepping stone, not a... Read more

Bloodsport

By: Matt Majendie

Narrated by: Matt Majendie

Length: 2 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Bloodsport is the story of the systematic doping of the 2012 and 2014 Olympics by the Russian state, its subsequent unmasking and the ongoing fall out amidst the power play of nation against nation.

Journalist Matt Majendie brings listeners the whole story from 2012 to 2020, told by the people who were there. You'll hear from Paula Radcliffe and... Read more

The Fight of Our Lives

By: John Wright

Narrated by: John Wright

Length: 6 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Go behind the scenes on the Covid wards of one of Britain's busiest hospitals, Bradford Royal Infirmary

2020 will forever be remembered as the year of coronavirus, but it's easy to forget the shock, fear and confusion that pervaded Britain as the pandemic first hit. In this exceptional radio series, senior NHS doctor and epidemiologist Professor... Read more

Pioneers

By: Clare English

Narrated by: Clare English

Length: 6 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Clare English meets the entrepreneurs, mavericks, trend-setters and seminal thinkers who have forged a path to the top

Broadcaster and current affairs specialist Clare English talks to 12 extraordinary trailblazers. Here are the inspiring stories of politicians and inventors, scientists and surgeons, models, parents, creatives and founders. All,... Read more

You Don't Have to Be Mad to Work Here

By: Benji Waterhouse

Narrated by: Benji Waterhouse

Length: 8 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Brought to you by Penguin.


**THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER**
Most of the psychiatric cases in this book are Benji’s patients. Some of them are his family. One of them is him.

Unlocking the doors to the psych ward, NHS psychiatrist Dr Benji Waterhouse provides a fly-on-the-padded-wall account of medicine’s most mysterious and controversial... Read more

The Highland Vet

By: Guy Gordon & The Thurso Veterinary Team

Narrated by: Guy Gordon

Length: 9 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Brought to you by Penguin.

Discover the charms and challenges of working at Scotland's most northerly mainland veterinary practice.

From conducting farm animal caesarean sections in the early hours to missing family plans in order to treat critically injured pet dogs, no two days in the work of vet Guy Gordon and his team are ever the same.

Based... Read more

The Climb

By: Chris Froome

Narrated by: Patrick Doherty

Length: 14 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of the revealing, inspirational memoir from the British winner of the Tour de France.
The Climb tells the extraordinary story of Chris Froome's journey from a young boy in Kenya, riding through townships and past wild animals, and with few opportunities for an aspiring cyclist, to... Read more

The Stress Solution

By: Rangan Chatterjee

Narrated by: Rangan Chatterjee

Length: 5 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Brought to you by Penguin.

*Narrated by Dr Rangan Chatterjee *
**From the author of the Sunday Times bestselling The 4 Pillar Plan**

"It's thought that between 70 and 90% of GP consultations are related to stress"

This has to change.

Dr Rangan Chatterjee knows this better than anyone. As a practising GP he's seen first-hand how stress affects... Read more

Your No Guilt Pregnancy Plan

By: Rebecca Schiller

Narrated by: Rebecca Schiller

Length: 9 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Penguin presents the audio edition of Your No Guilt Pregnancy Plan written and read by Rebecca Schiller.

Your No Guilt Pregnancy Plan is a revolutionary new guide to pregnancy and childbirth that puts the power firmly in your hands. It won't tell you what fruit your baby resembles week-by-week, but it will cover the huge shifts happening in your... Read more

Keeping Your Head in the Game

By: Gary Bloom

Narrated by: Gary Bloom

Length: 8 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Brought to you by Penguin.

Elite athletes play out their lives in the most public of arenas. Everything they do is analysed in real time and then picked apart in the pub and in the press afterwards. 'Why did they miss that penalty?', 'What made them fall at the first jump?', 'That press conference was a bit weird.' We can all speculate, but... Read more

The Real You

By: Andrew Parr

Narrated by: Andrew Parr

Length: 9 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Brought to you by Penguin.

If you could change one thing about the way you think, feel or behave today, what would it be?

We all have things that hold us back in life, preventing us from achieving true success and happiness. Andrew Parr has written the ultimate guide to escaping, resolving, and over-coming the self-imposed limitations that we all... Read more

Mental Health at Work

By: James Routledge

Narrated by: James Routledge

Length: 3 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Brought to you by Penguin.

It has never been more essential to support our mental health at work. With one in four people experiencing poor mental health right now, we need to start talking about it.

Penguin Business Expert James Routledge has worked with CEOs, HR directors, managers and people at all levels on successful mental-health... Read more

Tomorrow Will Be A Good Day

By: Captain Tom Moore

Narrated by: Derek Jacobi

Length: 12 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Brought to you by Penguin.

From his humble Yorkshire childhood, via the battlefields of Burma and the peaks of the Himalayas, to becoming the NHS and the nation's hero during Lockdown, Captain Tom Moore's story is a journey for all of us - brought to you by Penguin.

Who is Captain Sir Tom Moore?

You've seen him on the television walking the length... Read more

Also Human

By: Caroline Elton

Narrated by: Rachel Bavidge

Length: 9 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Random House presents the audiobook edition of Also Human by Caroline Elton, read by Rachel Bavidge.

Doctors are the people we turn to when we fall ill. They are the people we trust with our lives, and with the lives of those we love. Yet who can doctors turn to at moments of stress, or when their own working lives break down?

What does it take... Read more

The Doctor Will See You Now

By: Amir Khan

Narrated by: Amir Khan

Length: 7 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Brought to you by Penguin.


60 hours a week

240 patients

10 minutes to make a diagnosis

Welcome to the surgery.

Charting his 15 years working as a GP, from rookie to becoming a partner in one of the UK’s busiest surgeries, Dr Amir Khan’s stories are as much about community and care as they are about blood tests and bodily fluids.

Along the way, he... Read more

I'll Die After Bingo

By: Pope Lonergan

Narrated by: Pope Lonergan

Length: 8 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Brought to you by Penguin.

Resident: I feel I want to keep talking.
Me: Of course! What do you want to talk about?
Resident: My heart.
Me: What about your heart?
Resident: I feel I want to touch it.
Me: Your heart? You want to touch your heart?
Resident: Yes, but I'm too frightened.
Me: What are you frightened about?
Resident: Everything. People.... Read more

How to Live When You Could Be Dead

By: Deborah James

Narrated by: Gaby Roslin

Length: 4 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Brought to you by Penguin.

I'm alive when I should be dead. In another movie, I missed the sliding door and departed this wondrous life long ago. Like so many others, I've had to learn to live not knowing if I have a tomorrow, because, statistically, I shouldn't have. At the age of 35, I was blindsided by incurable bowel cancer - I was given a... Read more

Life, Almost

By: Jennie Agg

Narrated by: Jennie Agg

Length: 10 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Brought to you by Penguin.

After losing four pregnancies with no obvious cause, Jennie Agg set out to understand why miscarriage remains such a profoundly misunderstood, under-researched and under-acknowledged experience.

Part-memoir, part-scientific investigation, Life, Almost documents Agg's path to motherhood and her search for answers.... Read more

Life in Her Hands

By: Averil Mansfield

Narrated by: Averil Mansfield

Length: 9 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Brought to you by Penguin.

'A great read. I am honoured to have worked with such a legend' David Nott
'A role model for women' Independent
'A wonderful read' Julian Fellowes
'Remarkable' Lauren Laverne
'Charming' Guardian

We were occasionally expected to travel by ambulance to a serious case and would always have a kit of tools and drugs ready for... Read more