Politics & Economy audiobooks

Red Devils

By: Mark Urban

Narrated by: Mark Urban

Length: 10 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Brought to you by Penguin.

A GRIPPING AUTHORISED HISTORY OF THE DARING 'RED DEVILS', THE TRAILBLAZERS OF THE PARACHUTE REGIMENT

The Parachute Regiment is Britain's elite airborne infantry. On the 80th anniversary of their first crucial campaign, in Operation Torch in North Africa, historian and broadcaster Mark Urban combines perspectives from... Read more

The Broken House

By: Horst Krüger

Narrated by: John Hopkins

Length: 6 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Brought to you by Penguin.

In 1965 the German journalist Horst Krüger attended the Auschwitz trial in Frankfurt, where 22 former camp guards were put on trial for the systematic murder of over 1 million men, women and children. Twenty years after the end of the war, this was the first time that the German people were confronted with the horrific... Read more

Kremlin Winter

By: Robert Service

Narrated by: Leighton Pugh

Length: 14 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Vladimir Putin has dominated Russian politics since Boris Yeltsin relinquished the presidency in his favour in May 2000. He served two terms as president, before himself relinquishing the post to his prime minister, Dimitri Medvedev, only to return to presidential power for a third time in 2012.

Putin’s rule, whether as president or prime... Read more

What Are You Doing Here?

By: Floella Benjamin

Narrated by: Floella Benjamin

Length: 14 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

This audio edition is read by the author, Floella Benjamin.

Winner at the 2022 Parlimentary Book Awards

Baroness Floella Benjamin is an inspiration, an actress and much-loved children’s television presenter who is a member of the House of Lords. But how did the girl from Trinidad end up lunching with the Queen?

In What Are You Doing Here? Floella... Read more

Last Man Standing

By: Jack Straw

Narrated by: Jack Straw

Length: 19 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

As a small boy in Epping Forest, Jack Straw could never have imagined that one day he would become Britain's Lord Chancellor. As one of five children of divorced parents, he was bright enough to get a scholarship to a direct-grant school, but spent his holidays as a plumbers' mate for his uncles to bring in some much-needed extra income. Yet he... Read more

The 21 Escapes of Lt Alastair Cram

By: David M. Guss

Narrated by: Joshua Manning

Length: 12 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

'Endlessly fascinating. Cram's story sizzles with adventure.' Giles Milton, Sunday Times

A genuinely new Second World War story, The 21 Escapes of Lt Alastair Cram is a riveting account of the wartime exploits of Alastair Cram, brilliantly told by the American author, David Guss. Cram was taken prisoner in North Africa in November 1941, which... Read more

Brothers in Arms

By: Geraint Jones

Narrated by: Geraint Jones

Length: 9 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Darkly funny, shockingly honest, Brothers in Arms is an unforgettable account of a soldier's tour of Afghanistan, the brutal reality of war – every scary, exciting moment – and the bonds of friendship that can never be destroyed.

‘If you could choose which two limbs got blown off, what would you go for?’ Danny said. ‘Your arms or your legs?’

In... Read more

Time Come

By: Linton Kwesi Johnson

Narrated by: Ben Onwukwe & Linton Kwesi Johnson

Length: 7 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

A Financial Times Music Book of the Year 2023

'Key to understanding black British history' - Sunday Times
'Sharp and still relevant' - Zadie Smith

Recognized as one of the great poets of modern times, and as a deeply respected and influential political and cultural activist and social critic, Linton Kwesi Johnson is also a prolific writer of... Read more

Turning Points

By: Steve Richards

Narrated by: Steve Richards

Length: 12 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

The Times Best Politics and Current Affairs Books of the Year

An entertaining and revealing history of modern British politics from Steve Richards, broadcaster, journalist, and author of The Prime Ministers We Never Had.

'Through wonderful vignettes, Richards offers a masterful, clear-eyed and, above all, entertaining history of British politics.... Read more

The Fall of Boris Johnson

By: Sebastian Payne

Narrated by: Sebastian Payne

Length: 8 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

The Fall of Boris Johnson is the explosive inside account of how a prime minister lost his hold on power. Written and read by Sebastian Payne, Director of Onward and former Whitehall Editor for the Financial Times.

Winner at the 2022 Parlimentary Book Awards
A New Statesman, The Times, Daily Mail and FT Book of the Year
'Revelatory' - The Daily... Read more

This is Europe

By: Ben Judah

Narrated by: Dan Connolly

Length: 13 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

A Times, Financial Times and Telegraph Book of the Year 2023

'Illuminates some of the great trends of our time' - Gideon Rachman, Financial Times
'Vivid, urgent and unsettling' - Tom Holland, author of Dominion
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What does it now mean to call yourself European? Who makes up this population of some 750 million, sprawled from Ireland to Ukraine,... Read more

I Spy

By: Tom Marcus

Narrated by: Georgia Maguire & Jason Langley

Length: 6 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

'One of the most successful MI5 undercover surveillance officers of his time.' - Sun

'The brutal truth about the war against terror. Fast-paced and gripping.' - Ant Middleton

The explosive book from ex-MI5 surveillance officer Tom Marcus takes the reader on a non-stop, adrenalin-fuelled ride as he hunts down those who would do our country harm.... Read more

The Stranger on the Bridge

By: Jonny Benjamin & Britt Pflüger

Narrated by: Britt Pflüger, Jonny Benjamin & Neil Laybourn

Length: 6 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

'In my world, the word inspirational gets bandied around a lot, but Jonny Benjamin is truly deserving of that adjective.' – HRH The Duke of Cambridge

'Jonny Benjamin is the most inspirational man I know. His book shows us how remarkable the human spirit is.' Bryony Gordon, bestselling author of Mad Girl

In 2008, twenty-year-old Jonny Benjamin... Read more

Money in One Lesson

By: Gavin Jackson

Narrated by: James Macnaughton

Length: 9 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

You Spend It. You Save It. You Never Have Enough of It. But how does money actually work?

Understanding cash, currencies and the financial system is vital for making sense of what is going on in our world, especially now. Since the 2008 financial crisis, money has rarely been out of the headlines. Central banks have launched extraordinary... Read more

Broken Heartlands

By: Sebastian Payne

Narrated by: Sebastian Payne

Length: 12 hours

Abridged: No

Broken Heartlands is an essential and compelling political road-trip through ten constituencies that tell the story of Labour’s red wall, by Sebastian Payne – an award-winning journalist and Whitehall Editor for the Financial Times.

The Times Political Book of the Year
A Daily Telegraph, Guardian, Daily Mail and FT Book of the Year
'Immensely... Read more

The Greatest Escape

By: Neil Churches

Narrated by: Adam Fitzgerald

Length: 8 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

The gripping, vividly told story of the largest POW escape in the Second World War – organized by an Australian bank clerk, a British jazz pianist and an American spy.

In August 1944 the most successful POW escape of the Second World War took place – 106 Allied prisoners were freed from a camp in Maribor, in present–day Slovenia. The escape was... Read more

The Yoga Manifesto

By: Nadia Gilani

Narrated by: Avita Jay

Length: 9 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

How did an ancient spiritual practice become the preserve of the privileged?

Nadia Gilani has been practising yoga as a participant and teacher for over twenty-five years. Yoga has saved her life and seen her through many highs and lows; it has been a faith, a discipline, and a friend, and she believes wholeheartedly in its radical potential.... Read more

Why Governments Get It Wrong

By: Dennis C. Grube

Narrated by: Dennis C. Grube

Length: 6 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

'This humane, accessible and lucid work will enlighten any voter, and remind any would-be – or currently serving – politician of the pitfalls to avoid' - TLS

Barely a week goes by without another government U-turn and with the cost of living crisis and rising mortgage rates we really need those in charge to get it right. In this timely book... Read more

The World's Biggest Cash Machine

By: Chris Blackhurst

Narrated by: Chris Blackhurst

Length: 10 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

'Jaw-dropping revelations . . . The incredible story of [Man United] laid bare in new book' - Daily Mail

'A gripping tale, full of insight. Blackhurst is an enormously talented writer' – City A.M.

From Chris Blackhurst, the former Editor of the Independent, comes The World's Biggest Cash Machine, a gripping and tightly reported account of how the... Read more

Assad

By: Con Coughlin

Narrated by: Charles Armstrong

Length: 8 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

'Engrossing . . . has the vice-like grip of a thriller' - The Telegraph

'Fascinating, timely and sharp' - Simon Sebag Montefiore

In Assad: The Triumph of Tyranny, Con Coughlin, veteran commentator on war in the Middle East and author of Saddam: The Secret Life, examines how a mild-mannered ophthalmic surgeon transformed himself into the tyrannical... Read more

The Little Girl Who Could Not Cry

By: Lidia Maksymowicz & Paolo Luigi Rodari

Narrated by: Anna Cordell

Length: 4 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

The Number 1 International Bestseller.

The heartbreaking, inspiring true story of a girl sent to Auschwitz who survived Mengele’s evil experiments. With a foreword written by His Holiness Pope Francis.

Lidia was just three years old when she arrived in Auschwitz-Birkenau with her mother, grandparents and foster brother. They were from Belarus,... Read more

WILLKOMMEN IN DER ZUKUNFT

By: Megan Rose

Narrated by: Conny Krause & Michael J. Diekmann

Length: 2 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

DAS WIRKEN DER ERDALLIANZ & DIE BEFREIUNG UNSERES PLANETEN Dies ist die Geschichte von Megan Rose, die zweimal von böswilligen Außerirdischen entführt und von friedliebenden nordischen Außerirdischen gerettet wurde. Sie blieb in Kontakt mit ihren Rettern und schildert in diesem Buch die Geschichte des verdeckten galaktischen Krieges auf... Read more

Степан Бандера и судьба Украины

By: Леонид Млечин

Narrated by: Пётр Энтис

Length: 10 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Долго и мучительно украинский народ шел к своей самостоятельности. На этом пути было множество преград: смена правителей, войны, оккупация. Сколько невинной крови было пролито за «свободную самостийную Украину»; менялась власть, вожди, территория переходила из рук в руки, но идея независимого Украинского государства, за которую так ожесточенно... Read more

Der Magier im Kreml

By: Giuliano da Empoli

Narrated by: Hans Jürgen Stockerl

Length: 8 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Im Zentrum des Imperiums der Lüge Man nennt ihn den "Magier im Kreml". Der rätselhafte Vadim Baranow war Regisseur und Produzent von Reality-TV-Shows, bevor er zur grauen Eminenz von Putin wird. Nachdem er als politischer Berater von der Bühne verschwindet, werden immer mehr Legenden über ihn verbreitet. Bis er eines Nachts dem Ich-Erzähler... Read more