Politics & Economy audiobooks

Be The Change

By: Gina Martin

Narrated by: Gina Martin

Length: 5 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

BE THE CHANGE is an essential handbook for the modern activist, whether your campaign is big or small, local or global, or somewhere in between.

'Gina Martin's powerful campaigning and vital activism changed the law, making our country safer for women and girls. This book tells us how she did it - and how you can too'
Sadiq Khan, Mayor of London

In... Read more

Long Way Home

By: Dan Jarvis

Narrated by: Dan Jarvis & Shaun Dooley

Length: 9 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of Best Memoir at the Parliamentary Book Awards 2020

'Dan Jarvis's story is a belter. It's about love, loss, courage and determination told with his customary modesty which fails to disguise the amazing man behind the story' Alan Johnson

Dan Jarvis is an MP and a Mayor, but this is not a book about politics. This is a book about service and... Read more

Call Him Mine

By: Tim MacGabhann

Narrated by: Aidan Kelly

Length: 6 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Jaded reporter Andrew and his photographer boyfriend, Carlos, are sick of telling just another story. From cartel massacres to corrupt politicians, sifting the dregs of Mexico's drug war, they think they've seen it all. But when they find a body even the police are too scared to look at, what started out as just another reportage becomes the... Read more

Identity, Ignorance, Innovation

By: Matthew d'Ancona

Narrated by: Matthew d'Ancona

Length: 7 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

This is political journalist Matthew D'Ancona's call to arms to challenge this age of political extremism, lazy populism and democratic torpor.

This is a call to arms.

The old tools of political analysis are obsolete - they have rusted and are no longer fit for purpose. We've grown lazy, wedded to the assumption that, after ruptures such as... Read more

Operation Jihadi Bride

By: John Carney & Clifford Thurlow

Narrated by: Clifford Thurlow & John Carney

Length: 8 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Soldier Magazine's Book of the Month

Fascinating... Incredibly dangerous. The Times

Gripping. Adrenalin fuelled true-life account with all the makings of a military thriller. The action unfolds like a Le Carre novel. Soldier Magazine</h2>


Jihad isn't a war. It's an objective. An aberration. If there are young women with children, lost boys...... Read more

Downsizing

By: Tom Watson

Narrated by: Tom Watson

Length: 6 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

'An honest and fascinating account of the journey that Tom made from discovering he was a type 2 diabetic to doing something about it. This book will change lives.' Michael Mosley

'Two years ago I turned 50, weighed 22 stone and was heavily medicated for type 2 diabetes. I thought it would be all downhill from there. By radically changing my... Read more

Imposter 13

By: Rob Sinclair

Narrated by: David Thorpe

Length: 11 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

THE EXPLOSIVE FINALE TO THE SLEEPER 13 SERIES

Against all odds, Aydin Torkal - aka Sleeper 13 - broke free from the terrorist group that took him as a child and raised him into a life of violence and hate.

In the two years since, he's been tracking and killing those responsible. But he's not done yet.

Now living a secret life in London, MI6 needs... Read more

What Makes Us Stronger

By: Freya Lewis

Narrated by: Freya Lewis & Lucy Fallon

Length: 6 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

'Freya Lewis is extraordinary' Katie Piper
'A love letter to the NHS' Lorraine Kelly
'An unflinching story of grief, survival and love' Daily Mail's YOU Magazine,
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The Manchester Arena attack nearly destroyed her. Love and courage saved her.

Freya Lewis was just three metres away from the terrorist who detonated the bomb at the Manchester... Read more

Woke

By: Titania McGrath

Narrated by: Alice Marshall

Length: 2 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

'The book everyone's talking about' The Times (Book of the Year)

'Titania McGrath is a genius' Spectator (Book of the Year)

'Beautiful classic satire' Ricky Gervais

'Hilarious . . . the most artful form of subtle parody' Joe Rogan

'Just as Bridget Jones was the embodiment of the anxiety-ridden Nineties feminist, a creation whose diary entries... Read more

Amazing Disgrace

By: Grace Campbell

Narrated by: Grace Campbell

Length: 6 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

For as long as she can remember, Grace Campbell has been told that she doesn't suit her name. But being graceful is no fun anyway.

Growing up in a world of privilege and politics, she had a lot to feel confident about. But she was also a record-breaker when it came to feeling shame. Shame about sex, shame about rejection, shame about mental... Read more

Free Speech And Why It Matters

By: Andrew Doyle

Narrated by: Andrew Doyle

Length: 2 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

'A fantastically timely book written by one of the smartest thinkers in Britain' Piers Morgan

'Impassioned, scholarly and succinct' The Times

Free speech is the bedrock of all our liberties, and yet in recent years it has come to be mistrusted. A new form of social justice activism, which perceives language as potentially violent, has prompted a... Read more

The Number Bias

By: Sanne Blauw

Narrated by: Sophie Roberts

Length: 4 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

'A beautifully accessible exploration of how numbers shape our lives, and the importance of accurately interpreting the statistics we are fed.' - Angela Saini, author of Superior

Even if you don't consider yourself a numbers person, you are a numbers person. The time has come to put numbers in their place. Not high up on a pedestal, or out on the... Read more

Foot Work

By: Tansy E. Hoskins

Narrated by: Karen Cass

Length: 9 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

From the author of STITCHED UP: 'Makes a strong case for nothing less than a revolution' Emma Watson

'A superb primer on everything that is wrong with our world - and how we can start to change it' NEW INTERNATIONALIST

DO YOU KNOW WHERE YOUR SHOES COME FROM?

DO YOU KNOW WHERE THEY GO WHEN YOU'RE DONE WITH THEM?

In 2018, 66.3 million pairs of shoes... Read more

Tank Action

By: David Render & Stuart Tootal

Narrated by: Roger Davis

Length: 11 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

A gripping account of the Second World War, from the perspective of a young tank commander.

In 1944, David Render was a nineteen-year-old second lieutenant fresh from Sandhurst when he was sent to France. Joining the Sherwood Rangers Yeomanry five days after the D-Day landings, the combat-hardened men he was sent to command did not expect him to... Read more

Unspeakable

By: John Bercow

Narrated by: John Bercow

Length: 18 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

When John Bercow retired as Speaker of the House of Commons on 31 October 2019, he had become one of the most recognisable and iconoclastic figures in British politics, occupying a ringside seat during one of the most febrile periods in modern British history. In his no-holds-barred memoir, he offers verdicts on the leading figures of his era -... Read more

The American Trap

By: Frédéric Pierucci

Narrated by: Luke Thompson

Length: 9 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

This is the story of a man caught in the middle of a huge American destabilizing operation, illustrating the secret economic war that the United States is waging against developed nations across the world.

In 2014, France lost part of the control of its nuclear power plants to the United States. Frédéric Pierucci, former senior executive of one... Read more

Truth to Power

By: Jess Phillips

Narrated by: Jess Phillips

Length: 4 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

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THE SUNDAY TIMES BEST SELLER

'Will ruffle some feathers.' Stylist

'There's nobody else at Westminster quite like Jess Phillips. She is fearless and funny, riotous and rebellious, maverick and mischievous.' The Times

'Jess Phillips is a heroine' J.K. Rowling



YOU HAVE MORE POWER THAN YOU THINK.

At a time when many of us feel the world isn't... Read more

The Shitshow

By: Steve Lowe & Alan McArthur

Narrated by: Miles Jupp

Length: 5 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

It was shit. Then the shit hit the fan. Would someone find a way of making it worse? Of course they would! Welcome to THE SHITSHOW...'

There's a lot going on these days. Trump, Brexit, Call the Midwife . . . The rise of the robots . . . The rise of Easy Peelers . . .

The authors of the bestselling Is It Just Me Or Is Everything Shit? series... Read more

Smoke & Mirrors

By: Gemma Milne

Narrated by: Gemma Milne

Length: 10 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

'Stop following the news until you've read Gemma Milne's persuasive analysis of the hype and bullshit that distort our understanding of emerging science. As she shows, the starting point to grasping the genuine opportunities of AI, life sciences and climate tech is a healthy dose of critical thinking'
David Rowan, founding editor of WIRED UK and... Read more

Sunburn

By: James Felton

Narrated by: Alexei Sayle

Length: 7 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

JAMES FELTON'S "ASSHOLES" IS OUT NOW

'An astonishing piece of work' James O'Brien
'This book was a delight. Funny, scathing and witty' Ian Dunt

You should buy this book if: a) you dislike the Sun, but have never actually read it to know why and/or b) you're still not sure how we got into this mess.

Using his famed on-the-nose commentary, Twitter... Read more

Groomed to be a Bride

By: Maggie Hartley

Narrated by: Penny McDonald

Length: 5 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

'Mama is gone and I cry every night.'

When a terrified young girl is discovered hiding in the back of a lorry, she is quickly taken into the care of social services. Arriving on the doorstep of foster carer Maggie Hartley, she is painfully thin, bruised and unable to speak a word of English. What atrocities has she escaped to bring her here? ... Read more

The Prime Ministers

By: Iain Dale

Narrated by: Iain Dale

Length: 19 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

55 profiles by 55 different writers, politicians, journalists and academics of every prime minister there's ever been, from Robert Walpole to Boris Johnson, compiled by Iain Dale.

It has almost been 300 years since Sir Robert Walpole arguably became the first holder of the office of Prime Minister in 1721 - an office which today is under scrutiny... Read more

Network of Lies

By: Brian Stelter

Narrated by: Brian Stelter

Length: 11 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Fox News paid almost a billion dollars in legal settlements to bury the contents of this “essential…grinding, momentum-building” (The New York Times) account of the network’s blatant attempts to manipulate the truth, mislead the public, and influence our elections—from the New York Times bestselling author of Hoax.

The ongoing criminal trials of... Read more

The Insider

By: Christopher Pyne

Narrated by: Christopher Pyne

Length: 9 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Christopher Pyne has been many things and called many things throughout his long career in politics. Member for Sturt. Minister for Defence. Manager of Opposition Business. Leader of the House. 'The Fixer'. Any Canberra story he doesn't know isn't worth telling.

Now, after 26 years, the ultimate insider is outside the House and ready to burst the... Read more