Have a flick through our collection of nonfiction eAudiobooks and audiobooks on CD. This list updates when we add new titles to our collection.
G. Kelly's pie and mash has been run by the same family in the Roman Road in Bow for nearly a hundred years; an East End institution and the still point of a turning world. Outside its windows the Roman Road has seen an extraordinary revolution, from...
On 17th July 1918, the whole of the Russian Imperial Family was murdered. There were no miraculous escapes. The former Tsar Nicholas, his wife Alexandra, and their children were all tragically gunned down in a blaze of bullets. On the 100-year-anniversary...
In his first book David Jason told us about himself from his early years training as an electrician through to making it as one of Britain's greatest actors. In this follow up autobiography, he tells us about the many other lives he has lived - through...
This new edition of the bestselling classic offers sensitive and practical advice on how to deal with the grieving process, from coping with the funeral to managing anniversaries and special dates. Suitable for both the bereaved and their support team,...
A BBC Radio 4 'Book of the Week' in 2018. In 2013 Guy Stagg made a pilgrimage from Canterbury to Jerusalem. Though a non-believer, he began the journey after suffering several years of mental illness, hoping the ritual would heal him. For ten months he...
In The Darkening Age, Catherine Nixey tells the little-known - and deeply shocking - story of how a militant religion deliberately tried to extinguish the teachings of the Classical world, ushering in unquestioning adherence to the 'one true faith'. The...
Tall Tales & True is a collection of the very best of live Australian storytelling featuring courageous storytellers who front up to the microphone to bare their soul and share their life-changing moments. In this collection are stories told by well-known...
Addiction isn't what we thought it was. It's not always negative and it's nothing new either. Whether it's our daily coffee hit, impulsively checking our smartphone or putting in too many hours at the office, addiction can touch each and every one of...
In 2008, twenty-year-old Jonny Benjamin stood on Waterloo Bridge, about to jump. A stranger saw his distress and stopped to talk with him - a decision that saved Jonny's life. Fast forward to 2014 and Jonny, together with Rethink Mental Illness launch...
Nicholas Parsons chairs another six episodes of the hugely popular BBC Radio 4 panel game, with guest players including Paul Merton. Duration: 3 hours approx.
Miriam Margolyes and Alison Steadman star in the fourth BBC Radio 4 series of Sue Limb's wickedly funny parody of the Bloomsbury Group. '... one of the funniest, slyest, most naughtily inventive and brilliantly performed shows on the air' Gillian Reynolds,...
Sally Phillips stars as the social worker with all the PC jargon but none of the practical solutions, in a further six episodes of the radio sitcom. Duration: 3 hours approx
Random House presents the unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of The Unmumsy Mum Diary by The Unmumsy Mum, read by Sarah Turner.She's back! The Unmumsy Mum has put pen to paper (or fingers to the keyboard!) once more to bring you the next instalment...
Join Alex and Ben - aka The Pin - in their weird twist on the double-act sketch show.The Pin are a multi-award-winning comedy duo with a unique brand of self-reflexive comedy. Performed in front of a live studio audience, their sketches exist somewhere...
All nineteen surviving episodes from the fourth series of Beyond Our Ken, plus bonus programme Forty Laughing YearsA superb mélange of sketches and songs, liberally sprinkled with puns and double entendres, Beyond Our Ken made millions of listeners laugh...
The complete 93rd series of the topical BBC Radio 4 comedy panel show, hosted by Miles Jupp.The long-running satirical panel game returns with eight more episodes, featuring guests including Jeremy Hardy, Susan Calman, Andy Hamilton, Katy Brand, Zoe ...
Eight episodes of the topical BBC Radio 4 comedy panel show, presented by Miles Jupp. The long-running satirical panel show returns for its 91st series, with guests including Jeremy Hardy, Lucy Porter, Andy Hamilton, Kerry Godliman, Susan Calman, Hugo...
Nicholas Parsons chairs six more episodes of the evergreen BBC Radio 4 panel game. Fresh from winning the Radio Award for comedy in the 2016 Chortle Awards, the perennially popular show returns for a 75th series. Guests joining Nicholas Parsons inclu...
Coping with your own death, when you are not yet dead, is a strange thing...A natural on a horse since he was able to walk, and imbued with a pure love of riding, Declan Murphy became one of the most brilliant jockeys of his generation before his world...
Penguin presents the audiobook of My Sister Milly by Gemma Dowler, read by Ruby Thomas. This is Gemma Dowler's powerful account, as seen on The One Show and This Morning . . . 'My name is Gemma Dowler. On 21 March 2002, a serial killer named Levi Bel...
The first five volumes from the landmark BBC radio series This Sceptred Isle. Christopher Lee's epic history tells the story of Britain from the Romans to the death of Victoria. This collection includes the original first five volumes: 55BC-1087: Julius...
Eyewitness accounts from the BBC Archive are at the heart of this unique history of the first half of the 20th Century, narrated by Tim Pigott-Smith. The events of 1900-1949 are described by the people who saw them happen, from the death of Queen Victoria...
Six more episodes of BBC Radio 4's multi-award-winning sketch show, written by and starring John Finnemore. 'The best sketch show in years, on television or radio' Radio Times. John Finnemore, writer and star of Cabin Pressure and John Finnemore's Double...
'My mother is not a foodie. But for as long as I can remember, once a year, she becomes possessed of a profound and desperate need to serve up a perfect roast turkey. Faced with a walk into the village though, she might think 'oh, f*** it' and decide...
Comedy trio The Penny Dreadfuls recount the story of the much-maligned Macbeth, revisit Odysseus' epic journey and reveal the truth behind Darwin's famous voyage The Penny Dreadfuls - Humphrey Ker, David Reed and Thom Tuck - are a comedy trio who specialise...
The complete Series 12 of the popular BBC Radio 4 comedy, starring Christopher Douglas as Ed Reardon'The funniest sitcom ever to grace Radio 4' Radio TimesCurmudgeonly author Ed Reardon is back - sent down from University and temporarily living in a ...
The Third Battle of Ypres was a 'lost victory' for the British Army in 1917. Between July and November 1917, in a small corner of Belgium, more than 500,000 men were killed or maimed, gassed or drowned - and many of the bodies were never found. The Y...
The best bosses know this, and they know how to make it happen by thoughtfully designing people's jobs around the skills they have today as well as the skills they'll need to be even more valuable tomorrow. That's how entire organizations stay competitive...
Eyewitness accounts from the BBC Archive are at the heart of this unique history of the latter half of the 20th Century, narrated by Tim Pigott-Smith.The events of 1950-1999 are described by the people who saw them happen, from the Festival of Britain...
Journey's End is an unflinching vision of life in the tranches towards the end of the First World War.The play opens in a dugout in the trenches in France. Raleigh, a new 18-year-old officer fresh out of school, joins the besieged company of his friend...
Eight episodes of the award-winning BBC Radio 4 impressions show starring Jon Culshaw, Jan Ravens and others, first broadcast June-July 2016 (6 episodes) and December 2016 (2 episodes).
***THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP 5 BESTSELLER*** Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Everything I Know About Love written and read by Dolly Alderton. A Spot-on, wildly funny and sometimes heart-breaking book about growing up, growing older and navigating...
Kenneth Horne, Kenneth Williams, Hugh Paddick, Betty Marsden and others star in the complete third series of the madcap forerunner to Round the Horne. A hectic mix of sketches and songs, Beyond Our Ken kept millions of listeners in stitches between 1958...
The complete final series of the groundbreaking BBC Radio comedy starring Tony Hancock - plus five bonus episodes. Created by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson in 1954, Hancock's Half Hour was the radio vehicle that made Tony Hancock a household name. Each...
Seven more episodes of biting satirical wit from Steve Punt, Hugh Dennis, Mitch Benn and guests, first broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November and December 2016. Duration: 3 hours approx.
Twenty years undercover - one man's true story of life as an undercover cop. A must-read for fans of Donnie Brasco. For over 20 years Joe Carter has worked for the police as an undercover cop. He travelled the globe on different passports. He fraternised...
Join Professor John Lloyd and Curators Jimmy Carr, Humphrey Ker, Phill Jupitus and Sarah Millican as they plunge down the badger hole of ignorance in a search for the universe's most mind-boggling oddnesses. The Museum of Curiosity is BBC Radio 4's m...
Set during World War Two, Hut 33 follows the adventures of a team of codebreakers at Bletchley Park as they work tirelessly to break German codes, matching wits with the fabled Enigma Machine. Unfortunately, they hate each other.Archie is a stroppy G...
Paul Temple swings into the Sixties in these five complete radio dramas starring Peter Coke and Marjorie Westbury - plus bonus archive material.Paul Temple and the Gilbert Case (1960) A dead girl's father is sure the police have placed the wrong man in...
Brian Cox and Robin Ince present a witty, irreverent look at the world according to science. The Infinite Monkey Cage has become one of BBC Radio 4's most popular science-based programmes. In each episode physicist Brian Cox and comedian Robin Ince delve...
Sugar. It is killing us. Why do we eat so much of it? What are its hidden dangers? In 1972, when British scientist John Yudkin first proved that sugar was bad for our health, he was ignored by the majority of the medical profession and rubbished by the...
The official autobiography of Jamie Vardy.An ordinary lad from Sheffield, Jamie Vardy has become known as an against-the-odds footballing hero the world over. Yet a few years ago, things couldn't have been any more different. Rejected as a teenager by...
Stephen Mangan and Claire Skinner star in all four series of the popular BBC Radio 4 comedy drama. 'A wise and witty feast for the senses'' Gillian Reynolds, The Daily Telegraph Bill works as an economist in a right-wing institute giving succour to bankers...
The complete third and fourth series of the classic radio sitcom starring Harry H Corbett and Wilfrid Brambell, adapted from the much-loved TV series. Steptoe and Son ran for eight series on BBC TV and even spawned two feature films. Such was the ser...
The highly-acclaimed BBC Radio 4 dramatisation of Milton's epic poem telling the story of the fall of man, and also its sequel, "Paradise Regained". Out of chaos shall come order and out of darkness shall come light. Paradise is lost - and then regained....
A unique collection of historic recordings in which the last brutal encounters of the war and the mixed emotions of the armistice are remembered by troops from both sides.By the end of March 1918, Germany's Spring Offensive had thrown British forces back...
Join Professor John Lloyd and Curators Noel Fielding, Jo Brand, Romesh Ranganathan and Sally Phillips as they plunge down the badger hole of ignorance in a search for the universe's most mind-boggling oddnesses. The Museum of Curiosity is BBC Radio 4...
The complete 92nd series of the long-running BBC Radio 4 satirical quiz, hosted by Miles Jupp. The popular topical comedy panel game returns with eight more episodes, trawling through news stories big and small to provide comedy, commentary, irony an...
The complete Series 17 of the award-winning BBC Radio 4 impressions show - plus two Christmas special episodesDead Ringers returns with more sharp, topical comedy in these eight shows, featuring all six episodes from Series 17 as well as the two 2017...
A book for anyone interested to know more about how the world really works by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Ronan Farrow. 'This is one of the most important books of our time.' Walter Isaacson 'A masterpiece' Dan Simpson, Post-Gazette THE NEW YORK...
Penguin presents the audiobook edition of The Old Man and the Sand Eel, written and read by Will Millard. Growing up on the Cambridgeshire Fens, Will Millard never felt more at home than when he was out with his granddad on the riverbank whiling away...
Ruth's tribe are her lively children and her filmmaker husband, Simon, who has Motor Neurone Disease and can only communicate with his eyes. Ruth's other 'tribe' are the friends who gather at the cove in Greystones, Co. Wicklow, and regularly throw t...
The complete Series 11 of the award-winning BBC Radio 4 comedy series 'The funniest sitcom ever to grace Radio 4' Radio Times Ed Reardon - hack writer, pipe smoker, fare-dodger and master of the abusive email - returns in the radio sitcom, written by...
How did Claudius become the man he is in Shakespeare's Hamlet? What were the real reasons behind the murder of his brother? How does he really feel about his nephew? These questions will be answered in this drama spiced with ghosts, pirates, magic an...
With the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, Chinese laborers became the first group in American history to be excluded from the United States on the basis of their race and class. This landmark law changed the course of U.S. immigration history, but we know...
"To apply a Buddhist viewpoint to relationships is eye-opening. It points to a radically different worldview, one that runs counter to the spirit of much of the conventional advice we receive." Broken hearts, resentment, affairs, divorce. Why is it so...
The royal wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan was a beautiful success. An American biracial woman carried the dreams of all little girls of one day having a prince to be their groom. Love transcends social, political and racial impediments that produce...
Featured as one of Summer 2018's most anticipated reads by the Los Angeles Times, Vogue, Vulture, Entertainment Weekly, ELLE, Buzzfeed, and Bitch Media. In the style of New York Times bestsellers You Can't Touch My Hair, Bad Feminist, and I'm Judging...
Surprise your friends! Astonish your family! With Pimsleur, you'll be speaking and understanding like a native in no time. 30 minutes a day is all it takes! This course includes Lessons 6-10 from the Italian Level 1 program featuring 2.5 hours of lan...
Sloan offers a narrative account of the battle of Okinawa during the spring of 1945, profiling the conflict as a clash marked by the death of America's highest ranking officer killed during World War II and the deaths of more than 250,000 soldiers, s...
The Pimsleur Method is scientifically proven to be your fastest route to near-native fluency. Speak and understand Italian in just 30 minutes a day. This course includes Lessons 16-20 from the Italian Level 1 program featuring 2.5 hours of language.....
Packed with big truth, this little book on God's grace can be read in roughly one hour, ensuring you'll actually read it. Justin Holcomb, pastor at Mars Hill Church in Seattle and executive director of the Resurgence, highlights Scripture's recurring...
New York Times best-selling author John C. Maxwell shows that talent is just the starting point for a successful impact in any organization. It's what takes you beyond your talent that matters. People everywhere are proving him right. Read the headlines,...
We're Doomed, Now What? addresses the crisis that is our time through a series of brilliant, moving, and original essays on climate change, war, literature, and loss, from one of the most provocative and iconoclastic minds of his generation.
Arguably the greatest coach in British sporting history. Jurgen Grobler's Olympic coaching career is one of legend, yet the man himself has remained resolutely out of the spotlight. Over the last twenty years he has masterminded British Rowing's inco...
New York Times best-selling author and leadership expert John Maxwell offers practical insight into learning how to lead the person who matters most--yourself.The path to leadership begins with a question only few of us ask: How do I lead myself? John...
Christianity Has the Resources to Address Intellectual and Cultural Issues. Do You? Christians can feel overwhelmed at the sheer number of competing worldviews in today's pluralistic, multicultural society. Thankfully, you don't have to memorize a di...
A superb high quality hypnosis recording by Glenn Harrold - the UK's best selling self-help audio author. Combining skilled hypnotherapy techniques with state of the art digital recording technology. Unleash Your True Potential uses post hypnotic sug...
Pimsleur equals success. Just one 30-minute lesson a day gets you speaking and understanding like no other program. This course includes Lessons 11-15 from the Italian Level 1 program featuring 2.5 hours of language instruction. Each lesson provides 30...
SUNDAY TIMES TOP 10 BESTSELLERDear Leader contains astonishing new insights about North Korea which could only be revealed by someone working high up in the regime. It is also the gripping story of how a member of the inner circle of this enigmatic c...
For more than seventy years, Gifford's Ice Cream and Candy Company was associated with nothing but pleasure for native Washingtonians and visitors to the nation's capital. But behind the iconic business's happy facade lay elaborate schemes, a crushin...
Overcoming the Never-Enough Mentality to Experience True Kingdom Abundance Prosperity. It's one of the most dividing words in the church. Some pastors use it to tell their congregations that God will make them all rich, rich, rich! Others spurn the word...
While most of us have moments of loving freely and openly, it is often hard to sustain this where it matters most--in our intimate relationships. Why, if love is so great and powerful, are human relationships so challenging and difficult? If love is the...
"Just shut up and work, __________!"Everyone has a name they would put in that spot if they could say what they really feel at work sometimes. To be successful we must learn how to rise up and become the changing detoxifying force in our work space. In...
Sun Tzu's Art of War is widely acknowledged to be one of the greatest tools for understanding and resolving conflict ever. But how do you translate its military insights into practical tactics you can use in the corporate boardroom, the PTA meeting, or...
In the tradition of Peter Matthiessen's Wildlife in America or Aldo Leopold, Brenda Peterson tells the 300-year history of wild wolves in America. It is also our own history, seen through our relationship with wolves. The earliest Americans revered t...
Whales are among the largest, most intelligent, deepest diving species to have ever lived on our planet. We have hunted them for thousands of years and scratched their icons into our mythologies. They simultaneously fill us with waves of terror, awe ...
Unlike most Japanese language books that focus on formal and polite use, this introductory guide will help you to speak and understand Japanese as it is used in everyday life. If you are studying, working or just travelling to Japan this book will help...
You know when you find yourself approaching thirty and your dreams are broken? You've got a temping career going nowhere, a student debt that's mounting and you've just had to move back into your mum's house.Then to top it all off, you get absolutely...
A Brief History of Everything is an altogether friendly and accessible account of men and women's place in a universe of sex, soul, and spirit, written by an author of whom New York Times reporter Tony Schwartz says: "No one has described the path to...
Women shaped the men who changed the world. -- History tells of women whose love for the Bible shaped its earliest and most prominent teachers. It tells of women who were great theologians in their own right, yet whose only students were their own children....
Successful life speaker and motivational legend Ed Foreman takes a Texan's approach to the timeless principles of success, wealth, happiness, and an overall holistically successful life in this rambunctious and comedic three-part series. A self-made....
What if there were a natural health-promoting substance that was inexpensive, available at any grocery store in the country, and probably sitting in your cupboard right now' There is. It is called sodium bicarbonate, although you may know it as baking...
A brilliant young historian offers a vital, comprehensive international military history of the Cold War in which he views the decade-long superpower struggles as one of the three great conflicts of the twentieth century alongside the two World Wars,...
She was his second wife to die. Coming off a failed marriage, a beautiful woman named Toni joined an online dating site, hoping to find true and lasting love. Harold Henthorn seemed like her dream come true, a handsome man who said he had a heart for...
Ready to make money on Shopify? Then follow the guidelines in this book on how to set up your store and boost your sales. Remember that anything can be sold on Shopify. This book contains proven steps and strategies on how to start, grow and succeed ...
In today's world, customers don't want to hear sales pitches, but many salespeople still rely on them. In this breakthrough audiobook, Steve Yastrow, founder of a successful business strategy consulting firm, asks us to throw out everything we've been...
Crosby's landmark 1972 work argues that environmental factors shape our history just as much as--and sometimes more than--human factors. While earlier scholars emphasized cultural and technological factors as defining the way our world developed, Crosby...
Barbarians, political breakdown, economic collapse, mass migration, pillaging and plunder. The fall of the Roman Empire has been studied for years, but genetics, climate science, forensic science, network models, and globalization studies have reshaped...
There are few more precious routines than that of the bedtime story. So why do we discard this invaluable ritual as grown-ups to the detriment of our well-being and good health? In this groundbreaking anthology, Ben Holden, editor of the bestselling Poems...
Philosophy for busy people. Listen to a succinct account of the philosophy of Spinoza in just one hour. Spinoza's brilliant metaphysical system was derived neither from reality nor experience. Starting from basic axioms (assumptions), by means of a series...
Discover the power of natural magic and healing through herbs, flowers, and essential oils in this new guide to green witchcraft.At her core, the green witch is a naturalist, an herbalist, a wise woman, and a healer. She embraces the power of nature;...
Too much exercise can kill you. The Haywire Heart is the first book to examine heart conditions in athletes.
Forget what you think you know about hypnosis and learn why it is the hottest "new" technique for personal development. More and more, studies are showing that hypnosis can help ease everyday stress and anxiety-from our worst habits to our deepest fe...
"Genuine feminist politics always brings us from bondage to freedom, from lovelessness to loving... There can be no love without justice." -from the chapter "To Love Again: The Heart of Feminism"In this engaging and provocative volume, bell hooks introduces...
A fascinating exploration of the history, development, and future of virtual reality, a technology with world-changing potential, written by award-winning journalist and author David Ewalt, stemming from his 2015 Forbes cover story about the Oculus Rift...
A highly imaginative and relatable guide for anyone who needs the reassurance that suicide is never worth it.Are you inclined to escape the crumminess of everyday life into fantasy worlds? Are you smart and imaginative in a way that isn't really suited...
Thirty-day challenges are the perfect way to develop new habits and get started living a better, fuller life. Packed with sixty powerful ideas for improving your life in all areas-including fitness, food, mindfulness, relationships, and networking-this...
Brain Rules for Baby bridges the gap between what scientists know and what parents practice. Through fascinating and funny stories, Medina, a developmental molecular biologist and dad, unravels how a child's brain develops--and what you can do to optimize...
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