Independent & Proudly Human Audiobooks

Wilt

The Rise and Fall of the House of Medici

The French Revolution

No Good Deed

French Revolutions Cycling the Tour de France

Self-confessed loafer Time Moore, seduced by the speed and glamour of the biggest annual sporting event in the world, sets out to cycle the course of the Tour de France. All 3,630km of it.

Cold Hands

Britain BC

Crossing Europe on a Bike Called Reggie

May We Feed the King

LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2026

She is a curator who spends her time dressing the rooms of historic buildings to bring them to life. But in the lush private quarters of a medieval palace, she finds herself so transfixed by the reign of an almost-forgotten King that the edges of her life begin to blur.

The Count of Monte Cristo, Les Miserables, & Don Quixote

The White Hotel

SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 1981

The White Hotel is a modern classic of searing eroticism and sensuality set against the broad sweep of twentieth-century history.

The Dangers of Smoking in Bed

SHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL MAN BOOKER PIRZE 2021

In The Dangers of Smoking in Bed, Mariana Enriquez delivers a searing, unsettling collection of horror stories that thrum with dread, desire, and the lingering ghosts of Argentina’s past.

The Dale Carnegie How To… Collection

Flamboyance The Art of Burning Brightly

Flamboyance ignites every aspect of our lives, from art and entertainment to ritual and protest. The word conjures exuberance and unashamed passion; in thought, expression and dress. Yet historically the term 'flamboyant' has been reserved for the over-the-top and the outré, invoked at times as a pejorative innuendo or worse.

Dept. of Speculation

In Dept. of Speculation, Jenny Offill crafts a shimmering, fragmentary portrait of a marriage under pressure and a mind wrestling with love, ambition, motherhood, and the stories we tell ourselves to stay afloat.

The New York Classics Collection: Stories of the City - 11 Stories From Edith Wharton, Nella Larsen, Edith Wharton, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Henry James, & Much More

A History of New York; Manhattan Transfer; Old New York Passing; Plum Bun; The Age of Innocence; The Beautiful and Damned; The Great Gatsby; The Rise of David Levinsky; Washington Square; & Much More

The Profession of Violence: The Rise and Fall of the Kray Twins

The Profession of Violence pulls back the curtain on the rise and eventual fall of Ronnie and Reggie Kray, London's most infamous gangsters. Charting their transformation from East End boys to the ruling figures of London’s criminal underworld during the 1960s, John Pearson's vivid account shows how they ran an empire of organised crime the likes of which London had never seen. Built on lies, extortion, and extreme violence and murder, Pearson also shows the strange brotherly relationship that kept them bound in blood until their eventual downfall and imprisonment.

The Lost Generation Collection: 15 Novels, Stories and Poetry from Hemingway, Faulkner, Cummings, Fitzgerald, Hammett, Joyce, & Many More

A Farewell to Arms, All Quiet on the Western Front, As I Lay Dying, The Great Gatsby, The Maltese Falcon, The Waste Land, & Much More

The Documents in the Case

The Definitive Detective Collection: Novels and Stories Featuring Sherlock Holmes; Hercule Poirot, Miss Marple; Lord Peter Wimsey; Sam Spade; Auguste Dupin; Alan Grant; and Father Brown

The Murder at the Vicarage; The Mysterious Affair at Styles; The Hound of the Baskervilles; Whose Body?; The Man in the Queue; The Maltese Falcon; The Murders in the Rue Morgue; The Innocence Of Father Brown; & More