Independent & Proudly Human Audiobooks

The Greatest Knight

The Crusades

No Picnic on Mount Kenya

Wilt

The Watchers

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

The Wilt Collection

Days of Love and Rage

SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2026

'Epic ... the definitive text of the war... This story of ordinary Syrians who fought tyranny is a masterpiece' - New York Times

In 2011, in a city in northern Syria, a small group of men and women began a movement that overthrew a brutal dictatorship. For the next eighteen months, many of the citizens of Manbij carried out one of the most remarkable experiments in democracy in modern times.

Fire Island: A Queer History

Fire Island: a slim strip of land off the coast of New York, and a place of hedonism, reinvention, liberation.

Here were the halcyon scenes of Frank O'Hara's poetry; the bars where Patricia Highsmith got drunk; the infamous cruising sites; and the dazzling beaches where couples had fallen in and out of love, free for a sun-kissed moment to be themselves in the time before gay liberation.

Crossing Europe on a Bike Called Reggie

May We Feed the King

SHORTLISTED 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