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This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Ninth Floor by Cristina M. Alexescu is a raw, honest, and unexpectedly funny memoir about survival, reinvention and finding yourself when life refuses to go according to plan. After leaving behind a difficult relationship in the UK, Cristina returns to...

New Year's Day, 2009. Somewhere on the bottom of the world, six teams of adventurers and explorers have gathered to race one another, on foot, to the South Pole. It is the first time that anyone has undertaken such a race in almost a hundred years; the first time since the great Norwegian, Roald...

WINNER OF THE CANADIAN JEWISH LITERARY AWARD FOR HOLOCAUST LITERATURE An amazing, untold story of the Holocaust, of survivor turned Nazi hunter In the tradition of The Boy in the Woods and By Chance Alone, The Survivor is an unbelievable yet true story of one man’s endurance and his...

THE MEMOIR WHICH KICKSTARTED ANDREW MOUNTBATTEN'S FALL FROM GRACE #1 SUNDAY TIMES AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The book that's changing the world. The UK's bestselling memoir. An empowering true story of surviving abuse and fighting for justice. The world knows Virginia Roberts Giuffre as...

In Everyone Has a Story: The Inheritance, this powerful and deeply personal memoir takes listeners on an unforgettable journey through identity, resilience, and truth. From the discipline and structure of military life to the devastating reality of medical trauma, this story reveals what happens when trust is shattered and how strength is rebuilt in the aftermath. Through moments of pain, reflection, and courage, the author confronts not only personal battles but larger truths that affect countless others. This is more than a memoir. It’s a voice for the unheard. A stand against injustice.

Everyone knows about Sir Ernest Shackleton or Amelia Earhart, but there are many adventurers whose accomplishments rival those of the most celebrated explorers, yet most people have never heard of them. This new account tells the true but little-known stories of five men and four women who once made world headlines but have virtually disappeared from the historical record.

Some journeys begin with a single step. Theirs began with a click! Two middle-aged divorcees connect online, never expecting that a spontaneous getaway would set the course for a timeless love story spanning fifteen years and 63 national parks. What started as whimsy became a mission, one that carried them across mountains and deserts, forests and canyons, through laughter, tears, and every shade of life in between.

The Long Way is Bernard Moitessier's own incredible story of his participation in the first Golden Globe Race, a solo, non-stop circumnavigation rounding the three great Capes of Good Hope, Leeuwin, and the Horn. For seven months, the veteran seafarer battled storms, doldrums, gear-failures...

The Darkness My Father Brought: A Memoir of Silence, Betrayal and Reclaiming Joy traces one woman’s journey from a life of childhood sexual trauma to a life restored. She did this by being brave enough to remember the pain of her past and then reshaping that into a new life of hope and joy. For years, Cathy Beck kept “those kinds of things—the things you don’t talk about”—buried beneath the façade of a “normal” childhood. Raised in what appeared to be a happy family in the 1950s and ’60s, Cathy lived with secrets and a fear no child should have to carry. But secrets do not disappear.

Was passiert, wenn ein Engländer, ausgestattet mit einer großen Portion britischen Humors, sein Herz und die Zügel in die Hand nimmt und sich mit einem französischen Esel auf heiliges spanisches Terrain begibt? Genau, der Esel ist störrisch, der Weg nach Santiago de Compostela lang, und Tim Moore findet in seinem Pilgerführer aus dem 12. Jahrhundert auch nicht immer die passenden Tipps. Dafür findet er etwas anderes: den Weg in sein eigenes Herz.

Reinhold Messner – der berühmteste Bergsteiger und Abenteurer unserer Zeit – und seine Frau Diane Messner schreiben in Lebenszeit übers Älterwerden und Jungsein, über Verlust und Glück, über große Expeditionen und die kleinen Abenteuer des Alltags. Entstanden ist ein Hörbuch über die Kostbarkeit unserer Lebenszeit – und darüber, wie man sie mit Offenheit, Mut und Neugier nutzen kann.

"We should no longer be seen as being poor, miserable and living off benefits. We can be successful and live a happy and meaningful life. But changing that perception will be a bigger battle than climbing Everest." Hari Budha Magar is a father-of-three, husband and veteran. In 2010, he lost both...

Living deep in the Alaska bush is a profoundly absorbing experience that leaves an indelible mark on a person. The Great Land, Alaska, becomes close and real. One establishes a relationship with it, almost as if the land was alive. This is my story of thirty years of high adventure. We who grew up and lived as young adults in the Alaska of the 1950s and 60s are so few now that we almost qualify for endangered species status. Many people of my generation in the 49th state encountered both major events and daily doings that contributed to a life of adventure.

A glittering, sun-drenched biography of diver Honor Frost, who pioneered underwater archeology amidst the sunken ships of the Mediterranean. Honor Frost was born in 1917 into upper class British society in Cyprus, where as a child she scavenged for fossil and swam in the sea. As a young woman...

1986 erzählt vom West-Berlin der 80er-Jahre – von Freiheit, Subkultur und einer Stadt, die es so nie wieder geben wird. Eine persönliche Zeitreise voller Erinnerungen, Begegnungen und Geschichten aus einer einzigartigen Epoche.

'Harrowing, yet ultimately hopeful' GERALDINE BROOKS Sometimes the whole truth is the death of everything. Caroline Laner Breure was on holiday in Spain with her boyfriend when her skull was crushed. A year later, following starless months in a coma and painful rehabilitation, Caroline returned...

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER A TIMES BEST MEMOIR OF 2023 ‘Grippingly vivid and pacey’ THE TIMES ‘A seven-year old girl on a seventy-foot yacht, for ten years, over fifty thousand miles of sailing’ SIMON WINCHESTER ‘A seven-year old girl on a seventy-foot yacht, for ten years, over...

When her husband refused to return their children, and the Australian government and Lebanese justice system couldn't help, Sally Faulkner flew across the world with a television news crew to try to bring them home herself. This is her story. This is for Lahela and Noah. All for My Children is...

The mind and body are often talked about as separate entities, but it’s only when they work in harmony with one another that one can truly push oneself to the highest heights. In his new book, Ant Middleton lays out and explains the principles that he lives by to best keep his mindset and body as strong as they can possibly be.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A powerful memoir of a love that leads two people to find a courageous way to part—and a woman’s struggle to go forward in the face of loss—that “enriches the reader’s life with urgency and gratitude” (The Washington Post) “A pleasure to read...