Listening to Audible gives you the chance to carve out time for yourself and experience someone else’s story. In our busy schedules, calming the mind and relaxing is essential for physical and mental wellbeing. In this video some of our members give us a taste of how audiobooks have changed their lives for the better. We hear stories of how members’ journeys to work were enhanced when they had that special time to tune in to their favourite novel.
We also hear from a young working mum who talks about how the ‘magic happened’ the minute she popped her headphones on. She describes how she felt she could ‘be her own person, not just a wife or mother.’
For members who love walking, downloading an audiobook is great company. Listening when you’re doing paperwork or when you are home alone is another popular time.
Our fans universally tell us that being read to is such an enriching experience, offering a kind of intimacy with the narrator that is quite different from reading a book. One describes the joy of taking information in through your ears, rather than through the eyes, which perhaps best sums up the sheer bliss of listening to an audiobook.
A candid insight into the life of an NHS junior doctor left to his own devices with too little sleep and too much responsibility. Dr Adam Kay has lived to tell the tale with but this honest account is not for the squeamish.
A collection of stories many autobiographical about family, life, love and the universe. A charming insight into human nature and life’s frailties narrated by Sedaris himself.
A curator at the Louvre is fatally shot by a Catholic monk causing ‘symbologist’ Robert Langdon and ‘cryptologist’ Sophie Neveu to become involved in a thrilling tale of conspiracy and intrigue. Compelling and gripping.
A psychological thriller about an alcoholic divorcee who stalks her ex husband and his new wife from a commuter train, then becomes involved in a missing person’s investigation. A story of betrayal, will truth win over deception?
#1 New York Times Bestseller
“An enlightening, laugh-aloud read. . . . Filled with open, honest glimpses into [Rubin’s] real life, woven together with constant doses of humor.”—Christian Science Monitor
Gretchen Rubin’s year-long experiment to discover how to create true happiness. Drawing on cutting-edge science, classical philosophy, and real-world examples, Rubin delivers an engaging, eminently relatable chronicle of transformation.
Gretchen Rubin had an epiphany one rainy afternoon in the unlikeliest of places: a city bus. “The days are long, but the years are short,” she realized. “Time is passing, and I’m not focusing enough on the things that really matter.” In that moment, she decided to dedicate a year to her happiness project.
In this lively and compelling account, Rubin chronicles her adventures during the twelve months she spent test-driving the wisdom of the ages, current scientific research, and lessons from popular culture about how to be happier. Among other things, she found that novelty and challenge are powerful sources of happiness; that money can help buy happiness, when spent wisely; that outer order contributes to inner calm; and that the very smallest of changes can make the biggest difference.
As an added bonus, this recording includes a sampling of Gretchen’s podcast, Happier With Gretchen Rubin. In this episode, "Choose the Bigger Life," Gretchen and her sister, Elizabeth Craft, discuss happiness, good habits, and whether Gretchen is going to get a dog.
One of the most thoughtful and engaging works on happiness. Getchen Rubin shares some of her strategies in her year-long commitment to uncovering the little pleasures that lead her to true contentment.
A Chicago librarian suffers from a rare genetic disorder that causes him to drift back and forth through time. During one of these journeys, he meets the love of his life but complexities and problems occur as they seem doomed to be forever out of sync.
This classic novel is brought to life with great humour and style by Rosamund Pike. Set in a rural English Village, the Bennets do all they can to marry off their five daughters. The drama focuses on the spirited Elisabeth Bennett who meets the dashing Mr Darcy, and eventually succumbs to his marriage proposal.
Atmospheric and a joy from start to finish Stephen Fry becomes a truly authentic Sherlock Holmes in a collection of grizzly mysteries with cliff hanging clues.
