Try an audiobook on us
Smoke Gets in your Eyes
People who bought this also bought...
-
Stiff
- The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
- By: Mary Roach
- Narrated by: Shelly Frasier
- Length: 8 hrs
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
For two thousand years, cadavers have been involved in science's boldest strides and weirdest undertakings. They've tested France's first guillotines, ridden the NASA Space Shuttle, been crucified in a Parisian laboratory to test the authenticity of the Shroud of Turin, and helped solve the mystery of TWA Flight 800. For every new surgical procedure, from heart transplants to gender reassignment surgery, cadavers have been there alongside surgeons, making history in their quiet way.
-
-
This is so cool!
- By Ian on 13-03-16
-
Unnatural Causes
- By: Dr Richard Shepherd
- Narrated by: Dr Richard Shepherd
- Length: 11 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
As the country's top forensic pathologist, Dr Richard Shepherd has spent a lifetime uncovering the secrets of the dead. When death is sudden or unexplained, it falls to Shepherd to establish the cause. Each post-mortem is a detective story in its own right - and Shepherd has performed over 23,000 of them. Through his skill, dedication and insight, Dr Shepherd solves the puzzle to answer our most pressing question: how did this person die?
-
-
Authoritative, Authentic and Utterly Fascinating
- By Mark on 21-10-18
-
The Locked Ward
- Memoirs of a Psychiatric Orderly
- By: Dennis O'Donnell
- Narrated by: Dennis O'Donnell
- Length: 9 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
The Locked Ward is an extraordinary memoir that sets out to reveal the true story of life in a psychiatric ward - the fear, the violence and despair, and also the care and the compassion. Recounting the stories of the patients he worked with, and those of the friends he made on the ward, O'Donnell provides a detailed account of day-to-day life behind the doors of the most feared and stigmatised environment in healthcare.
-
-
Insightful, Poignant, Thought Provoking and Funny
- By M. R. Nixon on 24-01-18
-
The Trauma Cleaner
- By: Sarah Krasnostein
- Narrated by: Rachael Tidd
- Length: 9 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Sandra Pankhurst founded her trauma cleaning business to help people whose emotional scars are written on their houses. From the forgotten flat of a drug addict to the infested home of a hoarder, Sandra enters properties and lives at the same time. But few of the people she looks after know anything of the complexity of Sandra's own life. Raised in an uncaring home, Sandra's miraculous gift for warmth and humour in the face of unspeakable personal tragedy mark her out as a one-off and make this biography unmissable.
-
-
Fascinating
- By Bee on 31-03-18
-
All That Remains
- By: Sue Black
- Narrated by: Sue Black
- Length: 11 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Random House presents the audiobook edition of All That Remains by Professor Sue Black, read by the author. Sue Black confronts death every day. As Professor of Anatomy and Forensic Anthropology, she focuses on mortal remains in her lab; at burial sites; at scenes of violence, murder and criminal dismemberment; and when investigating mass fatalities due to war, accident or natural disaster. In All That Remains, she reveals the many faces of death she has come to know, using key cases to explore how forensic science has developed and what her work has taught her.
-
-
Fascinating and life-affirming
- By Cabaspre on 29-04-18
-
Silent Witnesses
- By: Nigel McCrery
- Narrated by: William Gaminara
- Length: 8 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
A crime scene. A murder. A mystery. The most important person on the scene? The forensic scientist. And yet the intricate details of their work remains a mystery to most of us. Silent Witnesses looks at the history of forensic science over the last two centuries, during which time a combination of remarkable intuition, painstaking observation, and leaps in scientific knowledge have developed this fascinating branch of detection.
-
-
WOW! A fascinating read
- By Amazon Customer on 02-02-17
-
Stiff
- The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
- By: Mary Roach
- Narrated by: Shelly Frasier
- Length: 8 hrs
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
For two thousand years, cadavers have been involved in science's boldest strides and weirdest undertakings. They've tested France's first guillotines, ridden the NASA Space Shuttle, been crucified in a Parisian laboratory to test the authenticity of the Shroud of Turin, and helped solve the mystery of TWA Flight 800. For every new surgical procedure, from heart transplants to gender reassignment surgery, cadavers have been there alongside surgeons, making history in their quiet way.
-
-
This is so cool!
- By Ian on 13-03-16
-
Unnatural Causes
- By: Dr Richard Shepherd
- Narrated by: Dr Richard Shepherd
- Length: 11 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
As the country's top forensic pathologist, Dr Richard Shepherd has spent a lifetime uncovering the secrets of the dead. When death is sudden or unexplained, it falls to Shepherd to establish the cause. Each post-mortem is a detective story in its own right - and Shepherd has performed over 23,000 of them. Through his skill, dedication and insight, Dr Shepherd solves the puzzle to answer our most pressing question: how did this person die?
-
-
Authoritative, Authentic and Utterly Fascinating
- By Mark on 21-10-18
-
The Locked Ward
- Memoirs of a Psychiatric Orderly
- By: Dennis O'Donnell
- Narrated by: Dennis O'Donnell
- Length: 9 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
The Locked Ward is an extraordinary memoir that sets out to reveal the true story of life in a psychiatric ward - the fear, the violence and despair, and also the care and the compassion. Recounting the stories of the patients he worked with, and those of the friends he made on the ward, O'Donnell provides a detailed account of day-to-day life behind the doors of the most feared and stigmatised environment in healthcare.
-
-
Insightful, Poignant, Thought Provoking and Funny
- By M. R. Nixon on 24-01-18
-
The Trauma Cleaner
- By: Sarah Krasnostein
- Narrated by: Rachael Tidd
- Length: 9 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Sandra Pankhurst founded her trauma cleaning business to help people whose emotional scars are written on their houses. From the forgotten flat of a drug addict to the infested home of a hoarder, Sandra enters properties and lives at the same time. But few of the people she looks after know anything of the complexity of Sandra's own life. Raised in an uncaring home, Sandra's miraculous gift for warmth and humour in the face of unspeakable personal tragedy mark her out as a one-off and make this biography unmissable.
-
-
Fascinating
- By Bee on 31-03-18
-
All That Remains
- By: Sue Black
- Narrated by: Sue Black
- Length: 11 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Random House presents the audiobook edition of All That Remains by Professor Sue Black, read by the author. Sue Black confronts death every day. As Professor of Anatomy and Forensic Anthropology, she focuses on mortal remains in her lab; at burial sites; at scenes of violence, murder and criminal dismemberment; and when investigating mass fatalities due to war, accident or natural disaster. In All That Remains, she reveals the many faces of death she has come to know, using key cases to explore how forensic science has developed and what her work has taught her.
-
-
Fascinating and life-affirming
- By Cabaspre on 29-04-18
-
Silent Witnesses
- By: Nigel McCrery
- Narrated by: William Gaminara
- Length: 8 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
A crime scene. A murder. A mystery. The most important person on the scene? The forensic scientist. And yet the intricate details of their work remains a mystery to most of us. Silent Witnesses looks at the history of forensic science over the last two centuries, during which time a combination of remarkable intuition, painstaking observation, and leaps in scientific knowledge have developed this fascinating branch of detection.
-
-
WOW! A fascinating read
- By Amazon Customer on 02-02-17
-
The Examined Life
- By: Stephen Grosz
- Narrated by: Peter Marinker
- Length: 5 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
We are all storytellers - through stories, we make sense of our lives. But it is not enough to tell tales. There must be someone to listen. In his work as a psychoanalyst, Stephen Grosz has spent the last 25 years uncovering the hidden feelings behind our most baffling behaviour. The Examined Life distils over 50,000 hours of conversation into pure psychological insight, without the jargon. This extraordinary book is about one ordinary process: talking, listening, and understanding.
-
-
Excellent
- By Saffy on 13-02-13
-
Cook County ICU
- 30 Years of Unforgettable Patients and Odd Cases
- By: Cory Franklin MD
- Narrated by: John Pruden
- Length: 7 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Author Cory Franklin, MD, who headed the hospital's intensive care unit from the 1970s through the 1990s, shares his most unique and bizarre experiences, including the deadly Chicago heatwave of 1995, treating the first AIDS patients in the country before the disease was diagnosed, the nurse with rare Munchausen syndrome, the only surviving ricin victim, and the professor with Alzheimer's hiding the effects of the wrong medication.
-
-
Great for all audiences
- By Robert on 27-12-16
-
Disrupted
- Ludicrous Misadventures into the Tech Start-Up Bubble
- By: Dan Lyons
- Narrated by: Dan Lyons
- Length: 9 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Dan Lyons was Technology Editor at Newsweek for years, a magazine writer at the top of his profession. One Friday morning he received a phone call: his job no longer existed. Fifty years old, and with a wife and two young kids, Dan was unemployed and facing financial oblivion. Then an idea hit. Dan had long reported on Silicon Valley and the tech explosion. Why not join it? What could possibly go wrong?
-
-
Excellent but slightly spoiled by whining
- By Amazon Customer on 03-05-18
-
The Mystery of the Exploding Teeth and Other Curiosities from the History of Medicine
- By: Thomas Morris
- Narrated by: Rupert Farley, Thomas Morris
- Length: 9 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Blending fascinating history with lacerating wit, The Mystery of the Exploding Teeth will take you on a tour of some of the funniest, strangest and most wince-inducing corners of medical history. This fascinating collection of historical curiosities explores some of the strangest cases that have perplexed doctors across the world.
-
-
Fascinatingly gory!
- By Jmac on 14-11-18
-
The Butchering Art
- Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine
- By: Lindsey Fitzharris
- Narrated by: Sam Woolf
- Length: 7 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
In The Butchering Art, historian Lindsey Fitzharris re-creates a critical turning point in the history of medicine, when Joseph Lister transformed surgery from a brutal, harrowing practice to the safe, vaunted profession we know today.
Victorian operating theatres were known as 'gateways of death', Fitzharris reminds us, since half of those who underwent surgery didn't survive the experience. This was an era when a broken leg could lead to amputation, and surgeons were still known to ransack cemeteries to find cadavers.
-
-
Very interesting book
- By polly on 04-08-18
-
Not My Father's Son
- A Family Memoir
- By: Alan Cumming
- Narrated by: Alan Cumming
- Length: 6 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Alan Cumming grew up in the grip of a man who held his family hostage, someone who meted out violence with a frightening ease, who waged a silent war with himself that sometimes spilled over onto everyone around him. That man was Alan's father, Alex Cumming. Alex was the dark, enigmatic heart of Cumming family life. But he was not the only mystery. Alan's maternal grandfather, Tommy Darling, had disappeared to the Far East after the Second World War.
-
-
An extraordinary memoir
- By Katherine on 06-11-14
-
A Life of Crime: Memoirs of a High Court Judge
- By: Sir Harry Ognall
- Narrated by: Mike Grady
- Length: 5 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
A witty and candid memoir of life at the Bar and on the Bench, from former High Court Judge Sir Harry Ognall. The Hon. Sir Harry Ognall is a retired judge of the High Court, Queen's Bench Division. For many years, he enjoyed a formidable reputation as an advocate at the criminal Bar. As counsel, and later as judge, he was involved in numerous high-profile trials, both here and abroad.
-
-
not Bad for the money
- By Terry clark on 31-08-18
-
Secret Slave
- By: Anna Ruston
- Narrated by: Faye Adele
- Length: 7 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Growing up in a deeply troubled family, 15-year-old Anna felt lost and alone in the world. So when a friendly taxi driver befriended her, Anna welcomed the attention, and agreed to go home with him to meet his family. She wouldn't escape for over a decade. Held captive by a sadistic pedophile, Anna was subjected to despicable levels of sexual abuse and torture. The unrelenting violence and degradation resulted in numerous miscarriages, and the birth of four babies.... each one stolen away from Anna at birth.
-
-
Lost for words
- By Minx3008 on 14-06-18
-
The Language of Kindness
- A Nurse's Story
- By: Christie Watson
- Narrated by: Christie Watson
- Length: 8 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Random House presents the audiobook edition of The Language of Kindness: A Nurse's Story, written and read by Christie Watson. Christie Watson was a nurse for 20 years. Taking us from birth to death and from A&E to the mortuary, The Language of Kindness is an astonishing account of a profession defined by acts of care, compassion and kindness.
-
-
Honest and thought provoking
- By stansmum on 23-05-18
-
Under the Knife
- A History of Surgery in 28 Remarkable Operations
- By: Arnold van de Laar
- Narrated by: Rich Keeble
- Length: 9 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
The history of surgery in 28 famous operations - from Louis XIV to JFK, and from Einstein to Houdini. In Under the Knife, surgeon Arnold Van de Laar uses his own experience and expertise to tell the witty history of the past, present and future of surgery. From the story of the desperate man from 17th-century Amsterdam who grimly cut a stone out of his own bladder to Bob Marley's deadly toe infection, Under the Knife offers all kinds of fascinating and unforgettable insights into medicine and history.
-
-
Excellent reading, fascinating subject
- By Jonathan Craig on 26-12-18
-
Bookworm
- A Memoir of Childhood Reading
- By: Lucy Mangan
- Narrated by: Lucy Mangan
- Length: 7 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
When Lucy Mangan was little, stories were everything. They opened up new worlds and cast light on all the complexities she encountered in this one. She was whisked away to Narnia and Kirrin Island and Wonderland. She ventured down rabbit holes and womble burrows into midnight gardens and chocolate factories. She wandered the countryside with Milly-Molly-Mandy and played by the tracks with the Railway Children.
-
-
just utterly fabulous.
- By Chella Quint on 10-10-18
-
Bad Pharma
- How Drug Companies Mislead Doctors and Harm Patients
- By: Ben Goldacre
- Narrated by: Jot Davies
- Length: 12 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
'Bad Science’ hilariously exposed the tricks that quacks and journalists use to distort science, becoming a 400,000 copy bestseller. Now Ben Goldacre puts the $600bn global pharmaceutical industry under the microscope. What he reveals is a fascinating, terrifying mess.
-
-
Every medical doctor should read this!
- By Lut on 23-12-12
Summary
From her first day at Westwind Cremation & Burial, 23-year-old Caitlin Doughty threw herself into her curious new profession. Coming face-to-face with the very thing we go to great lengths to avoid thinking about, she started to wonder about the lives of those she cremated and the mourning families they left behind, and found herself confounded by people's erratic reactions to death.
Exploring our death rituals - and those of other cultures - she pleads the case for healthier attitudes around death and dying. Full of bizarre encounters, gallows humour and vivid characters (both living and very dead), this illuminating account makes this otherwise terrifying subject inviting and fascinating.
Critic reviews
More from the same
Narrator
What members say
Average customer ratings
Overall
-
-
5 Stars246
-
4 Stars63
-
3 Stars22
-
2 Stars6
-
1 Stars4
Performance
-
-
5 Stars234
-
4 Stars56
-
3 Stars17
-
2 Stars7
-
1 Stars4
Story
-
-
5 Stars220
-
4 Stars66
-
3 Stars20
-
2 Stars9
-
1 Stars3
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
- Amazon Customer
- 17-08-17
A great listen!
Recently started watching Caitlin's YouTube videos and was so happy to find that she has written several books.
This books contains the same charm as her videos on YouTube and I am looking forward to listening to more of her work.
Not for the squeamish!
6 of 6 people found this review helpful
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
- Richard
- 06-09-17
A New Perspective, thank you!
I laughed, I cried, I learnt and I started to feel at peace with my existence and ever impending doom.
My 96yr old Grandad lives with me, and I have lived in fear of one morning waking to find him dead, my fear of his body and what I would do about getting rid of it asap.
After reading Caitlen's book and watching ALL her YouTube videos, I now feel at ease with death, not fearing of the dead body, and comforted with my new found ability to cope with giving him a good passing. I want to wash him where he lies, dress him in his best suit, and be in no such hurry to push him out of sight.
That embalming be completely unnecessary too.
I feel confident that I can lead my loving family through a hard time.
Thank you, and thank you for sharing your life in this book. You are awesome!
12 of 13 people found this review helpful
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
- Amazon Customer
- 11-06-17
Great book
This book really made me think. Through funny anecdotes and thought provoking stories Caitlin made me think about the way we approach death as a Western society. I also really enjoyed the informative aspect of it, learning about other cultures and societies and their approach to death. I cried tears of laughter and of sadness. It was also so well read.
4 of 4 people found this review helpful
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
- Hannah
- 17-10-17
A glimpse behind the veil (or shroud)
I found Caitlin's work by stumbling across her Youtube channel. Since then I have devoured her books and found great insight in every one. Her broad knowledge and open minded sensitivity has turned my paralyzing fear of death into something I want to connect with and I encourage others to do so as well.
3 of 3 people found this review helpful
-
Overall
- Miss L. A. Croughan
- liverpool
- 24-06-17
Smoke gets in your eyes
Witty Funny and 110% honesty would highly recommend very unique look into the taboo world of death thank you for writing this hidden world into a rainbow of light Caitlin .
3 of 3 people found this review helpful
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
- Anonymous User
- 09-03-18
You need to read this
Honestly one of the most enlightening, insightful and honest books I've ever read. Amazing! I also love the fact that Caitlyn read this herself.
2 of 2 people found this review helpful
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
- S S.
- 20-02-17
Not for the squeamish
If you want to hear about death and the industry it generates in all its (often appalling) detail this is the book for you.
I found the book interesting and really agree with her aim of getting us back into the reality of death, and what happens to our bodies rather than the sanitised version we are sold
Recommend to anyone who isn't squeamish
2 of 2 people found this review helpful
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
- Mr. R. Mallia
- UK
- 06-01-17
My first foray into Audible
This is the first book I purchased on Audible. What a great choice. This is really well done and I really love the subject matter and the passion with which the author narrated it. Really happy I chose this book and I look forward to many more.
5 of 6 people found this review helpful
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
- Luke Barclay
- 02-06-17
absolutely riveting! brilliantly read
Caitlin Doughty is a brilliant performer of her own work, personally I feel she should contemplate voice work when she has time. Her life is fascinating and she makes points not otherwise raised in society. Really recommend to anyone and already have.
1 of 1 people found this review helpful
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
- Desolation Row
- 09-05-17
Brilliant
loved it! the author made me laugh out loud a few times, provoked thoughts that made me reflect on my feelings surrounding death.
1 of 1 people found this review helpful
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
- A. B
- 16-08-18
Very enjoyable, touching and interesting
I enjoyed this honest look at something we are all heading towards - Death
I learnt you can view a Cremation (Witness Cremation) instead of just watch the coffin disappear on a conveyor belt or descend into the podium which would be my choice in cremation attendance of a close loved one.
I laughed and gasped once or twice at the sad situations described. But I mostly felt uplifted and welcome this work as our society is so death averse.
It’s so much healthier to talk about it than live by pretending that death isn’t something you’ll be doing.
1 of 1 people found this review helpful