www.fgks.org   »   [go: up one dir, main page]
Help Sign In

COME CLOSER

LET ME TELL YOU A STORY

Download a free audiobook of your choice now

Try Audible free
Sign in with your account

Join Audible today and enjoy your first listen free

Sign up for your 30-day free trial, then pay only £7.99/month. After your trial you get 1 credit each month to use on any audiobook.

Your first book is completely free, choose from any of our 200,000+ titles regardless of price, including the latest bestsellers.

Try Audible free Sign in with your account

Download the free app and your audiobook will be waiting in your library. Just press play and enjoy.











..

Try Audible free
Sign in with your account

Choose from over 200,000 titles

Here are some of our favourites to get you started.

Best Sellers
Great First Listens
See What's New
Narrator: Clare Corbett
  • The Girl on the Train
  • By: Paula Hawkins
  • 19397 ratings
  • Narrator: Clare Corbett, India Fisher, Louise Brealey
  • Duration: 10 hrs and 57 mins
  • Format: Unabridged
  • Rachel catches the same commuter train every morning. She knows it will wait at the same signal each time, overlooking a row of back gardens. She's even started to feel like she knows the people who live in one of the houses. Jess and Jason, she calls them. Their life - as she sees it - is perfect. If only Rachel could be that happy. And then she sees something shocking. It's only a minute until the train moves on, but it's enough. Now everything's changed.
Narrator: Bruce Springsteen
  • Born to Run
  • By: Bruce Springsteen
  • 414 ratings
  • Narrator: Bruce Springsteen
  • Duration: 18 hrs and 16 mins
  • Format: Unabridged
  • In 2009, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band performed at the Super Bowl's halftime show. The experience was so exhilarating that Bruce decided to write about it. That's how this extraordinary autobiography began. Over the past seven years, Bruce Springsteen has privately devoted himself to writing the story of his life, bringing to this audio the same honesty, humor, and originality found in his songs.
Narrator: Stephen Fry
  • Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Book 1
  • By: J.K. Rowling
  • 5945 ratings
  • Narrator: Stephen Fry
  • Duration: 8 hrs and 43 mins
  • Format: Unabridged
  • Harry Potter has never even heard of Hogwarts when the letters start dropping on the doormat at number four, Privet Drive. Addressed in green ink on yellowish parchment with a purple seal, they are swiftly confiscated by his grisly aunt and uncle. Then, on Harry's eleventh birthday, a great beetle-eyed giant of a man called Rubeus Hagrid bursts in with some astonishing news: Harry Potter is a wizard, and he has a place at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. An incredible adventure is about to begin!
Narrator: Bryan Cranston
  • A Life in Parts
  • By: Bryan Cranston
  • 602 ratings
  • Narrator: Bryan Cranston
  • Duration: 8 hrs and 51 mins
  • Format: Unabridged
  • Bryan Cranston landed his first role at seven, when his father, a struggling actor and director, cast him in a commercial. Soon Bryan was haunting the local movie theater, reenacting scenes with his older brother. Acting was clearly his destiny - until one day his father disappeared. As a young man on a classic cross-country motorcycle trip, he found himself stranded at a rest area in the Blue Ridge Mountains. To pass the time, he read a tattered copy of Hedda Gabler, and in a flash he found himself face-to-face with his original calling.
Narrator: Juliet Stevenson
  • Apple Tree Yard
  • By: Louise Doughty
  • 1471 ratings
  • Narrator: Juliet Stevenson
  • Duration: 14 hrs and 1 min
  • Format: Unabridged
  • Yvonne Carmichael has a high-flying career, a beautiful home and a good marriage. But when she meets a stranger she is drawn into a passionate affair.Keeping the two halves of her life separate seems easy at first. But she can't control what happens next.
Narrator: Andrew MacMillan
  • How to Win Friends & Influence People
  • By: Dale Carnegie
  • 2553 ratings
  • Narrator: Andrew MacMillan
  • Duration: 7 hrs and 19 mins
  • Format: Unabridged
  • You can go after the job you want...and get it! You can take the job you have...and improve it! You can take any situation you're in...and make it work for you!
Narrator: Emilia Fox
  • The Girl Before
  • By: JP Delaney
  • 789 ratings
  • Narrator: Emilia Fox, Finty Williams, Lise Aagaard Knudsen
  • Duration: 10 hrs and 5 mins
  • Format: Unabridged
  • Jane stumbles on the rental opportunity of a lifetime: the chance to live in a beautiful ultraminimalist house designed by an enigmatic architect, on condition she abides by a long list of exacting rules. After moving in she discovers that a previous tenant, Emma, met a mysterious death there - and starts to wonder if her own story will be a rerun of the girl before. As twist after twist catches the listener off guard, Emma's past and Jane's present become inexorably entwined in this tense portrayal of psychological obsession.
Narrator: Roy Dotrice
  • A Game of Thrones
  • By: George R. R. Martin
  • 6079 ratings
  • Narrator: Roy Dotrice
  • Duration: 33 hrs and 45 mins
  • Format: Unabridged
  • The complete, unabridged audiobook of A Game of Thrones. HBO's hit series A Game of Thrones is based on George R. R. Martin's internationally best-selling series A Song of Ice and Fire, the greatest fantasy epic of the modern age. A Game of Thrones is the first volume in the series. Summers span decades. Winter can last a lifetime. And the struggle for the Iron Throne has begun.
Narrator: Alan Partridge
  • Alan Partridge: Nomad
  • By: Alan Partridge
  • 2553 ratings
  • Narrator: Alan Partridge
  • Duration: 6 hrs and 5 mins
  • Format: Unabridged
  • In Alan Partridge: Nomad, Alan dons his boots, windcheater and scarf and embarks on an odyssey through a place he once knew - it's called Britain - intent on completing a journey of immense personal significance. Diarising his ramble in the form of a 'journey journal', Alan details the people and places he encounters, ruminates on matters large and small and, on a final leg fraught with danger, becomes not a man (because he was one to start off with) but a better, more inspiring example of a man.
Narrator: JJ/KSI
  • Sidemen: The Audiobook
  • By: The Sidemen
  • 1625 ratings
  • Narrator: JJ/KSI, Harry/Wroetoshaw, Simon/Miniminter, Vik/Vikkstar123, Josh/Zerkaa, Ethan/Behzinga, Tobi/Tobjizzle
  • Duration: 5 hrs and 14 mins
  • Format: Unabridged
  • Billions of you have watched their videos, and millions of you have followed them on social media. So here we go: it's time to back up, because YouTube superstars The Sidemen are finally here in audiobook form, and they're dishing the dirt on each other as well as the YouTuabe universe. The guys are behind the mic, and it's about to get messy.
Narrator: Rachel Atkins
  • I See You
  • By: Clare Mackintosh
  • 2333 ratings
  • Narrator: Rachel Atkins
  • Duration: 10 hrs and 59 mins
  • Format: Unabridged
  • When Zoe Walker sees her photo in the classifieds section of a London newspaper, she is determined to find out why it's there. There's no explanation, no website - just a grainy image and a phone number. She takes it home to her family, who are convinced it's just someone who looks like Zoe. But the next day the advert shows a photo of a different woman, and another the day after that.Is it a mistake? A coincidence? Or is someone keeping track of every move they make?
Narrator: Steve Peters
  • The Chimp Paradox
  • By: Steve Peters
  • 3787 ratings
  • Narrator: Steve Peters
  • Duration: 9 hrs and 45 mins
  • Format: Unabridged
  • Leading consultant psychiatrist Steve Peters knows more than anyone how impulsive behaviour or nagging self-doubt can impact negatively on our professional and personal lives. In this, his first book, Steve shares his phenomenally successful mind-management programme that has been used to help elite athletes and senior managers alike to conquer their fears and operate with greater control, focus and confidence.
Narrator: Simon Slater
  • Black Box Thinking
  • By: Matthew Syed
  • 1918 ratings
  • Narrator: Simon Slater
  • Duration: 12 hrs and 26 mins
  • Format: Unabridged
  • Columnist for The Times and best-selling author of Bounce: The myth of talent and the power of practice, Matthew Syed argues that the key to success is a positive attitude to failure. What links the Mercedes Formula One team with Google? What links Dave Braisford's Team Sky and the aviation industry?What is the connection between the inventor James Dyson and the footballer David Beckham? They are all Black Box Thinkers.
Narrator: R.C. Bray
  • Fear the Sky
  • By: Stephen Moss
  • 3757 ratings
  • Narrator: R.C. Bray
  • Duration: 20 hrs and 16 mins
  • Format: Unabridged
  • From the Audie-nominated narrator of The Martian. In eleven years time, a million members of an alien race will arrive at Earth. Years before they enter orbit, their approach will be announced by the flare of a thousand flames in the sky, their ships' huge engines burning hard to slow them from the vast speeds needed to cross interstellar space. These foreboding lights will shine in our night sky like new stars, getting ever brighter until they outshine even the sun, casting ominous shadows and banishing the night until they suddenly blink out.
Narrator: Daniel Priestley
  • Oversubscribed
  • By: Daniel Priestley
  • 734 ratings
  • Narrator: Daniel Priestley, Roger Davis
  • Duration: 5 hrs and 16 mins
  • Format: Unabridged
  • Don't fight for customers; let them fight over you! Have you ever queued for a restaurant? Preordered something months in advance? Fought for tickets that sell out in a day? Had a hairdresser with a six-month waiting list? There are people who don't chase clients; clients chase them. In a world of endless choices, why does this happen? Why do people queue up? Why do they pay more? Why will they book months in advance? Why are these people and products in such high demand?
Narrator: Alastair Campbell
  • Winners
  • By: Alastair Campbell
  • 704 ratings
  • Narrator: Alastair Campbell, Daniel Weyman
  • Duration: 14 hrs and 35 mins
  • Format: Unabridged
  • The Sunday Times number-one best seller. How people succeed and how you can, too. Alastair Campbell knows all about winning. As Tony Blair's chief spokesman and strategist, he helped guide the Labour Party to victory in three successive general elections, and he's fascinated by what it takes to win. How do sports stars excel, entrepreneurs thrive, or individuals achieve their ambitions? Is their ability to win innate? Or is the winning mind-set something we can all develop?
Narrator: Michael Kramer
  • Bands of Mourning
  • By: Brandon Sanderson
  • 680 ratings
  • Narrator: Michael Kramer
  • Duration: 14 hrs and 41 mins
  • Format: Unabridged
  • The Mistborn trilogy has become a firm favourite with fantasy fans the world over. The imagination that Sanderson brought to the series, his skill at marshalling epic storylines and dramatic action and his ability to create vivid characters made him a natural choice to complete Robert Jordan's epic wheel of time sequence. But with Mistborn, Sanderson has shown his bountiful talents in his own fiction.
Narrator: Leighton Pugh
  • The Nazi Hunters
  • By: Damien Lewis
  • 274 ratings
  • Narrator: Leighton Pugh
  • Duration: 12 hrs and 10 mins
  • Format: Unabridged
  • The Nazi Hunters is the incredible, hitherto untold story of the most secret chapter in the SAS' history. Officially, the world's most elite special forces unit was dissolved at the end of the Second World War and not reactivated until the 1950s. Among their last actions was a disastrous commando raid into occupied France in 1944, which ended in the capture, torture and execution of 31 soldiers.
Narrator: Susan Bennett
  • The Silent Sister
  • By: Diane Chamberlain
  • 98 ratings
  • Narrator: Susan Bennett
  • Duration: 11 hrs and 39 mins
  • Format: Unabridged
  • The Silent Sister is a gripping novel from Diane Chamberlain, the best-selling author of The Midwife's Confession. What if everything you believed turned out to be a lie? Riley MacPherson is returning to her childhood home in North Carolina. A place that holds cherished memories. While clearing out the house she finds a box of old newspaper articles - and a shocking family secret begins to unravel. Riley has spent her whole life believing that her older sister, Lisa, died tragically as a teenager.
Narrator: Annie Aldington
  • The Wronged
  • By: Kimberley Chambers
  • 99 ratings
  • Narrator: Annie Aldington
  • Duration: 13 hrs and 8 mins
  • Format: Unabridged
  • When the going gets tough, the Butlers get even.... 'Murdered in 1980 she was, bless her. Now I'll tell you the story of everything that's happened since....' No parents should ever have to bury their child, but God knows the Butlers have buried more than their fair share. Now Vinny and Michael are planning the downfall of all who've wronged them. The Butlers don't forgive or forget, and they take their secrets to the grave. As yet more tragic events rip the family apart, loyalties are on a knife edge.
Narrator: Peter Noble
  • The Luck Factor
  • By: Richard Wiseman
  • 44 ratings
  • Narrator: Peter Noble
  • Duration: 6 hrs and 42 mins
  • Format: Unabridged
  • Why do some people lead happy, successful lives whilst others face repeated failure and sadness? Why do some find their perfect partners whilst others stagger from one broken relationship to the next? What enables some people to have successful careers whilst others find themselves trapped in jobs they detest? And can unlucky people do anything to improve their luck - and lives?
Narrator: Sean Barrett
  • Close Your Eyes
  • By: Michael Robotham
  • 1132 ratings
  • Narrator: Sean Barrett
  • Duration: 11 hrs and 2 mins
  • Format: Unabridged
  • I close my eyes and feel my heart begin racing. Someone is coming. They're going to find me. A mother and her teenage daughter are found brutally murdered in a remote farmhouse, one defiled by multiple stab wounds and the other left lying like Sleeping Beauty waiting for her Prince.
Narrator: Jonathan Keeble
  • The Last Kingdom
  • By: Bernard Cornwell
  • 565 ratings
  • Narrator: Jonathan Keeble
  • Duration: 13 hrs and 28 mins
  • Format: Unabridged
  • The first book in a brand-new series, The Last Kingdom is set in England during the reign of King Alfred. Uhtred is an English boy, born into the aristocracy of ninth-century Northumbria. Orphaned at 10, he is captured and adopted by a Dane and taught the Viking ways. Yet Uhtred's fate is indissolubly bound up with Alfred, King of Wessex, who rules over the only English kingdom to survive the Danish assault. The struggle between the English and the Danes and the strife between christianity and paganism is the background to Uhtred's growing up.
Narrator: Celia Imrie
  • The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy
  • By: Rachel Joyce
  • 449 ratings
  • Narrator: Celia Imrie
  • Duration: 10 hrs and 35 mins
  • Format: Unabridged
  • When Queenie Hennessy discovers that Harold Fry is walking the length of England to save her, and all she has to do is wait, she is shocked. Her note had explained she was dying. How can she wait? A new volunteer at the hospice suggests that Queenie should write again; only this time she must tell Harold everything. In confessing to secrets she has hidden for 20 years, she will find atonement for the past. As the volunteer points out, 'Even though you've done your travelling, you're starting a new journey, too.'
Narrator: Bruce Springsteen
  • Born to Run
  • By: Bruce Springsteen
  • 414 ratings
  • Narrator: Bruce Springsteen
  • Duration: 18 hrs and 16 mins
  • Format: Unabridged
  • In 2009, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band performed at the Super Bowl's halftime show. The experience was so exhilarating that Bruce decided to write about it. That's how this extraordinary autobiography began. Over the past seven years, Bruce Springsteen has privately devoted himself to writing the story of his life, bringing to this audio the same honesty, humor, and originality found in his songs.
Narrator: Kobna Holdbrook-Smith
  • The Hanging Tree
  • By: Ben Aaronovitch
  • 1584 ratings
  • Narrator: Kobna Holdbrook-Smith
  • Duration: 10 hrs and 18 mins
  • Format: Unabridged
  • Suspicious deaths are not usually the concern of PC Peter Grant or the Folly, even when they happen at an exclusive party in one of the most expensive apartment blocks in London. But Lady Ty's daughter was there, and Peter owes Lady Ty a favour. Plunged into the alien world of the super-rich, where the basements are bigger than the house and dangerous, arcane items are bought and sold on the open market, a sensible young copper would keep his head down and his nose clean. But this is Peter Grant....
Narrator: Noma Dumezweni
  • Small Great Things
  • By: Jodi Picoult
  • 539 ratings
  • Narrator: Noma Dumezweni, Jeff Harding, Jennifer Woodward
  • Duration: 16 hrs and 41 mins
  • Format: Unabridged
  • The new audiobook from number one best-selling author Jodi Picoult, with the biggest of themes: birth, death, and responsibility. When a newborn baby dies after a routine hospital procedure, there is no doubt about who will be held responsible: the nurse who had been banned from looking after him by his father. What the nurse, her lawyer and the father of the child cannot know is how this death will irrevocably change all of their lives, in ways both expected and not.
Narrator: Dennis Boutsikaris
  • The Undoing Project
  • By: Michael Lewis
  • 189 ratings
  • Narrator: Dennis Boutsikaris
  • Duration: 10 hrs and 17 mins
  • Format: Unabridged
  • Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky met in war-torn 1960s Israel. Both were gifted young psychology professors: Kahneman a rootless son of Holocaust survivors who saw the world as a problem to be solved, Tversky a voluble, instinctual blur of energy. In this breathtaking new audiobook, Michael Lewis tells the extraordinary story of a relationship that became a shared mind: one which created the field of behavioural economics, revolutionising everything from Big Data to medicine.
Narrator: Jonathan Keeble
  • Angel
  • By: LJ Ross
  • 207 ratings
  • Narrator: Jonathan Keeble
  • Duration: 7 hrs and 48 mins
  • Format: Unabridged
  • After a turbulent time, DCI Ryan's life is finally beginning to return to normal, and he's looking forward to spending an uneventful Easter bank holiday weekend with his fiancée. Then, on Good Friday morning, he is called out to a crime scene at one of the largest cemeteries in Newcastle. The body of a redheaded woman has been found buried in a shallow grave, and the killer has given her wings, like an angel. Soon another woman is found at a different cemetery, followed quickly by another.
Narrator: Scott Brick
  • Tom Clancy's True Faith and Allegiance
  • By: Mark Greaney
  • 217 ratings
  • Narrator: Scott Brick
  • Duration: 19 hrs and 38 mins
  • Format: Unabridged
  • A US Navy commander is attacked by an unidentified Russian man while having dinner with his wife. A CIA operative travelling on a Canadian passport is intercepted and interrogated at Tehran Airport. A team of FBI officers are arrested by Indonesian police for travelling under fake passports in Jakarta. These apparently unrelated incidents point to a compromise in US government security, and Jack Ryan and his team must find out where it is coming from.
Narrator: Jefferson Mays
  • Babylon's Ashes
  • By: James S. A. Corey
  • 314 ratings
  • Narrator: Jefferson Mays
  • Duration: 19 hrs and 58 mins
  • Format: Unabridged
  • A revolution brewing for generations has begun in fire. It will end in blood. The Free Navy - a violent group of Belters in black-market military ships - has crippled the Earth and begun a campaign of piracy and violence among the outer planets. The colony ships heading for the 1,000 new worlds on the far side of the alien ring gates are easy prey, and no single navy remains strong enough to protect them. James Holden and his crew know the strengths and weaknesses of this new force better than anyone.
Narrator: Matt Addis
  • Kill Someone
  • By: Luke Smitherd
  • 318 ratings
  • Narrator: Matt Addis
  • Duration: 8 hrs and 53 mins
  • Format: Unabridged
  • Here are the rules. Method: you can't use a gun. You can't use explosives. You can't use poison. It has to be up close and personal. You don't have to worry about leaving evidence; that will be taken care of. Victim: no one suicidal. No one over the age of 65. No one with a terminal illness. Choose your method. Choose your victim.
Narrator: Kenny Blyth
  • Cold Earth
  • By: Ann Cleeves
  • 158 ratings
  • Narrator: Kenny Blyth
  • Duration: 10 hrs and 11 mins
  • Format: Unabridged
  • In the dark days of a Shetland winter, torrential rain triggers a landslide that crosses the main Lerwick-Sumburgh road and sweeps down to the sea. At the burial of his old friend, Magnus Tait, Jimmy Perez watches the flood of mud and peaty water smash through a croft house in its path. Everyone thinks the croft is uninhabited, but in the wreckage he finds the body of a dark-haired woman wearing a red silk dress. In his mind she shares his Mediterranean ancestry, and soon he becomes obsessed with tracing her identity.
Narrator: Carrie Fisher
  • The Princess Diarist
  • By: Carrie Fisher
  • 329 ratings
  • Narrator: Carrie Fisher, Billie Lourd
  • Duration: 5 hrs and 10 mins
  • Format: Unabridged
  • When Carrie Fisher recently discovered the journals she kept during the filming of the first Star Wars movie, she was astonished to see what they had preserved - plaintive love poems, unbridled musings with youthful naiveté, and a vulnerability that she barely recognised. Today her fame as an author, actress, and pop culture icon is indisputable, but in 1977 Carrie Fisher was just a teenager with an all-consuming crush on her costar.
Narrator: James Hillier
  • I Am Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • By: Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • 71 ratings
  • Narrator: James Hillier
  • Duration: 10 hrs and 19 mins
  • Format: Unabridged
  • Born to a Muslim father from Bosnia, and a Catholic mother from Croatia, Zlatan recounts his extraordinary life story, from his poverty-stricken upbringing as an immigrant in Malmö, Sweden, to becoming one of the world's most sought-after and expensive players, gracing Europe's finest clubs, from Ajax to Juventus, Internazionale to Barcelona, Milan to Paris Saint-Germain, and now Manchester United.
Narrator: Lauren Graham
  • Talking as Fast as I Can
  • By: Lauren Graham
  • 214 ratings
  • Narrator: Lauren Graham
  • Duration: 4 hrs and 38 mins
  • Format: Unabridged
  • In this collection of personal essays, the beloved star of Gilmore Girls and Parenthood reveals stories about life, love, and working as a woman in Hollywood along with behind-the-scenes dispatches from the set of the new Gilmore Girls, where she plays the fast-talking Lorelai Gilmore once again.
*Audible Free Trial Details
Get an audiobook of your choice, free, with a 30-day trial. After the trial, your paid membership will begin at £7.99 per month. With your membership, you will receive one credit every month, good for any audiobook on Audible.

Cancel anytime, effective the next monthly billing cycle. Cancel before your trial ends and you will not be charged. This offer is only for new customers. Check out the full terms and policies that apply to Audible membership.