TRUE STORIES THAT MOVE YOU – OUR NON-FICTION

Listen to a sample from Strong - the moving and heartbreaking memoir from celebrity campaigner, endurance athlete, and father of an angel, Ashley Cain. Charting his daughter's birth and the fight for her life when she was diagnosed with leukaemia at 7 weeks old, Ashley reflects on his life and his own struggles since Azaylia's passing in 2021.

Ashley embodies strength and resilience - recently setting up The Azaylia Foundation and taking part in extreme physical challenges to raise crucial funds and awareness for children fighting cancer - so though Strong is a moving tribute to his daughter, it will also encompass the practical and positive mindset that Ashley now embodies, tying his emotional and physical grief into his extreme challenges, in order to provide inspiration and comfort to others struggling with loss and other mental health challenges.

Narrated by Ashley Cain.

Strong by Ashley Cain Audiobook Sample

This is a book about life - we've all got one, so it's very relatable. It's also about mistakes, family, growing up, shame and a few more mistakes.

This book contains tales of dead dads, pretend dead dads, getting barred from an osteopath's, getting arrested, sex crimes and forgiveness.  

I used to be addicted to boys and alcohol and then men and alcohol and then some other things. I was a little unhinged. I've got some great stories about when I was as mad as cheese and then some more stories about how I got less mad and more happy.

What's That Lady Doing: False Starts and Happy Endings by Lou Sanders

By the age of twenty, Lucy Spraggan had already experienced more extraordinary things than many do across a lifetime. Growing up in a creative household, surrounded by artists, alcohol and raucous parties, by her late teens she had played pubs, clubs and festivals, fallen in love with an older woman on a US road trip, experimented with drink and drugs, and been in and out of police custody.

When her X Factor audition went viral in 2012, Lucy became the bookies' favourite to win the show. She was the first contestant ever to write and perform her own original songs, refusing to be pigeonholed by stylists and producers. Viewers fell for her unmanufactured, anti-pop princess stance, and the tabloids loved her.

Then, suddenly, mid-way through the live shows, Lucy dropped out. The public were told Lucy was unwell.

Now, for the first time, Lucy is ready to tell her story, in her own words.

Process is a book about the vicious impact of trauma across a lifetime; it is about Lucy's successes and mistakes, her journey towards sobriety, calm and something like peace. Most of all, Process is an extraordinary story about a gifted artists and an expose of the toxic underbelly of noughties celebrity culture and reality TV.

Process by Lucy Spraggan

England's 2003 Rugby World Cup Win, as Told by the Team. Listen to a sample from the audiobook here. This is the definitive account of a legendary sporting moment and an examination of the costs of our dreams.

The Boys of Winter Audiobook Sample

Kate Garraway has had to learn how to adapt ever since her husband Derek began his fight against the devastating impact of Covid, a condition that has left him needing 24-hour care at home and long spells in hospital. Every day brings uncertainty and new challenges to test Kate and her family's resolve.

Despite all that she and her family have had to endure, Kate shows us that love truly is the most powerful and resilient emotion of all.

Narrated by Kate Garraway

The Strength of Love

The Strength of Love by Kate Garraway - Audiobook sample

Dive into the story of Sex Pistols bassist Glen Matlock, as told in his own words via thirty songs.

Read by Glen Matlock

Triggers by Glen Matlock - Audiobook sample

Listen to the exclusive full-career autobiography of a legendary footballer.

Read by Liam Brady and Aidan Kelly

Born to be a Footballer by Liam Brady - Audiobook sample

Listen to a sample from the audiobook of Icons of Rock here. An exclusive listen into the first part of Mick Fleetwood's chapter, where you hear from the man himself.

Icons of Rock

Icons of Rock by Jenny Boyd

Dive into the definitive autobiography of musician, singer-songwriter and producer Ian Broudie, chronicling his career as frontman of multi-platinum-selling rock band the Lightning Seeds, with tales of Britpop stardom and footballing royalty along the way.

Narrated by Ian Broudie

Tomorrow's Here Today by Ian Broudie - Audiobook sample

Take a listen to the powerful memoir of how simple acts of kindness helped Mira survive the horrors of the Holocaust to live a beautiful life, retold by her daughter.

Read by Rachel Griffiths with an introduction from the author

A Brilliant Life by Rachelle Unreich - Audiobook sample

Take a listen to the definitive autobiography from Culture Club frontman and LGBTQ+ icon, Boy George

Read by Boy George

Karma

KARMA by Boy George - Jungle is Massive | Audiobook sample

Take a listen to this proven neuroscience-based programme to heal your relationship with your body and food, from the world-renowned addiction psychiatrist and New York Times bestselling author of Unwinding Anxiety.

Read by Amy Arthur

Pace Yourself by Amy Arthur - Audiobook sample

Listen to a sample here from The Counterfeit Countess: the untold story of the Jewish heroine who defied the Holocaust. Read for you by Julie Teal.

The Counterfeit Countess

The Counterfeit Countess by Elizabeth B. White and Joanna Sliwa

A proven neuroscience-based programme to heal your relationship with your body and food, from the world-renowned addiction psychiatrist and New York Times bestselling author of Unwinding Anxiety.

Read by Dr. Judson Brewer

The Hunger Habit by Dr. Judson Brewer - Audiobook sample

At once intimate and inspiring, in this book Susan Barry shares the heartfelt letters through which she and Oliver Sacks became dear friends later in life, laying bare the meeting of two people endlessly compelled by what we know of the world-and its mysteries.

Dear Oliver by Susan R. Barry - Audiobook sample

A compelling and incendiary exploration of the cult of crypto told through the rise and fall of its most mercurial figure - Sam Bankman-Fried.

Hype Machine by Joshua Oliver - Audiobook sample

Listen to a sample from Now is Not The Time for Flowers, written and read by Stacey Heale.

Now Is Not the Time For Flowers

Now Is Not The Time For Flowers by Stacey Heale

Bullsh*t Comparisons will challenge the way you think about the political use and social abuse of the metaphors and metrics that warp our understanding of an unequal world.

Read by Andrew Brooks

Bullsh*t Comparisons: A Field Guide to Thinking Critically in a World of Difference

Bullsh*t Comparisons by Andrew Brooks - Audiobook sample

In the archives of the national library, a researcher named Linda sees a nine year-old girl's face in the pages of a yellowed newspaper, and the seed of an obsession is planted in her mind.

Read by Olivia Darnley

The Eighth House by Linda Segtnan - Audiobook sample

Harlem 1969; it's the height of the Civil Rights era and the community is still reeling from the assassination of Martin Luther King. Arthur Mitchell, the first Black principal dancer at the New York City Ballet, takes his protest to the stage and establishes the Dance Theatre of Harlem. Here begins the story of the five extraordinary women at the heart of this book.

Both a group biography and a story of a particular time, this is a book about ballet, the enduring allure of ballet for young girls, and about how these pioneers broke into a world that was closed to them and changed ideas of what a classical dancer could be. It is about the heart-breaking impact of the AIDS epidemic which claimed the lives of so many of the male dancers. It's about racism and activism through art. And it's about the eternal glamour of ballet; these swans appeared at the grandest opera houses and theatres, dancing at the White House, and even for the Queen. Their fans included Mick Jagger and they performed alongside the likes of Michael Jackson and Josephine Baker.

But most importantly it tells the universal story of female friendship, and in particular how these five young women formed a bond - while experimenting with different ways of dying ballet shoes and tights to match their skin tones - which still endures many decades later.

The Swans of Harlem by Karen Valby - Audiobook sample

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