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Women Authors Audiobooks

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    A Life of My Own

    by Claire Tomalin ...
    Narrated by Penelope Wilton ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 38 min

    Penguin presents A Life of My Own by Claire Tomalin, read by Dame Penelope Wilton.As one of the best biographers of her generation, Claire Tomalin has written about great novelists and poets to huge success: now, she turns to look at her own life.This enthralling memoir follows her through triumph and tragedy in about equal measure, from the disastrous marriage of her parents and the often ... Read more

    $17.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Super Attractor: Methods for Manifesting a Life beyond Your Wildest Dreams by Gabrielle Bernstein: Key Takeaways, Summary & Analysis Included

    by Ninja Reads ...
    Narrated by Ninja Reads ...

    Unabridged

    44 min

    *PLEASE NOTE: This concise summary is unofficial and is not authorized, approved, licensed, or endorsed by the original book's publisher or author.*Short on time? Or maybe you’ve already read the book, but need a refresh on the most important takeaways. In a quick, easy listen, you can take the main principles from Super Attractor: Methods for Manifesting a Life Beyond Your Wildest Dreams ... Read more

    $7.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Agatha Christie: First Lady of Crime

    by Agatha Christie ...
    Narrated by Hugh Fraser, Sophie Roberts ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 10 min

    Includes a new introduction from Sophie Hannah, bestselling author of THE MONOGRAM MURDERS and HAVEN'T THEY GROWNAgatha Christie was not only the biggest selling writer of detective stories the world has ever known, she was also a mystery in herself, giving only the rarest interviews, declining absolutely to become any sort of public figure, and a mystery too in the manner in which she achieved ... Read more

    $35.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Translating Myself and Others

    by Jhumpa Lahiri ...
    Narrated by Jhumpa Lahiri, Sneha Mathan ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 40 min

    Sneha Mathan narrates these luminous essays on translation and self-translation by award-winning writer and literary translator Jhumpa LahiriWith an introduction, afterword, and acknowledgements read by the authorTranslating Myself and Others is a collection of candid and disarmingly personal essays by Pulitzer Prize–winning author Jhumpa Lahiri, who reflects on her emerging identity as a ... Read more

    $21.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Summary: The Power of Vulnerability

    Teachings of Authenticity, Connection, and Courage by Brené Brown: Key Takeaways, Summary & Analysis Included

    by Brooks Bryant ...
    Narrated by Marcela Garcia ...

    Unabridged

    55 min

    *PLEASE NOTE: This concise summary is unofficial and is not authorized, approved, licensed, or endorsed by the original book's publisher or author.*Short on time? Or maybe you’ve already read the book, but need a refresh on the most important takeaways. In a quick, easy listen, you can take the main principles from The Power of Vulnerability: Teachings of Authenticity, Connection, and Courage ... Read more

    $7.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Camp Austen

    My Life as an Accidental Jane Austen Superfan

    by Ted Scheinman ...
    Narrated by Ted Scheinman ...

    Unabridged

    3 hours 43 min

    A raucous audiobook tour through the world of Mr. Darcy imitations, tailored gowns, and tipsy ballroom dancingThe son of a devoted Jane Austen scholar, Ted Scheinman spent his childhood summers eating Yorkshire pudding, singing in an Anglican choir, and watching Laurence Olivier as Mr. Darcy. Determined to leave his mother’s world behind, he nonetheless found himself in grad school organizing the ... Read more

    $12.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Love Unknown

    The Life and Worlds of Elizabeth Bishop

    by Thomas Travisano ...
    Narrated by Bronson Pinchot ...

    Unabridged

    15 hours 37 min

    An illuminating new biography of one of the greatest American poets of the twentieth century, Elizabeth BishopElizabeth Bishop's friend James Merrill once observed that "Elizabeth had more talent for life—and for poetry—than anyone else I've known." This new biography reveals just how she learned to marry her talent for life with her talent for writing in order to create a brilliant array of poems ... Read more

    $36.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Monster, She Wrote

    The Women Who Pioneered Horror and Speculative Fiction

    by Lisa Kröger, Melanie R. Anderson ...
    Narrated by Erin Bennett ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 30 min

    Satisfy your craving for extraordinary authors and exceptional fiction: Meet the women writers who defied convention to craft some of literature’s strangest tales, from Frankenstein to The Haunting of Hill House and beyond.Frankenstein was just the beginning: horror stories and other weird fiction wouldn’t exist without the women who created it. From Gothic ghost stories to psychological horror to ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Silly Novels by Lady Novelists

    by George Eliot ...
    Narrated by Sarah Bacaller ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 10 min

    In this essay, originally published anonymously in The Westminster Review (1856), George Eliot examines the state of women’s fiction in her time. She lamentingly argues that absurd and banal novels, written by well-to-do women of her time, do great disservice for the overall appreciation of women’s intellectual capacities within society.Eliot divides “silly novels by lady novelists” into several ... Read more

    $21.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    A Horse at Night

    On Writing

    by Amina Cain ...
    Narrated by Ann Marie Gideon ...

    Unabridged

    2 hours 52 min

    Amina Cain's unique wandering sensibility, her attention to the small and the surprising, finds a profound new expression in her first nonfiction book, a sustained meditation on writers and their work. Driven by primary questions of authenticity and freedom in the shadow of ecological and social collapse, Cain moves associatively through a personal canon of authors-including Marguerite Duras, ... Read more

    $16.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Writers on Walks: A BBC Radio 3 Collection

    30 Reflections from Exploring on Foot

    by Robert Macfarlane, Deborah Levy, Jenn Ashworth, Kamila Shamsie, Michael Donkor, Michèle Roberts, Lucy Hughes-Hallett, Ross Raisin, Owen Sheers, Nicholas Shakespeare, Nat Segnit, Sophie Coulombeau, Christopher Hope, Scarlett Thomas, Erica Wagner, Nicola Barker, Ian Samson, Kirsty Gunn, Philip Hoare ...
    Narrated by Various ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 48 min

    22 writers talk about their memorable excursions and the act of walking, and share their creative observationsIn these six series, taken from BBC Radio 3's The Essay, an array of novelists, poets, journalists and biographers chart the varied and inspiring walks they have taken around Britain and elsewhere. Here are treks taken at daybreak and after dark; in winter and in spring; in the footsteps ... Read more

    $24.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    The Extra Woman

    How Marjorie Hillis Led a Generation of Women to Live Alone and Like It

    by Joanna Scutts ...
    Narrated by C.S.E. Cooney ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 12 min

    Despite multiple waves of feminist revolution, today's single woman is still mired in judgment or, worse, pity. But for one brief exclamatory period in the 1930s, she was all the rage. Marjorie Hillis was working at Vogue when she published the radical self-help book Live Alone and Like It: A Guide for the Extra Woman. With Dorothy Parker-esque wit, she urged spinsters, divorcees, and old maids to ... Read more

    $26.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    The Heroine with 1001 Faces

    by Maria Tatar ...
    Narrated by Julie McKay ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 9 min

    World-renowned folklorist Maria Tatar reveals an astonishing but long buried history of heroines, taking us from Cassandra and Scheherazade to Nancy Drew and Wonder Woman. How do we explain our newfound cultural investment in empathy and social justice? For decades, Joseph Campbell had defined our cultural aspirations in The Hero with a Thousand Faces, emphasizing the value of seeking glory and ... Read more

    $36.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    The Life of the Author: Maya Angelou

    by Linda Wagner-Martin ...
    Narrated by Allyson Johnson ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 38 min

    A comprehensive biographical and critical reading of the works of American poet and memoirist Maya Angelou (1928-2014). Linda Wagner-Martin covers all six of Angelou's autobiographies, as well as her essay and poetry collections, while also exploring Angelou's life as an African American in the United States, her career as stage and film performer, her thoughtful participation in the Civil Rights ... Read more

    $23.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Summary of The Gifts of Imperfection

    Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are by Brené Brown: Key Takeaways, Summary & Analysis Included

    by William Beckett ...
    Narrated by Natalia Sanchez ...

    Unabridged

    53 min

    *PLEASE NOTE: This concise summary is unofficial and is not authorized, approved, licensed, or endorsed by the original book's publisher or author.*Short on time? Or maybe you’ve already read the book, but need a refresh on the most important takeaways. In a quick, easy listen, you can take the main principles from The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You’re Supposed to Be and ... Read more

    $7.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Genius and Ink: Virginia Woolf on How to Read

    by Virginia Woolf ...
    Narrated by Olivia Dowd ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 23 min

    FOREWORD BY ALI SMITHWITH AN INTRODUCTION BY FRANCESCA WADEWho better to serve as a guide to great books and their authors than Virginia Woolf?In the early years of its existence, the Times Literary Supplement published some of the finest writers in English: T. S. Eliot, Henry James and E. M. Forster among them. But one of the paper’s defining voices was Virginia Woolf, who produced a string of ... Read more

    $26.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    March Sisters

    On Life, Death, and Little Women

    by Kate Bolick, Jenny Zhang, Carmen Maria Machado, Jane Smiley ...
    Narrated by Cassandra Campbell ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 9 min

    For the 150th anniversary of the publication of Louisa May Alcott's Little Women, Kate Bolick, Jenny Zhang, Carmen Maria Machado, and Jane Smiley explore their strong lifelong personal engagement with Alcott's novel-what it has meant to them and why it still matters. Each takes as her subject one of the four March sisters, reflecting on their stories and what they have to teach us about life. Kate ... Read more

    $19.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Cuestiones candentes

    Una mirada crítica a la realidad actual, desde el feminismo hasta el cambio climático

    by Margaret Atwood ...
    Narrated by Marta Moreno, Isabel Puchol, Angi Sansón, Carme Calvell, Elvira García, Juan Miguel Díez, Luis Grau, Olivia Vives, Rosa Guillén, Cristina Serra ...

    Unabridged

    19 hours 59 min

    Una brillante colección de ensayos que abarca desde la deuda pública hasta la naturaleza de la ciencia ficción y la crisis climática.La galardonada y exitosa autora de El cuento de la criada y Los testamentos ofrece su divertida, erudita, curiosa y asombrosamente clarividente visión del mundo, desde la deuda y la tecnología hasta la crisis climática y la libertad, y busca respuestas a cuestiones ... Read more

    $40.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Women Rowing North: Navigating Life’s Currents and Flourishing As We Age by Mary Pipher: Key Takeaways, Summary & Analysis Included

    by Ninja Reads ...
    Narrated by Ninja Reads ...

    Unabridged

    59 min

    *PLEASE NOTE: This concise summary is unofficial and is not authorized, approved, licensed, or endorsed by the original book's publisher or author.*Short on time? Or maybe you’ve already read the book, but need a refresh on the most important takeaways. In a quick, easy listen, you can take the main principles from Women Rowing North: Navigating Life’s Currents and Flourishing as We Age!Mary ... Read more

    $7.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Transforming Harry

    The Adaptation of Harry Potter in the Transmedia Age

    Narrated by Shaun Grindell, Esther Wane ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 35 min

    Transforming Harry: The Adaptation of Harry Potter in the Transmedia Age is an edited volume of eight essays that look at how the cinematic versions of the seven Harry Potter novels represent an unprecedented cultural event in the history of cinematic adaptation. The movie version of the first Harry Potter book, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, premiered in 2001, in between publication of ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Bobbed Hair and Bathtub Gin

    Writers Running Wild in the Twenties

    by Marion Meade, Janet Carroll, the Hollywood Jazz Cats, Yuri Rasovsky, Yuri Rasovsky ...
    Narrated by Lorna Raver ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 11 min

    This is an exuberant group portrait of four extraordinary writers—Zelda Fitzgerald, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Dorothy Parker, and Edna Ferber—whose loves, lives, and literary endeavors captured the spirit of the 1920s.Marion Meade re-creates the aura of excitement, romance, and promise of the 1920s, when these literary heroines did what they wanted, said what they thought, and kicked open the door ... Read more

    $30.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    The Solitude of Self

    Thinking About Elizabeth Cady Stanton

    by Vivian Gornick ...
    Narrated by Theresa Conkin ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 44 min

    Elizabeth Cady Stanton was one of the most important leaders of the movement to gain American women the vote. But, as Vivian Gornick argues in this passionate, vivid biographical essay, Stanton is also the greatest feminist thinker of the nineteenth century. Endowed with a philosophical cast of mind large enough to grasp the immensity that women's rights addressed, Stanton developed a devotion to ... Read more

    $19.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Summary: Becoming

    by Michelle Obama: Key Takeaways, Summary & Analysis Included

    by Brooks Bryant ...
    Narrated by Marcela Garcia ...

    Unabridged

    52 min

    *PLEASE NOTE: This concise summary is unofficial and is not authorized, approved, licensed, or endorsed by the original book's publisher or author.*Short on time? Or maybe you’ve already read the book, but need a refresh on the most important takeaways. In a quick, easy listen, you can take the main principles from Becoming!The bestselling memoir, Becoming, contains a powerful story of working ... Read more

    $7.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Judy Blume

    by PBS NewsHour ...
    Narrated by PBS NewsHour ...

    Unabridged

    8 min

    Jeffrey Brown talks with author Judy Blume about her career writing for young people. ... Read more

    $1.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial