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Code Dependent

How AI Is Changing Our Lives — Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Non-Fiction

by Madhumita Murgia ...

Narrated by Madhumita Murgia ...

Unabridged

9 hours 21 min

Read by the author, Madhumita Murgia, this audio edition includes a fascinating exclusive author interview, led by the global AI lead at publisher Pan Macmillan, Sara Lloyd.**SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2024What does it mean to be human in a world that is rapidly changing with the development of artificial intelligence?'Highly readable and deeply important' – The Guardian ... Read more

£12.99

Read by the author, Madhumita Murgia, this audio edition includes a fascinating exclusive author interview, led by the global AI lead at publisher Pan Macmillan, Sara Lloyd.**SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2024What does it mean to be human in a world that is rapidly changing with the development of artificial intelligence?'Highly readable and deeply important' – The Guardian
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Mini Big Ideas

A Little Book of Big Innovations

by Jonny Thomson ...

Narrated by Jonny Thomson ...

Unabridged

7 hours 11 min

From the internationally acclaimed author of MINI PHILOSOPHY, here are 150 big ideas in bite-sized chunks.Every so often, a new idea comes along that changes everything. Vaccinations. Relativity. Fascism. Can we imagine a world before the invention of writing? What would Christianity have looked like without with a concept of hell? Sometimes these ideas come along suddenly: Copernicus suggesting ... Read more

£24.99

From the internationally acclaimed author of MINI PHILOSOPHY, here are 150 big ideas in bite-sized chunks.Every so often, a new idea comes along that changes everything. Vaccinations. Relativity. Fascism. Can we imagine a world before the invention of writing? What would Christianity have looked like without with a concept of hell? Sometimes these ideas come along suddenly: Copernicus suggesting
... Read more
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Enshittification

Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It

by Cory Doctorow ...

Narrated by Cory Doctorow ...

Unabridged

10 hours 57 min

Winner of the 2026 Locus Award for NonfictionEnshittification: It’s not just you—the internet sucks now. It’s been enshittified. That was no accident, and it’s not gonna fix itself. Here’s how we’ll disenshittify it so we can have a new, good internet.We are all living through the Enshittocene—the Great Enshittening—a time in which the services that matter to us, that we rely on, are being turned ... Read more

£20.11

Winner of the 2026 Locus Award for NonfictionEnshittification: It’s not just you—the internet sucks now. It’s been enshittified. That was no accident, and it’s not gonna fix itself. Here’s how we’ll disenshittify it so we can have a new, good internet.We are all living through the Enshittocene—the Great Enshittening—a time in which the services that matter to us, that we rely on, are being turned
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Taking on Gravity

A Guide to Inventing the Impossible from the Man Who Learned to Fly

by Richard Browning ...

Narrated by Richard Browning ...

Unabridged

7 hours

Brought to you by Penguin.For fans of Adrian Newey, Guy Martin and Chris Hadfield, in Taking on Gravity inventor Richard Browning tells the inspiring story behind his iconic jet suit, and shares his creative principles for generating true innovation.From Icarus to Iron Man, the dream of human flight has always inspired and challenged us. Now, with his pioneering jet suit, Richard B... ... Read more

£13.99

Brought to you by Penguin.For fans of Adrian Newey, Guy Martin and Chris Hadfield, in Taking on Gravity inventor Richard Browning tells the inspiring story behind his iconic jet suit, and shares his creative principles for generating true innovation.From Icarus to Iron Man, the dream of human flight has always inspired and challenged us. Now, with his pioneering jet suit, Richard B...
... Read more
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The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State

by Jill Lepore ...

Narrated by Jill Lepore ...

Unabridged

9 hours 7 min

It presented itself as a form of futurism. But the future envisioned by the architects of the Artificial State looked, chillingly, like the very worst of the past…We live in the age of data. Over the past century, rapidly evolving technologies have transformed every aspect of our society, in troubling and seemingly unstoppable ways. Political campaigns have been reduced to attention-mining ... Read more

£14.00

It presented itself as a form of futurism. But the future envisioned by the architects of the Artificial State looked, chillingly, like the very worst of the past…We live in the age of data. Over the past century, rapidly evolving technologies have transformed every aspect of our society, in troubling and seemingly unstoppable ways. Political campaigns have been reduced to attention-mining
... Read more
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Things Are Looking Up

An uplifting, heartwarming romance from Maxine Morrey

by Maxine Morrey ...

Narrated by Gloria Sanders ...

Series series The Read Yourself Happy Collection
Unabridged

9 hours 38 min

A page-turning, heart-warming romance, guaranteed to brighten up your day from the award-winning top 50 bestseller, Maxine MorreyPerfect for fans of Lauren Weisberger and Sophie Kinsella.Milly has been waiting for this moment forever and finally it’s just an hour away – an interview with Vogue magazine and the opportunity to get her foot in the door. There’s just one problem – totally engrossed in ... Read more

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A page-turning, heart-warming romance, guaranteed to brighten up your day from the award-winning top 50 bestseller, Maxine MorreyPerfect for fans of Lauren Weisberger and Sophie Kinsella.Milly has been waiting for this moment forever and finally it’s just an hour away – an interview with Vogue magazine and the opportunity to get her foot in the door. There’s just one problem – totally engrossed in
... Read more
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The Internet Con

How to Seize the Means of Computation

by Cory Doctorow ...

Unabridged

6 hours 6 min

When the tech platforms promised a future of "connection," they were lying. They said their "walled gardens" would keep us safe, but those were prison walls.The platforms locked us into their systems and made us easy pickings, ripe for extaction. Twitter, Facebook and other Big Tech platforms hard to leave by design. They hold hostage the people we love, the communities that matter to us, the ... Read more

£0.99

When the tech platforms promised a future of "connection," they were lying. They said their "walled gardens" would keep us safe, but those were prison walls.The platforms locked us into their systems and made us easy pickings, ripe for extaction. Twitter, Facebook and other Big Tech platforms hard to leave by design. They hold hostage the people we love, the communities that matter to us, the
... Read more
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Don’t Burn Anyone at the Stake Today

(and other lessons from history from the bestselling, award-winning author of The Power)

by Naomi Alderman ...

Narrated by Naomi Alderman ...

Unabridged

3 hours 22 min

Brought to you by Penguin.What’s the most useful thing you could know about your own life?In this era-defining book, developed from her groundbreaking Radio 4 essay series, Naomi Alderman turns her boundless curiosity and incisive thinking to a question that affects us all: how do we understand, and navigate, the epoch we’re living through? She calls this epoch the Information Crisis.The internet ... Read more

£14.99

Brought to you by Penguin.What’s the most useful thing you could know about your own life?In this era-defining book, developed from her groundbreaking Radio 4 essay series, Naomi Alderman turns her boundless curiosity and incisive thinking to a question that affects us all: how do we understand, and navigate, the epoch we’re living through? She calls this epoch the Information Crisis.The internet
... Read more
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Invisible Women

Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men

by Caroline Criado Perez ...

Narrated by Caroline Criado Perez ...

Unabridged

9 hours 24 min

*THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER**A TIMES BEST BOOK OF THE 21st CENTURY**OVER A MILLION COPIES SOLD*Discover the shocking gender bias that affects our everyday lives in this groundbreaking gift of an audiobook edition, read by Caroline Criado Perez.Imagine a world where...· Your phone is too big for your hand· Your doctor prescri... ... Read more

£12.99

*THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER**A TIMES BEST BOOK OF THE 21st CENTURY**OVER A MILLION COPIES SOLD*Discover the shocking gender bias that affects our everyday lives in this groundbreaking gift of an audiobook edition, read by Caroline Criado Perez.Imagine a world where...· Your phone is too big for your hand· Your doctor prescri...
... Read more
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Careless People

The #1 Sunday Times bestselling memoir that Meta doesn't want you to read

by Sarah Wynn-Williams ...

Narrated by Sarah Wynn-Williams, Naomi Alderman ...

Unabridged

13 hours 26 min

The number one global bestseller and Book of the Year 2025 for Audible, The Times, Cosmopolitan, The Economist and more.‘How else to put this? Bloody hell’ –The Guardian‘Jaw-dropping . . . A tell-all tome’ – Financial Times‘A Bridget Jones’s Diary-style tale of a young woman thrown into a series of improbable situations’ – The TimesSarah W... ... Read more

£16.99

The number one global bestseller and Book of the Year 2025 for Audible, The Times, Cosmopolitan, The Economist and more.‘How else to put this? Bloody hell’ –The Guardian‘Jaw-dropping . . . A tell-all tome’ – Financial Times‘A Bridget Jones’s Diary-style tale of a young woman thrown into a series of improbable situations’ – The TimesSarah W...
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Doppelganger

A Trip Into the Mirror World

by Naomi Klein ...

Narrated by Naomi Klein ...

Unabridged

14 hours 47 min

**Brought to you by Penguin.*WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION****THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER**A BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR THE TIMES, NEW YORK TIMES, GUARDIAN, OBSERVER, AND PROSPECT*When Naomi Klein discovered that a woman who shared her first name, but had radically different, harmful views, was getting chronically mistaken for her, it seemed too ridiculous... ... Read more

£16.99

**Brought to you by Penguin.*WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION****THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER**A BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR THE TIMES, NEW YORK TIMES, GUARDIAN, OBSERVER, AND PROSPECT*When Naomi Klein discovered that a woman who shared her first name, but had radically different, harmful views, was getting chronically mistaken for her, it seemed too ridiculous...
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Digital Minimalism

Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World

by Cal Newport ...

Narrated by Will Damron ...

Unabridged

7 hours

Learn how to switch off and find calm - from the New York Times bestselling author of A World Without Email'Digital Minimalism is the Marie Kondo of technology' Evening Standard'An eloquent, powerful and enjoyably practical guide to cutting back on screen time' The Times'An urgent call to action for anyone serious about being in command of their own life' Ryan Holiday... ... Read more

£12.99

Learn how to switch off and find calm - from the New York Times bestselling author of A World Without Email'Digital Minimalism is the Marie Kondo of technology' Evening Standard'An eloquent, powerful and enjoyably practical guide to cutting back on screen time' The Times'An urgent call to action for anyone serious about being in command of their own life' Ryan Holiday...
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Audiobook

The E-Myth Revisited

Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and

by Michael E. Gerber ...

Narrated by Michael E. Gerber ...

Unabridged

8 hours 5 min

In this compact disc edition of the totally revised underground bestseller -- The E-Myth, Michael Gerber dispels the myths surrounding starting your own business and shows how commonplace assumptions can get in the way of running a business. He walks you through the steps in the life of a business -- from entrepreneurial infancy, through adolescent growing pains, to the mature entrepreneurial ... Read more

£16.99

In this compact disc edition of the totally revised underground bestseller -- The E-Myth, Michael Gerber dispels the myths surrounding starting your own business and shows how commonplace assumptions can get in the way of running a business. He walks you through the steps in the life of a business -- from entrepreneurial infancy, through adolescent growing pains, to the mature entrepreneurial
... Read more
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Nexus

The Sunday Times bestselling history about humans, technology and AI from the author of Sapiens

by Yuval Noah Harari ...

Narrated by Vidish Athavale ...

Unabridged

17 hours 28 min

The mind-blowing story of how information networks – from the stone age to AI - have shaped our world from the #1 Sunday Times bestselling author of SapiensStories brought us together.Books spread our ideas – and our mythologies.The internet promised infinite knowledge.The algorithm learned our secrets – and then turned us against each other.What wi... ... Read more

£18.00

The mind-blowing story of how information networks – from the stone age to AI - have shaped our world from the #1 Sunday Times bestselling author of SapiensStories brought us together.Books spread our ideas – and our mythologies.The internet promised infinite knowledge.The algorithm learned our secrets – and then turned us against each other.What wi...
... Read more
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I Love You, Byeee

Rambles on DIY TV, Rockstars, Kids and Mums

by Adam Buxton ...

Narrated by Adam Buxton ...

Unabridged

10 hours 13 min

A Sunday Times Bestseller‘I Love You, Byeee is poignant and properly funny; a bracing dip into nostalgia, but self-aware, too.’ ObserverThe long-awaited new memoir and follow-up to the bestselling Ramble Book.Hey, how you doing, casual browser? Adam Buxton here. Are you ready for some hot hyperbole about this book? Here we go …In I Love You, Byeee, the highly anti... ... Read more

£21.99

A Sunday Times Bestseller‘I Love You, Byeee is poignant and properly funny; a bracing dip into nostalgia, but self-aware, too.’ ObserverThe long-awaited new memoir and follow-up to the bestselling Ramble Book.Hey, how you doing, casual browser? Adam Buxton here. Are you ready for some hot hyperbole about this book? Here we go …In I Love You, Byeee, the highly anti...
... Read more
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The Coming Wave

AI, Power and Our Future: The instant Sunday Times bestseller from the ultimate AI insider

by Mustafa Suleyman, Michael Bhaskar ...

Narrated by Mustafa Suleyman ...

Unabridged

12 hours 7 min

This is the only book you need to understand our new world – from the ultimate AI insider, the CEO of Microsoft AI and co-founder of the pioneering AI company DeepMind.Soon you will live surrounded by AIs. In a world of quantum computers, robot assistants and abundant energy, they will organise your life, operate your business, and run government services.None of us are prepared.Mustafa Suleyman ... Read more

£14.99

This is the only book you need to understand our new world – from the ultimate AI insider, the CEO of Microsoft AI and co-founder of the pioneering AI company DeepMind.Soon you will live surrounded by AIs. In a world of quantum computers, robot assistants and abundant energy, they will organise your life, operate your business, and run government services.None of us are prepared.Mustafa Suleyman
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The Passage

‘Will stand as one of the great achievements in American fantasy fiction’ Stephen King

by Justin Cronin ...

Narrated by Scott Brick ...

Series Audiobook 1 - The Passage Trilogy
Unabridged

36 hours 49 min

Amy Harper Bellafonte is six years old and her mother thinks she's the most important person in the whole world.She is.Anthony Carter doesn't think he could ever be in a worse place than Death Row.He's wrong.FBI agent Brad Wolgast thinks something beyond imagination is coming.It is.THE PASSAGE.(p) 2010 Penguin Random House LLC ... Read more

£25.99

Amy Harper Bellafonte is six years old and her mother thinks she's the most important person in the whole world.She is.Anthony Carter doesn't think he could ever be in a worse place than Death Row.He's wrong.FBI agent Brad Wolgast thinks something beyond imagination is coming.It is.THE PASSAGE.(p) 2010 Penguin Random House LLC
... Read more
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The Proving Ground

The Brand New Blockbuster Lincoln Lawyer Thriller

by Michael Connelly ...

Narrated by Peter Giles ...

Series Audiobook 7 - Mickey Haller Series
Unabridged

10 hours 49 min

Mickey Haller - The Lincoln Lawyer - leaves criminal court behind for his first civil lawsuit. But to him, this is still a murder trial.An AI company's chatbot encouraged a sixteen-year-old boy to kill his ex-girlfriend. Can Haller prove the company knew the dangers of its own creation?To do so, he turns to Jack McEvoy - a journalist who knows how powerful the coming wave will be - and together ... Read more

£29.99

Mickey Haller - The Lincoln Lawyer - leaves criminal court behind for his first civil lawsuit. But to him, this is still a murder trial.An AI company's chatbot encouraged a sixteen-year-old boy to kill his ex-girlfriend. Can Haller prove the company knew the dangers of its own creation?To do so, he turns to Jack McEvoy - a journalist who knows how powerful the coming wave will be - and together
... Read more
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The Falls

The number one bestselling series that inspired BBC One’s REBUS

by Ian Rankin ...

Narrated by James Macpherson ...

Series Audiobook 12 - A Rebus Novel
Unabridged

16 hours 11 min

A student has gone missing in Edinburgh. She's not just any student, though, but the daughter of well-to-do and influential bankers. There's almost nothing to go on until DI John Rebus gets an unmistakable gut feeling that there's more to this than just another runaway spaced out on unaccustomed freedom.Two leads emerge: a carved wooden doll in a toy coffin, found in the student's home village, ... Read more

£21.99

A student has gone missing in Edinburgh. She's not just any student, though, but the daughter of well-to-do and influential bankers. There's almost nothing to go on until DI John Rebus gets an unmistakable gut feeling that there's more to this than just another runaway spaced out on unaccustomed freedom.Two leads emerge: a carved wooden doll in a toy coffin, found in the student's home village,
... Read more
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Empire of AI

Inside the reckless race for total domination

by Karen Hao ...

Narrated by Karen Hao ...

Unabridged

17 hours 50 min

**Brought to you by Penguin.An eye-opening account of the tech arms race shaping out planet, from an award-winning journalist and AI insider to the world of Sam Altman and OpenAI**When longtime AI expert and journalist Karen Hao first began covering OpenAI in 2019, she thought they were the good guys. Founded as a nonprofit with safety enshrined as its core mission, it was meant, its leader Sam ... Read more

£16.99

**Brought to you by Penguin.An eye-opening account of the tech arms race shaping out planet, from an award-winning journalist and AI insider to the world of Sam Altman and OpenAI**When longtime AI expert and journalist Karen Hao first began covering OpenAI in 2019, she thought they were the good guys. Founded as a nonprofit with safety enshrined as its core mission, it was meant, its leader Sam
... Read more
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Algorithms to Live By

The Computer Science of Human Decisions

by Brian Christian, Tom Griffiths ...

Narrated by Brian Christian ...

Unabridged

11 hours 50 min

A fascinating exploration of how computer algorithms can be applied to our everyday lives, helping to solve common decision-making problems and illuminate the workings of the human mindAll our lives are constrained by limited space and time, limits that give rise to a particular set of problems. What should we do, or leave undone, in a day or a lifetime? How much messiness should we accept? What ... Read more

£32.03

A fascinating exploration of how computer algorithms can be applied to our everyday lives, helping to solve common decision-making problems and illuminate the workings of the human mindAll our lives are constrained by limited space and time, limits that give rise to a particular set of problems. What should we do, or leave undone, in a day or a lifetime? How much messiness should we accept? What
... Read more
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This Way Up

When Maps Go Wrong (and Why it Matters)

by Map Men ...

Narrated by Map Men ...

Unabridged

8 hours 18 min

A SUNDAY TIMES #1 BESTSELLERA Waterstones Best Nature & Travel Writing Book 2025'Educational, smart and funny’ Richard Osman‘This book is superb’ Charlie Brooker‘Brilliant. Fascinating. Hilarious.’ Jonn Elledge, bestselling author of A History of the World in 47 BordersThe debut book from the YouTube sensation and all-round cartographical ne... ... Read more

£16.99

A SUNDAY TIMES #1 BESTSELLERA Waterstones Best Nature & Travel Writing Book 2025'Educational, smart and funny’ Richard Osman‘This book is superb’ Charlie Brooker‘Brilliant. Fascinating. Hilarious.’ Jonn Elledge, bestselling author of A History of the World in 47 BordersThe debut book from the YouTube sensation and all-round cartographical ne...
... Read more
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The Cuckoo's Egg

Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage

by Cliff Stoll ...

Narrated by Will Damron ...

Unabridged

12 hours 46 min

Before the Internet became widely known as a global tool for terrorists, one perceptive US citizen recognized its ominous potential. Armed with clear evidence of computer espionage, he began a highly personal quest to expose a hidden network of spies that threatened national security. But would the authorities back him up? Cliff Stoll's dramatic firsthand account is "a computer-age detective story ... Read more

£18.99

Before the Internet became widely known as a global tool for terrorists, one perceptive US citizen recognized its ominous potential. Armed with clear evidence of computer espionage, he began a highly personal quest to expose a hidden network of spies that threatened national security. But would the authorities back him up? Cliff Stoll's dramatic firsthand account is "a computer-age detective story
... Read more
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Human Compatible

AI and the Problem of Control

by Stuart Russell ...

Narrated by Raphael Corkhill ...

Unabridged

11 hours 38 min

Brought to you by Penguin.Creating superior intelligence would be the biggest event in human history. Unfortunately, according to the world's pre-eminent AI expert, it could also be the last.In this groundbreaking book on the biggest question facing humanity, Stuart Russell explains why he has come to consider his own discipline an existential threat to his own species, and lays out how we can ... Read more

£13.99

Brought to you by Penguin.Creating superior intelligence would be the biggest event in human history. Unfortunately, according to the world's pre-eminent AI expert, it could also be the last.In this groundbreaking book on the biggest question facing humanity, Stuart Russell explains why he has come to consider his own discipline an existential threat to his own species, and lays out how we can
... Read more

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