Audiobooks by Naomi Alderman

"Brought to you by Penguin. The highly-anticipated audacious new novel from the Women's Prize-winning author of The Power. ‘Alderman has gone from promising young author to publishing phenomenon, a writer gifted with the double Midas touch of commercial success and literary prestige' Sunday Times 'It is the genius of Naomi Alderman to embed a smart and thought-provoking meditation inside a page-turner of a book' Karen Joy-Fowler on The Future Over the year following the death of her mother, a woman grapples with the rawness of her new pain and with the older - but no less powerful - grief for the babies she lost in the preceding decades. At the same time, a new kind of animal begins to appear, first in the UK and then gradually across the world. A little like a badger, a little like a cat, but with a long snout that leads to the nickname 'mimmoth', it's a creature both baffling and unsettling, provoking speculation, fear, rage and even devotion in the humans in which it appears to show little interest. For the narrator, the connection she feels to the mimmoths is a solace, but maybe also a kind of madness. As the impact of the creatures begins to be felt in many different (possibly dangerous) ways she is pulled into the cross currents of conspiracy theories and global power struggles. © Naomi Alderman 2026 (P) Penguin Audio 2026"

Naomi Alderman (Author), TBD (Narrator)

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The Liars' Gospel: From the author of The Power, winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction

"Brought to you by Penguin. From the author of The Power, winner of the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction 2017 IT BEGINS AND ENDS WITH A SACRIFICE... It was a time of brutal tyranny and occupation. Young men and women took to the streets to protest. Dictators put them down with iron force. Rumours spread. Rebels attacked the greatest empire the world had ever known. The empire gathered its forces to make those rebels pay. And in the midst of all of that, one preacher by the name of Jesus died. And either something miraculous happened or someone lied. This is the truth according to The Liars' Gospel. © Naomi Alderman 2012 (P) Penguin Audio 2025"

Naomi Alderman (Author), Allan Corduner, Daniel Weyman, Elliot Levey, Imogen Stubbs, Roy McMillan (Narrator)

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Disobedience: From the author of The Power, winner of the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction

"Brought to you by Penguin. From the author of The Power, winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction Ronit has left London and transformed her life. She has become a cigarette-smoking, wise-cracking, New York career woman, who is in love with a married man. But when Ronit's father dies she is called back into the very different world of her childhood, a world she thought she had left far behind. The orthodox Jewish suburb of Hendon, north London is outraged by Ronit and her provocative ways. But Ronit is shocked too by the confrontation with her past. And when she meets up with her childhood girlfriend Esti, she is forced to think again about what she has left behind. 'Sharp, funny and poignant' - Hilary Mantel Funny, tender and insightful - Guardian © Naomi Alderman 2006 (P) Penguin Audio 2026"

Naomi Alderman (Author), Genevieve Gaunt, Olivia Vinall (Narrator)

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The Lessons

"Brought to you by Penguin. From the author of The Power, winner of the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction 2017 Naomi Alderman's The Lessons reflects the truth that the lessons life teaches often come too late. Hidden away in an Oxford back street is a crumbling Georgian mansion, unknown to any but the few who possess a key to its unassuming front gate. Its owner is the mercurial, charismatic Mark Winters, whose rackety trust-fund upbringing has left him as troubled and unpredictable as he is wildly promiscuous. Mark gathers around him an impressionable group of students: glamorous Emmanuella, who always has a new boyfriend in tow; Franny and Simon, best friends and occasional lovers; musician Jess, whose calm exterior hides passionate depths. And James, already damaged by Oxford and looking for a group to belong to. For a time they live in a charmed world of learning and parties and love affairs. But university is no grounding for adult life, and when, years later, tragedy strikes they are entirely unprepared. © Naomi Alderman 2010 (P) Penguin Audio 2026"

Naomi Alderman (Author), Joe Jameson (Narrator)

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The Power: Now a Major TV Series with Prime Video

"Brought to you by Penguin. THE ICONIC BESTSELLING NOVEL, WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE, AND NOW AMAZON TV SERIES STARRING TONI COLLETTE AND AULI'I CRAVALHO *Narrated by The Power TV stars Ria Zmitrowicz, Toheeb Jimoh and Archie Rush* 'She throws her head back and pushes her chest forward and lets go a huge blast right into the centre of his body. The rivulets and streams of red scarring run across his chest and up around his throat. She'd put her hand on his heart and stopped him dead.' Suddenly - tomorrow or the day after - girls find that with a flick of their fingers, they can inflict agonizing pain and even death. With this single twist, the four lives at the heart of Naomi Alderman's extraordinary, visceral novel are utterly transformed, and we look at the world in an entirely new light. What if the power to hurt were in women's hands? 'Electrifying' Margaret Atwood 'A big, brash, page-turning, thought-provoking thriller' Guardian 'The Hunger Games crossed with The Handmaid's Tale' Cosmopolitan © Naomi Alderman 2016 (P) Penguin Audio 2026"

Naomi Alderman (Author), Archie Rush, Christy Meyer, Jill Winternitz, Naomi Alderman, Phil Nightingale, Ria Zmitrowicz, Tiwa Lade, Toheeb Jimoh (Narrator)

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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)

"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 has flooded us with more knowledge, opinions, ideas, opportunities, as well as verbal attacks and misinformation, than ever before. It lets us learn more quickly and also spread falsehood more quickly, it brings us together and also divides us in new ways, it is now the lens through which we perceive and understand the world. There is no going back. But we have been here before. In fact, this is humanity’s third information crisis. The first, the invention of writing 5,000 years ago, and the second, the invention of the printing press 600 years ago, drastically reshaped our perceptions, interactions and mental landscapes in ways that feel acutely familiar. Overwhelmed by information, people become afraid and angry, unsettled and distressed, as well as more knowledgeable, educated and curious. By looking at those previous information crises, both the turmoil and the advances, Alderman asks what we can learn from the past to better understand our present, and prepare for our future. Drawing on the work of philosophers and historians, Don’t Burn Anyone at the Stake Today explores how new technology opens up new ways of being and helps us chart a way forward (once again), through the turbulent seas of information overload. An electrifying, thought-provoking exploration of how the digital era is reshaping our world, by bestselling, Women's Prize-winning writer Naomi Alderman 'Alderman is one of our most surprising and delightful public intellectuals, and this book grapples wonderfully with our current schisms and their historical precedents' JON RONSON 'Alderman helps us see the digital information crisis with fresh eyes, sharing profound wisdom and showing us how to avoid sacrificing our humanity for the sake of being right on the internet' OLIVER BURKEMAN © Naomi Alderman 2025 (P) Penguin Audio 2025"

Naomi Alderman (Author), Naomi Alderman (Narrator)

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Doctor Who: Eleventh Doctor Novels Volume 3

"Arthur Darvill, Clare Corbett, Nicholas Briggs and Meera Syal read these four original stories featuring the Eleventh Doctor, Amy and Rory. In Hunter's Moon, by Paul Finch, the travellers visit Leisure Platform 9, where gamblers and villains mix with socialites and celebrities. In Touched By An Angel, by Jonathan Morris, the Weeping Angels are using history itself as a weapon -and the Doctor, Amy and Rory must stop them. In Paradox Lost, by George Mann, an ancient android is dredged from the Thames, with a message that can only be delivered to the Doctor. In Borrowed Time, by Naomi Alderman, the three friends go undercover at a bank where time is the commodity on offer for loan. ? 2024 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd © 2024 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd."

George Mann, Jonathan Morris, Naomi Alderman, Paul Finch (Author), Arthur Darvill, Clare Corbett, Meera Syal, Nicholas Briggs (Narrator)

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The Future

"‘Gripping’ MARGARET ATWOOD 'A fabulous, witty writer on the digital world’ SUNDAY TIMES 'A little Atwood, a little Gibson, all Alderman, it’s brilliant and I loved it' LAUREN BEUKES The latest novel from the Women’s Prize-winning, bestselling author of The Power, The Future is a white-knuckle tour de force and dazzling exploration of the world we have made and where we are going. Lai Zhen is about to die. As an Internet-famous survivalist, she’s spent her life prepping for the end of the world. But now, desperate and cornered in a mall in Singapore, she’s mad she might go out not knowing what the hell is going on. If she makes it out alive, what kind of a future will be waiting for her? Across the world, Martha Einkorn works the room at a gathering of mega-rich companies hell-bent securing a future just for them. Covert weapons, private weather, technological prophecy, when Martha fled her father’s compound she may have left the cult behind, but if the apocalyptic warnings of his fox and rabbit sermon are starting to come true, how much future is actually left? Martha and Zhen’s worlds are about to collide. While a few billionaires assured of their own safety lead the world to destruction, Martha’s relentless drive and Zhen’s insatiable curiosity could lead to something beautiful … or the cataclysmic end of civilization. ‘A rollicking, fun-packed thriller’ ALASTAIR REYNOLDS"

Naomi Alderman (Author), Fred Sanders, Graham Halstead, Guinevere Turner, Jeremy Bobb, Lorelei King, Natalie Naudus, Santino Fontana (Narrator)

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Science Stories: The complete BBC Radio 4 popular science series

"In these ten absorbing series, award-winning authors Naomi Alderman and Philip Ball and guest presenters Tracey Logan, Kevin Fong, Simon Schaffer and Lindsey Fitzharris take a look at the many amazing events and characters from science's long history. In this collection, which runs close to 23 hours in total, they throw light on the revolutionary visionaries who defined how we see the world, from pioneers and prophets to inventors, experimenters and creators. Among the topics explored are feuding dinosaur hunters, jumping genes, the engine that nearly ran out of steam, the day the Earth stopped standing still, how laughing gas was discovered, the first female professional scientist in Britain, and how an eel sparked our interest in electricity. So, if you want to know more about a medieval bishop's Big Bang theory, how Florence Nightingale saved lives with statistics, the medieval equivalent of GPS, the woman who tamed lightning, Cyrano de Bergerac's designs for a spaceship, and what happened when Einstein decided to fix the fridge, our presenters are here to fill you in. Helping them discover the fact behind the fiction are a host of scientists and experts, including Professor Edith Hall, Hannah Fry, Tim Spector, Marcus du Sautoy, Richard Wiseman, Natalie Haynes and Tracy Chevalier. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on the following dates: The Bone Wars 10 June 2015 The engine that ran out of steam 17 June 2015 DNA's Third Man 24 June 2015 How Perkin brought purple to the people 1 July 2015 Seeing is Believing - The Leviathan of Parsonstown 8 July 2015 Submarine for a Stuart King 6 January 2016 How an eel sparked our interest in electricity 13 January 2016 The meteorite and the hidden hoax 20 January 2016 The duchess who gatecrashed science 27 January 2016 Einstein's Fridge 3 February 2016 Florence Nightingale: Statistician 18 May 2016 Chaucer's Astrolabe - The Medieval GPS 25 May 2016 Paul Ehrlich's 'Magic Bullet' and the Cure for Syphilis 1 June 2016 Maxwell's Demon 8 June 2016 Blood Banks 15 June 2016 The Day The Earth Stopped Standing Still 30 November 2016 How Much Testosterone Makes You a Man 7 December 2016 The man who predicted deforestation and climate change 200 years ago 14 December 2016 The Woman Who Tamed Lightning 21 December 2016 Mesmerism 28 December 2016 Jumping Genes 4 January 2017 The Birth of Photography 11 January 2017 Pavlov and his Dogs 7 June 2017 The Medieval Bishop's Big Bang Theory 14 June 2017 The Man Who Found Physics in Shells, Seeds and Bees 28 June 2017 Caroline Herschel and the Comets 5 July 2017 A wolf, a goat and some cabbages 22 November 2017 The Wondrous Transformation of Caterpillars 29 November 2017 Lise Meitner: Humanitarian physicist who unlocked the science of the atom bomb 6 December 2017 How Humphry Davy discovered laughing gas 13 December 2017 Michael Faraday and his 'instructess' in chemistry 20 December 2017 17th-Century Space Flight: The Real Cyrano de Bergerac 13 June 2018 Urea and the Wohler Myth 20 June 2018 Descartes' Daughter 27 June 2018 Hypatia: The Murdered Mathematician 4 July 2018 Mary Anning and Fossil Hunting 11 July 2018 Eddington's Eclipse and Einstein's Celebrity 12 December 2018 Lucretius, Sheep and Atoms 19 December 2018 Kepler's Snowflakes 26 December 2018 Lady Mary Montagu's Smallpox Experiment 2 January 2019 Ibn al-Haytham and How We See 9 January 2019 Galileo's lost letter 13 August 2019 Madame Lavoisier's Translation of Oxygen 20 August 2019 Ignaz Semmelweiss: The Hand Washer 27 August 2019 Ramon Llull: the medieval prophet of computer science 3 September 2019 Alexis Carrel and the immortal chicken heart 10 September 2019 Mary Somerville, pioneer of popular science writing 11 December 2019 Sophia Jex-Blake, first woman doctor in Scotland 18 December 2019 Isaac Newton and the story of the apple 25 December 2019 © 2023 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd © 2023 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd"

Kevin Fong, Naomi Alderman, Simon Schaffer, Tracey Logan (Author), Naomi Alderman, Philip Ball (Narrator)

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Marple: Twelve New Stories

"A brand new collection of short stories featuring the Queen of Crime’s legendary detective Jane Marple, penned by twelve remarkable bestselling and acclaimed authors. Read by Alex Kingston, Adrian Scarborough, Adjoa Andoh, Imogen Stubbs, Alison Steadman, Jodhi May, Chipo Chung, Cathy Tyson, Ramon Tikaram, Tanya Reynolds, Celia Imrie and Miriam Margolyes. This collection of twelve original short stories, all featuring Jane Marple, will introduce the character to a whole new generation. Each author reimagines Agatha Christie’s Marple through their own unique perspective while staying true to the hallmarks of a traditional mystery. ·Naomi Alderman ·Leigh Bardugo ·Alyssa Cole ·Lucy Foley ·Elly Griffiths ·Natalie Haynes ·Jean Kwok ·Val McDermid ·Karen M. McManus ·Dreda Say Mitchell ·Kate Mosse ·Ruth Ware Miss Marple was first introduced to readers in a story Christie wrote for The Royal Magazine in 1927 and made her first appearance in a full-length novel in 1930’s The Murder at the Vicarage. It has been 45 years since Agatha Christie’s last Marple novel, Sleeping Murder, was published posthumously in 1976, and this collection of ingenious new stories by twelve Christie devotees will be a timely reminder why Jane Marple remains the most famous fictional female detective of all time."

Agatha Christie, Alyssa Cole, Dreda Say Mitchell, Elly Griffiths, Jean Kwok, Karen M. McManus, Kate Mosse, Leigh Bardugo, Lucy Foley, Naomi Alderman, Natalie Haynes, Ruth Ware, Val McDermid (Author), Various (Narrator)

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[Italian] - Ragazze elettriche

"Naomi Alderman immagina un mondo dominato dalle donne, in cui gli uomini sono ridotti in semischiavitù. Le ragazze adolescenti hanno infatti sviluppato una sorta di energia elettrica capace di fulminare chiunque cerchi di molestarle. Quattro personaggi ci guidano tra i diversi scenari sociali, politici, mediatici e confessionali che il rivoluzionario ribaltamento delle gerarchie e dei rapporti di genere ha innescato, raccontandoci come la diffusione della scintilla del potere femminile sia rapidamente degenerata nella depravazione. Le donne ora distruggono, violentano, seviziano e uccidono proprio come prima di loro avevano fatto gli uomini. Questa è l’atroce verità. L’universo distopico di Alderman, infatti, cresce e si sviluppa attorno ad una questione attualissima e disturbante: perché le persone, al di là del sesso e della razza, abusano del potere?"

Naomi Alderman (Author), Tamara Fagnocchi (Narrator)

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[Italian] - Disobbedienza

"Ronit, figlia di un rabbino, cresce all’ombra dell’universo claustrofobico e insieme rassicurante di una comunità ebraica ortodossa, i cui tempi sono scanditi dalle regole del rapporto con Dio e la Sinagoga. Insofferente a quel mondo ultra-ortodosso, se ne distacca in nome di una trasgressione che le permette di recuperare un’identità e una diversità. Da un sobborgo ebraico londinese allo sconcertante paradiso di libertà e autoaffermazione di Manhattan, da cui torna per la morte del padre, la protagonista compie un viaggio à rebours ricco di scoperte esilaranti ma anche molto dolorose. Figlia lei stessa di un rabbino londinese, Naomi Alderman con questo suo primo romanzo pubblicato per la prima volta in Italia nel 2007 ha conquistato il pubblico, la critica e i prestigiosi premi Orange Award for New Writers 2006 e Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award 2007."

Naomi Alderman (Author), Tamara Fagnocchi (Narrator)

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