Audiobooks narrated by Naomi Alderman

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

"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 Times Sarah Wynn-Williams joined Facebook believing the company could change things for the better. Instead, what she encountered over seven years was so shocking that Meta obtained a legal order to silence her. Now you can read her award-winning story. Candid and entertaining, Wynn-Williams' account pulls back the curtain on Mark Zuckerberg, Sheryl Sandberg and the global elite. She exposes the true cost of Silicon Valley's ambition, from outrageous schemes cooked up on private jets to the alarming consequences of Facebook's aggressive pursuit of global dominance. Careless People is an ordinary woman's gripping and darkly funny memoir that will forever change how you view the technology that runs our lives - and the unchecked power of those who control it. Powerfully narrated by the author. With a new foreword from Naomi Alderman. 'Amazing: of all the books in all the world Mr Free Speech Zuckerberg wants to ban, it's the one about him' - Marina Hyde 'Urgently necessary reading' - Elizabeth Day, author of The Party and Friendaholic Winner of the British Book Award for Best Audiobook: Non-Fiction 2026 Winner of the Speakies Award for the Best Non-Fiction Memoir Audiobook 2025 Winner of the Blueprint Asia-Pacific Whistleblowing Prize 2025 Shortlisted for the Westminster Book Awards 2025 Shortlisted for the Hatchards First Biography Prize 2025 Shortlisted for the Unwin Award 2026"

Sarah Wynn-Williams (Author), Naomi Alderman, Sarah Wynn-Williams (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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Past Forward: A Century of Sound: A BBC Radio 4 history series

"A funny, fascinating and personal look at 100 years of history in the BBC archives Historian Greg Jenner uses a random date generator to visit somewhere in the BBC's vast archives of remarkable sound clips from the last 100 years. Using that clip as a jumping-off point to explore what has changed between then and now, Greg talks to experts and those connected to the archived people, places, and ideas, including Stephen Fry, writer Naomi Alderman, playwright Nell Leyshon, social historian Carol Dyhouse, author and disability campaigner Dr Amit Patel, food historian Annie Gray, and inveterate tennis fan Geoff Dyer. From dance crazes, post-war Christmases and communist sitcoms to pub evolution, life on the waterways and women's political activism, Past Forward provides a rich and thought-provoking look at the oral histories, personal stories, big moments and small joys of the past and the present, and how our history has shaped the people we have become. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on the following dates: The Lambeth Walk 03 January 2022 1984 - Comrade Dad 04 January 2022 Christmas 1945 05 January 2022 Mary Whitehouse 06 January 2022 Porton Down 07 January 2022 Match Point 10 January 2022 Kitty Hart-Moxon 11 January 2022 If People Can't Let Slip... 12 January 2022 Traffic 13 January 2022 England v Argentina 1998 14 January 2022 Dinner Is Served 21 March 2022 Get Out of My Pub 22 March 2022 Talking Technology 23 March 2022 The Teen Age 24 March 2022 Louie Hooper sings Lord Rendall 25 March 2022 Listen with Mother 28 March 2022 Rebuilding Britain 29 March 2022 The Corncrake and the Croft 30 March 2022 Life on the Canals 31 March 2022 Save our Steelworks 01 April 2022 Production credits Produced by Dan Potts, Amelia Parker, Martin Williams, Megan Jones, and Eliane Glaser, for BBC Wales Cover credits Photographer: James Gifford-Mead (jamesgiffordmead-photography.co.uk) Image adapted by Rabia Ali © 2022 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd (P) 2022 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd"

Greg Jenner (Author), David Vincent, Geoff Dyer, Greg Jenner, Joe Moran, Kitty Hart-Moxon, Martin Johnes, Naomi Alderman, Rob Evans, Sathnam Sanghera, Stephen Fry (Narrator)

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Burning Questions: Essays and Occasional Pieces 2004–2021

"Brought to you by Penguin. From cultural icon Margaret Atwood comes a brilliant collection of essays -- funny, erudite, endlessly curious, uncannily prescient -- which seek answers to Burning Questions such as: Why do people everywhere, in all cultures, tell stories? How much of yourself can you give away without evaporating? How can we live on our planet? Is it true? And is it fair? What do zombies have to do with authoritarianism? In over fifty pieces Atwood aims her prodigious intellect and impish humour at the world, and reports back to us on what she finds. This roller-coaster period brought the end of history, a financial crash, the rise of Trump and a pandemic. From debt to tech, the climate crisis to freedom; from when to dispense advice to the young (answer: only when asked) to how to define granola, we have no better guide to the many and varied mysteries of our universe. Read by: Amanda Cordner, Amelia Sargisson, Ann Dowd, Ann-Marie MacDonald, Becky Hardie, Ciarán Hinds, Claudia Dey, Damian Rogers, Dr. Asha de Vos, Dr. Vincent Lam, Esi Edugya, Georgia Toews, Heather O'Neill, Ian Davidson, Kaniehtiio Horn, Katie Ryerson, Kelly McCormack, Lee Boudreaux, Lorna Crozier, Margaret Atwood, Marie Henein, Megan Follows, Naomi Alderman, Omar El-Akkad, Patricia Zurita, R.H. Thomson, Rebecca Liddiard, Robyn Doolittle, Stephanie Belding, Stephen Ouimette, Tess Degenstein, Tiffany Ayalik, Tomson Highway, Tori Dunlap, Yasmeen Hassan, Yvonne Boyer © Margaret Atwood 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022"

Margaret Atwood (Author), Amanda Cordner, Amelia Sargisson, Ann Dowd, Ann-Marie MacDonald, Ciarán Hinds, Esi Edugyan, Kaniehtiio Horn, Lorna Crozier, Margaret Atwood, Naomi Alderman, Omar El Akkad, Rachel Cairns, Stephanie Belding, Tess Degenstein, Tori Dunlap (Narrator)

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Audiobooks Narrated by Naomi Alderman

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