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Best Sellers
The titles that have received the most positive feedback from reviewers, publishers, and other audio aficionados and are therefore among the most popular ones offered by Audible.co.uk.
The Salt Path
The inspirational true story of a couple who lost everything and embarked on a journey of redemption across the South West coastline is brought to you by Penguin, and it will help you bring the beauty of nature into your own home.
In a matter of days after Raynor Winn discovers that her husband of 32 years, Moth, has a fatal illness, the couple’s home is taken away and they are left without a means of support.
They have little left, and they don’t have much time, so they make the courageous and hasty choice to walk the 630 miles of the windswept South West Coast Path.
They live in the wild in the ancient, weathered scenery of cliffs, sea, and sky, and they bring nothing except the bare necessities for survival on their backs. Nevertheless, with each stride that they take, their journey grows more astonishing.
The Salt Path is an honest and life-affirming true narrative about coming to terms with grief and the healing power of the natural world. The story is based on the author’s own experiences.
This profoundly felt and personal story is a guiding light for people all throughout the world as it is read by author Raynor Winn.
2019 Raynor Winn (P)2019 Penguin Audio. All Rights Reserved.
Critic reviews:
It’s been called “a beautiful, thoughtful, lyrical story of homelessness, human strength, and endurance.” (Guardian)
Magical landscapes, complete with morphing oceans, hidden coves, flocks of seabirds, and lavender skies. It’s a story of triumph: of love triumphing over the odds. Sunday Times
The authors have written what they call “an astonishing narrative of two people dragging themselves from the depths of despair along some of the most dramatic landscapes in the country and ultimately finding themselves.” (Independent)
Abroad in Japan
Chris Broad, an Englishman, questioned if he’d made a terrible mistake when he moved to a remote village in northern Japan. Was he about to make history as Japan’s fastest-ever fired English instructor, given his lack of linguistic fluency and classroom experience?
A Decade Abroad in Japan chronicles the upheaval and cultural shock of an expat’s first decade in Japan. This book, full of humorous and fascinating anecdotes, attempts to shed light on one of the most opaque and inscrutable societies in the world.
Chris takes them on a journey through 10 years and 47 prefectures, from the freezing peak of Mount Fuji to the hectic neon-lit streets of Tokyo. Abroad in Japan is an exciting and fascinating tour around the Land of the Rising Sun, with blockbuster moments like a horrifying North Korean missile scare, a Japanese national TV experience gone tragically wrong, and a week spent with Japan’s top movie actor, Ken Watanabe.
(P)2023 Penguin Audio Chris Broad
Critic reviews:
Chris Broad goes from naive exchange teacher to seasoned youtuber as he experiences the strange and wonderful culture of Japan. Along the way, he deals with earthquakes, North Korean missile threats, allergies to cat cafes, and evictions from Love Hotels. Fascinating to no end! (Hokkaido Highway Blues author Will Ferguson)
Intriguing, stuffed with information, and hilarious. The combination of Broad’s sardonic wit, extensive background, and skill as a storyteller makes for an entertaining tour of Japan. Exuberance and dreamlike confusion of a foreigner in Japan are beautifully conveyed. A must-read for everyone interested in Japan. I found it fascinating and enlightening. Author Sam Baldwin spent two years living in rural Japan for his book “For Fukui’s Sake.”
Chris Broad’s witty, self-deprecating book takes him on an unconventional journey around Japan, where he meets way too many cats, experiences heartening rejuvenation in Tohoku, and eats pizza with Ken Watanabe. A memoir of modern life in Japan, this is a book that could not have been written at any other time. (From the book “The Only Gaijin in the Village” by Iain Maloney)
The Silk Roads
Peter Frankopan’s The Silk Roads, read by Mike Grady, is published by Bloomsbury.
The No. 1 book on both the Sunday Times and the international bestseller lists, this is a comprehensive revision of world history in light of the rise of the east.
In the west, in the New World of the Americas, fame and money may be found for ages. Those seeking excitement and wealth now have the East to look toward. Global politics, economics, and culture are all being profoundly influenced by the vast area ranging from eastern Europe, through Central Asia, down to China and India.
Unfortunately, few people who speak English know about this area, which is geographically the center of the planet. But this is the cradle of civilisation, the place where the world’s major faiths took hold. The Silk Roads weren’t some fantastical web of tunnels; they were real, practical networks that connected continents and seas. Everything from ideas to products to sickness to death flowed along them. Here was the ground where empires were won and lost. The patterns of trade that have crisscrossed Asia for millennia are being mirrored in this new period. There is a renaissance of the Silk Roads.
The Silk Roads is a crucial explanation of the factors that have molded the global economy and the political rebirth in the re-emerging east, and as such represents a major reappraisal of world history.
Critic reviews:
“Brilliant and fearlessly wide-ranging.” (Guardian, Books of the Year)
“Breathtaking and addictively readable.” (Daily Telegraph, History Book of the Year)
“Dazzlingly good.” (Evening Standard)
The Comfort Crisis
As the saying goes, “If you’ve been looking for something different to level up your health, fitness, and personal growth, this is it.” (Whole30’s chief executive officer and a New York Times bestseller author, Melissa Urban)
Learn how living on the edge of your comfort zone and resuming your connection with nature can have a positive effect on your mental and physical health.
They’re more at ease now than at any time in history. But may the fact that they live in climate-controlled comfort, eat too much food, and rarely face any significant obstacles be the root cause of many of their most pressing health problems? In this riveting investigation, award-winning journalist Michael Easter tracks down the pioneers in the fields of mind-body training, disruptive genius research, and off-the-grid thought who are figuring out how to use discomfort to improve their lives.
Easter travels to meet the NBA’s top exercise scientist, who uses an ancient Japanese practice to build championship athletes; to the mystical country of Bhutan, where an Oxford economist and Buddhist leader are showing the world what death has to teach them about happiness; and to the outdoor lab of a young neuroscientist who has found that nature tests their physical and mental endurance in ways that expand creativity.
Along the way, Easter discovers a blueprint for harnessing the power of discomfort to vastly enhance their health and happiness and possibly even aid in their comprehension of what it is to be human. This book, The Comfort Crisis, is a daring invitation to go wild within yourself.
©2021 (C)2021 Random House Audio, Michael Easter
Critic reviews:
How their notion of what it is to be human is being eroded by modern comforts “changes the way they think about the modern world.” (Men’s Health magazine editor-in-chief Richard Dorment)
I was so moved and driven by The Comfort Crisis that I overhauled my entire lifestyle after reading it in only three sittings. I’ve never been healthier, more confidence in myself, or happier than I am right now, two months later. You have found the one thing that will take your health, fitness, and development to the next level. CEO of Whole30 and best-selling author of six books (Melissa Urban)
Easter’s search for a “rewilded” diet, creative boredom, and other sensation-restoring discomforts is a “rollicking adventure” filled of “solid science” and “rollicking fun.” (Dan Fagin, author of Toms River: A Story of Science and Salvation and winner of the Pulitzer Prize)
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