Audiobooks Narrated by Raphael Corkhill

From a renowned financial journalist who has written for Time, Fortune, Forbes, and The New Yorker, a fresh and unexpectedly profound book that draws on hundreds of hours of exclusive interviews...

A captivating blend of true adventure and natural history by one of today's leading penguin experts and Antarctic explorers

A vital, timely text on the viruses that cause pandemics and how to face them, by the New York Times best-selling author of How Not to Die.

Exemplary stories that reveal the bizarre, the disturbing, the perilous, and the wise in other civilizations-from one of America's most important writers of the twentieth century.

A Distant Episode contains the best of Paul Bowles's short stories, as selected by the author. An American cult figure, Bowles has fascinated such disparate talents as Norman Mailer, Allen Ginsberg, Truman Capote, William S. Burroughs, Gore Vidal, and Jay McInerney.

From the acclaimed military history author, this action-packed World War II history describes the Allies' brutal naval engagements and daring harbor raids to destroy the backbone of Hitler's surface fleet.

In the nineteenth century there flourished a peculiar breed of Englishmen-often the second sons of the aristocracy, or ambitious men from a lower class-who as soldiers, consuls and tea planters, were largely responsible for making England a great colonial power.

In this intense and brilliant book Bowles focuses on Morocco, condensing experience, emotion, and the whole history of a people into a series of short, insightful vignettes.

An intimate coming-of-age memoir by legendary guitarist Kid Congo Powers, detailing his experiences as a young, queer Mexican-American in 1970s Los Angeles through his rise in the glam rock and punk rock scenes.

Eugene Onegin is the master work of the poet whom Russians regard as the fountainhead of their literature.