Treat your ears with these brand-new audiobooks on our BorrowBox service for June 2026, free to listen to with your library card!
Includes titles by Douglas Stuart, Matt Haig and Dawn French.
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New audiobooks
Enough
Dawn French
Etta is 68 years old. Happy, healthy and an active participant in her world, she’s gathered her family together for an unforgettable weekend.
At 5am that Saturday morning, Etta wakes her daughter, her granddaughter, her son and her daughter-in-law up to lead everyone down to the beach. To ‘Etta’s Hollow’, where a roaring fire has already been lit. Drowsy but delighted – the sun is just starting to rise for a glorious dawn – Etta’s family bask in the beauty of the moment. A memory to be cherished forever.
Until 20 minutes later, when Etta announces to her assembled beloveds something as shocking as it is alarming. ‘I have brought you all down to the beach this morning to tell you something important. You see, the thing is, today is my last day alive.’
Over the next 24 hours, Etta and her family are about to have the most surprising, affecting life-affirming day of all their lives.
The Midnight Train
Matt Haig
When your life flashes before your eyes, where would you stop?
No one can change the past, but the Midnight Train can take you there.
The chance to re-live the moments that meant most. To see what kind of person you really were.
For Wilbur his best days were with Maggie, the love of his life. On his honeymoon in Venice. Before he gave it all away.
He wishes he could go back and live differently. But to do so risks everything…
A magical, time-travelling love story, from the world of The Midnight Library.
John of John
Douglas Stuart
Out of money and with little to show for his art school education, John-Calum Macleod takes the ferry home to the island of Harris to find that not much has changed except for him.
In the windswept croft where he grew up, Cal resumes his old life, caught between the two poles of his childhood: his father John, a sheep farmer, weaver, and pillar of their local Presbyterian church, and his Glaswegian grandmother Ella, who has kept a faltering peace with her son-in-law for decades.
While Cal wonders if any lonely men might be found on the barren hillsides of home, John is dismayed by his son’s long hair and how he seems unwilling to be Saved.
As the seasons pass, everything is poised to change as the threads holding together the fragile community become increasingly entangled.
Wreck
Catherine Newman
Rocky, Nick, Willa and Jamie. A normal loving, anxious, messy, relatable, family.
Rocky has her own her way of processing disasters: 1. This could happen to us. 2. This couldn’t happen to us. And then there’s a secret third column: ‘This could happen to us unless I am very careful/ superstitious/ grateful…’
So when a former classmate of Jamie’s dies in a seemingly random accident, Rocky becomes obsessed. She’s also developed a niggling medical condition that won’t go away. On the surface, she is still living her best life as the irreverent, funny, unpredictable beating heart of her family. Her father is his unique, adorable self; Willa is prone to bouts of existential angst whilst berating the fact that her mother has zero filter; Nick is steady, logical, sometimes infuriating.
But if accidents can happen – and they do – is it safe to love anyone?
Owls of the Eastern Ice
Jonathan C. Slaght
Primorye, a remote forested region near to where Russia, China and North Korea meet in a tangle of barbed wire, is the only place where brown bears, tigers and leopards co-exist. It is also home to one of nature’s rarest birds, the Blakiston’s fish owl. A chance encounter with this huge, strange bird was to change wildlife researcher Jonathan C. Slaght’s life beyond measure.
This is the story of Slaght’s quest to safeguard the elusive owl from extinction. During months-long journeys covering thousands of miles, he has pursued it through its forbidding territory. He has spent time with the Russians who struggle on in the harsh conditions of the taiga forest. And he has observed how Russia’s logging interests and evolving fortunes present new threats to the owl’s survival.
Preserving its habitats will secure the forest for future generations, both animal and human – but can this battle be won?
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Don’t Let Him In
Lisa Jewell
He’s the perfect man. He says he loves you. You think he might even be made for you. Before long he’s moved into your house – and into your heart.
And then he leaves for days at a time. You don’t know where he’s gone or who he’s with.
And you realise – if you looked back – you’d say to yourself: Don’t let him in.
The Idaho Murders
James Patterson and Vicky Ward
On 13th November 2022 in the small quiet town of Moscow, Idaho, the unthinkable happened. Four innocent college students were murdered in their home. In the ensuing investigation, the local police and FBI did a lot right.
But what did they get wrong?
We’ve learned about the four heartbroken families – the Mogens, Goncalves, Kernodles and Chapins. We have the backstory for Bryan Kohberger, brilliant graduate student, loner, apparent incel.
Now, after over 300 exclusive interviews and in-depth reporting, James Patterson and prize-winning journalist Vicky Ward finally have some answers.
Nobody’s Girl
Virginia Roberts Giuffre
Daughter. Prisoner. Survivor. Warrior. Nobody’s Girl. This is Virginia Roberts Giuffre’s last word.
In 2011, Virginia Roberts Giuffre hit the headlines as Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell’s most outspoken victim – the woman whose decision to speak out helped send both serial abusers to prison and whose photograph with Prince Andrew catalysed his fall from grace. She became known as a voice of courage and resilience for women everywhere.
This is her story, in her own words. It demonstrates with extraordinary power that victims are made, not born. And that once you come to truly understand the horrifying impact of abuse, you will never again question why a victim stays, or returns over and over again.
In April 2025, Giuffre took her own life. She left behind a memoir written in the years preceding her death and stated unequivocally that she wanted it published. This is the powerful story of an ordinary girl who would grow up to confront adversity and trauma of the darkest form, yet found the strength to move forwards, reclaim her voice and shine a light on evil.