Ben Macintyre Audiobooks

Ben Macintyre, born in 1963, is a British writer with a long list of books to his name and numerous awards spanning both fiction and non-fiction. He is, on the evidence, a writer who lets the work do the talking – so we will keep this brief rather than pad it out.

What can be said with confidence is that awards across two very different disciplines do not accumulate by accident. Macintyre is that comparatively rare thing, a writer honoured for invention and for fact alike, and it is the factual side of his work that fills his shelf in our catalogue.

Macintyre is one of the best-represented authors on our site, with six titles in the catalogue, among them Operation Mincemeat, The Spy and the Traitor and SAS: Rogue Heroes. The titles alone tell you the territory: espionage, deception and daring operations – the true-story end of the spy shelf. The appeal in audio is not hard to explain. Stories built on secrets, nerve and betrayal take on the momentum of a thriller in narration, with the added charge that comes from consequence, and an author does not collect awards across fiction and non-fiction without knowing how to tell one. Start anywhere; one Macintyre has a way of leading to another.