LOTHAR WEBER Audiobooks

Very short non-fiction is a form in its own right, and LOTHAR WEBER works squarely inside it. The recordings we hold run a little over an hour apiece, which places them closer to a long essay than to a conventional book, and the health and wellbeing shelf is where both of them sit.

The pairing is instructive. Alone Together looks to the social side of wellbeing, if the title is any guide, while The Low-Inflammation Lifestyle takes the physiological route. Between them they sketch a view of health as something with two halves, the body and the company it keeps, and both are delivered at a length that assumes a listener wants the substance without the scaffolding.

Jake Andrews narrates both, which gives the pairing a consistent voice and makes them easy to take in sequence: a little over two hours covers the lot, roughly what a single conventional wellbeing recording would ask on its own.

Neither has attracted listener verdicts yet, so there is nothing to weigh beyond the proposition and the running time. Short-form audio of this sort works best treated as a briefing rather than a course. Listen once for the shape of the argument, then again while your hands are busy with something else. Both are set out on the shelf below.