Audiobook Samples from Solid Gold

Unlock a new dimension in leadership by asking better questions. Answers are overrated. In an unpredictable world, asking the right questions is significantly more powerful than clinging to stale, dated answers. What you knew yesterday won’t always take you where you need to go. Great leaders stand apart because they know how to ask themselves and their teams questions that spark insight, challeng...

Nozipho Mbanjwa-Tshabalala is a high-performing, excellence-driven, successful black woman. At any given time, she knows what is expected of her, how well she is doing, and what is next on her list of goals. Being in control of everything in her life was crucial to her survival and success. For the most part, it had always served her well until it didn’t. After The Fires is an inspirational memoir...

Khanyisa and the Cloud is a story about a young girl with a cloud that only she can see. Some days, it floats in the background—other days, it feels heavy and hard to shake. Though invisible to others, Khanyisa’s family begins to notice its shadow and, little by little, helps her find ways to navigate it. Lovingly written by Melisa Ndlovu, in consultation with clinical psychologist Lungile Lechesa...

TikTok sensation Dr Idz's myth-busting, scientific guide to nutrition and fitness. Does Diet Coke really cause cancer? Are eggs healthy? Does alcohol stop fat burning? And what steps can you take to avoid obesity, diabetes and heart disease? In Saturated Facts, TikTok star Dr Idz, an NHS medic with a degree in nutritional research, debunks the myths that often go unchecked on social media and expl...

"Many of us save all year to have a moment of this on vacation. We miss so much in our air-conditioned world, away from children and each other, we in the west are so busy being prolific and efficient, alone in a cubicle. As I gaze at this naturally bustling scene of women working together, this seems to be the most natural rhythm for humans" Jeri Russell is elbow deep in Thanksgiving dinner prepa...

A secret attempt to recover Kruger's gold is fraught with intrigue, deceit and double-dealing. A riveting listen, beautifully read by Malcolm Gooding. In January 1903 John Buchan, one of Milner’s Kindergarten, is summoned to a meeting in Johannesburg with Lord Milner and visiting British Secretary of State, Joseph Chamberlain. He is informed that much of the gold that was removed from the State Mi...

Be a threat to the future before the future threatens you If you are not relentlessly fixated with relevance today, you will be ruthlessly annihilated by irrelevance tomorrow. How relevant are you? Is your relevance under threat? In a world where everything is changing before our eyes, nothing matters more than your ability to stay relentlessly relevant. Relentless Relevance is your must-read guid...

The Tacky Tasteless Dog Pooh Method "Tobacco will kill you and I am living proof of it." - Wayne 'The Marlboro Man' McLaren who died in 1992 from lung cancer. Is smoking killing you? Why take a chance? Why not give yourself a healthier, happier, and longer life by stopping right now? You can do it painlessly and effortlessly with David Gemmell's simple, powerful, and amusingly irreverant, Tacky Ta...

Actor and musician Ian Roberts is something of a South African icon, renowned for his roles as the rugged Boer fighter Sloet Steenkamp in the TV series Arende and as Boet in the immortal and immensely popular Castrol advertisements. Ian had an unconventional youth, running wild on his family’s citrus farm in the Eastern Cape. There he grew a love of nature and first learnt the art of communicating...

Born in Bristol as World War Two came to an end, Robin Welch, allegedly the grandson of the inspiration for Beatrix Potter's 'Tailor of Gloucester', John Prichard, has had an exciting life, travelling to many parts of the world and living and working in Europe and Africa during a time of great social and technological change. In the sixties, Robin took advantage of the free educational opportuniti...

Life lessons on the road to CEO. Join Nyimpini Mabunda on his journey from his childhood in an apartheid-era homeland to the CEO's office at one of the world's best-known businesses. In a career spanning Procter & Gamble, Nando's, Diageo, Boston Consulting Group, Vodacom and General Electric in South Africa, the UK and Uganda, Mabunda shows why he strives for continuous and active improvement of h...

Michaelhouse was described by AM Barrett, in a previous history, as once amounting to a ‘handful of boys on a dusty street in a small town’, a far cry from the magnificent 680-hectare site in Balgowan with a world-class programme and facilities that constitutes the School of today. And nobody is better placed to characterise that journey, the transformation of Michaelhouse into a great school with...

20 Rituals to Build a Friction-Free Organization. Why do some businesses “fail to scale”? Smooth Scaling offers a clear diagnosis, along with twenty practical Rituals to boost your organization’s performance and achieve frictionless growth. Where other books on scaling focus on strategy, fundraising, or product-market fit, Smooth Scaling addresses the most pervasive and least-understood fail point...

A hundred lessons in school leadership. After leading the top GDE school in Joburg's northern suburbs for many years, Dave Robinson shares his secrets and advice with the next generation of school leaders. Education is a right for all young people in the world, yet quality and relevant education is still elusive. Schools are searching for the perfect recipe for success in a rapidly changing world....

A Memoir of Mozambique Narrated by the author From communism and war to democracy and peace - From boardroom intrigue to private islands. The story of a farmer and pilot raised in colonial Kenya who went on to play an active role in Mozambican politics whilst leading Lonrho’s foreign investment in that country. This unique memoir describes life during Mozambique’s transition from communism to demo...

Halley’s Comet is a story of friendship, love, change, taking chances, hope, a comet, and some pretty cool 80s music. Pete de Lange must survive as a teenager in a small Natal town during the 1980s, together with his new-found friends, Sarita and Petrus. In a country marked by turmoil and racial conflict, this is not as easy as it seems. Pete and his friends witnessed a horrendous crime, and the p...

The mesmerising story of how, in the face of a mighty army, ordinary people can say "No." It's March 2022 and Russian tanks are roaring across the vast, snow-dusted fields of Ukraine. Their destination: Voznesensk, a town with a small bridge that could change the course of the war. The heavily-armed Russians are expecting an easy fight - or no fight at all. After all, Voznesensk is a quiet farming...

Narrator: Bianca Jane Pieters This collection of ancient and modern tales from the Zulu culture, retold in neutral English, is captivating listening for young and old. The Zulu Kingdom in the breathtakingly beautiful province of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, is home to the AmaZulu, a proud nation that treasure and uphold their rich cultural heritage. The sharing of traditional stories remains an im...

Step boldly into our strange, new world Written by John Sanei Narrated by the Author ‘I know that what I’ve learnt in the past two years will help me for the rest of my life. My hope is that you will see yourself reflected in my own journey, and . . . consider who you will become in this new world of ours. Who we all might become.’ If you’re suffering from a crisis of meaning, you’re not alone. In...

Stop telling stories. Start selling them Written by Richard Mulholland Narrated by the Author How to win deals and influence ideas by mastering the eloquent art of storytelling. The business world is rightly obsessed with the incredible power of a good story. Unfortunately too many of us take that to mean that it is our own story that’s important. It’s not. The magic happens not when we tell our c...

The Life of James Stevenson-Hamilton Written by Jane Carruthers Narrated by Malcolm Gooding More than any other individual, James Stevenson-Hamilton can be credited with the creation of the Kruger National Park in South Affica. In 1902, when the South African War ended, Stevenson-Hamilton swopped his military career for the more uncertain calling of a game warden. Under his supervision the small,...

Written by Dr. Jean-Marie Jullienne Narrated by the Author This book has its origin in a spiritual calling the author received to find the true meaning of Bible texts by returning to the original Greek and Hebrew scriptures. During a period of isolation, he was inspired to search the scriptures and compare the original texts with widely accepted translations. Essential value lay in the root analys...

Unpack it! Whack it! Hack it! Written by Rinus le Roux and Rickus VIljoen Narrated by by Rikus Viljoen A new way of thinking, a new way of healing. Hack what's been keeping you back. Everything has changed and 'HACK IT' offers elite mental upgrades granting a more sincere human experience in the modern era. If you could change one thing, why not revolutionise your tomorrow? When everything has bec...

What if infertility isn't a war but an awakening? Written by Rekha Ramcharan Narrated by the Author The author had her first child at 45 but, while that may intrigue you, what will keep you listening is the path that took her from infertility to 'motherness. This is a unique audiobook about infertility which, on the surface, tells the autobiographical success story of a woman who had a baby natura...

And You Can Handle It Written by Mark Heyman PHD CDCES Narrated by the Author An actionable toolkit to help you manage the emotional burden of type 1 diabetes written by a psychologist who knows firsthand how much T1D sucks. Life with T1D is unpredictable and filled with never-ending work, leading to overwhelm and burnout. Diabetes gets even more challenging when you believe you can’t handle this...