All That I Am

Anna Funder

Jun 2017 · Bolinda · Narrated by Judy Bennett and Saul Reichlin

About this audiobook

When Hitler comes to power in 1933, a tight-knit group of friends and lovers become hunted outlaws overnight. United in their resistance to the madness and tyranny of Nazism, they must flee the country. Dora, passionate and fearless, her lover, the great playwright Ernst Toller, her younger cousin, Ruth, and Ruth’s husband, Hans, find refuge in London. They take breathtaking risks in order to continue their work in secret. But England is not the safe haven they think it to be, and a single, chilling act of betrayal will tear them apart ...

About the author

Anna Funder is one of Australia’s most acclaimed and awarded writers. Her books Stasiland and All That I Am are both prize-winning international bestsellers, translated into many languages. Anna’s non-fiction work Wifedom: Mrs Orwell's Invisible Life was a finalist for the Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction, won the 2024 ABIA Award for Biography of the Year and won the 2024 BookPeople Award for Adult Non-Fiction Book of the Year. Wifedom was selected as a Notable Book of 2023 by the New York Times and a Book of the Year by The Times, The Economist, the Financial Times, the Daily Telegraph (UK) and The Telegraph (UK). Anna’s books have received many other prestigious awards, including the Samuel Johnson (now Baillie Gifford) Prize for best non-fiction published in English for Stasiland, and Australia’s premier prize for fiction, the Miles Franklin, for All That I Am. Her essays have been widely published and anthologised. Anna is a University of Technology Sydney Luminary and Ambassador. In 2011 she was named in the ‘Top 100 People of Influence’ by the Sydney Morning Herald and appointed to the Literature Board of the Australia Council for the Arts. After several years in Brooklyn, NY, Anna now lives in Sydney.

Judy Bennett is a Liverpudlian voice actor whose career in radio began with the longrunning soap opera The Archers, in which she has played the role of Shula Hebden Lloyd since 1971. She played Shula’s twin brother Kenton and younger sister Elizabeth before assuming the role of Shula herself. Bennett has voiced characters in a number of cartoon series, including The Perishers (1979), and Dennis the Menace and Gnasher in the late 1990s.

South African born, London resident of 50 years, Saul is a multi award-winning audiobook narrator (including ‘The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo’ by Stieg Larsson) He has narrated over 50 TV documentaries for Sky History Channel, is a former National Theatre player, and was nominated Best Actor for his performance in ‘Old Wicked Songs’ by Jon Marans. Saul has also toured 35 cities around the world with his one-man storytelling show, ‘Now You’re Talking!’, including seasons in Chicago. off-Broadway and off-West End, London.