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Fifty Shades of Grey
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  • Published: 1 August 2012
  • ISBN: 9781846573781
  • Imprint: Audiobooks
  • Format: Audio CD
  • Length: 19 hr 47 min
  • Narrator: Becca Battoe
  • RRP: $44.99

Fifty Shades of Grey

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6 Oct 2026
Paperback
5 Apr 2012
EBook
20 Mar 2012
Audiobook
12 Apr 2012
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1 Aug 2012
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Soon to be a major motion picture, starring Jamie Dornan and Dakota Johnson, directed by Sam Taylor Johnson.


When literature student Anastasia Steele interviews successful entrepreneur Christian Grey, she finds him very attractive and deeply intimidating. Convinced that their meeting went badly, she tries to put him out of her mind – until he turns up at the store where she works part-time, and invites her out.

Unworldly and innocent, Ana is shocked to find she wants this man. And, when he warns her to keep her distance, it only makes her want him more.

But Grey is tormented by inner demons, and consumed by the need to control. As they embark on a passionate love affair, Ana discovers more about her own desires, as well as the dark secrets Grey keeps hidden away from public view…

Listen to the Fifty Shades audiobook series, and find out what everyone is talking about…
  • Published: 1 August 2012
  • ISBN: 9781846573781
  • Imprint: Audiobooks
  • Format: Audio CD
  • Length: 19 hr 47 min
  • Narrator: Becca Battoe
  • RRP: $44.99
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About the author

E L James

After 25 years in TV production, incurable romantic and fangirl E L James quit her job to pursue a childhood ambition – writing stories that would capture the hearts of readers. With her first published novel, the provocative and erotic Fifty Shades of Grey, she succeeded. The story of Anastasia Steele and Christian Grey’s passionate romance smashed sales records across the globe, topping the New York Times bestseller list for 133 consecutive weeks. Together with its sequels Fifty Shades Darker and Fifty Shades Freed it went on to be printed in over 50 languages and sell more than 160 million copies worldwide. James followed these phenomenal successes with the matching trilogy, Grey, Darker and Freed, retelling the tale from Christian’s point of view. One of Times Magazine’s ‘Most Influential People of the Year’ and Publishers Weekly’s ‘Person of the Year’, E L James was a producer on all three of the Fifty Shades movies, which together made more than a billion dollars at the box office. Fifty Shades Freed won the Goodreads Choice Award 2012 and Fifty Shades of Grey was voted one of the 100 Great Reads by PBS’s The Great American Read in 2018. Darker was longlisted for the 2019 International Dublin Literary Award, and James’s romance, The Mister, once more topped bestseller charts around the world. She followed it up in 2023 with the USA Today and Sunday Times bestselling sequel The Missus. E L James is blessed with two wonderful sons and lives with her husband, the screenwriter and novelist Niall Leonard, and their two beloved dogs in leafy west London.
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Also by E L James

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Darker
Freed
Fifty Shades Darker
Fifty Shades Freed
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The Mister
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Praise for Fifty Shades of Grey

Not only reviving the book market, but also reader’s marriages.

Daily Mail

The cream of the crop.

Independent

Revolutionised the genre of erotic fiction.

Observer

One of the publishing sensations of the year.

Stylist

A social-media literary phenomenon.

Observer

The shocking bestseller we can’t stop talking about.

Entertainment Weekly

The biggest selling novel of the moment.

Daily Express

A phenomenon.

Telegraph

Women will undoubtedly be discussing it for years to come.

Telegraph

The huge erotic breakout novel of the digital download revolution.

Guardian

Women who’ve read it talk about it with reverence and awe ... a runaway hit ... marks the biggest advancement of the women’s sexual revolution in decades.

Fabulouse Magazine

The market-leader.

Evening Standard

A literary sensation.

Independent

A word of mouth blockbuster.

Daily Mail

It’s the book everyone’s talking about.

Heat

The book that made women want to have sex again.

Mail on Sunday

The fastest selling book of the year.

Guardian

The world’s bestselling paperback.

Sun

One of the year’s most talked about books.

Mail Online