Penguin Random House to release audiobooks to send listeners to sleep

Sleep Tales collections aimed at listeners with chronic insomnia, thought to affect 10-15% of adults

“O gentle sleep!/ Nature’s soft nurse, how have I frighted thee/ That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down.” Henry IV, as portrayed by Shakespeare, would have sympathised with people who struggle with insomnia. Now a major publisher has come up with a novel idea – audiobooks with such soothing sounds as soft rainfall and lapping water to relax the listener and send them off to sleep.

In a project to be launched this week, Penguin Random House has collaborated with the Sleep Council and the Children’s Sleep Charity in creating collections of “Sleep Tales” for adults and children.

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