The Art & Literature category has 653 audiobooks on Listento.it, with an average listener rating of 4.7★ across 1,594 ratings. The most-rated is Inheritance.
Kate Williams
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Joining us in the Audible Studios to talk about her latest novel, The House of Shadows, is acclaimed British author, popular TV historian and broadcaster Kate Williams. Author of the novel The Pleasures of Men and four historical biographies which have received critical acclaim, Kate Williams is a lauded author, social historian and broadcaster as well as CNN’s go-to historian and royal expert amongst other channels and TV shows. Kate Williams talks to us about her protagonist Celia, female entrepreneurs of the 1930s and what we can expect from her next.
©2018 Audible Ltd (P)2018 Audible Ltd
Sarah Dunant
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Sarah Dunant joins Elise Italiaander in the Audible Studios to discuss her latest book.
©2017 Audible Studios (P)2017 Audible Studios
Ash Ranpura & Gelong Thubten
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Neurologist Ash Ranpura and Buddhist monk Gelong Thubten have recently collaborated with Ruby Wax - comedian, mental health advocate and best-selling author of Frazzled - to produce a new book called How to Be Human: The Manual. In this interview they reveal what they learnt from each other, where they found common ground and where, perhaps, they might disagree. We hear about mindfulness and what science can really tell us about who we are. How to Be Human: The Manual explores, well, how to be human through answering questions on subjects like evolution, thoughts, emotions, the body, addictions and relationships.
©2018 Audible Ltd (P)2018 Audible Ltd
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Martes con mi viejo profesor [Tuesdays with Morrie]
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Martes con mi viejo profesor Considerado por The Washington Post como la obra de memorias más vendida de la historia, Martes con mi viejo profesor narra la experiencia vivida por Mitch Albom con Morrie Schwartz, uno de sus profesores de la universidad, al que vuelve a ver por casualidad muchos años después en una entrevista en televisión. Ahí se entera de que su viejo profesor sufre ELA, una enfermedad degenerativa. Albom entra de nuevo en contacto con él y le propone que se vean todos los martes. Durante estos encuentros, tiene la oportunidad de plantearle las grandes preguntas que siguen inquietándole y de hallar consejo y aliento para su propia vida en las sabias palabras del maestro. Please note: This audiobook is in Spanish.
©1997 ASOP, Inc. 1998 de la traducción: ALEJANDRO PAREJA 2010 de esta edición: EMBOLSILLO (P)2019 Audible, Inc.
George Anderson
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Well-being coach, writer and presenter George Anderson talks to us about his upcoming audiobook, Beginner’s Luck Guide for Non-runners. Imparting award-winning training advice on how to slowly build up fitness levels, stay motivated and even start to enjoy exercise, George explains the reasoning behind his running programme in this exclusive interview.
©2018 Audible Ltd (P)2018 Audible Ltd
Graeme Simsion
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Graeme Simsion joins Elise Italiaander in the Audible Studios to discuss his work.
©2017 Audible Studios (P)2017 Audible Studios
C. S. Lewis
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Beloved by children and adults worldwide, the writings of C. S. Lewis have a broad and enduring appeal. Although he is best known for the iconic Chronicles of Narnia series, C. S. Lewis was actually a man of many literary parts. Already well-known as a scholar in the 1930s, he became a famous broadcaster during World War Two and wrote in many genres, including satire (The Screwtape Letters), science fiction (Perelandra), a novel (Till We Have Faces), and many other books on Christian belief, such as Mere Christianity and Miracles. His few sermons remain touchstones of their type. In addition to these, Lewis wrote hundreds of poems and articles on social and cultural issues, many books and articles in his field of literary criticism and history, and thousands of letters. At Oxford University, he became a charismatic lecturer and conversationalist. Taken together, his writings have engaged and influenced, often very deeply, millions of readers. Now, Lewis societies, television documentaries, movies, radio plays, and theatrical treatments of his work and life have become common, and he is frequently quoted by journalists, critics, and public thinkers.
©2019 James Como (P)2019 Tantor
Alan Titchmarsh
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Alan Titchmarsh first found fame as a presenter on British television. His long-standing career in horticulture led to media attention and he subsequently hosted several gardening programmes. Perhaps finding the ‘pen mightier than the spade’ he has in recent years, turned his hand to authorship: first writing gardening tomes, followed by autobiographical works and latterly, fiction.
©2016 Audible, Ltd (P)2016 Audible, Ltd
Victoria Hislop
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Victoria Hislop joins Gabriel Fleming in the Audible Studios to discuss her latest novel.
©2016 Audible, Ltd. (P)2016 Audible, Ltd.
Updike
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A masterful, much-anticipated biography of one of the most celebrated figures in American literature: Pulitzer Prize-winning author John Updike - a candid, intimate, and richly detailed look at his life and work. In this magisterial biography, Adam Begley offers an illuminating portrait of John Updike, the acclaimed novelist, poet, short-story writer, and critic who saw himself as a literary spy in small-town and suburban America, who dedicated himself to the task of transcribing "middleness with all its grits, bumps, and anonymities." Updike explores the stages of the writer's pilgrim's progress: his beloved home turf of Berks County, Pennsylvania; his escape to Harvard; his brief, busy working life as the golden boy at the New Yorker; his family years in suburban Ipswich, Massachusetts; his extensive travel abroad; and his retreat to another Massachusetts town, Beverly Farms, where he remained until his death in 2009. Drawing from in-depth research as well as interviews with the writer's colleagues, friends, and family, Begley explores how Updike's fiction was shaped by his tumultuous personal life - including his enduring religious faith, his two marriages, and his firsthand experience of the "adulterous society" he was credited with exposing in the best-selling Couples. With a sharp critical sensibility that lends depth and originality to his analysis, Begley probes Updike's best-loved works - from Pigeon Feathers to The Witches of Eastwick to the Rabbit tetralogy - and reveals a surprising and deeply complex character fraught with contradictions: a kind man with a vicious wit, a gregarious charmer who was ruthlessly competitive, a private person compelled to spill his secrets on the printed page. Updike offers an admiring yet balanced look at this national treasure, a master whose writing continues to resonate like no one else's.
©2014 Adam Begley (P)2014 Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Rebecca Smith
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Author Rebecca Smith speaks to Elise Italiaander in the Audible Studios about her latest book, The Jane Austen Writers' Club.
©2016 Audible Ltd (P)2016 Audible Ltd
Jill Mansell
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Best-selling author Jill Mansell joins Sophie Plateau in the Audible Studios to discuss her latest novel.
©2017 Audible Studios (P)2017 Audible Studios
Howard Jacobson
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Booker Prize winning author Howard Jacobson joins Robin Morgan in the Audible Studios to discuss Shylock is my Name, a novelization of Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice.
©2016 Audible Ltd. (P)2016 Audible Ltd.
Adam Lashinsky
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Adam Lashinsky is a reporter and executive editor of the multinational business magazine Fortune. He received worldwide recognition in 2012 for his best-selling exposé of technology giant Apple Inc in his book Inside Apple. He visits the Audible Studios to discuss his exposé of the taxi app business Uber and its CEO, Travis Kalanick, in Wild Ride: Inside Uber's Quest for World Domination.
©2017 Audible Studios (P)2017 Audible Studios
Armando Iannucci
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In this interview, Armando Iannucci talks about his favourite composers, whether or not it's cool to like classical music and what it was like to do stand-up comedy aged 12. Armando is a multiaward-winning satirist, writer, director and producer best known for Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa, The Thick of It, In the Loop and Veep. His new audiobook, Hear Me Out, is an exploration of the many ways in which classical music can enhance and comment on the human experience. The audiobook has been hailed by critics as a 'liberation' and 'celebration' of one of the greatest artistic mediums around.
©2018 Audible Ltd (P)2018 Audible Ltd
Claudia Hammond - November 2019
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Joining us at Audible Studios is radio presenter, psychologist and journalist Claudia Hammond. She was born in Bedfordshire and began radio presenting at the age of 14 with a request programme on Hospital Radio Bedford. Hammond attended Sussex University and studied applied psychology, and then Surrey University to study for an Msc in health psychology. After university, Hammond began lecturing in psychology and reporting for BBC Radio 5 Live. Hammond is the author of three books: Mind over Money (2016), Time Warped (2012) and Emotional Rollercoaster (2005). Her newest title, The Art of Rest, is to be published in 2019 and looks at different techniques of rest from around the world, informing listeners of the importance of rest as self-care. Hammond presents several radio programmes, including All in the Mind on BBC Radio 4 and Health Check on the BBC World Service Radio, and has also appeared on shows such as The One Show and BBC Breakfast. We spoke to Claudia Hammond about her new book, The Art of Rest, how we can rest, why rest is so important and whether she’s any good at it.
©2019 Audible Ltd (P)2019 Audible Ltd
Talulah Riley
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Actress-turned-novelist Talulah Riley joins Elise Italiaander in the Audible Studios to discuss her debut book, Acts of Love.
©2016 Audible Ltd (P)2016 Audible Ltd
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Cala Contigo: El Poder de Escuchar [Cala with You: The Power of Listening]
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FonoLibro se complace en presentar Cala Contigo: El Poder de Escuchar escrito y narrado por el célebre periodista y presentador de Cala en CNN en Español, Ismael Cala. Ismael, en una excelente narración, nos enseña a escuchar para evolucionar y mejorar nuestras vidas. Tras conversar con presidentes, intelectuales y celebridades de todos los campos, Cala nos confía la clave de su éxito como entrevistador: saber escuchar a los demás, para que compartan con nosotros cómo son y cómo piensan. Esta es también la clave para nuestro éxito en los negocios, el amor y las relaciones con todos los que nos rodean. Considerado el nuevo "Larry King hispano", una de las muchas celebridades que comparecen por estas páginas, Cala nos brinda también un sinnúmero de consejos para escuchar nuestro cuerpo y nuestras verdaderas necesidades y sacar a la luz lo mejor de nosotros mismos. Que este libro sea el comienzo de una cadena para que tus padres, tus hijos, tus amigos, tus colegas, tus jefes e incluso los desconocidos con los que te cruces por la calle se conviertan en buenos escuchas, de los demás y de sí mismos.Desde su infancia en Cuba hasta su consagración en los medios de los Estados Unidos, el personaje público comparte con nosotros no sólo su lado más personal, sino también el largo camino que lo llevó a cultivar el “tercer oído”, para penetrar en el alma de sus interlocutores y oír su propia voz interior. Con esta herramienta universal, que el autor nos regala a los lectores, pondremos el mundo a nuestros pies y haremos posibles nuestros sueños. ¿Estás listo para escuchar? "El secreto del buen hablar es saber escuchar". ––ISMAEL CALA©2013 Cala Enterprises (P) 2014 FonoLibro Inc.Todos los derechos reservados. Se prohíbe el reproducir, compartir, transmitir el contenido de este audiolibro por cualquier medio sin autorización expresa del editor y productor del audiolibro, FonoLibro Inc.Narrado: Ismael Cala; Presentación: Marisela Toro; Producción y dirección: Arquimedes Rivero Jr. Ingeniero Sonido y Postproducción: Lester Carrodeguas. Imagen portada: Omar Cruz; Imagen Cortesía Penguin Group. Diseño portada Audiolibro: Claudia Romero. Please note: This audiobook is in Spanish.
©2014 Ismael Cala (P)2014 FonoLibro Inc.
Andrew O'Neill
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Andrew O'Neill, a man of many talents - comedian, musician, presenter and writer - visits the Audible Studios to talk about his deep passion for heavy metal. From household band names to the history of heavy metal music through the ages, The History of Heavy Metal not only charts his own personal journey with music but the exciting figures who inspired him on the way. Andrew gives us an intense history lesson through a witty commentary of what heavy metal music is, examining the subculture and the characters who shaped this most misunderstood genre of music.
©2017 Audible Ltd (P)2017 Audible Ltd
Bradley Beaulieu
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Exclusive interview. Bradley Beaulieu joins Elise Italiaander in the Audible Studios to discuss his latest book and the world of Song of the Shattered Sands.
©2016 Audible Ltd (P)2016 Audible Ltd