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.
Mark Edwards
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Best-selling author Mark Edwards joins Sophie Plateau in the Audible Studios to discuss his work.
©2017 Audible Studios (P)2017 Audible Studios
Gavin Extence
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Gavin Extence, the celebrated author of The Universe Versus Alex Woods, joins Robin Morgan in the Audible Studios to talk about his latest novel, The Empathy Problem.
©2016 Audible Studios (P)2016 Audible Studios
Stephen K Amos
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In this interview we speak to comedian Stephen K Amos about his Edinburgh show The Stephen K Amos Talk Show, available for the first time on Audible. Stephen has been performing at the Edinburgh Festival for over 15 years on top of touring, appearing on multiple panel shows and presenting various documentaries. Not to mention performing at the Royal Variety in 2007. Having more than earnt his comedy stripes, his Talk Show features guests from all stages of their comedy careers, chatting about the industry, performing and many personal, funny anecdotes. When Stephen joined us in studio, he spoke about diversity in comedy, how he came to feel okay with things going wrong on stage and what keeps comedians returning to Edinburgh year after year.
©2018 Audible Ltd (P)2018 Audible Ltd
Nathan Hill
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Nathan Hill joins Robin Morgan in the Audible Studios to discuss his hit debut novel, The Nix.
©2017 Audible Studios (P)2017 Audible Studios
Andrew Motion
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Joining us in the Audible Studios to talk about his latest book of verse, Essex Clay, is lauded British poet, biographer and novelist Andrew Motion. Andrew Motion was the former President of the Campaign to Protect Rural England and Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom from 1999 to 2009. His career has seen him publish numerous collections of award-winning poetry, including Natural Causes (1987) and Dangerous Play (1984), and his revered biography, In the Blood. June 2018 saw Motion publish his second biographical sequence, Essex Clay. Andrew Motion talks to us about his second biographical collection of memories, his admirable career and the power of poetry.
©2018 Audible Ltd (P)2018 Audible Ltd
The Coalwood Way
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Homer Hickam is the #1 New York Times best-selling author whose life inspired the critically acclaimed film October Sky. In The Coalwood Way he returns to his childhood home of Coalwood, West Virginia for an inspiring memoir about growing up in a town that’s slowly fading away. Homer and his close buddies, who call themselves the Rocket Boys, are high school seniors in 1959. Their rocket building experiments amaze the locals, thanks to top-quality moonshine for fuel, “liberated” materials, and Homer’s self-taught understanding of higher math. But no matter how brilliant their experiments are, they can do little to help preserve Coalwood’s way of life. With the coal mine on its last legs, prospects for the town are unpredictable at best. For anyone who’s ever dreamed of greatness or wondered what an uncertain future might bring, this book will seem warmly familiar. Frank Muller’s affectionate narration captures both the spirit of ambition and the spectre of gloomy prospects.
©2000 Homer H. Hickam, Jr. (P)2001 Recorded Books, LLC
Ben Smith
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Multiaward-winning runner and CEO of The 401 Foundation Ben Smith talks to us about his debut audiobook, 401: The Extraordinary Story of the Man Who Ran 401 Marathons in 401 Days and Changed His Life Forever. Detailing the many challenges he faced and overcame, in this interview, Ben discusses how bullying impacted him, why he decided to create the 401 Challenge and how he’s carrying on its legacy.
©2018 Audible Ltd (P)2018 Audible Ltd
Julia Heaberlin
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Julia Heaberlin visits the Audible Studios to talk about her latest book, Black Eyed Susans. To write this disturbing thriller Julia conducted thorough research into mitochondrial DNA, death penalty law and child psychology.
©2016 Audible Ltd. (P)2016 Audible Ltd.
Townie
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Andre Dubus III, author of the National Book Award–nominated House of Sand and Fog and The Garden of Last Days, reflects on his violent past and a lifestyle that threatened to destroy him—until he was saved by writing. After their parents divorced in the 1970s, Andre Dubus III and his three siblings grew up with their exhausted working mother in a depressed Massachusetts mill town saturated with drugs and crime. To protect himself and those he loved from street violence, Andre learned to use his fists so well that he was even scared of himself. He was on a fast track to getting killed—or killing someone else—or to beatings-for-pay as a boxer. Nearby, his father, an eminent author, taught on a college campus and took the kids out on Sundays. The clash of worlds couldn’t have been more stark—or more difficult for a son to communicate to a father. Only by becoming a writer himself could Andre begin to bridge the abyss and save himself. His memoir is a riveting, visceral, profound meditation on physical violence and the failures and triumphs of love.
©2011 Andre Dubus (P)2011 Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Ruth Fitzmaurice
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Ruth Fitzmaurice is the author of I Found My Tribe, a critically acclaimed memoir which came about as the result of an article in the Irish Times that hit a real nerve with the public. In the book she writes about how her passion for swimming has helped her cope with the challenges of caring for a large family and a husband with motor neurone disease. Ruth visits the Audible Studios to tell us a bit more about the book.
©2017 Audible Ltd (P)2017 Audible Ltd
Julia Heaberlin - April 2018
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The best-selling author of Black-Eyed Susans, Julia Heaberlin, talks to Audible about her highly anticipated new audiobook, Paper Ghosts, a gripping thriller which has been lauded by critics as ‘artful, ’elegiac’ and ‘spellbinding’. In it, Julia introduces us to the character of Carl Louis Feldman as he begins his journey into old age at a nursing home in Texas. He was once suspected of being a serial killer, and the nurses care for him unwillingly and don’t bat an eyelid when a stranger, claiming to be his daughter, suddenly appears and takes him on what could be his last road trip. In this interview, we ask Julia about her journey from award-winning journalist to a Sunday Times best-selling author, the inspiration behind this remarkable story, and future works to come.
©2018 Audible Ltd (P)2018 Audible Ltd
The Prince of Frogtown
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In this final volume of the beloved American saga that began with All Over but the Shoutin' and continued with Ava's Man, Rick Bragg closes his circle of family stories with an unforgettable tale about fathers and sons inspired by his own relationship with his 10-year-old stepson. He learns, right from the start, that a man who chases a woman with a child is like a dog who chases a car and wins. He discovers that he is unsuited to fatherhood, unsuited to fathering this boy in particular, a boy who does not know how to throw a punch and doesn't need to; a boy accustomed to love and affection rather than violence and neglect; in short, a boy wholly unlike the child Rick once was, and who longs for a relationship with Rick that Rick hasn't the first inkling of how to embark on. With the weight of this new boy tugging at his clothes, Rick sets out to understand his father, his son, and himself. The Prince of Frogtown documents a mesmerizing journey back in time to the lush Alabama landscape of Rick's youth, to Jacksonville's 100-year-old mill, the town's blight and salvation; and to a troubled, charismatic hustler coming of age in its shadow, Rick's father, a man bound to bring harm even to those he truly loves. And the book documents the unexpected corollary to it, the marvelous journey of Rick's later life: a journey into fatherhood, and toward a child for whom he comes to feel a devotion that staggers him. With candor, insight, tremendous humor, and the remarkable gift for descriptive storytelling on which he made his name, Rick Bragg delivers a brilliant and moving rumination on the lives of boys and men, a poignant reflection on what it means to be a father and a son.
©2008 Rick Bragg (P)2008 Random House, Inc.
To Be Honest
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Raised in what he affectionately calls "our little honesty cult", Michael Leviton was ingrained with his parents' core philosophy: You do not tell any lies; you do not withhold the truth; and you speak your mind always, regardless of how offensive or hurtful your opinions may be. For young Michael, this freedom to be yourself - despite being bullied and ostracized at school - felt liberating. By the time Leviton was 29 years old, he had told three (what most people would consider) lies in his entire life. But his parents' enthusiasm for "just being honest" bordered on extreme. After Michael graduated high school and left home, truth telling - in job interviews, on dates, in social interactions - slowly lost its luster. When the only woman who ever appreciated his honesty brought this radical approach to truth into their relationship, Michael decided it was time to embrace the power of lying. To Be Honest is a quirky, tender, and wry story of a man discovering what it means and how it feels to lie in one's daily life.
©2020 Michael Leviton (P)2020 Dreamscape Media, LLC
Charlie Fletcher
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Author Charlie Fletcher joins Elise Italiaander in the Audible studios to discuss his latest novel.
©2017 Audible Studios (P)2017 Audible Studios
Dan Vyleta
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German-Canadian writer Dan Vyleta, famous for his debut novel Pavel & I which gained international acclaim discusses his latest novel Smoke, which tells an alternate-history of 19th century Britain.
©2016 Audible Ltd (P)2016 Audible Ltd
The Last of His Mind
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Joe Thorndike was managing editor of Life at the height of its popularity immediately following World War II. He was the founder of American Heritage and Horizon magazines, the author of three books, and the editor of a dozen more. But at age 92, in the space of six months, he stopped reading or writing or carrying on detailed conversations. He could no longer tell time or make a phone call. He was convinced that the governor of Massachusetts had come to visit and was in the refrigerator. Five million Americans suffer from Alzheimer's, and like many of them, Joe Thorndike's one great desire was to remain in his own house. To honor his wish, his son John left his own home and moved into his father's upstairs bedroom on Cape Cod. For a year, in a house filled with file cabinets, photos, and letters, John explored his father's mind, his parents' divorce, and his mother's secrets. The Last of His Mind is the bittersweet account of a son's final year with his father, and a candid portrait of an implacable disease. It's the ordeal of Alzheimer's that draws father and son close, closer than they have been since John was a boy. At the end, when Joe's heart stops beating, John's hand is on his chest, and a story of painful decline has become a portrait of deep family ties, caregiving, and love.
©2009 John Thorndike (P)2016 Redwood Audiobooks
Alison Morton
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Alison Morton joins Robin Morgan in the Audible Studios. She is the author of the Roma Nova series of novels, which focuses on the last remnant of the Roman Empire, which, believe or not, has survived into the 21st century.
©2016 Audible Ltd. (P)2016 Audible Ltd.
Chris Cleave
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Audible exclusive. Chris Cleave discusses his new novel, Everyone Brave Is Forgiven, an epic story of love, loss, prejudice and incredible courage. Chris provides an insight in to how he as an author constructs his novels. Describing how he made the book as authentic as possible, the painstaking research and adding his own personal touches. Chris Cleave is the author of Gold and the #1 New York Times bestseller Little Bee (titled The Other Hand in the UK)
©2016 Audible Studios (P)2016 Audible Studios
F. G. Cottam
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Audible Exclusive. Author F. G. Cottam joins us to talk about The Going and the Rise, part of The Colony series.
©2016 Audible Ltd (P)2016 Audible Ltd
Kathryn Hughes - August 2017
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Best-selling author of The Letter and The Secret Kathryn Hughes joins Audible for a second time to discuss her third novel, The Key. With a dual time line, listeners are transported between scenes of a 1950s operational insane asylum and those taking place in the aged and now abandoned building 50 years on in a story about forgotten tragedy, lost love and the pursuit of justice. Kathryn discusses her new thrilling instalment and her hopes for future works.
©2017 Audible Ltd (P)2017 Audible Ltd