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.
Jacqueline Wilson
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Award-winning and best-selling children's author Jacqueline Wilson visits the Audible Studios to talk about her latest book, Wave Me Goodbye. For the very first time, Jacqueline takes her young listeners to the Second World War, giving insight into what it was like to be sent away as an evacuee. A moving tale of friendship and bravery, Wave Me Goodbye tells the story of 10-year-old Shirley, evacuated to the country with two boys from East End London, to live with the mysterious and reclusive Mrs Waverley. An experience that will change all their lives forever.
©2017 Audible Ltd (P)2017 Audible Ltd
Jo Brand
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Joining us in the Audible Studios to talk to us about her latest book, Born Lippy, is British comedian, writer and actress Jo Brand. After beginning a career in psychiatric nursing, Jo Brand moved to the alternative comedy stand-up scene with early performances on Saturday Live and later appearing in the likes of The Brain Drain and Jo Brand Through the Cakehole. Brand is the author of four novels and is currently the presenter of The Great British Bake Off: An Extra Slice, and her latest book, Born Lippy, was published in October 2018. In this interview, Jo Brand talks to us about topics from the Spice Girls to the Kardashians - covering hitchhiking, media portrayals and the taboo of death along the way.
©2018 Audible Ltd (P)2018 Audible Ltd
Manhood for Amateurs
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The Pulitzer Prize-winning author offers his first major work of nonfiction, an autobiographical narrative as inventive, beautiful, and powerful as his acclaimed, award-winning fiction. Manhood for Amateurs is the first sustained work of personal writing from Michael Chabon. In these insightful, provocative, slyly interlinked essays, one of our most brilliant and humane writers presents his autobiography and his vision of life in the way so many of us experience our own: as a series of reflections, regrets, and re-examinations, each sparked by an encounter, in the present, that holds some legacy of the past. What does it mean to be a man today? As a devoted son, as a passionate husband, and above all as a father, Chabon's memories of childhood, of his parents' marriage and divorce, of moments of painful adolescent comedy and giddy encounters with the popular art and literature of his own youth, are like a theme played by the mad quartet of which he now finds himself co-conductor. At once dazzling, hilarious, and moving, Manhood for Amateurs is destined to become a classic.
©2009 Michael Chabon (P)2009 HarperCollins Publishers
Vassos Alexander
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Joining us in the Audible Studios to discuss his book Running Up That Hill is British sports presenter and author Vassos Alexander. A sports presenter, reporter and commentator for the BBC since 2004, Vassos has covered everything from the Olympic Games through to Wimbledon. Best known for presenting the sports news on The Chris Evans Breakfast Show on BBC Radio 2, Vassos has become an advocate for running. Inspiring others with his highly acclaimed book Don’t Stop Me Now, his second book, Running Up That Hill, continues his running story. Vassos Alexander talks to us about his love of endurance running, where it all began and what tips he’d give to runners.
©2018 Audible Ltd (P)2018 Audible Ltd
Sky of Stone
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In the summer of '61, Homer "Sonny" Hickam, a year of college behind him, is dreaming of sandy beaches and rocket ships. But before Sonny can reach the seaside fixer-upper where his mother is spending the summer, a telephone call sends him back to the place he thought he had escaped, the gritty coal-mining town of Coalwood, West Virginia. There, Sonny's father, the mine's superintendent, has been accused of negligence in a man's death. Sonny's mother, Elsie, has commanded her son to spend the summer in Coalwood to support his father. But within hours of his arrival, Sonny realizes two things: His father, always cold and distant with his second son, doesn't want him there... and his parents' marriage has begun to unravel.
For Sonny, so begins a summer of discovery - a time when he will learn about love, loss, and a closely guarded secret that threatens to destroy his father and his town. As the days of summer grow shorter, Sonny finds himself changing in surprising ways, taking the first real steps toward adulthood. But it's a journey he can make only by unraveling the story of a man's death and a father's secret - the mysteries that lie at the heart of Coalwood.
©2004 Homer Hickam (P)2004 Brilliance Audio, Inc.
Joanna Toye
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Joanna Toye joins Robin Morgan in the Audible Studios for an exclusive interview. Joanna Toye was a writer on the BBC Radio 4's The Archers for 35 years. She joins Robin Morgan in the Audible Studios to discuss The Death of Grace Archer, an audio collection featuring archive editions of the world's longest-running soap opera. It also features Joanna Toye's radio play Dead Girls Tell No Tales, which was written to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the dramatic death of Grace Archer and reveals the truth about why she had to die.
©2016 Audible Ltd (P)2016 Audible Ltd
Chris Ryan - November 2019
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Joining us at Audible Studios is former SAS sergeant Chris Ryan. Ryan enrolled in the British Army at the age of 16, where he then passed selection to join the 22 SAS Regiment under ‘B’ squadron. Ryan spent the next seven years of his life serving around the world on covert and overt operations. Ryan was a key member of the infamous Bravo Two Zero SAS patrol in Iraq during the Gulf War. The patrol was compromised and was forced to head towards Syria on foot. Ryan was the only one of the eight-man team to not be captured or killed. He made the longest escape ever made by an SAS or other soldier, trekking 190 miles by foot. Though successfully evading capture, Ryan lost a potentially fatal amount of weight and suffered severe muscle atrophy and long-term side effects from drinking water contaminated by nuclear waste. Ryan was honorably discharged from the SAS in 1994, after being awarded the Military Medal in 1991. Since leaving the army, he has contributed to many television programmes, sharing his wealth of experience on how to survive events such as natural disasters, violent assaults and nuclear terrorist attacks. He has also had an incredible career as an author, with titles such as The One That Got Away, Strike Back, the Danny Black series, and the Alpha Force series. His book The History of the SAS tells the story of the SAS 22 Regiment from its humble beginnings, sharing details from missions in Oman, Borneo, Northern Ireland, the Falklands and more. We spoke to Chris Ryan about his book The History of the SAS, how being in the SAS affects him today and talking to an SAS soldier now in his 90s as part of his research.
©2019 Audible Ltd (P)2019 Audible Ltd
Patrick Kingsley
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Exclusive to Audible. Patrick Kingsley visited the Audible Studios to discuss his book, The New Odyssey: The Story of Europe's Refugee Crisis.
©2016 Audible Ltd (P)2016 Audible Ltd
Veronica Henry - April 2017
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Robin Morgan welcomes Veronica Henry back to the Audible Studios to talk about her latest novel, The Forever House.
©2017 Audible Studios (P)2017 Audible Studios
Dreda Say Mitchell
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Dreda Say Mitchell visits the Audible Studios; she is a novelist, broadcaster, journalist and champion of education for working class children. She talks about her upcoming crime series which follows one family over forty years on an East London estate - the first book in the series is called Blood Sister.
©2016 Audible Ltd (P)2016 Audible Ltd
Claire North and Peter Kenny
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Author Claire North and narrator Peter Kenny join Elise Italiaander in the Audible Studios to discuss writing and narrating The End of the Day.
©2017 Audible Studios (P)2017 Audible Studios
Jenny Blackhurst
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To those who know her, it’s hardly a surprise that Jenny Blackhurst would eventually become a crime writer. After the birth of her first son, she returned to her childhood love of thrillers and crime fiction and wrote her debut novel, How I Lost You. Jenny joins Robin Morgan in the Audible Studios to discuss her latest psychological thriller, Before I Let You In.
©2016 Audible Studios (P)2016 Audible Studios
Oscar Wilde: A Life from Beginning to End
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Who was Oscar Wilde? Was he just an author of witty but meaningless plays, only out to get a laugh or two? The answer is a resounding no. Oscar Wilde was an Irish poet and playwright in the late 19th century. His controversial plays were riddled with mockery of social status, cleverly covered by the use of comedy. Inside you will hear about: Blue china and long hair Marriage and men The Picture of Dorian Gray The sodomy trials Life after prison Death and posthumous pardon And much more Wilde may have paved the way for people living a little off the center line. He was full of flash and flare, and he wrote some of those colorful traits into his literature. Take a journey into the world of Oscar Wilde, and find out just how individualistic he was.
©2018 Hourly History (P)2018 Hourly History
Palm Sunday
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In this self-portrait by an American genius, Kurt Vonnegut writes with beguiling wit and poignant wisdom about his favorite comedians, country music, a dead friend, a dead marriage, and various cockamamie aspects of his all-too-human journey through life. This is a work that resonates with Vonnegut's singular voice: the magic sound of a born storyteller mesmerizing us with truth.
©1981 The Ramjac Corporation (P)2015 Audible Inc.
LJ Ross - November 2018
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Joining us in the Audible Studios for a second time, on this occasion to talk about her first audio drama, The Infirmary, is British author of the best-selling DCI Ryan mystery novels LJ Ross. Spending most of her 20s as a regulatory lawyer, LJ Ross published her first novel in the DCI Ryan series, Holy Island, in 2015. The latest installment in the series comes in the form of an audio drama - a brand-new way to experience DCI Ryan and all the thrills and mystery Ross’ stories bring. The Infirmary is sure to delight both seasoned fans and those new to the series. In this interview, LJ Ross talks to us about this latest title, her love of the northeast and how she began the DCI Ryan series.
©2018 Audible Ltd (P)2018 Audible Ltd
Mike Lewis
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Joining us in the Audible Studios to discuss his first book, When to Jump, is former equity investor turned entrepreneur and CEO of the When to Jump platform, Mike Lewis. At the age of 26, Mike Lewis left his prestigious job as an investor to pursue a lifelong dream of becoming a professional squash player. Realising the importance and impact of making a 'jump' from something comfortable in order to pursue a passion, Mike created the When to Jump community, a platform that has attracted millions of impressions and experiences of those who wish to share their own stories of success. Mike Lewis talks to us about his global community, why he wrote the book and some of the stories in it.
©2018 Audible Ltd (P)2018 Audible Ltd
Jane Corry - June 2017
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Sunday Times best-selling author Jane Corry returns to the Audible Studios to discuss her second novel, Blood Sister, which is another psychological thriller but this time deals with the death of a little girl and its consequences years later.
©2017 Audible Ltd (P)2017 Audible Ltd
David Coulthard
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Joining us in the Audible Studios to discuss his latest book, The Winning Formula, is British former Formula 1 driver turned presenter and entrepreneur David Coulthard. Winning 13 grand prix races during his career as a F1 driver, Coulthard spent many years as a leader in the world of motorsports. As well as running his production company, Whisper Films, and making his mark in the property business, Coulthard now commentates and copresents on Channel 4’s F1 coverage and has written his book, The Winning Formula, about the business of sport. Here, David Coulthard talks to us about his Formula 1 career, his coming-of-age driving moment and how the power of a team has shaped his life post-racing.
©2018 Audible Ltd (P)2018 Audible Ltd
Time Pieces
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From the internationally acclaimed and Man Booker prize-winning author of The Sea and the Benjamin Black mysteries - a vividly evocative memoir that unfolds around the author's recollections, experience, and imaginings of Dublin. As much about the life of the city as it is about a life lived, sometimes, in the city, John Banville's "quasi-memoir" is as layered, emotionally rich, witty, and unexpected as any of his novels. Born and bred in a small town a train ride away from Dublin, Banville saw the city as a place of enchantment when he was a child, a birthday treat, the place where his beloved, eccentric aunt lived. And though, when he came of age and took up residence there, and the city became a frequent backdrop for his dissatisfactions (not playing an identifiable role in his work until the Quirke mystery series, penned as Benjamin Black), it remained in some part of his memory as fascinating as it had been to his seven-year-old self. And as he guides us around the city, delighting in its cultural, architectural, political, and social history, he interweaves the memories that are attached to particular places and moments. The result is both a wonderfully idiosyncratic tour of Dublin, and a tender yet powerful ode to a formative time and place for the artist as a young man.
©2018 John Banville (P)2018 Random House Audio
Mantel Pieces
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A stunning collection of essays and memoir from two-time Booker Prize winner and international best seller Hilary Mantel, author of The Mirror and the Light. In 1987, when Hilary Mantel was first published in the London Review of Books, she wrote to the editor, Karl Miller, ‘I have no critical training whatsoever, so I am forced to be more brisk and breezy than scholarly.’ This collection of 20 reviews, essays and pieces of memoir from the next three decades tells the story of what happened next. Her subjects range far and wide: Robespierre and Danton, The Hite Report, Saudi Arabia, where she lived for four years in the 1980s, the Bulger case, John Osborne, the Virgin Mary as well as the pop icon Madonna, a brilliant examination of Helen Duncan, Britain’s last witch. There are essays about Jane Boleyn, Charles Brandon, Christopher Marlowe and Margaret Pole which display the astonishing insight into the Tudor mind we are familiar with from the best-selling Wolf Hall Trilogy. Her famous lecture, Royal Bodies, which caused a media frenzy, explores the place of royal women in society and our imagination. Here too are some of her LRB diaries, including her first meeting with her stepfather and a confrontation with a circus strongman. Constantly illuminating, always penetrating and often very funny, interleaved with letters and other ephemera gathered from the archive, Mantel Pieces is an irresistible selection from one of our greatest living writers.
©2020 Hilary Mantel (P)2020 HarperCollins Publishers Limited