Bill Bryson's hilarious memoir of growing up in middle America in the Fifties - complete, unabridged and read by the author.
Born in 1951 in the middle of the United States - Des Moines. Iowa - Bill Bryson is perfectly positioned to mine his memories of a totally all-American childhood for twenty-four carat memoir gold.
Like millions of his generation, Bill Bryson grew up with a rich fantasy life as a superhero. In his case, he ran around the house wearing a jersey with a thunderbolt on it and a towel round his neck that served as his cape, leaping tall buildings in a single bound and vanquishing evildoers (in his head) as The Thunderbolt Kid .
Using his old fantasy life as a springboard, Bill Bryson recreates the life of his family in the 1950's in all its transcendent normality. In a period that saw the inexorable rise of television, the opening of Disneyland, the testing of the atomic bomb and the explosion of choice in everything from food to cars, Bill Bryson's days followed in reassuringly cosy succession, enlivened by modest triumphs and disasters.
Warm and laugh-out-loud funny, The Thunderbolt Kid is full of Bill Bryson's inimitable, pitch-perfect observations, and this unabridged recording contains every single amusing anecdote and amazing fact. Nothing is left out, so you can enjoy the whole book in its entirety, read by Bill Bryson himself.
Written By : John Fletcher
Various
Publisher : BBC Audiobooks Ltd
Runtime : 1 hour
Categories : Dramatizations Biographical Drama British Humor
$18.49
Badgers in my vest is a new, darkly funny play by an acclaimed contemporary playwright, based on an incident in Dylan Thomas' life. See full description...
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Written By : Michael Palin
Michael Palin
Publisher : Orion Publishing Group
Runtime : 4 hours
Categories : Biographical Comedy TV & Film Biographical
$16.99
MICHAEL PALIN's diaries begin in the late 1960s and tell how Python emerged and triumphed. Enjoying an unlikely cult status early on, the group then proceeded to tour in the United States and Canada.. See full description...
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Written By : Neil MacGregor
Neil MacGregor
Publisher : BBC Audiobooks Ltd
Runtime : 43 minutes
Categories : Biographical Arts & Drama British Non Fiction
$7.49
Neil MacGregor, the Director of the British Museum, marks the 400th anniversary of Rembrandt’s birth in BBC R3’s Sunday Feature ‘Rembrandt 400’... See full description...
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Written By : Alan Bennett
Alan Bennett
Publisher : BBC Audiobooks Ltd
Runtime : 2 hours
Categories : Biographical Biographical Modern Classics
$18.49
Alan Bennett reads three further chapters from Untold Stones, his major collection of new writings. See full description...
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Written By : Daniel Hendrex and Wes Smith
Lee Sellers
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
Runtime : 6 hours
Categories : Biographical Military American
$29.95 $17.95
Written By : Pete McCarthy
Narrated By : Pete McCarthy
Hodder & Stoughton Audiobooks
Length : 2 hours
Type : Autobiography Biographical Travel
Price : $16.75
The audio of the million-selling book - Pete McCarthy's hilarious journey in search of his Irish roots.
McCarthy's tale of his hilarious trip around Ireland has gained thousands of fans all over the world.
Pete was born in Warrington to an Irish mother and an English father and spent happy summer holidays in Cork. Years later, reflecting on the many places he has visited as a travel broadcaster, Pete admits that he feels more at home in Ireland than anywhere. To find out whether this is due to rose-coloured spectacles or to a deeper tie with the country of his ancestors, Pete sets off on a trip around Ireland and discovers that it has changed in surprising ways.
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