Ten childhood snapshots from the master of the monologue
A Strip of Blue Proper Names
Our War Eating Out
An Ideal Home Aunt Eveline
A Shy Butcher Unsaid Prayers
Days Out No Mean City
Alan Bennett recalls his childhood in a sequence of talks that are funny, touching and told in his unique style.
Hampered, as he sees it, by a family that never manages to be quite like other families, he recounts his early years in Leeds - 'a place where one learned early on the quite useful lesson that life is generally something that happens elsewhere': there is hiking every Sunday, trips into town and teas in cafes. It's an ordinary childhood; Bennett's father's a butcher, his mother a reader of women's magazines who dreams of coffee mornings and cocktail parties and life 'Down South'.
He re-lives family crises, early pieties and the last of a tradition of musical evenings round the piano, in tales that are told with that wry observation and ironic understatement that has earned Alan Bennett his place in the forefront of contemporary writing.
Author : Paul Strathern
Robert Whitfield
Published By : Blackstone Audio Inc
Runtime : 2 hours
Biographical Arts & Drama Autobiography Historical Knowledge & Learning
Price : $19.95 $9.95
In García Márquez in 90 Minutes, Paul Strathern offers a concise, expert account of García Márquez 's life and ideas, and explains their influence on literature and on man's struggle to understand ... See full description...
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Author : Neville Jason
Neville Jason
Published By : Select Music & Distribution
Runtime : 4 hours
Arts & Drama Biographical
Price : $15.49
This first audio-biography of Marcel Proust tells the story of one of the world's most original and admired literary geniuses. See full description...
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Author : Nathanial Hawthorne
James Naughton
Published By : Harper Collins US
Runtime : 6 hours
Autobiography Arts & Drama Classic Literature
Price : $29.95 $16.95
With an introduction by Paul Auster, this delightful true-life story by a great American writer emerges from obscurity to shine a delightful light upon family life -- then and now. See full description...
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Author : Tim Lefens
Grover Gardner
Published By : Blackstone Audio Inc
Runtime : 7 hours
Arts & Drama Autobiography Biographical Knowledge & Learning Inspiration & Devotion
Price : $32.95 $16.95
When artist Tim Lefens walked into the care center for people with cerebral palsy, he had a life-changing experience. Because of his passion and determination, he and his student-artists emerged to... See full description...
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Author : Elizabeth Jenkins
Teresa Gallagher
Published By : Select Music & Distribution
Runtime : 2 hours 30 minutes
Arts & Drama British Biographical Pre 1900
Price : $11.99
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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