Showing results by publisher "Faber & Faber" in Biographies & Memoirs
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Who Am I, Again?
- By: Lenny Henry
- Narrated by: Lenny Henry
- Length: 7 hrs and 22 mins
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In 1975, a gangly black 16-year-old from Dudley, decked out in floppy bow tie and Frank Spencer beret, appeared on our TV screens for the first time. So began the transformation from apprentice factory worker to future national treasure of Sir Lenny Henry. In his long-awaited autobiography, Lenny tells the extraordinary story of his early years and sudden rise to fame.
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Who Am I, Again?
- Narrated by: Lenny Henry
- Length: 7 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 01-10-2019
- Language: English
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Super-Infinite
- The Transformations of John Donne
- By: Katherine Rundell
- Narrated by: Jamie Parker
- Length: 8 hrs and 41 mins
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Sometime religious outsider and social disaster, sometime celebrity preacher and establishment darling, John Donne was incapable of being just one thing. He was a scholar of law, a sea adventurer, an MP, a priest, the Dean of St Paul's Cathedral—and perhaps the greatest love poet in the history of the English language. He converted from Catholicism to Protestantism, was imprisoned for marrying a high-born girl without her father's consent, struggled to feed a family of 10 children and was often ill and in pain.
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Marvellous
- By Darcy Moore on 07-08-2023
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Super-Infinite
- The Transformations of John Donne
- Narrated by: Jamie Parker
- Length: 8 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 20-04-2022
- Language: English
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The Art of the Straight Line
- My Tai Chi
- By: Lou Reed, Laurie Anderson
- Narrated by: Laurie Anderson, Stephan Berwick, Bob Currie, and others
- Length: 8 hrs and 58 mins
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The Art of the Straight Line captures the energy of Lou Reed's worlds of Tai Chi, music, and meditation. It was edited by his wife, the artist Laurie Anderson. Lou Reed was a musician, singer, songwriter, poet, and founding member of the legendary rock band the Velvet Underground. He collaborated with many artists, from Andy Warhol and John Cale to Robert Wilson and Metallica. Reed had a groundbreaking solo career that spanned five decades until his death in 2013. Reed was also an accomplished martial artist whose practice began in the 1980s.
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A different perspective
- By Ant on 12-05-2024
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The Art of the Straight Line
- My Tai Chi
- Narrated by: Laurie Anderson, Stephan Berwick, Bob Currie, Scott Richman, Ron Butler, Feodor Chin, Adam Grupp
- Length: 8 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 14-03-2023
- Language: English
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Aftermath
- On Marriage and Separation
- By: Rachel Cusk
- Narrated by: Antonia Beamish
- Length: 4 hrs and 56 mins
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Aftermath chronicles this perilous journey as the author redefines herself as a single woman and creates a new version of family life for her daughters. She discovers previously unknown strengths and freedoms but also finds herself suddenly vulnerable to outsiders, unwelcome advice, social displacement and the absence of a clear authority. The pressure to reconstruct a 'normal' life for her daughters competes with the sense that nothing feels normal at all.
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Aftermath
- By Anonymous User on 04-02-2024
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Aftermath
- On Marriage and Separation
- Narrated by: Antonia Beamish
- Length: 4 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 30-03-2020
- Language: English
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Dark Luminosity (The Expanded Edition)
- Memoirs of a Geezer
- By: Jah Wobble
- Narrated by: Jah Wobble
- Length: 15 hrs
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Written in his own unmistakable voice and with a new afterword by the author, this is the frank and fascinating memoir by arguably the greatest bass player of his generation. Beginning with an East End childhood in a London barely recovered from the War, he takes us on a journey through the beginnings of punk and post-punk as a founding member of Public Image Limited, an illustrious forty-year solo career which has seen collaborations musical greats such as U2, Brian Eno and CAN and a Mercury Music Prize nomination through to the present day still playing to sell out audiences.
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Sunburst Sincerity
- By Ir on 06-06-2024
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Dark Luminosity (The Expanded Edition)
- Memoirs of a Geezer
- Narrated by: Jah Wobble
- Length: 15 hrs
- Release date: 05-03-2024
- Language: English
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Revolutionary Acts
- Love & Brotherhood in Black Gay Britain
- By: Jason Okundaye
- Narrated by: Jason Okundaye
- Length: 8 hrs and 5 mins
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Jason Okundaye meets an elder generation of Black gay men and finds a spirited community full of courage, charisma and good humour, hungry to tell its past - of nightlife, resistance, political fights, loss, gossip, sex, romance and vulgarity. Through their conversations he seeks to reconcile the Black and gay narratives of Britain, narratives frequently cleaved as distinct and unrelated. Tracing these men's journeys and arrivals to South London through the seventies, eighties and nineties from the present day, Okundaye relays their stories with rare compassion.
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Revolutionary Acts
- Love & Brotherhood in Black Gay Britain
- Narrated by: Jason Okundaye
- Length: 8 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 05-03-2024
- Language: English
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Beeswing
- Fairport, Folk Rock and Finding My Voice, 1967–75
- By: Richard Thompson
- Narrated by: Richard Thompson
- Length: 7 hrs and 19 mins
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Guitarist and Songwriter Richard Thompson came of age during an extraordinary moment in British culture: it was 1967 and popular music was reflecting a great cultural awakening. In the midst of this, 18-year-old Thompson co-founded Fairport Convention and helped invent a new genre of music. In Beeswing, Thompson goes back to his childhood, recreates the spirit of the '60s and takes us inside life on the road in the UK and the US, crossing paths - and occasionally sharing the stage - with the likes of Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Nick Drake, Jimi Hendrix and more.
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Interesting story and well narrated
- By Kindle Customer on 01-08-2021
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Beeswing
- Fairport, Folk Rock and Finding My Voice, 1967–75
- Narrated by: Richard Thompson
- Length: 7 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 15-04-2021
- Language: English
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Rising to the Surface
- By: Lenny Henry
- Narrated by: Lenny Henry
- Length: 6 hrs and 52 mins
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Rising to the Surface traces Lenny Henry's career through the '80s and '90s. The 16-year-old who won a talent competition now has to navigate his way through the seas of professional comedy, learning his craft through sheer graft and hard work. We follow Lenny through a period of great creativity—prize-winning TV programmes, summer seasons across Britain, the starring role in a Hollywood film, stand-up gigs in New York and a gala wedding to Dawn French. But with each rise, there is a fall, the most traumatic being the death of his mother.
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Boston!
- By Obileekenobi on 01-03-2023
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Rising to the Surface
- Narrated by: Lenny Henry
- Length: 6 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 30-08-2022
- Language: English
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The Liverbirds
- Our life in Britain's first female rock 'n' roll band
- By: Mary McGlory, Sylvia Saunders
- Narrated by: Mary McGlory, Sylvia Wiggins
- Length: 10 hrs and 44 mins
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In the early '60s, four friends from Liverpool formed a band. But this is not the 'fab four' story we know... Mary, Sylvia, Valerie and Pamela - also known as The Liverbirds - were one of the world's first all-female rock'n'roll bands. At an early gig, backstage at the Cavern Club, a young John Lennon told them that 'girls don't play guitars'. But they took that as a challenge. Despite the early scepticism, they won over tough crowds, toured stadiums, recorded two hit albums, and played with the Kinks, Rolling Stones and Chuck Berry - all in the space of just five years.
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The Liverbirds
- Our life in Britain's first female rock 'n' roll band
- Narrated by: Mary McGlory, Sylvia Wiggins
- Length: 10 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 12-03-2024
- Language: English
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The Stubborn Light of Things
- A Nature Diary
- By: Melissa Harrison
- Narrated by: Melissa Harrison
- Length: 5 hrs and 52 mins
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A Londoner for more than 20 years, moving from flat to Tube to air-conditioned office, Melissa Harrison knew what it was to be insulated from the seasons. Adopting a dog and going on daily walks helped reconnect her with the cycle of the year and the quiet richness of nature all around her: swifts nesting in a nearby church; ivy-leaved toadflax growing out of brick walls; the first blackbird's song; an exhilarating glimpse of a hobby over Tooting Common.
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The Stubborn Light of Things
- A Nature Diary
- Narrated by: Melissa Harrison
- Length: 5 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 03-11-2020
- Language: English
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Looking for Trouble
- By: Virginia Cowles
- Narrated by: Kelly Burke
- Length: 18 hrs and 19 mins
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As a pioneering female correspondent, she reported from Europe from the 1930s into the Second World War, watching 'the lights in the death-chamber go out one by one' from the frontline - always in the right place at the right time. Flinging off her heels under shellfire; meeting Hitler ('an inconspicuous little man') and the 'dapper' Mussolini; gossiping with Churchill by his goldfish pond or dancing in the bomb-blasted Ritz; reading The Intelligent Woman's Guide to Socialism on a Soviet train or eating reindeer with guerrilla skiers....
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Looking for Trouble
- Narrated by: Kelly Burke
- Length: 18 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 26-11-2021
- Language: English
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Dear Senthuran
- A Black Spirit Memoir
- By: Akwaeke Emezi
- Narrated by: Akwaeke Emezi
- Length: 8 hrs and 44 mins
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In letters addressed to their friends, to members of their family - both biological and chosen - and to fellow storytellers, Akwaeke describes the shape of a life lived in overlapping realities. Through heartbreak, chronic pain, intimacy with death, becoming a beast, this is embodiment as a nonhuman: outside the boundaries imposed by expectations and legibility. This book is an account of the gruelling work of realignment and remaking necessary to carve out a future for oneself. The result is a black spirit memoir: a powerful, raw unfolding of identity.
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honest and instructive
- By Anonymous User on 16-10-2023
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Dear Senthuran
- A Black Spirit Memoir
- Narrated by: Akwaeke Emezi
- Length: 8 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 29-06-2021
- Language: English
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Comfort Eating
- What We Eat When Nobody's Looking
- By: Grace Dent
- Narrated by: Grace Dent
- Length: 6 hrs and 7 mins
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Have you ever wondered why eating cheese can sometimes feel like a cuddle? Or how a good curry can be just what we need after a tough day? Oh, and just what is it about butter that makes us feel so at ease...? The foods we turn to behind closed doors are deeply personal, steeped in nostalgia and topped with a healthy dollop of guilty pleasure. Comfort Eating finds Grace Dent inviting listeners to her kitchen table to discover what makes the things we really eat so delicious.
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Comfort Eating
- What We Eat When Nobody's Looking
- Narrated by: Grace Dent
- Length: 6 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 03-10-2023
- Language: English
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Then It Fell Apart
- By: Moby
- Narrated by: Moby
- Length: 10 hrs and 26 mins
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What do you do when you realise you have everything you think you've ever wanted but still feel completely empty? What do you do when it all starts to fall apart? The second volume of Moby's extraordinary life story is a journey into the dark heart of fame and the demons that lurk just beneath the bling and bluster of the celebrity lifestyle. In summer 1999, Moby released the album that defined the millennium, PLAY. Like generation-defining albums before it, PLAY was ubiquitous, and catapulted Moby to superstardom.
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And came together
- By G. J. Simpson on 17-09-2021
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Then It Fell Apart
- Narrated by: Moby
- Series: The Moby Memoirs
- Length: 10 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 30-04-2019
- Language: English
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Dance Your Way Home
- A Journey Through the Dancefloor
- By: Emma Warren
- Narrated by: Emma Warren
- Length: 11 hrs and 37 mins
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Why do we dance together? What does dancing tells us about ourselves, individually and collectively? And what can it do for us? Whether it be at home, '80s club nights, Irish dancehalls or reggae dances, jungle raves or volunteer-run spaces and youth centres, Emma Warren has sought the answers to these questions her entire life. At the intersection of memoir, social and cultural history, Dance Your Way Home is an intimate foray onto the dancefloor - wherever and whenever it may be - that speaks to the heart of what it is that makes us move.
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Dance Your Way Home
- A Journey Through the Dancefloor
- Narrated by: Emma Warren
- Length: 11 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 14-03-2023
- Language: English
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Quartet
- How Four Women Changed the Musical World
- By: Leah Broad
- Narrated by: Leah Broad
- Length: 13 hrs and 46 mins
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Leah Broad's magnificent group biography resurrects these four forgotten voices, recounting lives of rebellion, heartbreak and ambition, and celebrating their musical masterpieces. Lighting up a panoramic sweep of British history over two World Wars, Quartet revolutionises the canon forever.
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Quartet
- How Four Women Changed the Musical World
- Narrated by: Leah Broad
- Length: 13 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 09-03-2023
- Language: English
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Excavate!
- The Wonderful and Frightening World of The Fall
- By: Tessa Norton, Bob Stanley
- Narrated by: Dean Williamson, Maxine Peake, Pat Nevin
- Length: 7 hrs and 43 mins
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Over a prolific 40-year career, The Fall created a world that was influential, idiosyncratic and fiercely original - and defied simple categorisation. Their front man and lyricist, Mark E Smith, spun opaque tales that resisted conventional understanding; The Fall's worldview was an education in its own right. Who wouldn't want to be armed with a working knowledge of M R James, shipping-dock procedures, contemporary dance, Manchester City and Can? The group inspired and shaped the lives of those who listened to and tried to make sense of their work.
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Excavate!
- The Wonderful and Frightening World of The Fall
- Narrated by: Dean Williamson, Maxine Peake, Pat Nevin
- Length: 7 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 30-03-2021
- Language: English
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Boy Friends
- By: Michael Pedersen
- Narrated by: Michael Pedersen
- Length: 6 hrs and 27 mins
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In 2018 poet and author Michael Pedersen lost a cherished friend, Scott Hutchison, soon after their collective voyage into the landscape of the Scottish Highlands. Just weeks later, Michael began to write to him. As he confronts the bewildering process of grief, what starts as a love letter to one magical, coruscating human soon becomes a paean to all the gorgeous male friendships that have transformed his life.
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Highly recommend
- By Deborah Still on 07-05-2023
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Boy Friends
- Narrated by: Michael Pedersen
- Length: 6 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 05-07-2022
- Language: English
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From Manchester with Love
- The Life and Opinions of Tony Wilson
- By: Paul Morley
- Narrated by: Paul Morley
- Length: 22 hrs and 47 mins
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To write about Tony Wilson, a.k.a. Anthony H. Wilson, is to write about a number of public and private characters and personalities, a clique of unreliable narrators, constantly changing shape and form. At the helm of Factory Records and the Haçienda, Wilson unleashed landmark acts such as Joy Division and New Order into the world as he pursued myriad other creative endeavours, appointing himself a custodian of Manchester's legacy of innovation and change.
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From Manchester with Love
- The Life and Opinions of Tony Wilson
- Narrated by: Paul Morley
- Length: 22 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 19-10-2021
- Language: English
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Black and Female
- By: Tsitsi Dangarembga
- Narrated by: Chipo Chung
- Length: 3 hrs and 52 mins
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In five short essays, the award-winning writer dissects the nervous condition of being not only Black, and not only a woman, but also quote-unquote "postcolonial". Weaving together the experiences, events, intersections and negotiations of her multifaceted identity, Dangarembga offers a powerful vision of Black liberation.
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Black and Female
- Narrated by: Chipo Chung
- Length: 3 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 16-08-2022
- Language: English
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