Showing results by publisher "Faber & Faber" in Biographies & Memoirs
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My Twentieth Century Evening and Other Small Breakthroughs
- By: Kazuo Ishiguro
- Narrated by: Kazuo Ishiguro
- Length: 47 mins
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Delivered in Stockholm on 7 December 2017, My Twentieth Century Evening and Other Small Breakthroughs is the lecture of the Nobel Laureate in Literature, Kazuo Ishiguro. A generous and hugely insightful biographical sketch, it explores his relationship with Japan, reflections on his own novels and an insight into some of his inspirations, from the worlds of writing, music and film. Ending with a rallying call for the ongoing importance of literature in the world, it is a characteristically thoughtful and moving piece.
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My Twentieth Century Evening and Other Small Breakthroughs
- Narrated by: Kazuo Ishiguro
- Length: 47 mins
- Release date: 19-12-2017
- Language: English
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Bodies
- Life and Death in Music
- By: Ian Winwood
- Narrated by: Ian Winwood
- Length: 10 hrs and 35 mins
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In Bodies, author Ian Winwood explores the music industry's many failures, from addiction and mental health issues to its ongoing exploitation of artists. Much more than a touchline reporter, Winwood also tells the story of his own mental health collapse, following the shocking death of his father, in which extinction-level behaviour was given perfect cover by a reckless industry.
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A truly important book
- By Billerwell Daye on 18-06-2022
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Bodies
- Life and Death in Music
- Narrated by: Ian Winwood
- Length: 10 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 19-04-2022
- Language: English
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The Tastemaker
- My Life with the Legends and Geniuses of Rock Music
- By: Tony King
- Narrated by: Ben Higgins
- Length: 7 hrs and 23 mins
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Leaving school and starting his career at Decca Records in 1958 at the age of sixteen, Tony King would soon find himself becoming close friends with Elton John, rekindling John Lennon and Yoko Ono's relationship, mediating a quarrelsome Mick Jagger and Keith Richards and spending time with Freddie Mercury in his final days - a far cry from his childhood days in Eastbourne. Living in an era of seismic social, technological and cultural transformation, King experienced these defining moments as a stalwart in London and New York's gay scenes.
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Great stories from a great period in music
- By Christopher J Carroll on 20-02-2023
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The Tastemaker
- My Life with the Legends and Geniuses of Rock Music
- Narrated by: Ben Higgins
- Length: 7 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 31-01-2023
- Language: English
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Talking About Detective Fiction
- By: Patience Tomlinson
- Narrated by: Patience Tomlinson
- Length: 4 hrs and 40 mins
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P. D. James brings a lifetime of reading and writing crime fiction to bear on this personal history of the genre, from the birth of the detective story, through Wilkie Collins and Conan Doyle, to the golden age of crime and the rise of Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers, Ngaio Marsh, and Margery Allingham. There is a chapter on great American crime writers such as Raymond Chandler and Dashiel Hammett, and P. D. James also discusses many of her favourite detectives, from Sherlock Holmes to Kurt Wallander.
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Talking About Detective Fiction
- Narrated by: Patience Tomlinson
- Length: 4 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 04-12-2014
- 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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The Last Cigarette
- The Smoking Diaries, Volume 3
- By: Simon Gray
- Narrated by: Simon Gray
- Length: 4 hrs and 44 mins
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Simon Gray is determined to give up smoking. Really. At last. Can he kick the habit of 60 years? Will he, sometime soon, be able to leave his house without nervously feeling for his two packets of 20 and his two lighters, and add no more singes to his cardigan? As this wonderful, wayward record of Gray's life progresses, these questions are overtaken by much larger ones. What is that lady on the plane to Athens doing with her nose? What was sex like before 1963? Will his name be in lights on Broadway? Why did he leave the bedside of his dying mother?
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The Last Cigarette
- The Smoking Diaries, Volume 3
- Narrated by: Simon Gray
- Series: The Smoking Diaries, Book 3
- Length: 4 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 13-12-2012
- 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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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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Coda
- The Smoking Diaries, Volume 4
- By: Simon Gray
- Narrated by: Simon Gray
- Length: 4 hrs and 23 mins
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During a holiday with his wife in Crete, the celebrated diarist and playwright Simon Gray recalls the scans and consultations that have dominated the previous months in this frank, moving, and often painfully funny account of what Gray refers to as "the beginning of my dying". Wonderfully comic depictions of the medical team are interrupted by unforgettable portraits of fellow tourists, digressions on everything from crimes of passion to a brief history of his athletic career, and a masterfully tense distraction, composed while waiting for his final prognosis - and smoking one last cigarette.
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Coda
- The Smoking Diaries, Volume 4
- Narrated by: Simon Gray
- Series: The Smoking Diaries, Book 4
- Length: 4 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 13-12-2012
- Language: English
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Country Girl
- By: Edna O'Brien
- Narrated by: Edna O’Brien
- Length: 16 hrs and 11 mins
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Edna O'Brien was born in 1930. Her brilliant debut novel, The Country Girls, was banned in her native Ireland upon its publication in 1960. Since then she has gone on to produce some of the finest writing of the 20th century. In Country Girl we hear of a life of high drama and contemplation, of encounters with Hollywood giants, pop stars, and literary titans. It is a life gorgeously, sometimes painfully remembered, in prose that sparkles with the effortless gifts of a master.
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lovely!
- By Anonymous User on 04-03-2019
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Country Girl
- Narrated by: Edna O’Brien
- Length: 16 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 27-09-2012
- Language: English
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Where We Come From
- Rap, Home & Hope in Modern Britain
- By: Aniefiok Ekpoudom
- Narrated by: Aniefiok Ekpoudom
- Length: 9 hrs and 55 mins
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Journalist Aniefiok Ekpoudom travels the country to paint a compelling portrait of the dawn, boom and subsequent blossoming of UK rap and grime. Taking us from the heart of south London to the West Midlands and South Wales, he explores how a history of migration and an enduring spirit of resistance have shaped the current realities of these linked communities and the music they produce. These sounds have become vessels for the marginalised, carrying Black and working-class stories into the light.
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Where We Come From
- Rap, Home & Hope in Modern Britain
- Narrated by: Aniefiok Ekpoudom
- Length: 9 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 16-01-2024
- Language: English
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Why Patti Smith Matters
- By: Caryn Rose
- Narrated by: Lori Prince
- Length: 5 hrs and 44 mins
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Patti Smith arrived in New York City at the end of the Age of Aquarius in search of work and purpose. What she found—what she fostered—was a cultural revolution. Through her poetry, her songs, her unapologetic vocal power, and her very presence as a woman fronting a rock band, she kicked open a door that countless others walked through. No other musician has better embodied the 'nothing-to-hide' rawness of punk, nor has any other done more to nurture a place in society for misfits of every stripe.
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Why Patti Smith Matters
- Narrated by: Lori Prince
- Series: Music Matters
- Length: 5 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 03-10-2022
- Language: English
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Other Colours
- By: Orhan Pamuk
- Narrated by: John Lee, Maureen Freely
- Length: 16 hrs and 22 mins
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Other Colours is a collection of immediate relevance and timeless value, ranging from lyrical autobiography to criticism of literature and culture, from humour to political analysis, from delicate evocations of his friendship with his daughter Ruya to provocative discussions of Eastern and Western art. It also covers Pamuk's recent, high profile, court case.
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Other Colours
- Narrated by: John Lee, Maureen Freely
- Length: 16 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 06-09-2018
- Language: English
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The Smoking Diaries
- The Smoking Diaries, Volume 1
- By: Simon Gray
- Narrated by: Simon Gray
- Length: 4 hrs and 40 mins
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When he turned 65, the playwright Simon Gray began to keep a diary: not a careful honing of the days' events with a view to posterity but an account of his thoughts as he had them, honestly, turbulently, digressively expressed. One of Britain's most amusing and original writers reflects on a life filled with cigarettes (continuing), alcohol (stopped), several triumphs and many more disasters - a record of shame, adultery, friendship and love. Few diarists have ever been so frank about themselves and even fewer so entertaining.
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The Smoking Diaries
- The Smoking Diaries, Volume 1
- Narrated by: Simon Gray
- Series: The Smoking Diaries, Book 1
- Length: 4 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 13-12-2012
- 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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Under the Hornbeams
- A True Story of Life in the Open
- By: Emma Tarlo
- Narrated by: Emma Tarlo
- Length: 11 hrs and 58 mins
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Nick and Pascal live and sleep outside in central London. They are an unusual duo: Nick is an avid reader of history and philosophy able to converse on any topic; Pascal is quiet, spending much of his time lying still, communicating silently with birds and animals. They have lived alongside each other in London's streets for nearly two decades, yet do not identify as homeless. For the past five years they have taken shelter under the hornbeam trees in Regent's Park. Emma Tarlo first meets Nick and Pascal when out walking. Gradually they develop a friendship.
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Under the Hornbeams
- A True Story of Life in the Open
- Narrated by: Emma Tarlo
- Length: 11 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 16-01-2024
- Language: English
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Black Teacher
- By: Beryl Gilroy, Bernardine Evaristo
- Narrated by: Debra Michaels
- Length: 7 hrs and 20 mins
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In 1952, Beryl Gilroy moved from British Guiana to London. Her new life wasn't what she had expected - but her belief in the power of education resulted in a revolutionary career. Inspiring and unflinching, Gilroy's memoir Black Teacher is a rediscovered classic: not only a rare firsthand insight into the Windrush generation but a testament to how one extraordinary woman's dignity, ambition and spirit transcended her era.
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Black Teacher
- Narrated by: Debra Michaels
- Length: 7 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 29-06-2021
- Language: English
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Time to Be in Earnest
- A Fragment of Autobiography
- By: P. D. James
- Narrated by: Patience Tomlinson
- Length: 13 hrs and 1 min
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P. D. James'sextraordinary memoir of her early life and time starting out as a novelist as well as diaries recording her in old age. In this intriguing and very personal book, part diary, part memoir, P. D. James considers the twelve months of her life between her seventy-seventh and seventy-eighth birthdays and looks back on her earlier life.
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Time to Be in Earnest
- A Fragment of Autobiography
- Narrated by: Patience Tomlinson
- Length: 13 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 02-02-2015
- Language: English
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Melancholy Undercover
- The Book of ABBA
- By: Jan Gradvall
- Length: 8 hrs and 20 mins
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With around 2 million tickets sold to the ABBA Voyage experience in London since it opened in May 2023, it is undeniable that, in the history of pop culture and music, there has never been a group like ABBA. This remarkably intimate, approved biography brings listeners a few steps closer to one of the world's most famously private bands.
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Melancholy Undercover
- The Book of ABBA
- Length: 8 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 08-10-2024
- Language: English
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The Reactor
- A Book About Grief and Repair
- By: Nick Blackburn
- Narrated by: Nick Blackburn
- Length: 5 hrs and 52 mins
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After the sudden death of his father, Nick Blackburn embarks on a singular, labyrinthine journey to understand his loss. How do you create an existence when all you can see is a void? The Reactor is a memoir about absence and creative possibilities, assembled like the pieces of a puzzle. Through philosophy, music, fashion, psychology, art and film, Blackburn travels a vast panorama of ideas and characters to offer an entirely new exploration of grief.
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The Reactor
- A Book About Grief and Repair
- Narrated by: Nick Blackburn
- Length: 5 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 18-01-2022
- Language: English
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