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Tokyo Vice
- An American Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan
- By: Jake Adelstein
- Narrated by: Jake Adelstein
- Length: 10 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall239
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Performance204
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Story205
From the only American journalist ever to have been admitted to the insular Tokyo Metropolitan Police press club: a unique, firsthand, revelatory look at Japanese culture from the underbelly up. At nineteen, Jake Adelstein went to Japan in search of peace and tranquility. What he got was a life...
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Misses...
- By AJ on 28-07-11
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Tokyo Vice
- An American Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan
- Narrated by: Jake Adelstein
- Length: 10 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 20-10-09
- Language: English
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Lady Gregory's Toothbrush
- By: Colm Tóibín
- Narrated by: Derbhle Crotty
- Length: 3 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance2
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Colm Tóibín's Lady Gregory's Toothbrush is a beautiful insight into the life of outspoken Irishwoman, Augusta Gregory. A remarkable figure in Celtic history, she was married to an MP and land-owner, yet retained an unprecedented independence of both thought and deed, actively championing...
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Lady Gregory's Toothbrush
- Narrated by: Derbhle Crotty
- Length: 3 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 25-09-25
- Language: English
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Working
- Researching, Interviewing, Writing
- By: Robert A. Caro
- Narrated by: Robert A Caro
- Length: 7 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall113
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Performance102
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Story102
In Working he offers a captivating account of his life as a writer, describing the sometimes staggering lengths to which he has gone in order to produce his books and offering priceless insights into the art and craft of non-fiction writing. Anyone interested in investigative journalism and the pursuit of truth, in the writer’s process and the creation of literature, in the art of interviewing or simply the psychology of excellence will find a masterclass in all these subjects.
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Slow start but eventually becomes great & exciting
- By Yoda on 30-06-19
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Working
- Researching, Interviewing, Writing
- Narrated by: Robert A Caro
- Length: 7 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 25-04-19
- Language: English
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A Vast Horizon
- Artists and Lovers, Freedom and War
- By: Anna Thomasson
- Narrated by: Stephanie Racine
- Length: 10 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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A glorious fusion of history and art, A Vast Horizon tells the story of Pablo Picasso and his free-spirited friends, including Lee Miller and Man Ray, in the tumultuous years around the Second World War. ‘Excellent and revealing . . . at the end we feel their loss as if they had been our...
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A Vast Horizon
- Artists and Lovers, Freedom and War
- Narrated by: Stephanie Racine
- Length: 10 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 26-03-26
- Language: English
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The Gift of a Radio
- My Childhood and other Train Wrecks
- By: Justin Webb
- Narrated by: Justin Webb
- Length: 6 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall125
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Performance112
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Story110
Brought to you by Penguin. Justin Webb's childhood was far from ordinary. Between his mother's un-diagnosed psychological problems, and his step-father's untreated ones, life at home was dysfunctional at best. But with gun-wielding school masters and sub-standard living conditions, Quaker...
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Through a glass darkly
- By Lulu on 24-02-22
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The Gift of a Radio
- My Childhood and other Train Wrecks
- Narrated by: Justin Webb
- Length: 6 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 10-02-22
- Language: English
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Mantel Pieces
- Royal Bodies and Other Writing from the London Review of Books
- By: Hilary Mantel
- Narrated by: Olivia Dowd, Hilary Mantel - introduction
- Length: 10 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall35
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Performance31
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Story32
A stunning collection of essays and memoir from twice Booker Prize winner and international bestseller 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...
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Wonderful, just oddly pronounced
- By Ali on 05-10-20
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Mantel Pieces
- Royal Bodies and Other Writing from the London Review of Books
- Narrated by: Olivia Dowd, Hilary Mantel - introduction
- Length: 10 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 01-10-20
- Language: English
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Pour Me
- A Life
- By: A. A. Gill
- Narrated by: Dougray Scott
- Length: 6 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall280
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Performance241
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Story242
A. A. Gill's memoir begins in the dark of a dormitory with six strangers. He is an alcoholic, dying in the last-chance saloon - driven to dry out, not out of a desire to change but mainly through weariness. He tells the truth - as far as he can remember it - about drinking and about what it is like to be drunk. Pour Me is about the blackouts, the collapse, the despair. Lacerating, unflinching, uplifting, it is a classic about drunken abandon. Read by Dougray Scott.
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'Every long, hallowed word'
- By Rachel Redford on 15-08-17
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Pour Me
- A Life
- Narrated by: Dougray Scott
- Length: 6 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 27-07-17
- Language: English
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Can't Stand Up for Falling Down
- Rock 'n' Roll War Stories
- By: Allan Jones
- Narrated by: Matt Bates
- Length: 12 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall158
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Performance138
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Story135
Allan Jones launched Uncut magazine in 1997 and for 15 years wrote a popular monthly column called Stop Me If You've Heard This One Before, based on his experiences as a music journalist in the 70s and 80s. By turns hilarious, cautionary, poignant and powerful, the Stop Me...stories collected here include encounters with some of rock's most iconic stars, including David Bowie, Lou Reed, Leonard Cohen, Van Morrison, Neil Young, Elvis Costello, The Sex Pistols, The Clash, The Smiths, R.E.M. and Pearl Jam.
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Cliched, prejudiced, limited on real music
- By Ian on 02-05-18
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Can't Stand Up for Falling Down
- Rock 'n' Roll War Stories
- Narrated by: Matt Bates
- Length: 12 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 10-08-17
- Language: English
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The Marriage Question
- George Eliot's Double Life
- By: Clare Carlisle
- Narrated by: Clare Carlisle
- Length: 10 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall10
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Performance8
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When she was in her mid-thirties, Marian Evans transformed herself into George Eliot - an author celebrated for her genius as soon as she published her debut novel. During those years she also found her life partner, George Lewes - writer, philosopher and married father of three. After 'eloping' to Berlin in 1854 they lived together for twenty-four years: Eliot asked people to call her 'Mrs Lewes' and dedicated each novel to her 'Husband'. Though they could not legally marry, she felt herself initiated into the 'great experience' of marriage.
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Engaging and informative
- By Lady Macbeth on 21-08-23
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The Marriage Question
- George Eliot's Double Life
- Narrated by: Clare Carlisle
- Length: 10 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 10-08-23
- Language: English
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The Last Days of John Lennon
- ‘I totally recommend it’ LEE CHILD
- By: James Patterson
- Narrated by: Mathew Wolf, K.C. Clyde
- Length: 8 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall46
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Performance37
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Brought to you by Penguin. ___________ 'Incredibly tense and thriller-like . . . I totally recommend it' LEE CHILD 'The dialogue is punchy, cinematic . . . we get inside the mind of Patterson's villain, the delusional Chapman, through periodic chapters from his point of view as he works up the...
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Somewhat misleading
- By Peter Christie on 25-06-21
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The Last Days of John Lennon
- ‘I totally recommend it’ LEE CHILD
- Narrated by: Mathew Wolf, K.C. Clyde
- Length: 8 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 07-12-20
- Language: English
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Somewhere Towards the End
- By: Diana Athill
- Narrated by: Claire Bloom
- Length: 4 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall49
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Performance29
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Story29
What is it like to be old? Diana Athill, born in 1917, made her reputation as a writer with the candour of her memoirs. In Somewhere Towards the End she reflects frankly on the losses and occasionally the gains that old age brings, and on the wisdom and fortitude required to face death. This is a lively narrative of events, lovers and friendships: the people and experiences that have taight her to regret very little, to resist despondency and to question the beliefs and customs of her own generation.
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An interesting perspective of ageing and death.
- By Alison St Pierre on 18-09-12
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Somewhere Towards the End
- Narrated by: Claire Bloom
- Length: 4 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 29-04-09
- Language: English
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Art Monsters
- Unruly Bodies in Feminist Art
- By: Lauren Elkin
- Narrated by: Lauren Elkin
- Length: 9 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall8
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Performance8
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Brought to you by Penguin. A dazzlingly original reassessment of women's stories, bodies and art - and how we think about them. For decades, feminist artists have confronted the problem of how to tell the truth about their experiences as bodies. Queer bodies, sick bodies, racialised bodies...
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Full of life-affirming shadows!!
- By Anonymous on 11-05-25
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Art Monsters
- Unruly Bodies in Feminist Art
- Narrated by: Lauren Elkin
- Length: 9 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 17-08-23
- Language: English
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That Time of Year
- A Minnesota Life
- By: Garrison Keillor
- Narrated by: Garrison Keillor
- Length: 19 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall10
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Performance10
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Story10
In That Time of Year, Garrison Keillor looks back on his life and recounts how a Brethren boy with writerly ambitions grew up in a small town on the Mississippi in the 1950s and, seeing three good friends die young, turned to comedy and radio. Through a series of unreasonable lucky breaks, he founded A Prairie Home Companion and put himself in line for a good life, including mistakes, regrets, and a few medical adventures.
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The Master Story Teller
- By Brian B. on 30-05-23
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That Time of Year
- A Minnesota Life
- Narrated by: Garrison Keillor
- Length: 19 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 01-12-20
- Language: English
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Storyteller
- The Life of Robert Louis Stevenson
- By: Leo Damrosch
- Narrated by: Richard Pryal
- Length: 19 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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From a critically acclaimed biographer, an engrossing narrative of Robert Louis Stevenson’s life, a story as romantic and adventurous as his fiction.
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Storyteller
- The Life of Robert Louis Stevenson
- Narrated by: Richard Pryal
- Length: 19 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 03-10-25
- Language: English
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Without Warning and Only Sometimes
- Scenes from an Unpredictable Childhood
- By: Kit de Waal
- Narrated by: Kit de Waal
- Length: 8 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall126
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Performance114
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Story115
Kit de Waal grew up in a household of opposites and extremes. Her haphazard mother rarely cooked, forbade Christmas and birthdays, worked as a cleaner, nurse and childminder sometimes all at once and believed the world would end in 1975. Meanwhile, her father stuffed barrels full of goodies for his relatives in the Caribbean, cooked elaborate meals on a whim and splurged money they didn't have on cars, suits and shoes fit for a prince. Both of her parents were waiting for paradise. It never came.
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Superb
- By Amazon Customer on 19-08-22
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Without Warning and Only Sometimes
- Scenes from an Unpredictable Childhood
- Narrated by: Kit de Waal
- Length: 8 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 18-08-22
- Language: English
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True Stories
- Selected Non-Fiction
- By: Helen Garner
- Narrated by: Helen Garner
- Length: 8 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall6
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Performance5
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Helen Garner visits the morgue, and goes cruising on a Russian ship. She sees women giving birth, and gets the sack for teaching her students about sex. She attends a school dance and a gun show. She writes about dreaming, about turning 50 and the storm caused by The First Stone. Her story on the murder of the two-year-old Daniel Valerio wins her a Walkley Award.
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True Stories
- Selected Non-Fiction
- Narrated by: Helen Garner
- Length: 8 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 24-03-17
- Language: English
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Eminent Victorians
- By: Lytton Strachey
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 11 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall7
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Performance6
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Eminent Victorians, Lytton Strachey's wonderfully witty and Wildean quartet of biographies, stands out as one of the most radical and groundbreaking works of its genre. With relentless precision, Strachey explores the lives of four exemplars of the Victorian age: Cardinal Manning, Florence Nightingale, Thomas Arnold and General Gordon, irreverently bringing to light the flaws, strengths, ambitions and hypocrisies of these treasured legends.
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narration marred by mispronunciations
- By Saba Risaluddin on 30-06-25
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Eminent Victorians
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 11 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 26-10-20
- Language: English
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Come, Tell Me How You Live
- An Archaeological Memoir
- By: Agatha Christie
- Narrated by: Judith Boyd
- Length: 7 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall52
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Performance48
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Story48
Agatha Christie’s personal memoirs about her travels to Syria and Iraq in the 1930s with her archaeologist husband Max Mallowan, where she worked on the digs and wrote some of her most evocative novels. Think you know Agatha Christie? Think again! To the world she was Agatha Christie...
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A wonderful surprise
- By Mr Chops on 08-09-15
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Come, Tell Me How You Live
- An Archaeological Memoir
- Narrated by: Judith Boyd
- Length: 7 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 27-08-15
- Language: English
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No One Round Here Reads Tolstoy
- Memoirs of a Working-Class Reader
- By: Mark Hodkinson
- Narrated by: Mark Hodkinson
- Length: 11 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall28
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Performance25
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Mark Hodkinson grew up among the terrace houses of Rochdale in a house with just one book. His dad kept it on top of a wardrobe with other items of great worth - wedding photographs and Mark's National Cycling Proficiency certificate. If Mark wanted to read it, he was warned not to crease the pages or slam shut the covers. Today, Mark is an author, journalist and publisher. He still lives in Rochdale but is now snugly ensconced (or is that buried?) in a 'book cave' surrounded by 3,500 titles - at the last count.
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A Paean to Reading
- By Mrs. Ann M. Mcmahon on 05-03-22
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No One Round Here Reads Tolstoy
- Memoirs of a Working-Class Reader
- Narrated by: Mark Hodkinson
- Length: 11 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 03-02-22
- Language: English
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Austin Osman Spare
- The Life and Legend of London's Lost Artist
- By: Phil Baker, Alan Moore - foreword
- Narrated by: Mike Cooper
- Length: 8 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall17
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Performance17
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London has harbored many curious characters, but few more curious than the artist and visionary Austin Osman Spare (1886-1956). A controversial enfant terrible of the Edwardian art world, the young Spare was hailed as a genius and a new Aubrey Beardsley, while George Bernard Shaw reportedly said "Spare's medicine is too strong for the average man." But Spare was never made for worldly success and he went underground, falling out of the gallery system to live in poverty and obscurity south of the river.
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A comprehensive and well researched and accessible guide to AOS
- By Darren Lorente-Bull on 16-01-24
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Austin Osman Spare
- The Life and Legend of London's Lost Artist
- Narrated by: Mike Cooper
- Length: 8 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 02-05-23
- Language: English
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