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1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows
- The story of two lives, one nation, and a century of art under tyranny
- By: Ai Weiwei
- Narrated by: David Shih
- Length: 13 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall55
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Performance45
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In his widely anticipated memoir, Ai Weiwei - one of the world's most famous artists and activists - tells a century-long epic tale of China through the story of his own extraordinary life and the legacy of his father, Ai Qing, the nation's most celebrated poet. Hailed as 'the most important artist working today' by the Financial Times and as 'an eloquent and unsilenceable voice of freedom' by the New York Times, Ai Weiwei has written a sweeping memoir that presents a remarkable history of China over the last 100 years while illuminating his artistic process.
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Fascinating account of family, artists and China
- By JudiH on 11-11-21
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1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows
- The story of two lives, one nation, and a century of art under tyranny
- Narrated by: David Shih
- Length: 13 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 02-11-21
- Language: English
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Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know
- The Fathers of Wilde, Yeats and Joyce
- By: Colm Tóibín
- Narrated by: Colm Tóibín
- Length: 6 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall54
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Performance49
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Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know written and read by Colm Tóibín. 'A father...is a necessary evil.' Stephen Dedalus in Ulysses In Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know, Colm Tóibín turns his incisive gaze to three of Ireland's greatest writers, Oscar Wilde, W.B...
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Fathers and Sons
- By Rachel Redford on 26-11-18
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Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know
- The Fathers of Wilde, Yeats and Joyce
- Narrated by: Colm Tóibín
- Length: 6 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 25-10-18
- Language: English
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Widow Basquiat
- A Memoir
- By: Jennifer Clement
- Narrated by: Noma Dumezweni
- Length: 3 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall57
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Performance49
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Madonna. Andy Warhol. Keith Haring. Fab 5 Freddie. Debbie Harry. Julian Schnabel. Jean-Michel Basquiat's transition from the subways to the chic gallery spaces of Manhattan brought the artist into the company of many of New York's established and aspiring stars. Unable to deal with the demands that his new fame brought, in 1987, at the age of 27, Basquiat, the most successful black visual artist in history, died from a heroin overdose.
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Good book, poor production.
- By Amazon Customer on 14-05-24
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Widow Basquiat
- A Memoir
- Narrated by: Noma Dumezweni
- Series: Canons
- Length: 3 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 09-11-17
- Language: English
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In the Hide
- How the Natural World Saved My Life
- By: Gordon Buchanan
- Narrated by: Gordon Buchanan
- Length: 9 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall54
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Performance49
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Story49
In the Hide is Gordon's emotionally honest and raw account of a brutal childhood in Glasgow and Mull, and the escape and solace he found – and continues to find – in the natural world around him. An intimate and inspiring account of resilience in the face of hardship, In the Hide marks the arrival of a bold new voice in nature writing.
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Skilful blend of family life and wildlife stories
- By fredatheflea on 27-04-25
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In the Hide
- How the Natural World Saved My Life
- Narrated by: Gordon Buchanan
- Length: 9 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 06-02-25
- Language: English
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Snowdon
- The Biography
- By: Anne de Courcy
- Narrated by: Theo Solomon
- Length: 17 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall24
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Performance22
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How did a photographer who was a relentless playboy, an unashamed womaniser and a leather-clad motorcyclist marry the queen's sister and become the establishment figure Lord Snowdon? The brilliantly talented Antony Armstrong-Jones often humiliated Princess Margaret, yet he was compassionate to the causes he cared about. Since his death in 2017, Snowdon still hasn't escaped the limelight, as more and more is revealed about his wild and intriguing life.
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Needs to be re-recorded
- By Louisa on 28-06-21
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Snowdon
- The Biography
- Narrated by: Theo Solomon
- Length: 17 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 01-04-21
- Language: English
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Portrait of an Artist
- A Biography of Georgia O’Keeffe
- By: Laurie Lisle
- Narrated by: Grace Conlin
- Length: 13 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall53
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Performance44
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Story43
Georgia O'Keeffe, one of the most original painters America has ever produced, left behind a remarkable legacy when she died at the age of 98. Her vivid visual vocabulary, sensuous flowers, bleached bones against red sky and earth, had a stunning, profound, and lasting influence on American art in this century.
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the strength of O'Keeffes character
- By H. Jolliffe on 19-04-24
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Portrait of an Artist
- A Biography of Georgia O’Keeffe
- Narrated by: Grace Conlin
- Length: 13 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 16-01-06
- Language: English
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Vivienne Westwood
- By: Vivienne Westwood, Ian Kelly
- Narrated by: Paula Wilcox
- Length: 13 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall106
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Performance98
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Story97
Vivienne Westwood is one of the icons of our age. Fashion designer, activist, co-creator of punk, global brand and grandmother; a true legend. Her career successfully spanned five decades and her work has influenced millions of people across the world. For the first and only time, Vivienne...
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Life-changing
- By Miss B. March on 30-08-20
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Vivienne Westwood
- Narrated by: Paula Wilcox
- Length: 13 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 09-10-14
- Language: English
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Vermeer
- A Life Lost and Found
- By: Andrew Graham Dixon
- Narrated by: Andrew Graham Dixon
- Length: 15 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Overall22
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Performance21
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Story21
Brought to you by Penguin. The paintings of Johannes Vermeer of Delft are some of the most beautiful, even sublime, in the history of art. Yet like the life of Vermeer himself, they are mysterious and have for centuries defied explanation. Following new leads, and drawing on a mass of historical...
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The depth of Andrew Graham Dixon
- By David Connell on 10-01-26
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Vermeer
- A Life Lost and Found
- Narrated by: Andrew Graham Dixon
- Length: 15 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 23-10-25
- Language: English
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Men Have Called Her Crazy
- By: Anna Marie Tendler
- Narrated by: Anna Marie Tendler
- Length: 8 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall31
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Performance28
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Story28
In early 2021, popular artist Anna Marie Tendler checked herself into a psychiatric hospital following a year of crippling anxiety, depression and self-harm. In Men Have Called Her Crazy, Tendler recounts her hospital experience as well as pivotal moments in her life that preceded and followed. As the title suggests, many of these moments are impacted by men: unrequited love in high school; the twenty-eight-year-old she lost her virginity to when she was sixteen; the frustrations and absurdities of dating in her mid-thirties; and her decision to freeze her eggs.
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I have never felt more seen, heard, and welcomed
- By Seb Watkins on 13-09-24
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Men Have Called Her Crazy
- Narrated by: Anna Marie Tendler
- Length: 8 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 13-08-24
- Language: English
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The Lives of the Artists
- By: Giorgio Vasari, Julia Conway Bondanella - Translated by, Peter Bondanella - Translated by
- Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart
- Length: 22 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall14
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Performance11
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These biographies of the great quattrocento artists have long been considered among the most important of contemporary sources on Italian Renaissance art. Vasari, who invented the term "Renaissance", was the first to outline the influential theory of Renaissance art that traces a progression through Giotto, Brunelleschi, and finally the titanic figures of Michaelangelo, Da Vinci, and Raphael.
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The audio-equivalent of sleeping pills.
- By Ashtree on 03-12-20
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The Lives of the Artists
- Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart
- Length: 22 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 14-05-19
- Language: English
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Cristo si è fermato a Eboli
- By: Carlo Levi
- Narrated by: Massimo Malucelli
- Length: 10 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall18
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Performance15
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Scritta tra il 1943 e il 1944, durante la sua militanza nel Comitato di Liberazione Nazionale, viene pubblicata nel 1945, a guerra ormai conclusa...
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Classic of post-war Italian literature
- By AMS on 08-09-15
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Cristo si è fermato a Eboli
- Narrated by: Massimo Malucelli
- Length: 10 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 23-11-11
- Language: Italian
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Leonardo Da Vinci
- By: Walter Isaacson
- Narrated by: Alfred Molina
- Length: 17 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Overall1,596
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Performance1,397
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Read by acclaimed actor Alfred Molina, star of The Da Vinci Code, An Education and Chocolat, this is the definitive biography of Leonardo Da Vinci. Based on thousands of pages from Leonardo’s astonishing notebooks and new discoveries about his life and work, Walter Isaacson weaves a narrative...
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An art history course in a book
- By Nando Cuca on 14-11-17
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Leonardo Da Vinci
- Narrated by: Alfred Molina
- Length: 17 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 17-10-17
- Language: English
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See What You're Missing
- 31 Ways Artists Notice the World – and How You Can Too
- By: Will Gompertz
- Narrated by: Matt Addis
- Length: 10 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Overall9
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Performance7
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Brought to you by Penguin. Artists have learnt to pay attention. The rest of us spend most of our time on auto-pilot, rushing from place to place, our overfamiliarity blinding us to the marvellous, life-affirming phenomena of our world. But that doesn't have to be the case. In his typical...
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Illuminating
- By Stitch This on 28-12-23
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See What You're Missing
- 31 Ways Artists Notice the World – and How You Can Too
- Narrated by: Matt Addis
- Length: 10 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 09-03-23
- Language: English
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Peggy Guggenheim
- The Shock of the Modern
- By: Francine Prose
- Narrated by: Carrington MacDuffie
- Length: 6 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall70
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Performance58
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Acclaimed best-selling author Francine Prose offers a listen of Guggenheim's life that will enthrall enthusiasts of 21st-century art as well as anyone interested in American and European culture and the interrelationships between them. The lively and insightful narrative follows Guggenheim through virtually every aspect of her extraordinary life, from her unique collecting habits and paradigm-changing discoveries to her celebrity friendships, failed marriages, and scandalous affairs.
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Fascinating
- By isabel on 20-11-18
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Peggy Guggenheim
- The Shock of the Modern
- Narrated by: Carrington MacDuffie
- Length: 6 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 14-04-16
- Language: English
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The Vanishing Man
- In Pursuit of Velazquez
- By: Laura Cumming
- Narrated by: Siobhan Redmond
- Length: 10 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall67
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Performance60
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*BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week* *Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize 2016* "The Vanishing Man is a riveting detective story and a brilliant reconstruction of an art controversy, but it is also a homage to the art of Velázquez, written by a critic who remains spellbound by his genius, as...
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Six stars. Wondrous, and beautifully read.
- By wordparty on 02-04-16
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The Vanishing Man
- In Pursuit of Velazquez
- Narrated by: Siobhan Redmond
- Length: 10 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 24-03-16
- Language: English
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How We Might Live
- At Home with Jane and William Morris
- By: Suzanne Fagence Cooper
- Narrated by: Jane Collingwood
- Length: 16 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall13
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Performance13
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William Morris was a giant of the Victorian age, and his beautiful creations and provocative philosophies are still with us today: but his wife, Jane, is too often relegated to a footnote. In truth, Jane and William's personal and creative partnership was the central collaboration of both their lives. The homes they made together were works of art in themselves, and the great labour of their lives was life itself: through their houses and the objects they filled them with, they explored how we all might live a life more focused on beauty and fulfilment.
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Treasures Uncovered
- By Amazon Customer on 16-01-23
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How We Might Live
- At Home with Jane and William Morris
- Narrated by: Jane Collingwood
- Length: 16 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 09-06-22
- Language: English
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The Forest is the Path
- By: Gary Lightbody
- Length: 3 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall47
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Performance46
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'The pages sing in this beautiful book.' Bono 'Moving and lyrical, The Forest is the Path is an imaginative and deeply personal journey of self-discovery.' The Irish Times ‘[An] astoundingly poetic book’ Pandora Sykes You’re falling through time so all I can do is fall with you. The...
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Raw, brutally honest and beautiful
- By bookmoth on 01-04-26
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The Forest is the Path
- Length: 3 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 13-03-25
- Language: English
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The Lives of Lucian Freud
- Youth 1922 - 1968
- By: William Feaver
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 24 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall52
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Performance42
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In Youth, the first of two volumes, Feaver conjures Freud’s early childhood: Sigmund Freud’s grandson, born into a middle-class Jewish family in Weimar Berlin, escaping Nazi Germany in 1934 before being dropped into successive English public schools. Following Freud through art school, his time in the navy during the war, his post-war adventures in Paris and Greece, and his return to Soho - consorting with duchesses and violent criminals, out on the town with Greta Garbo and Princess Margaret - Feaver traces a brilliant, difficult young man’s coming of age.
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Great story about Lucian Freud
- By diana lowe on 29-08-20
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The Lives of Lucian Freud
- Youth 1922 - 1968
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 24 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 17-10-19
- Language: English
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The Little Big Things
- A young man's belief that every day can be a good day
- By: Henry Fraser
- Narrated by: Henry Fraser
- Length: 3 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall332
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Performance302
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Story303
A short, inspirational audiobook from Henry Fraser, a young quadriplegic motivational speaker and artist. Henry Fraser was a 17-year-old sports enthusiast and senior prefect when he broke his spinal cord and was left paralysed from the shoulders down. Life as he knew it was over, and yet, through extraordinary determination and a positive attitude, he has forged a successful career as an inspirational speaker and an artist.
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Such courage.
- By Jonathan D. on 21-11-19
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The Little Big Things
- A young man's belief that every day can be a good day
- Narrated by: Henry Fraser
- Length: 3 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 21-09-17
- 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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