Discover the New Releases Audiobooks in Bios & Memoirs, Celebrities

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Title: The Bolter

Author: Frances Osborne

Narrator: Rosamund Pike

Format: Abridged

Length: 3 hrs and 25 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-05-09

Publisher: Hachette Audio UK

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 3 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Celebrities

Publisher's Summary:

An inspiration for Nancy Mitford's character The Bolter, painted by William Orpen, and photographed by Cecil Beaton, Sackville went on to divorce a total of five times, yet died with a picture of her first love by her bed. Her struggle to reinvent her life with each new marriage left one husband murdered and branded her the 'high priestess' of White Mischief's bed-hopping Happy Valley in Kenya.

Sackville's life was so scandalous that it was kept a secret from her great-granddaughter Frances Osborne. Now, Osborne tells the moving tale of betrayal and heartbreak behind Sackvilleï¿¿ï¿¿ï¿¿s road to scandal and return, painting a dazzling portrait of high society in the early twentieth century.

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Title: Why Do I Say These Things?

Author: Jonathan Ross

Narrator: Jonathan Ross

Format: Abridged

Length: 2 hrs and 9 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-21-08

Publisher: Random House Audiobooks

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 4 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Celebrities

Publisher's Summary:

Because this is Jonathan Ross.

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Title: Look Who It Is!

Subtitle: My Story

Author: Alan Carr

Narrator: Alan Carr

Format: Abridged

Length: 4 hrs and 23 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-01-08

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Limited

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 7 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Celebrities

Publisher's Summary:

"Puberty had been unkind. Whereas it had come in the night and left the other boys with chiselled, stubbly chins and deep masculine voices, I'd been left with a huge pair of knockers and the voice of a pensioner."

-Alan Carr

Alan Carr grew up in one of the most boring towns in England: Northampton, a place known for making shoes. It was also famous for its football club, Northampton Town FC. Alan's dad as manager of the club was a local hero - a dream come true for most lads, but not Alan. Alan wore glasses and had man boobs at 14. He did not like P.E.

In his very first book, Alan tells his life story ("oh and what a life") with his unique twist of natural, observational humour - "I'm not saying I'm a fantasist but there have been times when things that I've seen on television when I was younger have tended to seep into my subconscious and blended into my own life. I remember telling my mum about the time I stopped that woman from having a diamond encrusted necklace stolen and she'd say 'No Alan, that was Poirot.'"

With his tongue-in-cheek, end of pier humour that has made him famous, Alan describes an ordinary life in bursts of technicolour. His journey from awkward schoolboy hiding his man-boobs on the pitch, drinking tea with the dinner ladies and working in a call centre, to becoming one of our best-loved comedians, likened to the great Frankie Howerd, will make his audiobook a guaranteed tickler, with a laugh-out-loud gag at every turn.

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Title: Sir Ralph Richardson

Author: John Miller

Narrator: Martin Jarvis

Format: Abridged

Length: 2 hrs and 39 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-01-07

Publisher: Pan Macmillan Publishers Ltd.

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Celebrities

Publisher's Summary:

In his search for the man behind the actor's make-up, the author has talked to Ralph Richardson's friends and colleagues. From their memories and Richardson's own words, John Miller has woven a portrait that shows Richardson in all his complexity and reveals the inner drive which took him, against the odds, to the heights of public and critical acclaim.

John Miller also disentangles the real from the apocryphal stories of the eccentricity that contributed to the Richardson legend, discovering most to be true and finding new ones. Sir Ralph believed in keeping the secrets of his art from the public, but those secrets he did show to his fellow players are now told in this biography.

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Title: If Only I Knew Then

Subtitle: Learning from Our Mistakes (Unabridged Selections)

Author: Charles Grodin

Narrator: Charles Grodin, Marion Grodin

Format: Abridged

Length: 3 hrs and 10 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-31-07

Publisher: Hachette Audio

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Celebrities

Publisher's Summary:

Rosie O'Donnell looks back to her college days and her inability to express her love for a close girlfriend. Regis Philbin learned to trust his instincts when an early talk show got canceled. Irwin Redlener, the co-founder of The Children's Health Fund, examines a near-mistake: how he almost canceled a trip to see a grown son who soon after died in a skiing accident. Dr. Nicholas Perricone learns to shift his perspective after witnessing the bravery of a young girl during his internship. Senator Orrin Hatch discusses his mistaken vote against making Martin Luther King Day a national holiday. And Carol Burnett's hilarious essay explains why meeting Cary Grant turned out to be a big mistake.

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Title: My Dinner of Herbs

Author: Efrem Zimbalist

Narrator: Efrem Zimbalist

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 35 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-25-07

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 9 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Celebrities

Publisher's Summary:

It's a long way from a large, luxurious, rambling estate in the Connecticut countryside to Hollywood's 77 Sunset Strip, but Efrem Zimbalist, Jr., made that journey, traveling many different roads during the life he so engagingly recreates in this memoir.

His parents, the violinist Efrem Zimbalist and the operatic soprano Alma Gluck, who were acclaimed for their artistry throughout the world, provided their son with a childhood of comfort and security and, of course, music. Tracing his life from childhood to the present day, he shares memories of family, his student days at Yale, his military service and travel, and his careers in movies, theater, and television.

Included in this audio are musical excerpts from his violin virtuoso father and opera diva mother.

Critic Reviews:

"A first-rate, engaging portrait of a life well lived, My Dinner of Herbs is very highly recommended reading...especially recommended to those with an interest in Hollywood autobiographies and memoirs." (Midwest Book Review)

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Title: Nobbut a Lad

Subtitle: A Yorkshire Childhood

Author: Alan Titchmarsh

Narrator: Alan Titchmarsh

Format: Abridged

Length: 2 hrs and 13 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-27-06

Publisher: Hodder Headline Limited

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 18 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Celebrities

Publisher's Summary:

One of the best-loved men in Britain, Alan Titchmarsh brilliantly recalls his childhood in 1950s Yorkshire. Alan Titchmarsh grew up and developed his passion for nature in the wild and beautiful landscape of Yorkshire. A real treat for his millions of fans, the ever-popular presenter vividly depicts a childhood of simple pleasures like climbing trees and fishing in streams in a time of post-war austerity.

It was not a deprived childhood, yet neither was the garden eternally rosy and Alan's colourful portrait of a bygone era brings poignant moments and others that leave you aching with laughter. Alan's sharp eye for detail brings to life various family members and their memorable quirks, as well as local characters, childhood haunts and significant events that have shaped his life.

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Title: John Peel Remembered

Subtitle: Margrave Of The Marshes & Home Truths

Author: John Peel

Narrator: Michael Angelis, Carolyn Pickles

Format: Original Recording

Length: 1 hr and 56 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-01-06

Publisher: BBC Worldwide Limited

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Celebrities

Publisher's Summary:

John Peel Remembered includes the Radio 4 Book of the Week serialisation of Margrave of the Marshes, Peel's part-written autobiography completed by his wife, Sheila Ravenscroft. Also included is a Home Truths Special programme to mark the anniversary of John Peel's death, in which Tom Robinson visits Peel Acres to meet John's wife and their four children.

© and (P)2005, 2006 BBC Audiobooks Ltd

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Title: Common as Muck!

Subtitle: Roy Chubby Brown

Author: Roy Chubby Brown

Narrator: Roy

Format: Abridged

Length: 2 hrs and 4 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-19-06

Publisher: Hachette Audio UK

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 3 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Celebrities

Publisher's Summary:

The frank, funny, and astonishing story of Roy 'Chubby' Brown, one of the UK's most popular (and filthiest!) comedians.

© and (P)2006 Time Warner AudioBook

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Title: Miss America, 1945

Subtitle: Bess Myerson and the Year That Changed Our Lives (Unabridged)

Author: Susan Dworkin

Narrator: Bess Myerson, Adam Grupper

Format: Abridged

Length: 4 hrs and 42 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-28-05

Publisher: Susan Dworkin

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 3 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Celebrities

Publisher's Summary:

On September 8, 1945, Bess Myerson became the first and only Jewish "Miss America". She enjoyed an extensive career in television on such shows as The Big Payoff and I've Got a Secret, and subsequently served as New York's ground-breaking Commissioner of Consumer Affairs and then Cultural Affairs. An ovarian cancer survivor, she sponsors several ovarian cancer support groups. She also sponsors the annual "Bess Myerson Campus Journalism Awards", an Anti-Defamation League project to encourage young journalists who promote intergroup harmony on campus.

Critic Reviews:

"A human and social portrait of immediate postwar days as seen from many different angles, each as American as cheesecake. It is a story of women, of Jews, of the Miss America pageant, and of Bess Myerson herself." (The New York Times Book Review)

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