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Title: I Know This Much

Author: Gary Kemp

Narrator: Gary Kemp

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 19 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-03-09

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Limited

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Celebrities

Publisher's Summary:

From schoolyard battles between the Bowie Boys and the Prog Rockers to Mrs Kemp's firm insistence on net curtains, from acting for the Children's Film Foundation to manning a fruit and veg stall on Saturdays, Gary brilliantly evokes an upbringing full of love, creativity and optimism.

As the Thatcher years begin, Gary's account of the outrageous London club scene centred around the Blitz and Billy's is just sizzling. Out of this glamorous mayhem of kilt-wearing mascara'd peacocks would emerge Spandau Ballet - the band that would define the era, and hold high the victorious standard of the New Romantics.

Gary's thrilling journey with Spandau Ballet would see them record worldwide hits such as True, Gold and Through the Barricades, play the biggest stadiums in the world, and take to the stage in togas when their luggage gets lost in flight. Stallions, supermodels and dwarves would be hired for video shoots, and through it all, Gary records the wonderful friendships, and the slowly-building tensions that would eventually see five old friends facing each other in court.

I Know This Much tells the story of Spandau Ballet, but it's far more than a book about being in a band. Whether it's meeting Ronnie Kray before filming The Krays, sketching out the fashions and subcultures of the day, or hanging out with Princess Diana, this book offers a story in every minute. And all the more so because it's all written - brilliantly - by Gary himself.

Members Reviews:

A story of life and stardom

I attended the same school as Gary and other members of Spandau Ballet, but a few years later and after its relocation from Islington to Hertfordshire. The school stayed close to its roots and Gary's story resonates strongly and is told straightforwardly and lovingly, vis a vis friends, bandmembers, lovers and family. It made me laugh and cry in equal measure, although i doubt it was written or narrated to deliberately pull at the heartstrings. Being down to earth and honest conveyed the highs and lows more than any hyperbole could do. This is not just for Spandau Ballet fans, although the band is the obvious strong thread upon which the book is based. If you grew up in the 80's, or are curious about how music is made and promoted (Steve Dagger, the band's manager was quite a genius) or simply enjoy a good autobiography, you can enjoy this tale, as i did, very much.

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Title: Cricket's Bearded Wonder

Author: Bill Frindall

Narrator: Bill Frindall

Format: Abridged

Length: 2 hrs and 19 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-07-09

Publisher: Hodder Headline Limited

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Celebrities

Publisher's Summary:

Bill Frindall, or Bearders, is well known to cricket fans from Test Match Special. Bearders took over the scoring for Test Match Special in June 1966, at the First Test against West Indies at Old Trafford. He was nicknamed the Bearded Wonder by Brian Johnston because of his encyclopedic knowledge of cricket scores and statistics.

In this wonderful recording, Bearders recalls the voices and characters of Test Match Special in his own unique style. He looks back on the funniest moments in the commentary box, and remembers the great characters he has worked with. Cricket's Bearded Wonder is a fitting tribute to a much-loved cricketing legend.

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Title: Cricketing Tales from the Dressing Room

Author: BBC Audiobooks Ltd

Narrator: Jonathan Agnew

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr and 46 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-06-09

Publisher: BBC Worldwide Limited

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Celebrities

Publisher's Summary:

From the glory days when players regularly smoked 20 a day and fended off over-eager fans to the dressing room pranks and pedalo rides of more recent years. Some of the most colourful stars of the game recall the highs and lows, the hilarious, embarrassing, and most memorable moments of test match cricket.

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Title: My World in Motion

Author: Jo Whiley

Narrator: Jo Whiley

Format: Abridged

Length: 2 hrs and 15 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-05-09

Publisher: Random House AudioBooks

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Celebrities

Publisher's Summary:

My World in Motion offers a unique opportunity to get to know the real Jo Whiley. From Jo's musical epiphany (being carried over the crowd at a Clash concert) to when she became friends with John Peel at Glastonbury (over some very short shorts - his not hers) and interviewed Bono (surviving a power-cut on vodka); My World in Motion is an honest, funny, self-deprecating account of Jo's professional coming of age and what it means to be a private person in a very public world.

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Title: Fern

Subtitle: My Story

Author: Fern Britton

Narrator: Fern Britton

Format: Abridged

Length: 4 hrs and 10 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-04-09

Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Celebrities

Publisher's Summary:

Now, for the first time, she is going to tell her story. And it is one that will strike a chord with women everywhere. Life as a child was not always easy, and she faced private and public challenges with her personal life, appearance and her career as she climbed the ladder to fame. Now a full-time working mum, with a very happy marriage to her second husband Phil Vickery, she is at the top of her game, and ready to tell it like it is. So put your feet up and get ready for a great read.

Critic Reviews:

"Compelling and utterly candid." (Daily Mail)

"A must-read ... the queen of daytime TV opens up." (Heat)

"Fern is a survivor." (Good Housekeeping)

Members Reviews:

A great read

Loved it. Very easy listening. I would thoroughly recommend. A human story of her highs and lows.

Loved it

I like Fern so was delighted to read her book. It was interesting, amusing, sad and happy, just like life. A really good listen!

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Title: My Name is Daphne Fairfax

Subtitle: A Memoir

Author: Arthur Smith

Narrator: Arthur Smith

Format: Abridged

Length: 6 hrs and 6 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-30-09

Publisher: Random House AudioBooks

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Celebrities

Publisher's Summary:

In fact, he is neither Daphne or Arthur. Family and old friends know him as Brian.

Arthur Smith is best known as a comedian, a broadcaster and an opening bat for Grumpy Old Men. But he has also been a West End playwright (his plays include An Evening with Gary Lineker), an English teacher, a failed rock star, a busker, a road sweeper and a bombsite boy in post-war Bermondsey.

Smith was one of the 'alternative comedians' who shook up light entertainment in the eighties and remains a legend at the Edinburgh Festival fringe where he has been fêted and arrested. His rumbustuous drinking years ended in Intensive Care where he narrowly survived an attack of acute pancreatitis. He gave up drink and got diabetes but continues to perform, write and act in peculiar ways and delight his fans.

This memoir encompasses a range of extraordinary, funny and often moving experiences by a unique and individual commentator on the peculiarities of modern society.

Members Reviews:

An Unexpected Delight

As an inveterate Edinburgh Festival goer since the mid-1980's, Arthur Smith's (or Daphne Fairfax's) paths and my own have crossed many times. I've always thought that he was "OK" but not much more.

This erudite, charming and generally well read audio biog then, was a surprise. The major events in his life are already quite well known, but what makes this story stand out and be worth hearing, apart from being very well written, is the self deprecating but sincere tone he manages to set. His affectionate, yet honest portraits of the less well known people in his life (there is, as one would hope, plenty of name dropping too!) reveal a thoughtful man with a big heart and a clear understanding of his own failings.

I shall listen to this audiobook again, I know - and in that listening will discover delights missed at first hearing. I hope that he does an unabridged reading - not what I expected to write about a showbiz biog!

what an interesting man!

Any additional comments?

I always liked Arthur Smith but have only known him through his radio work, mainly Loose Ends. I didn't realise he wrote plays and had done so much stand up comedy. I thought his autobiography was very interesting, well written and well read. Thoroughly enjoyed it and would highly recommend it. A clever, drunken!! but thoroughly nice man. A joy to listen to his life so far.

A funny old life for a funny old man

After being a little disappointed at my last listen to an autobiography I started to listen to this one with a little trepidation. However my fears were unfounded and I very much enjoyed listening to the gravelly voiced comedian tell me about his life. Like with other autobiographies by comedians, its not all funny and anecdotal and Mr Smith has not had all that easy in his quest for recognition (Steve Martin is another great example). But that said I would recommend this to anyone who is a fan or interested in the rise of alternative comedy.

Nice one Arthur!

Sad excuse for a biography.

Any additional comments?

I hate saying this about someones story of there life but this guys book is just very Dull.I have been aware of arthur for many years and never been impressed with his comedy, I love stand up and this guy has been on my radar as someone to try and see more of as i assume its me thats not quite getting the "godfather" of comedy.I spotted his book and thought what a great way to find out more. Laugh? i never.

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Title: Little Heathens

Subtitle: Hard Times and High Spirits on an Iowa Farm During the Great Depression

Author: Mildred Armstrong Kalish

Narrator: Ruth Ann Phimister

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 25 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-23-08

Publisher: Recorded Books

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 75 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

Debut author Mildred Armstrong Kalish, a retired English professor, records her childhood recollections in clear, concise prose. Voted one of the 10 Best Books of 2007 by the

New York Times Book Review, Kalish's

Little Heathens is a compelling memoir of her hardscrabble life on an Iowa farm during the Great Depression. As foreclosure fragments her family, five-year-old Mildred and her three siblings find refuge with her grandparents - God-fearing farmers, enjoying a modest retirement. When the "little heathens" flush the seniors and their child-rearing skills out of retirement, the grandparents deploy tough but loving bedtime schedules, Bible and prayer routines, and plenty of character-building chores. Having no electricity or indoor plumbing and with little heat or money on the farm, Mildred learns to find joy in the priceless blessings of life.

©2007 Mildred Armstrong Kalish (P)2008 Recorded Books,LLC

Members Reviews:

Makes you appreciate today's living

Love this story! Only reason I didn't give a 5 star is because some parts are better in the written forum. Recipes are hard to write down while I'm driving!! If people had grown up in this way of living, I believe the world would be a better place.

A glimpse of simpler times on an Iowa farm...

What made the experience of listening to Little Heathens the most enjoyable?

The narrator is perfection & really gets you involved in the story, a true re-telling of a girl growing up with her 3 siblings & her mother on her grandparent's farm in Iowa-along with a large extended family in the Great Depression. How they all 'made do' and had happy lives even through privation is amazing. Until late in the 30s, they had no electricity, no indoor plumbing, survived on food they raised/grew on the farm with the exception of coffee, sugar & salt. This is truly a case of the author passing through the fire and coming out 'refined to gold'. She takes us through to her marriage, her training as a teacher (she taught in a university for a while) and her thankfulness for the lessons she learned growing up in hard times.Very rewarding, interesting book.

Who was your favorite character and why?

Mildred, the author of the story. She always made the best of the hand she was dealt, without grumbling. I felt as though I had found a new friend. The author must have been in her 80s when it was written & her memory is amazing. I doubt if I had been thrust into her life that I could have made such a success of it as she did. She discusses just about every facet of her life, which fascinated me, since I love social history, the little things that make up people's daily life. This is a social history that the younger generation would do well to listen to, since it is so different to the way we live today-like day and night. The people who survived the Great Depression are leaving us daily, so we should ask questions of our grandparents about this period in history before it is too late.

Which scene was your favorite?

Hard to decide, but I think when the whole family got together to cook for a holiday or some special occasion & everyone helped, even the small children-the way they shared the work. There were chores for all but the smallest kids on the farm every day so everyone felt they were of help & had self-worth.

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Title: One Flew into the Cuckoo's Egg

Author: Bill Oddie

Narrator: Bill Oddie

Format: Abridged

Length: 2 hrs and 6 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-23-08

Publisher: Hodder Headline Limited

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 3 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Celebrities

Publisher's Summary:

Whose first records were produced by George Martin, and who had two singles banned by the BBC?

Who earned rare reviews on Broadway for his dancing?

Who rode on the back seat of the Goodies' trandem?

Who has been called "Britain's best-known birdwatcher"?

Who had his first clinical depression in his 60th year, and has only just discovered why?

Who has written an autobiography that is as witty, candid and unconventional as the man himself?

The answer to all of the above is Bill Oddie.

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Title: The Men Commandments

Author: Christian O'Connell

Narrator: Christian O'Connell

Format: Abridged

Length: 3 hrs and 10 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-15-08

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Limited

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Celebrities

Publisher's Summary:

For ten years Christian has dispensed his wisdom and advice to millions of lucky radio listeners on every topic conceivable. It was when he saw his wife reading and laughing at a book called How to Kill Your Husband that he realised he had to write this book.

In his sage opinion, men need to be saved from themselves. Women need to understand men better and stop hating them, and men need to make sense of why they are the way they are.

This book reveals some hard but hilarious truths about the male race. Who do men actually look to for inspiration? The Hoff? Simon Cowell? James Blunt? Why do men behave in that odd way at barbecues? Why can a man have his heart broken a thousand times by his football team and yet still forgive them more than he would a woman?

With his outspoken humour and his ironic take on life, Christian explores male-dom, celebrating all that is great about being a man and unravelling the mysteries of masculinity that have stumped women for centuries.

Includes:

Members Reviews:

heard it all before

What could have made this a 4 or 5-star listening experience for you?

better content, tired old re-hashed material.... different narrator, dull dull delivery

Would you be willing to try another one of Christian O'Connells performances?

no

You didnt love this book... but did it have any redeeming qualities?

not really.

Any additional comments?

very disappointed especially after reading all the positive reviews.if you have an ounce of sophistication you'll find this very tired and dull.

Don't bother, its all cliches.

Complete drivel.

I didn't need to know, that some people might take offense if you look at them whilst using a urinal in a public toilet.

Then there is the cliche of the man in charge of the barbeque.

The most important thing to me is not that I have my own chair in the living room.

Naturally he also listed who would be in his ideal football team...

You don't need this guy to tell you what is important in your life.

Paul

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Title: The Celeb Diaries

Subtitle: Tears, Tantrums, and Excess!

Author: Mark Frith

Narrator: Mark Frith

Format: Abridged

Length: 2 hrs and 54 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-04-08

Publisher: Random House AudioBooks

Ratings: 2 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Celebrities

Publisher's Summary:

Addictive listening, this is the story of the inexorable rise of this thing called celebrity, crammed with previously unheard of stories from the likes of Victoria and David Beckham, Kate Moss, Pete Doherty, Amy Winehouse, Britney Spears, Cheryl Cole, Jordan, Will Young, Teri Hatcher, and more.

In 2000, Mark was tasked with turning around the fortunes of an entertainment magazine that was just two months away from closure. He did it - by sweet-talking Victoria Beckham into giving him an interview and stealing a Robbie Williams exclusive from another magazine and essentially inventing the now familiar mix of celebrity photos, confessionals, rumour and gossip.

As celebrity obsession took hold of the nation sales of Heat topped 500,000 a week. Heat was there for the incredible rise and fall of Big Brother, and started the Size Zero debate. Tony Blair even agreed to appear topless in their pages. In green rooms and VIP lounges celebrities have confided in Mark, hurled abuse at him, and have been highly indiscreet in his presence. The Celeb Diaries is the exposé of the celebrity world.

Members Reviews:

Guilty Pleasure!

Just like the magazine that is the subject of this book, The Celeb Diaries is full of good tabloid fun. It's a fast-read that chronicles the British magazine Heat's rise in popularity through the 2000's in England. For those who don't know, Heat is like US Weekly here and that equals a chance for a little mental vacation for me. I would suggest that the stories and celebrities will probably only be interesting to Anglophiles because if Posh and Becks are the only British celebrities you can think of you probably could care less about Jordan, Big Brother, or the mag's rise from new to it's domination of OK! or Hello.

The only reason I took a star off is the horrendous copy editing for this book. I think it seems as though some attempts were made to American-ize the text (think metric system conversions), but they're so inconsistent they begin to stand out. There are also quite a few grammatical errors and words missing from sentences and I don't really care but it becomes a little distracting. Otherwise this is an amusing and smart book about a magazine I've gladly spent 10 dollars on at Borders which is insane I know. It's like getting a really thick copy Heat. Guilty Pleasure!

brilliant insight into a mad world

Intrigued by this era of celebrity. We are now used to the way celebrities tell all at almost every opportunity at the beginning of a career and then claim to be hounded when they have become estalished and have plenty of cash in the bank. I thought it would be great to read the inside story of those conversations and more importantly the arguements. Come on, everyone likes a bit of gossip! Brilliant read.