Art audiobooks

Opening Weekend

By: Jim Fredrick

Narrated by: Jim Fredrick

Length: 12 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

In a world where movie marketers are the stars of the story, Opening Weekend: An Insider's Look at Marketing Hollywood's Hits and Flops recounts Jim Fredrick's journey through the realm of movie marketing. Fredrick offers readers exclusive access to behind-the-scenes anecdotes and firsthand accounts of working with studio executives and... Read more

Women Holding Things & Still Life with Remorse

By: Maira Kalman

Narrated by: Maira Kalman

Length: 1 hour 17 minutes

Abridged: No

From the critically acclaimed artist, designer, and author of the bestsellers The Principles of Uncertainty and My Favorite Things comes a collection of moving meditations on the beauty and complexity of women’s lives and roles, revealed in the things they hold, and on remorse, joy, ancestry, and memory.Women Holding Things includes thoughtful... Read more

Cats of the World

By: Hannah Shaw & Andrew Marttila

Narrated by: Hannah Shaw

Length: 3 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Hannah “Kitten Lady” Shaw and professional cat photographer Andrew Marttila journey to thirty countries to bring you hundreds of photos and stories of cats from every corner of the world.

Wife and husband team Hannah Shaw and Andrew Marttila have made cats their lives' work: they rescue and rehabilitate neonatal kittens, educate the public on... Read more

Who Is Ariana Grande?

By: Kirsten Anderson & Who HQ

Narrated by: Dominique Salvacion

Length: 37 minutes

Abridged: No

How did a teenage actress become a Grammy-winning pop star? Find out in this Who HQ Now biography about Ariana Grande and her exciting career that spans the Broadway stage, television, and music to blockbuster movies!

Ever since she was a child, Ariana Grande has been performing. When she was just fifteen years old, she made her Broadway debut in... Read more

Life on Svalbard

By: Cecilia Blomdahl

Narrated by: Cecilia Blomdahl

Length: 2 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Join Cecilia Blomdahl in Longyearbyen, Svalbard, the world's northernmost town.

Located in the Arctic Ocean near the North Pole, Svalbard is a unique archipelago that boasts stunning wintry landscapes, endangered arctic animals, and awe-inspiring natural phenomena. Since 2016, Cecilia has called this beautiful and remote location home. Along with... Read more

¿Quién fue Salvador Dalí?

By: Paula K. Manzanero

Narrated by: Luis Carlos De La Lombana

Length: 1 hour 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Conoce la fascinante carrera del surrealista Salvador Dalí, desde sus primeros años en España hasta su vida pública como artista de fama internacional, en este nuevo libro de la serie número uno en ventas del New York Times.

Más famoso por su pintura surrealista La persistencia de la memoria y sus relojes derretidos, Salvador Dalí combinó sus... Read more

The Art of Soap Making

By: Emma Clarkson

Narrated by: Emma Clarkson

Length: 2 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

To learn everything there is to know about making soap, "The Art of Soap Making: Crafting Luxurious Bars for Body and Home" is the book for you. This book has everything you need to know to make beautiful, high-quality soaps. It's great for both new and experienced crafters. The author has been making soap for a long time and gives clear steps... Read more

Always the Music

By: Thomas W. Morris

Narrated by: Thomas W. Morris & Barbara Hannigan

Length: 11 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Always The Music is the fascinating story of Morris’ personal metamorphosis through the highest levels of the world of classical music, his learning and insights into how storied musical institutions function, great artists create, and audiences engage. Over the course of 34 years running the Boston Symphony and The Cleveland Orchestra, he had... Read more

Suds & Scents: The Joy of Soap Making

By: Michael Reynolds

Narrated by: Michael Reynolds

Length: 2 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Making soap is an old skill that can be learned in " Suds & Scents: The Joy of Soap Making: Creating Personalized Cleansing Bars with Natural Ingredients". This complete guide shows you how to make high-quality, personalized soaps that fit your wants and tastes from the very beginning to the very end when you become an expert. Start by... Read more

Raffael

By: Alexandre Dumas & Anne Lefort

Narrated by: Daniel Herbert

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Tauchen Sie ein in die faszinierende Welt der Renaissance mit "Die Lebensgeschichte von Raffael", meisterhaft erzählt von Alexandre Dumas. Dieser Teil seines berühmten Werkes "Trois Maitres" bietet eine tiefgründige und packende Lebensbeschreibung des legendären Malers Raffael, der als einer der größten Künstler aller Zeiten gilt. Alexandre... Read more

How to Be a Goth

By: Tish Weinstock

Length: 5 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

'A celebration of darkness' Anjelica Huston

'There's a bit of goth in us all' Kate Moss

Amidst the waking nightmares of our present day, the solace of goth looms to soothe our morbid anxieties.

Permeating pop culture at every juncture - fashion, art, music, film, beauty - what was once shrouded in mystery has now slipped into the... Read more

Una peli por semana

By: Jesús Iglesias

Narrated by: Jesús Iglesias

Length: 6 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Centenares de anécdotas alucinantes sobre el mundo del cine y sus protagonistas, y datos que no encontrarás en Wikipedia Una peli por semana es un libro de introducción al cine que te propone 52 filmes para ver y analizar a lo largo de un año. Una selección realizada por Jesús Iglesias, autor de la popular cuenta de crítica cinematográfica La... Read more

Out of Character

By: Alison Steadman

Narrated by: Alison Steadman

Length: 10 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

A Waterstones Best Book of 2024 'Marriage to Mike Leigh, the minutiae of working on Gavin and Stacey: it's a tribute to her range that there's something here to interest everybody' Telegraph The first memoir from the national treasure, critically acclaimed actress and much-loved... Read more

At Home with the Snails: The Complete Series 1 and 2

By: Gerard Foster

Narrated by: Gerard Foster, Angela Thorne, Miranda Hart, Deb...

Length: 3 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

All eight episodes of the surreal comedy drama centred around a man with a very unusual hobby

Newly graduated from university, Alex Fisher returns home depressed and suffering from existential angst. But when his father encourages him to make himself useful by killing the snails in the garden Alex has an epiphany. Instead of murdering them, he... Read more

Stay in the Light

By: A.M. Shine

Narrated by: Jacqueline Milne

Length: 9 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Bloomsbury presents Stay in the Light by A.M. Shine, read by Jacqueline Milne.

From critically acclaimed Irish horror writer A.M. Shine, the sequel to The Watchers, now adapted into a major motion picture produced by M. Night Shyamalan.

YOU MAY HAVE ESCAPED... BUT YOU'LL NEVER BE FREE.

After her terrifying experience at the hands of the Watchers,... Read more

Selections from the Writing of Lord Dunsany

By: Lord Dunsany

Narrated by: Charles Featherstone

Length: 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett was born into a very unusual situation in 1878. He was the eldest scion of a family that had lived in the oldest castle in Ireland since its construction in 1180 CE, and became the 18th Baron Dunsany in 1899 at the age of 21, when his father passed away. He was a soldier, lord, military trainer, propaganda... Read more

Zen Buddhism And Its Relation To Art

By: Arthur Waley

Narrated by: Charles Featherstone

Length: 58 minutes

Abridged: No

A great primer on the history of Japanese art as it evolved under the Buddhist (and later Zen) movements embedding in Japan's culture. Written by the first great populariser of Chinese and Japanese cultural artefacts, including translating a great number of Chinese poems and literary works.
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The Forerunner & The Madman

By: Kahlil Gibran

Narrated by: Chirag Patel

Length: 1 hour 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Most famously known for his book The Prophet, the Lebanese poet Kahlil Gibran, who has been called "the single most important influence on Arabic poetry and literature during the first half of [the twentieth] century."
Contained herein are two lesser known works. The Madman was the first book Kahlil published in English, and it's success was... Read more

Darkling

By: Catherine Hyde

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Prize-winning poet and artist Catherine Hyde celebrates the magic of the night from dusk till dawn as she follows the owl’s journey in a gorgeous gift book of full colour paintings.

I turn
to the old orchard
where she hunts:
a ghost glimmering
sweet heart of the moon.
Swooping between trees,
a beating clock of claw and feather,
hush winged, in half... Read more

The Friedkin Connection

By: William Friedkin

Narrated by: William Friedkin

Length: 19 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

""[This book] captures the gut-wrenching shifts of a filmmaker’s life—the bizarre whipsaw from success to disaster.” —VarietyAn acclaimed memoir from William Friedkin, a maverick of American cinema and Academy Award–winning director of such legendary films as The French Connection, The Exorcist, and To Live and Die in LA. The Friedkin Connection... Read more

The Ultimate Cigar Book

By: Richard Carleton Hacker

Narrated by: Peter Coates

Length: 6 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

First published in 1993, The Ultimate Cigar Book has become a classic in its field, and is generally credited with having helped launch the current cigar-smoking craze. It has been reprinted numerous times in the United States, and is now sold worldwide. No other book contains as much detailed and factual information on virtually every facet of... Read more

Walzerschritt und Polkahit. Johann Strauß für Kinder - Abridged

By: Simsa Marko

Narrated by: Simsa Marko

Length: 59 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Mitreißende Walzer und Polkas für Groß und Klein: Johann Strauß Sohn gilt als einer der beliebtesten Komponisten seiner Zeit und ist auch noch heute für seine mitreißenden Melodien bekannt, vor allem für seine Walzer und Polkas, die zum Tanz einladen. In dieser musikalischen Geschichte reist Marko Simsa in die Vergangenheit und taucht in die... Read more

Only in America

By: Richard Bernstein

Narrated by: Suzanne Toren

Length: 9 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

A probing biography of world-renowned Jewish singer and actor Al Jolson and the history of his performance in and the making of The Jazz Singer

Al Jolson, born Asa Yoelson, immigrated from a shtetl in Lithuania to the United States in 1894 after his father secured a job as a rabbi in Washington, D.C. A poor, Yiddish-speaking newcomer navigating a... Read more

The Spamalot Diaries

By: Eric Idle

Narrated by: Eric Idle & Alan Tudyk

Length: 4 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

The inside story of what it took to bring Monty Python and the Holy Grail to Broadway as the unlikely theatrical hit Spamalot, told through actual diary entries from the legendary comic performer, founding member of Monty Python, and New York Times bestselling author

On March 17, 2005, Spamalot debuted on Broadway to rapturous reviews for its... Read more