Art audiobooks

Quarantine Session #94: Leanne Brown + Hawa Hassan

By: Leanne Brown

Narrated by: Hawa Hassan

Length: 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Leanne Brown’s wildly popular and NYT bestselling cookbook Good and Cheap: Eat Well on $4/Day showed us that kitchen skill and resourcefulness—not budget—are the keys to great food. Brown returned (virtually) to Greenlight for the launch of her new cookbook, Good Enough: A Cookbook: Embracing the Joys of Imperfection and Practicing Self-Care in... Read more

Quarantine Session #95: Colette Brooks + Jennifer Egan

By: Colette Brooks

Narrated by: Jennifer Egan

Length: 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Acclaimed authors, Greenlight neighbors, and longtime friends Colette Brooks and Jennifer Egan (Manhattan Beach) joined us for a virtual conversation and launch for Colette’s newest book of nonfiction, Trapped in the Present Tense. In a lyrical and inventive blend of history, memoir, and visual essays, Brooks explores the mechanics and... Read more

Quarantine Session #96: Bernardine Evaristo + Rumaan Alam

By: Bernardine Evaristo

Narrated by: Rumaan Alam

Length: 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Booker Prize-winning author Bernardine Evaristo (Girl, Woman, Other) graced our virtual stage from London for the U.S. launch of her new memoir Manifesto: On Never Giving Up. Manifesto offers readers an intimate and inspirational account of Evaristo’s life and career as she rebelled against the mainstream and fought bring her creative work into... Read more

The Young H. G. Wells

By: Claire Tomalin

Narrated by: Anne Flosnik

Length: 8 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

From acclaimed literary biographer Claire Tomalin, a complex and fascinating exploration of the early life of the influential writer and public figure H. G. Wells



How did the first forty years of H. G. Wells's life shape the father of science fiction?



From his impoverished childhood in a working-class English family and determination to educate... Read more

GLOBO ARTE APRIL 2022 ISSUE

By: Globo Arte team

Narrated by: Parshwika Bhandari

Length: 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Hi guys this is the APRIL 2022 Magazine issue, which contains artists interviews to inspire artists, and so much more to help the artist in their art career,it contains artist interviews, art-related topics articles and question of the month, step of the month and social media updates Read more

Adventures in Screenwriting

By: Selin Sevinç

Narrated by: Selin Sevinç

Length: 5 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Honest, raw and very funny, Selin Sevinç's musings on the art of screenwriting shine light on the illusive craft which plays such a pivotal role in the movie making process. Inbetween recollecting on her efforts to make unique stories in a industry seemingly interested only in identikit movies, Sevinç blends in darkly amusing tales of homelife... Read more

Tatuados

By: Leo Quiroga

Narrated by: Clara Peñalver

Length: 3 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

El gran libro de referencia sobre el mundo de los tatuajes. Quiero invitarte a navegar en un relato lleno de luces y sombras, de enigmas y misterios. Se trata de un cuento milenario protagonizado por momias enigmáticas, esclavos deshumanizados, guerreros valientes, criminales peligrosos y marineros intrépidos. Si te apasiona el tatuaje tanto... Read more

The Country Wife (Unabridged)

By: William Wycherley

Narrated by: AI Marcus

Length: 4 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Please note: This audiobook has been created using AI voice. The Country Wife was first performed in January 1672 at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. It traces several plot lines, the principle of which follows notorious rake Harry Horner’s attempt to carry on affairs by spreading a rumor that he was now a eunuch and no longer a threat to any... Read more

What Is Art? (Unabridged)

By: Leo Tolstoy

Narrated by: AI Marcus

Length: 6 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Please note: This audiobook has been created using AI voice. What Is Art? is an 1897 philosophical treatise by Leo Tolstoy that lays out his philosophy of aesthetics. Rejecting notions of aesthetics that center around beauty, Tolstoy instead posits that art is defined by its role in transmitting feelings between human beings. Furthermore, he... Read more

The Humbugs Of The World (Unabridged)

By: P. T. Barnum

Narrated by: AI Marcus

Length: 11 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Please note: This audiobook has been created using AI voice. “Humbug … I won’t believe it,” is Scrooge’s response when confronted by the ghost of his dead partner Jacob Marley in A Christmas Carol, and just as surely as Dickens knows that ghosts are humbugs, so too does P. T. Barnum, writing a generation later. For Barnum, humbug begins in the... Read more

The History of the Caliph Vathek

By: William Beckford

Narrated by: Tony Parton

Length: 4 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Vathek, ninth Caliph of the race of the Abassides, was the son of Motassem, and the grandson of Haroun Al Raschid.From an early accession to the throne, and the talents he possessed to adorn it, his subjects were induced to expect that his reign would be long and happy. His figure was pleasing and majestic; but when he was angry one of his eyes... Read more

Cámara en mano

By: Lucas Baini

Narrated by: Lucas Baini

Length: 2 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Un fantástico recorrido por el detrás de escena de las películas y series que marcaron tu historia, de la mano de Lucas Baini.
Seguramente guardás recuerdos imborrables de tu infancia, viendo tus series animadas favoritas o de las películas y series que marcaron tu adolescencia. Tal vez, te preguntaste miles de veces, cómo se crearon, qué... Read more

Sportin' Life

By: Brian Harker

Narrated by: Mirron Willis

Length: 11 hours

Abridged: No

John W. Bubbles was the ultimate song-and-dance man. A groundbreaking tap dancer, he provided inspiration to Fred Astaire, Eleanor Powell, and the Nicholas Brothers. His vaudeville team Buck and Bubbles captivated theater audiences for more than thirty years. Most memorably, in the role of Sportin' Life he stole the show in the original... Read more

The God of the Witches

By: Margaret Alice Murray

Narrated by: Catherine Fuller

Length: 4 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

This audiobook is intended for the general listener as well as for the student of Anthropology. In this volume I have followed one line only of Anthropological enquiry, the survival of an indigenous European cult and the interaction between it and the exotic religion which finally overwhelmed it.I have traced the worship of the Horned God... Read more

The Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee Book

By: Jerry Seinfeld

Narrated by: Jerry Seinfeld

Length: 10 hours

Abridged: No

A celebration of Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee, featuring some of comedy’s most iconic voices in excerpts from their appearances on Jerry Seinfeld’s groundbreaking streaming series!

Featuring appearances by: Aziz Ansari, Judd Apatow, Fred Armisen, Alec Baldwin, Colleen Ballinger, Todd Barry, Lewis Black, Neal Brennan, Matthew Broderick, Mel... Read more

Immersive Storytelling for Real and Imagined Worlds

By: Margaret Kerrison

Narrated by: Margaret Kerrison

Length: 5 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

The emerging discipline of immersive storytelling recognizes the power of creative works that put the viewer at the center of the action. Theme-park designer Margaret Kerrison shares tips and tricks for writers on teams tasked with bringing a narrative to life. How do you take an idea from inspiration to manifestation? How do you move from... Read more

The Gift

By: Lewis Hyde

Narrated by: Stephen Bowlby

Length: 13 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

A modern classic cherished by many of the greatest artists of our time, The Gift is a brilliant, life-changing defense of the value of creative labor.Drawing on examples from folklore and literature, history and tribal customs, economics and modern copyright law, Lewis Hyde demonstrates how our society—governed by the marketplace—is poorly... Read more

10 Rillington Place: The Trials of Evans & Christie

By: Sue Rodwell

Narrated by: Ronald Pickup, Jonathan Wrather, Terence Edmond...

Length: 3 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

10 Rillington Place: The Trials of Timothy Evans and John Reginald Halliday Christie. In March 1950, Timothy Evans, aged 25, was hanged for the murder of his wife and child. Sixteen years later the Queen was to grant him a full pardon. So why did Timothy Evans confess to murder? Why was John Reginald Christie, his neighbour, not arrested until... Read more

Great British Trials Box Set

By: Sue Rodwell

Narrated by: Jemma Redgrave, Andrew Sachs, Ronald Pickup & &...

Length: 8 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Great British Trials Box SetA fascinating glimpse into some of the most notorious crimes and trials of the last 100 years. Using the original trial transcripts, eyewitness accounts and contemporary news reports.The Trial of Ruth Ellis: The Last Woman to be HangedAt 9 am on 13th July 1955, Ruth Ellis became the last woman to hang in Britain.... Read more

The Trial of Ruth Ellis

By: Sue Rodwell

Narrated by: Jemma Redgrave, David Goodland, Mark Hadfield, ...

Length: 2 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

The Trial of Ruth Ellis: The Last Woman to be HangedAt 9 a.m. on Wednesday 13th July 1955, Ruth Ellis became the last woman to hang in Britain. Convicted of shooting her unfaithful lover, David Blakeley, in cold blood, as he stood by his sports car on Easter Sunday - the calm and dignified court appearance of this mother of two young children... Read more

The Trial of Dr Crippen

By: Sue Rodwell

Narrated by: Andrew Sachs, Norman Bird, John Baddeley, Teres...

Length: 2 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

The Trial of Dr Crippen: The Most Famous English MurdererMild-mannered Dr Hawley Harvey Crippen committed one of the most notorious English murders of the 20th Century.In early 1910 he dismembered his wife's body and buried the remains in the coal cellar of the house they shared in Hilldrop Crescent, London. Arrested with his lover, Ethel Le... Read more

Nine Lives and Counting

By: Duane Chapman

Narrated by: Mike Ortego, Francie Chapman & Duane Chapman

Length: 5 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Includes an audiobook-exclusive introduction from the author.Go behind-the-scenes with Duane "Dog" Chapman, star of the hit reality show Dog the Bounty Hunter and two-time New York Times bestselling author, as he shares new stories about his faith in Jesus, family, and the discovery of God's grace at work throughout his life.From being in a... Read more

The Fatal Alliance

By: David Thomson

Narrated by: David Thomson

Length: 19 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

“A marvelous bombshell of a book, by one of our most formidably knowledgeable and insightful writers on film, it is filled with surprises and witty asides. Though Thomson is quick to pounce on the hypocrisies and historical omissions of some of these war movies, there is nothing compromised about his own daredevil judgments. We are in the hands... Read more

Don't Think, Dear

By: Alice Robb

Narrated by: Alice Robb

Length: 7 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

An incisive exploration of ballet’s role in the modern world, told through the experience of the author and her classmates at the most elite ballet school in the country: the School of American Ballet.Growing up, Alice Robb dreamed of becoming a ballet dancer. But by age fifteen, she had to face the reality that she would never meet the... Read more