Coda: Simon Gray
Coda is Simon Gray's frank, profoundly moving and often painfully funny account of what he refers to as ‘the beginning of my dying’. During a holiday with his wife in Crete, Gray recalls the scans, consultations and biopsies that have dominated the previous months while offering unforgettable portraits of fellow tourists and digressions on everything from lying to the maître d’ and concerns about tipping to crimes of passion and his new-found obsession with obituaries.
Written with a great generosity of spirit and a poignant reluctance to leave this world behind, Simon Gray’s Coda is as life-affirming as it is heart-rending.
Produced by Jane Morgan at The Audio Workshop.
4CDs / Abridged by the author / Running time 4hrs 30min More
The Damned Utd: David Peace
John Simm, star of Life on Mars, becomes the voice of Brian Clough in David Peace's brilliant and bestselling novel. More
The Last King of Scotland: Giles Foden
What would it be like to become Idi Amin's personal physician? Giles Foden's bestselling thriller is the story of a young Scottish doctor drawn into the heart of the Ugandan ... More
Something to Tell You: Hanif Kureishi
Read by Art Malik, Hanif Kureishi's Something to Tell You follows the fortunes of a successful psychoanalyst reflecting on past secrets, first love and inescapable violence. More
Look We Have Coming to Dover!: Daljit Nagra
Look We Have Coming to Dover! is the most acclaimed debut collection of poetry published in recent years, as well as one of the most relevant and accessible. Nagra, whose ... More
The Smoking Diaries: Simon Gray
One of Britain’s most amusing and original writers reflects on a life filled with cigarettes (continuing), alcohol (stopped), several triumphs and many more disasters; a record of shame, adultery, friendship ... More
Flanimals: The Story So Far: Ricky Gervais
Ricky Gervais has spent a lifetime exploring the finer details of the world of the Flanimals. Now he seeks to answer some of the most important questions in Flaminology in ... More
The Janissary Tree: Jason Goodwin
A fabulously rich and entertaining novel of detection and conspiracy in nineteenth-century Istanbul. Translated into thirty-one languages worldwide. One bloody night in 1836: a young concubine is strangled in the ... More
Coda: Simon Gray
Coda is Simon Gray's frank, profoundly moving and often painfully funny account of what he refers to as ‘the beginning of my dying’. During a holiday with his wife in ... More
QI: The Sound of General Ignorance: John Lloyd and John Mitchinson
Listen and learn! Impress your friends, frustrate your enemies and win every argument, with QI's help. More
The Year of the Jouncer: Simon Gray
A great many writers use their own lives as the raw material for their work but few have done it with the wit and courage of Simon Gray. Like his ... More
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