Adam Fletcher Audiobooks

Comic travel writing that treats a bad idea as an invitation, starting with Don't Go There

1 audiobook reviewed

★ 4.2/5 average

3 listener ratings

Who is Adam Fletcher?

Adam Fletcher is the author behind Don’t Go There, the title he brings to this catalogue, and he is a writer best introduced briefly and honestly rather than dressed up with borrowed grandeur. Not every author arrives trailing prize shortlists and profile pieces, and there is something quietly appealing about one who does not.

What can be said with confidence is this: here is a working writer with a book whose title does more character-building in three words than some manage in a chapter. Don’t Go There reads as both a warning and a dare, and an author who frames things that way reveals plenty about his sensibility before the first chapter is done.

Adam Fletcher in audiobooks

A title like Don’t Go There works as a dare, and dares make good listening. The pleasure of this kind of book in audio is companionship: a voice in the ears with strong opinions about where it has been and what happened when it got there, which is the oldest form of storytelling there is.

For UK listeners it slots into that dependable category of listens that entertain first and inform on the sly – the audiobook equivalent of the friend whose anecdotes always run longer, and better, than anyone else’s. Sometimes that is exactly what a commute requires.