Andy Wilman Audiobooks

Mr Wilman's Motoring Adventure: eleven hours of cars, read by the man himself

1 audiobook reviewed

★ 4.8/5 average

1 listener rating

Who is Andy Wilman?

Some books only work in the author’s own voice, and this is plainly one of them. Mr Wilman’s Motoring Adventure lands across four of our shelves, entertainment, memoir, engineering and the great outdoors, and that scatter is fair warning that Andy Wilman has not written a technical manual about cars.

The motoring book at its best is really a book about appetite: for machines, for distance, for the particular comedy of things going wrong a long way from home. Written in the first person and delivered as an adventure rather than a survey, this belongs to that tradition, where the vehicle is the excuse and the story is everything happening around it.

Andy Wilman in audiobooks

Eleven hours read by Andy Wilman himself is the whole proposition, and it is the right call. Comic timing in a memoir is almost impossible to hand over to somebody else, and an author narrating their own anecdotes keeps the pauses where they were written.

Save it for a drive, which feels only fair, or for the sort of evening when you want company rather than concentration. Early listener feedback has been enthusiastic, if still small in volume. The audiobooks below will point you to it.