Gareth Southgate Audiobooks

Dear England: a memoir on leadership and sport, read by the author

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Who is Gareth Southgate?

A book addressed to a whole country in the form of a letter sets itself an unusual task, and Dear England takes the framing seriously enough to put it in the title. This is how Gareth Southgate appears in our catalogue: through a work our shelves file at once as memoir, as sport, and as a book about leading other people.

That spread of categories deserves a pause, because it is rare. A title only earns a place on the business and personal development shelves alongside the biography one when the personal account is being used to argue something larger about how responsibility gets carried.

Gareth Southgate in audiobooks

It is read by the author, which for a memoir is usually the version listeners want, and the recording stretches past nine and a half hours: a full account rather than a summary, with room for the reflective stretches to breathe properly.

The title is a scheduled arrival on our shelves rather than one you can begin this evening, so it is worth noting the page and returning once it lands. Listen for the letter conceit when it does, because it shapes the whole structure. Whatever is available under this name right now is shown below.