James Fox Audiobooks

Craftland: making, materials and heritage, in the author's own voice

1 audiobook reviewed

★ 4.5/5 average

134 listener ratings

Who is James Fox?

One word for a title, and four shelves to hold it. Craftland is filed with us under arts and entertainment, classics and heritage, home and garden, and politics and society, and that spread is not indecision on our part. It is what tends to happen to writing about making things, because making things has never stayed inside one category for long.

James Fox reads the audiobook personally, which for material of this sort changes the character of the listening. An author narrating a subject they have spent real time inside brings emphasis that a hired voice, however skilled, has to construct from scratch.

The response has been consistently good across a healthy body of verdicts, which suggests the breadth is experienced as richness rather than as drift.

James Fox in audiobooks

Craftland runs to a little over seven and a half hours in the author’s own reading. That is a comfortable full-length shape: substantial enough to develop a case, contained enough to finish across a week without strain.

Its rating sits high, and enough listeners have contributed for the figure to be worth trusting rather than merely noting in passing.

If the meeting point of art, heritage and the domestic appeals, start here. The listing follows below.