Prince Harry The Duke of Sussex Audiobooks

Spare: a memoir delivered in the author's own voice, arriving on our shelves soon

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Who is Prince Harry The Duke of Sussex?

Few memoirs arrive with as much noise around them as Spare, and the noise is worth setting aside, because what remains is a long, first person account delivered by the person who lived it. Our catalogue files it under memoir and society together, which is the right pairing: a private story that became a public argument the moment it appeared.

The interest for a listener is less the disclosures than the voice. Nearly sixteen hours of self narration is an unusual amount of time to spend with an author speaking about their own life, and the delivery carries hesitations, emphases and silences that no printed edition can reproduce.

Prince Harry The Duke of Sussex in audiobooks

The recording runs to more than fifteen hours and is read throughout by Prince Harry The Duke of Sussex, which is the strongest single argument for choosing the audio edition over the printed one.

It is scheduled to join our shelves rather than being live at this moment, so add it to the queue if the subject appeals. Best taken in long sessions: the memoir is chronological, and the cumulative effect is much of the point. Details are below.