Scott Rowley Audiobooks

Stay Alive: The Life and Death of Stuart Adamson, told at full biographical length

1 audiobook reviewed

★ 4.6/5 average

14 listener ratings

Who is Scott Rowley?

A title that says The Life and Death of sets its own terms. It promises the whole arc, ending included, and it asks a biographer to hold their nerve through the difficult part rather than fade out before it.

That is the work Scott Rowley has taken on here, and it is the whole of what our catalogue can tell you about the author: a biographer working at length, on the arts and entertainment shelf, giving a single subject more than thirteen hours of sustained attention.

We will not fill the gaps with invention. Where an author leaves little public trace, the honest thing is to let the book speak, and this one speaks clearly enough about the kind of writing it wants to be: patient, unhurried, and unafraid of the ending it has announced on the cover.

Scott Rowley in audiobooks

Stay Alive: The Life and Death of Stuart Adamson is the title to know here, read by Mark Bonnar, whose delivery lends the material the steadiness it asks for. Thirteen hours and change is a proper commitment for a biography, and the pacing suits a run of commutes or a long evening rather than a snatched twenty minutes.

Early listeners have settled around 4.6, a small but consistent body of reviews. If you gravitate towards memoir and arts biography, or towards lives told as lives rather than as legends, this is the natural place to begin.

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