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Bolinda/Canongate Audio
01 August 2021
A compulsive collection of the world’s most entertaining, inspiring and powerful letters with fathers at their heart, curated by the founder of the global phenomenon lettersofnote.com.

In Letters of Note: Fathers, Shaun Usher collects together remarkable correspondence by and about fathers, including proud parental words of love, advice from experienced dads to new ones, as well as letters from both frustrated and adoring offspring.

Includes letters by: Anne Frank, W.E.B. Du Bois, Jawaharlal Nehru, Groucho Marx, Che Guevara, Ted Hughes, Katherine Mansfield, Fergal Keane, Arthur Conan Doyle, Samuel Bernstein and many more.
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Imprint:   Bolinda/Canongate Audio
Country of Publication:   Australia
Edition:   Unabridged edition
ISBN:   9780655669005
ISBN 10:   0655669000
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Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Audio
Publisher's Status:   Active

Shaun Usher is a writer and sole custodian of the popular blogs lettersofnote.com and listsofnote.com. He has transformed both blogs into bestselling books, crowd-funded by Unbound and jointly published by Unbound and Canongate. He lives in Wilmslow with his wife Karina and their two sons. He is the author of the bestselling Letters of Note, More Letters of Note, Lists of Note and Speeches of Note. Along with Simon Garfield's To the Letter, Letters of Note inspired Letters Live, a series of live performances celebrating the enduring power of literary correspondence, with great performers reading remarkable letters to a live audience. Louise Brealey is an actor and writer known for her roles in Back (Channel 4), Clique (BBC/Netflix) and Gomorrah (HBO Max). She played the role of Molly Hooper in the multi-award-winning TV series Sherlock starring Benedict Cumberbatch. Her stage work includes roles at the National Theatre, Royal Court, the Young Vic and the Bush with directors Marianne Elliott, Peter Hall, Roger Michell and Howard Davies. Most recently she has co-starred in film comedy Brian and Charles and on television in Netflix’s ghost-hunting smash, Lockwood & Co. Louise can next be seen as the lead in the BFI’s lesbian chicken factory musical Chuck Chuck Baby. Simon Callow is a British actor with a firmly-established reputation for impeccable performance on-stage, on-screen and on audiobook. Perhaps best known for his role in Four Weddings and a Funeral, Callow's reputation in the theatre is also second-to-none. Adrian Edmondson is an English comedian, actor, musician and television presenter. He is best known for his roles in BBC's The Comedy Strip Presents ... and The Young Ones, and has since then appeared in dramas Holby City, Surviving Disaster, Prey and War & Peace. Adrian is also a keen narrator, lending his voice to several titles in Shaun Usher's Letters of Note series and narrating two of his own children's books, Tilly and the Time Machine and Junkyard Jack and the Horse that Talked. Stephen Fry is an English comedian, actor, writer, presenter and activist. Fry’s acting roles include a Golden Globe Award-nominated lead performance in the film Wilde, plus roles in Blackadder, Kingdom, Bones and V for Vendetta. He has also written and presented several documentary series and was the long-time host of the BBC television quiz show QI. Besides working in television, Fry has contributed columns and articles for newspapers and magazines and written four novels and three volumes of autobiography, Moab Is My Washpot, The Fry Chronicles and More Fool Me. Fry is also known for his voice overs and reading all seven of the Harry Potter novels for the UK audiobook recordings. Distinguished stage, television, and film actor Toby Edward Heslewood Jones was born on September 7, 1966 in Hammersmith, London. His parents, Freddie Jones and Jennie Heslewood, are actors as well. Greg Lockett trained at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. His audiobook narrations include Pairing Up by George R.R. Martin, Mother Howl by Craig Clevenger and Stringers by Chris Panatier. Other voice work includes the video games Horizon Forbidden West, Dying Light 2 and The Quarry, radio dramas for Audible & the BBC and various commercials & corporates. Screen credits include The Flash, Venom 2, Midsomer Murders, The Crown and many others. UK Theatre credits include Boys in The Band (Vaudeville Theatre), The Mousetrap (St. Martin's Theatre), Holes (Nottingham Playhouse), Winner's Curse (Park Theatre) and many others. Natasha Abigail Taylor is a British actress, known professionally as Natascha McElhone. She made her television debut in The Ruth Rendell Mysteries in 1990, graduated from LAMDA in 1993 and went on to play the lead in her first film, Merchant Ivory's Surviving Picasso opposite Anthony Hopkins. She is perhaps best known for her roles in the films Ronin, The Truman Show and Solaris, and the television series Californication and Designated Survivor. Juliet Stevenson is a distinguished actress of film, television and theatre. She was awarded the CBE for her work in drama and received the Laurence Olivier Theatre Award for Best Actress for her performance in Death and the Maiden. Juliet's films include Truly Madly Deeply, Mona Lisa Smile, Being Julia and Bend It Like Beckham. More recently, she has appeared in The Letters, Diana and Before I Go To Sleep. Mark Strong is an English theatre, film and television actor. He is known for his role in the television series Our Friends in the North and films such as The Young Victoria (2009), Sherlock Holmes (2009), Robin Hood (2010), Kick-Ass (2010), Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011), Green Lantern (2011), Zero Dark Thirty (2012),

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'A truly extraordinary reading experience.' -- The Big Issue


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