The Creative Lives Collection - Set of Three Audiobook in a Card Titles

Three Audiobooks in a Card – £31.99, free delivery

The Creative Lives Collection brings together three insightful and absorbing works that explore creativity, collaboration, and the inner lives of artists and thinkers. Spanning music, poetry, and cultural history, these beautifully narrated audiobooks make a thoughtful gift for anyone curious about how creative minds work and where great ideas come from.

Each audiobook comes as a keepsake card with space inside to write a personal message, plus a plain kraft envelope – ready to post or hand-deliver.

What’s included

John & Paul

Ian Leslie’s John & Paul, a revealing study of the most influential songwriting partnership of the modern age, is now available as an Audiobook in a Card, a thoughtful way to share an unforgettable story of two music legends.

John & Paul begins in 1957, when two teenagers in suburban Liverpool meet and decide to play rock n’roll together. It ends twenty-three years later, when one of them is murdered. In between, we see them become global stars, create countless indelible songs, and play a central role in shaping the modern world.

How Shostakovich Changed My Mind

For Stephen Johnson, music has a greater power to transform us, to change our minds, than the other arts. Exploring the power of Shostakovich’s music during Stalin’s reign of terror, Johnson writes of the extraordinary healing effect of music on the mind for sufferers of mental illness. Johnson looks at neurological, psychotherapeutic and philosophical findings, and reflects on his own experience, where he believes Shostakovich’s music helped him survive the trials and assaults of bipolar disorder.

New Cemetery

The Poet Laureate makes peace with the dead in this highly imaginative and wide-ranging new collection. 

The conversion of a local natural-beauty spot into a municipal graveyard is the starting point for New Cemetery. From regular walks around the boundary near his moorland home in West Yorkshire, Simon Armitage chronicles the extraordinary transformation of landscape, both outer and inner. 

These luminous and wry poems – composed in short-lined tercets – reflect the changing world: one of unstable weather patterns and unpredictable news events, all observed across a few acres of Pennine upland. As seasons come and go and the cemetery fills up with new ‘residents’, Armitage charts personal losses of his own, often retreating to his garden shed to navigate blank paper with pen and ink. Encompassing lyrical revelations and everyday vignettes alongside apocalyptic visions and imagined conversations with the deceased, these pages draw us into a parallel neighbourhood of remembrance and celebration.

How it works

The recipient simply scans the QR code inside each card and follows the instructions to enjoy the audiobook. 

Why choose the Creative Lives Collection

• Three enduring works of literature 

• Thoughtfully curated and beautifully narrated
  

• A meaningful gift that can be returned to again and again

• Worth £36 when purchased individually – exclusive bundle price £31.99