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All Cheeses Great and Small
- A Life Less Blurry
- Narrated by: Alex James
- Length: 6 hrs and 10 mins
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This is the story of Alex James’s transition from a leading light of the Britpop movement in the 1990s, to gentleman farmer, artisan cheese-maker and father of five. All Cheeses Great and Small is the follow-up memoir to Alex James's first book, Bit of a Blur, the story of his excessive pop star lifestyle during the nineties. But now Alex has grown up, fallen in love and got married. He has also fallen passionately for his new home, an enormous rambling farmhouse in the Cotswolds, set in two hundred acres of beautiful British countryside. The farm represents not just a new house for Alex, but also a new career.
As he breathes new life into the old farm he chances across an unexpected calling: making cheese. His cheeses, Blue Monday, Farleigh Wallop and Little Wallop have received widespread media interest and are now sold through many outlets.
The story culminates with an account of the triumphant reformation of Blur for Glastonbury 2009.
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Overall5 out of 5 stars
- Nigel
- 23-05-12
from bass player to (accidental) life style guru
I've listened to many, many audio books but never felt compelled to write a reviw - until now. Beautifully written and narrated - the words flow, the images are conjured & life is good ! This could become a blueprint for living the dream..........
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- Amazon Customer
- 02-09-23
Really enjoyed this book
A really good listen. It's interesting to learn about the totally different life Alex now leads and his obvious passion of his rural life. The real life country house.
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- Morag Cooper
- 12-08-18
really enjoyed this book
I would recommend it to fans but it didn't set me on fire 1st book was better
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Overall4 out of 5 stars
- Dave
- 14-05-12
Lives in a house, a very big house in the country!
An everyday tale of country folk, and a middle-aged pop star adapting to the rural life. James' narration is sometime difficult to follow, often taking no account of punctuation - but that does not detract from his obvious passion for his farm and all things rural. A charming, gentle tale - well worth a listen!
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- Clifford Foster
- 03-07-22
We long for the wrong life
Strangley I've put off listening to this for a while. "Bit of a Blur" was such a important book for me in my 20s, it had that sense of adventure and longing to "Make it" and for some reason it's taken me almost 10 years to hear the second part of Alex's journey.
I don't know if it's because I'm settled with a family, a mortgage and a solid career but this book was a delight and may actually be better that the book before. I long for the chaotic/relaxing life on the farm but makes you appreciate what you have around you. I'd love to hear a follow up of the 13 years since (irony I finish the book on the 13th anniversary of the Hyde Park gig, my favourite gig I've been to).
thanks Alex, I bought some Blue Monday to celebrate the end of the book.
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- GadgetD
- 15-12-22
Could he be bothered?
Alex James wrote and reads this.
His performance comes across as he really couldn't be bothered . I'm being polite.
Sentences flow into each other in a punctuation free, monotonous race to the end of the recording(s) . Or at least that's how it sounded to me. Definitely lives up to the nonchalant attitude sometimes accredited to the author by some journalists.
If he couldn't be bothered, nor could I and I gave up listening to it a couple of chapters in. I skipped to random later chapters to check if it was more of the same - and it was unfortunately.
Loved his first book (including the audiobook read by Alex James, brilliantly and authentically) . This one however,... nah...
Zero stars. Pity.
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