The Face of Britain
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  • Published: 16 September 2015
  • ISBN: 9780241974674
  • Imprint: Penguin Audio
  • Format: Audio Download

The Face of Britain

The Nation through Its Portraits

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16 Sep 2015
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16 Sep 2015
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28 Nov 2016
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A landmark event: our past and present, revealed through portraits, tying in to a major BBC series

Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable, audiobook edition of The Face of Britain by Simon Schama, read by Simon Schama and Roy McMillian.

Churchill and his painter locked in a struggle of stares and glares; Gainsborough watching his daughters run after a butterfly; a naked John Lennon five hours before his death.

Simon Schama has written a tour de force about British portraits over the centuries in which the image-maker, the subject and everyone else looking on are brought unforgettably to life. Mesmerising in its extraordinary storytelling, and beautifully illustrated, The Face of Britain will change the way we see our past -- and ourselves.
  • Published: 16 September 2015
  • ISBN: 9780241974674
  • Imprint: Penguin Audio
  • Format: Audio Download
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About the author

Simon Schama

Simon Schama is University Professor of Art History and History at Columbia University. His award-winning books, translated into fifteen languages, include Citizens, Landscape and Memory, Rembrandt's Eyes, A History of Britain, The Power of Art, Rough Crossings, The American Future, The Face of Britain and The Story of the Jews: Finding the Words (1000 BCE - 1492).

His art columns for the New Yorker won the National Magazine Award for criticism and his journalism has appeared regularly in the Guardian and the Financial Times where he is Contributing Editor. He has written and presented more than fifty films for the BBC on subjects as diverse as Tolstoy, American politics, and The Story of the Jews and is co-presenter of a new landmark series on the history of world art, Civilisations.

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Also by Simon Schama

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Belonging
A History of Britain - Volume 1
The Power of Art
Scribble, Scribble, Scribble
The American Future
A History of Britain - Volume 3
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