Among the Thugs
Featured Article: The Best Soccer Audiobooks for Avid and Prospective Fans
Whether you’re a casual player, a follower of the Champions League, a football fan, or just interested in learning more about the football world, our list of the best football or soccer books captures what makes “the beautiful game” such a sensation and a way of life for many. Playing and watching the sport is a breathtaking experience, but listening to audiobooks about soccer offers a whole new experience that is as entertaining as it is educational. Here’s our list of the best football books for you to hit play on in audio form, brought to you by your favourite sportswriters and international soccer superstars.
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- An Amateur's Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany
- Written by: Bill Buford
- Narrated by: Michael Kramer
- Length: 12 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall16
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Performance13
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Story13
From one of our most interesting literary figures – former editor of Granta, former fiction editor at The New Yorker, acclaimed author of Among the Thugs – a sharp, funny, exuberant, close-up account of his headlong plunge into the life of a professional cook. Expanding on his James Beard...
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Not nearly as good as dirt
- By tom on 2021-09-09
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- An Amateur's Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany
- Narrated by: Michael Kramer
- Length: 12 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 2006-05-30
- Language: English
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$23.89 or free with 30-day trial
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Dirt
- Adventures in Lyon as a Chef in Training, Father, and Sleuth Looking for the Secret of French Cooking
- Written by: Bill Buford
- Narrated by: Bill Buford
- Length: 16 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall44
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Performance36
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Story36
“You can almost taste the food in Bill Buford’s Dirt, an engrossing, beautifully written memoir about his life as a cook in France.” —The Wall Street Journal What does it take to master French cooking? This is the question that drives Bill Buford to abandon his perfectly happy life in...
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An amazing journey
- By gentlereader on 2021-07-09
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Dirt
- Adventures in Lyon as a Chef in Training, Father, and Sleuth Looking for the Secret of French Cooking
- Narrated by: Bill Buford
- Length: 16 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 2020-05-05
- Language: English
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$32.48 or free with 30-day trial
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Among the Thugs
- Written by: Bill Buford
- Narrated by: Bill Buford
- Length: 9 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall14
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Performance12
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They have names like Barmy Bernie, Daft Donald, and Steamin' Sammy. They like lager (in huge quantities), the Queen, football clubs (especially Manchester United), and themselves. Their dislike encompasses the rest of the known universe, and England's soccer thugs express it in ways that range...
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embed journalism among British gang members/footie fanclubs
- By Thomas of Love on 2025-11-24
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Among the Thugs
- Narrated by: Bill Buford
- Length: 9 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 2018-10-23
- Language: English
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