Length12h 35m
About this audiobook
Swansong For twenty years he told insurers what a thing was worth and how certain anyone could be about it. He was good at the second part. It is the part nobody thanks you for.
Then the job ends, badly, and what is left is a dining table in Newtown, several boxes of photocopies, and a question that will not sit down.
Around himr, the papers themselves: a Siberian settlement in 1888, a shipping office in Hamburg, a workshop in the fourteenth arrondissement, an office in a New York building where a man kept his accounts in a hand nobody else could read. A trail assembled a century late by someone with nothing left to lose but the answer.
A reckoning with the stories we accept because checking them would cost more than we can spare.
Audiobook details
GenreHistorical Fiction, Other
Length12 hrs 35 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateAug 21, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Introduction
18Ethel: London
2Melbourne
19Denton
3Morozov
20Richard
4Brauer
21The Stairs
5The Bank Hotel
22Alcott
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6Probert
23The Whiteboard
7Kip
24The Fragment
8Ethel: Charlotte
25Ethel: The Years
9Fleischer
26Two in the Morning
10Katerina
27Arnaud
11The Rope
28Kessler
12Wainwright-Hughes
29The Long Middle
13The Spaniard
30The Pen
14Castel Gandolfo
31Mara
15The Bodleian
32The Sunday
16Ferrer
33Epilogue
17Duchamp
34Author’s Note
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