Stories from a Corfu Childhood Audiobook By Gerald Durrell cover art

Stories from a Corfu Childhood

A Selection of His Own Stories Written and Read by Gerald Durrell

 Preview
LIMITED TIME OFFER

3 months free
Try for $0.00
Offer ends July 31, 2025 at 11:59PM PT.
Pick 1 audiobook a month from our unmatched collection.
Listen all you want to thousands of included audiobooks, Originals, and podcasts.
Access exclusive sales and deals.
Premium Plus auto-renews for $14.95/mo after 3 months. Cancel anytime.

Stories from a Corfu Childhood

By: Gerald Durrell
Narrated by: Gerald Durrell
Try for $0.00

$0.00/mo. after 3 months. Offer ends July 31, 2025 at 11:59PM PT. Cancel anytime.

Buy for $11.14

Buy for $11.14

Confirm purchase
Pay using card ending in
Switch payment method
By confirming your purchase, you agree to Audible's Conditions of Use, License, and Amazon's Privacy Notice. Taxes where applicable.
Cancel

These five stories, written and read by Gerald Durrell himself, are taken from his books Birds, Beasts and Relatives and Fillets of Plaice. They were recorded on Jersey in 1985 and are used by kind permission of the Estate of Gerald Durrell.

©2012 Crimson Cats Audio Books/Gerald Durrell Estate (P)2012 Crimson Cats Audio Books Celebrity
Hilarious Prose • Genius Dialogue • Posh Accent • Colorful Characters • Witty Storytelling • Gifted Reader
Highly rated for:
All stars
Most relevant  
Actually, beyond excellent. Gerald Durrell is the best author I've ever come across, bar none.

Excellent

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Gerald Durrell was a gifted writer, and it turns out he was a gifted reader as well. As he narrated his alternately gorgeous and hilarious prose in his extremely posh accent, I fell about laughing at the genius dialogue, the depiction of witty and irascible elder brother Larry (author Lawrence Durrell as a very young man), long-suffering Mother, querulous sister Margo, pugnacious brother Leslie, and the eccentric friends who were familiar to me from reading the books many times since childhood. This recording is a treasure, and I only wish Gerald Durrell had recorded all of his books about his childhood in Corfu in the 1930s, his batty British family, and the colorfully inimitable characters, fascinating animals and dreamlike landscapes of a paradisical Greek island.

Absolutely brilliant! A laugh-out-loud treasure.

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
pure delight! best Corfu Gerald Durrell read by Durrell. The birthday story is rather rare, and the law suit i have heard for the first time. It always ended with cleaning after rotten turtle. and as a bonus you get to hear how exactly the spiritualist Haddock speaks, always wondered.

Wonderful!

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
I really enjoyed Geralds stories and his sense of humour which made them more enjoyable

Memories of the past.

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
I first fell in love with the Corfus when I saw the Netflix, or maybe it was Amazon series. Since then I ordered this little ditty in both Audible and also in a little hard book version. I purchased the book so my grandchildren would be able to read, or have it read to them someday.

Delightful

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Listening to the author read his stories from one of my favourite books, is very special, as accents and intonations are as he intends them to be. No matter how many times I read or listen to these stories, they are delightful and always make me laugh. The rich array of characters and their idiosyncrasies run amok thru the Durrell’s lives, and one grows quite fond of them, as of one’s own family. If you’ve not read any of this author’s books, or are familiar with this and the other tales, this is a book to bring a smile and more to your face.

In the author’s voice

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
I saw this story on BBC and wanted to learn more about the family of Brits . The book is narrated by the youngest son . Very entertaining!

Offbeat British historical comedy

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
An all-time family favourite... Such a keeper! ! Best of all it's narrated by the inimitable author

Superb

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Wonderful to hear it read by Gerry. How fortunate that Gerry kept a diary account of life on Corfu.

The Durrells come to life

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Lovely to have Gerald Durrell reading a few of his Corfu adventures. One of my favorite authors!

A pleasure to hear

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
See more reviews