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Steve Phillips and Matthew Layton present #AudioBookClub - the podcast that reviews and recommends audiobooks.

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We Solve Murders

A: Richard Osman

P: Nicola Walker

L: 10 hrs and 33 mins

Release date: 12-09-24

P: Penguin Audio

On this week’s #AudioBookClub we celebrate the release of Richard Osman’s fourth novel.

His first three novels were set primarily in a retirement village in the Kent countryside “where the Waitrose delivery vans clink with wine and repeat prescriptions every time they pass over the cattle grid”

Novel number four is set on a slightly larger stage…

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Steve Phillips and Matthew Layton present #AudioBookClub - the podcast that reviews and recommends audiobooks for discerning punters like you.

On this episode, We are going to review two different audio versions of one original text.

The text under our audio microscope today is “Yellow Face” by Chinese born American hot shot young author R.F. Kuang

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On the latest episode of #AudioBookClub, Steve and Matthew head to Brighton on the UK’s pebbly south coast to talk about a giant fiberglass avocado

Steve Phillips and Matthew Layton present #AudioBookClub - the podcast that reviews and recommends audiobooks for discerning punters like you.

On this episode, the second in a fruity series of novels from British comedy legend Bob Mortimer…

The Hotel Avocado

A: Bob Mortimer

N: Bob Mortimer, Sally Phillips, Paul Whitehouse, Julie Maisey

L: 9 hrs and 20 mins

Release date: 29-08-24

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio UK

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“Oh My God! They shot Churchill…”

On the latest episode of #AudioBookClub, Steve and Matthew ask, “What would have happened if the Nazis had won World War II?”

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Penguin Modern Classics

a: Len Deighton

n: James Lailey

l: 12 hrs and 25 mins

p: Penguin Audio

The Man in the High Castle

a: Philip K. Dick

n: Jeff Cummings

l: 9 hrs and 58 mins

p: Brilliance Audio

Steve Phillips and Matthew Layton present #AudioBookClub - the podcast that reviews and recommends audiobooks.

On this episode, two books that visit alternative histories where The Axis won the Second World War.

Mixed results!

And the boys cast an eye over the Sunday Times Top 100 Books of the Last 50 Years from an audiobook perspective.

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On the latest episode of #AudioBookClub - the audiobook review and recommendation podcast - Steve and Matthew fail to listen to each other’s recommendations

t: Green Wing: Resuscitated - https://amzn.eu/d/f6eUNNU

a: Victoria Pile, James Henry, Oriane Messina, Fay Rusling, Robert Harley,

c: Oliver Chris, Olivia Colman, Pippa Haywood, Mark Heap, Michelle Gomez, Tamsin Greig, Stephen Mangan, Julian Rhind-Tutt and Karl Theobald

p: Audible Originals

l: 4h 17m

t: Mad Woman - https://amzn.eu/d/2UtJYiG 

a: Bryony Gordon

n: Bryony Gordon 

p: Headline Publishing

l: 6h 51m

Steve Phillips and Matthew Layton present #AudioBookClub - the podcast that reviews and recommends audiobooks.

Two recommendations for you this week:

Matthew has brought along Bryony Gordon’s mental health memoir ‘Mad Woman’ while Steve serves up the audio revival of a cult comedy TV show show ‘Green Wing:

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t: On His Majesty’s Secret Service’ - https://amzn.eu/d/09v7gI2s 

a: Charlie Higson

n: Charlie Higson  

p: Ian Fleming Publications

L: 4h 25 m

On this episode of AudioBookClub… 

Matthew and Steve fail to recommend ‘The Light We Carry” by Michelle Obama.

Steve Phillips and Matthew Layton present #AudioBookClub  - the podcast that reviews and recommends audiobooks.

On this episode:

Steve and Matthew welcome Helena Sheffield, Senior Marketing Manager, Penguin Random House Audio onto their pod.

Unfortunately, things didn’t quite go according go to plan.

Matthew couldn’t quite find it in his heart to recommend that you, gentle listener, spend an Audible credit on 9 hours and 59 minutes of your life on Michelle Obama’s new self-help book and, instead, started playing clips from Barack Obama’s ‘A Promised Land’

Coincidentally, that also happens to be the audiobook that Helena bought for her father as a Christmas present last year.

Helena gives us some fantastic insight into how the audiobook business works - from casting to marketing via the long, hard slog in the recording studio - and gives us a fistful of excellent listening recommendations.

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INTERVIEW: Ben Macintyre, author of ‘Colditz: Prisoners of the Castle’, ‘Operation Mincemeat’ and ‘S.A.S. Rogue Heroes’

On this episode of AudioBookClub… 

Murder on the Tokyo transit system!

Steve Phillips and Matthew Layton present £AudioBookClub  - the podcast that reviews and recommends audiobooks.

On this episode:

Steve and Matthew cast an ear over ‘The Last Train’, the first book in Michael Pronko’s Tokyo-based ‘Detective Hiroshi’ series.

Title:            The Last Train: Detective Hiroshi, Volume 1 Written by:         Michael Pronko Narrated by:         Peter Berkrot Length:         10 hrs and 41 mins Publisher:         Raked Gravel Press Available:        https://amzn.to/3KDCgQ4   

This week Matthew and Steve welcome two guests to the pod to help them with this task.

The first is the author himself Michael Pronko who also just happens to be Professor of American Literature at Meiji Gakuin University.in Tokyo.

The second guest joins us from Oslo. He is the proprietor and Editor-in-Chief of https://theaudiobookblog.com/. His name is Victor Dima.

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‘A Promised Land’ - by Barack Obama - https://amzn.to/3Yi8jbP - as recommended by Helena Sheffield, Senior Marketing Manager, Penguin Random House Audiobooks

‘The Desert Star’ - by Michael Connelly - https://amzn.to/3ZjXkiM - as recommended by Victor Dima of https://theaudiobookblog.com/ - 

On this episode of #AudioBookClub, we book ourselves into the independent audiobook platform that’s like a day-spa for your brain…

Prefer your audiobooks sustainably sourced, hand reared and mind-nourishing?

Then Spiracle is the place for you.

https://www.spiracleaudiobooks.com/ 

Sophie Haxworth, Spiracle’s Editorial Manager, explains to Steve and Matthew (in the simplest terms she possibly can) how she fell in love with audiobooks as a child, how she ended up working at Spiracle and how and why the whole platform works.

She also gives you and the boys some audiobook recommendations that are a cut above the tat they usually have on here.

‘Insignificance’ - by James Clammer ‘His Bloody Project’ - by Graeme Macrae Burnet ‘Njáls saga’ - Trad. ‘Fifty Sounds’ - by Polly Barton

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‘Doctor Who: The Chimes of Midnight’ - https://www.bigfinish.com/releases/v/doctor-who-the-chimes-of-midnight-653

Written by Robert Shearman

Starring Paul McGann and India Fisher

https://www.bigfinish.com/releases/v/doctor-who-the-chimes-of-midnight-653

As recommended by Stuart Hardy of Stubagful-fame

‘The Last Train: Detective Hiroshi’ - Volume 1’ - by Michael Pronko - https://amzn.to/3ASuKew 

As recommended by Victor Dima of The Audiobook Blog

On this episode of AudioBookClub, Matthew hasn’t done his homework and fails to review ‘A History of Modern Britain’ by Andrew Marr.

Quite spectacularly!

Steve Phillips and Matthew Layton present #AudioBookClub - a podcast that recommends and reviews audiobooks.

Fortunately, the BBC - an institution very close to both Steve’s and Matthew’s hearts - has just launched the amazon BBC Sounds app to a global audience.

Steve and Matthew ramble on passionately about the fantastic amount, quality and variety of premium audio content from the greatest broadcasting organisation there has ever been, that is now available to you, FOR FREE, wherever you live!

Title: A History of Modern Britain

Written by: Andrew Marr

Narrated by: David Timson

Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins

Publisher: Macmillan Digital Audio

Available: https://amzn.to/3B9fxWT 

BBC Sounds - https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds

Further reading - https://www.androidpolice.com/2020/11/12/bbc-sounds-app-now-available-for-listeners-around-the-globe/

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/help/questions/listening-outside-the-uk/international 

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Spiracle - https://www.spiracleaudiobooks.com/

‘Doctor Who: The Chimes of Midnight’ - https://www.bigfinish.com/releases/v/doctor-who-the-chimes-of-midnight-653

Written by Robert Shearman

Starring Paul McGann and India Fisher

https://www.bigfinish.com/releases/v/doctor-who-the-chimes-of-midnight-653

On this episode of AudioBookClub, we recommend the audiobook equivalent of that tatty, yellowing, old paperback book that you find in someone else’s holiday home. So slap on your sunscreen, recline by the pool and join us as we get stuck into ‘Fletch'

Steve Phillips and Matthew Layton present #AudioBookClub - a podcast that recommends and reviews audiobooks.

On this episode of #AudioBookClub Steve and Matthew get wrapped up in an historical artefact: Fletch - the 1974 novel that was made into a film in the 1980s starring Chevy Chase.

(Which is currently available for free if you’ve got an Audible subscription. Have a squiz at the Audible Plus section)

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Title: Fletch

Written by: Gregory Mcdonald

Narrated by: Dan John Miller

Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins

Publisher: Blackstone Audio 

Available: https://amzn.to/3B9fxWT

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Coming up on #AudioBookClub…

‘A History of Modern Britain’ - by Andrew Marr - https://amzn.to/3V94bKl 

Spiracle - https://www.spiracleaudiobooks.com/