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/

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

On this episode:

We have a guest ‘recommender’.

Her name is Charlotte Layton, she is 11 years old and she has brought ‘What Not To Do If You Turn Invisible’ by Ross Welford  to the #AudioBookClub table.

Nepotism is alive and well here at #AudioBookClub!

Please get involved in the conversation - either with your opinions on ‘What Not to Do If You Turn Invisible’ or if you want to recommend an audiobook for us to review by using #AudioBookClub on facebook, twitter or instagram.

@SteveKPhillips and @WhingeingPom

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Coming up on #AudioBookClub…

Fletch - https://amzn.to/3tzLbIM 

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

On this week’s #AudioBookClub, the third instalment of the most brilliantly conceived, lovingly dramatised, lavishly produced and, in our opinion, bestest audiobook series in the world… EVER!

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

On this episode:

The Sandman: Act III

The biggest audiobook release of the year.

The most extravagant cast.

The most lavish production.

(Frankly, we’re running out of superlatives here)

Lovingly adapted and sculpted in sound by Dirk Maggs - the man we’re not afraid to call ‘The Greatest Audiobook Producer in the World’ - from the original graphic novels written by Neil Gaiman many moons ago.

Title: The Sandman: Act III

By: Neil Gaiman and Dirk Maggs

Narrators: Neil Gaiman, James McAvoy, David Harewood, Regé-Jean Page, Wil Wheaton and full cast

Length: 11 hrs and 32 mins

Publisher: Audible Originals/DC Comics

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

Please get involved in the conversation - either with your opinions on 'TheSandman: Act III' or if you want to recommend an audiobook for us to review.

@SteveKPhillips and @WhingeingPom

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Coming up on #AudioBookClub…

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

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

On this episode: 

From the Oasthouse: The Alan Partridge Podcast (Series 2)

Steve and Matthew review and recommend the latest offering from bastillion of British broadcasting and self-proclaimed ‘Godfather of Podcasting’ Alan Partridge

Partridge is, of course, the creation of comedian, actor and Oscar-nominated writer and producer Steve Coogan.

Title: From the Oasthouse: The Alan Partridge Podcast (Series 2)

Author: Alan Partridge

Narrator: Alan Partridge

Length: 4 hrs and 15 mins

Publisher: Audible Originals

Categories: Comedy & Humour

Please get involved in the conversation - either with your opinions on ‘From The Oasthouse’’ or if you want to recommend an audiobook for us to review by using #AudioBookClub on facebook, twitter or instagram.

@SteveKPhillips and @WhingeingPom

https://www.audiobookclub.net/ 

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Coming up on #AudioBookClub…

The Sandman: Act III - https://amzn.to/3TMtu3J

What Not To Do If You Turn Invisible - https://amzn.to/3E6csZy

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

On this episode: 

Steve and Matthew review and recommend the real history of the renaissance castle that was the home to the Third Reich’s most notorious prisoner of war camp

The camp where they imprisoned only the most troublesome Allied military prisoners - many of them serial escapists - all of them enemies of the German State.

Welcome….  to Colditz! 

Title: Colditz: Prisoners of the Castle

Author: Ben MacIntyre

Narrator: Ben MacIntyre

Publisher: Penguin Audio

Length: 13 hours and 25 minutes

Please get involved in the conversation - either with your opinions on ‘Colditz: Prisoners of the Castle’ or if you want to recommend an audiobook for us to review by using #AudioBookClub on facebook, twitter or instagram.

@SteveKPhillips and @WhingeingPom

https://www.audiobookclub.net/ 

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Coming up on #AudioBookClub…

From the Oasthouse: The Alan Partridge Podcast (Series 2) - https://amzn.to/3yia0vA

The Sandman: Act III - https://amzn.to/3TMtu3J

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

On this episode: 

‘The Bullet That Missed’ Book 3 of Richard Osman’s Thursday Murder Club series of whodunnits set in idyllic retirement village Coopers Chase.

For people (like Matthew) who have read the first two books in the series, it’s the eagerly awaited return of beloved characters Joyce, Elizabeth, Ron and Ibrahim.

For people (like Steve) who are new to the seriesm it’s a chance to follow the adventures of a group of senior citizens who have taken to solving murders. Society may have cast them aside, but they are fully rounded human beings with a wealth of experience.

In our role as one of the world’s very few audiobook review and recommendation podcasts, we feel it is our duty to bring up the issue that nobody else is talking about - to mention the elephant in the room:

Changing a narrator? Three books into an audiobook series?

Is that even legal?

Please get involved in the conversation - either with your opinions on ‘The Bullet That Missed’ or if you want to recommend an audiobook for us to review by using #AudioBookClub on facebook, twitter or instagram.

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Coming up on AudioBookClub…

‘Colditz: Prisoners of the Castle’ by Ben MacIntyre - https://amzn.to/3EiofUR 

From the Oasthouse: The Alan Partridge Podcast (Series 2) - https://amzn.to/3yia0vA

On the latest episode of #AudioBookClub - the audiobook review and recommendation podcast - Steve and Matthew leave their comfort zone to discuss possibly the most punk audiobook of all time.

‘NOFX: The Hepatitis Bathtub’' by NOFX and Jeff Alulis is a collection of autobiographical vignettes from L.A. punk band NOFX.

When we say ‘vignettes’ we mean ‘often disturbing and even disgusting stories’

Steve and Matthew are joined by ‘friend of the show’ Shane Kendall who is responsible for recommending that we listen to this particular audiobook.

On this episode of #AudioBookClub Steve and Matt consume 'Fibber in the Heat' by Miles Jupp - an autobiographical memoir of the actor/comedian/author's attempt to blag his way into becoming a cricket journalist.

In ‘Notes from the Margin’, we’ll be asking ‘How new does an audiobook have to be to be considered worthy of recommendation by #AudioBookClub?’.

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Fibber in the Heat

Following England in India - A Blagger's Tale

By: Miles Jupp

Narrated by: Miles Jupp

Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins

Release date: 10-05-2012

Publisher: Random House Audiobooks

On the latest episode of #AudioBookClub - the audiobook review and recommendation podcast - Steve and Matthew discuss ‘The Twist of a Knife' - the fourth in Anthony Horowitz’s Horowitz and Hawthorne whodunnits

The Twist of a Knife 

Written by Anthony Horowitz

‘Performed’ (not read) by Rory Kinnear

Published by Penguin Audio - 2022

Clocks in at 8 hours and 31 minutes

On the latest episode of #AudioBookClub - an interactive audiobook review and recommendation podcast - Steve and Matthew discuss ‘Touch the Top of the World’ an autobiography from Erik Weihenmayer who was the first blind person to climb to the top of Mount Everest.

This gives Steve a chance to ask Matthew about his day job at Vision Australia Radio.

In their new ‘Notes from the Margin’ section - the bit that’s about audiobooks in general - Steve and Matthew continue their conversation about giving audiobooks as gifts and ask “Is it better to give or to receive?”

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Touch the Top of the World: A Blind Man's Journey to Climb Farther Than the Eye Can See

By: Erik Weihenmayer

Narrated by: Nick Sullivan

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Length: 11 hrs and 18 mins

COMING UP:

4th September 2022 - Fibber in the Heat by Miles Jupp

11th September 2022 - NOFX: ‘The Hepatitis Bathtub and Other Stories’ by NOFX, Jello Biafra, et al.