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Title: Madame Bovary of the Suburbs

Author: Sophie Divry, Alison Anderson - translator

Narrator: Billie Fulford-Brown

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 36 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-07-17

Publisher: MacLehose Press

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

The story of a woman's life, from childhood to death, somewhere in provincial France, from the 1950s to just shy of 2025. She has doting parents, does well at school, finds a loving husband after one abortive attempt at passion, buys a big house with a moonlit terrace, makes decent money, has children, changes jobs, retires, grows old and dies. All in the comfort that the middle classes have grown accustomed to. But she's bored.

She takes up all sorts of outlets to try to make something happen in her life: adultery, charity work, esotericism, manic housecleaning, motherhood and various hobbies - each one abandoned faster than the last. But no matter what she does, her life remains unfocused and unfulfilled. Nothing truly satisfies her because deep down - just like the town where she lives - the landscape is nondescript, flat, horizontal.

Sophie Divry dramatises the philosophical conflict between freedom and comfort that marks women's lives in a materialistic world. Our heroine is an endearing, contemporary Emma Bovary, and Divry's prose will remind listeners of the best of Houellebecq, the cold, implacable historian who paints a precise portrait of an era and those who inhabit it - and in doing so renders existence indelibly absurd.

Translated from the French by Alison Anderson.

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Title: First Person

Author: Richard Flanagan

Narrator: David James

Format: Unabridged

Length: 13 hrs and 20 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-23-17

Publisher: Random House Audiobooks

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

Random House presents the audiobook edition of First Person by Richard Flanagan, read by David James.

Six weeks to write for your life....

In this blistering story of a ghostwriter haunted by his demonic subject, the Man Booker Prize winner turns to lies, crime and literature with devastating effect.

A young and penniless writer, Kif Kehlmann, is rung in the middle of the night by the notorious con man and corporate criminal, Siegfried Heidl. About to go to trial for defrauding the banks of $700 million, Heidl proposes a deal: $10,000 for Kehlmann to ghostwrite his memoir in six weeks.

Kehlmann accepts but begins to fear that he is being corrupted by Heidl. As the deadline draws closer, he becomes ever more unsure if he is ghostwriting a memoir, or if Heidl is rewriting him - his life, his future. Everything that was certain grows uncertain as he begins to wonder: who is Siegfried Heidl - and who is Kif Kehlmann?

By turns compelling, comic and chilling, First Person is a haunting journey into the heart of our age.

Members Reviews:

boring narrator, turgid story urgh

writers writing about writing is a dull topic indeed, and I thought this would be a character study but its not, it is just self indulgent navel gazing. and the narrator sounds so bored he can hardly keep awake so how can they expect the reader to ?

returned for money back and Id warn everyone to avoid this book like the plague (unless you suffer from insomnia)

how on earth these books win manbooker I will never know.

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Title: Americana

Author: Don DeLillo

Narrator: George Newbern

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12 hrs and 12 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-21-17

Publisher: Macmillan Digital Audio

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

David Bell embodies the American dream. He's 28 and has survived office coups and scandals and beaten lesser rivals to become an extremely successful TV exec. The images that flicker across America's screens, the fantasies that enthrall viewers, they are of his making.

But David's dream is turning sour, nightmarish. He wants reality, to touch, feel and record what is real. He takes a camera and journeys across America in a mad, roving quest to discover and capture some sense of his own and his country's past, present and future.

Americana is Don DeLillo's brilliant first audiobook.

Members Reviews:

Great,challenging fiction

Americana is DeLillo's first book. It presages authors like Chuck Palahniuk and Bret Easton Ellis thematically.

A discourse on alienation and emotional apathy with DeLillo's sense of humor and existential dread. This or End Zone are a good place to start reading DeLillo. His outlook on humanity isn't always cheerful but does show depth of thought. His prose is hypnotic yet (for DeLillo) deceptively simple and eminently readable.

He forwarned, Americana is seemingly intense to some readers although I find it one of DeLillo's easiest reads. It has a certain intensity that some folks I've encountered find difficult or not uplifting. Perhaps this is accurate for some but reading is an experiential enterprise.

This novel left me thinking of its thematic issues well after finishing its text. It is influential without being didactic or hysterically over wrought as many authors first novel can be. It is skillfully written and beautifully descriptive in its narrative.

"Then we came to the end of another dull and lurid year."

This first line is something that, in 1971, when the book was first published, almost predicts the aimlessness of the nineties. The principle character David Bell is lost in corporate America. There are few, if any, moments that occur in his life that he doesn't think of as dull or lurid. When David tells of his youth, you can see his separation from the world around him growing. The complete insincerity towards others and even himself. Before he tells the story of his own mother, he admits it will be hard, and hopes to not have to "blow some smoke into this or that passage - some smoke to hide the fire." Delillo's Bell is totally disillusioned. He's not ever sure what he wanted, but he's positive he's not getting it. He's unable to truly separate from past relationships: his ex-wife, old friends from college, old lovers. He leaves New York to find himself, to have that journey outward that leads inward, but the opposite occurs. As he delves deeper and deeper into Americana, Americana overshadows him. It becomes a giant organism in which he is only a single cell. No amount of ranting can change this fact for David. He buries himself in sexual encounter after sexual encounter, a sort of social masturbation. He lets secret angers (secret even to himself) boil out at odd moments that become strange acts of violence, kicking strangers in the ribs and trying to choke a friend to death in a misdirected drunken rage. Americana begins with a man lost, and ends with the desperate search for self having failed. A moment of insight occurs when David confronts hiself at a mirror. He recognizes at this moment, that all his life, every mirror he's ever looked into, always had him reflected back.

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Titel: Ich war Hitlers Trauzeuge

Autor:: Peter Keglevic

Erzähler: Matthias Koeberlin, Hanns Zischler

Format: Unabridged

Spieldauer: 19 hrs and 4 mins

Sprache: Deutsch

Veröffentlichungsdatum: 09-18-17

Herausgeber: Der Hörverlag

Kategorien: Fiction, Literary

Zusammenfassung des Herausgebers:

Lauf für ein Leben

Ostersonntag, 1945. In Berchtesgaden startet zum 13. Mal der große Volkslauf "Wir laufen für den Führer". 1.000 Kilometer in 20 Etappen durch das Tausendjährige Reich, und wie jedes Jahr darf der Sieger am 20. April Adolf Hitler zum Geburtstag gratulieren. Doch im Frühjahr 1945 ist es nicht leicht, eine stattliche Läuferschar aufzubieten. Dank Leni Riefenstahl, die das Ereignis verfilmen soll, landet der untergetauchte Jude Harry Freudenthal im Pulk der Läufer statt in den Fängen seiner Häscher. Der irrwitzige Lauf nach Berlin wird für Harry, der sich Paul Renner nennt, zur Odyssee - durch Deutschland und durch sein erinnertes Leben.

©2017 Knaus Verlag (P)2017 der Hörverlag

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Titel: Die Melodie meines Lebens

Autor:: Antoine Laurain

Erzähler: Axel Wostry

Format: Unabridged

Spieldauer: 6 hrs and 3 mins

Sprache: Deutsch

Veröffentlichungsdatum: 09-12-17

Herausgeber: Hoffmann und Campe

Kategorien: Fiction, Literary

Zusammenfassung des Herausgebers:

Ein Brief, der mit 33 Jahren Verspätung sein Ziel erreicht, stellt Alains ruhiges Leben auf den Kopf. Er ist Arzt und hat die fünfzig überschritten, seine Frau betrügt ihn, die Kinder sind längst aus dem Haus - trotzdem ist er eigentlich ganz zufrieden. Doch eines Morgens liegt in der Post ein Plattenvertrag für Alains Band The Hologrammes - von 1983. Alain wird zurückgeworfen in eine Zeit, als er und seine Band um ein Haar berühmt geworden wären, als noch alles möglich schien.

Er macht sich auf die Suche nach den anderen Bandmitgliedern - und findet einen erfolgreichen, aber verbitterten Künstler, dessen Freundin Alain ein vieldeutiges Lächeln schenkt, einen Präsidentschaftskandidaten und einen populistischen Politiker. Nur die Sängerin, die schöne Bérangère, in die Alain heimlich verliebt war, scheint zunächst verschwunden... Humorvoll und mit feinem Gespür für Nostalgie erzählt Antoine Laurain von vergessenen Lieben, verlorenen Freundschaften und verpassten Chancen - die plötzlich neues Glück versprechen.

©2017 Hoffmann und Campe (P)2017 Hoffmann und Campe

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Titel: Nichts als die Nacht

Autor:: John Williams

Erzähler: Alexander Fehling

Format: Unabridged

Spieldauer: 4 hrs and 3 mins

Sprache: Deutsch

Veröffentlichungsdatum: 09-11-17

Herausgeber: Der Hörverlag

Kategorien: Fiction, Literary

Zusammenfassung des Herausgebers:

Ein literarisches Juwel neu entdeckt

Das Leben des jungen Arthur Maxley schwankt zwischen Müßiggang und einem nie verwundenen Trauma aus der Kindheit. Einen Abend und eine Nacht lang folgen wir ihm: zunächst zu einem Dinner mit seinem Vater, den er viele Jahre nicht gesehen hat. Schuld und Scham lasten auf dieser Begegnung, deren abruptes Ende einen Vorgeschmack bietet auf das verheerende Finale dieser Nacht. Die Straßen und Bars des nächtlichen Los Angeles sind die Kulisse, vor der sich Arthurs innerer Abgrund auftut, während er der sinnlichen Verführung einer fremden Schönen nachgibt.

Alexander Fehling gibt der Sehnsucht nach dem Zustand der Unschuld eine Stimme, die noch lange im Hörer nachhallen wird.

©2017 dtv. Übersetzung von Bernhard Robben (P)2017 der Hörverlag

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Titel: Ein Gentleman in Moskau

Autor:: Amor Towles

Erzähler: Hans Jürgen Stockerl

Format: Abridged

Spieldauer: 11 hrs and 14 mins

Sprache: Deutsch

Veröffentlichungsdatum: 09-08-17

Herausgeber: HörbucHHamburg HHV GmbH

Kategorien: Fiction, Literary

Zusammenfassung des Herausgebers:

Moskau, 1922. Der genussfreudige Lebemann Graf Rostov wird verhaftet und zu lebenslangem Hausarrest verurteilt, ausgerechnet im Hotel Metropol, dem ersten Haus am Platz. Er muss alle bisher genossenen Privilegien aufgeben und eine Arbeit als Hilfskellner annehmen. Mit seinen 30 Jahren ist Rostov ein äußerst liebenswürdiger, immer optimistischer Gentleman.

Trotz seiner eingeschränkten Umstände lebt er ganz seine Überzeugung, dass selbst kleine gute Taten einer chaotischen Welt Sinn verleihen. Aber ihm bleibt nur der Blick aus dem Fenster, während draußen Russland stürmische Dekaden durchlebt. Seine Stunde kommt, als eine alte Freundin ihm ihre kleine Tochter anvertraut. Das Kind ändert sein Leben von Grund auf. Für das Mädchen wächst er über sich hinaus.

©2017 Ullstein Buchverlage GmbH, Berlin. Übersetzung von Susanne Höbel / Hörbuch Hamburg HHV GmbH, Hamburg (P)2017 Hörbuch Hamburg HHV GmbH, Hamburg

Kritik Bewertungen:

Towles ist ein Meistererzähler.

-- New York Times Book Review

Eine charmante Erinnerung an die Bedeutung von gutem Stil.

-- Washington Post

Elegant, dabei gleichzeitig filigran und üppig wie ein Schmuckei von Fabergé.

-- O, the Oprah Magazine

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Title: Drömslottet (Anne p Grönkulla 3)

Author: Lucy Maud Montgomery

Narrator: Lisa Carlehed

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 26 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-08-17

Publisher: SAGA Egmont

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

Dagen för Annes och Gilberts bröllop är äntligen här. Och Anne fr äntligen sitt drömslott: det lilla vita huset p Prins Edwards ö. Anne blir läkarhustru, och som sdan fr hon träffa mnga nya människor. En är den sorgsna Leslie, som snart anförtror sig till Anne.

Lucy Maud Montgomery (1874-1942) växte upp p en ö i Kanada, i samma omrde som böckerna om Anne utspelar sig. Till att börja med hittade hon ingen som ville ge ut hennes böcker om Anne p Grönkulla, men de väl gavs ut blev de en stor succé.

Böckerna har filmatiserats ett antal gnger och även spelats in som TV-serie. Böckerna om Anne p Grönkulla är odödliga klassiker som fängslat läsare i alla ldrar i över hundra r.

Här fr vi följa den föräldralösa drömmaren Anne, som växer upp p Prins Edwards ö, Kanada.

I originalöversättning av Karin Lidforss Jensen.

©2017 SAGA Egmont. Translated by Karin Lidforss-Jensen (P)2017 SAGA Egmont

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Title: English Animals

Author: Laura Kaye

Narrator: Genevieve Swallow

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11 hrs and 3 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-07-17

Publisher: Whole Story Audiobooks

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

When Mirka gets a job in a country house in England, she has no idea of the struggle she faces to make sense of a very English couple and a way of life entirely alien to her. Richard and Sophie are chaotic, drunken, frequently outrageous but also warm, generous and kind, despite their turbulent marriage. After a traumatic break two years ago with her family in Slovakia, Mirka finds she is happy at Fairmont Hall. But when she tells Sophie that she is gay, everything she values is put in danger, and she learns what she really believes in - the hard way.

Critic Reviews:

"It's a long time since I've enjoyed any debut novel as much as English Animals.... I am sure it will win several prizes." (Amanda Craig)

"A beautiful and bold debut." (M. J. Hyland, author of the Man Booker-short-listed Carry Me Down)

Members Reviews:

Five Stars

Great read.... I don't usually read fiction but this was well done

Rural Britain from a fresh and unexpected perspective. Compelling.

Anthropomorphic taxidermy may not be something youâve thought much about, but put it into a Google image search and it becomes strangely compelling: rats playing dominos, mice on a ferris wheel, frogs in a Victorian classroom and Walter Potterâs Kittenâs Wedding. And itâs on a picture of this strange wedding that the fortunes of English Animalsâ protagonist, Mirka, pivot.

Mirka is a lost soul - a Slovak immigrant who left her own country due to her sexuality and a scandal. She finds London impossible, and so joins an agency and applies for a poorly defined job as a general assistant in a grand country house. There she meets Sophie and Richard; a couple fighting to support the house with a variety of enterprises from running shoots, hosting weddings and providing b&b to selling taxidermy - itâs the taxidermy they want the most help with.

Mirka starts out reluctantly aiding Richard, but soon surpasses him in skill and, inspired by Walter Potter, starts creating popular âscenesâ of her own. Her taxidermy tableaux showcase her gentle and perceptive insight into British culture, and, to me, serve as a reflection of the book itself: English Animals is also a series of portraits of modern Britain, and theyâre as original, perceptive and subversive as Mirkaâs own.

Sketch by sketch author Laura Kaye builds a picture of a certain slice of rural British society, that is at once unforgiving and affectionate, and generally quite funny. There is Awkward Pub Dinner, Gay Wedding, Bad Taste Party, Picnic With Intolerant Patriarch and East London Magazine Party for starters. The beauty of the book is that for all the familiarity of these settings there is always a fresh and unexpected perspective. The magazine party, for example - for all itâs hipster pretentiousness it is actually a charming source of hope for someone searching for their âown tribe.â

As Mirka drags one stuffy(!) British relic into modern times for re-examination, so too does Kaye, undermining expectations and introducing characters that will upend your stereotypes alongside those that will confirm them.

Like my taxidermy image search, English Animals is strangely compelling. It sneaks up on you slowly, not least because itâs written from Mirkaâs point of view: as English is not her first language, the prose is necessarily spare and clear, deceptively simple.

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Title: War Crimes for the Home

Author: Liz Jensen

Narrator: Juanita McMahon

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 15 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-05-17

Publisher: Whole Story Audiobooks

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

In War Crimes for the Home we meet an old and forgetful Gloria, living in an old folks' home called Sea View. But when she met Ron, he was a handsome American pilot, and she was working in a munitions factory in Bristol during the Blitz.

Now, 50 years on, Gloria starts to remember what happened....

Critic Reviews:

"Ambitious, mischievous, clever and very funny." (Time Out)

"Deliciously witty and equally touching." (Jenni Murray, Woman's Hour)

Members Reviews:

Hilarious and Touching

I "discovered" Liz Jensen with her recent novel, "The Ninth Life of Louis Drax", and have been devouring her earlier novels as fast as I can. I couldn't put down "War Crimes for the Home". It's laugh-out-loud funny, but also a compelling mystery, and a touching story of love and loss. I dare anyone to get to know protagonist, Gloria, without in turns loving her and wanting to strangle her.

Jensen's wonderful satiric skill rivals Fay Weldon. Those Brits sure can twist in the irony knife, too. Brava!

A great little story

Although I wanted to dislike Gloria for her courseness and low morals I couldn't. She was rather a sad character, yet at times made me laugh by her bluntness and the way she described others.

Although I'm sure that this is not how the majority of girls behaved during the war, I'm equally sure that some did. It was a poignant and honest description of how people must have felt in times of war when you never knew if you'd see someone again whether it be your boyfriend/father/brother on a bombing mission or your neighbour in a bombing raid.

Some of the descriptions reminded me of stories my parents and grandparents have spoken of; dying your legs with tea and trying to draw a straight seam up the back of your leg, food rationing, the Americans being 'over paid, over sexed and over here' and even the term "mind your own beeswax" rang a bell.

I think Jenson managed really well to capture what it must be like to be old and living in a nursing home, feeling old one minute but still caught up in your memories that make you always remain young.

A great little story.

Although I wanted to dislike Gloria for her courseness and low morals I couldn't. She was rather a sad character, yet at times made me laugh by her bluntness and the way she described others.

Although I'm sure that this is not how the majority of girls behaved during the war, I'm equally sure that some did. It was a poignant and honest description of how people must have felt in times of war when you never knew if you'd see someone again whether it be your boyfriend/father/brother on a bombing mission or your neighbour in a bombing raid.

Some of the descriptions reminded me of stories my parents and grandparents have spoken of; dying your legs with tea and trying to draw a straight seam up the back of your leg, food rationing, the Americans being 'over paid, over sexed and over here' and even the term "mind your own beeswax" rang a bell.

I think Jenson managed really well to capture what it must be like to be old and living in a nursing home, feeling old one minute but still caught up in your memories that make you always remain young.

War and humour

This was a book I could just not put down. I initially thought I could `read' the plot but every page had a twist or turn.