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Title: Jacko

Subtitle: The Great Intruder

Author: Tom Kenneally

Narrator: James Wright

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12 hrs and 10 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-18-12

Publisher: Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

Jacko Emptor, Northern Territory born, brings Australian wildness to the television screens of America. Is America ready for him? Is he ready for America? Jacko, investigative reporter, exploits American innocence to break into living rooms and penetrate the heart's secrets. But these secrets make their claim on him too, especially the secrets of Sunny Sondquist, a child-woman missing in the American heartland. Follow Jacko as he exposes evil, falls from grace, and shows how television makes gods of some and fools of many.

Critic Reviews:

From the best-selling author of Schindler's List.

"A prodigious talent ... engrossing, compelling, curious and, at best, profound." (The Age)

Members Reviews:

nothing's simple

A great style with narrator providing his view of the complexities of friendship between hemispheres..

These people all live[d]!

When this book finally reached North America, i urged my book discussion group to read it as a quality example of Australian writing. The reactions were nearly identical to those on this page - Jacko is a creep and the ending seems to drop you unfulfilled. Urging the group to reconsider the options Jacko faces on the last page against the character he's presented up to that point, the e-Mail over the next month became almost daily exchanges. The discussion group members realized how powerfully Keneally can depict people and what a superb story teller this author is. My discussion group was astounded to learn that nearly every character in this book actually lived.

Jacko is the story of a son of Outback Oz having made the unlikely transplant to New York City. He's a major figure in New York television because he has a 'gimmick' - he literally 'crashes' people's homes first thing in the morning. Like all major figures, people come to him to solve their personal problems. In this case, it's a missing daughter. Jacko seizes on this occurrence as both a means of enhancing his image and perform a act of moral value. Jacko's quest for the girl and the demands of his own family's issues allow Keneally to take us from New York to the Australian bush and finally to the Berlin Wall on that fateful night it was reduced back to the level of Berlin streets.

Keneally's ability to portray persona is amply demonstrated in his depiction of Jacko, writer Michael Bickham [anyone know who this really is?], Outback station owner Stammer Emptor, film director Mark Torlucci and the others. Perhaps Gunter is the only person in this narrative without a specific life model. The most poignant scene depicts the death of 'Barry Larson' who is based on a photographer Keneally worked with in producing a pictorial essay about life in the Australian bush. Chloe Emptor clearly achieves dominant status in this book. Only Australia, and its Northern Territory, could produce such a figure, and a writer like Keneally to portray her. Having read the autobiography of the woman Keneally bases this figure on, she should be gratified at the depiction.

Too many American reviews of Keneally mark him as an "Australian" writer as if that somehow limited his abilities or his work lacks some indispensable element. Nothing could be more misleading when assessing his work. His stories are universal in both circumstances and character development.

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Title: I'm a Box

Author: Natalia Carrero, Johanna Warren (translator)

Narrator: Arielle DeLisle

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4 hrs and 20 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-16-12

Publisher: Brilliance Audio

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

Nadila is a writer who believes blindly in the redemptive power of literature. In her search for her own voice, she sets to work studying the complete oeuvre of Brazilian writer Clarice Lispector. As if trying different styles in front of a mirror, the protagonist, who cant quite figure out who she is or what she has to say, measures herself against the formidably seductive Clarice: she reads her books, copies her style, searches for her, and even ventures with her to the boundaries between imagination and reality. Im a Box is a 21st-century novel about the adventure of imaginative discovery (one detail at a time).

Members Reviews:

A wonky novel lacking universal appeal

If you're a fan of the straight-forward story line with a logical plot progression you may as well forgo reading this book. Likewise, if stream of consciousness isn't your thing this isn't the book for you.

It almost defies description, though as a fan of this sort of experimental fiction I'll try my best. Nadila, the main character, is struggling to write, while also working in a bookstore. She's a fan of Brazilian novelist Clarice Lispector and very much influenced by her. It's at this point the book starts to become really obscure, the point at which those who aren't fans of this sort of fiction may want to hurl it across the room...

It's the writing process of Nadilia that's the subject of the bulk of the novel. While some of it's well-written - again, if you enjoy the style - it isn't consistently so. Is it worth reading? Well, I wasn't all that happy I spent so much time on it, considering now that I'm done it's so hard to describe. Parts I liked but mostly it was an up and down ride, more down than up, unfortunately.

Despite a few lovely passages, I'm afraid I wouldn't recommend the book.

Earnest but not compelling

An earnest, inquisitive young woman discovers the works of Brazilian writer Clarice Lespector and tries to become her biggest fan girl in this debut work of fiction. The text itself shies away from calling this a novel and that's an honest assessment. There is no narrative structure, no plot, no conflict outside young Nadila's wishes to be a writer as good as her role model.

In the closing pages, another reason for seeking kinship with the writer is revealed but, as with everything else in this work, nothing comes from it.

And that appears to be the biggest flaw here. Just writing that someone is important to you and quoting from that person doesn't carry much weight. The narrator says she has learned more about herself from the experience of doing this writing, but what that was remains abstract. Lespector wrote abstract pieces herself, in addition to journalistic pieces, but the allure of her work isn't made clear in I'm a Box.

Communicating how she has grown in self-knowledge, and what that might mean to her future, or communicating why Lespector should be read today would have made for a successful work.

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Title: City of the Lion

Author: Carl Muller

Narrator: Manish Dongardive

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 18 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-20-12

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 1 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

For many centuries, Lanka was referred to as Sihaladipa the island of the Sihala, the people of the lion. This is the magnificent story of Anuradhapura, the greatest Asian Buddhist city of ancient times, and the proud capital of the lion kings of Lanka. In Children of the Lion, Carl Muller recreated the story of the conquest of Lanka by Sihabahu and Sihasivali s eldest son, the disgraced and banished Vijaya. Continuing this monumental saga, richly embedded in myth and legend, City of the Lion, the second book in the series, carries forward the story of the Sinhala race.

The book recreates the return of the lion people to Anuradhapura after the bold and reckless Sinhala prince, Duttha Gamani, waged war, slaying the usurping Damila king, Elara, who had ruled over their precious city for 44 years. The city, where Duttha Gamini built the most enduring monuments of Buddhism, grew, flourished, and the edifices of Buddhist glory rose to become the wonders of the East.

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Title: Sentimental Exorcisms

Author: David Derry

Narrator: Anthony St. Pierre

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 50 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-16-12

Publisher: Iambik Audio Inc.

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

A former lover becomes an uninvited houseguest in Ted and Marjorys quiet abode, adversely affecting investigations into the history of the semicolon. A prosecutor must compulsively narrate his neighbour into ignominy. A market analysts visit to a stripper goes awry, leading to a compulsory leave from work and an intervention from loved ones. An English lit undergraduate finds himself besieged by increasingly urgent voyeuristic desires, and soon finds himself pressed to the glass, firm in his belief that the only way to exorcise his demon is to identify its essential objectives and achieve them. Meanwhile, poor Tim Pine must face his coprophobia in a most public and lamentable office misadventure.

Sentimental Exorcisms is a collection of tragicomic satire, latter-day Victorian collisions of Nabokov and Proust. The men in these long short stories have grand designs and petty fears, or modest designs and grand fears. Desires, scapegoats, idylls and obtrusive egos: the golden calves they cant quite bear to kill. With their ramparts crumbling around them, each mounts an exuberant defence in a vacuum of self-absorption.

Critic Reviews:

"These are stories of weird obsessions, the kind in which one really lousy decision can lead to all sorts of mayhem." (Quentin Mills-Fenn, Uptown)

"[A] subtly subversive collection." (Michael Mirolla, Event)

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Title: The Happy Numbers of Julius Miles

Author: Jim Keeble

Narrator: Richard Pearce

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12 hrs and 25 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-08-12

Publisher: Audible Studios

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

Julius Miles is a mathematical genius, but he is hefty of frame, awkward with the opposite sex and struggling to bring his existence into balance. When he stumbles across the girl next door naked and dead on her Victorian tiles, he starts to unravel the one equation that's eluded him: that of his own life. And so it is that with the most unlikely of assistants - a transsexual Cupid with a penchant for drugs - he embarks on a quest to find the truth about love, death, family, and how, ultimately, you make your numbers happy.

Members Reviews:

Funny, compelling, original.

I LOVED this book. What an amazing find! I picked it up for the title, which intrigued me, and it did not let me down. A truly original story peopled with well rounded, believable characters with very human dilemmas. The multi-cultural east end of London comes alive in this book, the scents, the noises, the colorful people. Loved Felicity, adored Julius, liked Awa, even warmed to Daisy in the end. A great book, beautifully written, with compassion and love.

Page 23: 'There's no end of labels in the modern world designed to make us anonymous.'

Page 52: 'I have found that absence is often the predominant force in our lives.'

Page 90: 'Pain sometimes the closest we come to true prayer in our lives.'

Page 247: 'To my mind, memories are merely the stories we prefer to other stories...'

Page 272: 'Real love is the one that breaks us.

Great read!

London is brought to life as you follow a pill popping transsexual cupid who gets caught up trying to solve a murder while searching for a (possibly autistic) statistician's match.

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Title: Nutmeg

Author: Maria Goodin

Narrator: Imogen Church

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 27 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-17-12

Publisher: Audible Studios

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

Meg grew up in a world of food-filled fantasy, where her first tooth was so sharp her mother used her as a can opener, and eating too many apples once left her spitting pips. Then, aged five, she was humiliated in front of the other children at school and turned her back on the world of fiction, looking to logic to rule her everyday thoughts and deeds.

Now, years later, Meg's mother falls ill and while Meg struggles to deal with the situation in an orderly fashion, her mother remains cocooned in her obsession with cookery, refusing to face up to her illness.

Time is running out and Meg is determined to discover the truth about her childhood before it's too late; but the truth is not what she hoped it would be. Meg faces a humbling decision: to embrace cold harsh reality, or join her mother in a wonderful world of make-believe.

Maybe life isn't defined as fact or fiction - perhaps it can include truth, lies, and everything in between.

Members Reviews:

Whimsical tale

The mother in this novel brings magic into the life of her daughter through her love of food. The language is playful and whimsical initially as the author explores their relationship in relation to food and cooking. As the story progresses it becomes a more complex and humane relationship and the novel is both funny and sad. A good listen - well read.

cute and spicey

Would you listen to Nutmeg again? Why?

no, once I've listened to a book, that;s enougth for me

What other book might you compare Nutmeg to, and why?

i woudn't

What does Imogen Church bring to the story that you wouldnt experience if you had only read the book?

the charactors, Imogen is a super narrator, you can easily distinguish the different people in the book

Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?

alwasy but would never have the chance

Any additional comments?

love imogen, massive fan of her narrations

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Title: Telling Stories

Author: Beverley Jones

Narrator: Jilly Bond

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 12 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-11-12

Publisher: Audible Studios

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

Friendship, freedom, booze and student loans: the glory days of University, the halcyon haze. For friends Liz, Cora, Mike and Stevie, students at Cardiff, that haze was shared, their circle tight, a surrogate family, bound together for three idyllic, hedonistic years in total trust. Or so it seemed. Mike and Cora marry after graduation, while Liz and Stevie look on, misty-eyed. The newlyweds move back across the border, Liz starts a career in journalism, and the group 'stays in touch' with growing distance as the routines of work and Mike and Cora's presumed domestic bliss colonise their daily lives.

A few years on, the circle reunites, with Mike and Cora returning to live in Cardiff. The foursome paints the town, marking Stevie's birthday in an orgy of nostalgia. As they drink and dance, from nowhere, a beautiful - and younger - flame-haired girl appears. This 'Jenny' seems to recognise them, knows their names...but her identity's a total mystery to them all. Or so Liz and Cora think. Then Mike and Jenny vanish from the bar; and he does not make it home that night. His innocent next-day explanation doesn't quite ring true...and then Jenny reappears. As a corpse, found by the river, foul play presumed. Liz is assigned to cover the story, and finds herself caught up in an expanding web of lies, as Jenny's death is traced back to that fateful night. Threats of blackmail and a nervous breakdown on Cora's part follow.

As mutual suspicion mounts, the ancient secrets of their college days begin to catch up with them all...and Liz begins to contemplate a drastic final solution. Unrequited love and murderous intentions meet, in a tangle of fear and confusion that threatens not just Mike and Cora's marriage, but the four friends' cherished past. A murder mystery, full of surprises, Telling Stories subverts and re-invents the chick lit genre in a darker shade of lipstick, marking the emergence of a major new voice in British fiction.

Members Reviews:

A compelling mystery

This is an excellent debut novel. Bev Jones has worked as a journalist in the South Wales area and she uses the background and her experience to full effect. The story starts with a group of young students at Cardiff university, all apparently good friends, but right from the start there is a sense of something slightly out of joint, not quite right between them, and this sense of menace grows steadily until by the middle of the book we are in the middle of what appears to be a serious crime that has crept up on everyone unawares. The author displays great skill in showing how very small, almost insignificant everyday incidents can lead the reader - and narrator - into a maze of unexpected horror from which the only escape seems to be the murder of her best friend. The title -Telling Stories' - is significant; as a journalist the narrator finds herself writing about a crime in which she herself may be implicated. That is, if it really is a crime - all of her sources tell different stories which are only tangentially related to the truth. No one knows the real picture, but each person, at different points, is compelled to act on what they think they know, daring to `disturb the universe' and creating a new kaleidoscope of danger and deception.

The book starts slowly but becomes steadily more compelling. Bev Jones writes well, and she knows what she is writing about.

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Title: The Pink Hotel

Author: Anna Stothard

Narrator: Imogen Church

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 16 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-17-12

Publisher: Audible Studios

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

Breaking news: The Pink Hotel is soon being made into a movieget ahead of the rest and listen to it before you see it!

A seventeen-year-old London girl flies to Los Angeles for the funeral of her mother Lily, from whom she has been estranged since her childhood. Stealing a suitcase of letters, clothes and photographs from her mum's bedroom at the top of a hotel on Venice Beach, the girl spends her summer travelling around Los Angeles, returning love letters and photographs to the men who had known her mother. But as she discovers more about Lily's past and tries to re-enact her life, she comes to question the foundations of her own.

Members Reviews:

Beautifully written and narrated

I downloaded this on a whim having heard about the writers next book, due out later this year. While its a little hard to empathise with the protagonist sometimes, the narration is superb great accents and you can really visualise the characters. But the main thing is the descriptive writing, which is amazing. Its so evocative of the places, the people, the atmosphere. You can smell the scorching, sticky heat of LA wafting off the pages (or rather, out of the car speakers). Loved it. If Id had the time to listen in one go, I would have! Definitely recommend.

Listless narration

I couldn't get on with the monotonous narration, very disappointed. Perhaps the story improved as it went on, however I found it almost as boring as the dull voice of the reader.

Not my cup of tea at all

I really did not like the story or the characters. Quite well read but spoilt by the story. Quite depressing really.

Complete absorption

I just loved this book! The narration was absolutely superb and the characterisation tremendous. It drew me in, and I lived with the main character for many happy hours. The story was beautifully crafted and totally believable, and I was not sure of the ending until I came to it. The twist was not foreseen by me. I loved the flaws in the characters too - no black and white (in a characterisation sense!) here. Just charming

take it back

Not sure how interesting the story really is. I was underwhelmed by the plot. I did find it difficult to concentrate and never really got drawn into the mystery so perhaps I wandered too much and didnt pay attention. I returned the book as I didnt really want to give it another go. Best read other reviews to make up your mind

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Título: Tocarnos la cara [Touching the Face]

Autor: Belén Gopegui

Narrador: Aurora De La Iglesia, José Carlos Domínguez

Formato: Unabridged

Duración: 6 hrs and 1 min

Idioma: Español

Fecha de publicación: 08-15-12

Editor: Audiomol

Categorías: Fiction, Literary

Resumen del editor:

Un conocido profesor de teatro, llamado Simón Cátero, embarca en un proyecto a cuatro alumnos suyos. Se trata de crear un espejo de carne y hueso. Los cuatro tienen la impresión de ser usurpadores, habitantes privilegiados de la ciudad; ninguno se atreve a merecer su futuro; los cuatro desean que el proyecto dé un sentido a sus existencias privadas, individuales. Cuando el proyecto fracase, se verán obligados a afrontar la decisión de construir sus vidas.

Please note: This audiobook is in Spanish.

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Título: Nadie me mata [Nobody Kills Me]

Autor: Javier Azpeitia

Narrador: José Carlos Domínguez

Formato: Unabridged

Duración: 5 hrs and 31 mins

Idioma: Español

Fecha de publicación: 08-15-12

Editor: Audiomol

Calificaciones: 3 de 5 de 1 votos

Categorías: Fiction, Literary

Resumen del editor:

¿Qué haría usted si un día despertara amnésico en un cuerpo que no es el suyo? ¿Qué haría usted si cada vez que se quedara dormido su alma cambiara de cuerpo y se viera así obligado a ser, sucesivamente, un perista tramposo, una actriz bellísima, una niña solitaria, un policía mafioso, una yonqui reenganchada?

En un tiempo ignoto (mayo de 2007) y en un Madrid terrorífico, roto en zanjas por las excavadoras y con la población presa del pánico por la gripe aviar, el protagonista de esta historia vaga de cuerpo en cuerpo intentando averiguar su propia identidad, intentando no enamorarse de una muchacha hacia la que sus distintos cuerpos lo llevan, intentando ver una película en la que sorprendentemente se hallan las claves de lo que le ocurre e intentando que no suceda un crimen del que ya ha sido testigo y del que conoce casi todo: el asesino, el arma homicida, el día y la hora. Todo menos la víctima....

Nadie me mata es una obra que, desde el humor, la fantasía y muchos rasgos propios de la novela criminal, aborda la extrañeza del hombre del siglo xxi ante su cuerpo, ante la incomprensibilidad del ser y ante la incapacidad para reconocer la propia identidad.

Please note: This audiobook is in Spanish.