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Title: Three Things About Elsie

Author: Joanna Cannon

Narrator: Paula Wilcox

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 43 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-11-18

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Limited

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

There are three things you should know about Elsie.

The first thing is that she's my best friend.

The second is that she always knows what to say to make me feel better.

And the third thing...might take a little bit more explaining.

Eighty-four-year-old Florence has fallen in her flat at Cherry Tree Home for the Elderly. As she waits to be rescued, Florence wonders if a terrible secret from her past is about to come to light; and, if the charming new resident is who he claims to be, why does he look exactly like a man who died 60 years ago?

From the author of The Trouble with Goats and Sheep, this book will teach you many things, but here are three of them:

Critic Reviews:

"Charming, wise and profoundly human. I lived every page of this book." (Erin Kelly)

"A warm, wise novel - brilliantly entertaining - that also manages to be a timely and profound take on ageing. I loved it." (Kate Hamer)

"A real treasure from Joanna Cannon's wry and amusing world, where the long view from the day-room is at once poignant and perceptive." (James Hannah)

Members Reviews:

My long second

I truly love this book, it is written with such sensitivity and insight. The characters are treated with care and respect.

I spent many years nursing older people with acute mental health illness, and this reminds me so much of those times when I've tried to unpick the seeds of reality from distressing delusional ideas.

Utterly Brilliant

I started listening to this book because I needed something light to listen to. It is utterly brilliant as my heading says. I never would, nor did I, have guessed the ending in a zillion years. I really loved this book from the very first page until the last page.

Short

Lovely book but if Id realised it was so short Id never have used up a credit.

Fantastic

A very well written story that is told by the perfect actress for the role.

made me cry on the m1!

thought at the start that I wouldn't be able to get through it, I found it quite sad and thought I might get a bit depressed. However, I stuck with it, and the story was fantastic. I listen when driving to and from work and Flo has been a good friend for almost 2 weeks now. I will miss her

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Title: Phone

Author: Will Self

Narrator: Mike Grady

Format: Unabridged

Length: 21 hrs and 34 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-09-18

Publisher: HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

Published to rave reviews in the United Kingdom, Phone tells the story of two men: Zack Busner and Jonathan De'Ath.

Busner is a psychiatrist who has made his name through his unorthodox treatment of psychological damage, such as giving the controversial drug L-DOPA to patients ravaged by encephalitis, or administering LSD to World War II PTSD-sufferers.

But now Busner's own mind is fraying: Alzheimer's is shredding his memory and his newest possession is a shiny smartphone given to him by his introverted grandson Ben. Meanwhile, Jonathan De'Ath, aka "the Butcher", is an MI6 man who remains a mystery even to those closest to him, be it his washed-up old university lecturer father, his jumbling-bumbling mother, his hippy-dippy brothers, his spooky colleagues or multitudinous lovers.

All of De'Ath's acquaintances apply the "Butcher" epithet to him, and perhaps there is only one person who thinks of him with tenderness, a man he keeps top secret, encrypted in the databanks of his steely mind: Colonel Gawain Thomas, husband, father, highly-trained tank commander, and Jonathan De'Ath's long-time lover.

As Busner's mind totters and Jonathan and Gawain's affair teeters, they come to face the interconnectedness of all lives, online and off, while an irritating phone continues to ring...ring...ring....

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Title: Alphabet

Subtitle: A Novel

Author: Kathy Page

Narrator: Joe Jameson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 57 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-02-18

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

Simon Austen has the names people have called him tattooed all over his body. Waste of Space. Bastard. A Threat to Women. Murderer. Facing a lifetime behind bars and subjected to new therapies for sexual reprogramming, Simon finds himself plunged into a terrifying process of self-reconstruction. But how much, in the end, can a man really change?

Darkly compelling and deeply moving, Alphabet is a psychological exploration of one man's uncertain and often harrowing journey towards rehabilitation.

Critic Reviews:

"Simply an epiphany." (Kirkus)

"Intense, revealing, challenging and above all riveting...I kept saying to myself, how could she know this? (Erwin James, convicted murderer, author of A Life Inside: A Prisoners Notebook)

"Sometimes novelists go too far - and sometimes they manage to demonstrate that too far is the place they needed to go." (Time Out UK)

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Title: The Love Letters

Subtitle: A Novel

Author: Madeleine L'Engle

Narrator: Susan Ericksen

Format: Unabridged

Length: 14 hrs and 16 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-20-17

Publisher: Brilliance Audio

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

Past and present collide in this heartfelt novel of love and loss from the National Book Award-winning author of A Wrinkle in Time.

After the tragic death of her son and the seeming collapse of her marriage, Charlotte Napier flees to Portugal in the hopes of finding guidance from her mentor: her mother-in-law, Violet. Instead, she finds solace in the letters of Mariana Alcoforado, a seventeenth-century nun.

Charlotte and Mariana's stories may be different in origin, but they share the same inner turmoil. As she reads the letters, Mariana's spiritual journey sheds light on Charlotte's own crisis. Finding inspiration in the nun's struggles with sin, temptation, and faith, Charlotte gains perspective on her own mind - and sets out to accept the demanding, challenging nature of love.

Members Reviews:

Answering the Call

Madeleine L'Engle is best known for her works of children's fiction, so much so that her works for adults are often overlooked or unknown. Such seems to be the case with her 1966 novel, "Love Letters". Perhaps its somewhat fluffy title does it an injustice, for this is no romance in the sense that the title may imply, but rather a well-crafted exploration of love and loss that intertwines fact and fiction and religion all while mesmerizing the reader.

L'Engle's tale begins with Charlotte Napier, a young woman fleeing her husband to seek out her mother-in-law in Portugal. Her flight is precipitated by the death of their five-year-old son and the couple's inability to grieve together. Charlotte finds herself drawn to a book of letters, purported to have been written by a Portuguese nun to a French soldier who was her lover. Charlotte sees much of herself, perhaps too much, in the young Mariana Alcoforado as she tries to come to terms with love, marriage, loss, and belief. L'Engle artfully and effortlessly combines the two women's stories, separated by three hundred years, seamlessly interjecting questions and thoughts that pertain to both. Charlotte spent most of her youth in convent schools but has rejected God; Mariana promised herself to the Lord but is blinded by unexpected love. In her depiction of these two women who experience great love and loss, L'Engle makes observations that apply to everyone who has ever experienced or questioned what love is supposed to be.

L'Engle's novel is a work of fiction: although the "Letters of a Portuguese Nun" do exist (whether they themselves are a work of fact or fiction has been hotly debated since they were first published), L'Engle and her characters do not necessarily accept them as fact. In the afterword for the novel, L'Engle said that she was glad to have a chance to republish this work so that she could change the ending, one with which she had never been happy. Since I feel that the ending is a bit rushed after a tremendous feat of intertwined storytelling and especially since this is a hard to find novel, it makes me curious what the original ending was. This is a non-romance book about love - what it means to love and be loved and to be open to love - in soul and heart and mind.

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Title: Six degrés de liberté

Author: Nicolas Dickner

Narrator: Atriana Reeves

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 13 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-19-17

Publisher: Audible Studios

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

Six degrés de liberté raconte l'histoire d'une jeune fille qui désire repousser les limites de l'expérience humaine, d'un pirate informatique qui veut optimiser la circulation mondiale des bananes et des coussins, d'une employée de la GRC qui rêve d'en finir une bonne fois pour toutes avec la géographie, d'un septuagénaire qui perd un boulon, d'une acheteuse compulsive bipolaire, de six perruches et d'un chat intermittent. Tous sont unis dans un jeu de société planétaire dont personne ne connaît les règles.

Cover artwork by Tom Gauld.

Please note: This audiobook is in Québécois French.

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Title: Lea

Author: Pascal Mercier

Narrator: Sean Barrett

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 49 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-01-17

Publisher: Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd

Ratings: 2 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

A tender, impassioned and unforgettable story of a father's love and a daughter's ambition in the wake of devastating tragedy.

It all starts with the death of Martijn van Vliet's wife. His grief-stricken young daughter, Lea, cuts herself off from the world, lost in the darkness of grief. Then she hears the unfamiliar sound of a violin playing in the hall of a train station, and she is brought back to life. Transfixed by a busker playing Bach, Lea emerges from her mourning, vowing to learn the instrument. And her father, witnessing this delicate spark, promises to do everything and anything in his power to keep her happy.

Lea grows into an extraordinary musical talent - her all-consuming passion leads her to become one of the finest players in the country - but as her fame blossoms, her relationship with her father withers. Unable to keep her close, he inadvertently pushes Lea deeper and deeper into this newfound independence, and, desperate to hold on to his daughter, Martin is driven to commit an act that threatens to destroy them both.

A revelatory portrait of genius and madness, Lea delves into the demands of artistic excellence as well as the damaging power of jealousy and sacrifice. Mercier has crafted a novel of intense clarity, illuminating the poignant ways we strive to understand ourselves and our families.

Members Reviews:

Poetic and philosophical, but just too slow.

I bought this book, because I started reading it in a bookshop and thought the writing was beautiful, almost poetic and the message seemed quite deep, profound and philosophical - definitely something different, that appeared to be thought provoking. The pace of the book was very slow and is essentially a novel about a young girl who becomes âclosed offâ after the passing of her mother. She then has a re-awakening of sorts when she becomes passionately interested in learning to play the violin. This soon turns into an unhealthy obsession for fame and adoration, no matter the cost and we gradually see Leahâs disturbing unravelling. The story unfolds, as we get glimpses of Leahâs life, as told to a stranger by her father. The novel has been translated from German but I found it frustrating that it was peppered with some French phrases that were not translated or explained in English. Although I donât think this affected the understanding of the novel, it would have still been nice to know what was being said. I really wanted to give this novel a higher star rating because of the philosophical almost poetic way in which it was written and it was a thought provoking book, but the pace was just too slow.

When will it be in English?

I can't wait until this book and all his writing is translated into English. If I had each day to sit with a dictionary and translate with the help of my rudimentary German, I would!

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Title: The Centaur

Author: John Updike

Narrator: John MacDonald

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 35 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-24-17

Publisher: Random House Audio

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

Winner of the National Book Award and the Prix Du Meilleur Livre Étranger

The Centaur is a modern retelling of the legend of Chiron, the noblest and wisest of the centaurs, who, painfully wounded yet unable to die, gave up his immortality on behalf of Prometheus. In the retelling, Olympus becomes small-town Olinger High School; Chiron is George Caldwell, a science teacher there; and Prometheus is Caldwell's 15-year-old son, Peter. Brilliantly conflating the author's remembered past with tales from Greek mythology, John Updike translates Chiron's agonized search for relief into the incidents and accidents of three winter days spent in rural Pennsylvania in 1947. The result, said the judges of the National Book Award, is "a courageous and brilliant account of a conflict in gifts between an inarticulate American father and his highly articulate son".

Critic Reviews:

"A triumph of love and art." (The Washington Post)

"A brilliant achievement.... No one should need to be told that Updike has a mastery of language matched in our time only by the finest poets." (Saturday Review)

Members Reviews:

A young novelist's capstone

Riotously creative, at times almost disorientingly so, Updike envisions the relationship between a boy and his father, dramatized in a thread of commonplace events, as a mythical Greek epic. The effect is to elevate and eternalize the ordinary, to cast the mundane in the context of the heroic, and finally, to lay bare our inability to rationalize our own existence. This is a self-consciously artistic work, and Updike's astonishing ability to capture the subtlest experiences and observations in his prose sometimes seems to take on a life of its own. Yet, those who are willing to be patient, if not indulgent, and read this prose as though it were poetry -- which it is -- will be richly rewarded, and, at the same time, mightily entertained.

One of Updike's best books, THE CENTAUR is the opposite of RABBIT

One of Updike's best books, THE CENTAUR is the opposite of RABBIT, RUN. Harry Angstrom, Rabbit, seeks self-gratification. George Caldwell does his duty. One runs, the other plods. Both find themselves caught. Updike adds the touch of inserting into the narrative the story of Chiron and the greek gods. Wonderfully done, very touching.

A Touch of Fantasy

This book is fantasy woven together with just enough reality to keep it fun. It's a beautiful relationship between a father and son with a backstory full of fantasy, an intriguing mistress, and a dreadful boss. Add in a dangerous winter storm and you have a book that's hard to put down. You'll be hoping for a snow day so you can read it.

Great read

Besides the Rabbit series one of my favorite. I would recommend it.

stunning, stellar, haunting

To say a book is not worth anything simply because modern readers won't be familiar with Greek myths is yet again an indication that the majority of people are imbeciles. If you aren't familiar, get familiar! Dig deeper than most commercial fiction allows. That's the wonderful thing about literature, in particular Updike. You can read this book and not know anything about Greek myths, and it still will be an amazing read.

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Title: Francuskie zlecenie

Author: Anna J. Szepielak

Narrator: Joanna Domanska

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 43 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-02-17

Publisher: Heraclon / storybox.pl

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

Ewa, niedoceniana przez szefa fotograficzka, dostaje atrakcyjne zlecenie, które moze wykonac tylko kobieta. Wiaze sie ono z wyjazdem do malowniczej Prowansji oraz przygotowaniem zdjec reklamowych ekskluzywnej kwiaciarni. Na miejscu bohaterka poznaje wyjatkowa rodzine, dla której tradycja byla od wieków ostoja porzadku i zyciowym drogowskazem.

Nestorce rodu, Konstancji, nie podobaja sie nowatorskie pomysly mlodszego pokolenia. Kobieta chce pozostac wierna zasadom, którymi kierowaly sie wszystkie jej przodkinie, a jednoczesnie próbuje zrozumiec sile mlodosci. Jednak bolesna tajemnica odbiera jej trzezwosc osadu. Stare mury rodowej rezydencji skrywaja zreszta znacznie wiecej sekretów... Niespodziewanie dla samej siebie Ewa znajdzie sie w centrum niezwyklych wydarzen, których korzenie tkwia w odleglej przeszlosci.

Ta debiutancka powiesc Anny J. Szepielak ukazala sie kilka lat temu pod tytulem "Zamówienie z Francji". W aktualnym wydaniu autorka dokonala licznych zmian, decydujac sie takze na nowy tytul. Jak sama mówi: "Historia napisana pietnascie lat temu spotkala sie z tak cieplym przyjeciem czytelników, ze zaslugiwala na nowa odslone".

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Title: Solar Bones

Author: Mike McCormack

Narrator: Tim Gerard Reynolds

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs

Language: English

Release date: 09-20-17

Publisher: Canongate Books

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

Long-listed for the Man Booker Prize 2017

Winner of the Goldsmiths Prize 2016

BGE Irish Book of the Year 2016

Marcus Conway has come a long way to stand in the kitchen of his home and remember the rhythms and routines of his life. Considering with his engineer's mind how things are constructed - bridges, banking systems, marriages - and how they may come apart. Mike McCormack captures with tenderness and feeling, in continuous, flowing prose, a whole life suspended in a single hour.

Members Reviews:

Not Bad

Maybe this book loses something in the listening as it seemed to me that it was more an exercise in technique rather than story-telling. Its not bad and is well delivered by Tim Gerard Reynolds but, in the end, he is just relaying events, feelings, frustrations and observations that the majority of listeners will have already experienced for real. It reminded me of Eileen in as far as I kept waiting or something to happen.

Well told and written.

S significant remomrr of our mortality well done! Yes our tour is short indeed. Thanks

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Title: The Rosie Project

Author: Graeme Simsion

Narrator: Dmitry Kreminsky

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 58 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-23-17

Publisher: Dialar Navigator

Ratings: 2.5 of 5 out of 3 votes

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

A runaway bestseller.

"The Rosie Project" is a 2013 Australian novel and the debut work of Australian novelist, playwright and data modeller Graeme C. Simsion.

The novel centers on genetics professor Don Tillman, who struggles to have a serious relationship with women. With a friend's help, he devises a questionnaire to assess the suitability of female partners. His plans are set off course when he meets Rosie, who does not fit many of Tillman's criteria, but becomes a big part of his life.

Please note: this audiobook is in Russian.

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