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Title: Love is On the Air

Author: Jane Moore

Narrator: Julia Barrie

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11 hrs and 41 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-09-11

Publisher: Whole Story Audiobooks

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Cam and Dean have been together for six years. It's a comfortable life, but their relationship has become predictable. Deciding all she needs is a holiday with the girls, Cam sets off for Tenerife, almost immediately meets Tom, and rather disturbingly feels that lost spark ignite. Now she must face the crucial question: should she settle for Mr Good Enough or risk it all for Mr Maybe He's The One?

Members Reviews:

A bit predictable but good enough to finish

Good book for an easy and predictable read. You know from the beginning how things will pan out. The main character is a bit unrelatable

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Title: Lights Out in Wonderland

Author: D.B.C Pierre

Narrator: William Rycroft

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11 hrs and 10 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-09-11

Publisher: Whole Story Audiobooks

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 3 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

From the Man Booker Prize-winning author of Vernon God Litle. Gabriel Brockwell wants to die, and his destination is Wonderland. The nature and style of the journey is all that's to be decided. Taking in London, Tokyo, Berlin and the Galapagos Islands, and committed to the pursuit of pleasure, Gabriel's adventure include a spell in rehab, a near-death experience with fugu ovaries, and an orgiastic feast in the bowels of Berlin's majestic Tempelhof Airport.

Members Reviews:

Genius

DBC Pierre has a style all his own & it's one you don't want to miss.

If you've read Vernon God Little & enjoyed it, you'll like this one too. It's crazy - but what else would you expect from this "one of a kind" author?

Gabriel is not a character you are going to love - at least, not right away. He's a substance abuser, and he's not making life easy for those around him. Gabriel has decided to die - but now that he's made the decision, he realises he doesn't have to do it right away. First he's going to have one last wild boozy, party with a friend.

Except that's not quite how things work out. His best friend ends up in prison in Japan after the most bizarre sequence of events. And Gabriel's attempts to get his friend out of prison result in another bizarre series of events.

While the details of the story are unimaginable (for most of us at least), in the context of the story they are utterly believable & compelling & once again I found myself having to tell my husband what mad thing had just happened in the book.

This is another DBC Pierre book I did not want to put down. It's funny-crazy.

If you're looking for eloquent satire, you have found your author.

The sound quality is good, the reader does a great job with the characters & oh boy you're in for such a fun ride.

Wonderful!

Books like this are the reason I keep renewing my Audible membership. DBC Pierre's best by a mile - totally original, compelling, funny, dark and brilliantly narrated. Wished it would never stop!

Odd - in a good way

For the first part of this story I was half-thinking I might give it up but it grew on me. The second half is, I think, much better than the first. It is sort of up my street in that I like dark humour - this is pitch-black and amusing rather than actually funny. It's also wry, touching, crude (content - but not needlessly) and really beautifully written. Good narration, quite 'flat' especially in the first 1/4 - but then that reflects the state of mind of the story-teller. Brilliant accents. The ending was not at all what I expected - it was better.

Cheap thrills

DBC Pierre is a bit of a one trick pony. Drug-fuelled psychosis is a bit of a drag really and although it is imaginative and pretty original it is not very enjoyable or interesting to read because it has no light and shade and no heart.

A truly mad story

I thoroughly enjoyed this romp through the internal world of a rather disturbed mind. It took a little time to get into the story, mainly, I think, because I found the reader, William Rycroft, hard to get used to, but once the story gripped me I stopped hearing the things that irritated me, and I must say his german accents were excellent. I am looking forward to hearing another of D B C Pierre's books.

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Title: All that Follows

Author: Jim Crace

Narrator: William Hope

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 45 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-01-11

Publisher: Audible Studios

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Lennie Lessing is a jazzman taking a break. His glory days seem to be behind him, his body is letting him down, and rather than continue to take on the world, he relives old gigs and feeds his media addiction during solitary days at home. Increasingly estranged from his busy wife, Francine, who is herself mourning the sudden absence of her only daughter, Leonard has found his own groove: suburban and safe from surprises. He could continue like this for years. Then comes the news bulletin that threatens to change everything....

Set in England, 2024, and George Bushs Texas, 2006, this hypnotic novel asks what it truly means to love, to believe, and to be courageous.

Members Reviews:

From the sidelines

Leonard Lessing - stage name Lennie Less - is a saxophone player who has lost his zest for playing, lost the zest in his marriage, and lost the zest for engagement. So he's taking a break. An extended one that has his wife increasingly impatient with him, and he knows it. He also knows she is right. Then one day, Lennie sees a face on the news (he's a news and media junkie) that is straight out of the past, and he's jarred. Back in the day....

Well, I should say the novel takes place in a future world, but one not unrecognizable, not too far into the future: 2024. An odd, but interesting choice. That world, 14 years on from our own, hasn't changed all that much, except in subtle ways. Personal freedoms seem to have been reduced, but not so that most people recognize that fact. If the loss of personal freedoms is a creeping loss, then this is what it would look like. "Security" and the forces that keep us "safe" seem to have grown, in the same creeping way. We've (they) have accepted it as the price necessary.

So. Back in the day is 2006, and Lennie had spent some time in Austin, Texas with Max and his girlfriend Nadia in that year. Max had befriended Nadia in England and had his own designs on her, but upon arrival in Austin, he found her living with Max. The three of them were political activists: Max of the radical and confrontational kind, Lennie of the more muted variety, with ""Red" Nadia somewhere between the two. When Max had left Austin (not on the best of terms with either of them), he had not seen them since. But now there was Max on the television, right in the middle of a hostage taking. He decides to go to the scene of the crisis (Max had not yet been identified).

On the way there in his car, he listens to an old concert of his. Here, and elsewhere throughout the book, the writing on music is vivid and informed. These are my favorite parts of the novel. Crace really shows his chops here.

When he arrives, he finds he has been beaten to the identification by Max's estranged daughter, Lucy. Nadia had been pregnant with Lucy when he left Austin. Lennie is talked into a scheme cooked up by Lucy, but backs out before it can be put into action. He gets cold feet, blaming his wife Francine for his reticence. A sofa activist - an acronym that Lucy runs with.

Crace also writes effectively on the relationship between Lennie and his wife, which is complicated, but loving. They bicker a bit, and though it's all a bit stale, it's still a solid marriage. Francine's daughter Celandine from a previous marriage had left the house many months prior, without a word since.

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Titolo: Le veglie di Neri

Autore: Renato Fucini

Narratore: Silvia Cecchini

Durata: 4 hrs and 34 mins

Lingua: Italiano

Data di pubblicazione: 01-31-11

Editore: Collina d'oro

Categoria: Fiction, Contemporary

Riepilogo Editore:

Le storie che si raccontano a veglia, accanto al camino, in qualche vechcio casolare toscano: storie della gente dei paesi vicini, di chi è andato in Maremma e magari se l'è portato via la malaria, o storie buffe, ironiche. Renato Fucini ci regala la sua Toscana, con pennellate dolci amare.Musiche popolari arrangiate da Manuela Daviddi.

Please note: This audiobook is in Italian.

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Title: What's Yours is Mine

Author: Tess Stimson

Narrator: Annie Aldington, Jilly Bond, Julia Franklin, Paul Thornley

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 2 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-26-11

Publisher: Isis Publishing Ltd

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Like a princess in a fairytale, Grace Hamilton has been showered with blessings: professional success, a happy marriage, and she even lives in a beautiful castle. But the only thing she really wants her hearts desire is the one thing she can never have. Her sister, the beautiful Susannah, has made a mess of her life. Like a reverse Midas, everything she touches turns sour. But fate puts Graces future in Susannahs hands, changing the balance of power between the sisters forever.

Members Reviews:

try it-you will really like it...

I really enjoyed this audio book. The narrators were perfect for their characters-which made the characters more believable.

There was never a point where I wanted to move onto a different book or story-I had to read it to the end.

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Title: The Cat Who Had 60 Whiskers

Author: Lillian Jackson Braun

Narrator: George Guidall

Format: Unabridged

Length: 3 hrs and 16 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-26-11

Publisher: Whole Story Audiobooks

Ratings: 2 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Things are spicing up in Pickax: huge inheritances from old families are suddenly and mysteriously pouring in to town, but nobody is quite sure why. Except Koko, that is - and he's not telling. Then things get really interesting when one resident drops dead from an apparent bee sting. Can Qwill and his cats get to the bottom of things?

Members Reviews:

Disappointing drivel!

It is official....Lillian Jackson Braun has run out of ideas! That is the only reasonable conclusion to which I can come having just finished the Audible version of this "story". Disjointed and with no real point to the tale, this book is a complete disappointment. I have quite enjoyed her earlier "Cat Who" books but this is utter rubbish. There are a couple of incidents in the story which may be crimes but nothing ever develops with these. Save your money & don't bother with this one. Braun's earlier works are much better.

What happened next!

Would you listen to The Cat Who Had 60 Whiskers again? Why?

I have listened or read most of the stories in this series and this was the last published before the author sadly died.

What about George Guidalls performance did you like?

I love GG's voice. It's soothing.

Any additional comments?

The author seems to have decided to mix things up with the characters that appear in most of the stories. But as she died, we are left wondering what she had planned. Frustrating!

Beautifully read but the story is a bit disjointed

Qwill and Polly appear to be moving on and the usual far fetched small town happenings in this, less than her best The Cat Who. A disappointment.

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Title: The Empress of Ice Cream

Author: Anthony Capella

Narrator: Clare/ Roger Corbett/ May

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12 hrs and 53 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-24-11

Publisher: Whole Story Audiobooks

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

France 1670. Carlo Demirco's mastery of the extraordinary new art of creating ice creams has brought him wealth, women, and a position at the court of Louis XIV. Then Carlo is sent to London, along with Louise de Keroualle, an impoverished lady-in-waiting. The most powerful ministers of two countries have decided that Louise is to be Charles II's new mistress and Carlo must decide where his loyalties lie..?

Members Reviews:

delicious

Capella's 4th novel shares the expected aspects of his other books: sensuous food and delicious sex. But each of his 4 books is so different in plot and tone - and "The Empress of Ice Cream," like his others, is a total delight. Royal mistress Louise de Keroualle and her Italian admirer Carlo Demirco - who is obsessed with the creation and perfection of a new-fangled confection, ice cream - create splashes both political and personal at the Restoration court of Charles II. The end of this wonderful novel is unexpected, tender and perfect.

A charm

I love this author.He writes with humor and great sensuality.His descriptions are so powerful that one is able to smell the coffee he describes, or in this case taste the ice-cream .The Empress of Ice Cream is an historical novel ,giving the reader an insight into the various courts of Europe.It is also a sensual romance.Having read all his other books ,I bought this on kindle and saved it for a special read,which it is.

Fun Historical Fiction

I am really enjoying this book. Who knew ice cream was such an important part of politics? This story of Charles in England and Louis in France is a great insight into the time after Cromwell. You don't even have to like history to enjoy the intrigues of courtiers and the development of ice cream. A fun and informative read.

Disappointing

I wasn't very impressed with this storyline. Wouldn't recommend. Story didn't grab me but I read it to the end because someone else recommended it to me and I was hoping it would get better. It didn't.

Empress of ice cream

I like the book...and the story ..second Capella novel I've read...not as good as the wedding Officer..but delightful to read.

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Title: Kiss Heaven Goodbye

Author: Tasmina Perry

Narrator: Patience Tomlinson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 20 hrs and 32 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-24-11

Publisher: Isis Publishing Ltd

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 3 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

1990. On the luxurious private island of Angel Cay, four privileged students toast the end of their exams. Self-assured Miles, clever Grace, talented Alex and beautiful Sasha have the world at their feet. But one dark night will change their perfect lives forever. As the friends move into glamorous careers fashion, music, politics each tries to put the past behind them. But no matter how far their stars rise, they cannot escape the dreadful truth. And when the consequences of that night finally catch up with them, for one of the four, there is a terrible price to be paid

Members Reviews:

Another Tasmina Perry gem

What did you love best about Kiss Heaven Goodbye?

The story kept me in suspense until the end.

Who was your favorite character and why?

Alex I enjoyed following his journey through the book.

Which scene was your favorite?

The last half hour

Any additional comments?

This book was a classical Tasmina Perry keeps you interested and it is hard to put down

Brilliant

I know this is probably more of a summer read, but it was just the thing I needed to get me through cold miserable London mornings - sex, glamour, scandal, mystery... what's not to love! Perhaps her best yet?

Good book - poor narrator

Couldn't stand the accents/intonations used by this narrator. They were very poor - I am an adult, and do not want to hear silly voices! Why don't these people just read the book?!

Very good listen

Only thing that confuses a little is the voice of the men all sound the same. Voices of female characters and overall narration good, but voices of the men could have been better. Think narrator needs to avoid multiple male characters in same scenes as hard to differentiate until 'said miles' etc but overall is still worth a listen.

Boring

Tried but couldn't even make to the end of this book. I normally enjoy Tasmina Perry but this was not good reading. Maybe the narrator didn't help but not for me.

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Title: The Right Thing

Author: Judy Astley

Narrator: Diana Bishop

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 30 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-21-11

Publisher: Random House Audiobooks

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Funerals are strange things. Kitty hadn't really wanted to go to this one - a old school friend she hadn't seen for years - and she hadn't bargained for the way it made her think of the past. In particular, it made her think of the baby she had given birth to when she was eighteen, the baby her parents had insisted she give away for adoption. She'd called her Madeleine, and she remembered her every day, what she was like, if she was happy. But now, reminded of how cruelly short life can be, she had to see her - just to make sure she'd done the right thing.

Life had turned out pretty well for Kitty. Secure in her marriage, with her two teenage children and a house within sound and sight of the Cornish surf, she counted herself among the lucky ones. But the hole left by that first baby wasn't getting any smaller, and she decided to make the first, tentative steps towards filling it - although she, and all her family, were quite unprepared for the upheaval which followed.

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Title: The Dancer Upstairs

Author: Nicholas Shakespeare

Narrator: Nigel Graham

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 57 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-29-10

Publisher: Random House AudioBooks

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 3 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

This novel explores one of the most astonishing stories in the whole history of 20th-century terrorism.

Colonel Rejas was the policeman charged with the task of capturing the Peruvian guerrilla leader Ezequiel, but having been dismissed, he finds the burden of silence and secrecy too heavy. On meeting Dyer, a foreign correspondent, he is moved to relate the tortuous progress of the manhunt for the first time.

The Dancer Upstairs is a story reminiscent of Graham Greene and John le Carré - tense, intricate, and heartbreaking.

Members Reviews:

Slapdash Chronicle

I struggled with a busy schedule to find the time to read... however, half-way through I took time out to read Cheever?s short story The Swimmer which, actually, is head and shoulders above this novel. The literary acclaim which surrounds The Wapshot Chronicle seems disproportionate to the actual achievement contained in this novel - for a start I don?t think by any means it is within the top 60 books of the Twentieth Century. Equally, the fear - which it is claimed has been completely countered, that the novel is simply a collection of short-stories strung together by a connecting theme of family and the individual members thereof - doesn?t seem in my view to stand up to scrutiny either. This is a long, rambling tome which at times is really quite entertaining and at other times drifts into mediocrity of a sort that is not a feature of Cheever?s concentrated short story form. Worth reading to get the whole picture on John Cheever, but I?m pretty certain that his reputation lies in his short-story achievement and will continue to do so.