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Title: The Warden's Daughters

Author: Anne Douglas

Narrator: Lesley Mackie

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 46 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-01-11

Publisher: Soundings

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

When sisters Lynette and Monnie accompany their father, Edinburgh widower Frank Forester, to the Highland village where he is to be a youth hostel warden, they find the change from city life traumaticuntil they find jobs, new friends and love. Handsome fisherman Torquil captures Monnie's heart, while Lynette, after a fiery start, falls for stern but vulnerable hotel manager Ronan. When Frank, too, finds unexpected happiness with Ishbel, of the village shop, all promises well. But storm clouds gather, and there are choices to be made

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Title: The Priest

Author: Gerard O' Donovan

Narrator: Gerry O' Brien

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12 hrs and 5 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-28-11

Publisher: Hachette Audio UK

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

His name is the Priest. His weapon is a crucifix. His victims dont have a prayer. A killer is stalking the dark streets of Dublin. Before each attack, he makes the sign of the cross; then he sends his victims to God.After a foreign politicans daughter is brutally assaulted and left for dead, her body branded with burns from a blazing cross, the case falls to Detective Inspector Mike Mulcahy. Mulcahy is one tough cop, but this crime is beyond comprehension - and The Priest is a nemesis more evil and elusive than any Mulcahy has ever faced: an angel of death with a soul dark as hell.

As a media frenzy erupts and the city reels in terror, Mulcahy teams up with ambitious journalist Siobhan Fallon in a desperate bid to stop The Priest in his tracks before he can complete his divine mission of murder.

Critic Reviews:

"Fast-paced, exciting and thrilling, this is an impressive debut." (Sunday Times Ireland)

"A sure command of plot and pacing, a lively sense of locale and a quirky sense of character." (Irish Independent)

"In Mike Mulcahy, O'Donovan has created a well-drawn, multi-faceted cop who readers are likely to want to spend more time with in the future." (Sunday Business Post (Ireland))

Members Reviews:

liked it but had reservations

I liked the story but somehow the main character came across as an old lumbering out dated plod...... and the reporter was a bit farcical.... however having said that it was an easy listen on long car journeys.

Cracking start.

I couldn't believe that this was the author's first novel! It is far more accomplished than many books by best-selling fiction writers and if he carries on like this he will become one of them! I've given it 4 stars rather than 5 because he did get a little lost in the middle of the book, the narrative lost a little bit of focus. Also, some of the diaglogue between the two main characters got a little sticky at times. But those are small matters compared to a very satisfying murder story with a solid ending.

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Title: All That I Am

Author: Anna Funder

Narrator: Judy Bennett, Saul Reichlin

Format: Unabridged

Length: 13 hrs and 8 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-18-11

Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 3 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

The unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of Anna Funder's All That I Am, a powerful love story that tells the heroic and tragic true story of the German resistance. read by Judy Bennett and Saul Reichlin. One September morning, elderly Ruth Wesemann wakes to the sound of a parcel being delivered to her door. Inside she finds a tattered little notebook. Opening its delicate pages she meets with a flood of memories...

It's 1933 and she is back in her light-filled flat in Berlin. Hans is making caipirinhas, snow falls outside the kitchen window, and Hitler is making his first speech as Chancellor of Germany. Her life and those of her tight-knit group of friends are about to change beyond all recognition. Having dedicated themselves to resisting the Nazi's rise, they have become hunted outlaws overnight. Fleeing the country, Ruth and Hans find refuge in a basement flat in Bloomsbury, but inspired by Ruth's fearless cousin Dora, they defy the conditions of their visas and risk being sent back to Germany in order continue their dangerous resistance work. But with each breathtaking act of courage and every person that they trust, they cannot help but risk betrayal and deceit. And then, one day, they face the chilling realisation that Hitler's reach extends much further than they had thought, even to London itself. Inspiring, tragic and based on real events, All That I Am is a masterful and devastating novel of bravery and betrayal, of the risks and sacrifices that people endure to protect their beliefs and of discovering remarkable heroism hidden in the most unexpected of places.

Members Reviews:

A Great Listen

This is a great book and I wholeheartedly recommend it. It unfolds a fascinating and always gripping story and is very thought provoking in the issues it raises through its subject matter - refugees, resistance and collaboration as Hitler came to power. The author also had insights into old age which I though were interesting and perceptive. It was beautifully read by both readers - I just had to adjust to the fact that Saul Reichlin was not reading The Girl With Dragon Tattoo. It made me think of The Glass Room by Simon Mawer - also set before and during World War 2 and another 5 star listen.

Beautifully written book

If you have an interest in human courage and the lesser known facts about Nazi Germany before the outbreak of WWII, this is one for you. Anna Funder writes beautifully and her characters are explicit and complete. This book draws you into the lives of Ruth, Toller, Dora and Hans as they attempt to fight the Nazi regime and enlighten Europe to the very real threat that is about to devour the world. An excellent book that I highly recommend.

Great!

This is an intriguing and enjoyable tale about an elderly woman looking back on her life. I will look for more by this author.

Brilliant

Unfortunately, I think that like me there many people from the "allied" nations are quite ignorant of the stories about ordinary Germans who resisted the Nazi regime - especially like those in this book who tried to warn France, Britain and America etc about Hitler before they were willing to listen. This is a beautifully written tale of moral courage, love, desire and betrayal.

Disappointing

Alas this is a book I could not finish. It was marred by a confusing storyline and over-intellectual ramblings that did nothing to add to the plot.

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Title: Around the World in Stilettos

Author: Natalie-Jane Revell

Narrator: Cori Samuel

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 12 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-14-11

Publisher: Iambik Audio Inc

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 6 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Twenty-three year old Sophie Farrier has everything a girl could want; the perfect job, the perfect flat and the perfect set of friends. As a travel writer, Sophie gets to fly around the world, meet new people, see new places and most importantly buy more shoes! When she is home her life speeds past in a blur of boozy nights, girly lunches and maxing her cards in her favourite shops. There are only two problems in her otherwise blissful life; dealing with the curse of being the clumsiest person alive, and the man she is obsessively in love with, Dan Shorely, already has a perfect girlfriend.

The one aspect of Sophie's life that is not perfect and never has been is her love life. After years of misunderstandings and missed opportunities, are things about to change? Will she ever find and catch her perfect man? Or will the dream of a happy ending and the dream man always be that... just a dream?

Members Reviews:

Not Sophie Kinsella

If imitation is a form of flattery -- Sophie should be insulted. A few good jokes do not make up for lack originality and a tedious main character.

A wild romp with a Britsh sense of humor

What made the experience of listening to Around the World in Stilettos the most enjoyable?

At first i didn't realize that Sophie's day dreaming, forgetfulness, shopping binges and clumsy escapades were all humorous, and setting the stage for her final decisions. Even after i got the hang of it, i would still cringe in fear at the impending consequences, but i learned to laugh through it with Sophie (well maybe "at" Sophie) but it all set the stage for the overall plot. Having seen what Sophie is capable of doing, i really didn't know what to expect at the ending, but i had to listen to the final chapters in the middle of the night to find out what she would do. I love using the timer on my Audible iPhone app, but found i had to keep resetting it to listen a little bit more, time and time again. The suspense was unbearable. All-in-all it is a humorous uplifting story of a modern girl who believes in style and has faith in herself. And the travel descriptions throughout Europe, from Sophie's biased but enjoyable point of view, certainly added to my enjoyment. If Sophie can make it through the troubles of modern life, any body can.

What does Cori Samuel bring to the story that you wouldnt experience if you just read the book?

Cori Samuel is perfect for a stylish young woman in Britain. She really brings Sophie, and all the characters, to life. The internal dialog, instead of being over the top, is really believable as Sophie daydreams, rationalizes and just thinks like a young ambitious girl who wants it all and has faith in her future. I don't know if Cori Samuel could do a Texas drawl, but she does all the characters in this book to perfection. Her voice and pace are lyrical and calming, despite the emotional train wrecks that Sophie has going on around her, she is perfect for Sophie's inner dialogue.

Any additional comments?

So why is this old married guy listening to and reviewing what is apparently a Chick-book? This isn't my usual fare, it took me a while to get into the flow of the book, and i could have used some additional development on Sophie's skills as a writer, but any book that keeps me up in the middle of the night to finish has to be 5 stars. Being from Mars, I occasionally wonder what life is like on planet Venus.

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Title: The Train of Small Mercies

Author: David Rowell

Narrator: Jeremy Davidson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 52 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-13-11

Publisher: Penguin Audio

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 5 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

In haunting and crystalline prose, The Train of Small Mercies follows six characters' intrepid search for hope among the debris of an American tragedy.

In New York, a young black porter struggles through his first day on the job-a staggering assignment aboard Robert F. Kennedy's funeral train. In Pennsylvania, a woman creates a tangle of lies to sneak away from her disapproving husband and pay her respects to the slain senator, dragging her child with her. In Maryland, a wounded young soldier awaits a newspaper interview that his parents hope will restore his damaged self-esteem. And in Washington, an Irish nanny in town to interview with the Kennedy family must reconcile the lost opportunity and the chance to start her life anew.

In this stunning debut, David Rowell depicts disparate lives united by an extraordinary commemoration, irrevocably changed as Kennedy's funeral train makes its solemn journey from New York to Washington.

Members Reviews:

Easy access to life and thought in late '60s

Quick, easy, interesting read that gives a fascinating window into the time in America around Sen. Bobby Kennedy's death. Lots of loss individually, racially, socially and nationally.

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Title: Hotel Alleluia

Author: Lucinda Roy

Narrator: Peter Jay Fernandez

Format: Unabridged

Length: 14 hrs and 22 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-06-11

Publisher: Recorded Books

Ratings: 1 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

After her mother dies, Joan, an American artist, travels to Africa in search of her sister, a nun. But in the turmoil of African revolution and political corruption, the sisters are separated. The story of their reunion, and the world-worn people who help them, is one that is lyrical, earthy, and spellbinding. Lucinda Roy is a Distinguished Professor of English at Virginia Tech.

Members Reviews:

Good historical fiction

Very interesting account of war torn Africa and the very diverse viewpoints of the various characters. I thought it was worth the read.

Stood Up, Broken-Hearted, Again..

It seems I've been reading a spate of books lately that start out wonderfully and quickly deteriorate. This is another one. The setup was terrific--how would these two sisters relate to each other, what secrets would Ursuline find out about her mother and perhaps her father as well, how would they establish common ground? What brought Joan Plum to want to contact Ursuline in the first place and how would her life change as a result?

The writing at the beginning was also very evocative; I really felt an excellent sense of place.

However, great questions; few answers. Ursuline is a well-developed character, but the others are little more than stereotypes--especially Jeremy, the colonial drunkard exploiting not-so-innocent young ladies of the third world.

Joan is completely unbelieveable to me. Purportedly, she came to Africa to find Ursuline and bring her back to develop her fine artistic talent, but nothing comes of it. When she finally gets her back to North Carolina, her interest in Ursuline as an artist (and a person) appears to disappear completely and she does nothing but abuse her emotionally. Her terrible experience in Africa, which she blames on Gordon instead of taking responsibility herself, seems to become an excuse for mistreating everyone around her (at least until she's finally able to get into "rape counseling". Thank god there's an answer!) Throwing in the token lesbian lover thing was a little gratuitous as well.

Maybe picking one theme and really developing it would have made this the great book it could have been.

Just Wonderful

The Hotel Alleluia is about Ursuline who's trying to decided rather or not to become a nun, since she was raised by nuns. Joan and Ursuline are half sister's only Joan is white and Ursuline is black. Ursuline is living in Africa, and out of no where her sister comes to take her back to the UnitedStates with her, She goes back with her, even though she hates to leave the sisters, and her favorite student Mohammed, who dreams of going to the United States and meeting the Laker's Shaq. Gordon is black and an old lover of Joan, but he finds hisself falling for Ursuline when he meets her in Africa. While back in United states here about a terribly attack on her old convent and the school she taught back, and rushes back to find old friends especially Mohammed. I felt this book had everything, romance, religion, and different cultures. I don't think anyone will be mad that they read this book, i know i wasen't.

Intricately Simple

Hotel Alleluia is a work of art. The vividness of Roy's descriptive style is atsounding. The novel's setting is painted with clarity. I was able to put myself in Freetown and feel the fear of the masses. Roy has a wonderful flair for the English language.

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Title: That's Mine, This is Yours

Subtitle: A BBC Radio 4 dramatisation

Author: Peter Souter

Narrator: Alex Jennings, Tamsin Greig, Eleanor Butters

Format: Original Recording

Length: 44 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-05-11

Publisher: BBC Worldwide Limited

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 4 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

A BBC Radio 4 romantic comedy about the separation of Sam (Alex Jennings) and Juliet (Tamsin Greig). That's Mine, This is Yours was originally broadcast as the 'Afternoon Play' on 4 May 2011.

Sam and Juliet are to divorce. We join them as they meet to divide up their possessions in the house they've shared ever since they married. As they discuss what belongs to whom we learn all we need to know about their characters, what drew them together and what has driven them apart. We'll also learn if there is still some hope for them, even on the eve of their separation.

The early signs are not good. They seem to have drifted apart and to have very little in common. Sam is an avid hoarder and collector; not of anything of great value, simply things that he feels should be kept together. For example he owns a single example of every toy ever given away with a McDonald's Happy Meal. Juliet's drive and decisiveness, once so sexy and stimulating, to him now feel like coldness and self-obsession.

But is there still some way back from the brink for the couple? Starring Tamsin Greig (The Archers, Episodes, Love Soup) as Juliet and Alex Jennings (Goldfish Girl) as Sam, with Eleanor Butters as Amanda.

Members Reviews:

Witty, spiky with pathos.

Sharp dialogue mingles wit with tension born out of poor communication by a couple on the brink of divorce. The denouement just about works with a lump of forgiveness

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Title: The Blue and Distant Hills

Author: Judith Saxton

Narrator: Rowena Cooper

Format: Unabridged

Length: 18 hrs and 52 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-05-11

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 4 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

This novel tells of three young people from very different backgrounds, whose fates are bound together in strange ways. The vision of one of them, Hugh, brings all three together, and gives each of them their heart's desire.

Members Reviews:

Unusual plot

Loved the unusual plot and found I became immersed in it after the first few pages. The English accent of the time was done perfectly and the voices of the other characters good.

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Title: The Proof of Love

Author: Catherine Hall

Narrator: Gordon Griffin

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 27 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-19-11

Publisher: Oakhill Publishing

Ratings: 1 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

During the long hot summer of 1976, a brilliant young Cambridge mathematician arrives in a remote village in the Lake District and takes on a job as a farm labourer. Painfully awkward and shy, Spencer Little is viewed with suspicion by the community and his only real friendship is with scruffy, clever 10-year-old Alice. When he saves Alice from a wild-fire, the locals at last begin to accept him, but as he is drawn deeper into their lives, he also becomes aware of their secrets - and of the difficulty of keeping his own.

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Title: Trouble

Author: Jesse Kellerman

Narrator: Jeff Harding

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 54 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-19-11

Publisher: Hachette Audio UK

Ratings: 2 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

It's late at night, and all Jonah Stem wants to do is to get home and fall into bed. Working long hours as a medical student, he's seen enough drama - not to mention enough blood - for one day. But when he hears a scream ring out in the darkness, and an injured woman is on her knees and begging for her life, Jonah finds himself drawn into a dangerous and irrevocable situation. And this situation means trouble. Jonah's intervention will change not only his own life, but also the lives of those he cares about, in ways he never thought possible.

A heart-stopping thriller, masterfully told, Trouble is the story of what can happen when you find yourself in way over your head....

Members Reviews:

Living In Interesting Times

Medical student Jonah Stem witnesses a man stabbing a woman. He intervenes, kills the assassin and rescues the bleeding damsel. Actually that was the easy part. Jonah returns to his student work at the hospital, and his fifteen minutes of fame from the rescue gradually subsides, but then, one day, the rescued lady, shows up again full of gratitude to her rescuer. Well you can well guess how she shows her gratitude to our handsome young student. Things putt along very nicely for awhile, but then Jonah begins to live, as the Chinese say, in interesting times.

I kind of liked this story. Some reviewers have said the story is implausible. Well that's something that's not new to suspense fiction, but I felt that the novel is reasonably believable. In fact two extremely popular movies have been made in the past that follow the same generic path as this novel. I won't tell you their names because that might convey too much information.

While I didn't expect this to be a medical novel, I was a bit disappointed in the parts of the story that involved Jonah's experiences at the hospital. We really don't get to know any of the people he worked with, and the few anecdotal hospital experiences weren't that engrossing. For entertainment value Jonah could just as well have been an insurance actuary. Still the writing is a cut above average for this genre, and I found it to be a good read.

Bad Bad Love.....

A 3rd year medical student intervenes in a street attack on a young woman and in the process causes the death of the attacker. In the aftermath, he becomes involved in an intense physical relationship with the young woman he rescued, only to find he is being drawn into a psycho drama whose dimensions and depth he only dimly perceives. As his situation becomes crazier so does his mental state as he tries to cope with the stress of his medical school demands and his awareness of the increasingly dangerous psycho/sexual game he's being drawn into by a highly intelligent but twisted manipulator.

First, while it may not be fair to young Kellerman to allude to his famous parents, let me just say "the kid has chops". Treading the line between thriller and Steven Kingesque weirdness, Jesse has an inventive style, and his plumbing of disturbing psychology reminds me of some of his father's earlier works around The Butcher's Theatre era. But, if I hadn't known his parentage, I would still find his work impressive (this being only his 2nd novel). This is a creepy read about contemporary perversity. Not for everyone, but worthwhile.

I have enjoyed the author's other books

Just started reading this one.