MI5 and Me by Charlotte Bingham is a charming memoir that comically recounts her experiences working with MI5 in the 1950s. Read on for our review of the audiobook narrated by Candida Gubbins. MI5 and Me: A Coronet Among the…
The Long Drop is a stand-alone true-crime thriller from the acclaimed author of the Alex Morrow novels, Denise Mina, that I highly recommend in audio. The Long Drop Synopsis: William Watt wants answers about his family’s murder. Peter Manuel has them. But…
Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine, Gail Honeyman’s debut is deeply moving and impactful fiction about learning to live, not just survive. Read on to learn what really makes this audiobook truly special and some of my favourite quotes. Eleanor Oliphant…
Please Do Not Disturb is a funny, disturbing, and deeply affecting novel of power, corruption, and innocence in colonial Africa, by Robert Glancy, the author of Terms & Conditions. Please Do Not Disturb Synopsis As the African nation of Bwalo prepares…
An Ideal Husband in audiobook… a classic play by Oscar Wilde performed by LA Theatre Works An Ideal Husband Synopsis: A tender love story, a serpentine villainess, a glittering setting in London society, and a showering of Wildean witticism are only…
The 2 million-copy best-selling modern fable from Korea that won hearts around the world. The Hen Who Dreamed She Could Fly Synopsis This is the story of a hen named Sprout. No longer content to lay eggs on command only to have…
Detective Sean Duffy returns in Rain Dogs, Book 5 in Adrian McKinty’s award-winning The Troubles series. Rain Dogs Synopsis It’s just the same things over and again for Sean Duffy: riot duty, heartbreak, cases he can solve but never get to…
Got a long car, train or plane ride ahead of you this holiday season? Listening to an audiobook could make that trip a whole lot more enjoyable. Years ago, like many readers out there, I had assumed audiobooks weren’t for…
I Was Told There’d Be Cake Synopsis : Wry, hilarious, and profoundly genuine, this debut collection of literary essays is a celebration of fallibility and haplessness in all their glory. From despoiling an exhibit at the Natural History Museum to provoking the…
Gun Street Girl is Book 4 in Adrian McKinty’s award-winning Detective Sean Duffy Series and one of our dozen Top Aussie Reads of 2016. Gun Street Girl Synopsis Belfast, 1985. Amid the Troubles, Detective Sean Duffy, a Catholic cop in the…
I listened to the Northern Lights / Golden Compass audiobook. Adult or child, will adore Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials Trilogy heroine Lyra Belacqua.
Under the Net, Iris Murdoch’s first novel, features Jake Donaghue and sidekicks getting into predicaments, barbed banter and deception. Under the Net Synopsis: Iris Murdoch’s first novel is set in a part of London where struggling writers rub shoulders with successful…
Jenny T Colgan’s Resistance Is Futile is a wonderful romantic comedy come save-the-world adventure with a rebellious, geeky tone. Read on for our full review of this under-appreciated gem. Resistance Is Futile Synopsis She’s smart. She’s funny. But she’s only human…. As a…
Evelyn Waugh’s second novel, Vile Bodies is his tribute to London’s smart set. It introduces us to society as it used to be but that now is gone forever, and probably for good. Vile Bodies Synopsis: The Bright Young Things of…
In The Morning I’ll Be Gone is the third novel in Adrian McKinty’s award-winning Detective Sean Duffy Series which I highly recommend in audiobook. In The Morning I’ll Be Gone Synopsis It’s the early 1980s in Belfast. Sean Duffy, a conflicted…
In The One Plus One Jojo Moyes does romance in the real world – life is complicated and never involves just two characters, it’s about ensembles. Read on for why we highly recommend experiencing this novel in the audio format. The…
