On this episode of AudioBookClub… 

Matthew and Steve fail to recommend ‘The Light We Carry” by Michelle Obama.

Steve Phillips and Matthew Layton present #AudioBookClub  - the podcast that reviews and recommends audiobooks.

On this episode:

Steve and Matthew welcome Helena Sheffield, Senior Marketing Manager, Penguin Random House Audio onto their pod.

Unfortunately, things didn’t quite go according go to plan.

Matthew couldn’t quite find it in his heart to recommend that you, gentle listener, spend an Audible credit on 9 hours and 59 minutes of your life on Michelle Obama’s new self-help book and, instead, started playing clips from Barack Obama’s ‘A Promised Land’

Coincidentally, that also happens to be the audiobook that Helena bought for her father as a Christmas present last year.

Helena gives us some fantastic insight into how the audiobook business works - from casting to marketing via the long, hard slog in the recording studio - and gives us a fistful of excellent listening recommendations.

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INTERVIEW: Ben Macintyre, author of ‘Colditz: Prisoners of the Castle’, ‘Operation Mincemeat’ and ‘S.A.S. Rogue Heroes’

On this episode of AudioBookClub… 

Murder on the Tokyo transit system!

Steve Phillips and Matthew Layton present £AudioBookClub  - the podcast that reviews and recommends audiobooks.

On this episode:

Steve and Matthew cast an ear over ‘The Last Train’, the first book in Michael Pronko’s Tokyo-based ‘Detective Hiroshi’ series.

Title:            The Last Train: Detective Hiroshi, Volume 1
Written by:         Michael Pronko
Narrated by:         Peter Berkrot
Length:         10 hrs and 41 mins
Publisher:         Raked Gravel Press
Available:        https://amzn.to/3KDCgQ4   

This week Matthew and Steve welcome two guests to the pod to help them with this task.

The first is the author himself Michael Pronko who also just happens to be Professor of American Literature at Meiji Gakuin University.in Tokyo.

The second guest joins us from Oslo. He is the proprietor and Editor-in-Chief of https://theaudiobookblog.com/. His name is Victor Dima.

Please get involved in the conversation - either with your opinions on ’The Last Train' or if you want to recommend an audiobook for us to review.

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‘A Promised Land’ - by Barack Obama - https://amzn.to/3Yi8jbP - as recommended by Helena Sheffield, Senior Marketing Manager, Penguin Random House Audiobooks

‘The Desert Star’ - by Michael Connelly - https://amzn.to/3ZjXkiM - as recommended by Victor Dima of https://theaudiobookblog.com/ - 

On this episode of #AudioBookClub, we book ourselves into the independent audiobook platform that’s like a day-spa for your brain…

Prefer your audiobooks sustainably sourced, hand reared and mind-nourishing?

Then Spiracle is the place for you.

https://www.spiracleaudiobooks.com/ 

Sophie Haxworth, Spiracle’s Editorial Manager, explains to Steve and Matthew (in the simplest terms she possibly can) how she fell in love with audiobooks as a child, how she ended up working at Spiracle and how and why the whole platform works.

She also gives you and the boys some audiobook recommendations that are a cut above the tat they usually have on here.

‘Insignificance’ - by James Clammer
‘His Bloody Project’ - by Graeme Macrae Burnet
‘Njáls saga’ - Trad.
‘Fifty Sounds’ - by Polly Barton

Please get involved in the conversation - either with your opinions on Spiracle' or if you want to recommend an audiobook for us to review.

@SteveKPhillips and @WhingeingPom

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‘Doctor Who: The Chimes of Midnight’ - https://www.bigfinish.com/releases/v/doctor-who-the-chimes-of-midnight-653

Written by Robert Shearman

Starring Paul McGann and India Fisher

https://www.bigfinish.com/releases/v/doctor-who-the-chimes-of-midnight-653

As recommended by Stuart Hardy of Stubagful-fame

‘The Last Train: Detective Hiroshi’ - Volume 1’ - by Michael Pronko - https://amzn.to/3ASuKew 

As recommended by Victor Dima of The Audiobook Blog

On this episode of AudioBookClub, Matthew hasn’t done his homework and fails to review ‘A History of Modern Britain’ by Andrew Marr.

Quite spectacularly!

Steve Phillips and Matthew Layton present #AudioBookClub - a podcast that recommends and reviews audiobooks.

Fortunately, the BBC - an institution very close to both Steve’s and Matthew’s hearts - has just launched the amazon BBC Sounds app to a global audience.

Steve and Matthew ramble on passionately about the fantastic amount, quality and variety of premium audio content from the greatest broadcasting organisation there has ever been, that is now available to you, FOR FREE, wherever you live!

Title: A History of Modern Britain

Written by: Andrew Marr

Narrated by: David Timson

Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins

Publisher: Macmillan Digital Audio

Available: https://amzn.to/3B9fxWT 

BBC Sounds - https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds

Further reading - https://www.androidpolice.com/2020/11/12/bbc-sounds-app-now-available-for-listeners-around-the-globe/

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/help/questions/listening-outside-the-uk/international 

Please get involved in the conversation - either with your opinions on 'A History of Modern Britain’' or if you want to recommend an audiobook for us to review.

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Spiracle - https://www.spiracleaudiobooks.com/

‘Doctor Who: The Chimes of Midnight’ - https://www.bigfinish.com/releases/v/doctor-who-the-chimes-of-midnight-653

Written by Robert Shearman

Starring Paul McGann and India Fisher

https://www.bigfinish.com/releases/v/doctor-who-the-chimes-of-midnight-653

On this episode of AudioBookClub, we recommend the audiobook equivalent of that tatty, yellowing, old paperback book that you find in someone else’s holiday home. So slap on your sunscreen, recline by the pool and join us as we get stuck into ‘Fletch'

Steve Phillips and Matthew Layton present #AudioBookClub - a podcast that recommends and reviews audiobooks.

On this episode of #AudioBookClub Steve and Matthew get wrapped up in an historical artefact: Fletch - the 1974 novel that was made into a film in the 1980s starring Chevy Chase.

(Which is currently available for free if you’ve got an Audible subscription. Have a squiz at the Audible Plus section)

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Title: Fletch

Written by: Gregory Mcdonald

Narrated by: Dan John Miller

Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins

Publisher: Blackstone Audio 

Available: https://amzn.to/3B9fxWT

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Please get involved in the conversation - either with your opinions on 'Fibber in the Heat' or if you want to recommend an audiobook for us to review by using #AudioBookClub on facebook, twitter or instagram.

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‘A History of Modern Britain’ - by Andrew Marr - https://amzn.to/3V94bKl 

Spiracle - https://www.spiracleaudiobooks.com/

Steve Phillips and Matthew Layton present #AudioBookClub - a podcast that recommends and reviews audiobooks.

On this episode:

We have a guest ‘recommender’.

Her name is Charlotte Layton, she is 11 years old and she has brought ‘What Not To Do If You Turn Invisible’ by Ross Welford  to the #AudioBookClub table.

Nepotism is alive and well here at #AudioBookClub!

Please get involved in the conversation - either with your opinions on ‘What Not to Do If You Turn Invisible’ or if you want to recommend an audiobook for us to review by using #AudioBookClub on facebook, twitter or instagram.

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Fletch - https://amzn.to/3tzLbIM 

Andrew Marr’s ‘A History of Modern Britain’ - https://amzn.to/3EsVvHA

On this week’s #AudioBookClub, the third instalment of the most brilliantly conceived, lovingly dramatised, lavishly produced and, in our opinion, bestest audiobook series in the world… EVER!

Steve Phillips and Matthew Layton present #AudioBookClub - a podcast that recommends and reviews audiobooks.

On this episode:

The Sandman: Act III

The biggest audiobook release of the year.

The most extravagant cast.

The most lavish production.

(Frankly, we’re running out of superlatives here)

Lovingly adapted and sculpted in sound by Dirk Maggs - the man we’re not afraid to call ‘The Greatest Audiobook Producer in the World’ - from the original graphic novels written by Neil Gaiman many moons ago.

Title: The Sandman: Act III

By: Neil Gaiman and Dirk Maggs

Narrators: Neil Gaiman, James McAvoy, David Harewood, Regé-Jean Page, Wil Wheaton and full cast

Length: 11 hrs and 32 mins

Publisher: Audible Originals/DC Comics

Available: https://amzn.to/3iaQmMI

Please get involved in the conversation - either with your opinions on 'TheSandman: Act III' or if you want to recommend an audiobook for us to review.

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Spiracle - https://www.spiracleaudiobooks.com/

‘Doctor Who: The Chimes of Midnight’ - https://www.bigfinish.com/releases/v/doctor-who-the-chimes-of-midnight-653

Written by Robert Shearman

Starring Paul McGann and India Fisher

https://www.bigfinish.com/releases/v/doctor-who-the-chimes-of-midnight-653

Steve Phillips and Matthew Layton present #AudioBookClub - a podcast that recommends and reviews audiobooks.

On this episode: 

From the Oasthouse: The Alan Partridge Podcast (Series 2)

Steve and Matthew review and recommend the latest offering from bastillion of British broadcasting and self-proclaimed ‘Godfather of Podcasting’ Alan Partridge

Partridge is, of course, the creation of comedian, actor and Oscar-nominated writer and producer Steve Coogan.

Title: From the Oasthouse: The Alan Partridge Podcast (Series 2)

Author: Alan Partridge

Narrator: Alan Partridge

Length: 4 hrs and 15 mins

Publisher: Audible Originals

Categories: Comedy & Humour

Please get involved in the conversation - either with your opinions on ‘From The Oasthouse’’ or if you want to recommend an audiobook for us to review by using #AudioBookClub on facebook, twitter or instagram.

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Coming up on #AudioBookClub…

The Sandman: Act III - https://amzn.to/3TMtu3J

What Not To Do If You Turn Invisible - https://amzn.to/3E6csZy