On this episode of #AudioBookClub:

We unleash our inner Don Drapers with the help of avuncular adman Rory Sutherland

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Alchemy

The Surprising Power of Ideas That Don't Make Sense

A: Rory Sutherland

N: Rory Sutherland

L: 9 hrs and 38 mins

P: Penguin Audio

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On this episode of #AudioBookClub:

We head to New York in the roaring twenties, where we shall drink hooch in speak-easies with fairies and flappers

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The Masquerades of Spring

A: Ben Aaronovitch

N: Kobna Holdbrook-Smith

L: 4 hrs and 34 mins

P: Orion

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On this episode of #AudioBookClub:

A minke whale, a kung-fu chicken and the rabbit equivalent of Jason Statham,

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My Animals, and Other Animals

A memoir of sorts

A: Bill Bailey

N: Bill Bailey

L: 5 hrs and 03 mins

P: Querkus

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Just simply an audiobook that Matt and Steve think you’ll want to read.

Humbling, heart wrenching and humorous, ‘Shattered’ is raw in how Hanif Kureishi expresses the detailed physical and mental challenges of suddenly becoming tetraplegic.

Have a listen and let us know your thougts and reactions below.

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New Year, New You?

We review James Clear’s bestseller ‘Atomic Habits’ to start off 2025’s audiobook treats.

Have you followed his steps?

We’ve started (hopefully not in an annual-gym-subscription-but-only-go-for-three-weeks kind of way).

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Hear interviews with some of the best in the literary and audio world as we give you the highlights of some of our favourite luminaries:

Dirk Maggs, described as “the Steven Spielberg of Audio” and producer of Audible's The Sandman series and BBC Radio 4's Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy (among many more)

Author of the critically-acclaimed, internationally bestselling Peter Grant/Rivers of London urban fantasy series. and Doctor Who writer Ben Aaronovitch

Bestselling author of A Spy Among Friends, Double Cross, Colditz, The Siege and Operation Mincemeat, Ben MacIntyre

Ben Folds, New York Times Best Selling author and widely regarded as one of the major music influencers of our generation

Multi-award winning Investigative journalist and Lazarus Heist co-creator Geoff White

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This episode of #AudioBookClub: comes from The #AudioBookClub Theatre of the Mind on London’s glittering Park Lane, where The 2024 #AudioBookClub Imaginary Awards Gala is about to kick off.

For financial and logistical reasons, both the Gala AND the awards are entirely imaginary, but hopefully that won’t stop hosts Steve Phillips and Matt Layton and you, gentle listener, from enjoying this wonderful star studded soiree

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On this episode of #AudioBookClub:

A thousand years of history in just twenty eight minutes!

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On this episode:

We peruse British comedy icon David Mitchell’s history of the kings and queens of England.

Unruly

A History of England's Kings and Queens

A: David Mitchell

N: David Mitchell

L: 11 hrs and 39 mins

R: 28-09-23

P: Penguin AudioUnruly

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