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Audiobooks

July 2024

  • the Spotify logo seen displayed on a smartphone screen near a pair of earphones

    The Conversation
    Spotify’s new audiobook bundle may reduce music royalties and shortchange authors

    Millicent Weber for the Conversation
    Music artists say the bundle is ‘cheating’ the royalties system while authors have concerns about how streaming will affect how they’re paid and rights over their work

June 2024

  • Atrani, Amalfi Coast

    Audiobook of the week
    The Talented Mr Ripley by Patricia Highsmith audiobook review – a compelling classic

    Actor David Menkin deftly captures the antihero’s blend of guilelessness and deceit in Patricia Highsmith’s psychological thriller
  • Jodie Comer.

    Audiobook of the week
    Prima Facie by Suzie Miller review – Jodie Comer narrates with charisma and firepower

    The star of the original award-winning play about sexual assault brings emotional complexity to this novel adaptation
  • Zadie Smith.

    Audiobook of the week
    The Fraud by Zadie Smith audiobook review – exuberant and funny

    Narrated by the author, this story of a Victorian author and his housekeeper cousin, who is obsessed by the Tichborne claimant, explores the lies people tell themselves

May 2024

  • Meryl Streep

    Audiobook of the week
    Tom Lake by Ann Patchett audiobook review – Meryl Streep narrates a bittersweet tale of first love

  • Fabritius’s A View of Delft, 1652.

    Audiobook of the week
    Thunderclap by Laura Cumming audiobook review – the golden age of Dutch art

  • Having survived gulags and concentration camps, Ludwik and Mirjam met and married in Britain.

    Audiobook of the week
    Hitler, Stalin, Mum and Dad by Daniel Finkelstein audiobook review – a gripping tale of endurance

  • Michael Sheen records the audiobook for Philip Pullman's La Belle Sauvage

    The Guardian view on audiobooks: a growing market that asks existential questions

  • ‘I made curtains on the train’: the commuters livening up their journeys

  • UK audiobook downloads up 17% last year, Publishers Association data shows

  • Audiobook of the week
    What by John Cooper Clarke review – sharp social commentary from the Bard of Salford

April 2024

  • Headteachers say they are forced to mend desks and unblock toilets after losing caretakers to cuts.

    Brief letters
    Proof that teaching’s going down the pan

  • Claire Kilroy

    Audiobook of the week
    Soldier Sailor by Claire Kilroy audiobook review – a thrillingly blunt take on new motherhood

  • The audio versions of the Harry Potter books have racked up 1.4 billion global listening hours on Audible.

    Audible to turn all seven of JK Rowling’s Harry Potter books into full-cast audiobooks

  • Andrew Scott

    Audiobook of the week
    1984 by George Orwell audiobook review – a starry cast drive this powerful dramatisation

March 2024

  • Fern Brady.

    Audiobook of the week
    Strong Female Character by Fern Brady review – moving account of undiagnosed autism

    The Scottish comedian narrates her traumatic experience of being ‘wired differently’ and why autism is so frequently missed in women
  • Saul Reichlin

    Other lives
    Saul Reichlin obituary

    Other lives: Actor whose mellifluous voice narrated hundreds of audiobooks and video games

    • Audiobook of the week
      A History of Women in 101 Objects by Annabelle Hirsch audiobook review – from hatpins to glass dildos

    • The magic of audiobooks? Deep down, we still long to be read to

      Elizabeth Quinn

    • ‘Extraordinary’: 101 women narrate A History of Women in 101 Objects audiobook

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