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Bleak House by Charles Dickens audiobook review – Sam Mendes’s all-star adaptation | Audiobooks
“The sun is dead and the city mourns,” sighs the narrator at the start of this all-star adaptation of Bleak…
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The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead audiobook review – a dark chapter in America’s past | Audiobooks
Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer prize-winning novel opens with the dreadful discovery of human bones in Florida, at a site slated for a…
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The Lost Love Songs of Boysie Singh by Ingrid Persaud audiobook review – portrait of a dangerous charmer | Audiobooks
Boysie Singh is not a good man. A poor father, a brutal lover, a pirate and a gangster, he strikes…
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You Are Here by David Nicholls audiobook review – a rain-soaked rural romcom | David Nicholls
When Marnie and Michael are first thrown together during a hiking trip in the Lake District, sparks do not fly.…
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A Thousand Threads by Neneh Cherry audiobook review – love, chaos and creativity | Music books
When a heavily pregnant Neneh Cherry appeared on Top of the Pops in 1988 in a Lycra miniskirt, gold bra…
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Roddy Doyle: ‘A PG Wodehouse audiobook made me laugh so much I had to stop the car’ | Roddy Doyle
My earliest reading memoryMy mother taught me how to read. I was happy enough in school but at some point she must…
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On Bullfighting by AL Kennedy audiobook review – dances with death | Books
Ostensibly an exploration of the Spanish corrida de toros, On Bullfighting begins with a confession. Its author AL Kennedy reveals…
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Odyssey by Stephen Fry audiobook review – one hell of a trip | Books
We are not short of modern retellings of the Greek myths: Natalie Haynes, Costanza Casati, Pat Barker and Madeline Miller…
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May Day by Jackie Kay audiobook review – family, love and activism | Poetry
An autobiographical collection by the poet and former Makar of Scotland, Jackie Kay, May Day comprises vivid snapshots of its…
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Northern Lights by Philip Pullman audiobook review – a mesmerising reading by Ruth Wilson | Audiobooks
If you saw the BBC’s adaptation of His Dark Materials, you will remember Ruth Wilson stealing the show as the…
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