AudioBookClub

28/09/2024

This week it's 'Yellowface' by Rebecca Kuang, performed in two formats by two brilliant narrators: the audiobook with Helen Laser and BBC Sounds' 'Book at Bedtime' with Ashleigh Haddad.

Does episodic vs full book mean different perceptions of the story or the characters?

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Steve Phillips and Matthew Layton present - the podcast that reviews and recommends audiobooks for discerning punters like you. On this episo

29/08/2024

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On the latest episode of , Steve and Matthew ask, “What would have happened if the N***s had won World War II?”SS-GBPenguin Modern Classicsa: Len Deightonn: James Laileyl: 12 hrs and 25 minsp: Penguin AudioThe Man in the High Castlea: Philip K. Dickn: Jeff Cummingsl: 9 hrs and 58 m...

20/05/2024

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On the latest episode of - the audiobook review and recommendation podcast - Steve and Matthew discuss ‘Politics on the Edge' - the political ...

10/03/2023

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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.

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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, har 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’

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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 Mark...

26/02/2023

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
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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… 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...

26/11/2022

WARNING: This episode of AudioBookClub contains ‘a fart of such intensity that you could probably lean against it’ and ‘a bowel movement of such violence that it made me question my sphincteral elasticity’

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

On this episode of Steve and Matthew consume 'Fibber in the Heat' by Miles Jupp - an autobiographical memoir of the actor/comedian/author's attempt to blag his way into becoming a cricket journalist.

In ‘Notes from the Margin’, we’ll be asking ‘How new does an audiobook have to be to be considered worthy of recommendation by ?’.

Title: Fibber in the Heat: Following England in India - A Blagger's Tale
Written by: Miles Jupp
Narrated by: Miles Jupp
Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins
Release date: 29-12-2016
Publisher: Random House Audiobooks
Available: https://amzn.to/3B9fxWT

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06/11/2022

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

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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

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The Sandman: Act III - https://amzn.to/3TMtu3J
What Not To Do If You Turn Invisible - https://amzn.to/3E6csZy

24/10/2022

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Colditz!

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Steve and Matthew review and recommend the real history of the renaissance castle that was the home to the Third Reich’s most notorious prisoner of war camp

The camp where they imprisoned only the most troublesome Allied military prisoners - many of them serial escapists - all of them enemies of the German State.

Title: Colditz: Prisoners of the Castle
Author: Ben Macintyre
Narrator: Ben MacIntyre
Publisher: Penguin Random House Audio on Audible
Length: 13 hours and 25 minutes

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From the Oasthouse: The Alan Partridge Podcast (Series 2) - https://amzn.to/3yia0vA
The Sandman: Act III - https://amzn.to/3TMtu3J

Steve Phillips and Matthew Layton present - a podcast that recommends and reviews audiobooks. On this episode:  Steve and Matthew review and recommend the real history of the renaissance castle that was the home to the Third Reich’s most notorious prisoner of war camp The camp where they impr...

06/10/2022

'The Lazarus Heist' - with Geoff White

On this episode of Steve and Matthew speak to journalist, broadcaster and author Geoff White about The Lazarus Heist - the audiobook based on the number one podcast about North Korea's elite team of cyber hackers

Title: The Lazarus Heist
From Hollywood to High Finance:
Inside North Korea's Global Cyber War
Author: Geoff White
Narrator: Geoff White
Publisher: Penguin Random House Audio
Length: 8 hrs and 28 mins
Platform: Audible - https://amzn.to/3rxPqmX

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22/08/2022

On the latest episode of ...

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..Matthew Layton and Steve Phillips heartily recommend 'A Book of Secrets' - the latest in a series of 'anti-self-help' books from mentalist Derren Brown - even though it helped them to see themselves for the dad-joke-spouting middle aged men they really are.

In new segment 'Notes from the Margin' Steve and Matthew discuss giving audiobooks as gifts. Can it ever be as satisfying as giving or receiving one of those old-fashioned plant-based books?

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Steve Phillips and Matthew Layton presnt - the interactive audiobook review and recommendation podcast. On this episode we’ll be reviewing ‘A Book of Secrets; Finding Solace in a Stubborn World’ the latest in a series of ant-self-help books from TV mentalist Derren Brown. On an ...

22/08/2022

On the latest episode of ...

https://www.audiobookclub.net/post/a-book-of-secrets-by-derren-brown
..Matthew Layton and Steve Phillips heartily recommend 'A Book of Secrets' - the latest in a series of 'anti-self-help' books from mentalist Derren Brown - even though it helped them to see themselves for the dad-joke-spouting middle aged men they really are.

In new segment 'Notes from the Margin' Steve and Matthew discuss giving audiobooks as gifts. Can it ever be as satisfying as giving or receiving one of those old-fashioned plant-based books?

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19/06/2022

On the latest edpisode of

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Steve and Matthew speak to journalist and author Geoff White about his new audiobook 'The Lazarus Heist'.

The book is based on the BBC's award winning podcast series of the same name and, in both formats, Geoff tells the story of the Lazarus Group - an elite group of North Korean government-backed hackers.

This is the first time we've encountered an audiobook based on a podcast series, so we ask ourselves and Geoff what the difference between the two formats is, both for him as an author/journalist/presenter and for us as listeners.

We also touch upon the differences between working for the BBC and for a publishing company like Penguin; and Geoff reminds us that while we haven't necessarily seen many visible signs of any cyber fallout from the war in Ukraine, there is a lot of defensive effort being undertaken in places like GCHQ and Fort Meade.

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23/11/2021

The latest episode of is now available on YouTube... ....or as a podcast.... Steve Phillips and Matthew Layton present - which they claim is the world’s only interactive audiobook review and recommendation podcast. On this episode... Matthew and Steve have a rummage a...

23/11/2021

On the latest episode of ...

Matthew and Steve have a rummage around Audible's new 'all-you-can-read' service Audible Plus.

Is it the transformative experience for the audiobook subscription model that we've all been waiting for, or just a receptacle for audio off-cuts?

We also look forward to the impending State Visit of the man we're not afraid to call 'The Greatest Audiobook Producer of All Time': Dirk Maggs.

He's the production maestro responsible for the original 'Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy' series and Audible's production of Neil Gaiman's 'The Sandman' and he'll be joining Matthew and Steve on the next episode of on 1st December.

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Steve Phillips and Matthew Layton present - which they claim is the world’s only interactive audiobook review and recommendation podcast.On th...

04/11/2021

CLIP: "Like a wet hand slapping a table in a distant room"

The 2021 Award for "Best Sentence in an Audiobook" goes to Lee Child for this incredibly evocative description of the sound of a man falling six storeys to his death in the latest Jack Reacher book "Better Off Dead"

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