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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Coming up on #AudioBookClub…

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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Coming up on #AudioBookClub…

‘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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Coming up on #AudioBookClub…

‘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