Gavin Hudson
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Moon over Soho
- Rivers of London, Book 2
- By: Ben Aaronovitch
- Narrated by: Kobna Holdbrook-Smith
- Length: 10 hrs and 1 min
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I was my dad's vinyl-wallah: I changed his records while he lounged around, and that's how I know my Argo from my Tempo. And it's why, when Dr Walid called me to the morgue to listen to a corpse, I recognised the tune it was playing. Something violently supernatural had happened to the victim, strong enough to leave its imprint like a wax cylinder recording.
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Perfect audiobook
- By Jane on 26-07-11
- Moon over Soho
- Rivers of London, Book 2
- By: Ben Aaronovitch
- Narrated by: Kobna Holdbrook-Smith
Even better than the first one
Reviewed: 11-06-24
Really enjoying this series now. The narrator gets it spot on. Looks ng forward to the next one so much!
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Rivers of London
- Rivers of London, Book 1
- By: Ben Aaronovitch
- Narrated by: Kobna Holdbrook-Smith
- Length: 10 hrs and 37 mins
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My name is Peter Grant, and until January, I was just probationary constable in that mighty army for justice known to all right-thinking people as the Metropolitan Police Service (and as the Filth to everybody else). My only concerns in life were how to avoid a transfer to the Case Progression Unit - we do paperwork so real coppers don't have to - and finding a way to climb into the panties of the outrageously perky WPC Leslie May. Then one night, in pursuance of a murder inquiry, I tried to take a witness statement from someone who was dead but disturbingly voluble....
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Not my cup of tea (I'm not even sure that was tea)
- By Christian on 28-03-13
- Rivers of London
- Rivers of London, Book 1
- By: Ben Aaronovitch
- Narrated by: Kobna Holdbrook-Smith
Witty and original fantasy
Reviewed: 25-03-24
It took me a couple of chapters to get i to this, but I'm glad I stuck with this witty and original fantasy that is a sort of cross between Neil Gaiman and Peter Ackroyd with the ghost of Iain Sinclair skulking in the distance. Highly entertaining with one of the best reading performances I've heard on here.
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Black Leopard, Red Wolf
- Dark Star Trilogy, Book 1
- By: Marlon James
- Narrated by: Dion Graham
- Length: 24 hrs and 1 min
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Tracker is known far and wide for his skills as a hunter - and he always works alone. But when he is engaged to find a child who disappeared three years ago, he must break his own rules, joining a group of eight very different mercenaries working together to find the boy. Following the lost boy's scent from one ancient city to another, into dense forests and across deep rivers, Tracker starts to wonder: who is this boy? Why has he been missing for so long? Why do so many people want to keep Tracker from finding him? And, most important of all, who is telling the truth and who is lying?
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An Incredible Afro-Fantastic Odyssey
- By designislovely3033 on 18-02-19
- Black Leopard, Red Wolf
- Dark Star Trilogy, Book 1
- By: Marlon James
- Narrated by: Dion Graham
This was not for me
Reviewed: 29-02-24
perhaps it works better as a print book, but as an audiobook it was difficult to follow. I also found it quite misogynistic.
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Bones to Ashes
- By: Kathy Reichs
- Narrated by: Lorelei King
- Length: 9 hrs and 36 mins
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Under the microscope, the outer bone surface is a moonscape of craters…‘Preliminary diagnosis?’‘Deformity of the bone. Maybe. Cortical destruction on a metacarpal. Maybe. Localised infection? Systemic disease process? Postmortem destruction, either purposeful or natural? A combination of the above? I don’t have a diagnosis…’
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Awful
- By mollyeyre on 11-06-20
- Bones to Ashes
- By: Kathy Reichs
- Narrated by: Lorelei King
Not the best of Tempy
Reviewed: 22-02-24
This is a solid if a little muddled detective thriller with perhaps too many strands running at once. It would benefit from a bit more focus and less side stories that go nowhere. Still a decent novel, but not the best if the Brennan novels.
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A Little Life
- By: Hanya Yanagihara
- Narrated by: Oliver Wyman
- Length: 32 hrs and 51 mins
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A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara is an immensely powerful and heartbreaking novel of brotherly love and the limits of human endurance. When four graduates from a small Massachusetts college move to New York to make their way, they're broke, adrift and buoyed only by their friendship and ambition. Over the decades, their relationships deepen and darken, tinged by addiction, success and pride.
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Devastating but brilliant
- By J Forrester on 27-01-16
- A Little Life
- By: Hanya Yanagihara
- Narrated by: Oliver Wyman
Deeply moving
Reviewed: 06-02-24
This is an epic study of trauma and its barreling effects across the life of an individual. The latent vulnerability that continually sabotages relationships, the fragility of recovery and the need for love kindness and safety. Despite the tragedy that unfolds in this sprawling book, it finds a note of hope and solace in Harold's final soliloquy.
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Politics on the Edge
- A Memoir from Within
- By: Rory Stewart
- Narrated by: Rory Stewart
- Length: 16 hrs and 20 mins
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Over the course of a decade from 2010, Rory Stewart went from being a political outsider to standing for prime minister - before being sacked from a Conservative Party that he had come to barely recognise.
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So good I immediately listened to it a second time!
- By Thalia on 16-09-23
- Politics on the Edge
- A Memoir from Within
- By: Rory Stewart
- Narrated by: Rory Stewart
interesting peek behind the curtain
Reviewed: 04-10-23
Rory Stewart, in keeping with his podcast gives us an interesting peek behind the curtain at the egos and self interests that have driven the last ten years of politics. While it can occasionally dip into self aggrandisement and viewing his own behaviour through rose tinted glasses, it is probably still one of the most revealing and telling political memoirs I have read
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The Sandman
- By: Neil Gaiman, Dirk Maggs
- Narrated by: Riz Ahmed, Kat Dennings, Taron Egerton, and others
- Length: 11 hrs and 2 mins
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When The Sandman, also known as Lord Morpheus - the immortal king of dreams, stories and the imagination - is pulled from his realm and imprisoned on Earth by a nefarious cult, he languishes for decades before finally escaping. Once free, he must retrieve the three “tools” that will restore his power and help him to rebuild his dominion, which has deteriorated in his absence.
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I don’t get this
- By John P. Allum on 21-07-20
- The Sandman
- By: Neil Gaiman, Dirk Maggs
- Narrated by: Riz Ahmed, Kat Dennings, Taron Egerton, Neil Gaiman, James McAvoy, Samantha Morton, Bebe Neuwirth, Andy Serkis, Michael Sheen
Superb
Reviewed: 07-08-23
Wasn't sure how you'd bring a graphic novel to audiobook, but this was one of the best listening experiences I've had. A stunning cast and a great epic collection of stories. can't wait to get started on part two
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Brokeback Mountain
- By: Annie Proulx
- Narrated by: Campbell Scott
- Length: 1 hr and 3 mins
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Brokeback Mountain is set in the beautiful, wild landscape of Wyoming where cowboys live as they have done for generations. Hard, lonely lives in unforgiving country. Jack Twist and Ennis del Mar are two ranch hands glad to have found each other's company where none had been expected. But companionship becomes something else on Brokeback Mountain, something not looked for, something deadly.
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Surprising different, and touching
- By Helen on 13-04-13
- Brokeback Mountain
- By: Annie Proulx
- Narrated by: Campbell Scott
Rushes it's set-up
Reviewed: 05-08-23
This is not a bad story and once out of it's first third it settles into nice pacing and character development, but the gear change from hanging out on the mountain to the sex scene in the tent is too abrupt. It would be a big risk for both men and it's always rung a little flat and hollow.
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Smile of the Wolf
- By: Tim Leach
- Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
- Length: 9 hrs and 47 mins
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Eleventh-century Iceland. One night in the darkness of winter, two friends set out on an adventure but end up killing a man. Kjaran, a travelling poet who trades songs for food and shelter, and Gunnar, a feared warrior, must make a choice: conceal the deed or confess to the crime and pay the blood price to the family. But their decision leads to a brutal feud: one man is outlawed, free to be killed by anyone without consequence, the other remorselessly hunted by the dead man's kin.
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Gripping to the last!
- By Inkypen on 18-07-18
- Smile of the Wolf
- By: Tim Leach
- Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
Nice neat old fashioned stort
Reviewed: 30-05-23
i really enjoyed this short novel and it's well performed. the ending was a surprise in that it made the novel about something else than I had initially thought, but also grounded it in the wider history.
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Twelve Caesars
- Images of Power from the Ancient World to the Modern (Bollingen Series)
- By: Mary Beard
- Narrated by: Mary Beard
- Length: 10 hrs and 11 mins
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What does the face of power look like? Who gets commemorated in art and why? And how do we react to statues of politicians we deplore? In this book - against a background of today’s “sculpture wars” - Mary Beard tells the story of how for more than two millennia portraits of the rich, powerful, and famous in the Western world have been shaped by the image of Roman emperors, especially the “Twelve Caesars”, from the ruthless Julius Caesar to the fly-torturing Domitian.
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not bad
- By Leon on 17-05-24
- Twelve Caesars
- Images of Power from the Ancient World to the Modern (Bollingen Series)
- By: Mary Beard
- Narrated by: Mary Beard
Mary Beard on form.
Reviewed: 27-02-23
I could listen to Mary Beard all day long. this fascinating look at how images of power have shaped and been shaped by the forces of history as well as the impossibility of certainty in ancient history is well read and presented as Beard comes at the topic from all angles
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