'The Last Train' - with Professor Michael Pronko (and Victor Dima!)
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. @SteveKPhillips and @WhingeingPom AudioBookClub.net #AudioBookClub on facebook, twitter or instagram – 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/ -
26 Feb 202357min
Spiracle
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 AudioBookClub.net #AudioBookClub on facebook, twitter or instagram – 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
29 Nov 202248min
''A History of Modern Britain' - by Andrew Marr
On this episode of AudioBookClub, Matthew hasn’t done his homework and fails to review ‘A History of Modern Britain’ by Andrew Marr. Quite spectacularly! Steve Phillips and Matthew Layton present #AudioBookClub - a podcast that recommends and reviews audiobooks. Fortunately, the BBC - an institution very close to both Steve’s and Matthew’s hearts - has just launched the amazon BBC Sounds app to a global audience. Steve and Matthew ramble on passionately about the fantastic amount, quality and variety of premium audio content from the greatest broadcasting organisation there has ever been, that is now available to you, FOR FREE, wherever you live! Title: A History of Modern Britain Written by: Andrew Marr Narrated by: David Timson Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins Publisher: Macmillan Digital Audio Available: https://amzn.to/3B9fxWT BBC Sounds - https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds Further reading - https://www.androidpolice.com/2020/11/12/bbc-sounds-app-now-available-for-listeners-around-the-globe/ https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/help/questions/listening-outside-the-uk/international Please get involved in the conversation - either with your opinions on 'A History of Modern Britain’' or if you want to recommend an audiobook for us to review. @SteveKPhillips and @WhingeingPom AudioBookClub.net #AudioBookClub on facebook, twitter or instagram – Coming up on #AudioBookClub… Spiracle - https://www.spiracleaudiobooks.com/ ‘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
27 Nov 202250min
'Fletch' - by Gregory Mcdonald
On this episode of AudioBookClub, we recommend the audiobook equivalent of that tatty, yellowing, old paperback book that you find in someone else’s holiday home. So slap on your sunscreen, recline by the pool and join us as we get stuck into ‘Fletch' Steve Phillips and Matthew Layton present #AudioBookClub - a podcast that recommends and reviews audiobooks. On this episode of #AudioBookClub Steve and Matthew get wrapped up in an historical artefact: Fletch - the 1974 novel that was made into a film in the 1980s starring Chevy Chase. (Which is currently available for free if you’ve got an Audible subscription. Have a squiz at the Audible Plus section) -- Title: Fletch Written by: Gregory Mcdonald Narrated by: Dan John Miller Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins Publisher: Blackstone Audio Available: https://amzn.to/3B9fxWT -- Please get involved in the conversation - either with your opinions on 'Fibber in the Heat' or if you want to recommend an audiobook for us to review by using #AudioBookClub on facebook, twitter or instagram. @SteveKPhillips and @WhingeingPom AudioBookClub.net #AudioBookClub on facebook, twitter or instagram -- Coming up on #AudioBookClub… ‘A History of Modern Britain’ - by Andrew Marr - https://amzn.to/3V94bKl Spiracle - https://www.spiracleaudiobooks.com/
26 Nov 202238min
'What Not To Do If You Turn Invisible' - with Charlotte Layton
Steve Phillips and Matthew Layton present #AudioBookClub - a podcast that recommends and reviews audiobooks. On this episode: We have a guest ‘recommender’. Her name is Charlotte Layton, she is 11 years old and she has brought ‘What Not To Do If You Turn Invisible’ by Ross Welford to the #AudioBookClub table. Nepotism is alive and well here at #AudioBookClub! Please get involved in the conversation - either with your opinions on ‘What Not to Do If You Turn Invisible’ or if you want to recommend an audiobook for us to review by using #AudioBookClub on facebook, twitter or instagram. @SteveKPhillips and @WhingeingPom https://www.audiobookclub.net/ – Coming up on #AudioBookClub… Fletch - https://amzn.to/3tzLbIM Andrew Marr’s ‘A History of Modern Britain’ - https://amzn.to/3EsVvHA
22 Nov 202237min
'The Sandman: Act III' - by @neilhimself and @DirkMaggs
On this week’s #AudioBookClub, the third instalment of the most brilliantly conceived, lovingly dramatised, lavishly produced and, in our opinion, bestest audiobook series in the world… EVER! Steve Phillips and Matthew Layton present #AudioBookClub - a podcast that recommends and reviews audiobooks. On this episode: The Sandman: Act III The biggest audiobook release of the year. The most extravagant cast. The most lavish production. (Frankly, we’re running out of superlatives here) Lovingly adapted and sculpted in sound by Dirk Maggs - the man we’re not afraid to call ‘The Greatest Audiobook Producer in the World’ - from the original graphic novels written by Neil Gaiman many moons ago. Title: The Sandman: Act III By: Neil Gaiman and Dirk Maggs Narrators: Neil Gaiman, James McAvoy, David Harewood, Regé-Jean Page, Wil Wheaton and full cast Length: 11 hrs and 32 mins Publisher: Audible Originals/DC Comics Available: https://amzn.to/3iaQmMI Please get involved in the conversation - either with your opinions on 'TheSandman: Act III' or if you want to recommend an audiobook for us to review. @SteveKPhillips and @WhingeingPom AudioBookClub.net #AudioBookClub on facebook, twitter or instagram – Coming up on #AudioBookClub… Spiracle - https://www.spiracleaudiobooks.com/ ‘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
16 Nov 202249min
'From the Oasthouse' - by Alan Partridge
Steve Phillips and Matthew Layton present #AudioBookClub - a podcast that recommends and reviews audiobooks. On this episode: 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 Please get involved in the conversation - either with your opinions on ‘From The Oasthouse’’ or if you want to recommend an audiobook for us to review by using #AudioBookClub on facebook, twitter or instagram. @SteveKPhillips and @WhingeingPom https://www.audiobookclub.net/ – Coming up on #AudioBookClub… The Sandman: Act III - https://amzn.to/3TMtu3J What Not To Do If You Turn Invisible - https://amzn.to/3E6csZy
6 Nov 202230min
'Colditz' - by Ben MacIntyre
Steve Phillips and Matthew Layton present #AudioBookClub - 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 imprisoned only the most troublesome Allied military prisoners - many of them serial escapists - all of them enemies of the German State. Welcome…. to Colditz! Title: Colditz: Prisoners of the Castle Author: Ben MacIntyre Narrator: Ben MacIntyre Publisher: Penguin Audio Length: 13 hours and 25 minutes Please get involved in the conversation - either with your opinions on ‘Colditz: Prisoners of the Castle’ or if you want to recommend an audiobook for us to review by using #AudioBookClub on facebook, twitter or instagram. @SteveKPhillips and @WhingeingPom https://www.audiobookclub.net/ – Coming up on #AudioBookClub… From the Oasthouse: The Alan Partridge Podcast (Series 2) - https://amzn.to/3yia0vA The Sandman: Act III - https://amzn.to/3TMtu3J
24 Okt 202246min
