Audio Books for the ‘Audio Books’ Category

• Around the World in Eighty Days

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  Around the World in Eighty Days – Audio Book Summary

  To take on the bet – to go around the world in eighty days, faster than anyone had gone before – was madness. If Phileas Fogg missed a single connection, he would lose 20,000 pounds. Phileas Fogg was an eccentric Englishmen who lived a quiet ordered life and believed that with technology and planning, nothing was unforeseeable. But he could not plan for the ebullient nature of his French servant, Passepartout, for the adventures that crop up on their journey and for the totally unexpected collision with romance. The humor and freshness of Verne’s writing – vivid dispatches from a newly accessible world – make Around the World in Eighty Days an ideal subject for an audiobook. Jules Verne would have approved.

  

• Classic BBC Radio Horror: Appointment with Fear

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  Classic BBC Radio Horror: Appointment with Fear – Audio Book Summary

  Four chilling episodes from the famous 1940s BBC radio series, introduced by Valentine Dyall, AKA The Man in Black.

  These are the four sole surviving episodes from the BBC archive: The Pit and the Pendulum by Edgar Allan Poe (18/9/1943); The Speaking Clock by John Dickson Carr (13/4/1944); The Clock Strikes Eight by John Dickson Carr(18/5/1944); And The Deep Shuddered by Monckton Hoffe (20/11/1945).

  Amongst the cast are Marjorie Westbury, Marius Goring and Gladys Spencer.

  

• Him Her Him Again the End of Him

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  Him Her Him Again the End of Him – Audio Book Summary

  Former Saturday Night Live writer Patricia Marx brings her clever, deadpan humor to this addictive novel about one woman’s comic obsession with her first boyfriend.

  A neurotic young graduate student looking for distraction from her doomed thesis is inexplicably swept off her feet by a narcissistic philosophy professor. The obsession continues even after he has dumped her for someone even needier and she has given up on school and become a television writer. Meeting again in New York, they begin an adulterous affair that, of course, can only end in some kind of crisis.

  Smart, lively, and original, Him Her Him Again the End of Him is an endlessly entertaining re-imagining of the comedy of manners.

  

• I Wish I Were a Dog

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  I Wish I Were a Dog – Audio Book Summary

  Kitty is fed up with being a cat! Why can’t she be a dog? Dogs have ALL the fun. Lydia Monks’ fable and comedian Jo Brand’s reading of cat dissatisfaction will have you howling with laughter!

  Includes soundtrack, songs and lots of listening fun.

  

• Carriages: A Litcast

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  Carriages: A Litcast – Audio Book Summary

  Through humour, sharp observations and sarcastic descriptions we are introduced to Steds and Katrina. They have been an unremarkable couple through five unremarkable years. One day they decide to go jogging together. Ironically, this starts a chain of events which sets a whole new pace in their respective lives. Litcast is selected short fiction.

  

• Love or Money?

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  Love or Money? – Audio Book Summary

  It is Molly Clarkson’s 50th birthday. She is having a party. She is rich, but it’s a small party – only four people. Four people, however, who all need the same thing: they need her money. She will not give them the money, so they are waiting for her to die. And there are other people who are also waiting for her to die. But one person can’t wait. And so, on her 50th birthday, Molly Clarkson is going to die.

  

• Loves Me, Loves Me Not

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  Loves Me, Loves Me Not – Audio Book Summary

  When the 19-year-old twins who work at Bonny Fairley’s fine craft gallery place a personal ad in the paper on her behalf, Bonny is mortified. A personal ad? She’s not that desperate! Then the ex-husband who’d abandoned her shows up in town, vowing to win back her heart – and Bonny starts returning calls and making dates as if her life, not to mention her happiness, depended on it. What better way than finding herself a boyfriend to prove to Timothy that she’s over him for good?

  What she doesn’t count on is a lovable mutt named Cleo and the busybody townfolk of Pilchuck, Washington – most of whom believe that Bonny really ought to give her ex a second chance. And after a string of hilarious, harrowing dates, Bonny herself begins to wonder. When all is said and done – will it be all over for Timothy? Or all over for Bonny’s heart?

  

• Lucy Keeps the Wolf from the Door

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  Lucy Keeps the Wolf from the Door – Audio Book Summary

  Now that Lucy’s friend 2.15 is the father of three little cubs, he has gone soft and become a vegetarian – not something usually associated with wolves. Then he becomes concerned with acid rain and he’s determined to make a safe home for his family.

  

• The Man at Gantt’s Place

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  The Man at Gantt’s Place – Audio Book Summary

  The explosion almost deafened Lew. He did not hear or feel the bullet…. One man stands between the ranchers and the land they need. Their first step: kill his son. Can the Sheriff and an undercover Marshall keep Lew Gantt alive?

  

• The Minotaur

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  The Minotaur – Audio Book Summary

  Kerstin Kvist didn’t quite know what to expect when she took up a job with the Cosway family at their odd, almost grand house, Lydstep Old Hall, deep in the Essex countryside. All that mattered to her then was the fact that it was near London where her boyfriend lived; she’d come over from Sweden to keep their affair going.

  The family turned out to be even odder than the house: living at home with the widowed Mrs Cosway were her three unmarried daughters, in thrall to the old lady, but there was also a mysterious fourth daughter, a widow herself and apparently quite rich, who came and went infrequently, with ill-disguised contempt for the others. Even more puzzling, and increasingly upsetting for Kerstin, was the position of Mrs Cosway’s son, John, a sad, self-absorbed figure in his 30s who haunted the house. “There’s madness in the family,” offered one of the daughters as way of explanation, but Kerstin had trained as a nurse and knew it wasn’t right to be administering such powerful drugs to a vulnerable figure like John.

  Then, just as she was beginning to get some inkling of what was going on in the house, a stranger with a glamorously Bohemian aura moved into the village, and his presence set the Cosway family on a path to self-destruction.

  In Barbara Vine’s new book, her twelfth, a sympathetic middle-aged Swedish woman remembers her strange and horrifying stay at an old Essex house almost 40 years before, at a time when the ’60s revolution hadn’t quite reached rural England. Compelling in its depiction of the secrets within an apparently respectable family, The Minotaur is Barbara Vine in top form.