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On the latest episode of #AudioBookClub, Steve and Matthew head to Brighton on the UK’s pebbly south coast to talk about a giant fiberglass avocado Steve Phillips and Matthew Layton present #AudioBookClub - the podcast that reviews and recommends audiobooks for discerning punters like you. On this episode, the second in a fruity series of novels from British comedy legend Bob Mortimer…   The Hotel Avocado A: Bob Mortimer N: Bob Mortimer, Sally Phillips, Paul Whitehouse, Julie Maisey L: 9 hrs and 20 mins Release date: 29-08-24 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio UK Please get involved in the conversation   @SteveKPhillips and @WhingeingPom   AudioBookClub.net  #AudioBookClub on facebook, twitter or instagram

9 Sep 202435min

“Oh My God! They shot Churchill…” On the latest episode of #AudioBookClub, Steve and Matthew ask, “What would have happened if the Nazis had won World War II?” SS-GB Penguin Modern Classics a: Len Deighton n: James Lailey l: 12 hrs and 25 mins p: Penguin Audio   The Man in the High Castle a: Philip K. Dick n: Jeff Cummings l: 9 hrs and 58 mins p: Brilliance Audio Steve Phillips and Matthew Layton present #AudioBookClub - the podcast that reviews and recommends audiobooks. On this episode, two books that visit alternative histories where The Axis won the Second World War. Mixed results! And the boys cast an eye over the Sunday Times Top 100 Books of the Last 50 Years from an audiobook perspective. Please get involved in the conversation @SteveKPhillips and @WhingeingPom AudioBookClub.net  #AudioBookClub on facebook, twitter or instagram

29 Aug 202438min

On the latest episode of #AudioBookClub - the audiobook review and recommendation podcast - Steve and Matthew fail to listen to each other’s recommendations   t: Green Wing: Resuscitated - https://amzn.eu/d/f6eUNNU a: Victoria Pile, James Henry, Oriane Messina, Fay Rusling, Robert Harley, c: Oliver Chris, Olivia Colman, Pippa Haywood, Mark Heap, Michelle Gomez, Tamsin Greig, Stephen Mangan, Julian Rhind-Tutt and Karl Theobald p: Audible Originals l: 4h 17m   t: Mad Woman - https://amzn.eu/d/2UtJYiG  a: Bryony Gordon n: Bryony Gordon  p: Headline Publishing l: 6h 51m   Steve Phillips and Matthew Layton present #AudioBookClub - the podcast that reviews and recommends audiobooks.   Two recommendations for you this week:   Matthew has brought along Bryony Gordon’s mental health memoir ‘Mad Woman’ while Steve serves up the audio revival of a cult comedy TV show show ‘Green Wing:   Please get involved in the conversation   @SteveKPhillips and @WhingeingPom   AudioBookClub.net    #AudioBookClub on facebook, twitter or instagram   Coming up on #AudioBookClub…   t: On His Majesty’s Secret Service’ - https://amzn.eu/d/09v7gI2s  a: Charlie Higson n: Charlie Higson   p: Ian Fleming Publications L: 4h 25 m

23 Juni 202433min

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. Please get involved in the conversation @SteveKPhillips and @WhingeingPom AudioBookClub.net #AudioBookClub on facebook, twitter or instagram Coming up on #AudioBookClub… INTERVIEW: Ben Macintyre, author of ‘Colditz: Prisoners of the Castle’, ‘Operation Mincemeat’ and ‘S.A.S. Rogue Heroes’

5 Mars 202340min

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

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

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