'The Last Train' - with Professor Michael Pronko (and Victor Dima!)
#AudioBookClub26 Feb 2023

'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
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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/ -

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