#AudiobookReview – A Very English Scandal by John Preston narrated by Daniel Weyman #LoveAudio

Goodreads blurb: In 1979, Jeremy Thorpe, the rising star of the Liberal Party, stood trial for conspiracy to murder. It was the first time that a leading British politician had stood trial on a murder charge. It was the first time that a murder plot had been hatched in the House of Commons. And it…

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#AudiobookReview – If Only They Didn’t Speak English by Jon Sopel #LoveAudio #AudiobookMonth

Goodreads blurb: As the BBC's North America Editor, Jon Sopel has had a pretty busy time of it lately. In the 18 months it's taken for a reality star to go from laughingstock to leader of the free world, Jon has travelled the length and breadth of the United States, experiencing it from a perspective…

#AudiobookReview – A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens narrated by Martin Jarvis

'It was the best of times, it was the worst of times'; so the recording begins and ends with some of Dickens's best-known words, and between those lines is every Briton's view of the worst excesses of the French Revolution. Set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution, the audiobook tells the…

#AudiobookReview – Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel #BookBumBookClub

What was lost in the collapse: almost everything, almost everyone, but there is still such beauty. One snowy night in Toronto famous actor Arthur Leander dies on stage whilst performing the role of a lifetime. That same evening a deadly virus touches down in North America. The world will never be the same again. Twenty…

#AudiobookReview – Another Woman’s Husband by Gill Paul

Two women, divided by time, bound by a secret... 1911. Aged just fifteen, Mary Kirk and Wallis Warfield meet at summer camp. Their friendship will survive heartbreaks, continents, and the demands of the English crown, until it is shattered by one unforgivable betrayal... 1997. Rachel's romantic break in Paris with her fiancé is interrupted when…

#AudioBookReview – How To Stop Time by Matt Haig #2018AudiobookChallenge

I am old. That is the first thing to tell you. The thing you are least likely to believe. If you saw me you would probably think I was about forty, but you would be very wrong. Tom Hazard has a dangerous secret. He may look like an ordinary 41-year-old, but owing to a rare…

#AudiobookReview – The Address by Fiona Davis – #AudiobookReview

After a failed apprenticeship, working her way up to head housekeeper of a posh London hotel is more than Sara Smythe ever thought she'd make of herself. But when a chance encounter with Theodore Camden, one of the architects of the grand New York apartment house The Dakota, leads to a job offer, her world…