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’  

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/ -     

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

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

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/