Image Credit Ben Crocker. Ruth Hogan is the bestselling author of The Keeper of Lost Things. The book was published in 2017 and was a Richard and Judy Book Club pick the same year. Recently, she spoke to Abigail Jaggers about being ...
Audiobooks have a powerful impact for people less able to read or hold a book. Here, Listening Books member Margaret* tells us how they have changed her life. I was born in 1945 and during the 1947 polio epidemic I caught ...
This weekend the clocks change, so we picked our favourite books featuring time! We’re fascinated by time. The word ‘time’ is one of the most popular nouns in the English language, ranking just below the nouns ‘one’ and ‘make’. But what ...
Cass Green is the bestselling author of the psychological thriller books The Woman Next Door and In A Cottage In A Wood. Starting out as a journalist, she is now also a writer in residence for East Barnet School, and teaches ...
How does an audiobook narrator record books? How do they work out character voices? And what does a dog ordering a pizza sound like? Paul Vates is an actor, writer and voice over artist. He has narrated several audiobooks for Listening ...
On 8th March every year women around the world celebrate International Women’s Day. If you’re looking for some great feminist books to read to celebrate, then look no further! What makes a book feminist? For non-fiction this seems obvious: information or ...
School children reading to help children in hospital – what could be better? How Read for Good sets alight the literary love, wherever your child may be. The Read for Good team are the biggest trumpet-blowing, shout-it-from-the-rooftop advocates of children reading ...
Ever wondered who chooses what audiobooks are in our library? Amy Flinders is the Copyright Manager for Listening Books. She has worked for the charity since 2014. Abigail Jaggers spoke to her about what a copyright manager does, how she chooses ...
If you’ve ever listened to an audiobook, chances are you’ve had someone tell you it’s “cheating” or not “real” reading. I admit, before I started listening to audiobooks I was also guilty of thinking this. There was only one true way ...
We’ve all been there. You’re listening to a classic novel, and then suddenly you hear something so strange you have to pause the audiobook and replay it. Did that narrator really just say that? This doesn’t just happen in classics. Authors ...