Sally Green is the bestselling author of the Half Bad trilogy, where witches and humans live alongside each other. The Smoke Thieves is the first book in her new historical fantasy trilogy, which was published in May 2018. She spoke to Abigail Jaggers about ...
Jessica Stone presents Dear Reader for Canterbury’s Community and Student Radio. In her spare time, she also volunteers for Listening Books. She tells us why she does reading challenges! A few years ago, I responded to a prompt going around social ...
If you’ve seen the news at all recently, you might be aware that there’s been a lot of royal stories about! The wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle is less than a month away, and then the birth of ...
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 ...
