The players have assembled. The goals are ready to be scored. And here at Listening Books we’ve got some of the best World Cup books to listen to! From all the facts about World Cup history, to a family of foxes ...
T’is the season to put away the brolly! Our copyright manager, Amy Flinders, gives us a breakdown of some of the new summer titles we’ve added to the catalogue! The summer is finally upon us! It’s time to slather on the ...
Every four years, the FIFA World Cup produces an incredible moment. Our Audio Producer, Nik de Garis, tells us his favourites, and what audiobooks to listen to as a reminder of them! Everyone remembers the first World Cup tournament they watched. ...
Audiobooks are a great way to experience stories. Listening Books member Colleen tells us how she started enjoying them after reading print became difficult. I honestly cannot remember a time when I did not listen to a story or play. As ...
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 ...