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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
New year, new audiobooks. Our Copyright Manager Amy Flinders tells us all about a selection of the titles we’re adding to the library soon! If you need something to take your mind off the fact that you’ve kept absolutely none of ...
The Crown image from header © Netflix. Doesn’t everyone love binge-watching a show or three on Netflix? There’s something addictive about watching all the episodes of a show at once. Thankfully, GQ have called audiobooks the new Netflix! They celebrate ...
We all know that the book is usually better than the adaptation. Despite this, some of the best films and TV shows are based on books. From Pride and Prejudice to The Handmaid’s Tale, books can be a great source of inspiration. There ...