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 ...
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 ...
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 ...