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On the latest episode of #AudioBookClub, Steve and Matthew head to Brighton on the UK’s pebbly south coast to talk about a giant fiberglass avocado

Steve Phillips and Matthew Layton present #AudioBookClub - the podcast that reviews and recommends audiobooks for discerning punters like you.

On this episode, the second in a fruity series of novels from British comedy legend Bob Mortimer…

The Hotel Avocado

A: Bob Mortimer

N: Bob Mortimer, Sally Phillips, Paul Whitehouse, Julie Maisey

L: 9 hrs and 20 mins

Release date: 29-08-24

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio UK

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“Oh My God! They shot Churchill…”

On the latest episode of #AudioBookClub, Steve and Matthew ask, “What would have happened if the Nazis had won World War II?”

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Penguin Modern Classics

a: Len Deighton

n: James Lailey

l: 12 hrs and 25 mins

p: Penguin Audio

The Man in the High Castle

a: Philip K. Dick

n: Jeff Cummings

l: 9 hrs and 58 mins

p: Brilliance Audio

Steve Phillips and Matthew Layton present #AudioBookClub - the podcast that reviews and recommends audiobooks.

On this episode, two books that visit alternative histories where The Axis won the Second World War.

Mixed results!

And the boys cast an eye over the Sunday Times Top 100 Books of the Last 50 Years from an audiobook perspective.

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Steve Phillips and Matthew Layton present #AudioBookClub - a podcast that recommends and reviews audiobooks.

On this episode: 

From the Oasthouse: The Alan Partridge Podcast (Series 2)

Steve and Matthew review and recommend the latest offering from bastillion of British broadcasting and self-proclaimed ‘Godfather of Podcasting’ Alan Partridge

Partridge is, of course, the creation of comedian, actor and Oscar-nominated writer and producer Steve Coogan.

Title: From the Oasthouse: The Alan Partridge Podcast (Series 2)

Author: Alan Partridge

Narrator: Alan Partridge

Length: 4 hrs and 15 mins

Publisher: Audible Originals

Categories: Comedy & Humour

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Coming up on #AudioBookClub…

The Sandman: Act III - https://amzn.to/3TMtu3J

What Not To Do If You Turn Invisible - https://amzn.to/3E6csZy

Steve Phillips and Matthew Layton present #AudioBookClub - a podcast that recommends and reviews audiobooks.

On this episode: 

Steve and Matthew review and recommend the real history of the renaissance castle that was the home to the Third Reich’s most notorious prisoner of war camp

The camp where they imprisoned only the most troublesome Allied military prisoners - many of them serial escapists - all of them enemies of the German State.

Welcome….  to Colditz! 

Title: Colditz: Prisoners of the Castle

Author: Ben MacIntyre

Narrator: Ben MacIntyre

Publisher: Penguin Audio

Length: 13 hours and 25 minutes

Please get involved in the conversation - either with your opinions on ‘Colditz: Prisoners of the Castle’ or if you want to recommend an audiobook for us to review by using #AudioBookClub on facebook, twitter or instagram.

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Coming up on #AudioBookClub…

From the Oasthouse: The Alan Partridge Podcast (Series 2) - https://amzn.to/3yia0vA

The Sandman: Act III - https://amzn.to/3TMtu3J

Steve Phillips and Matthew Layton present #AudioBookClub - a podcast that recommends and reviews audiobooks.

On this episode: 

‘The Bullet That Missed’ Book 3 of Richard Osman’s Thursday Murder Club series of whodunnits set in idyllic retirement village Coopers Chase.

For people (like Matthew) who have read the first two books in the series, it’s the eagerly awaited return of beloved characters Joyce, Elizabeth, Ron and Ibrahim.

For people (like Steve) who are new to the seriesm it’s a chance to follow the adventures of a group of senior citizens who have taken to solving murders. Society may have cast them aside, but they are fully rounded human beings with a wealth of experience.

In our role as one of the world’s very few audiobook review and recommendation podcasts, we feel it is our duty to bring up the issue that nobody else is talking about - to mention the elephant in the room:

Changing a narrator? Three books into an audiobook series?

Is that even legal?

Please get involved in the conversation - either with your opinions on ‘The Bullet That Missed’ or if you want to recommend an audiobook for us to review by using #AudioBookClub on facebook, twitter or instagram.

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Coming up on AudioBookClub…

‘Colditz: Prisoners of the Castle’ by Ben MacIntyre - https://amzn.to/3EiofUR 

From the Oasthouse: The Alan Partridge Podcast (Series 2) - https://amzn.to/3yia0vA

On the latest episode of #AudioBookClub - the audiobook review and recommendation podcast - Steve and Matthew leave their comfort zone to discuss possibly the most punk audiobook of all time.

‘NOFX: The Hepatitis Bathtub’' by NOFX and Jeff Alulis is a collection of autobiographical vignettes from L.A. punk band NOFX.

When we say ‘vignettes’ we mean ‘often disturbing and even disgusting stories’

Steve and Matthew are joined by ‘friend of the show’ Shane Kendall who is responsible for recommending that we listen to this particular audiobook.

On this episode of #AudioBookClub Steve and Matt consume 'Fibber in the Heat' by Miles Jupp - an autobiographical memoir of the actor/comedian/author's attempt to blag his way into becoming a cricket journalist.

In ‘Notes from the Margin’, we’ll be asking ‘How new does an audiobook have to be to be considered worthy of recommendation by #AudioBookClub?’.

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Fibber in the Heat

Following England in India - A Blagger's Tale

By: Miles Jupp

Narrated by: Miles Jupp

Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins

Release date: 10-05-2012

Publisher: Random House Audiobooks

On the latest episode of #AudioBookClub - the audiobook review and recommendation podcast - Steve and Matthew discuss ‘The Twist of a Knife' - the fourth in Anthony Horowitz’s Horowitz and Hawthorne whodunnits

The Twist of a Knife 

Written by Anthony Horowitz

‘Performed’ (not read) by Rory Kinnear

Published by Penguin Audio - 2022

Clocks in at 8 hours and 31 minutes

On the latest episode of #AudioBookClub - an interactive audiobook review and recommendation podcast - Steve and Matthew discuss ‘Touch the Top of the World’ an autobiography from Erik Weihenmayer who was the first blind person to climb to the top of Mount Everest.

This gives Steve a chance to ask Matthew about his day job at Vision Australia Radio.

In their new ‘Notes from the Margin’ section - the bit that’s about audiobooks in general - Steve and Matthew continue their conversation about giving audiobooks as gifts and ask “Is it better to give or to receive?”

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Touch the Top of the World: A Blind Man's Journey to Climb Farther Than the Eye Can See

By: Erik Weihenmayer

Narrated by: Nick Sullivan

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Length: 11 hrs and 18 mins

COMING UP:

4th September 2022 - Fibber in the Heat by Miles Jupp

11th September 2022 - NOFX: ‘The Hepatitis Bathtub and Other Stories’ by NOFX, Jello Biafra, et al.

On this episode of #AudioBookClub - no longer the world's only interactive audiobook review and recommendation podcast - Steve and Matthew speak to journalist and author Geoff White about his new audiobook 'The Lazarus Heist'.

The book is based on the BBC's award winning podcast series of the same name and, in both formats, Geoff tells the story of the Lazarus Group - an elite group of North Korean government-backed hackers.

This is the first time we've encountered an audiobook based on a podcast series, so we ask ourselves and Geoff what the difference between the two formats is, both for him as an author/journalist/presenter and for us as listeners.

We also touch upon the differences between working for the BBC and for a publishing company like Penguin; and Geoff reminds us that while we haven't necessarily seen many visible signs of any cyber fallout from the war in Ukraine, there is a lot of defensive effort being undertaken in places like GCHQ and Fort Meade.

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