The Love of an Unknown Solider by Anonymous – review
The Hand That First Held Mine by Maggie O’Farrell | Audiobook review
Read by Samantha Bond
In the 1950s, Lexie abandons rural Devon for Soho and her married lover. In the present day, Elina, an artist, and her partner, Ted, struggle with work and parenthood. Gradually the links between these complex lives are teased out. The narration and the insights...
Tender Is the Night by F Scott Fitzgerald | Audiobook review
Read by Trevor White
On the 1920s Riviera the rich and hedonistic disport themselves, drawn by the brilliance and promise of Dr Dick Diver and his fragile wife, Nicole. No one is more infatuated than Rosemary, the beautiful young starlet who will become the main force in Dick's...
The Lovely Bones; The Baby Juggler; The Forsythe Saga Volume 1 | Audiobook review
The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold. Read by Alyssa Bresnahan
Macmillan £24.99, unabridged 11hrsFrom her vantage point in heaven, Susie follows the lives of her splintered family in the years following her brutal unsolved murder. It's an astonishingly real and poignant portrayal of a broken family, and Alyssa Bresnahan's...
The Cellist of Sarajevo; Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy; The Old Curiosity Shop | Audiobook reviews
The Cellist of Sarajevo by Steven Galloway. Read by Gareth Armstrong
Naxos £19.99, 5hrs 28mins unabridged
In 1990s Sarajevo, war is devouring people's lives. In the midst of this vividly conveyed hell of massacre and destruction, one cellist braves the snipers to play his tribute to the dead. This is...
Human Croquet; A Study in Scarlet; The Marvellous Land of Snergs | Audiobook reviews
Human Croquet by Kate Atkinson. Read by Patricia Hodge
Random House Audio £13.70, 3hrsAlthough the slipping in and out of time becomes rather irritating, the crisply narrated story of the Fairfaxes, mysteriously abandoned by their louche mother (murdered? eloped?), is minutely observed. Aunt Vinny – vinegary, with...
Kathryn Simmonds Reading from Her Poems; Kim by Rudyard Kipling; Swing, Brother, Swing by Ngaio Marsh | Audiobook reviews
Kathryn Simmonds Reading from Her Poems
poetryarchive.org £12.75, 45mins
A delightful, almost playful freshness emanates from these poems. In lyrical, chiming lines Kathryn Simmonds slips from her ordinary life with "bits of bits in bowls" in her fridge, to the intriguingly surreal – launderette customers peeling off...
