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A Special Bonus episode. We repost our review of the winner of Book of the Year - Audiobook: Fiction. Congratulations to the Wizards of Once: Never and Forever by Cressida Cowell as narrated by David Tennant from HODDER CHILDREN'S BOOKS. This episode also contains Cressida's acceptance speech. #Nibbies #BritishBookAwards

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From the British Book Awards website:

Never and Forever is the fourth and final book in Cressida Cowell’s The Wizards of Once series. Our judges celebrated the return of David Tennant as the voice of the series; his “impish, agile” narration was “masterfully executed”. One judge declared that Tennant is a “reader at the heights of his powers”; it was a “natural match of writer, text and narrator”, added another. Never and Forever reveals the story’s hitherto-unknown narrator, which could have been a problem for the audiobook but the publisher found a clever solution. The attention given to the production “conjured a visual world” and an audio experience that was “pure heart from beginning to end”. Never and Forever was Hachette’s most pre-ordered audiobook ever, 47% up on previous titles in the series. It is “the benchmark” for kids’ audiobooks, the judges agreed

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Here is the final of our special episodes breaking down the titles on the shortlist for Book of the Year - Audiobook: Fiction.

We discuss Sandman Act 2 by Neil Gaiman with a full cast from Audible & The Lord of The Rings by JRR Tolkien performed by Andy Serkis from HarperFiction

The #BritishBookAwards are tonight! Tune in to watch the winners here: https://www.thebookseller.com/awards/the-british-book-awards

Thanks to Chloe and the team at the Bookseller for giving us the opportunity to talk about the shortlist.

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Here is the second of our special episodes breaking down the titles on the shortlist for Book of the Year - Audiobook: Fiction.

We discuss Never and Forever by Cressida Cowell, narrated by David Tennant from HODDER CHILDREN'S BOOKS and Careless by Kirsty Capes, narrated by Amber Gadd from ORION FICTION AND ORION AUDIO.

To find out more about these titles and the other books on the shortlist head over to: https://www.thebookseller.com/awards/the-british-book-awards?tab=book-of-the-year---audiobook-fiction Thanks to Chloe and the team at the Bookseller for giving us the opportunity to talk about the shortlist.

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Here is the first of our special episodes breaking down the titles on the shortlist for Book of the Year - Audiobook: Fiction.

We discuss The Night She Disappeared by Lisa Jewell, narrated by Joanne Froggatt from CORNERSTONE DIGITAL and The Man Who Died Twice by Richard Osman, narrated by Lesley Manville from PENGUIN AUDIO.

To find out more about these titles and the other books on the shortlist head over to: https://www.thebookseller.com/awards/the-british-book-awards?tab=book-of-the-year---audiobook-fiction

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We review Unfortunate Stars: A Wartime Confession by Susan Lanigan. Thanks to Susan for the ARC. You can learn more about her books here: https://susanlanigan.com/

About the book:

Czechoslovakia, 1938 - Friedrich Pflommer, a married man with two children, has fallen hopelessly in love with the most unsuitable person possible - the young, volatile Kai, an exchange student living under his own roof. As Nazi forces gather on the border, Friedrich is playing a high-stakes game and risks losing everything.

France, 1915 - as a young lieutenant in wartime, Friedrich is badly injured during a failed counterattack, but a meeting with an Englishman during battle changes everything.

Unfortunate Stars is a short story of romantic love and deep friendship between men, of what it is to surrender to our own truth, and to live it even in the hardest of circumstances.

It is narrated by Greg Patmore

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We discuss Carrie Fisher's autobiographical audiobook Wishful Drinking.

In Wishful Drinking, Carrie Fisher told the true and intoxicating story of her life with inimitable wit.

Born to celebrity parents, she was picked to play a princess in a little movie called Star Wars when only 19 years old. "But it isn't all sweetness and light sabres." Alas, aside from a demanding career and her role as a single mother (not to mention the hyperspace hairdo), Carrie also spends her free time battling addiction and weathering the wild ride of manic depression.

It's an incredible tale: from having Elizabeth Taylor as a stepmother, to marrying (and divorcing) Paul Simon, and from having the father of her daughter leave her for a man, to ultimately waking up one morning and finding a friend dead beside her in bed.

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We chat to Pippin Eira Major about Spirit Box Radio, their favourite audiobooks, and how Hanging Sloth Studios came into existence.

Find more about Hanging Sloth Studios here: https://hangingslothstudios.com/ or support them via their Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/hangingslothstudios

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We review season one of the award-winning and very spooky and very nice supernatural horror audio drama Spirit Box Radio from Hanging Sloth Studios.

It is created Pippin Eira Major and episodes are released every Thursday at 15:00 UK Time.

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Our next episode is an interview with Pippin Eira Major.

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We chat about the audiobooks of Jill Tomlinson as narrated by Maureen Lipman.

Jill Tomlinson’s animal stories are much-loved and have been best-selling children’s books for nearly four decades. We discuss The Penguin Who Wanted To Find Out, The Gorilla That Wanted To Grow Up, and The Cat That Wanted To Go Home.

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We ramble in no particular order about the best audiobooks and podcasts we listened to in 2021. We also announce our audiobook of the year.

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