#AudioBookClub

Steve Phillips and Matthew Layton present #AudioBookClub - the podcast that reviews and recommends audiobooks. This episode sees Matt and Steve go back to 1980, dredging up their memories as sub-10 year olds of the Iranian Embassy siege in London. Ben MacIntryre is back with another epic movie-like recounting of the story from those who were there, taking us from the domestic to the global, with l...

Steve Phillips and Matthew Layton present #AudioBookClub - the podcast that reviews and recommends audiobooks. On this episode… We Solve Murders A: Richard Osman P: Nicola Walker L: 10 hrs and 33 mins Release date: 12-09-24 P: Penguin Audio On this week's #AudioBookClub we celebrate the release of Richard Osman's fourth novel. His first three novels were set primarily in a retirement village in th...

Steve Phillips and Matthew Layton present #AudioBookClub - the podcast that reviews and recommends audiobooks for discerning punters like you.   On this episode, We are going to review two different audio versions of one original text.   The text under our audio microscope today is "Yellow Face" by Chinese born American hot shot young author R.F. Kuang     Please get involved in the conversation  ...

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...

"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?" SS-GB 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...

On the latest episode of #AudioBookClub - the audiobook review and recommendation podcast - Steve and Matthew fail to listen to each other's recommendations   t: Green Wing: Resuscitated - https://amzn.eu/d/f6eUNNU a: Victoria Pile, James Henry, Oriane Messina, Fay Rusling, Robert Harley, c: Oliver Chris, Olivia Colman, Pippa Haywood, Mark Heap, Michelle Gomez, Tamsin Greig, Stephen Mangan, Julian...

On this episode of AudioBookClub…  Matthew and Steve fail to recommend 'The Light We Carry" by Michelle Obama. Steve Phillips and Matthew Layton present #AudioBookClub  - the podcast that reviews and recommends audiobooks. On this episode: Steve and Matthew welcome Helena Sheffield, Senior Marketing Manager, Penguin Random House Audio onto their pod. Unfortunately, things didn't quite go according...

On this episode of AudioBookClub…  Murder on the Tokyo transit system! Steve Phillips and Matthew Layton present £AudioBookClub  - the podcast that reviews and recommends audiobooks. On this episode: Steve and Matthew cast an ear over 'The Last Train', the first book in Michael Pronko's Tokyo-based 'Detective Hiroshi' series. Title:            The Last Train: Detective Hiroshi, Volume 1 Written by...

On this episode of #AudioBookClub, we book ourselves into the independent audiobook platform that's like a day-spa for your brain… Prefer your audiobooks sustainably sourced, hand reared and mind-nourishing? Then Spiracle is the place for you. https://www.spiracleaudiobooks.com/   Sophie Haxworth, Spiracle's Editorial Manager, explains to Steve and Matthew (in the simplest terms she possibly can)...

On this episode of AudioBookClub, Matthew hasn't done his homework and fails to review 'A History of Modern Britain' by Andrew Marr. Quite spectacularly! Steve Phillips and Matthew Layton present #AudioBookClub - a podcast that recommends and reviews audiobooks. Fortunately, the BBC - an institution very close to both Steve's and Matthew's hearts - has just launched the amazon BBC Sounds app to a...

On this episode of AudioBookClub, we recommend the audiobook equivalent of that tatty, yellowing, old paperback book that you find in someone else's holiday home. So slap on your sunscreen, recline by the pool and join us as we get stuck into 'Fletch' Steve Phillips and Matthew Layton present #AudioBookClub - a podcast that recommends and reviews audiobooks. On this episode of #AudioBookClub Steve...

Steve Phillips and Matthew Layton present #AudioBookClub - a podcast that recommends and reviews audiobooks. On this episode: We have a guest 'recommender'. Her name is Charlotte Layton, she is 11 years old and she has brought 'What Not To Do If You Turn Invisible' by Ross Welford  to the #AudioBookClub table. Nepotism is alive and well here at #AudioBookClub! Please get involved in the conversati...

On this week's #AudioBookClub, the third instalment of the most brilliantly conceived, lovingly dramatised, lavishly produced and, in our opinion, bestest audiobook series in the world… EVER! Steve Phillips and Matthew Layton present #AudioBookClub - a podcast that recommends and reviews audiobooks. On this episode: The Sandman: Act III The biggest audiobook release of the year. The most extravaga...

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, acto...

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 -...

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...

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' St...

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?'. -- Fibber in the Heat Following England in...

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 - t...

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 Korea...

Steve Phillips and Matthew Layton present #AudioBookClub - the interactive audiobook review and recommendation podcast. On this episode we'll be reviewing 'A Book of Secrets; Finding Solace in a Stubborn World' the latest in a series of anti-self-help books from TV mentalist Derren Brown. On an equally philosophical but entirely different level, we'll also be looking into the process of buying som...

Steve Phillips and Matthew Layton present #AudioBookClub - the world's only interactive audiobook review and recommendation podcast. On this very special episode of #AudioBookClub, Steve and Matthew speak to the man they're not afraid to call 'The Greatest Audiobook Producer In The World" His name is Dirk Maggs and he's the man fully responsible for the conversion of Neil Gaiman's 'The Sandman' fr...

Steve Phillips and Matthew Layton present #AudioBookClub - which they claim is the world's only interactive audiobook review and recommendation podcast. On this episode... Matthew and Steve have a rummage around Audible's new 'all-you-can-read' service Audible Plus. Is it the transformative experience for the audiobook subscription model that we've all been waiting for, or just a receptacle for au...

Steve Phillips and Matthew Layton present  #AudioBookClub  - the world's only interactive audiobook review and recommendation podcast. On this episode, Steve and Matthew discuss possibly the  audiobook with the biggest production budget of all time: "The Sandman" by Neil Gaiman. Based on Gaiman's series of graphic novels from the late 80s early 90s, this audiobook boasts a cast that numbers amongs...