New Books and Editions Our Ears Are Burning For!

The Hotel Avocado

By: Bob Mortimer
Length: 9 hours 19 minutes

THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
CHOSEN BY WATERSTONES AS ONE OF THEIR BEST CRIME & THRILLER BOOKS OF 2024

'As a comedian, Bob Mortimer spins a shaggy-dog story like nobody else, and this is a rollicking old-school yarn' The Guardian
 
‘Mortimer’s verbal specificity and off-kilter humour will keep his fans chuckling’ The Times 

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The Transit of Venus

By: Shirley Hazzard
Narrated by: Juliet Stevenson & Shirley Hazzard
Length: 15 hours 29 minutes

“This inaugural version [of the audiobook] is beautifully read by British actor Juliet Stevenson, whose performance resonates with the dry, knowing wit required to take on Hazzard’s masterpiece.”—KirkusThe award-winning, New York Times bestselling literary masterpiece—the story of two beautiful orphan sisters whose fates are as moving and... Read more

The Best Short Stories 2024

The O. Henry Prize Winners

By: Amor Towles
Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini, Kristen DiMercurio, Blair Young, Sean Patrick Hopkins, Vikas Adam, Helen Laser, Johnny Rey Diaz, Jeena Yi, Jason Culp, Annette Amelia Oliveira, Dylan Moore, Alana Kerr Collins & Full Cast
Length: 13 hours 56 minutes

“A diverse and glorious selection . . . a gift of imagination, wit, and wonder. The collection is filled with miniature masterpieces. . . .  This must-have anthology is a treasure trove not to be missed.” —Library Journal (starred review)

The prestigious annual story anthology, featuring prize-winning stories by Kate DiCamillo, Jess Walter, Dave... Read more

Wuthering Heights and Jane Eyre

By: Charlotte Brontë & Emily Brontë
Narrated by: Adjoa Andoh & Rachel Atkins
Length: 32 hours 58 minutes

This combined audio edition brings together two of the greatest works in English Literature. Wuthering Heights Lockwood is an unwanted guest, forced by a snowstorm to pass the night at the lonely and inhospitable house of Wuthering Heights. A child's ghost pleads at the window to be let in; a waif who has wandered the moor for 20 years.... Read more

The Mesmerist

A Novel

By: Caroline Woods
Narrated by: Carlotta Brentan
Length: 10 hours 11 minutes

AN NPR BOOK OF THE YEAR • A tightly plotted page-turner ripped from the headlines of history, as three very different women must work together to stop a killer and save the truest home they've ever known.

Before hypnotism, there was Mesmerism. And in 1894 Minneapolis, in the wake of a national financial crisis, spiritualism of every stripe is all... Read more

A Kid from Marlboro Road

By: Edward Burns
Narrated by: Edward Burns
Length: 4 hours 44 minutes

Our twelve-year-old narrator, an aspiring writer, is at a wake. He takes in the death of his beloved grandfather, Pop, a larger-than-life figure. The overflowing crowd—a sign of a life well lived—comprises sandhogs in their muddy work boots, Irish grandmothers in black dresses, cops in uniform, members of the family deep in mourning. He watches... Read more

Siddhartha

Hermann Hesse

By: Hermann Hesse
Narrated by: Arlo Eddowes
Length: 4 hours 55 minutes

Siddhartha, the handsome and respected son of a Brahmin, lives with his father in ancient India. Everyone in the village expects Siddhartha to be a successful Brahmin like his father. Siddhartha enjoys a near-idyllic existence with his best friend, Govinda, but he is secretly dissatisfied. He performs all the rituals of religion, and he does... Read more