What We’re Listening to this Month
My Life with Murderers – written and read by David Wilson
My Life with Murderers tells the story of David’s journey from idealistic prison governor to expert criminologist and professor. He has spent his entire life working with violent men – especially men who have committed murder. His career so far has seen him sat across a table with all sorts of killers: sometimes in a tense interview; sometimes sharing a cup of tea (or something a little stronger); sometimes looking them in the eye to tell them they are a psychopath. Some of these men became David’s friends; others would still love to kill him. With experience unlike any other, David’s story is a fascinating and compelling study of human nature.
My Life with Murderers
by David Wilson
Read by David Wilson
'Hugely insightful and thought provoking . . . I read it from cover to cover in one go' - Emilia Fox
'With characteristic brilliance and admirable sensitivity, Wilson illuminates the complex causes of their often horrific crimes' - Professor Simon Winlow, Vice President of the British Society of Criminology
Professor David Wilson has spent his professional life working with violent men - especially men who have committed murder. Aged twenty-nine he became, at that time, the UK's youngest ever prison Governor in charge of a jail and his career since then has seen him sat across a table with all sorts of killers: sometimes in a tense interview; sometimes sharing a cup of tea (or something a little stronger); sometimes looking them in the eye to tell them that they are a psychopath.
Some of these men became David's friends; others would still love to kill him.
My Life with Murderers tells the story of David's journey from idealistic prison governor to expert criminologist and professor. With experience unlike any other, David's story is a fascinating and compelling study of human nature.
Travellers in the Third Reich – Julia Boyd, read by Stephanie Racine
The Sunday Times bestseller, Daily Telegraph’s Best Book of 2017 and a Guardian ‘Readers’ Choice Best Book of 2017 is now available in audio for the first time.
Travellers in the Third Reich is an extraordinary history of the rise of the Nazis based on fascinating first-hand accounts, drawing together a multitude of voices and stories, including students, politicians, musicians, diplomats, schoolchildren, communists, scholars, athletes, poets, journalist, fascists, artists, tourists, even celebrities like Charles Lindbergh and Samuel Beckett. Their experiences create a remarkable three-dimensional picture of Germany under Hitler – one so palpable that the reader will feel, hear, even breathe the atmosphere.
Travellers in the Third Reich
Read by Stephanie Racine
by Julia Boyd
THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP THREE BESTSELLER
One of the Daily Telegraph's Best Books of 2017
A Guardian 'Readers' Choice' Best Book of 2017
The events that took place in Germany between 1919 and 1945 were dramatic and terrible but there were also moments of confusion, of doubt - of hope. How easy was it to know what was actually going on, to grasp the essence of National Socialism, to remain untouched by the propaganda or predict the Holocaust?
Travellers in the Third Reich is an extraordinary history of the rise of the Nazis based on fascinating first-hand accounts, drawing together a multitude of voices and stories, including students, politicians, musicians, diplomats, schoolchildren, communists, scholars, athletes, poets, journalists, fascists, artists, tourists, even celebrities like Charles Lindbergh and Samuel Beckett. Their experiences create a remarkable three-dimensional picture of Germany under Hitler - one so palpable that the reader will feel, hear, even breathe the atmosphere.
These are the accidental eyewitnesses to history. Disturbing, absurd, moving, and ranging from the deeply trivial to the deeply tragic, their tales give a fresh insight into the complexities of the Third Reich, its paradoxes and its ultimate destruction.
A Woman of No Importance – Sonia Purnell, read by Juliet Stevenson
This is a compelling and inspiring tale of resistance, heroism, spycraft and overcoming prejudice, based on brand-new and extensive research. Acclaimed biographer Sonia Purnell tells the incredible true and untold story of Virginia Hall, an American woman with a wooden leg who infiltrated Occupied France for the SOE and became the Gestapo’s most wanted Allied spy. The remarkable double life of an American-turned-British spy, Virginia Hall, a ‘bolshie’ woman from Maryland who, determined to overcome a physical disability, successfully infiltrated Vichy France for England’s SOE before America’s entry into WWII and then, three years later, for the SOS, providing crucial intelligence and logistics for the mounting French Resistance and, later, Allied troops.
A Woman of No Importance
Read by Juliet Stevenson
by Sonia Purnell
'A METICULOUS HISTORY THAT READS LIKE A THRILLER' BEN MACINTYRE, TEN BEST BOOKS TO READ ABOUT WORLD WAR II
An astounding story of heroism, spycraft, resistance and personal triumph over shocking adversity.
'A rousing tale of derring-do' THE TIMES * 'Riveting' MICK HERRON * 'Superb' IRISH TIMES
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
In September 1941, a young American woman strides up the steps of a hotel in Lyon, Vichy France. Her papers say she is a journalist. Her wooden leg is disguised by a determined gait and a distracting beauty. She is there to spark the resistance.
By 1942 Virginia Hall was the Gestapo's most urgent target, having infiltrated Vichy command, trained civilians in guerrilla warfare and sprung soldiers from Nazi prison camps. The first woman to go undercover for British SOE, her intelligence changed the course of the war - but her fight was still not over.
This is a spy history like no other, telling the story of the hunting accident that disabled her, the discrimination she fought and the secret life that helped her triumph over shocking adversity.
'A cracking story about an extraordinarily brave woman' TELEGRAPH
'Gripping ... superb ... a rounded portrait of a complicated, resourceful, determined and above all brave woman' IRISH TIMES
WINNER of the PLUTARCH AWARD FOR BEST BIOGRAPHY
Rosewater Insurrection – Tade Thompson, read by Bayo Gbadamosi
The follow up to Rosewater, winner of Audible.com’s Best Science Fiction Audiobook of the Year Award 2018.
The year is 2067. The city of Rosewater is chaotic, vibrant and full of life – some of it extra-terrestrial.
The charismatic mayor, Jack Jacques, has declared Rosewater a free state, independent to Nigeria. But the city’s alien dome is dying. Government forces await its demise, ready to destroy Rosewater’s independence before it has even begun. And in the city’s quiet suburbs, a woman wakes with no memory of who she is – with memories belonging to something much older and much more alien.
The Rosewater Insurrection
by Tade Thompson
Read by Bayo Gbadamosi
The year is 2067. The city of Rosewater is chaotic, vibrant and full of life - some of it extra-terrestrial.
The charismatic mayor, Jack Jacques, has declared Rosewater a free state, independent to Nigeria. But the city's alien dome is dying. Government forces await its demise, ready to destroy Rosewater's independence before it has even begun.
And in the city's quiet suburbs, a woman wakes with no memory of who she is - with memories belonging to something much older and much more alien.
Praise and accolades for Rosewater:
Winner of the inaugural Nommo Award for Best Novel, Africa's first award for speculative fiction
Shortlisted for the Kitschie Award for Best Novel 2019
John W. Campbell Award finalist for Best Science Fiction Novel
'A magnificent tour de force' Adrian Tchaikovsky
'Smart. Gripping. Fabulous!' Ann Leckie
'Mesmerising' M. R. Carey
'An astonishing book. I wish I'd written it' Lauren Beukes
The Wormwood Trilogy begins with Rosewater, continues with The Rosewater Insurrection and ends in The Rosewater Redemption.
The Stalker – Alex Gray, read by Joe Dunlop
This twisty, heart-stopping crime novel is Glasgow-set crime at its most thrilling. When Detective Superintendent William Lorimer’s wife, Maggie, publishes her first book, he is thrilled for her. But joy quickly turns to fear when a stranger starts following her on her publicity tour. Meanwhile, Lorimer and the MIT are on the search for the murderer of two young women, but can he catch the killer and track down Maggie’s stalker at the same time…? Perfect for fans of Lisa Jewell and Cara Hunter.
The Stalker
by Alex Gray
Read by Joe Dunlop
***THE MILLION-COPY BESTSELLING DETECTIVE SERIES***
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'Immensely exciting and atmospheric' Alexander McCall Smith
A murder on their doorstep
A case that's too close to home . . .
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The body of a young woman has been discovered in Bellahouston park, the second in a matter of months. It's clear to Detective Superintendent William Lorimer of Police Scotland that they have a repeat killer on their hands, who is sure to strike again.
Lucky for DSI Lorimer that his wife, Maggie, is miles away from potential danger, touring Scotland to promote her first book. Faced with strangers at every event, Maggie doesn't notice the quiet, non-descript man sitting in the back row.
But he has noticed Maggie Lorimer. And soon his will be a face she never forgets.
Whether you've read them all, or whether you're coming to Alex Gray's much-loved Lorimer series for the very first time, this is the perfect, page-turning winter read if you love Ann Cleeves, Val McDermid or Ian Rankin.
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***PRAISE FOR ALEX GRAY***
'Convincing Glaswegian atmosphere and superior writing' The Times
'One of the best is Alex Gray . . . highly recommended' Literary Review
'Brings Glasgow to life in the same way Rankin evokes Edinburgh' Daily Mail
'Move over Rebus' Daily Mirror
'Eerie, psychological and easy to delve into' Woman
'Exciting, pacy, authentic' Angela Marsons
'DSI Lorimer's a cop to rival Rankin's Rebus' Peterborough Telegraph
