The Girls of Summer by Katie Bishop

Locks by Ashleigh Nugent

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/614937 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/614937] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Locks Author: Ashleigh Nugent Narrator: Ashleigh Nugent Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 7 minutes Release date: June 22, 2023 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: ‘1993 was the year that Stephen Lawrence got murdered by racists, and I became an angry Black lad with a “chip on his shoulder”’ Aeon, a mixed-up and mixed-race teenager from a leafy Liverpool suburb, is desperate to understand the Black identity thrust upon him. He grows dreadlocks and immerses himself in ‘gangsta’ rap. But Aeon’s journey of self-discovery is hampered by the fact that the only Black people in his life are his dad and his cousin, Increase. Aeon’s ambition to find his place in the world takes him to Jamaica. Here, Aeon soon finds that smoking loads of weed, growing messy locks and wearing massive red boots don’t necessarily help him to fit in. Within days of his arrival he is mugged, arrested and banged up in a Jamaican detention centre. Seen as the ‘White boy’, he finds that his journey of self-discovery has only just begun – and he’s going to have to fight for the respect and recognition he deserves . . . A coming-of-age comedy of errors, Locks is an electric debut novel about growing up, wising up, and finding your place in a world of opposites. 'Blends humour and introspection, poetry and the poignant' - Derek Owusu, author of the Desmond Elliott Prize-winning That Reminds Me 'Irreverent, authentic and utterly enthralling. A wonderful book' - Jimmy McGovern, creator of the drama series Cracker 'Twisty, energetic, voice-led . . . Nugent is pure talent' - Raymond Antrobus, author of the Rathbones Folio Prize-winning The Perseverance 'Thought provoking and funny' - David Beckler, author of A Long Shadow

Mrs S by K Patrick

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/614310 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/614310] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Mrs S Author: K Patrick Narrator: Nicolette Chin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 45 minutes Release date: June 8, 2023 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: An Observer Best Debut of the Year A Granta Best Young British Novelist ‘I loved this book’ JULIA ARMFIELD ‘Exhilarating’ MONICA HEISEY 'Astonishing' ANDREA LAWLOR 'Should be on everyone's summer reading list' iNEWS 'Scorching … One of our favourite reads' TIME OUT A Guardian Essential Summer Read A sensual debut novel of the forbidden love between a young woman and a headmaster’s wife, unfolding across a single a heatwave summer. In an elite English boarding school where the girls kiss the marble statue of the famous dead author who used to walk the halls, a young Australian woman arrives to take up the antiquated role of ‘matron’. There she meets Mrs S, the headmaster’s wife, a woman who is her polar opposite: assured, sophisticated, a paragon of femininity. Over the course of a long, restless heatwave, the matron finds herself irresistibly drawn ever closer into the older woman’s world with their unspoken desire blooming into an illicit affair of electric intensity. But, as the summer begins to fade, both know that a choice must finally be made. ‘Desire crackles through these pages like fire’ TELEGRAPH ‘Wildly sexy … I kept forgetting to exhale’ CHARLOTTE MENDELSON ‘There’s nothing else like it out there’ THE TIMES 'Compulsively readable … beautiful, brilliant' OBSERVER ‘Moody, generous and brilliant’ JESSIE BURTON 'Rare and thrilling' SARAH WINMAN

The Girls of Summer by Katie Bishop

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/612287 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/612287] to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Girls of Summer Author: Katie Bishop Narrator: Annabel Scholey Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 30 minutes Release date: May 25, 2023 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. 'That place has been my whole life. Everything I thought I knew about myself was constructed in those few months I spent within touching distance of the sea. Everything I am is because Alistair loved me.' Rachel has been in love with Alistair since she was seventeen. Even though she hasn't seen him for sixteen years and she's now married to someone else. Even though she was a teenager when they met. Even though he is twenty years older than her. She's found it impossible to forget their summer together on a remote, sun-trapped Greek island. Until now. When Rachel unexpectedly reconnects with a girl that she knew back then, she is forced to re-examine her memories of that golden summer and confront the truth about her relationship with Alistair and about her time working for an enigmatic and wealthy man on the island. And when Alistair returns, the pull of the past could prove impossible to resist... The Girls of Summer is a compulsive and searching exploration of the complicated nature of memory and trauma, power and consent, victimhood and shame. © Katie Bishop 2023 (P) Penguin Audio 2023

Chain-Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/613641 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/613641] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Chain-Gang All-Stars Author: Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah Narrator: Lee Osorio, Aaron Goodson, Michael Crouch, Shayna Small Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 39 minutes Release date: May 2, 2023 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: Welcome to Chain-Gang All-Stars - the popular and highly controversial programme inside America's prison system. In packed arenas, watched by millions of live-stream viewers, prisoners compete as gladiators for the ultimate prize: their freedom. Fan favourites Loretta Thurwar and Hamara 'Hurricane Staxxx' Stacker are teammates and lovers. Thurwar is nearing the end of her time on the circuit, free in just a few matches, a fact she carries as heavily as her lethal hammer. As she prepares for her final encounters, as protestors gather at the gates, and as the programme's corporate owners stack the odds against her - will the price be simply too high?

Preloved: A sparklingly witty and relatable debut novel by Lauren Bravo

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/614969 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/614969] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Preloved: A sparklingly witty and relatable debut novel Author: Lauren Bravo Narrator: Jane Collingwood Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 34 minutes Release date: April 27, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 3.5 of Total 2 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: ‘Lauren Bravo is one of my very favourite writers’ Dolly Alderton Gwen is coasting through life. She’s in her mid-thirties, perpetually single, her friends are busy procreating in the countryside and conversations with her parents seem to revolve entirely around the council’s wheelie-bin timetable.   And she’s lonely. But then, isn’t everyone?   When she’s made redundant from a job she hardly cares about, she takes herself out for a fancy dinner. There she has the best sticky toffee pudding of her life and realises she has no one to tell. She vows to begin living her life fully, reconnect with her friends and family, and finally book that dentist’s appointment.    Gwen decides to start where all things get a second chance: her local charity shop. There, with the help of the weird and wonderful people and donated items bursting with untold stories, Gwen will find a way to move forward with bravery, tenacity, and more regular dental care.   Dazzlingly witty, Preloved is a tale about friendship, loss and being true to yourself no matter the expectations. Lovingly celebrating the enduring power and joy of charity shops. Praise for Preloved 'An absolute gem of a novel' Sarra Manning   'I think I’ve been waiting for a novel like Preloved for my whole reading life' Daisy Buchanan 'Preloved is full of sharp observations on life, loss, regret and self-preservation' Julietta Henderson, author of The Funny Thing about Norman Foreman 'Just like that once-in-a-lifetime charity shop find, Preloved is a gleaming prize to be treasured' Caroline O'Donoghue, author of Promising Young Woman   ‘Preloved has taken up residence in my heart and I will be recommending it to everyone I know . . . I'm officially obsessed’ Lucy Vine 'Laugh-out-loud funny but also poignant and tender' Laura Price, author of Single Bald Female