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To Battersea Park by Philip Hensher

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/576207 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/576207] to listen full audiobooks. Title: To Battersea Park Author: Philip Hensher Narrator: Richard Burnip Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 44 minutes Release date: March 30, 2023 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: ‘A brilliantly conceived and audacious novel from one of our most consistently intelligent and beguiling writers’ William Boyd ‘Surefooted and emotionally generous … A serious achievement’ Guardian ‘Masterful’ Telegraph ‘A revelation’ Spectator The new novel from the Booker shortlisted author of The Northern Clemency An order is issued. A population may not meet, or touch or speak to each other. They stay inside, and the reality of a few streets in a capital city emerges. An underground river is discovered; an urban grove of pomeloes emerges. The imagination reaches out, and makes sense of the world. By the sea, two men walk into a future of uncertain violence. There is time now to see the human dramas within a hundred yards (an abduction, a quiet breakdown, an outbreak of violence, a young mind beginning to stretch itself); to wait for the weather to change; to understand that what lies underneath this part of the city are seasonally wet pastures and woodlands. Written in four parts, To Battersea Park explores the strata and sediment of a single place and time. It shows what brings us together, through love, through the clashes of what we want to do and what the world wants to do with us. Set in a large crowded city where we are forbidden to approach strangers, this is about what we share: humanity, imagination, and the love that emerges from many acts of telling. ‘Electrifying … works like this… allow the imagination to roam free and wild’ Observer ‘Wise, ingenious and passionate’ TLS ‘Magnificently succeeds in excavating the sedimentary layers of a neighbourhood in lockdown to reveal – hilariously, tenderly, shockingly – how we exist both in intimacy and ignorance of those we live among’ Financial Times ‘An engrossing human drama’ The Times ‘An imaginative tour de force’ Mick Herron, author of Bad Actors ‘An utterly engrossing skein of narratives, beautifully written and often disturbing’ Lissa Evans, author of V for Victory

[Spanish] - Conversación sobre Tiresias by Carlos García Gual, Lorenzo Clavería Laguarda (translator), Andrea Camilleri

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/576388 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/576388] to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Conversación sobre Tiresias Author: Carlos García Gual, Lorenzo Clavería Laguarda (translator), Andrea Camilleri Narrator: Víctor Velasco Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 54 minutes Release date: February 1, 2023 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: En este breve pero intenso texto –hasta ahora inédito en castellano–, el maestro siciliano se convierte en Tiresias y se sumerge en su mito para revelar la verdadera esencia del adivino ciego. Entregado a esa narración viva y carismática tan propia de toda su extensa obra, Camilleri repasa en estas páginas héroes y dioses, escritores y personajes literarios, hila el pasado con el presente y, como Tiresias, escudriña el futuro con sus mirada al mismo tiempo ciega y clarividente. Las voces de Camilleri y del mitológico adivino acaban así por fundirse en este texto íntimo que representa el testamento literario del último gran intelectual italiano. En la presente edición se incluye también un breve epílogo de Carlos García Gual. 'El bagaje intelectual de una vida dedicada a la literatura se deja sentir en las páginas de este libro que además constituye un viaje entre el mito y la literatura que recorre las andanzas del adivino desde su primera aparición en los textos homéricos hasta las modernas visiones de Pasolini o Primo Levi.'—Andrés Seoane, El Cultural

A History of Fear: A Novel by Luke Dumas

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/576081 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/576081] to listen full audiobooks. Title: A History of Fear: A Novel Author: Luke Dumas Narrator: Jennifer Aquino, Gary Tiedemann, Toni Frutin, Shiromi Arserio, Graham Halstead Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 40 minutes Release date: December 6, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: This “disorienting, creepy, paranoia-inducing reimagining of the devil-made-me-do-it tale” (Paul Tremblay, author of The Cabin at the End of the World) follows the harrowing downfall of a tortured graduate student arrested for murder. Grayson Hale, the most infamous murderer in Scotland, is better known by a different name: the Devil’s Advocate. The twenty-five-year-old American grad student rose to instant notoriety when he confessed to the slaughter of his classmate Liam Stewart, claiming the Devil made him do it. When Hale is found hanged in his prison cell, officers uncover a handwritten manuscript that promises to answer the question that’s haunted the nation for years: was Hale a lunatic, or had he been telling the truth all along? The first-person narrative reveals an acerbic young atheist, newly enrolled at the University of Edinburgh to carry on the legacy of his recently deceased father. In need of cash, he takes a job ghostwriting a mysterious book for a dark stranger—but he has misgivings when the project begins to reawaken his satanophobia, a rare condition that causes him to live in terror that the Devil is after him. As he struggles to disentangle fact from fear, Grayson’s world is turned upside-down after events force him to confront his growing suspicion that he’s working for the one he has feared all this time—and that the book is only the beginning of their partnership. “A modern-day Gothic tale with claws” (Jennifer Fawcett, author of Beneath the Stairs), A History of Fear marries dread-inducing atmosphere with heart-palpitating storytelling.

The Light Pirate by Lily Brooks-Dalton

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/575997 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/575997] to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Light Pirate Author: Lily Brooks-Dalton Narrator: Rosemary Benson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 19 minutes Release date: December 6, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2.8 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 3 of Total 1 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: For readers of Station Eleven and Where the Crawdads Sing comes a hopeful, sweeping story of survival and resilience spanning one extraordinary woman’s lifetime as she navigates the uncertainty, brutality, and arresting beauty of a rapidly changing world. Florida is slipping away. As devastating weather patterns and rising sea levels wreak gradual havoc on the state’s infrastructure, a powerful hurricane approaches a small town on the southeastern coast. Kirby Lowe, an electrical line worker, his pregnant wife, Frida, and their two sons, Flip and Lucas, prepare for the worst. When the boys go missing just before the hurricane hits, Kirby heads out into the high winds in search of his children. Left alone, Frida goes into premature labor and gives birth to an unusual child, Wanda, whom she names after the catastrophic storm that ushers her into a society closer to collapse than ever before. As Florida continues to unravel, Wanda grows. Moving from childhood to adulthood, adapting not only to the changing landscape, but also to the people who stayed behind in a place abandoned by civilization, Wanda loses family, gains community, and ultimately, seeks adventure, love, and purpose in a place remade by nature. Told in four parts—power, water, light, and time—The Light Pirate mirrors the rhythms of the elements and the sometimes quick, sometimes slow dissolution of the world as we know it. It is a meditation on the changes we would rather not see, the future we would rather not greet, and a call back to the beauty and violence of an untamable wilderness.

No One Left to Come Looking for You: A Novel by Sam Lipsyte

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/573548 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/573548] to listen full audiobooks. Title: No One Left to Come Looking for You: A Novel Author: Sam Lipsyte Narrator: Sam Lipsyte Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 7 minutes Release date: December 6, 2022 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: A darkly comic mystery by the author of Hark and The Ask set in the vibrant music scene of early 1990s New York City. Manhattan’s East Village, 1993. Dive bars, DIY music venues, shady weirdos, and hard drugs are plentiful. Crime is high but rent is low, luring hopeful, creative kids from sleepy suburbs around the country. One of these is Jack S., a young New Jersey rock musician. Just a few days before his band’s biggest gig, their lead singer goes missing with Jack’s prized bass, presumably to hock it to feed his junk habit. Jack’s search for his buddy uncovers a sinister entanglement of crimes tied to local real estate barons looking to remake New York City—and who might also be connected to the recent death of Jack’s punk rock mentor. Along the way, Jack encounters a cast of colorful characters, including a bewitching, quick-witted scenester who favors dressing in a nurse’s outfit, a monstrous hired killer with a devotion to both figure skating and edged weapons, a deranged if prophetic postwar novelist, and a tough-talking cop who fancies himself a retro-cool icon of the homicide squad but is harboring a surprising secret. No One Left to Come Looking for You is a page-turning suspense novel that also serves as a love letter to a bygone era of New York City where young artists could still afford to chase their dreams.