Listen to the Latest Full Audiobooks in Fiction, Historical

No Pain Like This Body: The forgotten classic masterpiece of Trinidadian literature by Harold Sonny Ladoo

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/506582 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/506582] to listen full audiobooks. Title: No Pain Like This Body: The forgotten classic masterpiece of Trinidadian literature Author: Harold Sonny Ladoo Narrator: Damian Salandy Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 21 minutes Release date: August 4, 2022 Genres: Historical Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. With an introduction by Monique Roffey - this is her favourite book by a Trinidadian novelist. Set in the Eastern Caribbean at the beginning of the twentieth century, No Pain Like this Body describes the perilous existence of a poor rice-growing family during the August rainy season. Their struggles to cope with illness, a drunken and unpredictable father, and the violence of the elements end in unbearable loss. Through vivid, vertiginous prose, and with brilliant economy and originality, Ladoo creates a fearful world of violation and grief, in the face of which even the most despairing efforts to endure stand out as acts of courage. 'A masterpiece of hurt' The New York Times © Harold Sonny Ladoo 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022

Dr. B. by Daniel Birnbaum

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/503934 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/503934] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Dr. B. Author: Daniel Birnbaum Narrator: John Lee Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 57 minutes Release date: May 24, 2022 Genres: Historical Publisher's Summary: The former director of the Museum of Modern Art in Stockholm makes his literary debut with this dramatic and riveting novel of book publishing, émigrés, spies, and diplomats in World War II Sweden based on his grandfather’s life In 1933, after Hitler and the Nazi Party consolidated power in Germany, Immanuel Birnbaum, a German-Jewish journalist based in Warsaw, is forbidden from writing for newspapers in his homeland. Six years later, just months before the German invasion of Poland that ignites World War II, Immanuel escapes to Sweden with his wife and two young sons. Living as a refugee in Stockholm, Immanuel continues to write, contributing articles to a liberal Swiss newspaper under the name Dr. B. He becomes increasingly entangled with British intelligence agents who plan several acts of sabotage on the orders of Winston Churchill. But when the Swedish postal service picks up a letter written in invisible ink, clearly by Dr. B. himself, the Allied plotters are exposed. But could a Jew living in exile and targeted for death by the Nazis have wanted to tip them off? Illuminated by the wartime experiences of the author’s grandfather, Dr. B. is a riveting story of émigrés, spies and diplomats that shines a light on a forgotten corner of World War II history. ‘A superb thriller, a cross between Tom Stoppard’s Travesties and The Thirty-Nine Steps … You can’t put it down. This is an astonishing debut and Daniel Birnbaum is clearly a talent to look out for’ The Jewish Chronicle ‘If you’re looking for a ridiculously brilliant story, you can stop looking … He’s got the world’s best story – he’s got Dr B’ Svenska Dagbladet ‘An astonishing thriller-novel … reminiscent of both Hjalmar Söderberg’s Doctor Glass as well as the dreamy melancholy in The Rings of Saturn by W.G Sebald’ Aftonbladet ‘A moving evocation of a life beset by conflicts in a troubled time’ Kirkus Reviews

Miss Aldridge Regrets by Louise Hare

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/509107 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/509107] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Miss Aldridge Regrets Author: Louise Hare Narrator: Georgina Campbell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 9 minutes Release date: April 28, 2022 Genres: Historical Publisher's Summary: ‘A brilliant murder mystery with shades of Agatha Christie and The Great Gatsby . . . a glamorous and fun read’ Reader review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘Louise Hare does it again – fabulous! Absolutely loved it and it kept me guessing until the very end! Very highly recommended’ Reader review⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ * * * London, 1936 Lena Aldridge is wondering if life has passed her by. The dazzling theatre career she hoped for hasn’t worked out. Instead, she’s stuck singing in a sticky-floored basement club in Soho and her married lover has just left her. She has nothing to look forward to until a stranger offers her the chance of a lifetime: a starring role on Broadway and a first-class ticket on the Queen Mary bound for New York. After a murder at the club, the timing couldn’t be better and Lena jumps at the chance to escape England. Until death follows her onto the ship and she realises that her greatest performance has already begun. Because someone is making manoeuvres behind the scenes, and there’s only one thing on their mind… MURDER Miss Aldridge Regrets is the exquisite new novel from Louise Hare. A brilliant murder mystery, it also explores class, race and pre-WWII politics, and will leave readers reeling from the beauty and power of it. * * * Praise for Louise Hare ‘Charming characters, a cross-Atlantic setting, jazz, cocktails, sex and a brilliant murder mystery. You couldn’t ask for more! I loved it’ Harriet Tyce ‘This is a cracker. A thoroughly absorbing and thought-provoking historical crime novel that oozes glamour’ Cathy Rentzenbrink, The Last Act of Love ‘An engrossing read’ Guardian ‘Hare’s well-crafted second novel oozes glamour . . . Did someone mention Agatha Christie? Yes, but with the bonus of subtle reflections on race and class’ Observer

Atomic Anna by Rachel Barenbaum

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/509275 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/509275] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Atomic Anna Author: Rachel Barenbaum Narrator: Natalie Naudus, Zachary Johnson, Emily Lawrence, Traci Odom Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 30 minutes Release date: April 5, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 3 Genres: Historical Publisher's Summary: “Atomic Anna is a dazzling work of ingenuity and imagination.”―Téa Obreht,National Book Award finalist and New York Times bestselling author of Inland From the author of A Bend in the Stars, an epic adventure as three generations of women work together and travel through time to prevent the Chernobyl disaster and right the wrongs of their past.   Three brilliant women. Two life-changing mistakes. One chance to reset the future. In 1986, renowned nuclear scientist, Anna Berkova, is sleeping in her bed in the Soviet Union when Chernobyl’s reactor melts down. It’s the exact moment she tears through time—and it’s an accident. When she opens her eyes, she’s landed in 1992 only to discover Molly, her estranged daughter, shot in the chest. Molly, with her dying breath, begs Anna to go back in time and stop the disaster, to save Molly’s daughter Raisa, and put their family’s future on a better path. In ‘60s Philadelphia, Molly is coming of age as an adopted refusenik. Her family is full of secrets and a past they won’t share. She finds solace in comic books, drawing her own series, Atomic Anna, and she’s determined to make it as an artist. When she meets the volatile, charismatic Viktor, their romance sets her life on a very different course. In the ‘80s, Raisa, is a lonely teen and math prodigy, until a quiet, handsome boy moves in across the street and an odd old woman shows up claiming to be her biological grandmother. As Raisa finds new issues of Atomic Anna in unexpected places, she notices each comic challenges her to solve equations leading to one impossible conclusion: time travel. And she finally understands what she has to do. As these remarkable women work together to prevent the greatest nuclear disaster of the 20th century, they grapple with the power their discoveries hold. Just because you can change the past, does it mean you should?

[French] - Mozart & Salieri by Alexandre Pouchkine

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/505182 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/505182] to listen full audiobooks. Title: [French] - Mozart & Salieri Author: Alexandre Pouchkine Narrator: Patrick Martinez-Bournat, Frédéric Chevaux Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 15 minutes Release date: April 1, 2022 Genres: Historical Publisher's Summary: Comment réagir à l'apparition d'un jeune dieu comme Mozart quand on est compositeur viennois déjà établi, son aîné, et son maître ? Alexandre Pouchkine met en scène fascination, rancoeur et désespoir dans cette oeuvre de fiction, Mozart et Salieri, écrite en 1830. Le jeune Mozart est détenteur d'un génie inexplicable, hors de proportion avec sa personnalité immature et tête en l'air. Obsédé par ce talent insolent, le compositeur Antonio Salieri décide de défier Dieu et d'empoisonner son rival, afin de protéger les compositeurs futurs d'un art trop vite porté à sa perfection par un homme qui n'est pas digne de son propre génie. Cette pièce torturée est à l'origine d'un mythe tenace ; elle inspira Amadeus, pièce de Peter Schaeffer portée à l'écran par Milos Forman. - -