Complete Stories by Kingsley Amis

Sawbones by Stuart MacBride

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/408106 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/408106] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Sawbones Author: Stuart MacBride Narrator: Steve Worsley Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 55 minutes Release date: May 27, 2021 Genres: Short Stories Publisher's Summary: A gripping serial killer thriller with a twist – from No. 1 bestseller Stuart MacBride This time the serial killer picked the wrong family… ‘MacBride is a damned fine writer’ Peter James They call him Sawbones: a serial killer touring America kidnapping young women. The FBI’s investigating – but getting nowhere. The latest victim is Laura Jones. Sixteen years old. Pretty. Blonde. And the daughter of one of New York’s most notorious gangsters. Laura’s Dad doesn’t care about the law. What he wants is revenge. And he knows just the guys to get it. This time, Sawbones picked on the wrong family…

The Man Who Lived Underground by Richard Wright

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/413765 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/413765] to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Man Who Lived Underground Author: Richard Wright Narrator: Ethan Herisse Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 45 minutes Release date: April 20, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.5 of Total 2 Genres: Short Stories Publisher's Summary: New York Times Bestseller • One of the Best Books of the Year by Time magazine, the Chicago Tribune, the Boston Globe, and Esquire, and one of Oprah’s 15 Favorite Books of the Year Read by actor Ethan Herisse From the legendary author of Native Son and Black Boy, the novel he was unable to publish during his lifetime—an explosive story of racism, injustice, brutality, and survival. ''Not just Wright's masterwork, but also a milestone in African American literature . . . One of those indispensable works that reminds all its readers that, whether we are in the flow of life or somehow separated from it, above- or belowground, we are all human.'' (Gene Seymour, CNN.com) “The Man Who Lived Underground reminds us that any ‘greatest writers of the 20th century’ list that doesn’t start and end with Richard Wright is laughable. It might very well be Wright’s most brilliantly crafted, and ominously foretelling, book.”—Kiese Laymon Fred Daniels, a Black man, is picked up by the police after a brutal double murder and tortured until he confesses to a crime he did not commit. After signing a confession, he escapes from custody and flees into the city’s sewer system. This is the devastating premise of Richard Wright's scorching novel, The Man Who Lived Underground, written between his landmark books Native Son (1940) and Black Boy (1945), at the height of his creative powers. Now, for the first time, by special arrangement between the Library of America and the author’s estate, the full text of the work that meant more to Wright than any other (“I have never written anything in my life that stemmed more from sheer inspiration”) is published in the form that he intended, complete with his companion essay, “Memories of My Grandmother.” Malcolm Wright, the author’s grandson, contributes an afterword.

The Ghost Variations: One Hundred Stories by Kevin Brockmeier

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/415649 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/415649] to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Ghost Variations: One Hundred Stories Author: Kevin Brockmeier Narrator: Vikas Adam Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 7 minutes Release date: March 9, 2021 Genres: Short Stories Publisher's Summary: Ghost stories tap into our most primal emotions as they encourage us to confront the timeless question: What comes after death? Here, in tales that are by turn scary, funny, philosophic, and touching, you’ll find that question sharpened, split, reconsidered—and met with a multitude of answers.   A spirit who is fated to spend eternity reliving the exact moment she lost her chance at love, ghostly trees that haunt the occupant of a wooden house, specters that snatch anyone who steps into the shadows, and parakeets that serve as mouthpieces for the dead: these are just a few of the characters in this extraordinary compendium of one hundred ghost stories. Kevin Brockmeier’s fiction has always explored the space between the fantastical and the everyday with profundity and poignancy. As in his previous books, The Ghost Variations discovers new ways of looking at who we are and what matters to us, exploring how mysterious, sad, strange, and comical it is to be alive—or, as it happens, not to be.

Complete Stories by Kingsley Amis

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/408143 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/408143] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Complete Stories Author: Kingsley Amis Narrator: John Sackville Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 18 hours 43 minutes Release date: December 17, 2020 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Short Stories Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. The short stories of Kingsley Amis - the great master of post-war comic prose - are dark, playful, moving, surprising and extremely funny. This definitive collection gathers all Amis's short fiction in a single volume for the first time and encompasses five decades of storytelling. In 'The 2003 Claret', written in 1958, a time machine is invented for the weighty task of sending a man to 2010 to discover what the booze will taste like. In 'Boris and the Colonel' a Cambridge spy is unearthed in the sleepy English countryside with the help of a plucky horse, while In 'Mason's Life' two men meet inside their respective dreams. The collection spans many genres, offering ingenious alternative histories, mystery and horror, satirical reflections and a devilishly funny attacks. Amis's stories reveal the scope of his imagination and the warmth beneath his acerbic humour, and they all share the unmistakable style and wit of one of Britain's best loved writers. © Kingsley Amis 2011 (P) Penguin Audio 2020

Twenty-One Stories by Graham Greene

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/425768 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/425768] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Twenty-One Stories Author: Graham Greene Narrator: Emma Gregory, Andrew Wincott Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 15 minutes Release date: December 10, 2020 Genres: Short Stories Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. A celebrated collection of stories from one of the most important British writers of the twentieth century. Features Greene's most famous short story, 'The Destructors'. Written between 1929 and 1954, each of these stories bears the hallmark themes that characterise Greene's great novels: betrayal and vengeance, love and hate, pity and violence. Opening with the iconic story 'The Destructors', in which a gang of schoolboys destroys a house that has survived the Blitz, Greene offers us deliciously satisfying glimpses into twenty-one worlds, with each piece written as masterfully as his novels. From the chilling climax of a children's birthday party, to a man whose youthful indiscretions come back to haunt him, these are the unmistakable work of one of the twentieth century's greatest and most adored storytellers. © Graham Greene 1954 (P) Penguin Audio 2020