Christmas Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Andersen

Grand Hotel Europa by Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/498507 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/498507] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Grand Hotel Europa Author: Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer Narrator: Thomas Loibl Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 17 hours 48 minutes Release date: April 28, 2022 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer’s moving and addictive masterpiece of European identity, nostalgia and the end of an era. ‘A masterpiece: grandiose style, brilliant and rich. It will defy the ages’ Trouw (The Netherlands) ‘The love of my life lives in my past. That is, despite the alliteration, a terrible sentence to write. I do not want to come to the conclusion that, as it is the case for the hotel where I am staying and the continent after which it is named, the best time is behind me and that I have little more to expect from the future than to live on my past.’ A writer takes residence in the illustrious but decaying Grand Hotel Europa, to think about where things went wrong with Clio, with whom he fell in love in Genoa and moved to Venice. He reconstructs a compelling story of love in times of mass tourism, about their trips to Malta, Palmaria, Portovenere and the Cinque Terre and their thrilling search for the last painting of Caravaggio. Meanwhile, he becomes fascinated by the mysteries of Grand Hotel Europe and gets more and more involved with the memorable characters who inhabit it, and who seem to come from a more elegant time. All the while, globalisation seems to be grabbing hold even on this place frozen in time. Grand Hotel Europa is Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer’s masterly novel on the old continent, where so much history resides that there is no place left for a future and where the most realistic future perspectives are offered in the form of exploiting the past in the shape of tourism.

Small World: A Novel by Jonathan Evison

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/498561 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/498561] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Small World: A Novel Author: Jonathan Evison Narrator: William Demeritt Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 0 minutes Release date: January 11, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: Winner of the Housatonic Book Award A New York Times Editors' Choice!  One of Booklist’s “Top 10 Historical Fiction Novels of 2022” One of the Los Angeles Times's “10 Books to Add to Your Reading List” One of Book Culture's Most Anticipated Reads “A bighearted, widescreen American tale.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review) “Masterpiece . . . The quintessential great American novel.”—Booklist (starred review) “A vivid mosaic.”—BookPage (starred review) Jonathan Evison’s Small World is an epic novel for now. Set against such iconic backdrops as the California gold rush, the development of the transcontinental railroad, and a speeding train of modern-day strangers forced together by fate, it is a grand entertainment that asks big questions.   The characters of Small World connect in the most intriguing and meaningful ways, winning, breaking, and winning our hearts again. In exploring the passengers’ lives and those of their ancestors more than a century before, Small World chronicles 170 years of American nation-building from numerous points of view across place and time. And it does it with a fullhearted, full-throttle pace that asks on the most human, intimate scale whether it is truly possible to meet, and survive, the choices posed—and forced—by the age.   The result is a historical epic with a Dickensian flair, a grand entertainment that asks whether our nation has made good on its promises. It dazzles as its characters come to connect with one another through time. And it hits home as it probes at our country’s injustices, big and small, straight through to its deeply satisfying final words.

These Silent Woods: A Novel by Kimi Cunningham Grant

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/495179 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/495179] to listen full audiobooks. Title: These Silent Woods: A Novel Author: Kimi Cunningham Grant Narrator: Stephanie Willis, Bronson Pinchot Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 22 minutes Release date: November 16, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.56 of Total 18 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 6 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: A father and daughter living in the remote Appalachian mountains must reckon with the ghosts of their past in Kimi Cunningham Grant's These Silent Woods, a mesmerizing audiobook of suspense. No electricity, no family, no connection to the outside world. For eight years, Cooper and his young daughter, Finch, have lived in isolation in a remote cabin in the northern Appalachian woods. And that's exactly the way Cooper wants it, because he's got a lot to hide. Finch has been raised on the books filling the cabin’s shelves and the beautiful but brutal code of life in the wilderness. But she’s starting to push back against the sheltered life Cooper has created for her—and he’s still haunted by the painful truth of what it took to get them there. The only people who know they exist are a mysterious local hermit named Scotland, and Cooper's old friend, Jake, who visits each winter to bring them food and supplies. But this year, Jake doesn't show up, setting off an irreversible chain of events that reveals just how precarious their situation really is. Suddenly, the boundaries of their safe haven have blurred—and when a stranger wanders into their woods, Finch’s growing obsession with her could put them all in danger. After a shocking disappearance threatens to upend the only life Finch has ever known, Cooper is forced to decide whether to keep hiding—or finally face the sins of his past. Vividly atmospheric and masterfully tense, These Silent Woods is a poignant story of survival, sacrifice, and how far a father will go when faced with losing it all. 'The story unwinds at a slow pace, but the denouement is dramatic, surprising, and, finally, gratifying.' --AudioFile A Macmillan Audio production from Minotaur Books

Christmas Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Andersen

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/498631 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/498631] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Christmas Fairy Tales Author: Hans Christian Andersen Narrator: Alex Lehman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 17 minutes Release date: November 9, 2021 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: A selection of wonderful Christmas fairy tales by the beloved author Hans Christian Andersen to enjoy in the cozy winter evenings. Let one of the best-known children’s authors of all time carry you away into a magical world with his masterful storytelling. Nearly two centuries after they were first published, Andersen's stories remain as tales of good and evil, love and loss, and loyalty in the face of great hardships. They are readily accessible to children, but present lessons of virtue for mature readers as well! Rediscover your childhood's favourite fairy tales or introduce a young reader to Andersen's imagination – just in time for Christmas... - Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875) was a Danish author, poet and artist. Celebrated for children’s literature, his most cherished fairy tales include 'The Emperor's New Clothes', 'The Little Mermaid', 'The Nightingale', 'The Steadfast Tin Soldier', 'The Snow Queen', 'The Ugly Duckling' and 'The Little Match Girl'. His books have been translated into every living language, and today there is no child or adult that has not met Andersen's whimsical characters. His fairy tales have been adapted to stage and screen countless times, most notably by Disney with the animated films 'The Little Mermaid' in 1989 and 'Frozen', which is loosely based on 'The Snow Queen', in 2013. Thanks to Andersen's contribution to children's literature, his birth date, April 2, is celebrated as International Children's Book Day.

Treacle Walker by Alan Garner

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/498510 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/498510] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Treacle Walker Author: Alan Garner Narrator: Robert Powell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 48 minutes Release date: October 28, 2021 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: ‘Playful, moving and wholly remarkable’ Guardian ‘A small miracle’ New Statesman ‘Mastery of craft, resonance and deep feeling on every page’ Telegraph An introspective young boy, Joseph Coppock squints at the world with his lazy eye. Living alone in an old house, he reads comics, collects birds’ eggs and plays with his marbles. When, one day, a rag-and-bone man called Treacle Walker appears, exchanging an empty jar of a cure-all medicine and a donkey stone for a pair of Joseph's pyjamas and a lamb's shoulder blade, a mysterious friendship develops between them. A fusion of myth, magic and the stories we make for ourselves, Treacle Walker is an extraordinary novel from one of our greatest living writers. ‘All the exuberance and eccentricity, all the deep thought and resounding mythology of [Garner’s] best work’ Observer ‘Spare and allusive… luminous and understated’ Rowan Williams, New Statesman ‘Cryptic, evocative, sparely told and deceptively simple’ Carolyne Larrington, TLS A NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR • A TLS BOOK OF THE YEAR • A GUARDIAN BEST FICTION BOOK OF 2021