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Becky by Sarah May

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/562336 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/562336] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Becky Author: Sarah May Narrator: Charly Clive Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 36 minutes Release date: February 9, 2023 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: 'Spiky, clever, funny' – Emma Stonex, author of The Lamplighters 'Brilliant, propulsive . . . A riot'– Maddie Mortimer, author of Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies 'A delicious gallop through 90s tabloid London' – Sam McAlister, author of Scoops It’s peak 90s London. Shoulder pads are out, crimped hair is in, supermodels are known by their first names, and Becky Sharp will do anything to escape her past. From mingling with tabloid millionaires to trading favours and fortunes with royalty, she will stop at nothing to reach the top of the career ladder at the Mercury newspaper. Landing scoop after scoop, Becky ruthlessly carves a place for herself in a society determined to ignore her. These are the biggest stories and scandals of the decade, and she has something to do with every one of them. But Becky may have more in common with the people she writes about than she thinks – what takes a lifetime to build takes only a moment to destroy . . . 'A Vanity Fair for the mass-media age' - The Guardian

Scatterlings: A Novel by Resoketswe Martha Manenzhe

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/563789 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/563789] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Scatterlings: A Novel Author: Resoketswe Martha Manenzhe Narrator: Christel Mutombo Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 7 minutes Release date: December 13, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2.75 of Total 8 Ratings of Narrator: 3.5 of Total 2 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: A BEST NEW BOOK from *Vanity Fair *The Root *Vulture *People *The Washington Post *Christian Science Monitor *Los Angeles Times *Essence A New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice Pick! A New Yorker Best Book of the Year! A lyrical, moving novel in the spirit of Transcendent Kingdom and A Burning—and the most awarded debut title in South Africa—that tells the story of a multiracial family when the Immorality Act is passed, revealing the story of one family’s scattered souls in the wake of history. In 1927, South Africa passes the Immorality Act, prohibiting sexual intercourse between “Europeans” (white people) and “natives” (Black people). Those who break the draconian new law face imprisonment—for men of up to five years; for women, four years. Abram and his wife Alisa have their share of marital problems, but they also have a comfortable life in South Africa with their two young girls. But then the Act is passed. Alisa is black, and their two children are now evidence of their involvement in a union that has been criminalized by the state. At first, Alisa and Abram question how they’ll be affected by the Act, but then officials start asking questions at the girls’ school, and their estate is catalogued for potential disbursement. Abram is at a loss as to how to protect his young family from the grinding machinery of the law, whose worst discriminations have until now been kept at bay by the family’s economic privilege. And with this, his hesitation, the couple’s bond is tattered. Alisa, who is Jamaican and the descendant of slaves, was adopted by a wealthy white British couple, who raised her as their child. But as she grew older and realized that the prejudices of British society made no allowance for her, she journeyed to South Africa where she met Abram. In the aftermath of the Immorality Act, she comes to a heartbreaking conclusion based on her past and collective history – and she commits her own devastating act, one that will reverberate through their entire family’s lives. Intertwining her storytelling with ritual, myth, and the heart-wrenching question of who stays and who leaves, Scatterlings marks the debut of a gifted storyteller who has become a sensation in her native South Africa—and promises to take the Western literary world by storm as well.

Now We Are Forgiven by Tim Lott

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/559032 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/559032] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Now We Are Forgiven Author: Tim Lott Narrator: Jamie Parker Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 45 minutes Release date: December 8, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.67 of Total 3 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: A brilliantly observed story of crises and reconciliations within families and stepfamilies and the conflict between Millennials and their Baby Boomer parents.  Funny, dark, yet limned with hope, Tim Lott returns to a family saga – and social commentary – that began with the award-winning White City Blue, continuing with When We Were Rich. It is a story for everyone trying to make sense of a sharply polarised world where the political has become personal and the personal has become a minefield.   Brighton, December 2019: a teenage girl is on an early morning run along the seafront. In her mind she is running away from something she hates, towards something she fears.   China’s home is with her mother Veronica, her pompous stepfather Silas and his dysfunctional son Mason. Her father, Frankie, is in London, but they have little contact, his entrenched views a provocation to her socially conscious ideals, his Brexit-supporting girlfriend a jealous rival.   Exhausted by family tensions, when China leaves Brighton, her godfather Nodge, Frankie’s best friend, and his husband Owen are her first port of call. But they, too, are beset by domestic conflict. Which leaves only her father to takes her in.    They argue, they spar, the fault lines between them grow wider – and then coronavirus strikes.    Praise for When We Were Rich   ‘A sharp and very funny portrait of a brash era which is also a surprisingly tender take on flawed masculinity’  ― Sarah Hughes, i paper ‘What a terrific novel – wickedly sharp, wildly entertaining – I was gripped from start to finish. With its twisty plots and interwoven characters it paints a vivid portrait of a crucial decade. It's laugh-out-loud funny, too. And with property porn thrown in, what's not to like’  ― Deborah Moggach ‘Wickedly funny and deeply humane. I loved this book’  ― Sadie Jones ‘Tim Lott revisits the years between millennium fever and the financial crisis, and brings this already long-lost era back to life in a novel every bit as evocative and compelling as we would expect from this prodigiously gifted author’ ― Jonathan Coe ‘Lott delivers many hilarious and sad scenes of life in a long-term relationship. He also explores the poignancy and fragility of male friendships, in a manner reminiscent of Graham Swift’s Last Orders. . .  [He is,] crucially, careful to linger over moral difficulty and vulnerability rather than evading it’ ― TLS ‘Lott’s carefully observed period piece captures the mood of an era that now seems like a lost world’ ― Daily Mail

Roses, in the Mouth of a Lion: A Novel by Bushra Rehman

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/564626 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/564626] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Roses, in the Mouth of a Lion: A Novel Author: Bushra Rehman Narrator: Bushra Rehman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 22 minutes Release date: December 6, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: This program is read by the author. For fans of On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous and My Brilliant Friend, an unforgettable story about female friendship and queer love in a Muslim-American community 'I LOVED EVERY MOMENT.' —Karen Russell, author of Swamplandia! 'Bushra Rehman performs her novel of a queer Pakistani American girl who is coming of age in the 1980s and '90s. As Razia begins rebelling in small ways, Rehman adds a layer of emotional intimacy to Razia's conflicted feelings. '- AudioFile 'The lush and poetic descriptions of the setting and culture serve as a love letter to the Pakistani American community and to Queens, with the audiobook elevated by Rehman’s finely tuned narration.'- Library Journal Razia Mirza grows up amid the wild grape vines and backyard sunflowers of Corona, Queens, with her best friend, Saima, by her side. When a family rift drives the girls apart, Razia’s heart is broken. She finds solace in Taslima, a new girl in her close-knit Pakistani-American community. They embark on a series of small rebellions: listening to scandalous music, wearing miniskirts, and cutting school to explore the city. When Razia is accepted to Stuyvesant, a prestigious high school in Manhattan, the gulf between the person she is and the daughter her parents want her to be, widens. At Stuyvesant, Razia meets Angela and is attracted to her in a way that blossoms into a new understanding. When their relationship is discovered by an Aunty in the community, Razia must choose between her family and her own future. Punctuated by both joy and loss, full of ’80s music and beloved novels, Roses, in the Mouth of a Lion is a new classic: a fiercely compassionate coming-of-age story of a girl struggling to reconcile her heritage and faith with her desire to be true to herself. A Macmillan Audio production from Flatiron Books.

Shadows of Love, Shadows of Loneliness: Volume Two: Prints, Paintings, Drawings, Sketchbooks 1985-2020 by William T. Vollmann

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/558858 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/558858] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Shadows of Love, Shadows of Loneliness: Volume Two: Prints, Paintings, Drawings, Sketchbooks 1985-2020 Series: #2 of Shadows of Love, Shadows of Loneliness Author: William T. Vollmann Narrator: Paul Heitsch Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 16 minutes Release date: December 6, 2022 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: In this landmark collection, William T. Vollmann offers a kaleidoscopic retrospective of the visual artwork he has produced over four decades, with new commentary from Vollmann on his process, inspiration, and the many intersections with his writing. The celebrated author of over twenty-five books (among them the National Book Award–winning novel Europe Central; the seven-volume Rising Up and Rising Down, based on Vollmann's career as a war correspondent; and the two-volume climate change investigation Carbon Ideologies), Vollmann's equally ambitious and prolific career as a photographer, printmaker, and painter reflects the artist's deep interest in people existing on the margins, a profound empathy for his subjects, and the humility and generosity to meet them on their terms. In Shadows of Love, Shadows of Loneliness, a series of essays commissioned especially for this book lays out Vollmann's views on what photographs can and should say, how he chooses what to represent (beauty, suffering, compassion, love, desire, ideology), thoughts on photographic consensuality, and any number of technical descriptions. Particularly useful for Vollmann fans and scholars are the cross-references between these artistic and photographic projects and his books.