The King of Infinite Space by Lyndsay Faye

Odyssey by Stephen Fry

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/484711 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/484711] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Odyssey Series: #4 of Stephen Fry’s Greek Myths Author: Stephen Fry Narrator: Stephen Fry Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 36 minutes Release date: September 26, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.63 of Total 8 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 4 Genres: Fairy Tales & Folklore Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. A Sunday Times bestseller The next book in Stephen Fry's acclaimed internationally bestselling Greek myths series telling the story of The Odyssey. Sometimes the hardest journey is the way back home . . . Wily Odysseus, King of Ithaca, has won Troy for the Greeks – after a decade of brutal, bloody warfare. But now this warrior remembers he is a husband and father – and his gaze turns longingly towards home. Setting sail with a small fleet, Odysseus dreams of soon lying in the arms of his beloved wife Penelope, and of teaching his son Telemachus the ways of a warrior. However, the gods laugh at the foolish hopes of mortals. And, angered by this upstart, Poseidon – God of the ocean realms – curses our hero to wander the seas for ten long years. Encountering one-eyed giants, six-headed monsters, terrible storms, titanic whirlpools, hypnotic sirens, seductive witches and jealous goddesses, Odysseus is tempted and tormented beyond any man’s endurance. Yet he is no mere mortal – and the lure of his wife and son draws him, step by step, stroke by stroke, ever closer to home and his ultimate destiny . . . A tale of love and longing, return and redemption, home and hope, Stephen Fry’s Odyssey sees the author and national treasure weave the final threads of the fabulous story begun in the worldwide bestseller, Mythos, into an astonishing and mesmerising tapestry for the ages. 'With his distinctive narration, Fry brings warmth, exuberance and humour to these age-old stories, along with a range of voices...' The Guardian 'Fry is at his story-telling best . . . the gods will be pleased' Times 'Brilliant . . . all hail Stephen Fry' Daily Mail © Stephen Fry 2024 (P) Penguin Audio 2024

With This Kiss by Carrie Hope Fletcher

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/487939 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/487939] to listen full audiobooks. Title: With This Kiss Author: Carrie Hope Fletcher Narrator: Beth Noonan Roberts Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 27 minutes Release date: April 14, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 1 of Total 1 Genres: Fairy Tales & Folklore Publisher's Summary: A brand new timeless romance with a sprinkling of magic from the Number One Sunday Times bestselling author ‘A complete joy to read, and once I’d started I genuinely couldn’t stop. I was entranced and beguiled from start to finish by this beautiful story. Carrie has single-handedly converted me to magic realism’ Jill Mansell ‘Carrie Hope Fletcher is not afraid to tackle big themes in this ambitious story, and the emotional pay-off cuts deep’ Heat, Book of the Week ‘A spellbinding and enchanting read with a charming cast of characters, With This Kiss is guaranteed to sweep you off your feet…I adored it’ Holly Miller, The Sight of You ‘Spellbindingly romantic – With This Kiss is utterly captivating. A feat of magical and mystical storytelling’ Laura Jane Williams, Our Stop ‘A gorgeous story with plenty of heart’ M. A. Kuzniar, Midnight in Everwood * * * If you knew how your love story ends, would you dare to begin? From the outside, Lorelai is an ordinary young woman with a normal life. She loves reading, she works at the local cinema and she adores living with her best friend. But she carries a painful burden, something she’s kept hidden for years; whenever she kisses someone on the lips, she sees how they are going to die. Lorelai has never known if she’s seeing what was always meant to be, or if her kiss is the thing that decides their destiny. And so, she hasn’t kissed anyone since she was eighteen. Then she meets Grayson. Sweet, clever, funny Grayson. And for the first time in years she yearns for a man’s kiss. But she can’t…or can she? And if she does, should she try to intervene and change what she sees? Spellbinding, magical and utterly original, With This Kiss is one love story you will never forget. * * * Readers are spellbound by With This Kiss ‘A five-star read . . . Fun, enjoyable, funny and sweet with characters I absolutely loved’ NetGalley Reviewer,⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘This book was everything I didn't know I needed’ NetGalley Reviewer, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘Beautiful writing [that] captured me from the start. 5 stars’ NetGalley Reviewer, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

The Women of Troy by Pat Barker

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/487859 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/487859] to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Women of Troy Author: Pat Barker Narrator: Kristin Atherton Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 18 minutes Release date: August 26, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.25 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Fairy Tales & Folklore Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. Following her bestselling, critically acclaimed The Silence of the Girls, Pat Barker continues her extraordinary retelling of one of our greatest myths. Troy has fallen. The Greeks have won their bitter war. They can return home as victors - all they need is a good wind to lift their sails. But the wind has vanished, the seas becalmed by vengeful gods, and so the warriors remain in limbo - camped in the shadow of the city they destroyed, kept company by the women they stole from it. The women of Troy. Helen - poor Helen. All that beauty, all that grace - and she was just a mouldy old bone for feral dogs to fight over. Cassandra, who has learned not to be too attached to her own prophecies. They have only ever been believed when she can get a man to deliver them. Stubborn Amina, with her gaze still fixed on the ruined towers of Troy, determined to avenge the slaughter of her king. Hecuba, howling and clawing her cheeks on the silent shore, as if she could make her cries heard in the gloomy halls of Hades. As if she could wake the dead. And Briseis, carrying her future in her womb: the unborn child of the dead hero Achilles. Once again caught up in the disputes of violent men. Once again faced with the chance to shape history. Masterful and enduringly resonant, ambitious and intimate, The Women of Troy continues Pat Barker's extraordinary retelling of one of our greatest classical myths, following on from the critically acclaimed The Silence of the Girls. 'Taut, masterly, wholly absorbing. Still one of the greatest stories ever written. A book that will be read in generations to come' Daily Telegraph on The Silence of the Girls © Pat Barker 2021 (P) Penguin Audio 2021

The King of Infinite Space by Lyndsay Faye

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/486896 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/486896] to listen full audiobooks. Title: The King of Infinite Space Author: Lyndsay Faye Narrator: Imani Jade Powers, Raj Ghatak, Michael Crouch Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 29 minutes Release date: August 10, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 1 of Total 1 Genres: Fairy Tales & Folklore Publisher's Summary: In this lush, magical, queer, and feminist take on Hamlet in modern-day New York City, a neuro-atypical philosopher, along with his best friend Horatio and artist ex-fiancé Lia, are caught up in the otherworldly events surrounding the death of his father. Meet Ben Dane: brilliant, devastating, devoted, honest to a fault (truly, a fault). His Broadway theater baron father is dead--but by purpose or accident? The question rips him apart. Unable to face alone his mother's ghastly remarriage to his uncle, Ben turns to his dearest friend, Horatio Patel, whom he hasn't seen since their relationship changed forever from platonic to something...other. Loyal to a fault (truly, a fault), Horatio is on the first flight to NYC when he finds himself next to a sly tailor who portends inevitable disaster. And who seems ominously like an architect of mayhem himself. Meanwhile, Ben's ex-fiancé Lia, sundered her from her loved ones thanks to her addiction recovery and torn from her art, has been drawn into the fold of three florists from New Orleans--seemingly ageless sisters who teach her the language of flowers, and whose magical bouquets hold both curses and cures. For a price. On one explosive night these kinetic forces will collide, and the only possible outcome is death. But in the masterful hands of Lyndsay Faye, the story we all know has abundant surprises in store. Impish, captivating, and achingly romantic, this is Hamlet as you've never seen it before.

Shallow Waters: A Novel by Anita Kopacz

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/487447 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/487447] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Shallow Waters: A Novel Author: Anita Kopacz Narrator: Michelle Kopacz Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 49 minutes Release date: August 3, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.33 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Fairy Tales & Folklore Publisher's Summary: In this “captivating” (Harper’s Bazaar) and lyrical debut novel—perfect for fans of The Water Dancer and the Legacy of Orïsha series—the Yoruba deity of the sea, Yemaya, is brought to vivid life as she discovers the power of Black resilience, love, and feminine strength in antebellum America. Shallow Waters imagines Yemaya, an Orïsha—a deity in the religion of Africa’s Yoruba people—cast into mid-1800s America. We meet Yemaya as a young woman, still in the care of her mother and not yet fully aware of the spectacular power she possesses to protect herself and those she holds dear. The journey laid out in Shallow Waters sees Yemaya confront the greatest evils of this era; transcend time and place in search of Obatala, a man who sacrifices his own freedom for the chance at hers; and grow into the powerful woman she was destined to become. We travel alongside Yemaya from her native Africa and on to the “New World,” with vivid pictures of life for those left on the outskirts of power in the nascent Americas. Yemaya realizes the fighter within, travels the Underground Railroad in search of the mysterious stranger Obatala, and crosses paths with icons of our history on the road to freedom. Shallow Waters is a “riveting and heartbreaking” (Publishers Weekly) work of ritual storytelling from promising debut author Anita Kopacz.