Sphere by Michael Crichton

The Rotters' Club: ‘One of those sweeping, ambitious yet hugely readable, moving, richly comic novels’ Daily Telegraph by Jonathan Coe

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/368888 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/368888] to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Rotters' Club: ‘One of those sweeping, ambitious yet hugely readable, moving, richly comic novels’ Daily Telegraph Author: Jonathan Coe Narrator: Nicholas Burns Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 37 minutes Release date: July 4, 2019 Genres: Science Fiction Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. Unforgettably funny and painfully honest, Jonathan Coe's tale of Benjamin Trotter and his friends' coming of age during the 1970s is a heartfelt celebration of the joys and agonies of growing up. Featuring, among other things, IRA bombs, prog rock, punk rock, bad poetry, first love, love on the side, prefects, detention, a few bottles of Blue Nun, lots of brown wallpaper, industrial strife, and divine intervention in the form of a pair of swimming trunks. Set against the backdrop of the decade's class struggles, tragic and riotous by turns, packed with thwarted romance and furtive sex, The Rotters' Club is for anyone who ever experienced adolescence the hard way.

What a Carve Up!: ‘Everything a novel ought to be: courageous, challenging, funny, sad’ The Times by Jonathan Coe

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/370694 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/370694] to listen full audiobooks. Title: What a Carve Up!: ‘Everything a novel ought to be: courageous, challenging, funny, sad’ The Times Author: Jonathan Coe Narrator: Richard Goulding Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 41 minutes Release date: April 25, 2019 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Science Fiction Publisher's Summary: Penguin presents the audiobook edition of What a Carve Up! by Jonathan Coe, read by Richard Goulding. It is the 1980s and the Winshaw family are getting richer and crueller by the year: Newspaper-columnist Hilary gets thousands for telling it like it isn't; Henry's turning hospitals into car parks; Roddy's selling art in return for sex; down on the farm Dorothy's squeezing every last pound from her livestock; Thomas is making a killing on the stock exchange; and Mark is selling arms to dictators. But once their hapless biographer Michael Owen starts investigating the family's trail of greed, corruption and immoral doings, the time growing ripe for the Winshaws to receive their comeuppance. . . This wickedly funny take on life under the Thatcher government was the winner of the 1995 John Llewellyn Rhys Prize 'A sustained feat of humour, suspense and polemic, full of twists and ironies' Hilary Mantel, Sunday Times 'A riveting social satire on the chattering and all-powerful upper classes' Time Out 'Big, hilarious, intricate, furious, moving' Guardian Jonathan Coe's novels are filled with biting social commentary, moving and astute observations of life and hilarious set pieces that have made him one of the most popular writers of his generation. His other titles, The Accidental Woman, A Touch of Love, The Rotters' Club (winner of the Everyman Wodehouse prize), The Closed Circle, The Terrible Privacy of Maxwell Sim, The House of Sleep (winner of the1998 Prix Médicis Étranger), and The Rain Before it Falls, are all available in Penguin paperback.

Sphere by Michael Crichton

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/236557 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/236557] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Sphere Author: Michael Crichton Narrator: Scott Brick Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 3 minutes Release date: January 26, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.23 of Total 140 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 36 Genres: Science Fiction Publisher's Summary: “Ingenious and beguiling.” —Time “Crichton keeps us guessing at every turn in his best work since The Andromeda Strain.” —Los Angeles Times “Sphere may be Crichton’s best novel, but even if it ranked only second or third, it would be a must for suspense fans.” —Miami Herald A classic thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author Michael Crichton, Sphere is a bravura demonstration of what he does better than anyone: riveting storytelling that combines frighteningly plausible, cutting edge science and technology with pulse-pounding action and serious chills. The gripping story of a group of American scientists sent to the ocean floor to investigate an alien ship, only to confront a terrifying discovery that defies imagination, Sphere is Crichton prime—truly masterful fiction from the ingenious mind that brought us Prey, State of Fear, and Jurassic Park. Sphere was made into a film directed by Barry Levinson, which starred Dustin Hoffman, Sharon Stone, and Samuel L. Jackson.

Valis by Philip K. Dick

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/236558 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/236558] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Valis Series: #1 of Valis Author: Philip K. Dick Narrator: Phil Gigante Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 59 minutes Release date: October 2, 2015 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.38 of Total 8 Ratings of Narrator: 4.4 of Total 5 Genres: Science Fiction Publisher's Summary: What is VALIS? This question is at the heart of Philip K. Dick’s groundbreaking novel, the first book in his defining trilogy. When a beam of pink light begins giving a schizophrenic man named Horselover Fat (who just might also be known as Philip K. Dick) visions of an alternate Earth where the Roman Empire still reigns, he must decide whether he is crazy or whether a godlike entity is showing him the true nature of the world.VALIS is essential listening for any true Philip K. Dick fan, a novel that Roberto Bolaño called “more disturbing than any novel by [Carson] McCullers.” By the end, like Dick himself, you will be left wondering what is real, what is fiction, and just what the price is for divine inspiration.

The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch by Philip K. Dick

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/236286 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/236286] to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch Author: Philip K. Dick Narrator: Luke Daniels Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 45 minutes Release date: September 2, 2015 Genres: Science Fiction Publisher's Summary: A Nebula Award-nominee from the Hugo Award-winning author of The Man in the High Castle, Philip K. Dick's The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch explores the desolation of the minds, souls, and hearts of colonists on Mars in 'a psychedelic odyssey of hallucinations-within-hallucinations from which no reader emerges unscathed' (Boston Globe). On Mars, the harsh climate could make any colonist turn to drugs to escape a dead-end existence. Especially when the drug is Can-D, which translates its users into the idyllic world of a Barbie-esque character named Perky Pat. When the mysterious Palmer Eldritch arrives with a new drug called Chew-Z, he offers a more addictive experience, one that might bring the user closer to God. But in a world where everyone is tripping, no promises can be taken at face value. The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch is one of Philip K. Dick's enduring classics, at once a deep character study, a dark mystery, and a tightrope walk along the edge of reality and illusion.