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Just started to listen to these as I have no time to read and travel up and down the country quite a lot. The two I have listened to were brilliant. The first was Frenchman's Creek read by John Nettles and the second, which was world's apart from the first, was On the Edge, by Jenny Pitman and read by Jan Francis.

I use to read just about anything when I had time, so subject matter is not a problem.
Any recommendations?
 
Yes, I got into these when on a major house-painting session last year... couldn't always rely on Radio 4...

Any of the BBC Wodehouse offerings are excellent

"I don't know how she does it" by Alison Pearson is good too but not on cd - was a tape, so that might be a problem.
 
I don't know whether it's available on audio or not, but anything by John Connolly is well worth a read, ditto PJ Tracy, Ian Rankin, Mike Gayle and countless others, I'm sure! If you can get it on audio I would also highly recommend Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell, it was a fantastic book that I'm sure will become a classic in time.
 
:lol: :lol: DIM you may have thought that..... if I had posted on the thread they have now locked I went to respond wrote it out and then found JULES had locked it :cry: but it was only the truth and nothing but the truth so help me etc...

I'M a good orator????...... pick me up when passing my abode if in the principality.... :P ;) but the accent is Welsh obviously but in English ... :rolleyes:
 
For me, the personality reading the story, has to have an interesting speaking voice. As already mentioned above, the first audio book I have listened to was read by John Nettles, who was pretty good at all the character voices. I shall keep an eye out for something similar.
 
I will ask my Dad for recommendations. He listens to them on the bus as he is too blind to read otherwise!!
 
Listened to stacks, sometimes picking them up from the the libary £1 a week, Ted Albury, Dick Francis are good, can't remember the book, it was about a ghost vampire jet! But Robert Powell has an excellent voice to listen too. Tried some Tom Clancy ones but can't get away to the narrator being a yank. Also partial to many of the Sherlock Holmes stories, sometimes getting the old fifties radio plays from American Radio shows (with English speakers) which start off with some sort of advert for tomatoes! Just type in "Audio Books", into Limewire or whatever you use and see what you get!
 
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