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Prima Facie by Suzie Miller review – Jodie Comer narrates with charisma and firepower

The star of the original award-winning play about sexual assault brings emotional complexity to this novel adaptation

The Guardian - UK · Jun 14, 2024

The Fraud by Zadie Smith audiobook review – exuberant and funny

Narrated by the author, this story of a Victorian author and his housekeeper cousin, who is obsessed by the Tichborne claimant, explores the lies people tell themselves

The Guardian - UK · Jun 7, 2024

Thunderclap by Laura Cumming audiobook review – the golden age of Dutch art

The Observer’s art critic combines the stories of the painter Carel Fabritius with that of her artist father, in a memoir of art and life cut suddenly short

The Guardian - UK · May 24, 2024

Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen audiobook review – the pursuit of love

Nicola Coughlan brings new life and nuance to Austen’s story of poverty-stricken sisters

The Guardian - UK · Feb 2, 2024

None of This Is True by Lisa Jewell audiobook review – is she who she says she is?

Nicola Walker and Louise Brealey play the women whose fast-friendship develops into a something far darker

The Guardian - UK · Jan 26, 2024

Unruly by David Mitchell review – a Horrible Histories with added swearing

Tales of familial hatred, infidelity, murder and spectacular incompetence, in a joyfully narrated history of England’s kings and queens

The Guardian - UK · Jan 5, 2024

A Stroke of the Pen by Terry Pratchett audiobook review – brimming with wit

David Tennant, Claire Foy and Derek Jacobi are among the narrators of early short stories that offer a glimpse into how the writer found his voice

The Guardian - UK · Dec 22, 2023

Red Memory by Tania Branigan audiobook review – tracing the scars of China’s Cultural Revolution

Sons denounce mothers, students attack teachers: firsthand accounts from those caught up in Mao’s ruthless ideological purge during the 60s and 70s

The Guardian - UK · Nov 10, 2023

The Extraordinary Life of an Ordinary Man by Paul Newman audiobook review – unfiltered Hollywood

Jeff Daniels reads this memoir-cum-oral history of the late actor, painting a picture of a flawed, melancholic, chaotic and brilliant screen icon

The Guardian - UK · Sep 29, 2023

Lessons by Ian McEwan review – chance, memory and the road not taken

Actor Simon McBurney narrates the tale of how a sexual relationship between a teenage boy and his piano teacher changes the course of his life

The Guardian - UK · Jul 21, 2023