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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

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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

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The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin audiobook review – from the civil rights frontline

Law & Order’s Jesse L Martin narrates two powerful essays examining the Black experience in the US, the first in a series marking the author’s centenary year

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Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story by Bono audiobook review – unexpected humility

The U2 frontman narrates his own autobiography, using music to look back on his life - Band Aid hubris, iTunes regrets and all

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Wifedom by Anna Funder audiobook review – the first Mrs Orwell

The Australian writer explores the Nineteen Eighty-Four author’s treatment of women in an empathetic biography of his first wife, Eileen O’Shaughnessy

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Great-Uncle Harry by Michael Palin audiobook review – a personal first world war story

The beloved Python narrates his touching tribute to a long-lost relative who was killed at the Somme

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Galatea by Madeline Miller audiobook review – literature’s first incel

Actor Ruth Wilson narrates this powerful retelling of Ovid’s Pygmalion myth, in which a sculptor falls in love with a statue of a woman

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Original Sins by Matt Rowland Hill audiobook review – faith, dark farce and addiction

Welsh actor Daniel Hawksford offers a textured narration, capturing the absurdities of Hill’s religious upbringing and later drug use

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Burning Questions by Margaret Atwood audiobook review – reflections on a world in crisis

Atwood ranges across topics from the global heating to The Handmaid’s Tale, with actors Ciarán Hinds and Ann Dowd among the narrators

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I’m Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy audiobook review – a painfully funny memoir

The Nickleodeon star describes a dysfunctional childhood spent trying to please her narcissistic mother in this darkly comic autobiography

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Taste by Stanley Tucci audiobook review – a mouth-watering memoir

The suave Hollywood actor shares delicious stories of his love of food, from the family kitchen to the world’s finest restaurants

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Blonde by Joyce Carol Oates audiobook review – an imagined life of Marilyn Monroe

Jayne Atkinson resists the cliches of the film star’s breathy voice in a tough, fictionalised tale of abuse and fame

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The Paper Lantern by Will Burns audiobook review – a compelling contemplation of country life

Community, class and the proliferation of men called Pete at the pub are explored as we follow our narrator on his daily walks in the countryside

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Small Gods by Terry Pratchett audiobook review – terrifically narrated by Andy Serkis

The actor brings the cast of Pratchett’s comic satire to life, alongside Bill Nighy and Peter Serafinowicz

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A Rage in Harlem by Chester Himes audiobook review – vintage crooks and conmen

Samuel L Jackson’s narration does full justice to this grimly comic novel from the mid-century master of New York crime

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The Lamplighters by Emma Stonex audiobook review – a spooky psychological mystery

Indira Varma and Tom Burke’s narration amps up the claustraphobia of Emma Stonex’s compelling debut

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