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A Dream About Lightning Bugs with Ben Folds

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Release Date: 05/01/2021

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On this episode of AudioBookClub…  Matthew and Steve fail to recommend ‘The Light We Carry” by Michelle Obama. Steve Phillips and Matthew Layton present #AudioBookClub  - the podcast that reviews and recommends audiobooks. On this episode: Steve and Matthew welcome Helena Sheffield, Senior Marketing Manager, Penguin Random House Audio onto their pod. Unfortunately, things didn’t quite go according go to plan. Matthew couldn’t quite find it in his heart to recommend that you, gentle listener, spend an Audible credit on 9 hours and 59 minutes of your life on Michelle...

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'The Last Train' - with Professor Michael Pronko (and Victor Dima!) show art 'The Last Train' - with Professor Michael Pronko (and Victor Dima!)

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On this episode of AudioBookClub…  Murder on the Tokyo transit system! Steve Phillips and Matthew Layton present £AudioBookClub  - the podcast that reviews and recommends audiobooks. On this episode: Steve and Matthew cast an ear over ‘The Last Train’, the first book in Michael Pronko’s Tokyo-based ‘Detective Hiroshi’ series. Title:            The Last Train: Detective Hiroshi, Volume 1 Written by:         Michael Pronko Narrated by:         Peter Berkrot Length:         10 hrs and...

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On this episode of AudioBookClub, Matthew hasn’t done his homework and fails to review ‘A History of Modern Britain’ by Andrew Marr. Quite spectacularly! Steve Phillips and Matthew Layton present - a podcast that recommends and reviews audiobooks. Fortunately, the BBC - an institution very close to both Steve’s and Matthew’s hearts - has just launched the amazon BBC Sounds app to a global audience. Steve and Matthew ramble on passionately about the fantastic amount, quality and variety of premium audio content from the greatest broadcasting organisation there has ever been, that is...

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'Fletch' - by Gregory Mcdonald show art 'Fletch' - by Gregory Mcdonald

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'What Not To Do If You Turn Invisible' - with Charlotte Layton show art 'What Not To Do If You Turn Invisible' - with Charlotte Layton

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Steve Phillips and Matthew Layton present - a podcast that recommends and reviews audiobooks. On this episode: We have a guest ‘recommender’. Her name is Charlotte Layton, she is 11 years old and she has brought ‘What Not To Do If You Turn Invisible’ by Ross Welford  to the #AudioBookClub table. Nepotism is alive and well here at #AudioBookClub! Please get involved in the conversation - either with your opinions on ‘What Not to Do If You Turn Invisible’ or if you want to recommend an audiobook for us to review by using  on facebook, twitter or instagram. and –...

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'The Sandman: Act III' - by @neilhimself and @DirkMaggs show art 'The Sandman: Act III' - by @neilhimself and @DirkMaggs

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'Colditz' - by Ben MacIntyre show art 'Colditz' - by Ben MacIntyre

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Steve Phillips and Matthew Layton present - a podcast that recommends and reviews audiobooks. On this episode:  Steve and Matthew review and recommend the real history of the renaissance castle that was the home to the Third Reich’s most notorious prisoner of war camp The camp where they imprisoned only the most troublesome Allied military prisoners - many of them serial escapists - all of them enemies of the German State. Welcome….  to Colditz!  Title: Colditz: Prisoners of the Castle Author: Ben MacIntyre Narrator: Ben MacIntyre Publisher: Penguin Audio Length: 13 hours...

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Steve Phillips and Matthew Layton present #AudioBookClub - a podcast that recommends and reviews audiobooks. On this episode:  ‘’ Book 3 of Richard Osman’s Thursday Murder Club series of whodunnits set in idyllic retirement village Coopers Chase. For people (like Matthew) who have read the first two books in the series, it’s the eagerly awaited return of beloved characters Joyce, Elizabeth, Ron and Ibrahim. For people (like Steve) who are new to the seriesm it’s a chance to follow the adventures of a group of senior citizens who have taken to solving murders. Society may have...

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In this episode, Steve sends regular contributors Cheryl Monkhouse and Matthew Layton to interview piano-thumping, indie-pop/rock legend Ben Folds in the salubrious surroundings of The Intercontinental Hotel in Adelaide, South Australia.

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