#AudioBookClub
The podcast that recommends audiobooks.
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On this episode of #AudioBookClub:
As the band Pulp release their first new music in 25 years, we join frontman Jarvis Cocker for a rummage around his attic
Steve Phillips and Matthew Layton present #AudioBookClub, a weekly podcast that reviews and recommends audiobooks.
On this week’s episode we heartily recommend Jarvis Cocker’s new audiobook ‘Good Pop, Bad Pop'.
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On last week’s episode of #AudioBookClub…
Our guest Tom Phillips, author of ‘A Brief History of the End of the Fucking World’ suggested an audiobook for us to review and recommend.
And he did so incredibly eloquently..
A: Susanna Clarke
N: Chiwetel Ejiofor
R: 15-09-20
L: 6 hrs and 58 mins
...On this episode of #AudioBookClub:
“The end of the world is nigh!”
(And always has been).
Steve Phillips and Matthew Layton present #AudioBookClub - the podcast that reviews and recommends audiobooks.
On this week’s pod, Steve and Matthew speak to Tom Phillips the author of ‘A Brief of the End of the F*cking...
'Why We Sleep’ - by Matthew Walker
On this episode of #AudioBookClub:
Sleep
Steve Phillips and Matthew Layton present #AudioBookClub - the podcast that reviews and recommends audiobooks.
The New Science of Sleep and Dreams
A: Matthew Walker
N: John Sackville
R: 07-12-17
L: 13 hrs ...
On this episode of #AudioBookClub:
For one week, we're trying something new - Audiobook Clubber - where you come on and evangelise about an audiobook you love and recommend why we should all 'ear read' it.
Our first Audiobook Clubber, Claire, joins Steve to discuss the brilliant 'James' by Percival Everett from the world of Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn.
'James'
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The book of the moment!
Shocking revelations from the highest echelons of The Metaverse from Whistleblower Sarah Wynn-Williams
Steve Phillips and Matthew Layton present #AudioBookClub - the podcast that reviews and recommends audiobooks.
A story of where I used to work
A: Sarah Wyn...
On this episode of #AudioBookClub:
We head to a parallel universe, forty years in the future, where Sherlock Holmes roams the gas-lit streets of a post-apocalyptic, future London…
Steve Phillips and Matthew Layton present #AudioBookClub - the podcast that reviews and recommends audiobooks.
Becoming Sherlock - The Red Circle
Becoming Sherlock, Book 1
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On this episode of #AudioBookClub:
The most modern of historians!
YouTube and TikTok sensation Jenny Draper joins Steve and Matthew to talk about her first audiobook ‘Mavericks: Life Stories and Lessons of History's Most Extraordinary Misfits’
Steve Phillips and Matthew Layton present #AudioBookClub - the podcast that reviews and recommends audiobooks.
On this episode of #AudioBookClub:
William Henry Gates III.
Steve Phillips and Matthew Layton present #AudioBookClub - the podcast that reviews and recommends audiobooks.
This week, ‘Source Code’, a memoir from the world’s first tech billionaire, Bill Gates
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On this episode of #AudioBookClub:
The aliens are coming!
Steve Phillips and Matthew Layton present #AudioBookClub - the podcast that reviews and recommends audiobooks.
This week, rather than reviewing a single title, Matthew and Steve take a dive into the world of Big Finish - the loving family of audio craftspeople most famous for lovingly keeping Doctor Who alive.
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On this episode of #AudioBookClub:
The television interview that marked the beginning of the end for Margaret Thatcher
Steve Phillips and Matthew Layton present #AudioBookClub - the podcast that reviews and recommends audiobooks.
Matthew’s mid-life crisis continues Steve reveals how he was traumatised by Brian Walden as a small child
On this episode of #AudioBookClub:
We unleash our inner Don Drapers with the help of avuncular adman Rory Sutherland
Steve Phillips and Matthew Layton present #AudioBookClub - the podcast that reviews and recommends audiobooks.
The Surprising Power of Ideas That Don't Make Sense
A: Rory Sutherland
N: Rory Sutherland
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On this episode of #AudioBookClub:
We head to New York in the roaring twenties, where we shall drink hooch in speak-easies with fairies and flappers
Steve Phillips and Matthew Layton present #AudioBookClub - the podcast that reviews and recommends audiobooks.
The Masquerades of Spring
A: Ben Aaronovitch
N: Kobna Holdbrook-Smith
L: 4 hrs and ...
On this episode of #AudioBookClub:
A minke whale, a kung-fu chicken and the rabbit equivalent of Jason Statham,
Steve Phillips and Matthew Layton present #AudioBookClub - the podcast that reviews and recommends audiobooks.
A memoir of sorts
A: Bill Bailey
N: Bill Bailey
L: 5 hrs and 03 mins
Just simply an audiobook that Matt and Steve think you’ll want to read.
Humbling, heart wrenching and humorous, ‘Shattered’ is raw in how Hanif Kureishi expresses the detailed physical and mental challenges of suddenly becoming tetraplegic.
Have a listen and let us know your thougts and reactions below.
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Steve Phillips and Matthew Layton present #AudioBookClub - the weekly podcast that review...
New Year, New You?
We review James Clear’s bestseller ‘Atomic Habits’ to start off 2025’s audiobook treats.
Have you followed his steps?
We’ve started (hopefully not in an annual-gym-subscription-but-only-go-for-three-weeks kind of way).
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Steve Phillips and Matthew Layton present #AudioBookClub - the weekly podcast that reviews and recommends audiobooks.
What are you listening t...
Hear interviews with some of the best in the literary and audio world as we give you the highlights of some of our favourite luminaries:
Dirk Maggs, described as “the Steven Spielberg of Audio” and producer of Audible's The Sandman series and BBC Radio 4's Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy (among many more)
Author of the critically-acclaimed, internationally bestselling Peter Grant/Rivers of London urban fantasy series. and Doctor W...
This episode of #AudioBookClub: comes from The #AudioBookClub Theatre of the Mind on London’s glittering Park Lane, where The 2024 #AudioBookClub Imaginary Awards Gala is about to kick off.
For financial and logistical reasons, both the Gala AND the awards are entirely imaginary, but hopefully that won’t stop hosts Steve Phillips and Matt Layton and you, gentle listener, from enjoying this wonderful star s...
On this episode of #AudioBookClub:
A thousand years of history in just twenty eight minutes!
Steve Phillips and Matthew Layton present #AudioBookClub - the podcast that reviews and recommends audiobooks.
On this episode:
We peruse British comedy icon David Mitchell’s history of the kings and queens of England.
A History...
On this episode of #AudioBookClub:
We urge you not to buy Elton John’s new audiobook ‘Farewell Yellow Brick Road’
We like to keep things positive here at #AudioBookClub, but in this case we’ll make an exception.
We had no choice but to tear it a new one,
‘Phoned-in. Tone deaf. The worst piece of audio that Elton John has ever been vaguely associated with.’
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