Page 17 of posts by: Samuel Montgomery-Blinn
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Release Week: 1 November 2022
Posted on 2022-11-01 at 12:00 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn
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Saha: A Novel By: Cho Nam-Joo, translated by Jamie Chang, read by Kahyun Kim for Blackstone -- "This haunting account of a neglected housing complex in the shadows of Town: a former fishing village bought out by a massive conglomerate. Town is prosperous and safe―but only if you’re a citizen with “valuable skills and assets,” which the residents of Saha Estates are not. Disenfranchised and tightlipped, the Saha are forced into harsh labor, squatting in moldy units without electricity."
The Cloisters
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Release Week: 25 October 2022
Posted on 2022-10-25 at 12:00 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn
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The Passenger By: Cormac McCarthy, read by MacLeod Andrews and Julia Whelan for Random House -- "The story of a salvage diver, haunted by loss, afraid of the watery deep, pursued for a conspiracy beyond his understanding, and longing for a death he cannot reconcile with God."
The Winter Garden By: Nicola Cornick, read by Emma Craig for Harlequin -- "Sweeping across generations from the 1600s to the present day and inspired by the true story of the leader of the infamous Gunpowder Plot."
Sign Here By
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Release Week: 18 October 2022
Posted on 2022-10-18 at 12:00 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn
SERIES WATCH:
Blitz: The Rook Files, Book 3 By: Daniel O'Malley, read by Moira Quirk for Little, Brown and Company -- "In the riveting new thriller in the Rook Files series, a new recruit to the most powerful supernatural intelligence agency on Earth is accused of going rogue and must go on the run to clear her name."
About Time: The Time Police, Book 4 By: Jodi Taylor, read by Zara Ramm for Headline -- "Patience is not a virtue known to the Time Police. And Commander Hay is facing the longest day of her
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Release Week: 11 October 2022
Posted on 2022-10-11 at 12:00 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn
PICKS:
Dinosaurs By: Lydia Millet, read by Paul Heitsch for Dreamscape -- "The story of an Arizona man’s relationship with the family next door, whose house has one wall made entirely out of glass. The story delivers attraction and love, friendship and grief. But Millet also evokes the uncanny. Through close observation of human and animal life in the desert, she captures the daunting scale of human society without losing sight of the real difference one person can make in the world."
Will Do Magic for
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Release Week: 4 October 2022
Posted on 2022-10-04 at 12:00 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn
PICKS:
Station Eternity: The Midsolar Murders, Book 1 By: Mur Lafferty, read by Sarah Mollo-Christensen for Penguin -- "Amateur detective Mallory Viridian’s talent for solving murders ruined her life on Earth and drove her to live on an alien space station, but her problems still follow her in this witty, self-aware novel that puts a speculative spin on murder mysteries, from the Hugo-nominated author of Six Wakes."
Dandelion By: Alex Bledsoe, read by Stefan Rudnicki for Blackstone -- "Reverend Deacon
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Release Week: 27 September 2022
Posted on 2022-09-27 at 12:00 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn
PICKS:
Chokepoint Capitalism: How Big Tech and Big Content Captured Creative Labor Markets and How We'll Win Them Back by Rebecca Giblin and Cory Doctorow, read by Stefan Rudnicki -- "A call to action for the creative class and labor movement to rally against the power of Big Tech and Big Media." (Note: due to Doctorow's anti-DRM stance, this is not available via Audible.)
Shrines of Gaiety: A Novel By: Kate Atkinson, read by Jason Watkins for Random House -- "1926, and in a country still recovering from
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Release Week: 20 September 2022
Posted on 2022-09-20 at 12:00 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn
PICKS:
Expect Me Tomorrow By: Christopher Priest, read by Charles Armstrong for Gollancz -- "A petty thief known as John Smith was arrested for fraudulent behaviour in 1877. He tricked women into thinking he was rich, then stole their belongings and vanished. His guilt was obvious. In 1852, Adler and Adolf Beck's father died on an expedition to a glacier, and their lives separated. One became a respected climate scientist, one a successful opera singer touring the world. Or so he claimed. But both remained
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Release Week: 13 September 2022
Posted on 2022-09-13 at 12:00 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn
PICKS:
What If? 2: Additional Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions By: Randall Munroe, read by Wil Wheaton for Penguin -- "The #1 New York Times bestselling author of What If? and How To answers more of the weirdest questions you never thought to ask."
Lessons By: Ian McEwan, read by Simon McBurney for Recorded Books -- "When the world is still counting the cost of the Second World War and the Iron Curtain has closed, eleven-year-old Roland Baines's life is turned upside down. 2,000
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Release Week: 6 September 2022
Posted on 2022-09-06 at 12:00 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn
PICKS:
Fairy Tale By: Stephen King, read by Seth Numrich for Simon and Schuster -- "The legendary storyteller goes into the deepest well of his imagination in this spellbinding novel about a seventeen-year-old boy who inherits the keys to a parallel world where good and evil are at war, and the stakes could not be higher—for that world or ours."
Ithaca: The Songs of Penelope, Book 1 By: Claire North, read by Catrin Walker-Booth for Redhook -- "A daring reimagining that breathes life into ancient myth and
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Release Week: 30 August 2022
Posted on 2022-08-30 at 12:00 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn
PICKS:
The Spear Cuts Through Water: A Novel By: Simon Jimenez, read by Joel de la Fuente for Random House -- "Two warriors shepherd an ancient god across a broken land to end the tyrannical reign of a royal family in this new epic fantasy from the author of The Vanished Birds."
A Taste of Gold and Iron By: Alexandra Rowland, read by Casey Jones for Recorded Books -- "Kadou, the shy prince of Arasht, finds himself at odds with one of the most powerful ambassadors at court - the body-father of the queen's
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