Page 18 of posts filed: Release Week

Release Week: 9 August 2022

Posted on 2022-08-09 at 12:00 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

PICKS:

• Manmade Constellations By: Misha Lazzara, read by Tavia Gilbert for Blackstone -- "A modern-day love story that explores childhood trauma, the boundaries between idealism and self-righteousness, and the heartaches we must confront in order to chart our courses forward."

• High Times in the Low Parliament By: Kelly Robson, read by Amy Scanlon for Recorded Books -- "Lana Baker is Aldgate's finest scribe. She has a sharp pen and an even sharper wit. Gregarious, charming, and ever so eager to please, she

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Release Week: 2 August 2022

Posted on 2022-08-02 at 12:00 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

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• The Book Eaters By: Sunyi Dean, read by Katie Erich for Macmillan -- "Out on the Yorkshire Moors lives a secret line of people for whom books are food, and who retain all of a book's content after eating it. To them, spy novels are a peppery snack; romance novels are sweet and delicious. Eating a map can help them remember destinations, and children, when they misbehave, are forced to eat dry, musty pages from dictionaries. Devon is part of The Family, an old and reclusive clan of book eaters. Her

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Release Week: 26 July 2022

Posted on 2022-07-26 at 12:00 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

PICKS:

• A Half-Built Garden By: Ruthanna Emrys, read by Kate Handford for Macmillan -- "A literary descendent of Ursula K. Le Guin, Ruthanna Emrys crafts a novel of extraterrestrial diplomacy and urgent climate repair bursting with quiet, tenuous hope and an underlying warmth. A Half-Built Garden depicts a world worth building towards, a humanity worth saving from itself, and an alien community worth entering with open arms. It's not the easiest future to build, but it's one that just might be in reach."

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Release Week: 19 July 2022

Posted on 2022-07-19 at 12:00 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

PICKS:

• The Daughter of Doctor Moreau By: Silvia Moreno-Garcia, read by Gisela Chípe for Random House -- "From the bestselling author of Mexican Gothic and Velvet Was the Night comes a dreamy reimagining of The Island of Doctor Moreau set against the backdrop of nineteenth-century Mexico."

• Hokuloa Road: A Novel By: Elizabeth Hand, read by Kaleo Griffith for Mulholland -- "On a whim, Grady Kendall applies to work as a live-in caretaker for a luxury property in Hawaiʻi, as far from his small-town Maine life

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Release Week: 12 July 2022

Posted on 2022-07-12 at 12:00 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

IT'S A DISCWORLD AFTER ALL:

• New editions of Discworld are coming our way in huge batches and the first handful of these is out, with the "Rincewind" storyline (The Colour of Magic, The Light Fantastic, Eric, Sourcery, and Interesting Times) going first, read by Colin Morgan, Peter Serafinowicz, and Bill Nighy. Already some subreddit discussion here!

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• What Moves the Dead By: T. Kingfisher, read by Avi Roque for Macmillan -- "When Alex Easton, a retired soldier, receives word that their childhood

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Release Week: 5 July 2022

Posted on 2022-07-05 at 12:00 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

PICKS:

• The Pallbearers Club: A Novel By: Paul Tremblay, read by Graham Halstead, Xe Sands, and Elizabeth Wiley for Harper -- "A cleverly voiced psychological thriller about an unforgettable—and unsettling—friendship, with blood-chilling twists, crackling wit, and a thrumming pulse in its veins."

• Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow: A Novel By: Gabrielle Zevin, read by Jennifer Kim and Julian Cihi for Random House -- "Two friends—often in love, but never lovers—come together as creative partners in the

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Release Week: 28 June 2022

Posted on 2022-06-28 at 12:00 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

PICKS:

• Thrust: A Novel By: Lidia Yuknavitch, read by Natasha Soudek, Ron Butler, Cassandra Campbell, Robbie Daymond, Darrell Dennis, Dominique Franceschi, Kathleen Gati, Graham Halstead, Austin Ku, Omar Leyva, Karen Murray, and TL Thompson for Penguin -- "The story of Laisvė, a motherless girl from the late 21st century who is learning her power as a carrier, a person who can harness the power of meaningful objects to carry her through time. Sifting through the detritus of a fallen city known as the Brook,

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Release Week: 21 June 2022

Posted on 2022-06-21 at 12:00 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

PICKS:

• Lapvona: A Novel By: Ottessa Moshfegh, read by the author for Penguin -- "In a village in a medieval fiefdom buffeted by natural disasters, a motherless shepherd boy finds himself the unlikely pivot of a power struggle that puts all manner of faith to a savage test, in a spellbinding novel that represents Ottessa Moshfegh’s most exciting leap yet."

• Learning to Talk: Stories By: Hilary Mantel, read by Anna Bentinck, Jane Collingwood, and Patrick Moy for Macmillan -- "A dazzling collection of short

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Release Week: 14 June 2022

Posted on 2022-06-14 at 12:00 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

PICKS:

• The Dawnhounds By: Sascha Stronach, read by Anna Coddington for Simon and Schuster -- "Gideon the Ninth meets Black Sun in this queer, Māori-inspired debut fantasy about a police officer who is murdered, brought back to life with a mysterious new power, and tasked with protecting her city from an insidious evil threatening to destroy it."

• The Men By: Sandra Newman, read by Mia Barron for Recorded Books -- "From the author of The Heavens, a dazzling, mind-bending novel in which all men mysteriously

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Release Week: 7 June 2022

Posted on 2022-06-07 at 12:00 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

PICKS:

• The City Inside By: Samit Basu, read by Reena Dutt for Random House -- "A near-future epic by the internationally celebrated Samit Basu, pulls no punches as it comes for your anxieties about society, government, the environment, and our world at large—yet never loses sight of the hopeful potential of the future."

• Ordinary Monsters: A Novel By: J. M. Miro, read by Ben Onwukwe for Macmillan -- "In Victorian London, two children with mysterious powers are hunted by a figure of darkness—a man made of

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