Spiracle Audiobooks Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
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Swimming Home
Deborah Levy
#ICYMI: Our guest pick is Booker-nominated author of acclaimed novels inc Swimming Home, Hot Milk, & The Man Who Saw Everything, Deborah Levy. Her new novel, August Blue, comes out this Spring. Here’s what she’s listening to on @spiraclehq: https://t.co/Vk3lDSC6ja @naxos_uk https://t.co/OA0ptk9Iro
Paperback, 2012
$16.00$8.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Birthday Party
Laurent Mauvignier
Read Lydia's full list of listens here: https://t.co/nlCmzRastu Lydia Leonard is a Tony Award nominated actress. She can be seen in Gentleman Jack and The Crown. For Spiracle editions, she reads Laurent Mauvignier's The Birthday Party. @FitzcarraldoEds @dlb
Paperback, 2023
$18.95$9.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
To the Lighthouse
Virginia Woolf
Despite playing Virginia Woolf once, I have shamefully never read To the Lighthouse, so what better way to finally resolve that than to listen to the wonderful Juliet Stevenson read it. - Lydia Leonard #spiracleedition https://t.co/b1dGj7bFqE
Paperback, 1989
$9.99$4.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Way of all Flesh
Samuel Butler
Looking for a great #audiobook listen? Read why @SpiracleHQ Co-Founder, Kate Bland chose Samuel Butler’s THE WAY OF ALL FLESH narrated by Malcolm Sinclair as this week’s Staff Pick (even though, she admits, she might not have picked up a paper copy!): https://t.co/I34bOIpjFt https://t.co/mO54BAOKVj
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Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Other Tales
Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis Stevenson's masterpiece of the duality of good and evil in man's nature sprang from the darkest recesses of his own unconscious – during a nightmare from which his wife awakened him, alerted by his screams. Listen now: https://t.co/7yhRWClm6D
Paperback, 2008
$7.95$3.97 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Milk Blood Heat
Dantiel W. Moniz
Madeleine Knowles, Editor of @NBmagazineUK, walks and listens to audiobooks. She chooses.. Dantiel W. Moniz's Milk Blood Heat Machelle Williams' recital of Moniz’s sublime and visceral writing is sure to force listeners to pause and reflect. https://t.co/uLJHngPwfX https://t.co/QFjqgUGjc6
Paperback, 2022
$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Swimming Home
Deborah Levy
Today marks the last day of Audiobook Month! Have you discovered any new authors/ narrators/ books that you love? If not, here is Josh Cohen's favourite: Swimming Home by Deborah Levy
Paperback, 2012
$16.00$8.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Hunger
Knut Hamsun
'What psychological innovation did Knut Hamsun grasp, and articulate so skilfully, in his novel Hunger which enables it to remain so fresh, original, and compelling? James Clammer, Guest Picker for Spiracle Audiobooks. https://t.co/L3LEdKbSgo @JamesClammer #writinginspiration https://t.co/naSGWKCa3q
Paperback, 1998
$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
When We Cease to Understand the World
Benjamin Labatut
Spiracle curator Leigh Wilson speaks to Benjamin Labatut, author of When We Cease to Understand the World, in a discussion which spans the tensions between myth and science and the endeavour of attempting to write beyond the bounds of human rationality https://bit.ly/3O06xa8 https://t.co/oXjL2rXNGA
Paperback, 2021
$17.95$8.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Yellow Wallpaper
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
If you are a new mum or soon-to-be, these books offer two sides of childbirth: the Squire by Enid Bagnold read by @julietaubrey1 and The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. The Yellow Wallpaper read by Lydia Leonard is currently offered for free from Spiracle. https://t.co/Qa9CYMQjQ7
Paperback, 2024
$8.99$4.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book