Audiobooks
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Set of four LPs with full text of Joseph Conrad’s 1902 novella Typhoon was made by RNIB in 1935
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Many readers will recoil from these radically boiled-down versions of titles like A Brief History of Time. Me too, until I started reading them
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Traditionally publishers considered novellas a costly affair, but the Australian author says that’s changed with the book industry’s move to digital
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An online project has set James Joyce’s infamously difficult novel to 17 songs – thereby making its meaning clearer, it claims. And you can take part
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Originally a self-published novel, The Martian became a hit as an audiobook. Now it’s an Oscar-nominated film – and others are set to follow it into the stratosphere
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Listening to this week’s Forest fables has made me wonder if the oft-maligned rise of spoken word recordings isn’t actually improving our understanding. I’d love to hear your thoughts
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The Bookseller’s inaugural top 20 list, led by print bestsellers, is notable for the absence of children’s titles
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The Oscar-winning actress reads an extract from the new book from the author of To Kill A Mockingbird
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In an audio play specially commissioned for the Guardian by Soho Theatre, a fisherman confronts the tide of refugees sweeping across the Mediterranean
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Sherlock actor to voice the first ever unabridged reading of The Spire, the Nobel laureate's 1964 work
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Transform your holiday driving from hell to heaven by listening to some fantastic stories in the car – the Book Doctor recommends the best audio books to entertain the whole family this summer
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Sample The Silkworm, the forthcoming novel by Rowling under her crime-writing pseudonym
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New technology and download services allow for fast and easy access
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Damian Lewis, better known as Homeland's Nicholas Brody, has narrated an audio addition to last week's episode Tower of David. Listen to the first five minutes here
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There are several fine websites that save you the trouble of having to read books for yourself, writes Anna Baddley
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Don't resign yourself to only reading on holiday. With a few top tips, you can keep the page-rate going all year round
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Audio versions of a selection of articles from the Guardian newspaper and website
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In this week's Guardian Audio Edition Tim Adams meets artist Jeremy Deller, George Monbiot's personal response to the murder of April Jones and our audiobook review hears Lionel Shriver's Big Brother
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The Guardian Audio Edition: Woolwich attack witness Ingrid Loyau-Kennett 'I feel like a fraud'
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Audio versions of a selection of articles from the Guardian newspaper and website
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In this week's edition, Toby Helm and Tracy McVeigh writes that the Bedroom Tax will push up the benefit bill, cause social disruption and create widespread misery according to critics, Charlie Brooker on the new season of The Voice and in this week's audiobook review looks at historical fiction, with Tracy Chevalier's latest, The Last Runaway.
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iSpeech could dramatically cut the cost of audiobooks. Shame the reading voice still sounds like a bus announcement, writes James Bridle
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Pope accepts resignation of UK's most senior Roman Catholic cleric, Cardinal Keith O'Brien, who's accused of 'inappropriate acts', Oscar Pistorius 'wants to contact' family of Reeva Steenkamp and is Britain's arms trade making a killing? In our audiobook review we look back at the Canadian novelist Robertson Davies and examine David Mitchell's breakthrough novel Cloud Atlas.
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Sarah Boseley visits Tamworth, the fat capital of Britain, as the fightback against obesity begins; Jonathan Kaiman reports on China's smog 'airpocalypse'; and in our audiobook review we consider Frankenstein by Mary Shelley and Wendy Moore's How To Create The Perfect Wife.
Bryan Cranston: 'I was Walter White – but I was never more myself'