Alex Clark selects her best mid-year listens
Soundscapes and vocal talent bring another dimension to works by Valeria Luiselli, Sam Byers, Ethan Hawke and Lisa McInerney
The Reverend Richard Coles’s memoir of grief — plus longlisted Raven Leilani, Gwendoline Riley and a debut by Mel Giedroyc
More from Ishiguro in The Unconsoled plus two standout memoirs in A Still Life and Brown Baby
The devil’s daughter fetches up in Edinburgh in 1910s, and get into Deep Water with Patricia Highsmith
An authorised biography of Victoria Wood, plus Rumaan Alam and Eley Williams
Alex Clark selects her must-listen titles
The autobiography of performance poet John Cooper Clarke and Booker Prize shortlisted works also appeal for a listen
Latest narrated works range from social media memoirs to claustrophobic Dutch drama
Black lives in America, conflict in Northern Ireland — and inside the fashion world
From Fleishman is in Trouble to Nancy Mitford — plus Maggie O’Farrell’s Hamnet and Elizabeth Jane Howard’s Cazalet Chronicles
Hilary Mantel and Lucy Ellmann supply long-haul listening — just when we need them
Jack Fairweather’s Costa Book of the Year, plus Martin Amis, Deborah Orr and William Gibson
Hide in the shed and listen to the inside stories of Princess Margaret, Elton John and more
Our critic tunes into voices of narrators who can cheer weary ears
Our critic rounds up the best audio books including Margaret Atwood’s long-awaited sequel The Testaments
In our first audiobook round-up: sex lives, race inequality and dark corners of provincial life
In The Letters of Sylvia Plath Volume II, the poet’s correspondence adds up to a painful account of happiness and distress
From fantastical yarns to dystopian fiction, what type of books did we turn to?
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