Brotherless Night by VV Ganeshananthan audiobook review – love and conflict in Sri Lanka

The civil war transforms a young trainee doctor’s life as she copes with her feelings for a Tamil Tiger in last year’s Women’s prizewinning novel

Sonny Boy by Al Pacino audiobook review – from the South Bronx to Hollywood

The actor warmly narrates this intimate account of his rise to stardom, from the traumas that shaped his childhood to the epiphany that would lead to his glittering career

The Salt Path by Raynor Winn audiobook review – a life-changing journey

Facing homelessness and incurable illness, a couple sets out on a 630-mile hike in this lyrical memoir read by the author

Audible unveils plans to use AI voices to narrate audiobooks

Amazon brand will offer more than 100 artificial intelligence-generated voices in English and other languages

All Fours by Miranda July audiobook review – the frank, sexy novel everyone’s been talking about

The author’s hypnotic reading evokes the desires and existential crisis of a 45-year-old woman on a wild road trip

Rosarita by Anita Desai audiobook review – a moving tale of memory and identity

Narrator Meera Simhan draws out the dreamlike atmosphere of a young Indian woman’s quest through Mexico to find out more about her mother

My Good Bright Wolf by Sarah Moss audiobook review – a life shaped by anorexia and literature

The Scottish actor Morven Christie draws out the forlorn beauty of the prose in this haunting memoir

The Orange and Other Poems by Wendy Cope audiobook review – an understated greatest hits collection

Read and contextualised by the poet herself, these gentle gems have an extra tang of immediacy

James by Percival Everett audiobook review – reimagining Huckleberry Finn

Dominic Hoffman narrates this satirical, Booker-nominated reworking of the children’s classic, written from the perspective of the enslaved Jim

From The Sheep-Pig to His Dark Materials: the best audiobooks for children and teens

As research reveals children want to listen to books rather than read them, here are some of the best audiobooks to enjoy

Ministers urged to add audiobooks to England’s new schools curriculum

Charity calls for move after poll finds ‘crisis’ levels of reading for pleasure and rise in 8- to 18-year-olds enjoying audio

I Feel Bad About My Neck by Nora Ephron audiobook review – bold truth-telling

Growing older, culinary mishaps and meeting JFK are among the subjects in this fiercely funny collection of essays, narrated by the author

Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier review – gaslighting and grief

Actor Holliday Grainger narrates Du Maurier’s dark study of suppressed desire and tragedy

The Peepshow by Kate Summerscale audiobook review – postwar true crime

Nicola Walker narrates the account of the 10 Rillington Place murders in the 50s – and the macabre media whirlwind that followed

Four Thousand Weeks by Oliver Burkeman review – meditations on life’s brevity

If time management is all life is, asks the author and narrator, why do we treat it as such a depressingly narrow-minded affair?