Soldier Sailor by Claire Kilroy audiobook review – a thrillingly blunt take on new motherhood
Narrator Simone Collins leans into the dark humour of life at the domestic coalface, where moments of fierce love jostle with soul-sapping drudgery
Audible to turn all seven of JK Rowling’s Harry Potter books into full-cast audiobooks
The books will be released sequentially, starting with Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, with a full cast of yet-to-be-named actors and a ‘groundbreaking new soundscape’
1984 by George Orwell audiobook review – a starry cast drive this powerful dramatisation
Tom Hardy, Cynthia Erivo and Andrew Scott conjure menace and melodrama in this 75th-anniversary remake of Orwell’s classic
Strong Female Character by Fern Brady review – moving account of undiagnosed autism
The Scottish comedian narrates her traumatic experience of being ‘wired differently’ and why autism is so frequently missed in women
Saul Reichlin obituary
Other lives: Actor whose mellifluous voice narrated hundreds of audiobooks and video games
A History of Women in 101 Objects by Annabelle Hirsch audiobook review – from hatpins to glass dildos
Miriam Margolyes, Margaret Atwood and others narrate stories of female progress via a ‘cabinet of curiosities’
The magic of audiobooks? Deep down, we still long to be read to
An ill-matched narrator can ruin an otherwise rollicking book. But a good one can bring stories to life – and evoke our earliest childhood memories
‘Extraordinary’: 101 women narrate A History of Women in 101 Objects audiobook
Miriam Margolyes, Kate Winslet and Gillian Anderson among those giving voice to objects including a femur, a thumbscrew and a glass dildo
Western Lane by Chetna Maroo audiobook review – an agile coming-of-age debut
Maya Saroya narrates the Booker-shortlisted story of how a family channels its grief on the squash court and produces a potential champion
Wifedom by Anna Funder audiobook review – the first Mrs Orwell
The Australian writer explores the Nineteen Eighty-Four author’s treatment of women in an empathetic biography of his first wife, Eileen O’Shaughnessy
Dylan Thomas: The BBC Radio Collection audiobook review – a spellbinding homage
Richard Burton’s reading of Under Milk Wood is the centrepiece of a collection of works written about and by the ‘rock star author’
Great-Uncle Harry by Michael Palin audiobook review – a personal first world war story
The beloved Python narrates his touching tribute to a long-lost relative who was killed at the Somme
Spotify claims to have paid audiobook publishers ‘tens of millions’ in royalties
The streaming company says its payout model is competitive, but the Society of Authors has raised doubts about whether authors ultimately benefit
Good Material by Dolly Alderton audiobook review – a funny account of millennial love
Doctor Who’s Arthur Darvill and Napoleon’s Vanessa Kirby narrate a warm, witty portrait of thirtysomething middle-class life
Let the Light Pour In by Lemn Sissay audiobook review – salutations to the dawn
Every day for 10 years, Lemn Sissay rose to write a poem to the break of day, a witty and profound collection recited here with his customary verve