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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?

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Water by John Boyne audiobook review – confronting grief and betrayal

A woman tries to escape her painful past in this moving novella from the author of The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas

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The Blue Hour by Paula Hawkins review – a tense thriller from The Girl on the Train author

A human bone is discovered in a London gallery sculpture in this mystery narrated by actor Gemma Whelan

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The Lost Love Songs of Boysie Singh by Ingrid Persaud audiobook review – portrait of a dangerous charmer

The charisma and brutality of the real-life Trinidadian gangster is seen through the eyes of four women who knew him

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Odyssey by Stephen Fry audiobook review – one hell of a trip

With his distinctive narration, the author-actor brings warmth and humour to his retelling of Homer’s epic, the last in his Greek myth series

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Politics on the Edge by Rory Stewart audiobook review – what’s wrong with Westminster

The former Tory MP’s fascinating insider account of the Cameron-May-Johnson premierships offers a scathing portrait of our political system

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Audiobook of the week: On Women by Susan Sontag – clear-eyed wisdom

A polemical collection of the writer’s 70s journalism on feminism read by the voice actor Laurel Lefkow is just as relevant today

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Atonement by Ian McEwan audiobook review – secrets and lies

Succession actor Harriet Walter narrates this unsettling portrait of class, memory and the nature of fiction

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Other Women by Emma Flint review – a gripping dissection of an affair

A love triangle culminates in tragedy in this cleverly constructed thriller, based on real-life events

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The List of Suspicious Things by Jennie Godfrey audiobook review – coming of age in a time of fear

Two girls set out to catch the Yorkshire Ripper in this vividly narrated novel of adolescent curiosity and confusion

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Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays the Rent by Judi Dench review – a class act

Ripe language and impish humour abound as Barbara Flynn reads the actor’s entertaining recollections of seven decades on stage – and Dench herself recites excerpts from the Bard

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Prima Facie by Suzie Miller review – Jodie Comer narrates with charisma and firepower

The star of the original award-winning play about sexual assault brings emotional complexity to this novel adaptation

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The Fraud by Zadie Smith audiobook review – exuberant and funny

Narrated by the author, this story of a Victorian author and his housekeeper cousin, who is obsessed by the Tichborne claimant, explores the lies people tell themselves

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Thunderclap by Laura Cumming audiobook review – the golden age of Dutch art

The Observer’s art critic combines the stories of the painter Carel Fabritius with that of her artist father, in a memoir of art and life cut suddenly short

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The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin audiobook review – from the civil rights frontline

Law & Order’s Jesse L Martin narrates two powerful essays examining the Black experience in the US, the first in a series marking the author’s centenary year

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Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story by Bono audiobook review – unexpected humility

The U2 frontman narrates his own autobiography, using music to look back on his life - Band Aid hubris, iTunes regrets and all

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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

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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

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Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen audiobook review – the pursuit of love

Nicola Coughlan brings new life and nuance to Austen’s story of poverty-stricken sisters

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None of This Is True by Lisa Jewell audiobook review – is she who she says she is?

Nicola Walker and Louise Brealey play the women whose fast-friendship develops into a something far darker

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Unruly by David Mitchell review – a Horrible Histories with added swearing

Tales of familial hatred, infidelity, murder and spectacular incompetence, in a joyfully narrated history of England’s kings and queens

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A Stroke of the Pen by Terry Pratchett audiobook review – brimming with wit

David Tennant, Claire Foy and Derek Jacobi are among the narrators of early short stories that offer a glimpse into how the writer found his voice

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Red Memory by Tania Branigan audiobook review – tracing the scars of China’s Cultural Revolution

Sons denounce mothers, students attack teachers: firsthand accounts from those caught up in Mao’s ruthless ideological purge during the 60s and 70s

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The Extraordinary Life of an Ordinary Man by Paul Newman audiobook review – unfiltered Hollywood

Jeff Daniels reads this memoir-cum-oral history of the late actor, painting a picture of a flawed, melancholic, chaotic and brilliant screen icon

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Lessons by Ian McEwan review – chance, memory and the road not taken

Actor Simon McBurney narrates the tale of how a sexual relationship between a teenage boy and his piano teacher changes the course of his life

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