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Featuring conversations with the authors and narrators of your favourite books, as well as reading round-ups, and the odd light-hearted literary game.

Listening Books is a UK charity that provides audiobooks to anyone who struggles to read or hold a book due to an illness, disability, learning difficulty or mental health issue. To find out more go to www.listening-books.org.uk.

Nov 22, 2018

'It's all just for a Guardian mug.'

What happens when judges overturn a popular vote? The Guardian's Sam Jordison, organiser of the long-running Not the Booker Prize, chats with Jessica about the nature of literary awards, and the sometimes tense conversations that arise about what's fair and what's worthy.

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Nov 8, 2018

'I had to just put the book down to have a good cry.'

Jessica Stone passes the tissues to our panel of Listening Books staff, Louise Barling and Jenny-Ann Lewis, as they discuss the books, both fiction and non-fiction, that have brought on the waterworks.

 

Listening Books is an audiobook charity for anyone who...