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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/620500 to listen full audiobooks. Title: What A Way To Go Author: Bella Mackie Narrator: Kimberley Capero, Gabrielle Glaister, Colin Mace Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 50 minutes Release date: September 12, 2024 Genres: Comedy, Satire & Parody Publisher's Summary: THE MILLION COPY #1 BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF HOW TO KILL YOUR FAMILY IS BACK WITH THE NEW BOOK OF THE MOMENT Featured in Vogue, Cosmopolitan, Sunday Times Style, You Magazine… 'Super-sharp, lethally witty' NIGELLA LAWSON Delicious' JOJO MOYES 'Very funny… I inhaled it' JOE LYCETT ‘Taut, pacy, seamless… a huge pleasure to read’ MARIAN KEYES ‘I was immensely grateful that despite the gruesome way my husband died, he’d done it with his clothes on.’ Anthony Wistern is wealthy beyond imagination. Fragrant wife, gaggle of photogenic children, French chateau, Cotswold manor, plethora of mistresses, penchant for cutting moral corners, tick tick tick tick tick tick. Unfortunately for him, he’s also dead. Suddenly poised to inherit his fortune, each member of the family falls under suspicion. And that’s when everything comes crashing down… ‘Mackie has assembled a gloriously repugnant cast – everyone here, apart from her rather sweet TikTok sleuth, is dreadful, but in a pleasurably awful way… A dark, funny story of a very dysfunctional family’ OBSERVER ‘Wonderfully wicked’ RED MAGAZINE ‘Ferociously entertaining’ GOOD HOUSEKEEPING ‘Gripping, sharp and funny, this window on the mega-wealthy is perfect for fans of Succession’ WOMAN & HOME ‘Another caustic satire from the million-copy bestseller of How to Kill Your Family’ i NEWS 'Still not over Succession? A dysfunctional family with four inheritance-obsessed children gives the Roy clan a run for its money, with a murderous twist' SUNDAY TIMES STYLE WHAT READERS LOVE ABOUT BELLA MACKIE: ‘Just when you think you're a step ahead, she pulls something out of the bag’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘Caustic sarcasm… delivered with elegance’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘Mackie’s writing is sharp and funny’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘Her sarcasm knows no bounds and I love it’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘Sparky, slick, wildly compulsive’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘Macabre, flippant, and darkly hilarious’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘Her irreverent, withering put-downs and sharply observed comments’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ What A Way To Go was a Sunday Times bestseller w/c 16.09.24

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/616801 to listen full audiobooks. Title: I Finally Bought Some Jordans: Essays Author: Michael Arceneaux Narrator: Michael Arceneaux Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 55 minutes Release date: March 12, 2024 Genres: Comedy, Satire & Parody Publisher's Summary: ''Very good writers have an ability to make you understand what they're feeling. But the very best writers have an ability to make you understand what you're feeling. And that's where Michael Arceneaux sits, and that's what he does in this new book. It's like he's crawling around inside your head opening file cabinets and telling you what the gibberish you've scribbled on each page in each file means. What a great, fun read.''—Shea Serrano, #1 New York Times bestselling author New York Times bestselling author Michael Arceneaux returns with a hilarious collection of essays about making your voice heard in an increasingly noisy and chaotic world. In his books I Can't Date Jesus and I Don't Want to Die Poor, Michael Arceneaux established himself as one of the most beloved and entertaining writers of his generation, touching upon such hot-button topics as race, class, sexuality, labor, debt, and, of course, paying homage to the power and wisdom of Beyoncé. In this collection, Arceneaux takes stock of how far he has traveled—and how much ground he still has to cover in this patriarchal, heteronormative society. He explores the opportunities afforded to Black creatives but also the doors that remain shut or ever-so-slightly ajar; the confounding challenges of dating in a time when social media has made everything both more accessible and more unreliable; and the allure of returning home while still pushing yourself to seek opportunity elsewhere. I Finally Bought Some Jordans is both a corrective to, and a balm for, these troubling times, revealing a sharply funny and keen-eyed storyteller working at the height of his craft.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/644839 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Mrs Sidhu’s ‘Dead and Scone’ Author: Suk Pannu Narrator: Maya Saroya Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 36 minutes Release date: October 12, 2023 Genres: Comedy, Satire & Parody Publisher's Summary: The debut cosy culinary crime thriller from Suk Pannu, creator of BBC Radio 4’s Mrs Sidhu Investigates and writer for Goodness, Gracious, Me and The Kumars at No. 42. Shortlisted for the 2024 McDermid Award ‘Stuffed with warmth and wicked, cross-cultural observations, Dead and Scone is a dollop of cosy crime goodness’ Vaseem Khan, author of The Malabar House series ‘Mrs Sidhu – Slough's answer to Miss Marple – is a wonderful creation’ S.J. Bennett, author of The Windsor Knot ‘A tale of dark shenanigans in a quintessential English village’ J.M. Hall, author of A Spoonful of Murder ‘Bake Off meets Face/Off. Devilish fun’ Eoin Colfer, author of the Artemis Fowl series The perfect village. Mrs Sidhu, caterer and amateur sleuth, is delighted when she is offered a position as chef in a quiet corner of Berkshire. It’s a far cry from her cramped kitchen, where she was used to making an endless parade of aubergine bhajis! The perfect fete. In no time, Mrs Sidhu starts throwing herself into local events like the summer fete. But amongst the bunting, cakes and funfair games, a killer is lurking. The perfect crime. Mrs Sidhu soon discovers the unthinkable. A murderer is picking victims through the fairground raffle. Who is next on their list? And can Mrs Sidhu stop them in time? What readers are saying about Dead and Scone ‘A thrilling and very amusing story’⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘A little bit quirky, with great characters, a very clever plot, and a very likeable Mrs Sidhu’⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘The funny and tragic twists and turns kept me hooked’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘A great, well-written whodunnit with entertaining characters and lovely humour’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘My first encounter with Mrs Sidhu has been fun, thanks to her witty musings and laugh-out-loud one-liners’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘Tense and twisty, Dead and Scone is intriguing and funny, a compulsive read’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘Mrs Sidhu is Miss Marple remade for modern times’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘I absolutely loved it and it’s one of my favourite reads this year!’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘The story really kept me on my toes and had so many twists and turns that I could have never have guessed the ending’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘If you like cosy with a dash of noir you're in for a treat!’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/625405 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Western Alliances: A Novel Author: Wilton Barnhardt Narrator: Caroline Hewitt Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 11 minutes Release date: August 1, 2023 Genres: Comedy, Satire & Parody Publisher's Summary: 'Caroline Hewitt narrates this tale of the wealthy Costa family so intimately that listeners will be convinced she has insider status with this dysfunctional group.'- AudioFile From the New York Times-bestselling author of Lookaway, Lookaway, Wilton Barnhardt’s Western Alliances is a vivid portrait of a wealthy family set against the backdrop of the 2008 financial crisis. This laugh-out-loud, darkly funny novel follows the Costa family—whose members are every bit as richly absurd as the characters in HBO’s Succession. Salvador, the patriarch, runs one of Wall Street’s biggest banks the summer before everything collapses; Roberto and Rachel, his two children, have never worked a day in their lives; and Lena, his ex-wife, is a scheming hypochondriac. Part travelogue, part epic family drama, the novel follows Roberto and Rachel across Europe as the two dilettantes come to terms with their father’s choices and the repercussions of his actions. Oozing with his signature satire and biting wit, Barnhardt invites listeners on a literary romp from an elegant Paris apartment to a hilariously-inept London hotel, ancient churches and crypts to gleaming Mediterranean coasts, hot dog stands in Providence, Rhode Island to the best places in Manhattan, and terrifying encounters in the Serbian countryside to dangerous liaisons in Moscow, as two grown-up rich kids are forced to come of age at last. In Western Alliances Barnhardt he delivers a riveting saga examining privilege, loyalty, ambition, and what family members owe to one another. A Macmillan Audio production from St. Martin’s Press.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/637377 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Goddesses: 'Bold, gripping and divinely comic' T.J. Emerson Author: Nina Millns Narrator: Jessica Alade Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 24 minutes Release date: July 20, 2023 Genres: Comedy, Satire & Parody Publisher's Summary: ‘Exciting, contemporary, heartfelt and clever’ Greg Mosse ‘Riveting, real and raw . . . a powerful journey’ Balvinder Sopal ‘Wisely and wittily leaps into the heart of friendships’ Sabrina Mahfouz  ‘Dares to subject modern feminism to a tough and timely cross-examination’ T.J. Emerson The hen party from hell descends into darkness, perfect for fans of Nikki May, Dawn O’Porter and Zakiya Dalila Harris Some friends have your back. Some friends stab you in the back. Ayesha is just about finding her feet on the London stand-up scene, but when her response to a sexist heckler goes viral, she finds herself drawn into an exclusive group of activists: a sacred circle of change makers, each woman with a specific gift to contribute to the cause. The circle draws in her friend Yaz too and they are both invited to an intimate hen do, except it’s not a hen do – it's a Goddess Retreat. While Ayesha, longing to find her tribe, tries desperately to fit herself into a shape that the women will accept, Yaz treats the entire ‘itinerary’ with open disdain. But the Goddess Retreat is no laughing matter. As the weekend descends into chaos, they’ll need to stick together if they want to get out alive. Goddesses is a bitingly brilliant novel that explores the power dynamics of sisterhood and activism, the dark side of white feminism and the importance of making your voice heard. READERS LOVE GODDESSES ‘Captivating’ ‘Thrilling’ ‘Filled with unexpected twists’ ‘So damn INTENSE’

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/625275 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Normal Schmormal: My occasionally helpful guide to parenting kids with special needs Author: Ashley Blaker Narrator: Ashley Blaker Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 21 minutes Release date: July 20, 2023 Genres: Comedy, Satire & Parody Publisher's Summary: The heartwarming and hilarious part-memoir, part-guide from comedian and father-of-six Ashley Blaker, on parenting, adoption and raising children with special needs. ‘A funny, irreverent and loving book’ Daily Express ‘We had such a variety of experts visiting our home, we really needed a revolving door. All these professionals would watch our son playing while shaking their heads and making tutting sounds, like builders considering a bad job you wanted them to fix. “Tut tut tut. No speech, disordered social skills, sensory issues. This is going to cost you!!”’ Ashley Blaker has six children, three of whom have an SEN diagnosis. Between endless meetings, countless therapists, public humiliations, failed playdates, surreal monologues and occasional violence, it’s certainly not what anyone would call a ‘normal’ household – but would he want it any other way? Normal Schmormal is part-memoir, part how-to guide, highlighting the many challenges, as well as the hugely rewarding elements, of parenting children with additional needs. Written with humour, compassion and a lot of love, it’s a must-read for parents, carers and teachers of children with SEN, either looking for a bit of support or in need of a very big laugh.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/642690 to listen full audiobooks. Title: I Meant It Once Author: Kate Doyle Narrator: Hannah Church Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 50 minutes Release date: July 18, 2023 Genres: Comedy, Satire & Parody Publisher's Summary: This “gorgeous, electric” collection of short stories is about the inner lives of young women during their transformative twenties, navigating relationships, nostalgia for the past, and the uncertainty of the future (Mary-Beth Hughes, author of The Ocean House). With this sharp and witty debut collection, author Kate Doyle captures precisely that time of life when so many young women are caught in between, pre-occupied by nostalgia for past relationships—with friends, roommates, siblings—while trying to move forward into an uncertain future. In “That Is Shocking,” a college student relates a darkly funny story of romantic humiliation, one that skirts the parallel story of a friend she betrayed. In others, young women long for friends who have moved away, or moved on. In “Cinnamon Baseball Coyote” and other linked stories about siblings Helen, Evan, and Grace, their years of inside jokes and brutal tensions simmer over as the three spend a holiday season in an amusing whirl of rivalry and mutual attachment, and a generational gulf widens between them and their parents. Throughout, in stories both lyrical and haunting, young women search for ways to break free from the expectations of others and find a way to be in the world.  Written with crystalline prose and sly humor, the stories in I Meant It Once build to complete a profoundly recognizable portrait of early adulthood and the ways in which seemingly incidental moments can come to define the stories we tell ourselves. For fans of Elif Batuman, Ottessa Moshfegh, Patricia Lockwood, and Melissa Bank, these stories about being young and adrift in today’s world go down easy and pack a big punch.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/636372 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Everybody's Favorite: Tales from the World’s Worst Perfectionist Author: Lillian Stone Narrator: Brittany Pressley Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 31 minutes Release date: July 18, 2023 Genres: Comedy, Satire & Parody Publisher's Summary: “Many have tried, and many will try, to capture the sweet, innocent insanity of life as a young girl during the ’90s and 2000s. None have come close to the comedic perfection Lillian Stone nails again and again in Everybody’s Favorite.” —Glamour, Best Nonfiction Books of 2023 From one of the Internet’s favorite self-deprecating commentators comes Everybody’s Favorite, a laugh-out-loud essay collection that tackles the relentless pursuit of perfection while navigating growing up in the early 2000s. Lillian Stone—childhood evangelical, AOL girlfriend, and professional nail biter is always living on the edge of anxiety. From the pitfalls of a girl plagued by religious trauma, the incomprehensible yet unforgiving need for perfection, and a poorly-behaved twenty-pound beagle, Everybody’s Favorite is a refreshing story of what it means to pick yourself when the world is telling you otherwise. Still navigating the ins and outs of adulthood, accompanied by an obsessive-compulsive disorder that’s become an exercise in self-acceptance and thus compassion, Lillian has become an expert in fighting the urge to be someone else’s idea of perfect. In this laugh-out-loud essay collection, replete with cringe-inducing touchstones of an early-aughts girlhood, Lillian Stone recounts her quest to be everybody’s favorite. Set largely during the early 2000s Ozarks, and peppered with Stone’s biting satire and gloriously self-deprecating personal anecdotes, Everybody’s Favorite is a wry, empathetic look at the chaos that ensues when we contort ourselves into an ever-changing assortment of socially acceptable shapes —only to fall out of place, twist an ankle, pee your pants a little, and realize that the pursuit of perfection isn’t really all that interesting.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/640569 to listen full audiobooks. Title: High Time: A novel Author: Hannah Rothschild Narrator: Maya Saroya Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 38 minutes Release date: July 11, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Comedy, Satire & Parody Publisher's Summary: A PEOPLE BEST NEW BOOK • An outlandish comedy of morals and manners about a highborn British family of outrageous characters, by the acclaimed author of The Improbability of Love and House of Trelawney •  “A joy to read.”—Vogue “High Time delves once again into the aristocratic antics of the Trelawney family… Another thrilling portrait of the perils of great privilege.” —Town & Country Eight years have passed and in 2016 many things have changed for the eccentric Trelawney family. In the months leading up to the Brexit referendum, Ayesha, the beautiful, young secret daughter of the late Enyon Trelawney, has married the much older thuggish banker Tomlinson Sleet with whom she has a young daughter, Stella. Ayesha is busy restoring the once broken-down Trelawney Castle in Cornwall, which Sleet has bought, to its former glory, as well as studying art at the Courtauld in London. The elderly Countess Clarissa—still ensconced on the property—the host of a camp television show, is about to head into a disastrous marriage. Lady Jane has separated from the hopeless Trelawney heir Kitto, who is crazier than ever, and found an enlightened woman to keep her company abroad. Sleet is becoming increasingly difficult, distracted by the seductive and ruthless bitcoin goddess Zamora, but Kitto’s sister Blaze and her husband, Joshua, will support Ayesha’s clever plan as she discovers shocking secrets, takes action, and brings the family together. Biting and satirical, but also poignant and moving, High Time is a delicious story of madness, mayhem, and mischief run amok.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/640535 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Our Hospital Author: Samuel Shem Narrator: Sean Runnette Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 10 minutes Release date: July 4, 2023 Genres: Comedy, Satire & Parody Publisher's Summary: In this sequel to The House of God and Man's 4th Best Hospital, Dr. Roy Basch returns to his economically depressed hometown in upstate New York to help the struggling hospital battle the COVID-19 pandemic and the money-driven bureaucracy. After the tragic climax of Man's 4th Best Hospital, four doctors have left practicing medicine. But with COVID-19 sweeping the country, they come together to help the small town of Columbia, New York. The doctors and nurses are buckling as they battle both a raging pandemic and the financial woes facing small hospitals everywhere. But no matter what's happening in the world, babies are born, people fall in love, and doctors will do anything to save their patients. Our Hospital reveals the daily struggle of fighting a pandemic and its personal impact on healthcare workers young and old, who are terrified, exhausted...and determined, somehow, to prevail.