This is some exciting news I didn’t know was coming – six of the British Library Women Writers series are now available as audiobooks!
I’ve got really into audiobooks in the past 18 months. Well, before that – when I had a long commute – I’d started listening to them in the car. But they came into their own for all those long, solitary lockdown walks. And now I might just have to get hold of one of these new releases. Isis Audio are producing them, and I’ve borrowed the above image from them.
At the moment, the six books available are:
- Dangerous Ages by Rose Macaulay
- The Tree of Heaven by May Sinclair
- Chatterton Square by E.H. Young
- Father by Elizabeth von Arnim
- My Husband Simon by Mollie Panter-Downes
- Tea Is So Intoxicating by Mary Essex
The narrators are Penelope Freeman, Julia Franklin, Patience Tomlinson, and Jilly Bond. I think it’s probably easiest to find them by searching in your audiobook app of choice. I don’t know if others in the series are coming out as audiobooks (fingers crossed!) – I’d love to hear from you if you give any of these a try.
They’re not yet available via the library loan system but maybe I’m being too optimistic that they would have been ordered yet….
It’s good news though
Thanks for the heads up. Ive found them on audible.uk but not yet in the RNIB talking books library.
That is EXCELLENT news! I’m a huge audio book consumer.
Seeing them just now on the US audible site.
Excellent!
Good news indeed. Thank you.
I’m not a great audiobook person, but this is brilliant news for those who are!
I;m not a hue audiobook person, but I would listen to “forgotten classics” if I could. I loved Chatterton Square (have read 7 or so of EH Young’s novels) and I’m a big Von Arnim fan too.
EHY is wonderful isn’t she! I’m hoping to get another in the BL series at some point.
Hello Whispering Gums,
EVA’s ‘Love’ a wonderful audiobook, on Audible. Also heartily recommend Lucy Scott’s wonderful reading of Molly Panter-Downes’ wonderful ‘Good Evening, Mrs Craven’. Simon, do you have any more recent audiobook recommendations?
Everything ‘wonderful’, how embarrassing!
Absolutely true, but where’s my proofreading eye, or Roget’s?