Author: Edgar Machuca

W. F. Howes lands audio rights to Sok-yong’s Booker-shortlisted epic

W. F. Howes, RBmedia’s UK publishing brand, has secured the audio rights to Hwang Sok-yong’s critically acclaimed novel Mater 2-10, which was recently shortlisted for the 2024 International Booker Prize.  Dubbed “a masterpiece” by the Guardian, Mater 2-10 is an epic, multi-generational tale that threads together a century of Korean history told through the lives […]

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A Million Ways to Stay on the Run wins best audiobook prize at True Crime Awards 2024

W.F. Howes, RBmedia’s UK publishing brand, is proud to announce that A Million Ways to Stay on the Run by Donal MacIntyre and Karl Howman has picked up the Best True Crime Audiobook prize at the True Crime Awards 2024. The Sunday Times bestselling book follows one of the most high-profile international manhunts in history, that of the […]

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W. F. Howes acquires audio rights for Andy Stanton’s adult debut

W. F. Howes, RBmedia’s UK publishing brand, has secured the audio rights for Andy Stanton’s exciting and unconventional adult debut, non-fiction title Benny the Blue Whale: A Descent into Story, Language and the Madness of ChatGPT.   Intrigued by the launch of ChatGPT, Andy Stanton—who has made a career out of writing differently—set about testing the AI […]

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W.F. Howes celebrates 25th anniversary

Founded in November 1998 with the mission of bringing a wider selection of unabridged audiobook titles to the UK market, the Leicestershire-based company has become the top audiobook publisher in the UK.   The company has published some of the global book industry’s most illustrious titles—including Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall trilogy and Julia Quinn’s Bridgerton […]

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W.F. Howes assembles stellar voice cast for Mantel audiobook

W.F. Howes, an RBmedia international publishing brand, has drafted a prestigious cast of screen and stage actors and notable literary figures to lend their voices to the audio edition of Hilary Mantel’s A Memoir of My Former Self: A Life in Writing.   The celebrated writer’s eagerly anticipated, posthumous journalistic collection, publishing on 19 October, will […]

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W.F. Howes to publish Poor Things audiobook to coincide with blockbuster movie release

W.F. Howes, an RBmedia international audio brand, will publish the audiobook for Alasdair Gray’s novel Poor Things ahead of the release of its big screen adaptation, directed by three-time Academy Award nominee Yorgos Lanthimos and starring Emma Stone, Willem Dafoe, Ramy Youssef, Margaret Qualley, and Mark Ruffalo.   Originally published in print in 1992, Poor Things follows the story […]

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