Congratulations to Wavesound authors shortlisted for the 2024 Indie Awards! We are so proud to have 4 titles on the list across 3 categories! 2024 Fiction Shortlist The Seven by Chris Hammer 2024 Debut Fiction Shortlist Green Dot by Madeleine Gray Salt River Road by Molly Schmidt 2024 Young Adult Fiction Shortlist Stuck up and…

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…

Best Crime Fiction The Tilt by Chris Hammer   Best Crime Fiction Debut Black River by Matthew Spencer   Best True Crime The Boy in a Dress by Jonathan Butler   Wavesound are proud to have published all three winners in audio.   The Dangar Awards recognise books featuring Australia as a setting for stories…

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…

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…

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…

W.F. Howes, an RBmedia international publishing brand, has acquired the audio rights for two new Karen Pirie titles from bestselling Scottish crime writer Val McDermid.   The deal will see McDermid team up with her long-time audiobook publisher for the 2023 release of Past Lying, book seven in the immensely popular crime series, as well as the untitled eighth…

W. F. Howes, an RBmedia international publishing brand, is honoured to be the audiobook publisher of Notorious, the hard-hitting, bestselling autobiography of renowned journalist and prisons guru Raphael Rowe, which picked up the Best True Crime Audiobook award at the inaugural True Crime Awards 2023 in London. Raphael Rowe spent 12 years serving a prison…

The full list of nominees can be found here: https://abiawards.com.au/2023-short-list-announcement/  The ABIA Awards (Australia’s largest Trade Book Awards) shortlist is out and we are thrilled to announce that two Wavesound titles are up for the Audiobook of the Year Award!   Ten Steps to Nanette by Hannah Gadsby, narrated by the author.   The Whitewash by Siang…