Looking for the perfect audiobook to accompany you while you you relax at the beach or the pool? Whether you’re looking for a thriller or romance or something in between, we have just the recommendation for you! 

 

The Friday Afternoon Club 

Written by: Griffin Dunne 

Performed by Griffin Dunne 

Published by W. F. Howes Ltd 

The Friday Afternoon Club is no celebrity memoir. It is, down to its bones, a family story that brilliantly embraces the poignant absurdities and best and worst efforts of its loveable, infuriating, funny and moving characters – its author most of all – finding wicked, self-deprecating humour and glints of surprising light in even the most harrowing and painful of circumstances. 

 

 

 

Rivals

Written by Jilly Cooper 

Performed by Georgia Tennant 

Published by W. F. Howes Ltd 

A brand-new recording narrated by Georgia Tennant, star of Doctor Who: Dreamland and Staged. 

Who will take the Cotswold Crown? 

Into the cut-throat world of Corinium television comes Declan O’Hara, a mega-star of great glamour and integrity with a radiant feckless wife, a handsome son and two ravishing teenage daughters. Living rather too closely across the valley is Rupert Campbell-Black, divorced and as dissolute as ever, and now the Tory Minister for Sport. 

 

One Day

Written by David Nicholls 

Performed by Annabel Scholey 

Published by W. F. Howes Ltd 

A brand-new recording narrated by Annabel Scholey, star of Being Human and Walking on Sunshine. TWENTY YEARS, TWO PEOPLE, ONE DAY 15th July 1988. Emma and Dexter meet for the first time on the night of their graduation. Tomorrow they must go their separate ways. So where will they be on this one day next year? 

 

 

 

Kala

Written by Colin Walsh 

Performed by Frank Blake; Moe Dunford; Seána Kerslake 

Published by W. F. Howes Ltd 

In the seaside town of Kinlough, on Ireland’s west coast, three old friends are thrown together for the first time in years. They – Helen, Joe and Mush – were part of an original group of six inseparable teenagers in the summer of 2003, with motherless, reckless Kala Lanann as their group’s white-hot centre. Soon after that summer’s peak, Kala disappeared without a trace.  

 

 

 

The Angel of Indian Lake

Written by: Stephen Graham Jones 

Performed by: Stephen King; Angela Goethals; Isabella Star LaBlanc; Andrew J. Robinson; Barbara Crampton 

Published by: QUEST from W. F. Howes Ltd 

The most lauded trilogy in the history of horror audiobooks concludes four years after Don’t Fear the Reaper as Jade returns to Proofrock, Idaho, to build a life after the years of sacrifice—only to find the Lake Witch is waiting for her in New York Times bestselling author Stephen Graham Jones’s breathtaking finale.  

 

 

 

The Vacation

Written by John Marrs 

Performed by Peter Noble 

Published by QUEST from W. F. Howes Ltd 

The Vacation is a compulsive, holiday-set thriller from John Marrs, the author of The One, now a Netflix Original Series. How far would you run to escape your past? Venice Beach, Los Angeles. A paradise on earth. Tourists flock to the golden coast and the promise of Hollywood. But for eight strangers at a beach front hostel, there is far more on their mind than an extended vacation. 

 

 

 

The Little Blue Door

Written by Francesca Catlow 

Performed by Daphne Kouma 

Published by QUEST from W. F. Howes Ltd 

Can a lost past lead to a beautiful future? A passionate love story – a heart wrenching discovery. Melodie Pelletier is drawn back to the idyllic island of Corfu, a place bursting with wonderful family memories. She visits the popular fishing village of Agios Stefanos, a place with an outpouring of warm welcomes and even warmer seas and sand. While travelling, Melodie meets a handsome man with an intriguing young daughter.  

 

 

The Two Deaths of Ruth Lyle

Written by Nick Louth 

Performed by Mandy Weston 

Published by QUEST from W. F. Howes Ltd 

Fifty years. Two deaths. One detective to solve an impossible case… DI Jan Talantire is called to a cottage in Ilfracombe, where the female occupant is found dead, impaled with a crucifix. The woman, who had been renting the house for a few months, is well known locally, but the documents at the house indicate her real name is Ruth Lyle. The name means nothing to the young PC who found her, DI Talantire knows this cannot be the body of Ruth Lyle. Because fifty years earlier, sixteen-year-old Ruth Lyle was murdered – stabbed by a crucifix, in exactly the same location. 

 

 

Sunburn

Written by Chloe Michelle Howarth 

Performed by Toni O’Rourke 

Published by W. F. Howes Ltd 

An astute and tender portrayal of first love, adolescent anxiety and the realities of growing up in a small town where tradition holds people tightly in its grasp. It’s the early 1990s, and in the Irish village of Crossmore, Lucy feels out of place. Despite her fierce friendships, she’s always felt this way, and the conventional path of marriage and motherhood doesn’t appeal to her at all.  

 

 

 

The Cracked Mirror

Written by Chris Brookmyre 

Performed by Sarah Barron; Russ Bain 

Published by W. F. Howes Ltd 

You know Johnny Hawke. Hard-bitten LAPD homicide detective. Always in trouble with his captain, always losing partners, but always battling for the truth, whatever it takes. You know Penny Coyne. The little old lady who has solved multiple murders in her otherwise sleepy village, despite bumbling local police. A razor-sharp mind in a Sunday best hat. Against all the odds, against the usual story, their worlds are about to collide. 

 

 

You Are Accused

Written by Raphael Rowe 

Performed by Raphael Rowe 

Published by WFH ORIGINAL from W. F. Howes Ltd 

What would you do if you were accused of something terrible? What if it happened when you were vulnerable, in an unfamiliar country, or under a media spotlight? How would your life and the lives of the people you love be affected? You Are Accused is an urgent piece of investigative journalism by Raphael Rowe – himself falsely convicted for a murder he did not commit – exploring the frightening world of accusations in the modern world. 

 

 

Impostor

Written by LJ Ross 

Performed by Hugh Dancy 

Published by W.F. Howes Ltd

After an elite criminal profiling unit is shut down amid a storm of scandal and mismanagement, only one person emerges unscathed. Forensic psychiatrist Doctor Alexander Gregory has a reputation for being able to step inside the darkest minds to uncover whatever secrets lie hidden there and, soon enough, he finds himself drawn into the murky world of murder investigation. 

 

 

 

Pearl

Written by Siân Hughes 

Performed by Laura Brydon 

Published by W.F. Howes Ltd 

Marianne is eight years old when her mother goes missing. Left behind with her baby brother and grieving father in a ramshackle house on the edge of a small village, she clings to the fragmented memories of her mother’s love; the smell of fresh herbs, the games they played, and the songs and stories of her childhood. As time passes, Marianne struggles to adjust, fixated on her mother’s disappearance and the secrets she’s sure her father is keeping from her. 

 

 

The Distant Echo

Written by Val McDermid 

Performed by Tom Cotcher 

Published by W. F. Howes Ltd 

The first novel in the bestselling Karen Pirie series. The award-winning Number One bestseller and Queen of crime fiction Val McDermid carves out a stunning psychological thriller. The past is behind them, but what’s still to come will tear them apart… Some things just won’t let go. The past, for instance. That night in the cemetery. The girl’s body in the snow.