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Audiobooks are an incredibly convenient format for those who enjoy reading but struggle to make time for it in their everyday lives. They’re portable. You can listen to them on the way to work, while you’re exercising, or even when you’re doing chores around the house. And along with their ease of use, quite a few audiobooks can be accessed for free, if you know where to look. That’s where we come in. In the guide below, we’ll go over some of the best options around for downloading audiobooks for free. So you can get…

In this deftly plotted and gripping psychological thriller, two women from different sides of the tracks meet by chance while celebrating their birthdays in a London pub. Alix Summer is a 45-year-old journalist who hosts a successful podcast and lives in a stylish townhouse with a built-in recording studio. Josie Fair is a wife and mother living in a small flat with her much older husband, Walter, who has grudgingly brought her out for a birthday meal. Having discovered they are not only the same age but were born in the…

At the start of Good Material, we meet Andy, a 35-year-old standup comic who is trying to get over a breakup and listing the reasons why he is better off without his ex-girlfriend, Jen. These include her inability to drive a car, being “too connected to dogs”, having weird parents and lingering for too long in museums “at every artefact or painting … once saw her nod respectfully at a TINY JADE SPOON in the British Museum.”Dolly Alderton’s richly entertaining second novel is a chronicle of a relationship in its death…

Let the Light Pour In is “an experiment in hope”. For 10 years, the My Name Is Why author had been rising at dawn each day, writing a poem and posting it on social media. Those poems have since been turned into songs and tattoos, and emblazoned as murals on city walls.The project also yielded this collection of poems about early morning and the meeting of darkness and light. In his introduction, Sissay says that poetry is “a daily practice. My meditation. It can take minutes or hours. A friend advised me to ‘Wake with…

Audiobooks are a great way to bring words on a page to life and fit reading into your schedule throughout the day when you’re doing things like working out, cooking, driving and relaxing. Amazon-owned Audible is arguably the most popular audiobook app out there, but there are several other lesser-known options that offer a great listening experience if you’re looking to try out a new app or just starting to get into the world of audiobooks. We have compiled a list of six audiobook apps that we think are worth…

Following last year’s starry adaptation of Oliver Twist, Audible has pushed the seasonal boat out again with a beguiling version of David Copperfield, executive-produced by Sam Mendes and featuring an all-star cast. It opens at The Rookery, where newly widowed Clara (Ebony Feare) gives birth to a boy she names David, after his late father. Here we also meet the donkey-intolerant Betsey Trotwood (a formidable Helena Bonham Carter), who, having been abandoned by her husband as a young woman, dislikes men and is aggrieved to…

If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. The new reimagining of The Color Purple is in theaters now, and the critical acclaim for the Oprah Winfrey, Taraji P. Henson and Fantasia Barrino-led film has spurred renewed interest in the book that started it all. Amazon has the original Alice Walker novel available for just $11 right now — 34% off its list price. Released in 1982, “The Color Purple” was a…

Before his death in 2015, Terry Pratchett left instructions that his hard drive should be flattened by a steamroller, thereby ensuring that no incomplete projects, or any work he deemed not for public consumption, could be published posthumously. The 20 stories that make up A Stroke of the Pen, written by Pratchett under the pen name Patrick Kearns in the 70s and 80s and published in the Western Daily Press, escaped destruction since no one, least of all their author, knew where to find them. But now they’ve been dug out…

In this collection of interconnected stories by the Life After Life author Kate Atkinson, dogs and horses talk, ghosts watch TV and the world is in the grips of The Void, a daily event where everything goes dark for several minutes and anyone who is outdoors is extinguished.In Gene-sis, humans are presided over by “sister of God” Kitty, an advertising executive tasked with playing God after her brother resigns from the job; while in Blithe Spirit, Mandy, a former PA to a politician, watches her own autopsy from the…

If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. Netflix has scored another hit with the new film, Leave the World Behind. Starring Julia Roberts, Ethan Hawke, Mahershala Ali, Myha’la and Kevin Bacon, the film follows two families who must band together to survive as the world’s technological services slowly break down. Written and directed by Sam Esmail, Leave the World Behind is based on the 2020 book of the same…