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Joining us at Audible Studios is the author of the Sunday Times best-selling debut novel The Trouble with Goats and Sheep, Joanna Cannon. She has recently released Breaking and Mending, a memoir of her life as a junior doctor. Cannon walks us through the wards, from attending her first postmortem to sitting beside a patient as they passed away. The small acts of kindness and connection that intersperse hospital life taught Cannon that the heartbeat is not the only essential part of a human being - emotional care and mental health are also critical.

Joining us in the Audible Studios is Welsh actor Alexander Vlahos. In this interview, Alexander tells us what he likes about narrating and what it’s like to be an actor. Vlahos narrates H. G. Wells’ The First Men in the Moon, a scientific romance novel first published in 1901. Following protagonists Mr Bedford and Dr Cavor, listeners indulge in their journey to the moon, where they come across the sophisticated insectlike creatures ‘Selenites’.

Peter James is an international best-selling thriller writer with 12 consecutive Sunday Times number ones, responsible for the critically acclaimed Roy Grace thriller series. Hugh Bonneville is a BAFTA, Emmy and Golden Globe nominated actor across both stage and screen, most recognised for his role as Robert Crawley in the ITV drama Downton Abbey and blockbusters such as Paddington and Notting Hill. Bonneville has narrated the audiobook of Peter James’ thriller Absolute Proof.

Joining us in the Audible Studios to discuss her fifth novel, Manhattan Beach, is Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jennifer Egan. Raised in San Francisco, Jennifer Egan has been described as one of the most experimentally fearless writers of the modern age - a Pulitzer prize winner for her novel A Visit from the Goon Squad amongst various other awards and recognitions for both her fiction and nonfiction work.

Giles Wood and Mary Killen - better known as 'Giles and Mary off of Gogglebox' - joined us in the Audible Studios to discuss their debut audiobook The Diary of Two Nobodies. Believe it or not, they have a life outside that Channel 4 smash-hit programme: Giles is a brilliant artist and Mary a prolific author and journalist. They spoke to us about how they ended up on Gogglebox, what the most annoying things about each other are and the unusual term of endearment they use for each other.

Rula Lenska, who is portraying Princess Dragomiroff in Audible's new audio drama of Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express, joins Robin Morgan in the Audible Studios to discuss this adaptation. Rula tells Robin about the character of The Princess and why Murder on the Orient Express has such enduring appeal today. They also discuss Rula’s 40 year career as an actress, being a success on both stage and screen.

Audible Studios invite renowned presenter and author Dermot O'Leary to discuss the release of his new audiobook, Toto the Ninja Cat and the Great Snake Escape. Having been born blind, Toto has learnt to navigate the wild streets of London by developing senses worthy only of a ninja cat. Upon hearing that a poisonous king cobra has been set loose in the big city, Toto and her brother, Silver, embark upon the thrilling and fantastical adventure of a lifetime.

Anthony Horowitz is an international best-selling author, journalist and playwright. As one of Britain's greatest living storytellers, we invited Anthony to our studios for the second time. He chatted about his career, personal life and latest release, The Word Is Murder. With a modern twist on the classic crime novel, fans will not be disappointed with this captivating thriller.

Audible Studios invite multi-award-winning journalist and author Mark Dowd to discuss his captivating new audiobook Queer and Catholic: A Life of Contradiction. He addresses the shroud of secrecy which surrounds gay priests in the Catholic Church and his personal experience of it after having trained at the Dominican Order in Blackfriars, Oxford. A passionate environmentalist, he also discusses the importance of uniting as one in an effort to combat global warming.

Ukranian born Marina Lewycka has published several novels to great public and critical acclaim. Her debut novel, A Short History of Tractors in Ukranian set her unique comic tone, and her latest novel, The Lubetkin Legacy, keeps this distinct voice alive. Marina talks dark comedy, entertainment, the elderly and a bedroom tax.

Award-winning, internationally renowned author Anders Roslund visits the Audible Studios to talk about the English translation of the Swedish crime novel Three Minutes. Written in collaboration with the late Börge Hellström, the novel is a sequel to their best-selling Three Seconds and promises to be just as gripping.

Exclusive. Prison, murderers and ghosts. M. R. Carey talks to us about Fellside, the unmissable and highly anticipated new literary thriller from the author of the international phenomenon The Girl With All the Gifts. About Fellside - Jess Moulson is convicted of murder. But it's a murder she can't remember committing. Nothing is quite clear from the drug-fuelled night when a blaze set in Jess' apartment killed the little boy upstairs.

Joining us at Audible Studios is Candice Carty-Williams, senior marketing executive at Vintage books and author of Queenie. Queenie is a relatable, darkly comic take on a Jamaican-British woman living in London trying to recover from a messy breakup, gain some attention among all the white middle class peers at her newspaper job and, most of all, fit into two different cultures. We spoke about her motivations for writing Queenie, her career, the lack of diversity in publishing and what she is planning on doing next.

Joining us in the Audible Studios to discuss her first book, When the Dogs Don't Bark, is forensic scientist Professor Angela Gallop. Angela also talks to us about the importance of advancements in forensic technology, her own intriguing career, including her involvement in many high-profile criminal cases, and the recent trend for professional memoirs.

After studying Journalism at the University of Central Lancashire, Stacey worked as an assistant editor at We Love This Book magazine and a media editor at the Bookseller magazine, as well as writing for Psychologies, The Independent, and Fabulous magazine, where she is now Deputy Chief Sub-Editor. Alongside editorial work, Stacey has written her first novel, an exciting historical fiction set within the drama of the 1612 Pendle witch trials.

Oliver looks at everything from ruined towns on the edge of Siberia, to Bond-villain lairs in Knightsbridge and Manhattan. Something has gone wrong with the workings of the world, and Oliver shares insight on the current situation in Moneyland. From his time living in Russia to the books he has written since, we discuss our current political and economic situation, key moments in history that lead to now, and his many years of research into this topics.

Joining us at Audible Studios for the second time is R. R. Haywood, author of Amazon UK’s number one horror series The Undead, and Washington Post best-selling author of The Undead series and the Extracted trilogy (both of which are Audible best sellers!). He talks to us about the first book in his new trilogy, The Worldship Humility, a science-fiction novel detailing the escapades of a petty thief and an Airlock Operative who accidentally steal a code with information about a new habitable planet.

An established actress across stage, screen and radio, Celia Imrie is most well known for her collaborations with Victoria Wood, including the spoof Acorn Antiques. With notable film appearances including Bridget Jones’s Diary, Calendar Girls and The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, Imrie has now narrated and published her latest audiobook, Sail Away. Celia Imrie talks to us about her new book, what we can expect from it and her successful and varied career as an actress.

Joining us in the Audible Studios to talk about her book The Tattooist of Auschwitz is Australian writer Heather Morris. Whilst working as a social work administrator, Heather Morris studied and wrote screenplays. After meeting an elderly man called Lale Sokolov, Heather used his story as inspiration for a screenplay, which has now been published as a novel, The Tattooist of Auschwitz. Heather Morris talks to us about her book, the man who inspired it and what we can expect from her next.

Joining us in the Audible Studios to talk about his latest book, Breaking News, is British journalist, former editor in chief of the Guardian and Principal of Lady Margaret Hall in Oxford Alan Rusbridger. Spending most of his life as a journalist and 20 years as editor of the Guardian, Alan Rusbridger has been responsible for the paper’s change from broadsheet to Berliner, for its innovation into digital and for breaking some of the most significant news stories of our time.