Best of best in audio books

The Book Marketing Society is promoting its 40 Best Audiobooks.

The promotion aims to showcase the wealth and quality of audio books. Included in the top 40 are: The Wit of Cricket by Brian Johnston et al and P G Wodehouse's Summer Lightning in the humour category; Anthony Horowitz's Snakehead and Michael Bond's A Bear Called Paddington in children's; Yann Martel's The Life of Pi and Paul Torday's Salmon Fishing in the Yemen in fiction/classic/crime; and Simon Barnes' A Bad Birdwatcher's Companion (Naxos) and Andrew Marr's A History of Modern Britain in non-fiction/poetry/plays.

The list was chosen from more than 160 books submitted by publishers. Judges made their selections based on quality of literary content, abridgement, reading, production value and sound quality. The public can vote for their favourites online with a chance to win £500 of National Book Tokens. A top 10 will be revealed on 21st July and an overall winner on 31st July.

The NYR is enabling visitors to download free samples of the titles from its website.

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