Brit Lit Podcast Authors and Guests

Star-Crossed

A Novel

By: Minnie Darke
Narrated by: Arianwen Parkes-Lockwood
Length: 13 hours 47 minutes

“This might be the best book I’ve read in years. The story was a delight and the writing was beautiful — it had the feel of a fairytale for grownups, in the best way. I'll be recommending this one for a long time! Read more

Exciting Times

A Novel

By: Naoise Dolan
Narrated by: Aoife McMahon
Length: 6 hours 55 minutes

“This debut novel about an Irish expat millennial teaching English and finding romance in Hong Kong is half Sally Rooney love triangle, half glitzy Crazy Rich Asians high living—and guaranteed to please.” —Vogue AN ANTICIPATED BOOK FROM:
Vogue * Elle * O, the Oprah Magazine * Esquire * Harper's Bazaar * PopSugar * LitHubAn intimate, bracingly... Read more

The Windsor Knot

A Novel

Her Majesty the Queen Investigates: Book #1

By: SJ Bennett
Narrated by: Jane Copland
Length: 8 hours 4 minutes

“A delightful whodunnit with none other than Queen Elizabeth II as sleuth. You'll read this and believe the Queen really does solve mysteries. I mean, why not? She is amazing. The audio of this book made the book all the more enjoyable. The narrator, Jane Copland, did a remarkable job with all of the voices and and sounds very much like the... Read more

This Time Next Year: A GMA Book Club Pick

A Novel

By: Sophie Cousens
Narrated by: Hannah Arterton
Length: 10 hours 29 minutes

THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER IS NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE!

A GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK

Their lives began together, but their worlds couldn't be more different. After thirty years of missed connections, they're about to meet again...

Minnie Cooper knows two things with certainty: that her New Year's birthday is unlucky, and that... Read more

The Paris Connection

By: Lorraine Brown
Narrated by: Imogen Church
Length: 10 hours 4 minutes

Winner of the Launch Pad Writing Competition 2022
 
In this witty and heartfelt debut love story for fans of Josie Silver's One Day in December, a woman stranded in Paris for the day discovers that the wrong road can sometimes lead us in the right direction.

When Hannah and her boyfriend, Simon, set out to Amsterdam, they’re confident that they’ll... Read more

I Wish It Could Be Christmas Every Day

By: Milly Johnson
Narrated by: Colleen Prendergast
Length: 10 hours 22 minutes

***The new festive treat from the Sunday Times bestseller***

It’s nearly Christmas and it’s snowing, hard. Deep in the Yorkshire Moors nestles a tiny hamlet, with a pub at its heart. As the snow falls, the inn will become an unexpected haven for six people forced to seek shelter there…
 
Mary has been trying to get her boss Jack to notice her... Read more

Would Like to Meet

By: Rachel Winters
Narrated by: Laura Hobson
Length: 10 hours 13 minutes

Can you fall in love like they do in the movies?

It's Evie Summers's job to find out. Because if she can't convince her film agency's biggest client, Ezra Chester, to write the romantic-comedy screenplay he owes producers, her career will be over. The catch? He thinks rom-coms are unrealistic--and he'll only put pen to paper if Evie shows him... Read more

The Brilliant Life of Eudora Honeysett

A Novel

By: Annie Lyons
Narrated by: Nicolette McKenzie
Length: 10 hours 39 minutes

USA TODAY BESTSELLER!""One adorably British odd couple . . . Charming."" — People“An exquisitely poignant tale of life, friendship and facing death . . . heart-breaking yet ultimately uplifting . . Everyone should read this book.” — Ruth Hogan, author of Queenie Malone’s Paradise HotelInfused with the emotional power of Me Before You and the... Read more

Come Again

By: Robert Webb
Narrated by: Olivia Colman
Length: 7 hours 47 minutes

“Fun, farcical rom-com, written by one half of the Mitchell-Webb comic duo. What begins as an exploration of grief, soon time travels back to the nostalgia of the early nineties, and then brings us swiftly back to the present in a London black cab in Austin Powers style hilarity. A super fun, quick listen, if you grab the audio book, you'll have... Read more

I Heart New York

A Novel

By: Lindsey Kelk
Narrated by: Justine Eyre
Length: 9 hours 48 minutes

”I’ll read anything she writes” — Emily Henry, #1 New York Times bestselling authorThe perfect book for Sex and the City and Emily in Paris fans, I Heart New York by Lindsey Kelk truly celebrates the city that never sleeps.It’s official. Angela Clarke is in love—with the most fabulous city in the world.When Angela catches her boyfriend with... Read more

The Nest

By: Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney
Narrated by: Mia Barron
Length: 11 hours 6 minutes

“Welcome to the strikingly dysfunctional Plumb family: four siblings connected by little more than 'The Nest,' a joint trust fund that each has earmarked to support their unrealistic lifestyles. When Leo, the older brother and the center of the Plumb family universe, injures himself and a 19-year-old waitress in a scandalous car accident and... Read more

The Hunting Party

A Novel

By: Lucy Foley
Narrated by: Gary Furlong, Elle Newlands, Morag Sims, Imogen Church & Moira Quirk
Length: 10 hours 8 minutes

“Lucy Foley’s The Hunting Party is a slick, streamlined murder mystery set on a remote Scottish luxury estate. A group of old friends get together for their yearly New Year’s trip, but after over a decade of closeness, some of them may be near the breaking point. Foley uses the multiple-narrator approach to distort the reader’s perspective and... Read more

Get a Life, Chloe Brown

A Novel

The Brown Sisters: Book #1

By: Talia Hibbert
Narrated by: Adjoa Andoh
Length: 10 hours 41 minutes

“Get a Life, Chloe Brown is such a wonderful, inclusive, body-positive, fun, moving, and steamy book, the kind of novel I want to shove into every person’s hand who says they don’t read romance. Chloe Brown is a plus-size black British woman with chronic illness who is confident, sharp, sarcastic, brilliant, and adorable as hell—and, to my great... Read more

Everything I Know About Love

A Memoir

By: Dolly Alderton
Narrated by: Dolly Alderton
Length: 8 hours 34 minutes

“The most uplifting memoir for the most confusing time of a person’s life. Reading this as someone in their early 20s, I never felt more reassured about life and its ever-changing moments. I found myself sending pictures to my friends of particularly heartbreaking realizations to which they’d respond, 'I need this book.' This memoir questions... Read more

Ghosted

A Novel

By: Rosie Walsh
Narrated by: Katherine Press
Length: 9 hours 19 minutes

“Ghosting is always unforgivable, right? Before I read this book, I would definitely have said so. Read more

The Authenticity Project

A Novel

By: Clare Pooley
Narrated by: Anna Cordell
Length: 10 hours 24 minutes

“Sometimes, especially in this digital age, we get caught up in the idea that while our lives are a mess, everyone else has got it together. And maybe — as Clare Pooley explores in The Authenticity Project — if we were all just honest about our insecurities and difficulties and worries, it would be easier for people to form stronger bonds. This... Read more

Love, Unscripted

A Novel

By: Owen Nicholls
Narrated by: Christian Coulson
Length: 8 hours 28 minutes

“Nostalgic, tender, and achingly cool.”—Josie Silver, #1 New York Times bestselling author of One Day in December

A film-obsessed romantic rewrites the script to understand why his “picture-perfect” love story crashed and burned in this wonderfully clever debut.

Ellie had the quizzical eyebrows of Broadcast News–era Holly Hunter and the neon-red... Read more

Mrs. Sinclair's Suitcase

By: Louise Walters
Narrated by: Anna Bentinck & Karen Cass
Length: 9 hours 51 minutes

A heartbreaking and deeply compelling debut, Mrs. Sinclair’s Suitcase is a compulsive page-turner about thwarted love, dashed hopes, and family secrets—book-club fiction at its best.
 
Roberta, a lonely thirty-four-year-old bibliophile, works at The Old and New Bookshop in England. When she finds a letter inside her centenarian grandmother’s... Read more

The Flatshare

A Novel

By: Beth O'Leary
Narrated by: Carrie Hope Fletcher & Kwaku Fortune
Length: 9 hours 34 minutes

"Carrie Hope Fletcher and Kwaku Fortune bring genuine emotion to this London rom-com with their impeccable narration about an unlikely friendship." — AudioFile Magazine

"Boasting Carrie Hope Fletcher’s no-nonsense British accent and Kwaku Fortune’s mild Irish brogue...the audio version brings this butterfly-inducing romantic read to life." —... Read more

In Our Mad and Furious City

A Novel

By: Guy Gunaratne
Narrated by: Ben Bailey Smith & Lou Marie Kerr
Length: 6 hours 45 minutes

“This book was one of THE big novels of spring 2018 in the UK, and I’m here to say it’s thoroughly deserving of the hype. The book chronicles 48 hours on a London council estate (“housing project”) from the perspective of five of its residents and makes moving poetry out of the gritty ugliness of life. It’s beautiful, moving, and important. Read more