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WHALE FALLEarphones Award Winner
by Elizabeth O'Connor | Read by Dyfrig Morris, Gabrielle Glaister, Gwyneth Keyworth, Jot Davies, Nick GriffithsRandom House Audio | UnabridgedFictionGwyneth Keyworth's nuanced portrayal of Manod reveals the 18-year-old's transformative journey in this haunting story, set in 1938. Keyworth smoothly transports listeners to an isolated Welsh island and evokes the poignant interactions between Manod, a local, and the English couple, both ethnologists, who arrive to study the villagers' traditional ways. Dyfrig Morris, Gabrielle... Read More 00:00 00:00 00:00 |
AT THE EDGE OF THE NIGHTEarphones Award Winner
by Friedo Lampe, Simon Beattie [Trans.] | Read by Jot DaviesNaxos AudioBooks | UnabridgedClassicsWith a flair for dramatic dialogue and intense, unsettling imagery, narrator Jot Davies accentuates the vivid dreamlike qualities of this 1933 novel by the openly gay German author Friedo Lampe. At a river's edge on a single warm summer's evening, a group of characters ranging from sailors to students to lovers and a father-son magic act interact in this early example of magic... Read More 00:00 00:00 00:00 |
THE HALF LIFE OF VALERY KEarphones Award Winner
by Natasha Pulley | Read by Jot DaviesBloomsbury Publishing | UnabridgedFictionThe warm embrace of Jot Davies's resonant baritone and his vivid characterizations make Natasha Pulley's masterful historical novel an addictive and memorable listening experience. Inspired by an actual nuclear explosion and subsequent cover-up in 1950s Soviet Russia, the story follows nuclear radiation expert Valery Kolkhanov, who is transferred from imprisonment in a gulag to... Read More 00:00 00:00 00:00 |
THE GUEST LISTby Lucy Foley | Read by Jot Davies, Chloe Massey, Olivia Dowd, Aoife McMahon, Sarah Ovens, Rich KeebleHarper Audio | UnabridgedMystery & SuspenseA wedding party on an isolated island off the coast of Ireland. All of the participants and hosts are potential victims and suspects. Each of the main characters is effectively voiced by one of the six talented narrators creating a theater-like experience. Chapters begin by identifying the character whose point of view is being presented. Everyone comes to the festivities with... Read More 00:00 00:00 00:00 |
SHORT LIFE IN A STRANGE WORLD Birth to Death in 42 Panelsby Toby Ferris | Read by Jot DaviesHarper Audio | UnabridgedBiography & MemoirNarrator Jot Davies lends his beautifully resonant voice to this interesting personal memoir. Author Toby Ferris had a mission: to view in person every existing painting by the Northern Renaissance painter Pieter Bruegel the Elder. While on his journey across Europe and the U.S., he relates the subject matter in the Bruegel works to his own life and that of his father. Davies... Read More |
LANNYEarphones Award Winner
by Max Porter | Read by Annie Aldington, Clare Corbett, David Timson, Jot DaviesDreamscape | UnabridgedFictionThis extraordinary audiobook, performed by a quartet of talented narrators, will have listeners devouring its fabulist story while wishing it would never end. The one-of-a-kind Dead Papa Toothwort, a mythological creature existing for centuries in the woods outside an English village, is brought to menacing life by David Timson's deep, raspy timbre and deliberate phrasing.... Read More 00:00 00:00 00:00 |
SPACEMAN OF BOHEMIAby Jaroslav Kalfar | Read by Jot DaviesHachette Audio | UnabridgedFictionWith charm and the urgent delicacy that this poetic first novel demands, British-born narrator Jot Davies deftly delivers this story. A fairy-tale-like Glasnost-era Czech Republic develops a space program and rockets its first astronaut, Jakub Prochazka, on a perilous mission to Venus. As he floats alone in deep space, Jakub's thoughts veer wildly from philosophical ruminations... Read More |
A COLDER WARby Charles Cumming | Read by Jot DaviesMacmillan Audio | UnabridgedMystery & SuspenseSet in the contemporary world of international espionage, this audiobook follows the investigations of disgraced MI6 spy Thomas Kell as he attempts to identify a mole who is leaking intelligence to the Russians. Jot Davies's measured narration conveys perfectly Kell's world-weariness and the often repetitive boredom of life in the modern intelligence community. Davies portrays... Read More |
A FOREIGN COUNTRYby Charles Cumming | Read by Jot DaviesMacmillan Audio | UnabridgedMystery & SuspenseEven if you’ve never listened to Cumming’s other novels, you’ll settle into this beguiling spy story quickly. Often compared to the master of cerebral espionage fiction, John le Carre, Cumming plays to the listener who prefers a subtle and thoughtful approach. Jot Davies’s narration ushers you in; his voice is a steady presence through the disparate events from the beginning to... Read More |
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