The Bookseller – Information – Aaronovitch wins Listening Books Members Selection Award

Ben Aaronovitch’s Rivers of London: Amongst Our Weapons (Orion) has gained the Members Selection Award 2022 introduced by Listening Books. The award can be introduced by Stephen Fry, patron of the charity, in a web based presentation on twenty fifth January. 

Aaronovitch’s novel was chosen from a shortlist of 20 titles together with Bonnie Garmus’ Classes in Chemistry (Transworld), two books from Natasha Pulley, and Marcus Rashford’s The Breakfast Membership Adventures: The Beast Past the Fence (Macmillan). The shortlist represented the audiobooks with the very best variety of listens from Listening Books members.

“This can be a notably good award, it’s an honour,” mentioned Aaronovitch. “Folks look down on listening to books and I don’t see why. I take heed to books on a regular basis and I feel it’s a great method to hear a narrative. In spite of everything, while you write you might be listening to it in your head and so having it spoken out loud is virtually an extension of what you might be doing.” 

Narrated by Kobna Holdbrook-Smith, Amongst Our Weapons is the ninth instalment within the Rivers of London fantasy crime sequence following detective and apprentice wizard Peter Grant. 

The inaugural prize was gained final yr by Robert Thorogood for The Marlow Homicide Membership (HarperCollins).

Listening Ebook members have an sickness, incapacity, studying issue or psychological well being situation which makes studying print tough or not possible. The charity helps a group of greater than 115,000 adults and kids.