AuthorBen Aaronovitch
NarratorKobna Holdbrook-Smith
Duration4h 34m
CategoriesAdult Fiction, Science Fiction and Fantasy
PublisherOrion
VersionUnabridged
New York City, New York. Meet Augustus Berrycloth-Young - fop, flaneur, and Englishman abroad - as he chronicles the Jazz Age from his perch atop the city that never sleeps. That is, until his old friend Thomas Nightingale arrives, pursuing a rather mysterious affair concerning an old saxophone - which will take Gussie from his warm bed, to the cold shores of Long Island, and down to the jazz clubs where music, magic, and madness haunt the shadows... Discover why this incredible series has sold over two million copies around the world. If you're a fan of Terry Pratchett or Douglas Adams - don't panic - you will love Ben Aaronovitch's imaginative, irreverent and all-round irresistible novels.
Rivers of London: The Furthest Station
Author: Ben Aaronovitch
Author Ben Aaronovitch
Narrator Kobna Holdbrook-Smith
Duration 3h 7m
A brand new novella in the PC Grant series! There's something going bump on the Metropolitan line and Sergeant Jaget Kumar knows exactly who to call. It's PC Peter Grant's speciality . . . Only it's more than going 'bump'. Traumatised travellers have been reporting strange encounters on their morning commute, with strangely dressed people trying to...
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Rivers of London Book 5: Foxglove Summer
Author: Ben Aaronovitch
Author Ben Aaronovitch
Narrator Kobna Holdbrook-Smith
SeriesRivers of London, Book 5
Duration 10h 50m
In the fifth of his bestselling series Ben Aaronovitch takes Peter Grant out of whatever comfort zone he might have found and takes him out of London - to a small village in Herefordshire where the local police are reluctant to admit that there might be a supernatural element to the disappearance of some local children. But while you can take the L...
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Rivers of London Book 7: Lies Sleeping
Author: Ben Aaronovitch
Author Ben Aaronovitch
Narrator Kobna Holdbrook-Smith
SeriesRivers of London, Book 7
Duration 10h 20m
Martin Chorley, aka the Faceless Man, wanted for multiple counts of murder, fraud and crimes against humanity, has been unmasked and is on the run. Peter Grant, Detective Constable and apprentice wizard, now plays a key role in an unprecedented joint operation to bring Chorley to justice. But even as the unwieldy might of the Metropolitan Police be...
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Author: Ben Aaronovitch
Author Ben Aaronovitch
Narrator Sam Peter Jackson
Duration 4h 20m
Trier is famous for wine, Romans and for being Germany's oldest city. So when a man is found dead with, his body impossibly covered in a fungal rot, the local authorities know they are out of their depth. Fortunately this is Germany, where there are procedures for everything. Enter Investigator Tobias Winter, whose aim is to get in, deal with the p...
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Rivers of London Book 8: False Value
Author: Ben Aaronovitch
Author Ben Aaronovitch
Narrator Kobna Holdbrook-Smith
SeriesRivers of London, Book 8
Duration 11h 11m
Peter Grant is facing fatherhood and an uncertain future with equal amounts of panic and enthusiasm. Rather than sit around, he takes a job with ‚migr‚ Silicon Valley tech genius Terrence Skinner's brand-new London start-up - the Serious Cybernetics Company. Drawn into the orbit of Old Street's famous 'silicon roundabout', Peter must le...
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Rivers of London: Winter's Gifts
Author: Ben Aaronovitch
Author Ben Aaronovitch
Narrator Penelope Rawlins
Duration 5h 30m
THEY DO THINGS DIFFERENTLY ACROSS THE POND... When retired FBI Agent Patrick Henderson calls in an 'X-Ray Sierra India' incident, the operator doesn't understand. He tells them to pass it up the chain till someone does. That person is FBI Special Agent Kimberley Reynolds. Leaving Quantico for snowbound Northern Wisconsin, she finds that a tornado h...
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Rivers of London Book 6: The Hanging Tree
Author: Ben Aaronovitch
Author Ben Aaronovitch
Narrator Kobna Holdbrook-Smith
SeriesRivers of London, Book 6
Duration 10h 26m
Suspicious deaths are not usually the concern of PC Peter Grant or the Folly, even when they happen at an exclusive party in one of the most expensive apartment blocks in London. But Lady Ty's daughter was there, and Peter owes Lady Ty a favour. Plunged into the alien world of the super-rich, where the basements are bigger than the house and danger...
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Author: Ben Aaronovitch
Author Ben Aaronovitch
Narrator Various
Duration 4h 50m
Return to the world of Rivers of London in this first short-story collection from number one Sunday Times best-selling author Ben Aaronovitch. Tales from the Folly is a carefully curated collection that gathers together previously published stories and brand new tales in the same place for the first time. Each tale features a new introduction from...
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Rivers of London Book 2: Moon Over Soho
Author: Ben Aaronovitch
Author Ben Aaronovitch
Narrator Kobna Holdbrook-Smith
SeriesRivers of London, Book 2
Duration 10h
Body and Soul. The song. That's what London constable and sorcerer's apprentice Peter Grant first notices when he examines the corpse of Cyrus Wilkins, part-time jazz drummer and full-time accountant, who dropped dead of a heart attack while playing a gig at Soho's 606 Club. A sure sign that something about the man's death was not at all natural. W...
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Author: Ben Aaronovitch
Author Ben Aaronovitch
Narrator Kobna Holdbrook-Smith
SeriesRivers of London, Book 1
Duration 10h 5m
Probationary Constable Peter Grant dreams of being a detective in London's Metropolitan Police. Too bad his superior plans to assign him to the Case Progression Unit, where the biggest threat he'll face is a paper cut. But Peter's prospects change in the aftermath of a puzzling murder, when he gains exclusive information from an eyewitness who happ...
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Gordon 20 Nov 2024
nothing new
the best thing about this book is that it’s read by kobna holdbrook-smith. it’s obviously written for an american audience, therefore there is a lot of talk and hardly any plot. nothing compared to his older books.