Our top audiobooks to snuggle up with on a rainy day!

The weather has started to turn, the leaves have started to fall, and those wet and rainy days are becoming even more frequent! As we prepare to spend more time at home in the coming months, Team Bookends have got you covered with the best audiobooks to snuggle up with on rainy days.

 

Love In Colour by Bolu Babalola

 

Love stories inspired by tales of the past….

 

 

Join debut author Bolu Babalola as she recreates the most beautiful love stories from history and mythology and retells them with incredible new detail and vivacity. Focusing on the magical folktales of West Africa, Babalola also reimagines iconic Greek myths, ancient legends from South Asia and stories from countries that no longer exist in our world. Babalola is inspired by tales that truly show the variety and colours of love around the globe.

 

A high-born Nigerian goddess feels beaten down and unappreciated by her gregarious lover and longs to be truly seen.

 

A young businesswoman attempts to make a great leap in her company and an even greater one in her love life.

 

A powerful Ghanaian spokeswoman is forced to decide whether to uphold her family’s politics or to be true to her heart.

 

Whether captured in the passion of love at first sight or realising that self-love takes precedent over the latter, the characters in these vibrant stories try to navigate this most complex human emotion and understand why it holds them hostage

 

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The Last Story of Mina Lee by Nancy Jooyoun Kim

 

Reminiscent of Celeste Ng’s meditations on identity, this searing mother-daughter story explores the diverse and unsettling realities of being an immigrant in America.

 

 

Margot Lee’s mother is ignoring her calls. Margot cannot understand why, until she makes a surprise trip home to Koreatown, LA. What she finds there makes her realise how little she knows about her mother, Mina.

 

Thirty years earlier, Mina Lee steps off a plane to take a chance on a new life in America. Stacking shelves at a Korean grocery store, the last thing she expects is to fall in love. But that moment will have shattering consequences for Mina, and everything she left behind in Seoul.

 

Through the intimate lens of a mother and daughter who have struggled all their lives to understand each other, Margot and Mina’s story unravels the unspoken secrets that can drive two people apart – or perhaps bind them closer together.

 

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In Five Years by Rebecca Serle

 

A New York Times Bestseller. Perfect for fans of Me Before You and One Day, this heart-breaking story of love, loss and life will have you questioning everything you thought you knew about destiny…

 

‘SMART, EMOTIONAL, INTRIGUING AND COMPELLING – I LOVED IT!’ JILL MANSELL

 

 

Where do you see yourself in five years?

 

Type-A Manhattan lawyer Dannie Kohan has been in possession of her meticulously crafted answer since she understood the question. On the day that she nails the most important job interview of her career and gets engaged to the perfect man, she’s well on her way to fulfilling her life goals.

That night Dannie falls asleep only to wake up in a different apartment with a different ring on her finger, and in the company of a very different man. The TV is on in the background, and she can just make out the date. It’s the same night – December 15th – but 2025, five years in the future.

It was just a dream, she tells herself when she wakes, but it felt so real… Determined to ignore the odd experience, she files it away in the back of her mind.

That is, until four and a half years later, when Dannie turns down a street and there, standing on the corner, is the man from her dream…

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The Postscript Murders by Elly Griffiths

 

The ultimate gripping murder mystery for winter nights, from the bestselling author of The Stranger Diaries and the Dr Ruth Galloway Mysteries

 

 

‘PS: thanks for the murders’

 

The death of a ninety-year-old woman with a heart condition should absolutely not be suspicious. DS Harbinder Kaur certainly sees nothing to concern her in carer Natalka’s account of Peggy Smith’s death.

But when Natalka reveals that Peggy lied about her heart condition and that she had been sure someone was following her…

And that Peggy Smith had been a ‘murder consultant’ who plotted deaths for authors, and knew more about murder than anyone has any right to…

And when clearing out Peggy’s flat ends in Natalka being held at gunpoint by a masked figure…

Well then DS Harbinder Kaur thinks that maybe there is no such thing as an unsuspicious death after all.

From the sleepy seaside town of Shoreham to the granite streets of Aberdeen, The Postscript Murders is a literary mystery for fans of Anthony Horowitz, Agatha Christie and anyone who’s ever wondered just how authors think up such realistic crimes…

PS: Trust no one.

 

The Postscript Murders is out on 1^st October, click here to pre-order

 

 

Utopia Avenue by David Mitchell 

 

Utopia Avenue might be the most curious British band you’ve never heard of. 

 

 

Emerging from London’s psychedelic scene in 1967, folksinger Elf Holloway, blues bassist Dean Moss, guitar virtuoso Jasper de Zoet and jazz drummer Griff Griffin together created a unique sound with lyrics that captured their turbulent times. The band produced only two albums in two years, yet their musical legacy lives on.

 

This is the story of Utopia Avenue’s brief, blazing journey from Soho clubs and draughty ballrooms to the promised land of America, just when the Summer of Love was receding into something much darker – a multi-faceted tale of dreams, drugs, love, sexuality, madness and grief; of stardom’s wobbly ladder and fame’s Faustian pact and of the collision between youthful idealism and jaded reality as the ’60s drew to a close.

 

Above all, this bewitching novel celebrates the power of music to connect across divides, define an era and thrill the soul.

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Haven’t They Grown by Sophie Hannah 

 

The new stand-alone from ‘one of the great unmissables of the genre – intelligent, classy and with a wonderfully gothic imagination’ (The Times) – with a disturbingly impossible situation. 

 

 

All Beth has to do is drive her son to his Under-14s away match, watch him play, and bring him home.

Just because she knows that her former best friend lives near the football ground, that doesn’t mean she has to drive past her house and try to catch a glimpse of her. Why would Beth do that, and risk dredging up painful memories? She hasn’t seen Flora Braid for 12 years.

 

But she can’t resist. She parks outside Flora’s house and watches from across the road as Flora and her children, Thomas and Emily, step out of the car. Except….

There’s something terribly wrong.

 

Flora looks the same, only older – just as Beth would have expected. It’s the children that are the problem. Twelve years ago, Thomas and Emily Braid were five and three years old. Today, they look precisely as they did then. They are still five and three. They are Thomas and Emily without a doubt – Beth hears Flora call them by their names – but they haven’t changed at all. They are no taller, no older.

Why haven’t they grown?

 

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