Reading The Disappearance of Adèle Bedeau convinced me that Burnet was channeling Simenon; while carrying on in that vein in The Accident on the A35, he now brings in some of the existentialist flavor of Sartre with a side of Camus.

The alienation, the desire for freedom, the internal darkness is all there, running throughout the entire novel. Waking up 117 years later, Bob discovers his mind has been uploaded into a sentient space probe with the ability to replicate itself. The taverna is the only place that Kostas and Defne can meet in secret, hidden beneath the blackened beams from which hang garlands of garlic and chilli peppers, creeping honeysuckle, and in the centre, growing through a cavity in the roof, a fig tree. Along the way, they’ll unlock wisdom for those of us navigating our own coupledoms, and for those still seeking their perfect match.on Monday 1 January 2024, Dorset Police received a report of a three-vehicle road traffic collision on the A35 near Kingston Russell. Michael Pollan, known for his best-selling nonfiction audio, including The Omnivores Dilemma and How to Change Your Mind, conceived and wrote Caffeine: How Caffeine Created the Modern World as an Audible Original. I thought His Bloody Project was amazing, and really liked Adele, but although this was a reasonable enough read, it lacked the spark and originality of the two previous books. It won the Saltire Prize for Fiction and has been published to great acclaim in twenty languages around the world. With or without the metafictional frame, an engaging tale of domestic intrigue in backwater France with two appealing detective figures.

Nothing is as it seems in Scottish novelist Graeme Macrae Burnet’s inventive, genre-defying fiction. In Love Is Not Enough, Mark’s first Audible Original, you’ll follow five real people over the course of six months as they navigate f--ked up romantic situations, ranging from dating app addiction to marital affairs to absurd fantasies. Raymond, meanwhile, finds a scrap of paper containing a scribbled address in a desk drawer in his father’s study. Instead expect a well written, occasionally tongue in cheek, tale of the lives of some rather sad, confused individuals.Georges is in a bit of a strange place both professionally and personally, so this case becomes the distraction he needs.