My Favourite Audio Books of 2008

I've listened to more audio books this year than normal. Partly due to my discovering the Doctor Who and Torchwood audio books range, as each book is only two hours long!

Leaving out the dozen or so SF listens, my favourites of 2008 are:

Francis Durbridge - Paul Temple and the Madison Mystery
Christopher Fowler - Ten-Second Staircase
Christopher Fowler - White Corridor
Christopher Fowler - The Victoria Vanishes
Deon Meyer - Devil's Peak (South African author in translation)
Aline Templeton - The Darkness and the Deep & Lying Dead

Paul Temple and the Madison Mystery is a 'full cast' radio play, lasting four hours. The Bryant and May series by Christopher Fowler is narrated by Tim Goodman, Devil's Peak by Saul Reichlin and The Darkness and the Deep & Lying Dead by Cathleen McCarron.

Favourite Audio Books - 2007

Last year, like 2006, I listened to 14 audio books so clearly a top ten is out of the question, however two of them came out with an 'A' grade:

Michael Dibdin - Back to Bologna
Barbara Nadel - A Passion for Killing

The narrators are respectively, Michael Tudor Barnes and Sean Barrett. Along with these two narrators I'd also recommend Tim Goodman (Bryant & May series by Christopher Fowler), Maggie Mash (anything) and David Rintoul (Inspector Sejer series by Karin Fossum).