Audiobooks by Russell Hoban

Kleinzeit: Penguin Modern Classics Audiobook

Brought to you by Penguin. On an ordinary day in a strangely unfamiliar London, Kleinzeit is fired from his advertising job and told he must go to hospital with a skewed hypotenuse. There on Ward A4, he falls in love with the divine, rosy-cheeked Sister and is sent spinning into a quest involving, among other things, a glockenspiel, sheets of yellow paper, Orpheus, the Underground and that dirty chimpanzee, Death. 'Kleinzeit, is a sort of holy fool, a fierce, lonely intelligence desperately trying to make sense of a hopeless world. A tour de force ... entirely delightful' Auberon Waugh, Evening Standard 'An original ... a delight to read' The Times © Russell Hoban 2021 (P) Penguin Audio 2021

Russell Hoban (Author), Elliot Levey (Narrator)

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Mr Rinyo-Clacton's Offer: Penguin Modern Classics

Brought to you by Penguin. 'You want to buy my death for a million pounds!' Piccadilly Circus tube station is an unlikely location for a pact with the Devil, but this is where Jonathan Fitch first meets Mr Rinyo-Clacton. Devastated after his girlfriend Serafina has left him, Jonathan agrees that this mysterious stranger will pay him a million pounds for a year, if he agrees to die at the end of it. What could possibly go wrong? 'A poignant and engaging fable of ownership and surrender' Philip Hensher, Mail on Sunday 'Nothing is accidental or optional in this jewelled clockwork egg of a book ... Hoban is a hugely skilled, moving and endlessly entertaining writer' The Times Literary Supplement 'Russell Hoban's imagination knows no bounds ... darkly funny and profound' The Times © Russell Hoban 2021 (P) Penguin Audio 2021

Russell Hoban (Author), Chris Nayak (Narrator)

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Fremder: Penguin Modern Classics

Brought to you by Penguin. On 4 November 2052, Fremder Gorn is discovered drifting in deep space. He has no spacesuit, no helmet, no oxygen, but he is still alive: the sole survivor from the mysteriously vanished ship Clever Daughter. How did he get here? To find out, Fremder must search through memory, dream and the unknowable fragments of his own mind. 'Recalls Orwell's 1984 and Wells's The Time Machine ... a revelation' Guardian 'A wildly imaginative piece of science fiction' The Times 'Unputdownable, moving, ingenious ... it will remain in my head with troubling images and scenes for a long time' A. N. Wilson, Evening Standard © Russell Hoban 2021 (P) Penguin Audio 2021

Russell Hoban (Author), David Wayman (Narrator)

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The Lion of Boaz-Jachin and Jachin-Boaz: Penguin Modern Classics

Brought to you by Penguin. 'I have gone to look for a lion.' In a world where lions have become extinct, the map-maker Jachin-Boaz nevertheless abandons his wife and son to find one, leaving just this note. But his decision has unexpected consequences. He will be pursued by his son, Boaz-Jachin, and by something else: a tawny-skinned, amber-eyed beast from another place and time, a bringer of life and death. 'Magic at work ... Funny as well as beautiful' Irish Times 'Hoban is unclassifiable, thank goodness. His narrative is so minutely and compellingly realistic that after a time you cease to notice that he has stood reality on its head' Sunday Times 'A piece of invention as original as any of Tolkien's or C.S. Lewis's' New Statesman © Russell Hoban 2021 (P) Penguin Audio 2021

Russell Hoban (Author), Matt Addis (Narrator)

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The Medusa Frequency: Penguin Modern Classics

Brought to you by Penguin. It all begins the night a leaflet comes through the door of unsuccessful novelist Herman Orff, promising a magical cure for writer's block. The strange treatment plunges him into a hallucinatory London dreamworld populated by figures mythical and real: a severed talking head, Vermeer's girl with a pearl earring, his lost love Luise and, beneath it all, the Kraken awaiting. As Herman will discover, creating art is a tough business. 'Sparkles with classical allusions and a wisecracking humour ... it is pure joy' Daily Telegraph 'One of his most accessibly entertaining books' The Times 'Short, smart and fizzy, the novel seeks out the roots of creativity with none of the solemnity that phrase implies' New Statesman © Russell Hoban 2021 (P) Penguin Audio 2021

Russell Hoban (Author), Callum Coates (Narrator)

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Pilgermann: Penguin Modern Classics

Brought to you by Penguin. It is 1097 and a traveller arrives in the great, walled city of Antioch with a vision of a beautiful and mysterious geometric design that will change the lives of all those who see it. Pilgermann is a mesmerising recreation of the world of the Crusades, following its unlikely hero and those he meets on a journey of picaresque horror across a Europe of hatreds, visions and a desperate wish for salvation. 'Superb ... Pilgermann is history, metaphysics, a tangle of mysteries, profound and simple' Guardian 'A dark treatise on the mysterious nature of things ... The world according to Pilgermann is a brutish place borrowing from Hieronymus Bosch, pilgrimage narrative, allegory and the historical novel' The New York Times Book Review 'A strange and beautiful work' Evening Standard © Russell Hoban 2021 (P) Penguin Audio 2021

Russell Hoban (Author), George Weightman (Narrator)

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Riddley Walker: Penguin Modern Classics

Brought to you by Penguin. 'O what we ben! And what we come to...' Wandering a desolate post-apocalyptic landscape, speaking a broken-down English lost after the end of civilization, Riddley Walker sets out to find out what brought humanity here. This is his story. 'This is what literature is meant to be' Anthony Burgess 'Funny, terrible, haunting and unsettling, this book is a masterpiece' Observer 'A timeless portrayal of the human condition ... frightening and uncanny' Will Self 'A book that I could read every day forever and still be finding things' Max Porter © Russell Hoban 2021(P) Penguin Audio 2021

Russell Hoban (Author), Richard Pearce (Narrator)

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