ICYMI: Ben Aaronovitch Interview with Listening Books


In case you missed it, Ben Aaronovitch won the Listening Books Members’ Choice Award for 2022. The organization interviewed Ben about his books, and the video for that online event is available now (above).

Ben is the internationally-bestselling author of the Rivers of London series, which comprises novels, novellas, and comics. His latest novel is AMONGST OUR WEAPONS (Orion/DAW), and the latest novella is WINTER’S GIFTS (Orion). Here’s the synopsis for the latter…

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 has flattened half the town – and there’s no sign of Henderson.

Things soon go from weird to worse, as neighbours report unsettling sightings, key evidence goes missing, and the snow keeps rising – cutting off the town, with no way in or out…

Something terrible is awakening. As the clues lead to the coldest of cold cases – a cursed expedition into the frozen wilderness – Reynolds follows a trail from the start of the American nightmare, to the horror that still lives on today…

AMONGST OUR WEAPONS Wins Listening Books Members’ Choice Award!


We’re very happy to share the news that the audiobook of Ben Aaronovitch‘s latest novel, AMONGST OUR WEAPONS has won the 2022 Listening Books Members’ Choice Award! You can watch the announcement, by Stephen Fry, above.

The ninth novel in the acclaimed, best-selling Rivers of London/Peter Grant series, it is narrated by Kobna Holdbrook-Smith, who has narrated all novels’ audiobooks in the UK! Published by Orion, here’s the synopsis…

There is a world hidden underneath this great city…

The London Silver Vaults – for well over a century, the largest collection of silver for sale in the world. It has more locks than the Bank of England and more cameras than a celebrity punch-up.

Not somewhere you can murder someone and vanish without a trace – only that’s what happened.

The disappearing act, the reports of a blinding flash of light and memory loss amongst the witnesses all make this a case for Detective Constable Peter Grant and the Special Assessment Unit.

Alongside their boss DCI Thomas Nightingale, the SAU find themselves embroiled in a mystery that encompasses London’s tangled history, foreign lands and, most terrifying of all, the North!

And Peter must solve this case soon because back home his partner Beverley is expecting twins any day now. But what he doesn’t know is that he’s about to encounter something – and somebody – that nobody ever expects…

Effortlessly original, endlessly inventive and hugely entertaining – step into the world of the much-loved, Number One bestselling Rivers of London series.

Many congratulations to Ben and Kobna!