43 min

Author Jonathan Whitelaw The Listening Books Podcast

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Author Jonathan Whitelaw joins Jess for a cosy chat about cosy crime. He tells us how he landed such a fantastic narrator in Sid Sagar, how he approached character development in The Bingo Hall Detectives, why he chose the Lake District for the setting, and what we should be reading while we wait for his next book, The Village Hall Vendetta.
Books Mentioned
The Bingo Hall Detectives and The Village Hall Vendetta, Jonathan Whitelaw
Rivers of London: Amongst Our Weapons, Ben Aaronovitch
A Spoonful of Murder, J.M. Hall
Her Majesty the Queen Investigates (series), S.J. Bennett
The Marlow Murder Club and Death Comes to Marlow, Robert Thorogood
Links
Q&A with Ben Aaronovitch
Conversation with Kobna Holdbrook-Smith
Who Are We? 
The Listening Books Podcast is hosted by audio producer Jessica Stone and is a production of Listening Books, a UK charity that provides an audiobook lending service for over 115,000 members who find that an illness, mental health, physical or learning disability affects their ability to read the printed word or hold a book. It’s simple to join. For more information, head to www.listening-books.org.uk. To purchase a gift membership, go directly to https://www.listening-books.org.uk/gift-membership 
We’d love to hear from you! 
Here’s a good place to review the podcast. 
You can also give us a shout on Twitter: @ListeningBooks, 
Or Instagram: @ListeningBooks, 
Or Facebook, 
And we also have some content on YouTube. 
 

Author Jonathan Whitelaw joins Jess for a cosy chat about cosy crime. He tells us how he landed such a fantastic narrator in Sid Sagar, how he approached character development in The Bingo Hall Detectives, why he chose the Lake District for the setting, and what we should be reading while we wait for his next book, The Village Hall Vendetta.
Books Mentioned
The Bingo Hall Detectives and The Village Hall Vendetta, Jonathan Whitelaw
Rivers of London: Amongst Our Weapons, Ben Aaronovitch
A Spoonful of Murder, J.M. Hall
Her Majesty the Queen Investigates (series), S.J. Bennett
The Marlow Murder Club and Death Comes to Marlow, Robert Thorogood
Links
Q&A with Ben Aaronovitch
Conversation with Kobna Holdbrook-Smith
Who Are We? 
The Listening Books Podcast is hosted by audio producer Jessica Stone and is a production of Listening Books, a UK charity that provides an audiobook lending service for over 115,000 members who find that an illness, mental health, physical or learning disability affects their ability to read the printed word or hold a book. It’s simple to join. For more information, head to www.listening-books.org.uk. To purchase a gift membership, go directly to https://www.listening-books.org.uk/gift-membership 
We’d love to hear from you! 
Here’s a good place to review the podcast. 
You can also give us a shout on Twitter: @ListeningBooks, 
Or Instagram: @ListeningBooks, 
Or Facebook, 
And we also have some content on YouTube. 
 

43 min