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The Audiobook of the Year (2018)

By: No Such Thing as a Fish
Narrated by: Jane Hill, Andrew Hunter Murray, Anna Ptaszynski, Dan Schreiber, James Harkin
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About this listen

Random House presents The Audiobook of the Year (2018), written and read by the team behind hit podcast No Such Thing as a Fish: James Harkin, Jane Hill, Dan Schreiber, Andrew Hunter Murray and Anna Ptaszynski.

Think you know what happened in 2018? Think again.

Following hot on the heels of the success of The Audiobook of the Year (or, more precisely, 12 months later), The Audiobook of the Year (2018) bravely delves behind the headlines to sniff out the best and most bizarre facts of the past 12 months.

Compiled and written by the creators of the award-winning hit comedy podcast No Such Thing as a Fish, all of whom are researchers for QI, it will establish - among other things - that:

  • Britain’s first robot shop assistant was sacked after a week
  • Donald Trump claimed the US sells F52 planes to Norway, even though F52 planes exist only in the game Call of Duty
  • During the Winter Olympics, it was so windy during the Women's Slopestyle Final that every single competitor was blown off her snowboard.
  • A snail racing competition in Plymouth was postponed because the snails were too 'sluggish' to take part.

Ranging from the distinctly offbeat to the wonderfully ludicrous - from the South Africans who were rationed to just one toilet flush per day, to the Nutella riots spreading across France, via the Miami bitcoin conference that stopped accepting bitcoin - The Audiobook of the Year (2018) promises a fact for every occasion and will prove the perfect Christmas gift for all trivia buffs.

©2018 No Such Thing as a Fish (P)2018 Random House Audiobooks
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Love the content but bad editing nearly spoilt this. Multiple takes were left in and sometimes words were interrupted randomly.

still enjoyed it though

great content- shame about the weird editing

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Since it's written and narrated by the NSTAAF team, it's like a 9 hour podcast with the same demeanour and banter. If you're a religious follower of the podcast then you'll notice a few repeats, but the majority of the content is new and fresh. Unlike most current-event-based productions, this could be visited years down the line and still be interesting. NSTAAF did a great job producing a light-hearted review of the year's weird news,, exactly as I had hoped it would after following the weekly podcast.

Like a very long podcast

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every one to their own but how this got book of the year is a puzzle.
Not amusing. Not even quirky.

not for me

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I must have got an early edit as there were a number of audio glitches that James Harkin would have picked up.if this were a podcast otherwise it was awesome.

Early edit

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I really enjoyed this book, despite the very occasional incorrect order, like dangerous droneing coming before dangerous driving. I appreciate that this is nit picking... But it is a book that claims to have it's entries in strict alphabetical order.

Other than that it is a hilarious and informative book, and would highly recommend it anyone with an interest in learning apparently random facts from this year, in a fun and engaging manner.

Really enjoyable...

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