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Audiobook read by Sally Darling.
The story of how Menolly escapes from her family, impresses fire-lizards and finds a route, eventually, to Harper Hall, even though she's (shock! horror!) a girl. A slight book (it is of its time) but the character of Menolly is good and the tension worked into the story was effective, even though you knew how it would end right from the get-go. Sally Darling reads it well. There's a very slight southern American twang in the vowels (heeyah instead of here) which I always find a bit off putting in fantasy that's set in a secondary world, but it's not enough to draw me out of the story.
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Audiobook. History you didn’t learn in school. A wry account of the awful things Britain has done over the centuries from hanging monkeys to massacring nations, causing famines, and starting the opium wars in order to get access to tea. It would be funny if it were not so tragic, but James Felton reads it well, and it fairly zips along. Yes, fellow Brits, our ancestors were really this awful, collectively if not individually.