AUDIOBOOKS -

Why aren't they more popular in New Zealand?

I don't know the answer to this question but I have noticed when visiting bookstores in both the US and UK the huge displays and wide variety of titles that are to be seen.

Recently a friend loaned us the Penguin Audiobook "A Short History of Tractors in Ukkrainian" and over the course of three hours while travelling north we were greatly entertained by Sian Thomas' superb reading of this best-seller featuring sisters Vera and Nadezhda and their father's problems with gold-digger Valentina.

Author Marina Lewycka has recently been in New Zealand on holiday and much in the news while promoting her new title, Two Caravans.

I warmly recommend audiobooks in general and this one in particular. We had both read this book at the time of publication but that didn't detract from our great enjoyment of having the story read to us.