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Audible and Time Out come together to bring you a month of the best audiobooks to coincide with the big December film releases

By Time Out in association with Audible
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With some huge films coming out this month, we've got together with Audible to bring you some of the best audiobooks that chime perfectly with December's new cinema releases.

This month, it's ‘Sunset Song’, ‘By The Sea’ and ‘Star Wars’.

Terence Davies’s brand new movie adaptation of ‘Sunset Song’ has revived a passion for this seminal Scottish novel. Read by some of the best contemporary actors, Audible’s audiobooks let you experience stories like never before.

TIME OUT RECOMMENDS Along with the audiobook for ‘Sunset Song’ itself, here are three other great picks that explore its themes of place, belonging and raw emotion in their own distinctive ways.

Sunset Song
Actress Eileen McCallum reads ‘Sunset Song’ with all the lyrical intensity that makes the original novel such a great of twentieth-century Scottish literature. Explore the emotional and physical landscape of heroine Chris Guthrie’s life as McCallum powerfully tells Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s story of family, home, love and duty.
The Great Gatsby
You’re invited to the lavish parties of New York in the Roaring Twenties as F Scott Fitzgerald’s story of passion, obsession and decadence unfolds. Oscar-nominated actor Jake Gyllenhaal is the voice of Nick Carraway, our narrator through the drama and tragedy of the millionaire world of his neighbour, the mysterious Jay Gatsby.
Even Dogs in the Wild
‘Taggart’ actor James Macpherson brings a perfect, no-nonsense performance to the latest John Rebus story. Ian Rankin’s taut crime fiction picks at the dirtier corners of contemporary Edinburgh in a story with plenty of twists, as DI Rebus is lured from retirement to investigate a new murder case.
The Silver Linings Playbook
Ray Porter gives voice to author Matthew Quick’s deft insights in this touching, often funny reflection of love’s faultlines and the imperfections of relationships. Lose yourself in the full story of a thoroughly modern romance that was made into a hit movie starring Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence.

In one of December’s biggest movie releases, Angelina Jolie wrote, directed and stars in ‘By the Sea’. Co-starring real-life husband Brad Pitt, the film explores the expectations, demands and realities of modern relationships.

TIME OUT RECOMMENDS If you love stories that ask awkward questions and offer powerful answers, don’t stop with ‘By the Sea’. Lose yourself in the world of raw emotion with these four great stories, brought to life by Audible.

Revolutionary Road
American actor Mark Bramhall makes author Richard Yates’s words shimmer with compassion and remorseless clarity in ‘Revolutionary Road’ – widely regarded as a masterpiece of realistic fiction. If you enjoyed the 2008 Kate Winslet/Leonardo DiCaprio film, revel in this unabridged exploration of 1960s American suburbia.
Orange Is the New Black: My Time in a Women’s Prison
Strangely, it’s hard not to break out into laughter at times as Cassandra Campbell tells the compelling, often heartbreaking account of inmate number 11187-424. This is the memoir that inspired the Netflix series about New Yorker Piper Kerman, who was unexpectedly sentenced to 15 months in jail for a long-forgotten offence.
Eat Pray Love

Hear Elizabeth Gilbert tell her own incredible story in her unabridged reading of ‘Eat Pray Love’. Subtitled ‘One Woman’s Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia’, it’s a remarkable quest for spiritual enlightenment, and an inspiring story for anyone who’s battled with divorce, depression and heartbreak.

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Adapted for the multi Oscar-nominated film starring Brad Pitt, ‘Benjamin Button’ is told here by actor BJ Harrison, a master narrator of everyone from Shakespeare to Dumas to Conan Doyle. In F Scott Fitzgerald’s short-story fantasy, Button lives life backwards, born old and growing younger each year, with profound consequences.

As ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ storms onto the big screen, one of cinema’s greatest achievements shows no sign of letting up. Playing so ingeniously with the past, present and future as no other fantasy has before, the ‘Star Wars’ epic revels in its worlds of possibilities. But the story doesn’t have to stop there. Let the greatest actors on audiobook launch you into the realms of the best science fiction and fantasy writing.

TIME OUT RECOMMENDS If you love ‘Star Wars’, then you’ll love this week’s pick of sci-fi titles to take you far beyond the movie action into a universe of amazing storytelling.

Star Wars: The Force Awakens

Star Wars: The Force Awakens

Immerse yourself in every action-packed detail of the eagerly awaited Episode VII in the great ‘Star Wars’ epic. In ten glorious hours of unabridged audiobook, the official novelisation of JJ Abrams’ blockbuster is released the same day as the film – weeks ahead of the story’s print edition.
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Live in Concert
The late Douglas Adams, the great master of smart, original sci-fi himself, takes you on an odyssey through his wildly funny, wildly popular epics ‘The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy’, ‘The Restaurant at the End of the Universe’, and ‘Life, the Universe and Everything’. Recorded in concert at the Almeida Theatre.
Ready Player One
No one could bring this thriller to life better than Wil Wheaton of ‘Star Trek: The Next Generation’ fame. It’s 2044 and famine, poverty and disease are widespread. Wade Watts and millions like him escape reality via OASIS, a vast virtual utopia. Its founder dies, leaving OASIS to whoever can solve a series of riddles. Can Wade win?
Path of Destruction: Star Wars: Darth Bane, Book 1
If the new movie is still not enough to quench your thirst for Star Wars, indulge yourself in Jonathan Davis’s narration of Drew Karpyshyn’s action-packed story of the Sith’s quest to enslave the galaxy. A new force emerges, more powerful than the entire Brotherhood of Darkness, destined to realise the full potential of the Sith…
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