Fitzcarraldo Editions is expanding its audiobook publishing with five new frontlist audiobooks produced in house publishing this autumn simultaneously with print and ebook editions.
Actor Toby Jones, who will be appearing this Autumn in the forthcoming TV drama The Hack and as Iago in Othello at the Theatre Royal Haymarket, narrates Vaim by Nobel Prize laureate Jon Fosse, translated by Damion Searls. House of Day, House of Night by Olga Tokarczuk, translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones, is narrated by actor Priyanga Burford, while Claire-Louise Bennett narrates her own novel, Big Kiss Bye-Bye.
The expanded audiobook programme also include two forthcoming works of non-fiction – Clare Carlisle’s Transcendence for Beginners and Thea Lenarduzzi’s The Tower, both narrated by the authors – and takes the number of audiobook productions published in house by Fitzcarraldo Editions this year to eleven. These include the Booker Prize-longlisted novel One Boat by Jonathan Buckley and two publications by International Booker Prize-shortlisted author Guadalupe Nettel, Still Born and The Accidentals, both translated by Rosalind Harvey.
This expansion in the audiobook publishing programme takes the total number of publications produced in house to nineteen, with more planned for 2026. Notable backlist audiobook publication include King Kong Theory by Virginie Despentes, translated by Frank Wynne and narrated by Maxine Peake, and Alphabetical Diaries by Sheila Heti, narrated by Kate Berlant.
Associate publisher Tamara Sampey-Jawad, who oversees the press’s audiobook programme, said: ‘As the audiobook market continues to grow, so too do the opportunities to find new readers and we’re thrilled to be stepping up our audiobook publishing, with more of our frontlist and backlist titles available in audio. And looking ahead to 2026, and we’re very excited have audiobooks by Edward Said, Jon Lee Anderson, Polly Barton and Keith Ridgway in the pipeline.’
