Audiobooks – June 2026 Eisenhower in War and Peace by Jean Edward Smith 4/5 How Apollo Flew to the Moon by W. David Woods 5/5 blog.darkmere.gen.nz/2026/10…

Review: Alfred Hitchcock: A Brief Life by Peter Ackroyd 4/5 Short biography covers the basics without going into excessive detail but covers the highlights. Worth a read to get the general picture of his life theguardian.com/books/2015/m…

Review: How Apollo Flew to the Moon by W. David Woods 5/5 Amazingly detailed book covering systems and operations for every step of a mission. Read this after the popular Apollo books and fill in all your gaps. Highly Recommend goodreads.com/en/book/show/2…

Review: Eisenhower in War and Peace by Jean Edward Smith 4/5 A good single volume biography. Lots of details on his early life and his Military career. A bit less as president. Recommended bestpresidentialbios.com/201…

Audiobooks - May 2026 For the Love of Trains: Celebrating 200 Years of British Railways by Paul Routledge 3/5 The Bigger Picture: My Blockbuster Life & Lessons Learned Along the Way by Jan Landau 4/5 blog.darkmere.gen.nz/2026/10…

The Bigger Picture: My Blockbuster Life & Lessons Learned Along the Way by Jan Landau 4/5 Memoir of a film producer (Titanic etc). I think the early parts tend to work better with the last third being less interesting. But in general worth reading videoageinternational.net/20…

AudioBooks – March, April 2026 The KLF 4/5 The Future Was Now: Madmen, Mavericks, and the Epic Sci-Fi Summer of 1982 4/5 Gemini: Stepping Stone to the Moon 4/5 The Impossible Bomb 3/5 blog.darkmere.gen.nz/2026/07…

The Impossible Bomb: The Hidden History of British Scientists and the Race to Create an Atomic Weapon by Gareth Williams 3/5 Review: The British contribution to the atomic bomb with the assertion they speed up it's development by a vital year archive.ph/bItIA

Gemini: Stepping Stone to the Moon, The Untold Story by Jeffrey Kluger 4/5 A good history of the programme although not much "untold" previously. But good level of detail and stories not in wider books thespacereview.com/article/5…

The Future Was Now: Madmen, Mavericks, and the Epic Sci-Fi Summer of 1982 by Chris Nashawaty 4/5 Review: Covers the development, production and release of 8 Sci-Fi movies released by Hollywood. Brief in places but still good psychobabble200.blogspot.com…

For the Love of Trains: Celebrating 200 Years of British Railways by Paul Routledge Review: A mix of rail history and stories of the author's life and journeys. An okay light read but either topic is better severed elsewhere 3/5 lovereading.co.uk/book/97819…

The KLF: Chaos, Magic, and the Band Who Burned a Million Pounds by John Higgs 4/5 Review: Not a convention band biography but more an explanation on their influences and thinking. Fascinating, funny and a fun read cyclicdefrost.com/2013/12/th…

Audiobooks – January, February 2026 The Man Who Knew the Way to the Moon by Todd Zwillich 3/5 Who Owns This Sentence: A History of Copyrights and Wrongs 3/5 The Six: The Untold Story of America’s First Women Astronauts by Loren Grush 4/5 blog.darkmere.gen.nz/2026/05…

The Six: The Untold Story of America’s First Women Astronauts by Loren Grush 4/5 Review: A fairly balanced biography of the 6 astronauts. Covering before and during the Astronaut careers and to an extent afterwards. Worth a read for space fans. theguardian.com/books/2023/s…

Who Owns This Sentence: A History of Copyrights and Wrongs by David Bellos & Alexandre Montagu 3/5 Review: A look at the almost random ways and reasons copyright has changed over the centuries usually as different groups lobbied governments historytoday.com/archive/rev…

Review: The Man Who Knew the Way to the Moon by Todd Zwillich 3/5 The story of John C. Houbolt, a NASA engineer who pushed for Lunar Orbit Rendezvous for the Apollo program. Just 3 hours long but Interesting