Jason Ayres has 9 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 8 narrators. The most-rated is The Time Bubble.
Midlife Crisis
Summary
If you were offered the chance to live six days of your life over again, which would you choose? Richard Kent is feeling well and truly fed up. As he approaches middle age, his waistline is expanding, his career options are dwindling, and everything from pop music to television seems like it was so much better in his youth. If that isn't depressing enough, his wife nags him, his kids ignore him, and his boss thinks he's a dinosaur. He's just about ready to give up, but then a truly remarkable encounter with his younger self changes everything. A trip back to 1984 in the body of his seven-year-old self is just the beginning of an amazing adventure revisiting key moments from his own life. These include an unfulfilled teenage crush and revenge on his evil boss armed only with a large rubber brontosaurus. Midlife Crisis is the first in a loosely connected series of time travel novels. It features characters and situations from the accompanying Time Bubble series and can be listened to as a stand-alone or alongside those stories.
©2016 Jason Ayres (P)2018 Jason Ayres
Rock Bottom
Summary
Kay's life is in a mess. Now she's been given the chance to go back and relive six days of her life again. Can she use them wisely to turn things around? At 18, she had it all - brains, beauty, and plans for a glittering career. By 43, she is barely scraping a living and renting a grotty flat above a chip shop. Traded in by her husband for a younger model, she spends her life seeking solace in vodka and one night stands. With her new found ability to time travel Kay makes good use of her trips back in time, from reliving Christmas Day in the 1980's to turning private detective in her own divorce case. But will an attempt to unmask a murderer in the local community be her undoing? Rock Bottom is the second in a loosely connected series of time travel novels. It features characters and situations from the accompanying Time Bubble series and can be listened to standalone or alongside those stories.
©2017 Jason Ayres (P)2018 Jason Ayres
My Tomorrow, Your Yesterday
Summary
When 54-year-old Thomas Scott wakes up in a hospital bed on New Year's Day, he has no memory of who he is or why he is there. Racked with pain from a terminal illness, death swiftly follows. The next day he wakes up confused to discover it is now New Year's Eve. As the days pass he soon realizes he is living his life backwards one day at a time. So begins the extraordinary tale of a man who goes to sleep on Sunday nights and wakes up on Saturday mornings. Thomas is a man who cannot form a meaningful relationship with a woman because when he jumps back to the previous day, she has no memory of him. On the plus side, he can win a fortune from gambling any time he likes, but has only the current day to spend it. Trying to find some purpose in life he resolves to find out as much about his own personal history as he can. Learning of the death of his wife and an attack on his daughter he prepares to make changes in the past to secure their future. Set in and around Oxford between the years of 2025 and 1970, this unique concept for a time travel novel features plenty of humor, nostalgia and what-if moments. From middle-aged father all the way back to childhood, the passing years present all manner of different challenges as he grows ever more youthful.
©2015 Jason Ayres (P)2016 Jason Ayres
Global Cooling
Summary
Time travel meets apocalyptic weather event in this eagerly awaited sequel to The Time Bubble! In 2029, Earth is facing a major climate catastrophe. An asteroid strike blankets the globe in dust and ash, blocking out the sunlight. Soon, temperatures begin to fall. As weather conditions worsen, the residents of a small market town in Southern England must make a decision - flee south or wait for the worst to pass. With power supplies failing and food scarce, survival is at stake as those with darker motives seek to take advantage of the situation. For those heading south, can the discovery of a new time bubble provide a way out? Global Cooling is the second part in a series of time travel based stories which began with The Time Bubble. Set a decade after the main events of the first book, this story picks up the lives of the main characters as they reach their late 20s. The trilogy concludes with the final volume, Man Out of Time. A number of spin-off novels featuring characters from the series are also available. These include Midlife Crisis, Rock Bottom, and My Tomorrow, Your Yesterday.
©2014 Jason Ayres (P)2019 Jason Ayres
Class of '92
Summary
Josh Gardner, a man born in 2001, finds himself stranded in 1992 in this latest novel from the acclaimed Time Bubble series. Alone in a pre-internet culture, with funds low, Josh seeks out the one person who can help him survive in the 20th century, his former teacher, Peter, who is now younger than he is. Finding somewhere to live and a means of support until he can return to his own time are soon the least of Josh's worries as a new Time Bubble mystery develops. A local police officer, Rebecca Osakwe, discovers that there is more to a spate of people going missing than meets the eye. When people from decades in the past start showing up she teams up with Josh and Peter to investigate. Together, the new Time Bubble team face some tough challenges as they try and deal with the new arrivals. Time travel fans who enjoy a healthy slice of 1990s nostalgia will love this fifth volume in The Time Bubble series.
©2018 Jason Ayres (P)2021 Jason Ayres
Man out of Time
Summary
What would you do if you found yourself cast 22 years into the future, into a world where your home is no longer your home, and you've been declared legally dead? This is the situation that Daniel Fisher finds himself in, at the beginning of this latest installment in The Time Bubble series. Stranded in the future, in a place where his outdated currency is worthless, things go from bad to worse for Dan very quickly. Before long, he finds himself incarcerated in a secure psychiatric unit, and his hopes of ever returning to the past looking bleak. Elsewhere, Josh has unlocked the secrets of the time bubbles and can now freely travel in time. He returns to the scene of past encounters, as well as travelling to the future to join Peter on his adventures through time. But has he been careful enough to prevent others from discovering his secrets? Man out of Time is the third novel in The Time Bubble series. The story continues with Splinters in Time. A fifth volume, Class of '92, was released in December 2018. A spin-off series, Second Chances, is also available. Want to know more about the author? You can find him at: jasonayres.co.uk, facebook.com/TheTimeBubble, or Twitter @TheTimeBubble.
©2015 Jason Ayres (P)2019 Jason Ayres
Splinters in Time
Summary
Getting lost in the wrong time was bad enough. But things get far worse for Josh Gardner when he can't even find his way back to his own universe. When his ex-girlfriend, Lauren, starts having recurring nightmares about a strange alternate reality in which she was murdered, Josh becomes interested in proving the existence of other universes. Finding a focal point in the past from which thousands of new universes seem to stem, he travels back in time to find out how they were created. Unfortunately, he ends up causing the very event that he went back to investigate. Cast adrift in the multiverse, he no longer has any control over where and when he will end up. With each jump sending him further and further back in time, he finds himself lurching from one alternate universe to another, some similar to his own, others drastically different. He has but one hope - to find an alter ego in another universe to help him find his way home. But in worlds ravaged by wars and diseases, in many cases it becomes a battle just to stay alive. Splinters in Time is the fourth novel in The Time Bubble series. The story continues in the fifth volume, Class of '92. A spin-off series, Second Chances, is also available. Want to know more about the author? You can find him at: Website: jasonayres.co.uk Facebook: facebook.com/TheTimeBubble/ Twitter @TheTimeBubble *** What listeners are saying about Splinters in Time.... "Superb series seems to get better the longer it goes." (Ozzie2920 on Amazon UK) "Really enjoyable addition to the series. If you like time travel books this is as good as it gets. And more to come hopefully." (itjustmyopinion on Amazon UK) "I've read all of these books and I think it's remarkable how Jason tied it all together. The way he manages to write them all as stand alone books and for together in this way is pure genius. Thanks Jason for writing such amazing books that have fed one of my obsessions - time travel." (Shazzy on Amazon UK) "Another great time bubble story. Love the interlinking nature of the novels." (Ian B Cormack on Amazon UK) "Excellent addition to one of the best time travel series I have ever read and I have read dozens." (ilvwdw on Amazon USA)
©2017 Jason Ayres (P)2020 Jason Ayres
Happy New Year
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Amy was never very keen on New Year's Eve - and that was before the time-travel accident that sent her spiraling back into the past. Now she's living every New Year of her life over again in reverse. As soon as each is over she is thrown back a year in time to the previous one. Starting at 39 years old, she grows progressively younger, revisiting snapshots of her life along the way. From dealing with an unfaithful boyfriend to trying to help her alcoholic mother, she attempts to make the most of her second chances, with varying degrees of success. As Amy grows ever more youthful, the reality of her impending mortality looms ever larger. Her only hope is to track down the mysterious stranger who sent her back through time, but he is nowhere to be found. Happy New Year is the fourth in a loosely connected series of time-travel novels. It features characters and situations from the accompanying Time Bubble series and can be heard stand-alone or alongside those stories.
©2018 Jason Ayres (P)2019 Jason Ayres
The Time Bubble
Summary
Charlie and Josh's interests were the same as most other teenagers: drinking, parties, and girls. That was until the day they discovered the Time Bubble. It starts as a bit of fun, jumping a few seconds into the future. Soon things take a more serious turn as the leaps in time increase in duration. When a teenage girl goes missing, and the police become involved, suspicion falls on Charlie. How can he explain where she is? Will anyone believe him? Set in a small market town in Southern England in the early 21st century, this light-hearted time travel novel has plenty to delight listeners of all ages. This story is the first part of a series which continues with Global Cooling, Man out of Time, and Splinters in Time. A spin-off series, Second Chances, is also available.
©2014 Jason Ayres (P)2018 Jason Ayres