The Balloon Goes Up Again…

AudioFile Magazine reviews Five Weeks in a Balloon Rather a pleasant surprise, this: a year and a half after publication, AudioFile magazine has reviewed my narration of Jules Verne’s Five Weeks in a Balloon, based upon the excellent modern translation prepared by Frederick Paul Walter and Arthur B. Evans, two of America’s leading Verne scholars. […]

Another mission for Hannay

Another mission for Richard Hannay Another recent release is my narration of the third volume from John Buchan’s series of Richard Hannay adventure thrillers: Listed in the BBC’s ‘100 Novels That Shaped Our World’, Mr Standfast is the third of Buchan’s thrilling, fast-paced World War I adventure novels, following The Thirty-Nine Steps, and Greenmantle: in […]

Jules Verne takes to the air!

Jule Verne’s Five Weeks in a Balloon My new narration of one of the great “first novels” in world literature, now live on Audible: Five Weeks in a Balloon is now available in a complete, accurate English translation. Prepared by two of America’s leading Verne scholars, Frederick Paul Walter and Arthur B. Evans, this edition […]