Psmith takes Manhattan! Listed in the BBC’s ‘100 Novels That Shaped Our World’, Psmith, Journalist takes Wodehouse’s immaculate hero to the apparently dull city of New York, where he takes command of twee family periodical ‘Cosy Moments’, converts it to the yellowest of yellow journals, and embarks upon a crusade to unmask the owner of […]
And another new release to see in the New Year… Acclaimed as one of the finest satirical novels in the English language, Max Beerbohm’s Zuleika Dobson is a glittering tour de force that mocks the foibles of Edwardian Oxford, and that still resonates with modern ‘celebrity’ culture. Zuleika Dobson, internationally famous prestidigitator visits her grandfather, […]
A brace of new releases, to see out the Old Year… First, Charles Dickens’ classic Great Expectations features many of the author’s most memorable characters and scenes. The story follows the narrator, Pip, as he grows from a frightened child of the marsh country, to be transmuted into a prosperous young gentleman by a mysterious […]
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 […]
A fresh start for Lord Emsworth! Something New’ is the original US-published version of the first novel in PG Wodehouse’s Blandings saga: Since retiring from business, the chief obsessions of American millionaire J. Preston Peters are his dyspepsia and his collection of Egyptian scarabs. So when fluffy-minded peer Lord Emsworth – father of Freddie Threepwood, […]
A double-bill of new Audible releases to start October! First, in PG Wodehouse’s Uneasy Money, amiable but stolid peer Bill, Lord Dawlish, possessor of a slender income and a querulous fiancée, resolves to seek his fortune in America. But before he can even get on the boat, he discovers that the eccentric American millionaire whom […]
For my 15th solo Audible release, CSI meets Columbo in R. Austen Freeman’s The Adventures of Dr Thorndyke “[T]he longer I practise, the more I become convinced that the microscope is the sheet-anchor of the medical jurist.” So declares “scientific investigator”, Dr John Thorndyke, as he interprets the clues found in the likes of bloodstains, […]
In Leave it to Psmith, two titans of the Wodehouse universe meet, as the immaculate Psmith goes to Blandings Castle, home of that amiable and boneheaded peer, Clarence, 9th Earl of Emsworth… Newly emancipated from an unwilling participation in the fish business, Psmith donates an umbrella (not his own) to a damsel in distress; and […]
My solo narration of Heart of Darkness, by Joseph Conrad, went live on Audible last week! Narrator Marlow recounts his experiences in the Congo Free State, and his chilling and perilous quest upriver in search of visionary ivory trader, the enigmatic Mr Kurtz. His journey, culminating in his eventual encounter with Kurtz, horrifies and perplexes […]
My solo narration of The Little Nugget, by PG Wodehouse, is now available on Audible! Pudgy, scowling Ogden Ford, spoiled child of divorced parents with far more money than is good for them, is “the Little Nugget” – the El Dorado of the American kidnapping industry. When Ogden’s father sends him to an isolated English […]
