It was the best of times, it was the worst of times… Another title to finally emerge after long delay from the turbid depths of Audible: Dickens most famous historical novel, A Tale of Two Cities explores the horrors of the French Revolution, and the injustices that brought it about, through the history of the […]
Another Double-Bill: Fiction and Non-Fiction from H. G. Wells Yet two more recent releases from the backlog of the somnolent Audible, this time more from the great H. G. Wells: First, fiction: Tales of Space and Time, is a fantasy and science fiction collection, comprising the three short stories ‘The Crystal Egg’, ‘The Star’, and […]
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 […]
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 […]
