Speaking Volumes

For quite a while now, especially after talks, I have been asked if I had written a book of my experiences. Because of my crazy schedule I had not had time to get down to it. Bizarrely enough, in what will certainly prove to my busiest year yet, I have started on the...

How nice!

From beginning to end, Gordon Griffin proves a compelling narrator in this 1933 mystery from the Golden Age of Murder. After model citizen Dr. James Earle inexplicably disappears, bicycle-riding New Scotland Yard Inspector French is consulted. Griffin is dazzling with...

The Cheapside Corpse – review

Nice review for the latest Chaloner book of Susanna Gregory. Very nice!!! Gordon Griffin takes on the convoluted narration of Thomas Chaloner’s tenth investigation in Charles II’s Restoration London of 1665. As an intelligencer, or spy, Chaloner...

Crime DOES pay!

It was a brilliant idea of the British Library to publish crime novels by long-forgotten writers who in their day were popular but (until now) more or less forgotten. I’ve had the pleasure of recording a number in this successful serious. I recently recorded...

Poolside reading……

Goodness! It’s been such a busy year recording countless books that I am so looking forward to my upcoming holiday. A villa in the sun with pool! The day after I am back, I am off to record two books back-to-back: Edward Marston’s historic novel STEPS TO...

Greece is the word!

I am thrilled to have been asked to record Homer’s Odyssey, one of the greatest works of literature. I am going to be recording the version (in rhyming couplets) by Alexander Pope. It’ll be a challenge. But what a privilege to be entrusted with such a...

A fight to the death

Saigon, the huge novel by Anthony Grey (possibly the longest I have ever recorded!) tells of the bloody history of Saigon. First, the Vietnamese had to suffer under the hands of their cruel masters France and then of course more recently they had to endure the...

An Actor’s Life for Me…

In April 1956 a little boy stepped onto a big stage. It was his local rep and he had a very good role. As it was a professional company he got paid too! He went on to do five plays for that company (during school holidays) as well as a play (again paid!) in his home...

Bard in the Bush

I learned so much from Edward Wilson-Lee fascinating book SHAKESPEARE IN SWAHILILAND, the fascinating account of Shakespeare’s influence on Africa, from Burton and Rhodes to the leaders of the emerging independent nations – Shakespeare’s influence is...

Full steam ahead………

The romance of steam-trains, the horror of shell shock, a murder in Piccadilly and the ruminations of a delightful priest. These are just some of the books I am recording in the next couple of weeks. BELLES AND WHISTLES (Andrew Martin), BREAKDOWN (Taylor Downing),...