Tag: Audiobooks

SISTER SCRIBES’ GUEST: ALISON LARKIN ON WHY SHE WRITES

Welcome to Alison Larkin, bestselling author of The English American, award-winning Austen narrator and now the narrator of The Particular Charm of Miss Jane Austen and The Unexpected Past of Miss Jane Austen.  I’m with Dorothy Parker who said “I hate writing. I love having written.” I was born in Washington DC, adopted by English …

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SISTER SCRIBES: SUSANNA BAVIN ON BEING READ TO

When I was a teacher, I made a practice of reading to the children every day, whether it was a complete story or the continuing story of what the children called a “chapter book.” Often there would be time for both on the same day. The children loved being read to. I remember the near-hysteria …

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Happiness: The Crooked Little Road to Semi-Ever After Out On Audiobook

Happiness: The Crooked Little Road to Semi-Ever After, the compelling memoir from Heather Harpham about her journey from the bliss of young love, to handling a shock-pregnancy alone, to the earth-dropping learning your new-born has an incurable blood disease – narrated by the author herself. Lyrical, heart-breaking, loving and hopeful, the book has been phenomenally …

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A New Way to Celebrate Irish Culture: Most Inspired Irish Audiobooks for St Patricks Day

Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde – Written by Oscar Wilde – Narrated by Judi Dench, Jeremy Irons, Derek Jacobi, Sinead Cusak, Joanna Lumley, Samantha Bond, Robert Harris, Geoffrey Palmer, Donald Sinden, Elaine Stritch Here is a collection of the Oscar Wilde’s famous fairy tales, read by a cast of leading British actors. Ulysses – Written …

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