LOFTS CONVERSION
Norah Lofts who died in 1983 was one of the most popular novelists of her time. Her MICHAEL AND ALL ANGELS is set in and around The Fleece Inn in East Anglia on one day - Michaelmas Day -in the early 1800s. Will ,the innkeeper, is expecting a busy day as he steps into the yard in the early morning. By the end of the day everything has changed. Nothing will be the same again for Will and his daughters. I'd not read Norah Lofts before. She's a storyteller in the Cookson mould. Once you start you won't want to stop! Another prolific writer was Gladys Mitchell who I had not heard of before. She also died in 1983 and by the look of her photographs she was formidable. You wouldn't to mess with Miss Mitchell. Nor with her delightfully batty creation Mrs Bradley. Mrs B is an amateur sleuth and uses her hero Freud to help her solve the many mysteries and murders she encounters. There are countless Mrs Bradley books and The Saltmarsh Murders has a wonderful period feel to it (written in 1932). Some of it reads like Wodehouse although the black manservant (sympathetically drawn though he is) is straight out of Uncle Tom's Cabin. But the inhabitants of Saltmarsh all seem to be more than a little bonkers! Fun! MICHAEL AND ALL ANGELS by Norah Lofts THE SALTMARSH MURDERS by Gladys Mitchell (both Soundings)
Posted on Friday March 5th, 2010
FAKING IT
Because Alan Titchmarsh is so busy (I recently caught a programme that he wasn't presenting!) he doesn't have time to record his own novels anymore. So I was delighted to oblige. His latest novel is FOLLY is about art and the real live artist Sir Alfred Munnings appears as one of the characters. The first scene is in an auction room where a Munnings is the final lot. But nothing is as it seems. Auctions speak louder than words!! FOLLY by Alan Titchmarsh (Clipper)
Posted on Friday March 5th, 2010
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Sue UK  | 4:18pm on Sunday, February 21st, 2010 |
I always choose an audiobook read by you if unable to find one of my usual choice - whatever the subject or by an author I am not familiar with. This way I have discovered many new authors. I just wish that libraries would list audiobooks by their r... read more »
Gordon says: Thanks Sue. Really appreciate your comments. It have heard your complaint so many times about the lack of information about narrators in catalogues; in fact, I will send your message to a publisher that produces a catalogue of audiobooks that doesn't even mention the readers at all! Thanks again!!!
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Louise London | 3:59pm on Sunday, February 21st, 2010 |
Hi Gordon, do you have your tour dates for East Grinstead? Or any venue betwixt London & the South Coast? Very interested in hearing you talk about your specialty, please send info! many thanks.
Gordon says: Hi Louise. Thanks for that. The talk in East Grinstead is on Tuesday 27th April. I'll check with the organisers and let you times and other details.Hope to see you there!! |
B Winchmore Hill | 11:43pm on Sunday, February 7th, 2010 |
nice looking website.
Gordon says: thanks |
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I love your Audio Books.
Gordon says: Thank you...That's working really well. |
I've been an actor for over 40 years and I've performed in everything from Shakespeare to rock musicals but what impresses people most is that I once presented Play School and the fact that I'm one of the people telling you to "Mind the Gap" on London Underground! For the past 20 years I've been involved in recording audiobooks. I'm heading for 500 (!) and if I didn't have a list of all those books I don't think I'd believe it! This website will concentrate on the audiobooks and will, I hope, answer most of the questions that I'm asked when I go around the country talking about what I do. How many books have you recorded? 
