I was telling a story, and as an actor, as an artist, that’s the central love. 

Actor and audiobook narrator Kobna Holdbrook-Smith talks about what it was like to voice Rivers of London as his very first audiobook, what he had to unlearn to do voice work, how Frank Sinatra inspired his mic technique, and even his first experience of snow. He also offers a heap of recommendations for your reading list: 

Books

Slough House series by Mick Herron, narrated by Sean Barrett 

The Architect’s Apprentice by Elif Shafak, narrated by Grant Cartwright 

The Terrible: A Storyteller’s Memoir, by Yrsa Daley-Ward, narrated by the author and Howard Daley-Ward 

She Would Be King by Weyétu Moore, narrated by the author 

The Milkman by Anna Burns, narrated by Bríd Brennan 

Mr Loverman by Bernardine Evaristo, narrated by James Goode 

Circe by Madeline Miller, narrated by Perdita Weeks 

The Rosewater books (The Wormwood Trilogy) by Tade Thompson, narrated by Bayo Gbadamosi 

Authors

Anne Carson, Roxane Gay, Toni Morrison 

Narrators

Imogen Church, Anna Bentinck, Nicole Davis, Raj Ghatak, Tania Rodrigues, Adjoa Andoh, Bayo Gbadamosi 

Links Jess promised to include!

The 2021 Audiobook Listening Challenge 

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