Simon Vance : The Voice Behind Many Great Books
Posted on Tuesday, January 8, 2013 by mztupelo
Do you, like me, drive far to work, to friends or to family? Have you become bored reading the same billboards and long for something fun and entertaining to help you pass the time?
Allow me to introduce my vote for best driving entertainment ever! Mr. Simon Vance. Mr. Vance is the narrator for a variety of books. Whenever I'm unable to come up with a title to listen to, I look for the titles done by Mr. Vance. I have not been disappointed yet!
Here are some of my favorite books done by Mr. Vance. I hope you enjoy them as well.
Look for Simon Vance in downloadable ebooks as well!
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The Winter King by Thomas Penn Thomas Penn re-creates an England that is both familiar and very strange, a country medieval yet modern, in which honor and chivalry mingle with espionage, realpolitik, high finance, and corruption. |
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The Brothers of Baker Street by Michael Robertson When Reggie and Nigel Heath set up their law office at the famed 221B Baker Street, they are forced to respond to letters mailed to Sherlock Holmes, the most famous previous tenet at that address. As the brothers investigate their current case where a cabbie is accused of murdering two American tourists, the letters begin to pile up.
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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larrson The disappearance forty years ago of Harriet Vanger, a young scion of one of the wealthiest families in Sweden, gnaws at her octogenarian uncle, Henrik Vanger. He is determined to know the truth about what he believes was her murder. He hires crusading journalist Mikael Blomkvist, recently at the wrong end of a libel case, to get to the bottom of Harriet's disappearance.
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Monty Python's Tunisian Holiday by Kim Johnson In 1978, Kim 'Howard' Johnson ran away to join the circus--Monty Python's Flying Circus, that is. The Pythons converged on Tunisia to film their timeless classic, Life of Brian, and Howard found himself in the thick of it. |
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The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde An incredibly handsome young man in Victorian England retains his youthful appearance over the years while his portrait reflects both his age and evil soul as he pursues a life of decadence and corruption. |