“Juliet Stevenson’s luminous narration is a delight for the ears.” - Library Journal’s starred review of Bloomsbury Girls

Juliet Aubrey narrates Every Time We Say Goodbye


BAFTA Award-winning actress Juliet Aubrey narrates the audiobook of Every Time We Say Goodbye.

Aubrey won the BAFTA for her performance as the quintessential Dorothea Brooke in the BBC's 1994 production of MIDDLEMARCH and has appeared in dozens of television, film, stage, and radio programs over her impressive career, most recently winning the BBC Audio Drama Award for Best Actress in 2022.

Aubrey has a voice full of dusky cadence, emotion, and subtlety, and brings to the audiobook a mastery of dialect and intonation. Listen to an excerpt from the audiobook for Every Time We Say Goodbye here:

Every Time We Say Goodbye by Natalie Jenner, audiobook excerpt [Chapter Three] by MacmillanAudio (soundcloud.com)

Juliet Stevenson narrates Bloomsbury Girls


AudioFile Earphones Award Winner

A Washington Post Selection

Starred Reviews - Library Journal & Booklist

One of Audible’s Most Anticipated Listens of Spring 2022

Acclaimed actor and narrator Juliet Stevenson, CBE, narrated the audiobook for Bloomsbury Girls, with a performance that has been called “vocal virtuosity.”

Stevenson is best known for her roles in Truly, Madly, Deeply, Emma, Bend it Like Beckham, Mona Lisa Smile, Being Julia, and Infamous. She is also the BAFTA-nominated and Olivier Award-winning star of many Royal Shakespeare Company and National Theatre productions. Regarded as one of the finest audiobook narrators working today, Stevenson’s other recent narrations include Julian Fellowes’ Belgravia and the collected works of Jane Austen and Daphne du Maurier.

Listen to the beginning of the audiobook here:

Stream Bloomsbury Girls by Natalie Jenner, audiobook introduction from MacmillanAudio | Listen online for free on SoundCloud

Richard Armitage narrates The Jane Austen Society


Acclaimed actor and voice actor Richard Armitage narrated the audiobook of The Jane Austen Society.

“I’m absolutely honored to contribute to this wonderful novel,” Armitage has said. “As a huge fan of Jane Austen, this is a fantastic story that rejoices in her thrilling heritage, and it’s a must-read for any Austenite. I’m thrilled to be able to bring this amazing story and inventive characters to life.”

Armitage is best known for his roles in The Hobbit, North & South, Robin Hood, The Vicar of Dibley, Netflix's Castlevania and The Stranger, and on the stage in The Crucible, Uncle Vanya, and in recurring roles with the Royal Shakespeare Company. Armitage has narrated multiple audiobooks, including Charles Dickens’ David Copperfield, Heather Morris’s The Tattooist of Auschwitz, and Bernard Cornwell’s The Lords of the North.

Listen to the beginning of the audiobook here:


Playlists


The playlist for The Jane Austen Society includes music from various film adaptations of Jane Austen’s books, as well as film scores by such incomparable artists as Hans Zimmer, Ennio Morricone, Rachel Portman, and Michael Nyman. Take a listen here via Spotify: Awaken - Theme from "Jane Eyre" · Mercuzio Pianist (spotify.com)

The playlist for the forthcoming Bloomsbury Girls is an ode to the transatlantic big band, crooner, jazz and other standards that would have played in the late 40s and early 50s in a London bookshop, the setting of my next book. Classics by Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, Chet Baker, Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Bing Crosby, Betty Carter and many others can be found at this link: Spotify – Bloomsbury Girls