Audiobook Review: Only Time Will Tell by Jeffrey Archer

Only Time Will Tell: The Clifton Chronicles, Book  1 Written by: Jeffrey Archer Narrated by: Roger Allam, Emilia Fox Publisher: Macmillan Audio, August 2011 Length: 12 hours, 41 minutes   Only Time Will Tell is the first installment of a five part sweeping and ambitious work of fiction that purportedly will cover 100 years in history, starting in Bristol after  the end of “the war to end all wars” World War I, and taking us to the dawn of World War II. The narrative is the intriguing life of Harry Clifton, with his humble and secretly burdened beginnings and  his family’s  intertwining fate  with the wealthy Barrington family. A multigenerational, …

Talking With…Xe Sands

Xe Sands has more than a decade of experience bringing stories to life through narration and performance. From poignant young adult fiction to powerful first-person narrative, Sands’ characterizations are rich and expressive and her narrations evocative and intimate. She recently won an AudioFile Earphone Award for her narration of The Sweet Relief of Missing Children by Sarah Braunstein. Xe can be found on the web at:www.xesands.com About Audio Books: AA/JP: How did you get your start in audio books? XS: Well, I did not come to narration and VO via traditional avenues of performing arts (theatre, film, radio, etc). I came to it through years of reading to my daughter, time spent …

Talking With…Robert Fass

Equally at home in a vast variety of fiction and non-fiction genres, styles, characters and dialects, Robert Fass has been reviewed in AudioFile Magazine as “masterful”, earning praise for his “crisp narration”, “personal touch,” and “distinct characterizations” in titles by such modern and classic masters as Ray Bradbury, Joyce Carol Oates, Isaac Asimov, Jeffery Deaver and John Steinbeck. He is a three-time Audie nominee and just won his first Audie for Empire of Liberty by Pulitzer-Prize winning historian Gordon S. Wood; he was also a 2009 Grammy candidate for Anticancer: A New Way of Life by Dr. David Servan-Schreiber.  He lives in New York City. Find Robert on-line at AudioFile Magazine and …

Talking With…Tavia Gilbert

Tavia Gilbert is an AudioFile Earphones Award winner, an Audie Award nominee, and a Parent’s Choice Award winner, and has performed over 100 full-length audiobook narrations. She makes her home in Portland, Maine, where she works on stage and behind the mic, producing, directing, and narrating audiobooks and full-cast recordings. She is currently pursuing an M.F.A. in creative nonfiction at the Vermont College of Fine Arts. You can find Tavia on line at  taviagilbert.com About Audio Books: AA/JP: How did you get started in audiobooks? TG: I’ve been so lucky. I took a couple of workshops in animation and another in audiobook narration taught by Pat Fraley and Hillary Huber, and soon …