All of us here at Silksoundbooks would like to wish our star audiobook reader Lucy Fleming a big happy birthday today, May 15th.

Lucy is the niece of James Bond creator Ian Fleming and daughter of famous British actress Dame Celia Johnson and writer Peter Fleming. She is married to well known actor Simon Williams. Lucy is well known to TV audiences and has appeared in a huge range of programmes including Heartbeat, The Avengers, Rosemary and Thyme and of course Survivors.

Since 1997, Lucy and her sister Kate Fleming, have controlled Ian Fleming Publications, the company that administers Ian Fleming's literary estate.

Lucy's audiobook Tennysons Ladies explores the vast and romantic poetic world of Alfred Lord Tennyson. This exclusive and unabridged version of some of Tennyson’s best loved poetry is available in MP3 or iPod audiobook format from Silksoundbooks.

All of us at Silksoundbooks would like to wish a big Happy Birthday on Sunday 13th May to our star audio book reader Tim Pigott-Smith.

Tim graduated in Drama from the University of Bristol, in 1967 and now holds the position of Special Lecturer in the Department of Drama. He went on to train at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, and began his professional acting career at the Bristol Old Vic in 1969. He was recently honoured by Leicester University and Bristol University with a Doctor of Letters.

Tim has worked extensively in regional theatre and has toured the UK, first with Prospect in the early 70's, and more recently with his own company, Compass - taking major productions to the regions. He is also well known for his appearances on television with his award-winning performance as Ronald Merrick in The Jewel in the Crown bringing international recognition. Tim's recent movie credits include V for Vendetta, Alice in Wonderland, and Quantum of Solace.

Tim's excellent reading of the wry, evocative and extremely witty Plain Tales from the Hills by Rudyard Kipling is available as an audiobook download exclusively from Silksoundbooks.

When Silksoundbooks Audiobook star Samantha Bond played Miss Moneypenny in James Bond, she must have been one of the few women to keep her clothes on in the presence of 007!

This has all changed in her latest role in Joe Orton's farce What The Butler Saw which is playing now at the Vaudeville Theatre in London's West End. Samantha takes the part of the tipsy wife of a psychoanalyst. 'My character walks on fairly soon into the play in her petticoat and fur coat - she's lost her dress!' says Samantha.

For Silksoundbooks, Samantha reads Lady Chatterley's Lover as an unabridged audio book. The story of Lady Chatterley and her love for her husband’s gamekeeper outraged the sensibilities of Edwardian England. Samantha reads D H Lawrence's novel in a truly engrossing style.

All of us at Silksoundbooks would like to wish star audiobook reader Richard E Grant a very happy birthday.

Richard was born in Swaziland on May 5th 1957 and studied Drama at the University of Cape Town and later performed in theatre there. He changed his last name from Esterhuysen to Grant when he came to England in 1982.

His first film role brought him instant recognition in a movie that went on to become a cult classic. Withnail and I starred Richard playing an alcoholic out-of-work actor although he himself is a a teetotaller ! Later work includes roles in The Player and Gosford Park, as well as numerous television and theatre appearances.

Richards wonderful voice is put to great use in A Study In Scarlet , the first of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's stories about the World's most famous sleuth, Sherlock Holmes, available as a download for your iPod or mp3 player only from Silksoundbooks.

Happy birthday Richard.

Never performed during Coward's lifetime, Volcano is set on a Caribbean island. This national tour is the first major production of Coward's play. The cast includes Jenny Seagrove, Dawn Steele and Jason Durr. Also appearing in Volcano are Finty Williams, Perdita Avery, Robin Sebastian and Tim Daish.
Volcano is produced by Thelma Holt and Bill Kenwright and directed by Roy Marsden.
The production is to tour nationwide, beginning at the Theatre Royal, Windsor on May 21, prior to an anticipated West End run.

April is a busy month for birthdays here at Silksoundbooks, so we'd like to wish a belated 'Happy Birthday' to Andrew Sachs for the 7th April and our best wishes to Edward Fox who was born on this day, the 13th.

Julie Christie celebrates her birthday tomorrw, the 14th and George Cole on the 22nd of April! A busy month indeed.

And talking of birthdays, if you are stuck for a last minute gift idea, why not send a Silksoundbooks Audio Book Gift Voucher ?
They are ordered online and delivered by email - and give the recipient the choice of any of the audio books in the Silksoundbooks catalogue to enjoy.

Many happy returns to Silksoundbooks star audio book reader Julian Glover.

Julian has enjoyed an incredible career ranging from performances with the Royal Shakespeare Company to roles in Starwars, Bond movies and Indiana Jones.

His own adaptation of the epic poem Beowulf tells the exciting the tale of Beowulf's battles with Grendel, the monster who takes you in your sleep.

This unique audiobook is available exclusively as a download from Silksoundbooks.

Happy Birthday Julian from all of us at Silksoundbooks.

James Caan, one of Britain's most successful entrepreneurs, has launched a new book, Start your Business in 7 days.

Caan mischievously says, 'If God can make a world in seven days, you can start a business. However, unlike God, we are not allowed to rest on the seventh day.'

In his book Caan basically holds your hand for a week, helping you ask the big questions you'll need to answer in order to start your own business.

If you would like to hear James own story of his childhood as a Pakistani immigrant to how he became one of Britain's most successful entrepreneurs, download his autobiography, The Real Deal.

We’re celebrating another birthday here at Silksoundbooks.

Today it's the turn of star audiobook reader Greta Scacchi who was born in Milan, Italy on February 18th 1960. Greta is the daughter of Luca Scacchi Gracco, an Italian art dealer and painter, and Pamela Carsinga, an English dancer and antiques dealer.

Her parents divorced when she was four, and her mother returned to England with Greta and her two older brothers, first to London, then to Haywards Heath, West Sussex. In 1975, after her mother's remarriage to Giovanni Carsinga, the family settled in Adelaide, Australia.

In 1977, Greta returned to England to follow an acting career, studying at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. Her fluency in English, French, German and Italian has made her a popular choice for European Directors - her movie debut was in the German film Das Zweite Gesich in 1982. Since then she has had major roles in films such as Heat and Dust, The Ebony Tower, The Coca Cola Kid, Presumed Innocent, The Player and Country Life. Famously, she actually turned down the leading role in Basic Instinct that was taken up by Sharon Stone!

Fortunately for all of us, Greta was very keen to record The Snow Queen and other Fairy Stories as an unabridged audiobook download for Silksoundbooks!

These original versions of some of Hans Christian Andersen’s
best loved stories such as The Little Mermaid and The Snow Queen are brought vividly to life - only from silksoundbooks.com

Happy Birthday Greta - from all of us at Silksoundbooks.

All of us here at Silksoundbooks would like to wish our star audiobook reader Julia McKenzie a very happy birthday. She was born on February 17th in Enfield, Middlesex and is the daughter of Albion McKenzie, a works accountant and Kathleen, a school "dinner lady".

Julia has dominated the stage musical on both sides of the Atlantic for most of her professional life. Amongst many others her performances in Guys and Dolls, Sweeney Todd, Follies, Into the Woods and Side By Side By Sondheim have won her two Olivier Awards and a Tony nomination.For her performance in the play Woman in Mind in London’s West End she received the Evening Standard Award for Best Actress.

Julia's two Silksoundbooks downloadable audio books, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through The Looking Glass and What Alice Found There are wonderfull unabridged readings of the great stories by Lewis Carroll.

Happy Birthday Julia !