Many of our titles have been recognised with awards.
Earphones Awards are given by the US magazine AudioFile each month to ‘truly exceptional titles that excel in narrative voice and style, characterizations, suitability to audio, and enhancement of the text’.
The Audies are given by the US Audio Publishers’ Association each year for ‘distinction in audiobooks and spoken word entertainment’, and have been described as the ‘Oscars of audiobooks’.
The UK Spoken Word Publishers’ Association had an annual awards ceremony between 2001 and 2005 to celebrate the best in audiobook publishing.
Murder on the Orient Express
Agatha Christie | Read by Kenneth Branagh
Produced by Strathmore for Harper Audio
Earphones Award November 2017
‘Kenneth Branagh offers a full-cast performance all by himself in this delicious production of a 1934 Christie classic.’
Nevermoor
Jessica Townsend | Read by Gemma Whelan
Produced by Strathmore for Hachette Children’s Books
Earphones Award October 2017
‘Narrator Gemma Whelan provides listeners with an immersive experience of the wondrous world of Nevermoor.’
Magpie Murders
Anthony Horowitz | Read by Allan Corduner and Samantha Bond
Produced by Strathmore for Orion Audiobooks
Earphones Award June 2017
‘Horowitz’s delicious mystery-within-a-mystery is, as they say, “fiendishly clever” and terrifically narrated.’
Miss You
Kate Eberlen | Read by Anna Acton and Finlay Robertson
Produced by Strathmore for Macmillan Digital Audio
Earphones Award April 2017
‘Listeners will smile, laugh, and cry.’
Rather Be The Devil
Ian Rankin | Read by James MacPherson
Produced by Strathmore for Orion Audiobooks
Earphones Award March 2017
‘For many longtime fans of Rankin’s series, James MacPherson IS the voice of Inspector John Rebus, and with good reason.’
The Girl Before
JP Delaney | Read by Finty Williams, Emilia Fox, and Lise Aagaard Knudsen
Produced by Ali Muirden for Quercus
Recorded at Strathmore
Earphones Award January 2017
‘JP Delaney’s intricate psychological thriller immediately entangles us, and the gifted narrators keep us spellbound.’
Awards 2016
Sweet Tomorrows
Debbie Macomber | Read by Lorelei King
Recorded at Strathmore
Earphones Award November 2016
‘King uses a different voice for each character, which makes it easier to follow the story and allows her to provide voices for characters based on their personalities, including a gruff voice for Mark and a more carefree voice for Emily.’
Julian Fellowes’ Belgravia
Julian Fellowes | Read by Juliet Stevenson
Produced by Strathmore for Orion Audiobooks
Earphones Award July 2016
‘What a joy it is to hand the reins to the superb Juliet Stevenson’
Awards 2015
The Astounding Broccoli Boy
Frank Cottrell Boyce | Read by Ewan Goddard
Produced by Strathmore for Macmillan Digital Audio
Earphones Award December 2015
‘Ewan Goddard narrates with gusto.’
Career of Evil
Robert Galbraith | Read by Robert Glenister
Produced by Strathmore for Headline Digital Audio
Earphones Award December 2015
Audie – Mystery 2016
‘Glenister’s use of a flattened, even tone for the sections that take place inside the mind of the killer adds chillingly to the tension.’
A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing
Elmear McBride | Read by the author
Produced by Strathmore for Faber Digital Audio
Earphones Award October 2015
‘…the author’s intense, high-pressure performance of this ambitious book is its best possible version because the text is all voice, expressing half-formed thoughts and half-understood impulses in half-formed sentences…’
Cup of Gold
John Steinbeck | Read by Ronan Vibert
Produced by Ali Muirden for Penguin US
Recorded at Strathmore
Earphones Award September 2015
‘[Ronan Vibert’s] tonal interpretations of the text show both taste and intelligence’
Ross
Winston Graham | Read by Oliver J. Hembrough
Produced by Strathmore for Macmillan Digital Audio
Earphones Award June 2015
‘Narrator Oliver Hembrough’s plethora of accents and voices captures the diverse characters and vivid atmosphere of this rich family saga’
Us
David Nicholls | Read by David Haig
Produced by Ali Muirden for Harper Audio
Recorded at Strathmore
Earphones Award March 2015
‘This bittersweet comedy of errors and self-discovery is destined to be one of the most talked about audiobooks of the year.’
Awards 2014
Vanessa and Her Sister
Priya Parmar | Read by ensemble cast
Produced by Ali Muirden for Penguin US
Recorded at Strathmore
Earphones Award December 2014
‘[Emilia] Fox is subtle and engrossing as Vanessa navigates love and loss as well as relationships with her family’
The Graveyard Book
Neil Gaiman | Read by ensemble cast
Produced by Ali Muirden for Harper Audio
Recorded, edited and mastered at Strathmore
Earphones Award October 2014
Audie – Best Children’s Title 8-12 Winner 2014
Audie – Distinguished Achievement In Production Winner 2014
‘The cast is uniformly excellent, giving broad or subtle performances as appropriate, and the overall effect is to enhance the sense of the graveyard as a community, and of the dangers lurking outside it’
Yes Please
Amy Poehler | Read by Amy Poehler and ensemble
UK edition mastered by Strathmore for Macmillan Digital Audio
Earphones Award October 2014
The Fortune Hunter
Daisy Goodwin | Read by Clare Corbett
Produced by Strathmore for Headline Digital Audio
Earphones Award August 2014
‘Goodwin’s Victorian-era grand romance is beautifully narrated by Clare Corbett.’
The Girl With All the Gifts
MR Carey | Read by Finty Williams
Produced by Strathmore for Hachette Digital Audio
Earphones Award August 2014
Audie – Paranormal 2015
‘[Finty Williams’] performance stresses the 10 year old’s coming-of-age story as the way she looks at herself morphs from an intelligent book-loving student to a monster who could destroy the people she loves.’
I Am Malala (YA)
Malala Yousafzai | Read by Neela Vaswani and Malala Yousafzai
UK edition mastered by Strathmore for Orion Audiobooks
Earphones Award August 2014
The Silkworm
Robert Galbraith | Read by Robert Glenister
Produced by Strathmore for Hachette Digital Audio
Earphones Award July 2014
Audie – Mystery 2015
‘Glenister captures the likable but flawed Strike with a voice as gritty and heavily accented as London’s North End’
The Rise and Fall of Great Powers
Tom Rachman | Read by Penelope Rawlins
Produced by Strathmore for Hodder & Stoughton
Earphones Award June 2014
‘This book, which moves back and forth between three different time periods, presents a challenge for any narrator. Rawlins doesn’t stumble, and her work enhances the rich writing.’
Awards 2013
I Am Malala
Malala Yousafzai | Read by Archie Panjabi
UK edition mastered by Strathmore for Orion Audiobooks
Earphones Award December 2013
Audie – Biography/Memoir 2014
The Second World War
Antony Beevor | Read by Sean Barrett
Produced by Strathmore for Orion Audiobooks
Earphones Award May 2013
‘[Sean Barrett’s] pronunciation of words, names, and even whole sentences in a range of languages, including Russian, is excellent and always convincing’
Maggot Moon
Sally Gardner | Read by Robert Madge
Produced by Ali Muirden for Hot Key Books
Recorded at Strathmore
Earphones Award March 2013
‘Madge portrays the seemingly simple-minded Standish in all of his complexity, simultaneously managing to make him sound angry, contrite, scared, and brave.’
Awards 2012
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry
Rachel Joyce | Read by Jim Broadbent
Produced by Strathmore for Random House Audio
Earphone Award September 2012
‘Harold Fry’s unlikely pilgrimage touches listeners with its indelible charm and poignant insights.’
Code Name Verity
Elizabeth Wein | Read by Morveen Chrstie & Lucy Gaskell
Produced by Strathmore for Bolinda
Earphone Award August 2012
‘Gaskell and especially Christie perform (and even sing in) a variety of English and Scottish accents as well as flawless French and German.’
The Invisible Ones
Stef Penney | Read by Dan Stevens
Produced by Strathmore for Quercus Books
Earphone Award January 2012
‘Penney’s plot and Stevens’ narration mesh beautifully to create a gripping listen.’
Other Awards
The Angel’s Game
Carlos Ruiz Zafón | Read by Dan Stevens
Produced by Strathmore for Orion Audiobooks
Earphones Award June 2009
‘A delicious, unforgottable listen’
On the Origin of Species
Charles Darwin | Read by Richard Dawkins
Produced by Strathmore for CSA
Earphones Award November 2008
‘Dawkins brings the famous words to life in an easy-access format for listeners.’
The God Delusion
Richard Dawkins | Read by the author
Direct Strathmore production for Random House Audio
Earphones Award July 2007
‘Dawkins and his wife, the actress Lalla Ward, perform this book as melody and harmony in two voices’
The Meaning of Night
Michael Cox | Read by David Timson
Produced by Strathmore for WF Howes
Earphones Award May 2007
‘Timson’s voice is as shadowy as the dimly lit rooms the players inhabit and as rich and sumptuous as their overwrought Victorian surroundings’
Natural Flights of the Human Mind
Clare Morrall | Read by Patience Tomlinson
Produced by Strathmore for WF Howes
Earphones Award May 2007
‘[Patience Tomlinson] chats rather than reads, as if, over tea and crumpets, she’s telling friends of people she knows and events she’s witnessed’
Snobs
Julian Fellowes | Read by the author
Produced by Strathmore for Orion Audiobooks
Earphones Award September 2005
‘Even better than Fellowe’s wicked wit, entertaining plot, and superb characters is his dead-on reading of his own work.’
Wolf Brother
Michelle Paver | Read by Ian McKellen
Produced by Strathmore for Orion Audiobooks
Children’s Over 6 Silver Award SWPA Awards 2005
Catherine de Medici
Leonie Frieda | Read by Anna Massey
Produced by Strathmore for Orion Audiobooks
Biography Bronze Award SWPA Awards 2005
One False Move
Harlan Coben | Read by Tim Machin
Produced by Strathmore for Orion Audiobooks
Abridged Fiction Gold SWPA Awards 2004
Real Fairy Storybooks
Georgie Adams & Sally Gardner | Read by Emma Chambers
Produced by Strathmore for Orion Audiobooks
Children’s 6 and Under Contemporary Bronze SWPA Awards 2004
A Question of Blood
Ian Rankin | Read by James Macpherson
Produced by Strathmore for Orion Audiobooks
Abridgement Gold SWPA Awards 2004
Horrid Henry’s Stinkbomb
Francesca Simon | Read by Miranda Richardson
Produced by Strathmore for Orion Audiobooks
Children 6 and Under Joint Gold SWPA Awards 2003
Production Bronze SWPA Awards 2003
The Curse of the Vampire’s Socks
Terry Jones | Read by Terry Jones
Produced by Strathmore for Orion Audiobooks
Poetry Silver SWPA Awards 2003
Strip Jack
Ian Rankin | Read by James Macpherson
Produced by Strathmore for Orion Audiobooks
Crime And Thriller Gold SWPA Awards 2003
Beggars Banquet
Ian Rankin | Read by James Macpherson
Produced by Strathmore for Orion Audiobooks
Unabridged Modern Fiction Bronze SWPA Awards 2003
Marie Antoinette
Antonia Fraser | Read by Lindsay Duncan
Produced by Strathmore for Orion Audiobooks
Biography Silver SWPA Awards 2002
Resurrection Men
Ian Rankin | Read by James Macpherson
Produced by Strathmore for Orion Audiobooks
Abridgement Joint Silver SWPA Awards 2002
Horrid Henry and the Secret Club
Francesca Simon | Read by Miranda Richardson
Produced by Strathmore for Orion Audiobooks
Children 7 and Under Silver Awards 2002
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