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 BranaghProduced 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.’ |
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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.’ |
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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.’ |
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Miss You Kate Eberlen | Read by Anna Acton and Finlay Robertson Produced by Strathmore for Macmillan Digital Audio
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Earphones Award April 2017 ‘Listeners will smile, laugh, and cry.’ |
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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.’ |
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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
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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.’ |
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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
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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.’ |
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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.’ |
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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…’ |
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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’ |
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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’ |
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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
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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’ |
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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’ |
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Yes Please Amy Poehler | Read by Amy Poehler and ensemble UK edition mastered by Strathmore for Macmillan Digital Audio |
Earphones Award October 2014 |
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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.’ |
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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.’ |
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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 |
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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’ |
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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
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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 |
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The Second World War
Antony Beevor | Read by Sean Barrett
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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’ |
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Maggot Moon
Sally Gardner | Read by Robert Madge
Produced by Ali Muirden for Hot Key Books Recorded at Strathmore
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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
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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.’ |
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Code Name Verity Elizabeth Wein | Read by Morveen Chrstie & Lucy Gaskell Produced by Strathmore for Bolinda
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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.’ |
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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
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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’ |
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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.’ |
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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’ |
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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’ |
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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’ | |
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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.’ |
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Wolf Brother Michelle Paver | Read by Ian McKellen Produced by Strathmore for Orion Audiobooks |
Children’s Over 6 Silver Award SWPA Awards 2005 |
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Catherine de Medici Leonie Frieda | Read by Anna Massey Produced by Strathmore for Orion Audiobooks |
Biography Bronze Award SWPA Awards 2005 |
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One False Move Harlan Coben | Read by Tim Machin Produced by Strathmore for Orion Audiobooks |
Abridged Fiction Gold SWPA Awards 2004 |
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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 |
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A Question of Blood Ian Rankin | Read by James Macpherson Produced by Strathmore for Orion Audiobooks |
Abridgement Gold SWPA Awards 2004 |
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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 |
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The Curse of the Vampire’s Socks Terry Jones | Read by Terry Jones Produced by Strathmore for Orion Audiobooks |
Poetry Silver SWPA Awards 2003 |
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Strip Jack Ian Rankin | Read by James Macpherson Produced by Strathmore for Orion Audiobooks |
Crime And Thriller Gold SWPA Awards 2003 |
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Beggars Banquet Ian Rankin | Read by James Macpherson Produced by Strathmore for Orion Audiobooks | Unabridged Modern Fiction Bronze SWPA Awards 2003 |
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Marie Antoinette Antonia Fraser | Read by Lindsay Duncan Produced by Strathmore for Orion Audiobooks | Biography Silver SWPA Awards 2002 |
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Resurrection Men Ian Rankin | Read by James Macpherson Produced by Strathmore for Orion Audiobooks | Abridgement Joint Silver SWPA Awards 2002 |
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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 |