About the Author

As an award-winning audiobook narrator, Penelope Rawlins has voiced over 200 audiobooks and was nominated by Audible for Narrator of the Year in 2013. Her favorite titles include The Turn of the Screw, Homeland: Carrie's Run, Homeland: Saul's Game (based on the CBS television series), The Sex Lives of Siamese Twins by Irvin Welsh, The Girl You Left Behind by Jojo Moyes, the Hattie B Magical Vet children's series, The Red Queen by Philippa Gregory, and The After Wife by Cass Hunter. Charlaine Harris is bestselling author of seven series and author or coauthor of several stand-alone novels. Five of her novels have made the #1 spot on the New York Times bestsellers list. Her Sookie Stackhouse books have appeared in twenty-five different languages and on many bestseller lists and are the basis of the HBO series True Blood. She lives in Texas, where her house is full of rescue dogs.

Kobna Holdbrook-Smith graduated from the Guildford School of Acting in 2000. In 2006 he won the Best Actor in a Supporting Role Award at the Manchester Evening News Theatre Awards, for his performance in Ma Rainey's Black Bottom at Manchester's Royal Exchange Theatre. Holdbrook-Smith has appeared in a number of TV series and movies, including Little Britain and Doctor Strange. Alex Kingston was born on March 11, 1963 in London, England, as Alexandra Elizabeth Kingston. She is an actress, known for ER, Doctor Who, and Alpha Dog. Studying music his entire life, Ben Elliot began modeling in Manhattan as a means to support his other true passion: acting. He studied acting at the Irish Classical Theatre in Buffalo, New York, where he learned an introduction to the Meisner Technique. From there he has continued studying with the great acting coach John Kirby, in Hollywood. Before becoming a bestselling author, Ben Aaronovitch was a screenwriter for Doctor Who and a bookseller at Waterstones. He now writes full-time, and every book in his Rivers of London series has been a Sunday Times Top Ten bestseller. He is published in fourteen languages and has sold more than 2 million copies around the world. Aaronovitch is also a trustee on the board of Cityread London and is a long-time supporter of Nigeria's premiere arts and cultural festival, The Ake Festival. He still lives in London, the city he likes to refer to as the capital of the world. Before becoming a bestselling author, Ben Aaronovitch was a screenwriter for Doctor Who and a bookseller at Waterstones. He now writes full-time, and every book in his Rivers of London series has been a Sunday Times Top Ten bestseller. He is published in fourteen languages and has sold more than 2 million copies around the world. Aaronovitch is also a trustee on the board of Cityread London and is a long-time supporter of Nigeria's premiere arts and cultural festival, The Ake Festival. He still lives in London, the city he likes to refer to as the capital of the world. Shvorne Marks is an actress, known for Endeavour, Home, and Silent Witness. Sam Peter Jackson is an actor, playwright, and filmmaker. As an actor he most notably appeared in the BAFTA-winning Nuremberg and the BBC's D-Day. An accomplished voice-over artist, he has lent his voice to many high-profile documentaries, commercials, audio plays, and video games, as well as TV shows and films, including Wonder Woman, Bohemian Rhapsody, and The Crown. As a playwright, his play Public Property ran at Trafalgar Studios in London's West End and earned him a 2010 WhatsOnStage Award nomination for Best New Comedy. Sam has written and directed six short films, which have won awards, sold for broadcast and distribution, as well as screened at BAFTA, the BFI, and festivals worldwide. His film Clothes & Blow was nominated for the 2018 Iris Prize-Best British Short and recently won Best Comedy at the 2019 Beeston Film Festival. Sam is natively bilingual and works in both English and German. Felix Grainger is an actor, known for Heaven Knows. Coming soon...

Reviews

Narrator Kobna Holdbrook-Smith reprises his role as Peter Grant in the first part of the audiobook, continuing his exemplary work voicing the sarcastic, young policeman turned wizard.-- "AudioFile"