Author of Audiobooks - Waking Beauty

Download the audio (Click to Play, Right Click to Save As) Our Waking Beauty series can be found here. We follow the fortunes of Princess Talia who fell asleep sometime in the Middle Ages, and now wakes up in the middle of a tutorial at Oxford...

'The Polite Princess' is none other than Princess Talia of our Waking Beauty series set in a college at Oxford University. Her friend Sally is a big supporter of Liverpool Football Club and Talia is drawn into watching a match on TV with other...

If you heard the first part, you’ll know that Princess Talia has woken up somewhat confused. She is a student at an ancient college, but she’s not quite sure how she got there. In this episode we will find out how she fits into her new surroundings....

Download the audio to your computer (Click to Play, Right Click to Save As) This, the fourth part of our Awaking Beauty series, sees Princess Talia in rather a different and unexpected light. Princess Talia is now moving in her own high circles, and...

Download the audio (Click to Play, Right Click to Save As) Chapter seven of our Waking Beauty series is longer than the others so far - so keep listening, and don't miss the singing towards the end! Some people are starting to suspect that Princess...

Download the audio (Click to Play, Right Click to Save As) Our Awaking Beauty, Princess Talia, goes out for the evening with her fellow students at college. She becomes upset when the conversation turns to time. She tells them how she feels so lost...

Princess Talia finds the modern world frightening. When she wants to go shopping she asks her college friend, Sally, to come with her. In a department store, a woman steals Talia's purse. Talia attacks the thief with unfortunate consequences for...

Princess Talia is getting into deeper and deeper trouble with the college authorities. She is convinced that the Rector's wife is a dangerous witch. Many people in college now think that she is crazy - with the notable exceptions of her friend...

Our Waking Beauty series has reached its eleventh chapter. More and more people at Westerly College Oxford now believe that Princess Talia is more than merely eccentric, but is probably insane. She has run out of a drinks party held by the Rector...

We have reached chapter ten of our popular Waking Beauty series. The Police officers had instructions to see Talia safely back to the door of her rooms at college. They left Basil and Count Anthony standing in the quad. Story by Bertie. Read by...

Our Waking Beauty series is about to get even more mysterious. We reach the fourteenth chapter in our Princess Talia series, in which she is taken against her will to be interviewed by a psychiatrist. She answers all the questions honestly, and...

The authorities of Westerly College, Oxford have given Princess Talia a choice. She can either be sent down and leave the college for good, or she can visit a psychiatrist and undertake any treatment prescribed. Of course both Talia and her friend...

Chapter sixteen of our Waking Beauty series takes us far away from our usual setting, as Basil and Sally awake in Talia's homeland. A Miller takes them to a medieval tournament where he says they can meet the Wizard Merlin. Story by Bertie. Read by...

We reach the fifteenth chapter of our Waking Beauty series, and some of the mystery surrounding Princess Talia will be revealed. The city of Oxford has fallen asleep under a cloud of fog. Only Basil and one or two others are awake. He meets Princess...

In the eighteenth chapter of our series, Basil learns to fight with a two handed sword from one of history's masters of the martial art. He takes part in a jousting contest and is feeling rather battered, bruised, and fed up. Just in case you are...

We are now in medieval times. In the seventeenth chapter of our Waking Beauty series, Sally meets some famous people and Basil is increasingly anxious that he might have to fight a duel with a knight. Story by Bertie. Read by Elizabeth. Proofread by...

We have reached the final episode of our Waking Beauty series about the mysterious Princess Talia, and her friends Basil and Sally. They have travelled back and forth in time and confronted their arch enemy. Now the sleeping city of Oxford is waking...

We reach the climax of our Waking Beauty series in which Basil and Sally return to present day Oxford. Basil must face the champion of Morgan Le Fay in hand to hand combat, and then win a challenge of a very different sort. Story by Bertie. Read by...