検索キーワード： ナレーター "Alex Guilford" すべてのカテゴリー

Hard Luck Motty has been through everything you can imagine. See if you can find someone who can top my life adventures! The famous people I have met and spent time with: Hollywood superstars, sporting greats. The family tragedies along the way.

It is the story of friendship between Freddy and George, Freddy’s classmate whom Freddy meets in school in Paris. Moreover, it is also the story of Sigmund, whose patriotic blindness impacted his and his family’s life; the story of Nellie, who left Germany for Colombia before Nellie’s parents sought refuge in France; and whose mission would be to reunite the family in a peaceful and friendly country.

After promising Sigmund on his deathbed that they would reunite the family in a peaceful and friendly country, they make their way via ship to Colombia, the country Nellie had made her home just as the Nazi movement in Germany was gaining momentum. After their safe arrival, Freddy is forced to look for work in order to support his mother and himself while adjusting to new surroundings at the same time. After some fortuitous, work-related encounters, Freddy decides to not only run his own lingerie business but produce the raw materials he needs himself.

Imagine living in such a cold, desolate but beautiful place as the Arctic. Polar Bear shivers and quivers from the cold wind that blows and snowflakes that melt as they touch his warm nose. What strange creatures Polar Bear sees around him—whales that dive deep into the ocean, penguins that waddle and slip and slide on the ice but can swim like graceful ballerinas under water, brightly colored puffins who can fly and swim under water, the narwhal with its long pointed tusk. There is a lot to learn for a polar bear cub.

George tells the story of an 11-year-old Windrush boy who arrived in England from the island of Jamaica in 1965. The story is narrated in third-person and speaks of the boy’s first experience of being in a cold country, the absence of an introduction to his new family, the difficulties he faces as a new boy in a new school, the struggles to find his place, his resistance in conforming to stereotypical expectations, and his fights to maintain the self-pride and independence he learnt from his early years in Jamaica.

A series of natural disasters conceal what might be terrorist attacks. Enter Edward Talbot, the latest member of a generation of an anonymous and singular family line of what might be deemed “Messiahs-in-waiting” or “God’s warriors”. On loan from the secret government organisation who resource his family line (and study them with perhaps an eye to control them), Edward helps investigate the reasons behind the disasters.

Melissa is a divorced single mother teaching in a small village primary school. After she moves to the village to live in the cottage that becomes her home, she meets an interesting guest house owner who has a very unusual past. She also discovers that the jam made from the fruit of the strange tree she finds in her garden may have special powers.

In extraordinary times, extraordinary things can happen. And these are most definitely extraordinary times. A dreadful virus is sweeping through the country—around the whole world, in fact—with consequences for us all. But in these troubled times, siblings Alexander and Lily discover many positives as they embark on an adventure into the unknown. Along the way they find that lots of important lessons are not learned in school!

Tom Hartley retires, and soon afterward, his wife dies. After years of happy marriage, he is left alone in the large family home. Realizing that he has to build himself a new life, he moves into a smaller house, tries new activities, and makes new friends among other lonely senior singles. He takes Spanish lessons and tries yoga, singles holidays, dancing, and tennis, and crosses America along Route 66, all with hilarious consequences as he throws himself into his new lifestyle. After gaining and losing one love, he finds another very unexpectedly.

When a teenage boy with raging hormones and a strong desire for freedom clashes with the regime implemented by an increasingly narcissistic father, things take dramatic and, sometimes, terrifying turns. Follow a year in the life of Kevin and his friends as they fight and try to understand their own demons at the same time as forming unbreakable friendships during adventures with often hilarious highs and the consequences of the dire lows.

Two conflicting weather systems, after wreaking havoc in North America and the West Indies, come across the Atlantic, the first in the far north, the second moving swiftly past the Azores. Both are held up by a massive anti-cyclone over Northern Russia and intensify, the first in the North Sea off Norway, blowing a hurricane southward, the second centred over Oxford, blowing a hurricane up the English Channel.

In 550 BC, or thereabouts, Buddha stated: “I am the sum total of everything I thought.” This was divine wisdom that is inspiration for the book’s title, The Truth Is What You Believe. Everything you think is based on a process of thought reaching a conclusion that becomes exactly what you are, as you traverse the complexities and opportunities of your life.

Philiphia is a wonderful country with fairies, leprechauns and goblins. The rainbow sparkles behind the castle. Six gold leprechauns have secretly hidden their pots of gold underneath it, three on each side. I wonder: Who will get the gold or even three wishes?

It all started in a small industrial town in the north of England. Walking into a boxing gym was the start of an amazing metamorphosis for the 14-year-old. At age 20, he had developed into a 16-stone boxer, powerlifter, and ferocious street fighter, with a knock-out punch in both hands. This is the story of a young man who, lacking education, immigrated to Australia at just 18 years of age only to experience the twilight world of sleaze and violence in Perth’s underbelly, confronting and often overcoming the many challenges he encountered. 

Jock and Rachael rush to Mount Isa to identify their father, who is tragically killed in a motor accident. Mount Isa, in the heart of the Australian Outback, is the prime backdrop for the extraordinary and harrowing events that unfold. People’s lives come together and fall apart while they confront the consequences of their hopes and dreams and struggle to find meaning. There are stones tossed into the pond as the ripples and waves wash out, while the coolabah tree stands as the silent, enduring guardian.

When eight-year-old Derek first heard the story of the Turnip Knight, he was obsessed. Now, he trains every day to be strong enough to one day become a Turnip Knight. But everyone around him tells him it isn't real! Strange things begin to happen around Derek and Doko Village. Perhaps the truth is not something anyone expected.

Tom isn’t anything to anyone. At least he wasn’t, until the dying wish of his father sent him on a seemingly impossible trek to find a lost wartime lover, unwittingly throwing Tom into a maelstrom of violence, death, and romance. An exciting and sometimes humorous escapade which started when a bereaved son had nothing better to do.