Richard Paul Thomas has narrated 3 audiobooks on Listento.it by 2 authors. The most-rated is On Herring Cove Road.
Winning Against the Odds
Summary
Winning Against the Odds tells the fascinating, eccentric story of one of England’s most fascinating and eccentric men. Stuart Wheeler went to Eton and Oxford. He was an officer in the Welsh Guards, a barrister, an investment banker, and a major donor to the Conservative Party. You might think that he has led a life of impeccably conformist upper-class respectability. You’d be wrong. For Wheeler is also an illegitimate child adopted at the age of two, a maverick businessman who made his fortune on the back of ‘the most brilliant idea that anyone had had of his generation’, and a devoted gambler who has been thrown out of more than one Las Vegas casino. He played cards with Lord Lucan two nights before his infamous disappearance, effectively invented spread-betting with the creation in 1974 of IG Index and gave William Hague’s Conservatives £5 million (still the biggest political donation in British history) before being expelled from the Tories, joining UKIP, and becoming a key figure in Vote Leave during the Brexit referendum campaign. Forthright, principled, and always entertaining, Winning Against the Odds is a story of bets won and lost, of outrageous personalities and dramatic events, and of a singular mind that engages with the world around it in a completely unique and compelling way.
©2019 Stuart Wheeler (P)2019 Stuart Wheeler
Still on Herring Cove Road: Hickory, Dickory, Death
Summary
Book two of the Herring Cove Road (Not-So-Nuclear Family Saga) series. The first murder of a child raised eyebrows; the second raised alarms. Ten-year-old Dewey is moving, and he couldn't be more excited; though, he's alone in his enthusiasm. Lisa, his mother, and recently retired Avriel, his next door neighbor and best buddy, don't share in his excitement regarding the move from their suburban bungalow to a dirty basement level apartment in the lower class area, where two murders have recently occurred. This sometimes lighthearted and at other times intense novel follows naive Dewey as he befriends two different streetwise boys, learns the pros and cons of friendship, and is then stalked by a killer preying on children. About the series: Taking place primarily in the '70s with believable characters and mostly situated in several areas of Halifax, Nova Scotia, the series chronicles the actions (and their results) of an old and introverted Jewish man, his doting and take-charge wife, a young and struggling single mother, her naive and lonely son, and a boy streetwise beyond his years. On Herring Cove Road: Mr. Rosen and His 43-Lb Anxiety Still on Herring Cove Road: Hickory, Dickory, Death Off Herring Cove Road: The Problem Being Blue Before Herring Cove Road: Ruth Goldman and the Nincompoop (A Love Story)
©2014 Michael Kroft (P)2017 Michel Kroft
On Herring Cove Road
Summary
Once an amusing extrovert with a reputation as a prankster, Mr. Rosen is entering his senior years as a stoic, 30-year converted introvert who hates change, has little to no interest in people, and is more than content to have his wife sit in the navigator's seat of his life. Since becoming a practicing introvert, there have been almost no changes in his life, and for the few that there were, his wife had walked him through them, including the recent move to a much smaller home in a lower/middle-class neighborhood where he lives directly next door to a racist whose nine-year-old son addresses him as Mr. Jew. Mr. Rosen had seen the move coming, and he is very much aware of the enormous change to come sometime in the, hopefully, far off future; though, he refuses to give it any attention. That change will come on slowly and painfully and will eventually force him to chart his own life's route. This heartwarming, feel-good novel offers a rollercoaster ride of emotion as Mr. Rosen's habitual world begins to implode while on a collision course with the chaotic world of an innocent child, its troubled mother, and vengeful father. About the series: Taking place primarily in the 70s with believable characters and mostly situated in several areas of Halifax, Nova Scotia, the series chronicles the actions (and their results) of an old and introverted Jewish man, his doting and take-charge wife, a young and struggling single mother, her naive and lonely son, and a boy streetwise beyond his years. Book One - On Herring Cove Road: Mr. Rosen and His 43Lb Anxiety Book Two - Still on Herring Cove Road: Hickory, Dickory, Death Book Three - Off Herring Cove Road: The Problem Being Blue Book Four - Before Herring Cove Road: Ruth Goldman and the Nincompoop (A Love Story)
©2016 Michael Kroft (P)2017 Michael Kroft