About Leon Garfield
Leon Garfield (1921–1996) was one of the top children’s authors
of his time. Among his most popular works were about a dozen adventure novels
set in an alternate eighteenth-century London. His novel Devil-in-the-Fog earned him the first-ever Guardian Award for
Children’s Fiction, and he won the Carnegie Medal for his retelling of the
Greek Myths, The God beneath the Sea,
and a Whitbread Book Award for John Diamond.
About Simon Russell Beale
Simon Russell Beale is a British actor, author, and music historian. A multiaward-winning actor of stage and television, he was described in the London Independent as “the greatest stage actor of his generation.” He has won eight AudioFile Earphones Awards for his narrations.