Publisher Description
Shakespeare's history of the most famous ruler of ancient Rome, his murder by Brutus and a group of conspirators, and the ensuing chaos and civil war is searingly retold by award-winning author Leon Garfield. Read by Simon Russell Beale - who has spent many seasons with the RSC in such plays as The Tempest, King Lear, and Richard III - this masterful reinterpretation will delight both those who know and love the works of Shakespeare and those who have yet to discover them.
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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.