Aha! by Mark Watson now available on Audible

Mark Watson’s new book, Aha! – Leadership Insights for Making Business a More Human Experience is now available on Audible.

Mark condenses over 30 years of real-life experience guiding and working with CEOs and leaders into 12 insights – lenses through which to consider different aspects of leadership and how to create a more human experience in work.

Directed by Justin Hill and read by the author,  Aha! is a fresh, holistic, insightful read full of stories, examples and Aha! moments to inspire leaders and anyone who seeks to lead.

Ethical Living Through Stories now on Audible

Wen-chin Ouyang’s Ethical Living Through Stories – Encounters With Adab is now available on Audible.

Ethical Living Through Stories front cover

Drawing on classic Arabic stories from the Thousand And One Nights and canonical Chinese novels Three Kingdoms, The Journey To The West and Water Margin, Wen-chin Ouyang shows how our experience of adab stories has the power to transform both our personal relationships and society.

Masterfully narrated by Clive Hayward, Ethical Living Through Stories was directed by Justin Hill and Russell Harris, and produced at Landen Park Studio.

Clive Hayward and Russell Harris at Landen Park Studio
Clive Hayward and Russell Harris at Landen Park Studio 13 March 2025

This is our second project for The Institute of Ismaili Studies.  The first was The Fatimids Part 2 – The Rule From Egypt.

Thomas R. Weaver’s Artificial Wisdom now on Audible

The revised and updated edition of Thomas R. Weaver’s Artificial Wisdom, narrated by Steven Pacey, is now available on Audible.

The first edition was self-published by the author and produced here at Landen Park Studio.  Following its huge success, the work was acquired by Penguin Random House.  When the time came to produce a new audiobook, Penguin Random House came back to Landen Park Studio and producer Justin Hill.

We’re really proud and grateful to have been entrusted with the recording, direction, editing and post-production of a major Penguin Random House audio production.

Artificial Wisdom (2nd Edition) by Thomas R. Weaver

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Steven Pacey, Landen Park Studio regular, returned to narrate the new version of the book.

Steven Pacey at Landen Park Studio
Steven Pacey at Landen Park Studio

Produce your next audiobook at Landen Park Studio!

Marina McLune’s A Visit To Stoneybrook now on Audible

Marina McLune’s second Sussex-set novel, A Visit To Stoneybrook, is now available on Audible and all your favourite audiobook platforms.

Set in the same world as its predecessor, A Year At Marshywood, the book nevertheless stands alone, rather than being a sequel.  In it, McLune stretches her narrative muscles and writes a deeper and more multi-layered story – but retains all the charming cultural and musical references to the 1980s that made Marshywood such fun to listen to.

And like A Year At Marshywood, A Visit To Stoneybrook is unashamedly tender, romantic, and hopeful.

A Visit To Stoneybrook by Marina McLune

Lucy Scott narrates A Visit To Stoneybrook, with Justin Hill directing.

Produce your next audiobook at Landen Park Studio!

 

Landen Park Studio – Five Years

Today is our fifth birthday!  At 10am on August 12th 2020, in the midst of COVID-19, we kicked off our first booked recording session at Landen Park Studio.  It was actually a vocal recording for a song, performed by the inimitable Ian Hoare for client Pip Burley – ironic, since the studio was built to specialise in audiobooks, voiceover and ADR/dubbing, which is what we’ve mostly done ever since.

THANK YOU SO VERY MUCH TO ALL OUR CLIENTS, ARTISTS, SUPPORTERS AND FRIENDS!  We wouldn’t be here without you…

Landen Park Studio - Since 2020

I remember that on that first day, the studio was barely finished.  There was exposed rockwool in the booth, no flooring in the corridors, cables hanging out everywhere – it was a mess.

Ian Hoare at Landen Park Studio
Ian Hoare at Landen Park Studio, 12th August 2020

But the studio has been busy ever since (and is mostly decorated now!) and the last five years have flown by.

Here’s to the next five years!

 

Steve D. Wall’s The Sound Of Change is now on Audible

The Sound Of Change is book 2 of The Bards and Dragons Saga by Steve D. Wall.

The first instalment, The Way Of Renegades, has been really successful on Audible and the new book looks to do even better.

The Sound of Change cover art

Like the first book, The Sound Of Change was produced here at Landen Park Studio by Justin Hill, with studio regular Steven Pacey narrating.

Steven Pacey at Landen Park Studio
Steven Pacey at Landen Park Studio

 

 

Pentark production – Starting Soon

At the beginning of August, we’ll be starting work on T. L. Brechin’s debut novel Pentark.  Multi award-winning narrator and Landen Park Studio regular Rosalyn Landor will be narrating.

Pentark is a sword-and-sorcery fantasy set on the Isle Of Spheres, where a disparate group of characters including dwarves, elves, knights and animals must come together to restore lost magical stones to the Pentark, defeating the forces of darkness and restoring balance to the land.

Award-winning film composer Michael Vickerage has written an original score to accompany the audiobook.  Vickerage last worked with us two years ago – on Kerry Lynne’s Pirate Captain, which was edited, mixed and post-produced here at Landen Park Studio.

Producer Justin Hill will be at the helm.  Pentark will be published and distributed by The Other Operation.

Pentark by T.L. Brechin audiobook cover
Pentark, by T. L. Brechin
Rosalyn Landor
Rosalyn Landor
Michael Vickerage
Michael Vickerage

 

Ethical Living Through Stories coming soon to Audible

In our second project with the Institute of Ismaili Studies, we recently produced Wen-chin Ouyang’s Ethical Living Through Stories: Encounters with Adab.

Narrated by Clive Hayward and co-directed by Justin Hill and Russell Harris, Ethical Living Through Stories explores and compares Adab – muslim ethics of living – and Wen – confucian – through classical literature.

Clive Hayward and Russell Harris at Landen Park Studio
Clive Hayward and Russell Harris at Landen Park Studio, March 2025

Two More Books with Steven Pacey

We’ve just finished another two audiobooks with one of our favourite narrators – Steven Pacey.

Steven Pacey at Landen Park Studio June 2025
Steven Pacey at Landen Park Studio, June 2025

The first, The Sound Of Change by Steve D. Wall, is a sequel to his highly successful debut The Way Of Renegades – also produced here at Landen Park Studio.

The second is Artificial Wisdom by Thomas R. Weaver.  We produced this in its original form in 2023 but subsequently Thomas sold the rights to Penguin Random House, who asked us to produce a revised version for them.

Both these books will be appearing on your favourite audiobook platform in the next couple of months.  We love working with Steven: his wonderful voice, incredible acting, hilarious impressions – and most of all, the gardening tips!

Roseanna Rolph’s Dear Mr. Snippet now on Audible

Dear Mr, Snippet, by Roseanna Rolph, is now available on Audible and other audiobook platforms.

Dear Mr. Snippet is a collection of letters and diary entries from 1939 to 1945 written by and between John and Rita, the author’s grandparents.

John’s voice is narrated by Clive Hayward, while Lucy Scott voices Rita.  The author, Roseanna Rolph, reads an introduction to the book.

Dear Mr. Snippet was recorded and produced at Landen Park Studio and directed by Justin Hill.

Dear Mr. Snippet book cover

The book itself is featured in this BBC news article.  The author discussed the book and its creation with Mark Carter on BBC Radio Surrey – and you can listen to that on BBC Sounds here.

Lucy Scott at Landen Park Studio January 2025
Clive Hayward at Landen Park Studio January 2025
Roseanna Rolph at Landen Park Studio January 2025