Letters of Note

By:   Shaun Usher
Read by:   Sanjeev Bhaskar, Simon Callow, Benedict Cumberbatch, Toby Jones
Imprint:   Bolinda/Canongate Audio
Country of Publication:   Australia
Edition:   Unabridged edition
ISBN:   9781867514398
ISBN 10:   1867514397
Publication Date:   01 February 2021
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Audio
Publisher's Status:   Active

Shaun Usher is a writer and sole custodian of the popular blogs lettersofnote.com and listsofnote.com. He has transformed both blogs into bestselling books, crowd-funded by Unbound and jointly published by Unbound and Canongate. He lives in Wilmslow with his wife Karina and their two sons. He is the author of the bestselling Letters of Note, More Letters of Note, Lists of Note and Speeches of Note. Along with Simon Garfield's To the Letter, Letters of Note inspired Letters Live, a series of live performances celebrating the enduring power of literary correspondence, with great performers reading remarkable letters to a live audience. Sanjeev Bhaskar is a British actor, writer and comedian known for starring in The Kumars at No. 42 (2001–2006). Other credits include Goodness Gracious Me (1998–2000), The Indian Doctor (2010–2013) and Election Spy (2017). Currently, Sanjeev plays DI Sunil 'Sunny' Khan on Unforgotten, alongside Nicola Walker. In 2006, Sanjeev was honoured with an Order of the British Empire. Simon Callow is a British actor with a firmly-established reputation for impeccable performance on-stage, on-screen and on audiobook. Perhaps best known for his role in Four Weddings and a Funeral, Callow's reputation in the theatre is also second-to-none. Benedict Cumberbatch was born and raised in London. He attended Harrow School on an arts scholarship, where he began painting and acting. He studied drama at Manchester University, and continued his training with a one-year course at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. Benedict has worked in theatre, television, film and radio. His breakthrough came in 2004 when he portrayed Stephen Hawking in the television movie Hawking, for which he was nominated for a BAFTA for Best Actor. In 2010, he became a household name as Sherlock Holmes in the British television series Sherlock. He has appeared in two Oscar-nominated films, War Horse (2011) and Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011), and has been noted for his outstanding performance in Star Trek Into Darkness (2013). Distinguished stage, television, and film actor Toby Edward Heslewood Jones was born on September 7, 1966 in Hammersmith, London. His parents, Freddie Jones and Jennie Heslewood, are actors as well. Natasha Abigail Taylor is a British actress, known professionally as Natascha McElhone. She made her television debut in The Ruth Rendell Mysteries in 1990, graduated from LAMDA in 1993 and went on to play the lead in her first film, Merchant Ivory's Surviving Picasso opposite Anthony Hopkins. She is perhaps best known for her roles in the films Ronin, The Truman Show and Solaris, and the television series Californication and Designated Survivor. Stephen James Mangan is an English actor, best known for his roles as Guy Secretan in the television series Green Wing, Dan Moody in I'm Alan Partridge, Sean Lincoln in Episodes and holistic detective Dirk Gently in Dirk Gently Born in Oxford in 1941 and educated at Newnham College, Cambridge, Miriam Margolyes is an award-winning veteran of the stage and screen, and an internationally acclaimed voice artist. Winner of the BAFTA Best Supporting Actress award for The Age of Innocence, she was appointed OBE in 2002 for Services to Drama. She lives in England, Australia and Italy. Juliet Stevenson is a distinguished actress of film, television and theatre. She was awarded the CBE for her work in drama and received the Laurence Olivier Theatre Award for Best Actress for her performance in Death and the Maiden. Juliet's films include Truly Madly Deeply, Mona Lisa Smile, Being Julia and Bend It Like Beckham. More recently, she has appeared in The Letters, Diana and Before I Go To Sleep. Mark Strong is an English theatre, film and television actor. He is known for his role in the television series Our Friends in the North and films such as The Young Victoria (2009), Sherlock Holmes (2009), Robin Hood (2010), Kick-Ass (2010), Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011), Green Lantern (2011), Zero Dark Thirty (2012),

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