The Sleeper and the Spindle

Gaiman, Neil

ISBN 10: 1489350241 ISBN 13: 9781489350244

Publisher: Bolinda/Audible Audio, 2016

In this captivating and darkly funny tale, Neil Gaiman and Chris Riddell have twisted together the familiar and the new as well as the beautiful and the wicked to tell a brilliant version of Snow White''s (sort of) and Sleeping Beauty''s (almost) stories. This story was originally published in Rags & Bones.

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About the Authors

Neil Gaiman is an English author of short fiction, novels, comic books, graphic novels, audio theatre and films. His notable works include the comic book series The Sandman and novels Stardust, American Gods, Coraline and The Graveyard Book. He has won numerous awards, including the Hugo, Nebula and Bram Stoker awards, as well as the Newbery and Carnegie medals. He is the first author to win both the Newbery and the Carnegie medals for the same work, The Graveyard Book (2008). In 2013, The Ocean at the End of the Lane was voted Book of the Year in the British National Book Awards.

Julian Rhind-Tutt is a British actor. Julian studied literature and drama at Warwick University, and then trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama where he won the Carleton Hobbs Bursary Award. The award gave him a year of BBC radio work, which has continued throughout his career. Julian's early stage career included work at the National Theatre in The Madness of King George, The Way of the World and Richard II. A range of supporting roles in television and film followed, including The Trench, Tomb Raider, Hippies, and the American series Keen Eddie.

Adjoa Andoh is a British film, television, stage and radio actress. She is a familiar face on British television – starring in two series of Doctor Who, BBC's long-running medical drama Casualty and popular soap opera EastEnders – and has more recently appeared as Lady Danbury in the Netflix series Bridgerton. A renowned stage actor, Andoh has been celebrated for lead roles at the National Theatreand the Royal Shakespeare Company, where she played Portia in Julius Caesar, Ulysses in Troilus & Cressida and Helen of Troy in The Odyssey. In 2019 she conceived, co-directed, and played Richard II at Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre, in the UK’s first all women-of-colour production. She made her Hollywood debut in 2009, starring alongside Morgan Freeman and Matt Damon in Clint Eastwood’s biographical sports film Invictus. Other film appearances include Adulthood, Brotherhood, and I Is A Long Memoried Woman. Andoh has been a BBC radio actor for more than 30 years and is an accomplished and award-winning narrator of more than 150 audiobooks, including Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Naomi Alderman’s The Power and all of the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series of novels by Alexander McCall Smith. Andoh won the Audie Award for Audiobook of the Year for #10 in that series, Tea Time for the Traditionally Built. In 2023 Andoh was elected an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and was on the judging panel for the 2023 Booker Prize.

John Sessions is a British actor and comedian. He is known for comedy improvisation in television shows such as Whose Line Is It Anyway?, as a panellist on QI and as a character actor in numerous films, both in the UK and in Hollywood.

Maloney is a British film, television and stage actor. He has featured in major films such as The Young Victoria alongside Emily Blunt, Notes on a Scandal with Cate Blanchett and Judi Dench, and Kenneth Branagh's 1989 adaptation of Henry V. He has a host of TV appearances under his belt including the ITV/Netflix series Paranoid (2016) and long-running drama Casualty (2010). He is also a prolific and engaging audiobook narrator.

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