Station Jim

Louis de Bernières

Nov 2019 · Bolinda · Narrated by Andrew Wincott

About this audiobook

One evening in early spring, in the days when all the trains were driven by steam, a stationmaster found something abandoned on a train ... Mr Ginger Leghorn is used to collecting up umbrellas and other lost property but he’s never found an abandoned puppy on his train before. He has no intention of keeping it but his five children – Alfie, Arthur, Beryl, Sissy and Albert – have other ideas and Jim is soon a much-loved, but often disruptive, member of the family. Whether it’s his feud with the cat, getting stuck in rabbit-holes, accidentally going to sea, accompanying the children to school or carol singing at Christmas, Jim has a knack of making himself the centre of attention. This little black and tan puppy with its small bright eyes and very waggy rump becomes something of a hero in his town and even catches the eye of the King himself. Station Jim is a story which will enchant both children and adults.

About the author

Louis de Bernières was born in London in 1954. After graduating in Philosophy from the Victoria University of Manchester, he took a postgraduate certificate in Education at Leicester Polytechnic and passed his MA, with distinction, at the University of London. Louis de Bernières, who lives in Norfolk, published his first novel in 1990 and was selected by Granta magazine as one of the twenty Best of Young British Novelists in 1993. Since then he has become well known internationally as a writer and his sixth novel, Birds Without Wings, came out in 2004. Captain Corelli's Mandolin (1994), won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best Novel. A Partisan's Daughter 2008, was shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award and his new book, Notwithstanding: English Village Stories, was published in Autumn 2009. As well as writing, he plays the flute, mandolin, clarinet and guitar.

Andrew Wincott is a British actor, perhaps best known as the voice of Adam Macy in BBC Radio 4’s The Archers. He has performed in hundreds of dramas, serials, comedies and readings for BBC Radio including Book at Bedtime and the Afternoon Story and he has twice been a member of the BBC Radio Drama Company. Some of Andrew’s lead roles include Mr Rochester in Jane Eyre and Alec in Tess of the d’Urbervilles.