LibriVox is an organisation with a simple goal - to make all public domain works accessible in audiobook form. I’ve been involved for a long while now, part of an enormous group of volunteers who record chapters, poems and entire books to attempt to reach this goal.

To take a break from the Grace Harlowe world, I picked a travel book called - British Highways and Byways from a Motor Car. The book journals the travels of an American visiting our small island with the luxury of a car - having previously been frustrated by visiting via train. He covers a lot of the country, up to Scotland and through Wales, London and the South and plenty more.

Quite a lot of the book is taken up with tales of the car itself, and how it brings them to visit places of interest - mostly castles, cathedrals, and the many villages that are home to the best authors and poets. I really enjoyed the little snippets though, moments where the author, Thomas Dowler Murphy, gets a talking to from the police, or decides to visit a different garage because he knows he’s being tricked for being a tourist.

My thanks, as always, go to those who helped produce the book. I’ve enjoyed it immensely, even the bits where I had to ask for help pronouncing Welsh and Scottish place names. Next on my list is the third book of Grace Harlowe’s adventures.