Listen free for 30 days
-
Voice of the Fire
- 25th Anniversary Edition
- Narrated by: Maxine Peake, Jason Williamson, Toby Jones, Mark Gatiss, Alan Moore and multiple narrators
- Length: 15 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged Audiobook
- Categories: Literature & Fiction, Anthologies & Short Stories
Add to basket failed.
Add to wishlist failed.
Remove from wishlist failed.
Follow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
Listen with a free trial
Buy Now for £22.89
No valid payment method on file.
We are sorry. We are not allowed to sell this product with the selected payment method
Listeners also enjoyed...
-
Jerusalem
- By: Alan Moore
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 60 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
In the half a square mile of decay and demolition that was England's Saxon capital, eternity is loitering between the firetrap tower blocks. Embedded in the grubby amber of the district's narrative, among its saints, kings, prostitutes and derelicts, a different kind of human time is happening. Through the labyrinthine streets and minutes of Jerusalem tread ghosts that sing of wealth and poverty, of Africa, hymns and our threadbare millennium.
-
-
A rough diamond
- By Mr. Iain D. Croall on 12-04-18
-
William Blake vs the World
- By: John Higgs
- Narrated by: John Higgs
- Length: 11 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Poet, artist, visionary and author of the unofficial English national anthem 'Jerusalem', William Blake is an archetypal misunderstood genius. In this radical new biography, we return to a world of riots, revolutions and radicals, discuss movements from the Levellers of the sixteenth century to the psychedelic counterculture of the 1960s, and explore the latest discoveries in neurobiology, quantum physics and comparative religion to look afresh at Blake's life and work—and, crucially, his mind.
-
-
An Exceptionial Artist - A Wonderful Exposition
- By N. Walsh on 12-06-21
-
The Ballad of Halo Jones: Complete Edition
- The Classic 2000 AD Graphic Novel in Full-Cast Audio
- By: Alan Moore
- Narrated by: Sheila Atim, Ellie Kendrick, Kemah Bob, and others
- Length: 3 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Bored and frustrated with her life in 50th-century leisure-ghetto housing estate 'The Hoop', 18-year-old everywoman Halo Jones yearns for the infinite sights and sounds of the universe. Pledging to escape on a fantastic voyage, she sets in motion events unimaginable; a spell on a luxury space-liner, a brush with an interstellar war - Halo Jones faces hardship and adventure in the name of freedom in the limitless cosmos.
-
-
Halo Jones, childhood hero, comes to life
- By The Phantom Reviewer on 23-03-21
-
The Last London
- True Fictions from an Unreal City
- By: Iain Sinclair
- Narrated by: Iain Sinclair
- Length: 13 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
London. A city apart. Inimitable. Or so it once seemed. Spiralling from the outer limits of the Overground to the pinnacle of the Shard, Iain Sinclair encounters a metropolis stretched beyond recognition. The vestiges of secret tunnels, the ghosts of saints and lost poets lie buried by developments, the cycling revolution and Brexit. An electrifying final odyssey, The Last London is an unforgettable vision of the Big Smoke before it disappears into the air of memory.
-
-
Finally, Iain Sinclair!
- By katy on 24-04-21
-
Hollow
- By: B. Catling
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
From the author of the Vorrh Trilogy comes an epic odyssey following a group of mercenaries hired to deliver a church's ultimate power, a sacred oracle, as the decadence of carnival gives way to the gravity of lent and the mystic landscape grows ravenous - all set within a Bosch painting.
-
-
Enjoyable dark fantasy
- By Anonymous User on 01-02-22
-
V for Vendetta
- By: Alan Moore
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 9 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Imagine a Britain stripped of democracy, a world of the not-too-distant future in which freedom has been surrendered willingly to a totalitarian regime which rose to power by exploiting the people's worst fears and most damning weaknesses.
-
-
V Good
- By Amazon Customer on 14-07-09
-
Jerusalem
- By: Alan Moore
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 60 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
In the half a square mile of decay and demolition that was England's Saxon capital, eternity is loitering between the firetrap tower blocks. Embedded in the grubby amber of the district's narrative, among its saints, kings, prostitutes and derelicts, a different kind of human time is happening. Through the labyrinthine streets and minutes of Jerusalem tread ghosts that sing of wealth and poverty, of Africa, hymns and our threadbare millennium.
-
-
A rough diamond
- By Mr. Iain D. Croall on 12-04-18
-
William Blake vs the World
- By: John Higgs
- Narrated by: John Higgs
- Length: 11 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Poet, artist, visionary and author of the unofficial English national anthem 'Jerusalem', William Blake is an archetypal misunderstood genius. In this radical new biography, we return to a world of riots, revolutions and radicals, discuss movements from the Levellers of the sixteenth century to the psychedelic counterculture of the 1960s, and explore the latest discoveries in neurobiology, quantum physics and comparative religion to look afresh at Blake's life and work—and, crucially, his mind.
-
-
An Exceptionial Artist - A Wonderful Exposition
- By N. Walsh on 12-06-21
-
The Ballad of Halo Jones: Complete Edition
- The Classic 2000 AD Graphic Novel in Full-Cast Audio
- By: Alan Moore
- Narrated by: Sheila Atim, Ellie Kendrick, Kemah Bob, and others
- Length: 3 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Bored and frustrated with her life in 50th-century leisure-ghetto housing estate 'The Hoop', 18-year-old everywoman Halo Jones yearns for the infinite sights and sounds of the universe. Pledging to escape on a fantastic voyage, she sets in motion events unimaginable; a spell on a luxury space-liner, a brush with an interstellar war - Halo Jones faces hardship and adventure in the name of freedom in the limitless cosmos.
-
-
Halo Jones, childhood hero, comes to life
- By The Phantom Reviewer on 23-03-21
-
The Last London
- True Fictions from an Unreal City
- By: Iain Sinclair
- Narrated by: Iain Sinclair
- Length: 13 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
London. A city apart. Inimitable. Or so it once seemed. Spiralling from the outer limits of the Overground to the pinnacle of the Shard, Iain Sinclair encounters a metropolis stretched beyond recognition. The vestiges of secret tunnels, the ghosts of saints and lost poets lie buried by developments, the cycling revolution and Brexit. An electrifying final odyssey, The Last London is an unforgettable vision of the Big Smoke before it disappears into the air of memory.
-
-
Finally, Iain Sinclair!
- By katy on 24-04-21
-
Hollow
- By: B. Catling
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
From the author of the Vorrh Trilogy comes an epic odyssey following a group of mercenaries hired to deliver a church's ultimate power, a sacred oracle, as the decadence of carnival gives way to the gravity of lent and the mystic landscape grows ravenous - all set within a Bosch painting.
-
-
Enjoyable dark fantasy
- By Anonymous User on 01-02-22
-
V for Vendetta
- By: Alan Moore
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 9 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Imagine a Britain stripped of democracy, a world of the not-too-distant future in which freedom has been surrendered willingly to a totalitarian regime which rose to power by exploiting the people's worst fears and most damning weaknesses.
-
-
V Good
- By Amazon Customer on 14-07-09
-
The Vorrh
- By: Brian Catling
- Narrated by: Alan Corduner, Alan Moore
- Length: 17 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Prepare to lose yourself in the heady, mythical expanse of the Vorrh. In B. Catling's twisting, poetic narrative, Bakelite robots lie broken - their hard shells cracked by human desire - and an inquisitive Cyclops waits for his keeper and guardian, growing in all directions. Beyond the colonial city of Essenwald lies the Vorrh, the forest which sucks souls and wipes minds.
-
-
Not for the faint-hearted
- By Dr on 10-01-16
-
The Sandman: Act II
- By: Neil Gaiman, Dirk Maggs
- Narrated by: Neil Gaiman, James McAvoy, Emma Corrin, and others
- Length: 13 hrs and 47 mins
- Original Recording
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
In the absolutely packed Act II, the dark fantasy resumes and the Sandman expands into the French Revolution, ancient Rome, 19th-century San Francisco, eighth-century Baghdad, and beyond. New and familiar characters abound, voiced by a bright mix of performers, including Kat Dennings, Regé-Jean Page, Emma Corrin, Michael Sheen, Kristen Schaal, Brian Cox, John Lithgow, Jeffrey Wright, and so many more, including fan-favorite narrators Simon Vance and Ray Porter.
-
-
Enjoyable but not sandman 1
- By Jakki B. on 30-09-21
-
Illuminatus! Part I
- The Eye in the Pyramid
- By: Robert Shea, Robert Anton Wilson
- Narrated by: Ken Campbell, Chris Fairbank
- Length: 13 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
The Illuminati, an inside joke? The lunatic fringe? Or a vast conspiracy hidden for centuries, unleashing it's power on a naive, defenseless world? It was the lousy luck of Saul Goodman, a tough, streetwise New York detective, to smell the trail in a bombed-out office - the heavy case he'd always dreaded. In a breakneck race against an awesome deadline, Goodman plunges down the trail of the ultimate conspiracy as the days fall away toward Apocalypse.
-
-
Reader is annoying
- By Lewis Oliver on 01-03-19
-
Good Pop, Bad Pop
- By: Jarvis Cocker
- Narrated by: Jarvis Cocker
- Length: 6 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
From a Gold Star polycotton shirt to a pack of Wrigley's Extra, from his teenage attempts to write songs to the Sexy Laughs Fantastic Dirty Joke Book, this is the hard evidence of Jarvis's unique life, Pulp, 20th-century pop culture, the good times and the mistakes he'd rather forget. And this accumulated debris of a lifetime reveals his creative process—writing and musicianship, performance and ambition, style and stagecraft.
-
-
I could have listened to this forever.
- By Rebecca Morgan on 11-06-22
-
Monolithic Undertow
- In Search of Sonic Oblivion
- By: Harry Sword
- Narrated by: Harry Sword
- Length: 14 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Monolithic Undertow alights a crooked path across musical, religious and subcultural frontiers. It traces the line from ancient traditions to the modern underground, navigating archaeoacoustics, ringing feedback, chest plate sub-bass, avant-garde eccentricity, sound weaponry and fervent spiritualism.
-
-
Underground, Overground, wandering feedback....
- By Bewarethetoon on 01-04-21
-
Medical Grade Music
- By: Steve Davis, Kavus Torabi
- Narrated by: Kavus Torabi, Steve Davis
- Length: 10 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
The story of two outsiders and obsessives whose collision prompted an evangelistic alliance on the furthest frontiers of underground music. Steve Davis first met Kavus Torabi - guitarist with Gong, Guapo, Cardiacs and Knifeworld - in the mid-2000s at a gig by French underground rock legends Magma. Over the next few years, this unlikely duo's shared affinity for visionary psychedelic music would become the foundation of not only a firm friendship, but also the most infectiously inclusive broadcasting style since the much-mourned death of John Peel.
-
-
This is a joyous book - wonderful musical memories and a stackful of new music recommendations ...
- By Zzorchering on 16-04-21
-
The Future Starts Here
- An Optimistic Guide to What Comes Next
- By: John Higgs
- Narrated by: John Higgs
- Length: 12 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
At some point in the 1980s we gave up on the future. Before then, we imagined wonderful days to come, free from disease, work and want, in television series like Star Trek or events such as the 1939 Futurama World Fair. When we look ahead now, we tell dystopian stories of environmental collapse, zombie plagues and the end of civilisation. If it is true that we have to imagine the future before we build it, then this is deeply worrying.
-
-
Hope with reasons
- By WH Humphreys on 05-07-19
-
Riddley Walker
- Penguin Modern Classics
- By: Russell Hoban
- Narrated by: Richard Pearce
- Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Wandering a desolate post-apocalyptic landscape, speaking a broken-down English lost after the end of civilisation, Riddley Walker sets out to find out what brought humanity here. This is his story.
-
-
When did this happen? Why wasn’t I told?
- By G. Thomas on 20-04-22
-
Limited Edition of One
- How to Succeed in the Music Industry Without Being Part of the Mainstream
- By: Steven Wilson, Mick Wall
- Narrated by: Steven Wilson, Mick Wall
- Length: 9 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Limited Edition of One is unlike any other music book you will ever have hear. Part the long-awaited memoir of Steven Wilson, whose celebrated band Porcupine Tree began as teenage fiction before unintentionally evolving into a reality that encompassed Grammy-nominated records and sold-out shows around the world, before he set out for an even more successful solo career.
-
-
Not as clever as he hoped
- By max on 01-05-22
-
Stranger Than We Can Imagine
- Making Sense of the Twentieth Century
- By: John Higgs
- Narrated by: John Higgs
- Length: 11 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
The 20th century should make sense. It's the period of history that we know the most about, an epic geopolitical narrative that runs through World War One, the Great Depression, World War Two, the American century and the fall of the Berlin Wall. But somehow that story doesn't quite lead into the world we find ourselves in now, this bewildering 21st century, adrift in a network of constant surveillance, unsustainable competition, tsunamis of trivia and extraordinary opportunity.
-
-
A wild ride through the twentieth century - hop on board
- By J. Drew on 25-03-20
-
Souvenir
- By: Michael Bracewell
- Narrated by: Tom Lawrence
- Length: 2 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
A vivid eulogy for London of the late 1970s and early '80s - the last years prior to the rise of the digital city. An elliptical, wildly atmospheric remembrance of the sites and soundtrack, at once aggressively modern and strangely elegiac, that accompanied the twilight of one era and the dawn of another.
-
George Bernard Shaw
- A BBC Radio Drama Collection
- By: George Bernard Shaw
- Narrated by: full cast, Judi Dench, Ralph Fiennes, and others
- Length: 25 hrs and 48 mins
- Original Recording
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
George Bernard Shaw - or Bernard Shaw, as he preferred to be known - was one of Ireland's foremost dramatists and thinkers. His plays range from contemporary satires to historical allegories, and are infused with ideas, insight, wit and wisdom. Included here are some of his best works, adapted for radio and brought together in reverse chronological order in one statement collection.
-
-
Essential for a Shaw Fan
- By Tony on 15-03-22
Summary
An epic audiobook in 12 parts.
Northampton. The center of England. Twelve extraordinary characters transport you through 6,000 years of astonishing history. As Alan Moore’s place-writing masterpiece reaches its 25th anniversary, New Perspectives brings this expansive work to life through twelve immersive audio journeys.
Violence, madness, lust, and ecstasy all weave together in patterns of recurring visions, restless apparitions, and gut-wrenching narrative that offer an unprecedented voice to one of the country’s most enigmatic regions. A prehistoric boy learns a deadly lesson, a murderess dresses up as her victim, a Roman emissary confronts an unbearable truth about the empire, two lovers burn at the stake for witchcraft, and a poet begins his doomed walk from one incarceration to another.
Blending history with wild imagination, this collection of remarkable tales submerge you in the power of language and unveil the deepest secrets hidden in the land. Spoken by an exceptional cast, from Maxine Peake to Sleaford Mods vocalist Jason Williamson, this is epic cinema for the ears, firmly rooted in the author’s home town of Northampton.
PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.
More from the same
Narrator
What listeners say about Voice of the Fire
Average customer ratingsReviews - Please select the tabs below to change the source of reviews.
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
- Greg Walker
- 08-12-21
fantastic
flawless work by Alan Moore - read "Jerusalem" once you've cleansed the pallet after this!
2 people found this helpful
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
- mr
- 09-08-21
superb
Blown away by this, brilliant book, brilliant performances. Hard to think of another audio book which I have enjoyed so much.
2 people found this helpful
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
- MR D K RUDD
- 14-07-21
Voice of the fire.
This is a fantastic audiobook with a great cast of readers. Also the ambient background sounds really do help bring the prose to life.
I have read this book twice before listening to this audiobook version and I have to say that I thoroughly enjoyed the experience.
2 people found this helpful
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
- Alastair Benham
- 08-08-22
What a sense of place
Hard to put into words how this made me feel. It’s terrifying, funny, brutal and whimsical. It ties you to a place like no book I’ve ever consumed before.
Just deeply fascinating storytelling - I was completely gutted when it finished. Magical.
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
- Anonymous User
- 27-07-22
don't give up it's a masterpiece
I nearly couldn't get past the first couple chapters (very ye olde English) but it was definitely worth it and the language modernises pretty quickly.
Quit dilly-dallying and get the book already
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
- Tim Buescher
- 26-05-22
Complete success
The text and the performances are remarkable. I have immediately started the whole thing again!
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
- Laurence
- 22-05-22
An absolute treat.
That rare thing: a literary experiment which really pulls it off and is also fiercely enjoyable. Moore writes eloquently - inhabiting diverse characters and epochs - which show the most profound understanding of the human condition in all its beauty and vulnerability. The narrators' performances are truly wonderful and surely represent actors at the top of their game.
Please don't miss this!
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
- Stuart
- 11-05-22
A fascinating series of tales
I bought the novel when it was first released and only read the first chapter. This was my first foray into audio books and what a treat. I feel as though I have listened to a series of radio plays, stretching back over 4000 years. The tales are dark and ominous, horrifying and fantastic. I’m a fan of Alan Moore’s comics, so I had an idea of what to expect. My advice is to persevere, this is a very unique book, maybe a masterpiece.
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story

- E F
- 30-06-21
Voice of the Fire -- A Conjuring Through Chant
Alan Moore chants us into a trance with the Voice of the Fire and this audio production immerses you even deeper within its soundscapes of nature and atmospheric activity. The spoken voices give a mesmerizing performance of this masterful work. It is a work about how the world is perceived (often not very accurately) and how that perception is carried on and evolved or returned to in spiral like patterns over time. It is a work that uses language to show how language can be deceptive and powerful. I would recommend getting the printed version as well because Moore uses English in its more under-developed and somewhat unrecognizable form in the beginning sections. Seeing the words will help to decode what is happening in the early parts and once you've decoded a few of the words used (the "primitive" sections are spoken with animism-like metaphors and kennings, to describe things such as clouds or bodily functions), then you can more thoroughly enjoy what is being done to you the reader -- chanting you through the entrancing flames into a world of visions and dreams and ecstasy isomorphic to the linguistic cage of flickering false shapes that is our own. Underneath it all lie the necromanced simmering bones of human being.
7 people found this helpful
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story

- Jesse Sharpe
- 08-11-21
Not my favorite Moore
I love Alan Moore's story telling and writing style but this book didn't stand out. Some of the stories were compelling and the underlying story of North Hampton is captivating. Nonetheless, this feels like a drafted attempt at what he accomplished with much better continuity through Jerusalem. I think this book just fails to finish what it started out and the final chapter seems self aware of that point, seeming more the end to an essay describing why each chapter was included rather than allowing them to stand on their own.
I would still recommend this book but only to people who are already Moore fans. After reading Jerusalem, it reads like a welcome addition to the later work but not much more. The book is not lazy or poorly written but overly ambitious and it just fell short of those lofty goals for me.
On the other hand, with the exception of a couple chapters, the performances are wonderful and the addition of sound effects adds significantly to the effect. However, there are a few points that feel a little over-engineered.
All in all, the brilliance of Alan Moore mostly comes through in this book but without the quality of story telling and consistency which he maintains both in Jerusalem and most of his comic books.
1 person found this helpful
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story

- Anonymous User
- 26-06-22
Will invade your dreams.
Loved it. Great characters. Perfect voices given to them. Look deeper into the fire.
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story

- Jeffrey
- 18-02-22
A masterpiece revisited
Alan Moore is simply a genius with the written word. The greatest comic book writer of all time also delivers in pure prose.
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story

- Kindle Customer
- 16-12-21
A great read, an even better listen
I'd loved reading this book but hearing it spoken was even better. So great to hear Alan Moore read the final chapter. Absolutely brilliant.