Gaspard the Fox Series
Zeb created the Gaspard the Fox stories, inspired by his real experiences with a London urban fox. Beautifully illustrated by James Mayhew, Gaspard’s Foxtrot and Gaspard’s Christmas have also been adapted as narrated orchestral works by Jonathan Dove CBE and recorded by the Philharmonia and Royal Scottish National Orchestras.
Fred and the Fantastic Tub-Tub
When Fred’s green-fingered grandfather shows her a map to the mysterious island of Papa Nupi, he leads her on a summer holiday adventure that just might save the planet. From Zeb Soanes, author of the bestselling Gaspard the Fox books.
Fred and the Fantastic Tub-Tub is also an exciting orchestral concert work by James Marangone.
Hardback | 48 pages | 200 x 200mm
Publication March 2022 | ISBN 9781802580808
Listen to the moment Grandpa’s fantastic flying machine takes off.
BBC From our Own Correspondent Reports
Magazine Articles
Royalty, James Bond and a lame dog have all benefitted from John Lobb’s exquisite shoe-making craftsmanship during the past 173 years, says Zeb Soanes.
COUNTRY LIFE
Zeb has written the foreword for Alan Connor’s fiendish puzzle book about the Shipping Forecast.
PENGUIN BOOKS
A review of The Weather Machine: How We See Into the Future by Andrew Blum
LITERARY REVIEW
Learn French, get a dishwasher sooner: Radio 4 newsreader Zeb Soanes shares the advice he would give his younger self.
COUNTRY LIFE
Programme Notes
Programme notes for the special candlelit performance of Banana Blush at St Martin-in-the-Fields, November 2017
A guide to the poetic references in Edith Sitwell's Facade, written for the CD notes that accompany the new recording performed by Zeb, Carole Boyd and conducted by John Wilson, released on Orchid Classics
Zeb describes taking over the role of Narrator for the choral ensemble Opus Anglicanum following the death of John Touhey
For the Britten Centenary Zeb played the Voice of God in the Aldeburgh Music production of Benjamin Britten's Noye's Fludde in his hometown of Lowestoft. He looks back to the first production in the town in 1959, starring a young Michael Crawford and interviews some of those who took part.
Take a walk around the forgotten stairways of Silverlake with LA Times editor Charles Fleming to discover their part in urban planning and cinema history.