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Melanie Fraser

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Actress, Voice Over Artist and Audio Book Narrator/Producer

Although born in South Africa, where I started my dance training, most of my professional training as an actress, singer and dancer was in the UK at a leading theatre arts centre and the Royal Ballet School.

A member of Equity, my performing career started as a Narrator of childrens' radio programmes and followed with performances in theatre, television, cabaret and film. I am a freelance Voice Over Artist and Narrator and and an Audible-Approved Producer working from my studio in the UK.

For leisure, my favourite genres to read are espionage, crime/thrillers and historical fiction and non-fiction. (It's important to mention that books I have rated or reviewed are for the actual ...more

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	My Earl The Spy: The Spy Series Book 2 by Audrey Harrison (Goodreads Author), Melanie Fraser (Goodreads Author) (Narrator) 3.96 avg rating — 205 ratings — published 2016 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Secrets of the Manor House by Hilary Brown, Melanie Fraser (Goodreads Author) (Narrator) 3.92 avg rating — 12 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Return to the Regency by Audrey Harrison (Goodreads Author), Melanie Fraser (Goodreads Author) (Narrator) 4.06 avg rating — 102 ratings — published 2017 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Winter's War (Guy Winter Mysteries #1) by James Philip, Melanie Fraser (Goodreads Author) 3.86 avg rating — 22 ratings — published 2014 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Foundling Duke The Foundling Series (Book 1) by Audrey Harrison (Goodreads Author), Melanie Fraser (Goodreads Author) (Narrator) 4.17 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2017	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Winter's Pearl (Guy Winter Mysteries #.5) by James Philip, Melanie Fraser (Goodreads Author) (Narrator) 4.12 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 2014 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Winter's Revenge (Guy Winter Mysteries #2) by James Philip, Melanie Fraser (Goodreads Author) (narrator) 4.11 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 2014 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Russian Roulette: A Deadly Game - How British Spies Thwarted Lenin's Global Plot

by Giles Milton

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A History of the English-Speaking Peoples

by Sir Churchill Winston

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by Benjamin Disraeli

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Wonderful! Once again, Mr Macintyre has delivered a true drama with his usual panache. The history is fascinating. A surprise to me was discovering that Michael Foot (code name BOOT) was in receipt of KGB remuneration for his activites. He always see ...more
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Melanie Fraser liked Miranda Adderley's review of The waiting time: "Good Cold War spy story. Bit hard to follow at times"
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Melanie Fraser and 1 other person liked Marice Hill's review of The Waiting Time: "I really struggled to get into this book. The writing style at the beginning didn't grab me and I found it hard to see where the story was going. Became a bit more interesting about 150 pages in but really the book felt like a bit of a slog. "
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Melanie Fraser and 1 other person liked Jose Calero's review of The Waiting Time: "I didn´t like it very much. The author´s writing prevents me from "going into" the story. I think there is little "passion" on the writing. Story, characters are not really appealing. Sad because I am very interested on books about Germany before the" Read more of this review »
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The story is interesting and there was a twist at the end but the flow of the writing isn't to my taste. It jumped from scene to scene, often by paragraph. What a shame. If you don't mind trying to fathom who "he" or "she" or "they" are when paragrap ...more
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