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Dominic Lawson is best known as a former newspaper editor and now weekly leader page columnist for the Sunday Times and Daily Mail. But chess is his passion, as he demonstrated with several series as the presenter of Across the Board for BBC Radio 4, in which he simultaneously interviewed and played against such giants of the game as Magnus Carlsen, Garry Kasparov, and the world's strongest woman player, Hou Yifan. Since 2014 he has been the elected president of the English Chess Federation. Simon Vance is the critically acclaimed narrator of approximately 400 audiobooks, winner of 27 AudioFile Earphones Awards, and a 12-time Audie Award-winner. He won an Audie in 2006 in the category of Science Fiction and was named the 2011 Best Voice in Biography and History and in 2010 Best Voice in Fiction by AudioFile magazine. Vance has been a narrator for the past 25 years, and also worked for many years as a BBC Radio presenter and newsreader in London. Some of his best-selling and most praised audiobook performances include Stieg Larsson's The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Hilary Mantel's Bring Up the Bodies (an Audie award-winner), Ian Fleming's Casino Royale, Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray, Patrick O'Brian's Master and Commander series (all 21 titles), the new productions of Frank Herbert's original Dune series, and Rob Gifford's China Road (an AudioFile 2007 Book of the Year). Vance lives near San Francisco with his wife and two sons.

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