On his KWMR show, “TeaTime Books,” Howard Dillon sounds very much like the BBC announcers he grew up listening to as a young boy in England. He has a perfect voice for Charles Dickens, Rudyard Kipling and Dylan Thomas, each of whom he has read on the air.

Last week, however, he was reading entirely different fare: “Moody, Unbalanced and High Strung,” a madcap novel written by his friend and fellow Bolinas resident, Michael Rafferty.