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Read by Tim Graham, Richard Mitchley & Ghizela Rowe (Unabridged: 1hr 12mins) Featuring poems by Anne Bradstreet, George Herbert, Thomas Carew, John Milton, Robert Southwell & others. Samuel Johnson wrote in reference to the beginning of the seventeenth century that there "appeared a race of writers that may be termed...
Read by Jordan Gallagher, Kelly O'Doherty & Ghizela Rowe (Unabridged: 1hr 25mins) William Butler Yeats was born in Sandymount in County Dublin, Ireland on 13th June 1865. His early years moved between Ireland and England. By his mid-teens he was writing but those works were described as ‘entirely Un-Irish’. With...
Read by George Irving, Richard Mitchley & Ghizela Rowe (Unabridged: 2hrs 55mins) Edith Nesbit is more famously known as a writer of children’s stories such as The Railway Children. But in this volume we explore her short stories of the macabre and ghostly sort. Born in 1858 in Kennington, then...
Read by Gareth David-Lloyd & Staten Eliot (Unabridged: 2hrs 16mins) HP Lovecraft is a modern master of horror. This collection is mainly centered on Imprisoned With The Pharaohs. It’s a very detailed work taking place in Egypt. Rightly acknowledged as a classic it combines all the best elements of Lovecraft,...
Read by Bill Wallis (Unabridged: 2hrs 45mins) This wonderful creation by GK Chesterton is a familiar favourite to many as a TV series in the 70s with Kenneth More. Chesterton’s other works include ‘The Man Who Knew Too Much. These four stories test Father Brown in many ways creating headaches...
Read by Richard Mitchley, Ghizela Rowe & Gideon Wagner (Unabridged: 1hr 14mins) Gerard Manley Hopkins was born in Stratford, then part of Essex on 28th July, 1844, to deeply religious parents―the first of nine children. The family moved to Hampstead in 1852, near to where John Keats had lived thirty...
Read by Richard Mitchley, Ghizela Rowe & Gideon Wagner (Unabridged: 1hr 2mins) Featuring poems by Oscar Wilde, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, George Meredith, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Sara Teasdale, Thomas Hardy & more. Keats. The name is synonymous with great romantic poetry and great romantic poets. A short life but a legacy...
Read by Richard Mitchley, Ghizela Rowe & Gideon Wagner (Unabridged: 1hr 10mins) Ivor Bertie Gurney was born in Gloucester on 28th August 1890. A chorister at Gloucester cathedral Ivor began to compose music at 14 before winning a scholarship to the Royal Academy of Music in 1911. Noted for his...
Read by Richard Mitchley, Eve Karpf & Jake Urry (Unabridged: 2hrs 8mins George Robert Gissing was born on November 22nd, 1857 in Wakefield, Yorkshire. He was educated at Back Lane School in Wakefield. Gissing loved school. He was enthusiastic with a thirst for learning and always diligent. By the age of...
Read by Richard Mitchley & Ghizela Rowe (Abridged: 3hrs 21mins) Featuring stories by Mary Shelley, Edith Wharton, Louisa May Alcott & others. Women, so often referred to as the gentler sex, in this volume at least, is an unfounded and unlikely description. From their minds and pens comes a series...