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(Unabridged: 1hr 13mins) Featuring poems by Aphra Behn, Anna Bradstreet, Jane Austen, Anne Bronte, Charlotte Bronte & others. The gentler sex or the deadlier of the species. Between these two definitions of the female gender lies a collection of some of the most beautiful verse ever written. For much of history...
Read by Richard Mitchley & Ghizela Rowe (Unabridged: 50mins) Poetry is a fascinating use of language. With almost a million words at its command it is not surprising that the English language has produced some of the most beautiful, moving and descriptive verse through the centuries. In this volume we...
(Unabridged: 1hr 18mins) In this brilliant satire, Oscar Wilde targets the English aristocracy. Lord Arthur's life is thrown into turmoil with the dire prophecy that he will commit murder. His forthcoming marriage postponed, he sets about finding his victim..... This classic story is read for you by Garard Green,...
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...
(Unabridged: 54mins) In this carefully selected audiobook of verse with works by Keats, Kipling, Southey, Yeats and others such Hollywood legends as Helen Hayes and Raymond Massey provide unique readings and interpretations of these classics.
Read by Richard Mitchley, Alex Jennings & David Shaw-Parker (Unabridged: 1hr 7mins) Featuring poems by Sir Walter Raleigh, George Herbert, Michael Drayton, Thomas Carew, Katherine Phillips, Edmund Spenser & others. For our Renaissance Poets we start with the coming to the throne of Henry 8th in 1519. From then until...
Read by Geoff McGivern (Unabridged: 1hr 43mins) Montague Rhodes James, the greatest English writer of ghost stories, was born in 1862 at Goodnestone Parsonage in Kent, where his father was Curate, and spent most of his boyhood at Livermere, near Bury St Edmunds in East Anglia, where his father had...
Broken heart poems for those hard times. Read by Ghizela Rowe, Alex Jennings & Richard Mitchley (Unabridged: 59mins) Featuring poems by WIlliam Shakespeare, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Emily Dickinson, Christina Georgina Rossetti, Wilfred Owen, Oscar Wilde, Thomas Hardy, Edith Nesbit & more. The beating heart, the drumbeat, the very force of life. What then when...
Read by Mark Rice-Oxley, Christopher Ragland & Ghizela Rowe (Unabridged: 5hrs 24mins) Featuring stories by Anthony Trollope, Virginia Woolf, John Galsworthy, G K Chesterton & others. The teeming metropolis of London has a long history of innovation. Amongst its most gilded are the literary talents of its world-famous authors. From Anthony Trollope and Daniel Defoe...
Read by Darrell Joe (Unabridged: 6hrs 10mins) Featuring stories by Uriah Derick D'Arcy, Alice Dunbar Nelson, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Wallace Thurman, Charles W Chesnutt, Pauline E Hopkins, Frances W Harper & others. Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart. A few pages...