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Read by Eve Karpf, Ghizela Rowe & Richard Mitchley (Unabridged: 2hrs 18mins) Food. One of the overpowering needs that we all hunger for. Whether to use as basic fuel or sophisticated tasting, food and its providers, its servers, its guests and our authors are here to converse, deliberate as courses are...
Read by E. G. Marshall & Siobhan McKenna (Abridged: 53mins) Ulysses is a seminal novel by the Irish writer James Joyce that has had a great impact on the modernist movement. Indeed, for many critics, the novel has established most of the conventions of modern fiction and has become one...
(Unabridged: 24mins) These humorous verses were originally written for children but the taste is much more to an adult liking. They are strange, perverse, and the morals they provide....well, that's for you to decide. Luckily Joyce Grenfell is narrating, so it's double the experience. Here's what you can look forward...
Read by Alfred Keen (Abridged: 23mins) The Rubaiyat Of Omar Khayham is a beautiful work of art much admired from generation to generation. Written in the eleventh century it is here brought to this audiobook by the great and accomplished actor offstage and screen Alfred Drake. Together with...
Read by David Niven (Unabridged: 27mins) Love. Perhaps our greatest quest in life is to love and be loved in return. A task as easy and as difficult as the people involved. Here the beloved British actor and Hollywood star David Niven reads a selection of letters from across the...
Part 6 For many Christians the New Testament forms the basis of our more modern view of Christianity. But the Old Testament has much to offer both in which of its parts are accepted by which branch of the Church but, more obviously, many of the stories themselves. Whether you...
Read by Christopher Ragland (Unabridged: 1hr 30mins) Robert William Chambers was born on 26th May 1865 in Brooklyn. Chambers was educated at the Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute, and then the Art Students' League. From there he studied in Paris at the École des Beaux-Arts, and at Académie Julian, from 1886 to...
Read by Liza Ross, Janet Maw & Laurel Lefkow (Unabridged: 7hrs 15mins) Featuring stories by Mary Shelley, George Eliot, Kate Chopin, Amelia Edwards & more. This century is crammed full of talents that showcase an enviable array of stories and genres. Across a hundred years the short story develops, becomes...
Read by David Shaw-Parker, Richard Mitchley & Tom McLean (Unabridged: 10hrs 7mins) Featuring stories by Franz Kafka, Nikolai Gogol, James Joyce, Anton Chekhov & others. The top 10 short stories of all time written by European authors. Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their...
Read by David Shaw-Parker, Geoff McGivern & Richard Mitchley (Unabridged: 6hrs 1min) Here, in this volume, are some of the most precious gems of the British Ghost Story. M R James wrote around 30 of them and each is imbued with now familiar themes that still strike at the nerves, unsettle...