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(Unabridged: 2hrs 33mins) Samuel Langhorne Clemens was born in 1835 and is far better known by his pen name; Mark Twain. An American author and humorist of the first order he is perhaps most famous for his novels, The Adventures Of Tom Sawyer, written in 1876, and its sequel,...
(Unabridged: 2hrs 57mins) Arnold Bennett was born in 1867 in Hanley one of the six towns that formed the Potteries that later joined together to become Stoke On Trent; the area in which most of his works are located. For a short time he worked for his solicitor father before...
Read by Richard Mitchley & Ghizela Rowe (Unabridged: 2hrs 37mins) Many great writers are defined and remembered by one piece of work; one novel or poem that embeds itself in Society. For Louisa May Alcott it was Little Women - enjoyed by every generation since its publication. Born in 1832 in...
Read by Sir Christopher Lee (Abridged: 6hrs 3mins) Dennis Wheatley was the British master of occult writing selling millions of books from the 1930s onwards. One of his most famous creations was the Duke De Richleau. In this audiobook it is World War II and Britain faces increasing pressure and...
Read by Geraldine James (Abridged: 2hrs 23mins) Although set in the heart of rural England, in a place still untouched by industrial development or social upheaval, Silas Marner is no idyllic country tale. Eliot depicts village life good and bad: Silas’s suspicious neighbours are far from perfect and both the...
Read by Jenny Agutter (Abridged: 2hrs 25mins) In this classic Victorian novel, Elizabeth Gaskell explores the themes of love and social justice in an industrial age. Set in the north of England, out-of-towner Margaret Hale finds herself simultaneously attracted to mill owner John Thorton, and repulsed by the way he...
Read by Mark Rice-Oxley (Unabridged 1hr 9mins) Mary Gleed Tuttiett was born and brought up in Newport on the Isle of Wight on 11th December 1846. She was largely self-educated but of determined character to achieve something with her life. As a young woman she travelled in England and Switzerland working...
Read by Phil Reynolds (Unabridged: 2hrs 52mins) Considered to the be one of most influential American authors, Howard Philip Lovecraft is synonymous with some of the best fantasy and horror fiction of the 20th century, second only to Edgar Allan Poe. In The Dunwich Horror (1928), Wilbur Whateley, the son...
Read by Richard Mitchley & Christopher Ragland (Unabridged: 4hrs 42mins) Science, better diet, advanced medicines are all part of a process that in the modern age keep most of us going to a ripe old age. In previous times some diseases could only be slowed and not defeated. There toil...
Part 1 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...