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Read by Richard Mitchley, Gideon Wagner & Jake Urry (Unabridged: 1hr 27mins) Featuring poems by Edward Thomas, Wilfred Owen, Isaac Rosenberg, James Elroy Flecker, Alan Seeger & more. War may be rationalized as ‘diplomacy by other means’ but the reality is that when tribes, Nations and peoples bring themselves into armed...
(Unabridged: 1hr 28mins) 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 part of Surrey and now London. Her early life was...
Read by Ghizela Rowe & Richard Mitchley (Unabridged: 3hrs 21mins) This collection of short stories contains several gothic tales to bear macabre and chilling witness to the imagination of Rudyard Kipling, WL George, Jerome K Jerome, Mary Shelley and Edgar Allan Poe. These tales are designed to unsettle you, just...
Read by Christopher Ragland, Laurel Lefkow & Eric Meyers (Unabridged: 2hrs 7mins) Willa Sibert Cather had Welsh ancestry but like her parents Charles and Mary, was born in Virginia, on 7th December 1873. Despite strong roots in the community, Willa was 9, when the family moved to Nebraska, to work...
(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...
Performed by The Jermyn Street Theatre (Unabridged: 1hr 49mins) The stories of HH Munro – better known by his pen name of Saki – have scarcely been out of print since they were first published nearly a century ago. Yet it often seems that their particular delights are reserved for the private...
Read by Eric Meyers, Christopher Ragland & Ghizela Rowe (Unabridged: 2hrs 29mins) Stephen Crane was born 1st November, 1871 in Newark, New Jersey and was the eighth surviving child out of fourteen. Incredibly he began writing at the age of four and was published several times by the age of sixteen. ...
Read by Shyama Perara, David Shaw-Parker & Richard Mitchley (Unabridged: 1hr 49mins) Featuring poems by Rumi, Kabir, Hafiz & others. Islam is one of the world’s great religions and over the centuries one of its strongest voices. For Peace. For Tolerance. For the realisation that we are all in this World...
(Unabridged: 2hrs 11mins) In those last few moments drifting from wake to sleep we sometimes delve into thoughts of a very unpleasant kind. The hint of a shadow moving across the room can give rise to all sorts of troubling, unsettling ideas. Bram Stoker was a master of this effect....
(Unabridged: 2hrs 21mins) This collection brings together 5 of Lawrence's short stories from 1907-13 and range across all his major early styles and themes; portraying his distinctive vision or relations between men and woman as well as social and economic life and human nature in general. The stories here concentrate...