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Read by David Shaw-Parker, Ghizela Rowe & Richard Mitchley (Unabridged: 9hours 52mins) Featuring stories by Charles Dickens, William Makepeace Thackeray, Elizabeth Gaskell, Edward Lear, Sheridan Le Fanu & others. These British Isles, moored across from mainland Europe, are more often seen as a world unto themselves. Restless and creative, they...
Read by Christopher Ragland, Laurel Lefkow & Eric Meyers (Unabridged: 1hr 23mins) Benét was born on 22nd July in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. His father was a serving Army colonel and his first decade dictated that family life and education was centered at the base his father was serving from. From ten it became a...
(Unabridged: 1hr 58mins) The short story is often viewed as an inferior relation to the Novel but it is an art in itself. To take a story and distil its essence into fewer pages while keeping character and plot rounded and driven is not an easy task. Many try and...
Read by Shyama Perera, Ghizela Rowe & Libby Brunton (Unabridged: 1hr 13mins) Katherine was born on the 14th October 1888 into a prominent family in Wellington, New Zealand, the middle child of five. A gifted celloist, at one point she thought she might take it up professionally but writing gradually began to move...
Read by Richard Mitchley, David Shaw-Parker & Ian Holm (Unabridged: 6hrs 44mins) Featuring stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, Oscar Wilde, Charles Dickens, MR James & others. Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart. A few pages can lift our lives...
Read by David Shaw-Parker, Mark Rice-Oxley & Richard Mitchley (Unabridged: 2hrs) William Hope Hodgson was born in Essex, England on November 15th, 1877. Over his short career he produced a large body of work which explored and covered many genres. From horror, to science fiction, to stories on the sea, where he...
Read by Elliot Fitzpatrick (Unabridged: 47mins) It is a delicious literary irony that Mary E Penn, a writer of ghost, crime and mystery short stories during the Victorian era, is a complete enigma. Al that remain of her life are the 29 or so stories that were published or attributed...
(Unabridged: 53mins) Oscar Wilde is a giant and legend as a writer and as a wit. But there is a softer, gentler side in some of his short stories for children. Admired and beloved through the generations in this collection the wonderful British actor Basil Rathbone brings these superb...
Read by Richard Mitchley (Unabridged: 44mins) Algernon Blackwood was born on 14th March 1869 in Shooter’s Hill, South East London, to a religious middle-class family. His mother was a widowed Duchess and his father was a Post Office administrator. Blackwood was interested in the paranormal and the supernatural at an early...
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...