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Ready by Steven Pacey (Abridged: 2hrs 25mins) From the moment the dying man, Vincey, bursts into his friend Holly's Cambridge rooms with his dramatic announcement, increasing mystery and tension mark She as Henry Rider Haggard's greatest novel. At the centre of the story is young Leo, Vincey's son, who becomes...
Read by Tim Graham & Ghizela Rowe (Unabridged: 58mins) Featuring poems by William Blake, Rudyard Kipling, William Shakespeare, William Wordsworth, Eugene Field & others. The role of Fathers has changed much over the course of centuries. Men are now better suited to a role of co-parent in this modern age...
(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 William Roberts (Abridged: 2hrs 24mins) The Portrait of a Lady focuses first and foremost on the character and experiences of its heroine Isabel Archer. She is, in Henry James' words, the ‘lighted’ character; all the other people in the novel remain relatively obscure. Their dealings with Isabel, for...
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...
Read by William Hootkins (Abridged: 2hrs 58mins) Terry Malloy is a hoodlum, caught between the beginnings of a conscience and the racketeers for whom he works. Katie is that conscience. But she is torn between her love for him and her belief he killed her brother. Together with a slum-reared...
Read by James Fox (Abridged: 2hrs 15mins) The Thirty Nine Steps keeps the reader enthralled from beginning to end. From the opening scenes in a London flat to the final conclusion in a seaside villa, the jaunty, undaunted and remarkably resourceful Richard Hannay is at the centre of the action....
(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,...
Read by Richard Mitchley (Unabridged: 2hrs) Many giants of Literature originate from the shores of these emerald isles; Shakespeare, Dickens, Chaucer, The Brontes and Austen to which most people would willingly add the name Thomas Hardy. Far From The Madding Crowd, Tess Of The D’Urbervilles, The Mayor Of Casterbridge are...
(Unabridged: 2hrs 21mins) Perhaps best known for her classic novel The Age of Innocence Wharton loved the short story form because its brevity allowed her to concentrate on telling the story. In these three powerful stories, Edith Wharton transports the listener to the turn of the century where she depicts (without...