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Read by Sir Christopher Lee (Abridged: 6hrs 30mins) Many consider it to be Dennis Wheatley's finest work which is praise indeed on his world beating novelist. It was a huge bestseller in the 1930s when it first came out, full of 1930s atmosphere, skilfully written and well researched too -...
Read by Laurel Lefkow & Ghizela Rowe (Unabridged: 2hrs 27mins) Francis Bret Harte was born on 25th August 1836 in Albany New York. As a young boy Harte developed an early love of books and reading. He first published at the tender age of 11, his satirical poem ‘Autumn Musings’....
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...
Read by Ghizela Rowe & Richard Mitchley (Unabridged: 58mins) Featuring poems by John Keats, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Thomas Hardy, William Wordsworth & more. For many of us Autumn, or as the Americans would say; Fall is the season of mixed emotions. Summer’s long days are replaced by...
(Unabridged: 2hrs 30mins) Peter Pan is a classic story. The Admirable Crichton is a classic play. And here, in this volume are two classic short stories. They are certainly of their day and perfect pieces of their craft. And really that’s not surprising for JM Barrie was a writer of great...
(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 Richard Mitchley & Ghizela Rowe (Unabridged: 1hr 5mins) Khwāja Shams-ud-Dīn Muḥammad Ḥāfeẓ-e Shīrāzī is commonly known to us as Hafiz, the Persian poet who was born in Shiraz, Iran in either 1315 or 1317. The facts of much of his early life are unknown to us but it...
(Unabridged: 1hr 28min) Charles Dickens enjoyed entertaining his friends with readings of ghost stories, especially at Christmas time. In his classic tale The Signalman, the then high technology world of steam railway comes to contact with what looks like a good old fashioned haunting. A night at a desolate country inn...
A history of the black female experience fighting injustice and discrimination through poems. Read by Ghizela Rowe & Trei House (Unabridged: 2hrs 3mins) Featuring poems by Alice Dunbar Nelson, Frances E W Harper, Georgia Douglas Johnson, Mary E Tucker, Phyllis Wheatley, Clara Ann Thompson & others. Race and gender have denied many their rightful...
Poetry and prose together from literary greats. Read by Bill Wallis, Eve Karpf & Richard Mitchley (Unabridged: 2hrs 26min) Literature is a world of words and wonder, able to take us on almost unimaginable journeys from the wild and fantastic to the grind and minutiae of life. An author’s ideas...