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(Unabridged: 2hrs 15mins) Wilkie Collins was a prolific writer of short stories. Always original, his combination of cleverly constructed plots and believable characters has made him one of our most widely read authors. In 'The Dead Hand', a visitor to Doncaster in race week is forced by circumstances to spend...
Read by David Rintoul (Abridged: 2hrs 25mins) Francis Osbaldistone, in disgrace with his father for refusing to join the family bank, travels north to his cousins' remote house in Northumberland. There, he finds himself caught up in a vicious plot to bankrupt his father which has startling consequences. At the...
(Unabridged: 1hr 3mins) 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 many...
(Unabridged: 2hrs 7mins) It might be said of his words such are Legends born. As Shakespeare is to England and Burns to Scotland then WB Yeats is to the Emerald Isle. In this audiobook we not only bring you some of his greatest works read by Cyril Cusack, Siobahn...
(Unabridged: 1hr 35mins) Alice Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There is a marvellous piece of children's literature by Lewis Carroll. It is also marvellous entertainment for adults. The sequel to the yet more famous Alice in Wonderland makes no reference to the earlier work yet displays an...
Read by James Taylor & Richard Mitchley (Unabridged: 2hrs 4mins) The British, it is often said, have a stiff upper lip and a dry sense of humour. Its true, we usually do and in the case of this perfect compendium of short stories we absolutely do. Listen to our Scottish raconteur...
(Unabridged: 2hrs 58mins) Should the truth be pursued whatever the cost? The idealistic son of a wealthy businessman seeks to expose his father's duplicity and to free his childhood friend from the lies on which his happy home life is based. When skeletons are brought out of the closet, the foundations...
Read by Tracey Childs (Unabridged: 2hrs 45mins) Laura and her father live a quiet life in their remote castle in the dense forests Styria. It is a solitary existence for young Laura, who has no companionship except for her governess and the occasional visits of neighbouring gentry. Into this lonely life comes...
Read by Jake Urry & Richard Mitchley (Unabridged: 1hr 27mins) Henry Woodd Nevinson was born on October 11th, 1856. Nevinson was schooled at Shrewsbury School and at Christ Church, Oxford. John Ruskin influenced his time at Oxford. Fascinated by German Culture he spent some time at Jena before publishing, in...
Read by Eve Karpf & Liza Ross (Unabridged 1hr 14mins) The art of writing a short story can be barely noticed by a reader such is the quality with which they are usually written. It is a difficult trade, an unforgiving discipline but for those who master it the rewards...