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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....
Read by Joseph O'Connor (Abridged: 2hrs 25mins) Contemptuous of life as a carpenter’s son in his native town of Verrieres, Julien Sorel dreams of a fame as great as Napoleon’s. To this end he assumes many guises – celibate priest, self-effacing secretary and keen Royalist. He also impresses two very...
Read by Richard Mitchley, Eve Karpf & Ghizela Rowe (Unabridged: 1hr 14mins) Featuring poems by Amy Levy, William Butler Yeats, Walt Whitman, Robert Louis Stevenson, Hafiz, John Keats, Alfred Lord Tennyson & others. The seventh month of the Gregorian calendar saunters into mid-summer. Temperatures rise still further. The landscape may...
Read by Richard Mitchley (Unabridged: 1hr 30mins) Henry James was born 15th April 1843 in New York City. His youth was spent travelling with his family receiving what was an "extraordinarily haphazard and promiscuous" education as they journeyed through London, Paris, Geneva, Boulogne-sur-Mer and Newport, Rhode Island, according to the...
Read by Jonathan Hyde (Abridged: 2hrs 22mins) The Three Musketeers is a swashbuckling story of derring-do. From d’Artagnan’s first meeting with Athos, Portos and Aramis, the Musketeers he so admires, Alexandre Dumas never lets up the pace of his story. His four heroes gallop through the land, trying to foil...
Read by David Shaw-Parker (Unabridged: 58mins) Montague Rhodes James is cited as perhaps the greatest English writer of ghost stories, an opinion few would disagree with. James was born on 1st August 1862 at Goodnestone Parsonage in Kent, where his father was Curate but at age 3 the family went...
Read by Stephen Hogan (Unabridged: 1hr) Rosa Mulholland was born in Belfast on 19th March 1841. She originally wished to become a painter but turned to literary pursuits and attempted to publish her first book at 15. Charles Dickens, who took an early interest in her work, did much to...
Read by Mark Rice-Oxley (Unabridged: 55mins) Émile Édouard Charles Antoine Zola was born in Paris on 2nd April 1840. When he was 3 the family moved to Aix-en-Provence in the southeast. At 7 his father died, leaving the family on a meagre pension. In 1858, they returned to Paris. His...
Read by Darrell Joe (Unabridged: 56mins) Alice Ruth Moore was born on 19th July 1875 in New Orleans where she was part of the multi-racial Creole community. She was the first generation seemingly born free after the Civil War and unusually for the times, obtained a university education which led...
Read by Eric Meyers (Unabridged: 51mins) Willa Sibert Cather was born on 7th December, 1873 on her grandmother's farm in the Back Creek Valley near Winchester, Virginia. After several years and moves the family eventually settled in Red Cloud, Nebraska and for the first time Cather could now attend school. In...