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Read by Jake Urry & Richard Mitchley (Unabridged: 2hrs 47mins) Featuring stories by Henry W. Nevison, Edwin Pugh, Arthur Morrison & others. The Cockney Novelists flourished towards the end of the nineteenth century and spilled over into the next. They included Arthur Morrison, Edwin Pugh, William Pett Ridge and Clarence...
Read by David Shaw-Parker, Ghizela Rowe & Richard Mitchley (Unabridged: 11hours 34mins) Featuring stories by Joseph Conrad, Edith Nesbit, MR James, Katherine Tynan, Kenneth Grahame & others. These British Isles, moored across from mainland Europe, are more often seen as a world unto themselves. Restless and creative, they often warred amongst themselves...
Read by David Shaw-Parker (Unabridged: 1hr 3mins) 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...
(Unabridged: 1hr 5mins) Saki was the pen-name of Hector Hugh Munro. One of the wittiest of all short-story writers, he was born in 1870 in Burma where his father, a Scots army officer, was stationed. He was one when the family returned to England to live in North Devon. When his...
A celebration of English poems Read by Richard Mitchley, Nigel Planer, Ghizela Rowe (Unabridged: 1hr 12mins) Featuring poems by William Wordsworth, Lewis Carroll, Richard Le Gallienne, John Oxenham & many more Poetry. A form of words that seems so elegantly simple in one verse and so cleverly complex in another. ...
Read by Richard Mitchley & Jake Urry (Unabridged: 1hr 23mins) Thomas Burke was born Sydney Thomas Burke on November 29th, 1886 in Eltham, London (at the time it was part of Kent). An author in the early years of the century who brought his skills of pen and eye to...
Read by David Shaw-Parker, Mark Rice-Oxley & Richard Mitchley (Unabridged: 3hrs 1min) 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...
Read by James Taylor, Nigel Planer & Ghizela Rowe (Unabridged: 1hr 10mins) Edward Lear. Ah Nonsense! The English it is often said have a peculiar brand of humour. Along with copious cups of tea and a stiff upper lip it keeps life together in moments of difficulty and strife. One of...
Lady Eleanor Smith - A Short Story Collection (Audiobook) Read by Lisa Bowerman, Janet Fullerlove, Elliot Fitzpatrick(Unabridged: 03:08mins) Featuring stories by Lady Eleanor Smith Lady Eleanor Furneaux Smith was born in Birkenhead, Merseyside in England on the 7th August 1902 into a privileged family steeped in titles and politics. Part...
Read by Richard Mitchley, Ghizela Rowe & Jake Urry (Unabridged: 1hr 54mins) Arthur Morrison was born on November 1st, 1863, in Poplar, in the East End of London. From the age of 8, after the death of his father, he was brought up, along with two siblings, by his mother,...