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Author: Paul Finch
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Author Paul Finch
Narrator Jonathan Keeble
Duration 7h 30m
A collection of short stories by an award-winning master of horror and suspense. In The Poppet a faceless wooden doll holds the secret to a chilling curse . In Hell in the Cathedral, a bunch of tourists are marooned at the mercy of a voracious sea-beast . In The Baleful Dead an ageing heavy metal band reunite at a lonely mansion, unaware of the blo...
View BookShort Stories: The Thinking Man's Collection
Author: Various
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Author Various
Narrator Various
Duration 4h 20m
Following the success of its 'Best of Women's Short Stories' collections, CSA Word now compliments its oeuvre of critically-acclaimed short stories with a collection that celebrates and studies MEN in all their forms. Inspirational, weird, wonderful, intriguing and even extraordinary men feature in this collection.
View BookAuthor: Virginia Woolf
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Author Virginia Woolf
Narrator Harriet Walter
Duration 20m
In "The Legacy," Gilbert Clandon is a widower whose wife has left him the collection of diaries she has kept since their marriage began. The diaries reveal that the wife he thought was completely devoted to him has been in love with another man. With this discovery also comes the realization that her death may not have been accidental, as he previo...
View BookAuthor: Mark Twain, F Scott Fitzgerald, Edgar Allan Poe, Lewis Carroll, Bram Stoker, Various
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Author Mark Twain, F Scott Fitzgerald, Edgar Allan Poe, Lewis Carroll, Bram Stoker, Various
Narrator Various
Duration 7h 52m
A wonderful selection of stories to make you laugh, cry and shiver! Featuring stories from Charles Dickens, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Saki amongst a great many famous others, this collection is a must for anyone who enjoys listening to a wide variety of stories from a diverse range of voices.
View BookAuthor: D H Lawrence
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Author D H Lawrence
Narrator Matthew Mellalieu
Duration 5h 28m
School life, family argument, passion, love and broken love; these subjects lie at the heart of this selection of short stories. The stories included are: 'Adolf', 'Rex', 'A Prelude', 'Lessford's Rabbits', 'A Lesson on a Tortoise', 'The Shades of Spring', 'Second Best', 'Her Turn', 'Tickets Please', and 'The Lovely Lady'.
View BookAuthor: V L Mcdermid
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Author V L Mcdermid
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Duration 6h 5m
White nights of passion and revenge in St Petersburg. A bingo-hall tyrant trapped by masked intruders. The sleazy flipside of the international publishing scene. An author succumbing to the deadly lure of cybersex. This audiobook contains grit, sex, glamour, intrigue and unexpected turns. CONTAINS ADULT THEMES.
View BookAuthor: Maupassant Guy De
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Author Maupassant Guy De
Narrator Oliver Montgomery
Duration 2h 38m
Maupassant is hailed as one of the greatest masters of the short story. This collection focuses upon the people and countryside of Normandy in France, portrayed in vivid colour and with great warmth. The skilful blend of tragedy and comedy make Maupassant's 'Normandy Stories' enduring favourites.
View BookAuthor: Rudyard Kipling
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Author Rudyard Kipling
Narrator Martin Jarvis
Duration 13m
Kipling story which appeared as part of Plain Tales from the Hills - Strickland, a police officer with a deep knowledge of the local Indian people falls in love with Miss Youghal but her parents don't approve of the match.
View BookAuthor: Rudyard Kipling
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Author Rudyard Kipling
Narrator Martin Jarvis, Richard Pasco, Liza Goddard
Duration 5h
This audiobook celebrates Kipling's truly prolific career. Sit back, relax and enjoy his poetry and stories including 'India and Empire', 'The Three Musketeers' and 'Mowgli's Brothers'.
View BookAuthor: F Scott Fitzgerald
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Author F Scott Fitzgerald
Narrator Kerry Shale
Duration 11m
A popular story in the acclaimed 'Pat Hobby' series. Poor Pat Hobby's fates go from bad to worse when he gets the wrong impression of a heated situation. Amusing and delightfully cringeworthy at times, Pat Hobby is a stubborn anti-hero who you won't be able to resist.
View BookAuthor: Edgar Allan Poe, Bram Stoker, Wilkie Collins, Various
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Author Edgar Allan Poe, Bram Stoker, Wilkie Collins, Various
Narrator Various
Duration 6h 17m
This collection comprises the best of classic horror writing, with the atmospheric genius of Edgar Allen Poe, the invention and eeriness of Bram Stoker, and the suspense of Wilkie Collins amongst the terrifying gems contained. A veritable schooling in the origins of modern-day horror and fantasy, some of the best minds in the history of English lit...
View BookAuthor: Roald Dahl
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Author Roald Dahl
Narrator Stephanie Beattie
Duration 6h 42m
A collection of short stories to startle, surprise and satisfy. How would you get rid of a murder weapon without causing suspicion? Where would you hide a diamond where no else would think of looking? What if you found out that the tattoo on your back was worth over a million pounds? A recommended text for GCSE English.
View BookAuthor: BBC Radio 4
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Author BBC Radio 4
Narrator Various
Duration 1h 51m
Eight seasonal stories from BBC Radio 4's Book at Bedtime. Everyone loves a bedtime story. And here are eight of the best, each with a Christmas theme, written by an array of literature's best-known names: Laurie Lee, Charles Dickens and Hans Christian Andersen are just some of the storytellers included in this collection. Amongst those giving voic...
View BookFather Brown Series 2 Episode 1: The Absence of Mr Glass
Author: G K Chesterton
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Author G K Chesterton
Narrator Andrew Sachs
SeriesThe Wisdom of Father Brown, Book 1
Duration 29m
Andrew Sachs stars as the famous clerical sleuth in this BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation. With his black hat, huge umbrella, unwordly simplicity and 'beaming but breathless geniality', Father Brown is one of fiction's best-loved amateur detectives. Short and tatty, but with the wisdom and insight to unravel the most wayward of criminal minds, h...
View BookThe Yellow Wallpaper & Other Stories
Author: Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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Author Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Narrator Jennifer Monaco
Duration 2h 57m
'The Yellow Wallpaper' tells the story of a nameless woman driven mad by enforced confinement after the birth of her child. Forced to live in an attic where the walls are covered in sickly yellow wallpaper, she does what she has to do, she writes. This story and six more are featured in this audiobook; they are full of humour but also offer ample f...
View BookDeath By Drowning and Other Stories
Author: Agatha Christie
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Author Agatha Christie
Narrator Joan Hickson
Duration 2h 6m
Here are four stories by the most popular mystery writer of all time; stories told by Miss Marple and her friends and solved by that elderly white-haired lady with the faded blue eyes and quiet nature. They are read by Joan Hickson, who played Miss Marple in the television series based on the works of Agatha Christie. In The Thumbmark of St Peter M...
View BookAuthor: Kate Atkinson
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Author Kate Atkinson
Narrator Geraldine James
Duration 6h 4m
Kate Atkinson's first collection of short stories explore a world where imagination has the power to transform reality. The stories include: 'Charlene and Trudi Go Shopping', 'Tunnel of Fish', 'Transparent Fiction', 'Dissonance', 'Sheer Big Waste of Love', 'Unseen Translation', 'Evil Doppelgangers', 'The Cat Lover', 'The Bodies Vest', 'Temporal Ano...
View BookCelebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras Country
Author: Mark Twain
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Author Mark Twain
Narrator Nigel Hawthorne
Duration 15m
Our narrator is sent on an errand to visit an old man, Simon Wheeler by a friend to find an old acquaintance of his. This is clearly a joke, because once our narrator gets there and asks about the acquaintance, Wheeler immediately begins to tell a long, boring, droll story about Jim Smiley. Jim Smiley is addicted to gambling. He bets on anything fr...
View BookAuthor: Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb
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Author Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 32m
Shakespeare's classic tragedy that charts the revenge-fuelled madness of the Prince of Denmark is re-told skilfully by brother and sister team Mary and Charles Lamb, who famously transformed Shakespeare's best-known plays into prose stories to make them more accessible to readers and listeners alike. Hamlet swears to avenge his father after seeing...
View BookAuthor: Guy De Maupassant
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Author Guy De Maupassant
Narrator Derek Jacobi
Duration 9m
Our narrator begins by asking a listener if they think that he is 'mad'...then goes on to relate a story of passion and drastic action that may lead a listener to begin so. A tale of jealousy, seemingly unreasonable competitiveness and obsession, this story of love-rivals is definitely not your usual...for the love rival may emerge as being rather...
View BookThe Great Automatic Grammatizator
Author: Roald Dahl
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Author Roald Dahl
Narrator Nicholas Courtney
Duration 10h
Bizarre, amusing and grotesque, these tales enter the unexpected world of Dahl. They illustrate the different lives that people lead: a life of chance, of risk and of plain bad luck. The stories are specially chosen for teenagers to introduce them to Dahl's work for adults. The stories included are: 'Katina', 'Man from the South', 'Mrs Bixby and th...
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