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Author: Rudyard Kipling
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Author Rudyard Kipling
Narrator Martin Jarvis
Duration 11m
A refreshingly unusual story which examines the human condition and the idea of words from the past haunting the present. A jockey in a big race is set to win and is a 'sure bet' but with haunting voices from the past ringing in his ears, can he overcome his psychological torture to succeed on the track? A well-crafted story which lends itself to a...
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Author Rudyard Kipling
Narrator Martin Jarvis
Duration 11m
This thrilling and mysterious story was first published in the Civil and Military Gazette on March 4th 1887 and collected in Plain Tales from the Hills in 1888, and in subsequent editions of this collection. The Bisara of Pooree is a tiny eyeless fish, carved from a nut, inside a little jewelled silver box. If stolen, it is a powerful love charm. I...
View BookAuthor: Rudyard Kipling
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Author Rudyard Kipling
Narrator Martin Jarvis
Duration 14m
As a listener learns at the beginning of this fable-like old-fashioned story: "This is the story of a man who wilfully stepped beyond the safe limits of decent everyday society, and paid for it heavily. He knew too much in the first instance; and he saw too much in the second. He took too deep an interest in native life; but he will never do so aga...
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Author Rudyard Kipling
Narrator Martin Jarvis
Duration 14m
An intriguing India-based tale from Rudyard Kipling that concerns money, stealth and deception. Reggie Burke is seemingly the perfect bank manager, but "As he said himself, and as many men found out rather to their surprise, there were two Burkes, both very much at your service." This becomes very clear as the story progresses and a listener is dra...
View BookMy Girl In Skin-tight Jeans & Other Stories
Author: William Boyd
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Author William Boyd
Narrator Martin Jarvis
Duration 3h
Human relationships are the dominant theme in this collection of short stories taken from the book 'On the Yankee Station'. The stories include: 'Love Hurts'; 'Killing Lizards'; 'My Girl in Skin-Tight Jeans'; 'Histoire Vache'; 'Hardly Ever'; 'Bizarre Situations' and 'Long Story Short'.
View BookAuthor: Rudyard Kipling
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Author Rudyard Kipling
Narrator Martin Jarvis
Duration 5h
'Plain Tales from the Hills' is an outstanding collection of stories of colonial life capturing all the richness of India's sights, sounds and smells. The tales Kipling tells are ones of loss, suffering and broken faith, a far cry from the celebratory patriotism that surrounded the Empire at the time. He writes with passion about the cultural, raci...
View BookThe Oxford Book of English Short Stories
Author: A.S. (editor) Byatt
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Author A.S. (editor) Byatt
Narrator Various
Duration 18h
Edited by novelist A.S. Byatt, this collection of thirty-seven stories has been selected from the 19th and 20th centuries, from 'The Haunted House' by Charles Dickens to 'Solid Geometry' by Ian McEwan. Other authors included range from Trollope, Hardy and D. H. Lawrence to P. G. Wodehouse, J. G. Ballard and Angela Carter.
View BookAuthor: Jane Gardam
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Author Jane Gardam
Narrator Caroline John
Duration 5h
A collection of short stories, including the long, three-part story, 'Telegony', which is a depiction of three generations of women and the clash of two very different cultures, English and Italian. The collection includes two ghost stories, 'Dead Children' and 'The Meeting House'.
View BookAuthor: Penelope Fitzgerald
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Author Penelope Fitzgerald
Narrator Maria Darling
Duration 3h 15m
This collection of short stories, previously published in anthologies and newspapers, consists of miniature studies of the endless absurdity of human behaviour. It includes 'Our Lives Are Only Lent To Us', discovered amongst the author's papers after her death.
View BookAuthor: Graham Greene
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Author Graham Greene
Narrator Oliver Clement
Duration 10h 10m
These stories, all written between 1929 and 1954, all share the themes that feature so strongly in Graham Greene's novels: humour and violence, pity and hatred, betrayal and pursuit. Comic, sad, shocking and tragic, they recount the tales of Mr Maling's loud stomach, destructive gangs of children, indiscretions revealed and secrets uncovered. CONTA...
View BookAuthor: Joanne Harris
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Author Joanne Harris
Narrator Rula Lenska
Duration 7h 51m
Suburban witches, defiant old ladies, ageing monsters, suicidal Lottery winners, wolf men, dolphin women and middle-aged manufacturers of erotic leatherwear all feature in this collection of 22 short stories from the author of 'Chocolat'.
View BookThe Boy Who Taught the Beekeeper To Read
Author: Susan Hill
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Author Susan Hill
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Duration 4h
A young prep school boy, visiting his aunt's country house, finds company and friendship with the gentle beekeeper and begins teaching the man to read; a young country girl fights against becoming a down-trodden domestic skivvy like her dead mother, while another girl reaches a delicate understanding with an elderly blind man as they walk along the...
View BookAuthor: O. Henry
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Author O. Henry
Narrator Richard Pasco
Duration 16m
This ghostly story by O.Henry tells the tale of Danny, on his first day away from home, in the 'Big City'. Looking around his new apartment, he begins to discover hints of who the previous occupant could have been. This story about beauty, warmth, loneliness and regret will touch the heart of any who read it.
View BookAuthor: Mary Elizabeth Braddon
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Author Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Narrator Harriet Walter
Duration 38m
Our narrator tells the sad tale of her marriage, marred by a husband who breaks her heart spending his money in disreputable establishments, while she, Barbara, slowly withers away. Her beauty fading, she moves inevitably closer towards her only form of escape, her death. A melancholy and tragic tale, masterfully told.
View BookAuthor: Louisa May Alcott
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Author Louisa May Alcott
Narrator Derek Jacobi
Duration 53m
This story of obsession and loss is set in the thespian world. When a figure from the past comes back to retrieve something he lost, a pair of lovers are thrown into turmoil. The strange and powerful person has a story to tell.but what will the ending be?
View BookAuthor: Aubin De Teran Lisa St.
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Author Aubin De Teran Lisa St.
Narrator Janet Mcteer
Duration 14m
Nunzia's sister keeps birds in a cage outside the bedroom that they share. Nunzia herself cares not at first for the birds, but all the same keeps her own secret locked in a cage inside her. What is the secret that makes the bird inside her flutter around her chest excitedly? And why does her secret result in her half-starving her family with doubt...
View BookAuthor: Louisa May Alcott
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Author Louisa May Alcott
Narrator Juliet Stevenson
Duration 9m
Loretta, Mary, Anne and Sylvia are four young women who belong to a sisterhood composed of superior women, who for various reasons, determine to remain single and devote themselves to earnest work. They, do not rush into marriage recklessly like other young girls, who fear being single and perhaps penniless or uncared for. They enjoy their liberty...
View BookAuthor: John Buchan
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Author John Buchan
Narrator Iain Cuthbertson
Duration 27m
Published in 1899, in "Grey Weather", a collection of short stories and poems by the author, Buchan.
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Author John Buchan
Narrator Iain Cuthbertson
Duration 21m
One of the Runagates Club stories, where members of a dinner club take it in turns to relate a tale to the other guests. A man is shipwrecked on a desert island in the Archipelago. He has heard that either he will find nothing to eat or else he will be eaten by the local savages. Either way things don't look too promising. He is, in fact, captured...
View BookAuthor: James Joyce
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Author James Joyce
Narrator T P Mckenna
Duration 36m
A political discussion piece, this story sees political canvassers in Ireland discussing the merits of their candidates and the advantages and pitfalls of their positions, including whether or not they are to be paid. Also concerned with allegiances and tensions between nationalists and loyalists, this story from 'Dubliners' is historically interes...
View BookAuthor: Arthur Conan Doyle
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Author Arthur Conan Doyle
Narrator Edward Hardwicke
Duration 43m
Sherlock Holmes arrives at a large, dark, seemingly deserted house with Dr. Watson. Heavily loaded carriages with luggage are visible outside the house. Our intrepid team find a window ajar, and climb into the apartment where they find they are not alone. Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes Adventures are legendary classics of crime writing, and a...
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