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Author: Katherine Mansfield
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Author Katherine Mansfield
Narrator Harriet Walter
Duration 17m
After a six-year hiatus, a man and a woman who used to be lovers or close friends meet in a caf‚. An insightful study of relationships and nostalgic ideals, this story also looks at the difference money, or the lack of it, can make, especially if one half of a couple (romantic or otherwise) is financially better off than the other.
View BookAuthor: M.R. James
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Author M.R. James
Narrator Derek Jacobi
Duration 1h 6m
A compilation of five chilling stories from M. R. James, including four previously unreleased stories and originally recorded for the Radio 4 'Woman's Hour' in Christmas 2007. M. R. James is an important part of the nation's celebration of Christmas. In the oral tradition, many of his thirty or so tales were penned as Christmas Eve entertainments a...
View BookAuthor: Lynne Truss
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Author Lynne Truss
Narrator Various
Duration 5h 33m
In the tradition of Alan Bennett's 'Talking Heads', Lynne Truss' twelve monologues are about love, romance, friendship and family. Here are six men and six women, each with a very different story to tell, ranging from the wife who feels better when her husband disappears to the pedant who undergoes a TV makeover and the Olympic swimmer who can't es...
View BookAuthor: Joanna Trollope
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Author Joanna Trollope
Narrator Martin Jarvis
Duration 12m
Our narrator stays on a Mediterranean island much longer than he intended to for a number of reasons. One reason is to prove his mother and his girlfriend wrong, who both say that to decamp to an island for a whole winter to write a novel is melodramatic and rather a clich‚. Most nights, to abate loneliness and pass the time, he talks to the...
View BookBest of Women's Short Stories 2
Author: Jane Austen, Elizabeth Gaskell, Kate Chopin, Winifred Holtby, L. M. Montgomery, Mary Shelley, Katherine Mansfield, Virginia Woolf
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Author Jane Austen, Elizabeth Gaskell, Kate Chopin, Winifred Holtby, L. M. Montgomery, Mary Shelley, Katherine Mansfield, Virginia Woolf
Narrator Harriet Walter
Duration 5h 2m
Jane Austen makes two appearances on this brilliant collection that also includes such revered writers as Mary Shelly and Virginia Woolf. With stories ranging from tear-jerkers to passionate tales of love and jealousy, this collection has something for everyone, young or old, male or female.
View BookAuthor: Kurt Vonnegut
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Author Kurt Vonnegut
Narrator Various
Duration 11h 26m
Kurt Vonnegut is a master of contemporary American Literature. His black humor, satiric voice, and incomparable imagination first captured America's attention in The Siren's of Titan in 1959 and established him as a "true artist" (NY Times) with Cat's Cradle in 1963. He is, as Graham Greene has declared, "one of the best living American writers." W...
View BookThe Foolhardy Mouse and the Cautious Cat
Author: James Thurber
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Author James Thurber
Narrator Liza Goddard
Duration 3m
A foolhardy mouse named Mervyn with great faith in his own courage and invincibility, sets off to antagonize the household cat, Pouncetta. His family and friends fear the worst and lament his untimely demise, they may be surprised by the strange turn of events, facilitated in part to a perhaps unduly paranoid feline...
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Author Various
Narrator T P Mckenna
SeriesClassic Irish Short Stories, Book 2
Duration 3h 10m
Another top-notch selection of Irish stories, once again superbly read by that master story-teller, T.P. McKenna. Stories: Grace - James Joyce, Home Sickness - George Moore, The Ghost & The Bone-setter - Sheridan Le Fanu, Two Or Three Witnesses - C.E.Montague, The Stolen Sheep - John Banim
View BookThe Murders In the Rue Morgue and Other Stories
Author: Edgar Allan Poe
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Author Edgar Allan Poe
Narrator Kerry Shale
Duration 4h 10m
This is a compendium of Poe's tales of mystery and intrigue featuring his ground-breaking detective Auguste Dupin, and complemented by a selection of his greatest-ever tales of the weird and fantastic.
View BookAuthor: Jeffrey Archer
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Author Jeffrey Archer
Narrator Bill Wallis
Duration 7h 39m
This audiobook contains a collection of fourteen short stories, all with that trademark twist in the tale. Witness love at first sight across the train tracks, the cleverest of confidence tricks, the quirks of the legal profession, and the creative financial talents of a member of Her Majesty's diplomatic service.
View BookAuthor: G K Chesterton
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Author G K Chesterton
Narrator John Graham
Duration 5h 30m
Father Brown, G. K. Chesterton's lovable little Norfolk priest, has an uncanny knack of unravelling mysteries that leave lesser mortals floundering. His sympathetic understanding of human nature never deserts him, even when he himself is touched by a breath of scandal, thanks to the hasty conclusions of a crusading newspaperman. In this collection,...
View BookAuthor: Various
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Author Various
Narrator Derek Jacobi
Duration 2h 56m
A selection of fictional murders committed by reason of love and hate: crimes passionnel. Stories: Mad / de Maupassant First Hate / Algernon Blackwood A Double Tragedy / Louisa M. Alcott Inside Information / Stephen Phillips Who Killed Zebedee? / Wilkie Collins. A thrilling and involving collection of blood-thirsty and psychologically intreguing cr...
View BookThe Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Volume Two
Author: Arthur Conan Doyle
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Author Arthur Conan Doyle
Narrator Michael Williams, Clive Merrison
SeriesThe Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Book 2
Duration 2h 53m
Includes: The Five Orange Pips, The Man With the Twisted Lip, The Adventure of Blue Carbuncle and The Adventure of the Speckled Band. Clive Merrison stars as Holmes with Michael Williams as Watson in these adventures, part of the unique fully dramatised BBC canon of Conan Doyle's short stories and novels featuring the world-famous sleuth.
View BookAuthor: Angela Carter
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Author Angela Carter
Narrator Melanie Dias
Duration 6h 55m
From familiar fairy tales and legends - Red Riding Hood, Bluebeard, Puss-in-Boots, vampires and werewolves - Angela Carter has created an absorbing collection of dark, sensual, fantastic stories. CONTAINS STRONG LANGUAGE AND ADULT THEMES.
View BookThe Garden Party and Other Stories
Author: Maeve Binchy
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Author Maeve Binchy
Narrator Various
Duration 57m
A collection of short stories from the Archives read for Radio 4, by bestselling author Maeve Binchy. Stories included are: The Garden Party read by Niamh Cusack - Helen looked down at Mrs Kennedy's garden. It was cheerfully coloured yet ordered like Mrs Kennedy. But first impressions are not always reliable. The Special Sale read by Dervla Kirwan...
View BookThe Red Room and Other Stories
Author: H.G. Wells
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Author H.G. Wells
Narrator Peter Beton
Duration 12h
Wells was at his best as a short-story writer, opening up new horizons and other worlds through a remarkable mixture of imagination and compassion. This collection includes 'The Country of the Blind', 'The Cone' and 'The Valley of the Spiders'.
View BookAuthor: G K Chesterton
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Author G K Chesterton
Narrator Jack Shepherd
Duration 45m
A classic and puzzling Father Brown mystery to amaze and delight with twists and turns galore and wonderful characterization by Edward Hardwicke - TV's Dr. Watson from The Adventures of Sherock Holmes. Hardwicke's gravelly low tones are a perfect suit to any detective story and a reader will be totally captured after his first few words.
View BookAuthor: K.J Orr
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Author K.J Orr
Narrator Indira Varma
Duration 27m
Following a lengthy mission into space, a newly returned astronaut readjusts to daily life and his wife struggles to negotiate his changed and shifting rhythms. The BBC National Short Story Award 2011 is managed in partnership with Booktrust.
View BookAuthor: Edgar Wallace
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Author Edgar Wallace
Narrator Jack Shepherd
Duration 21m
Short story featuring Wallace's amateur female thief Four Square Jane and the remarkable disappearance of a heavily guarded painting.
View BookAuthor: Colin Dexter
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Author Colin Dexter
Narrator Edward Hardwicke
Duration 14m
Neighborly concern about a suspicious stranger sets a new puzzle for Colin Dexter's Inspector Morse.
View BookAuthor: 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...
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