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Author: 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 BookAuthor: Carlo Collodi
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Author Carlo Collodi
Narrator Martin Jarvis
Duration 3h
Gepetto's creation, the wooden puppet Pinocchio, longs to be a real boy. This is the story of all the mischief he makes and his incredible nose which grows whenever he tells a lie!
View BookAuthor: Richmal Crompton
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Author Richmal Crompton
Narrator Martin Jarvis
Duration 2h 45m
Twelve stories, selected and read by Martin Jarvis, following the adventures of that irrepressible and ageless schoolboy William Brown. Includes 'William Goes Shopping', 'Violet Elizabeth Runs Away', 'William and the Real Laurence', 'The Outlaws and the Hidden Treasure', 'William and the Fairy Daffodil', 'The Best Laid Plans', 'Mrs Bott's hat', 'Wi...
View BookAuthor: Richmal Crompton
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Author Richmal Crompton
Narrator Martin Jarvis
Duration 2h 30m
The third selection of stories about 10 year old William Brown and his trusty band of friends. Includes 'William Holds the Stage', 'William and the School Report', 'All the News', 'Aunt Arabelle in Charge', 'William's Goodbye Present', 'William the Salvage Collector', 'William's Day Off', 'Entertainment Provided', 'William and the Brains Trust' and...
View BookAuthor: Richmal Crompton
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Author Richmal Crompton
Narrator Martin Jarvis
Duration 2h 30m
The second selection of stories about 10 year old William Brown and his trusty band of friends. Includes 'The Sweet Little Girl in White', 'A Birthday Treat', 'The Outlaws and Triplets', 'A Bit of Blackmail', 'William Makes a Night of It', 'William and the Lost Tourist', 'The Leopard Hunter', 'The New Neighbour', 'William the Philanthropist' and '...
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 BookAuthor: James Hilton
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Author James Hilton
Narrator Martin Jarvis
Duration 2h 30m
The life and times of 'Mr Chips', a much-loved classics master at Brookfield school since 1870. Full of the jokes and eccentricities of school life, Mr Chipping's journey starts as a diffident young master taking prep for the first time, progressing through middle-age and his encounters with Katherine, whose 'new woman' opinions create far-reaching...
View BookAuthor: Henri Stendhal
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Author Henri Stendhal
Narrator Martin Jarvis
Duration 3h
The story of a handsome and ambitious carpenter's son, Julian Sorel, and of his life torn between the military (the scarlet) and the church (the black). Sorel is determined to rise above his humble peasant origins and make something of his life. To do this, he realises he must adopt the code of hypocrisy by which early 19th-century French Resoratio...
View BookAuthor: Robert Westall
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Author Robert Westall
Narrator Martin Jarvis
Duration 3h 10m
Tim finds an old model ship buried on the beach. With the help of his eccentric Uncle Geoff and sister Tracey, he is able to uncover a forgotten secret. All three of them embark on an exciting adventure to solve a story of danger and romance long buried in the sands. Winner of the Carnegie Medal.
View BookAuthor: Richmal Crompton
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Author Richmal Crompton
Narrator Martin Jarvis
SeriesJust William, Book 1
Duration 2h 30m
A selection of stories about 10 year old William Brown and his trusty band of friends. Scruffy, mud-stained and mischievous, William is a lovable scamp whose hilarious pranks usually end in disaster - for his harassed elders at least.
View BookAuthor: Clive King
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Author Clive King
Narrator Martin Jarvis
Duration 3h 25m
Barney has found a great place to play - the dump near his granny's home. But one day the ground gives way, and Barney finds himself in a cave in the middle of the dump where he meets Stig, a Stone-Age cave-dweller. This is a classic adventure story about a very unusual friendship.
View BookBilly Bunter of Greyfriars School
Author: Frank Richards
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Author Frank Richards
Narrator Martin Jarvis
Duration 3h
William George Bunter - Billy to his friends (and enemies) - is up to his usual pranks, falling asleep in class, stealing jam and cake from other boys' lockers, chalking rude things on the blackboard and failing to turn up for cricket. When finally threatened with expulsion, will he be redeemed by his final adventure?
View BookAuthor: A G Macdonell
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Author A G Macdonell
Narrator Martin Jarvis
Duration 3h
Donald Cameron, a young Scotsman, is commissioned to write a book on the outsider's view of the English. During his investigation into the foibles of English social life he encounters civil servants, newspaper editors, minor poets and a glamorous film star in such classically English situations as the country house weekend and one of the most famou...
View BookAuthor: Graham Greene
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Author Graham Greene
Narrator Martin Jarvis
Duration 3h
Holly Martins arrives in post war Vienna to discover that his old friend Harry Lime has just died in a car accident. On hearing from Major Calloway of his criminal activities and racketeering, Martins vows to clear his friend's reputation and uncover the truth to discover what really happened to Harry Lime.
View BookAuthor: John Galsworthy
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Author John Galsworthy
Narrator Martin Jarvis
SeriesThe Forsyte Saga, Book 2
Duration 5h 9m
The second part of John Galsworthy's Forsyte Saga, chronicling the downfall of an upper middle class family in the turbulent period of social change at the end of the 19th and start of the 20th centuries. This book tells of the struggle between Soames and his beautiful wife Irene, who leaves him but cannot persuade him to grant a divorce. While Soa...
View BookThe Man of Property & Indian Summer of A Forsyte
Author: John Galsworthy
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Author John Galsworthy
Narrator Martin Jarvis
SeriesThe Forsyte Saga, Book 1
Duration 5h 12m
Soames Forsyte's great desire to own things even extends to his captivating wife, Irene. Jealous of her friendships with others, he concocts a plan to move her away to the countryside, where he might come to own her completely. Resisting his bitter intentions, she falls for architect Philip Bossiney, who is unfortunately engaged to her best friend...
View BookAuthor: P.G. Wodehouse
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Author P.G. Wodehouse
Narrator Martin Jarvis
SeriesVery Good Jeeves, Book 1
Duration 4h 5m
As well as Jeeves and his master Bertie Wooster, these unabridged stories also feature many regular favourites, including Tuppy Glossop, Bingo Little, Bobbie Wickham, Aunt Dahlia, Aunt Agatha and Sir Roderick Glossop. All voiced masterfully by veteran Wodehouse reader Martin Jarvis.
View BookAuthor: Rudyard Kipling
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Author Rudyard Kipling
Narrator Martin Jarvis
Duration 19m
A story of magic, Empire and deception in Raj India, our narrator tells of Suddhoo, a 'very, very old man' who lets out rooms in his house. All-accepting, Suddhoo gives a roof to grocers, prostitutes and other equally polar opposite professions, including a man who describes himself as a 'seal-cutter' but who actually seems to practice a career rat...
View BookAuthor: Rudyard Kipling
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Author Rudyard Kipling
Narrator Martin Jarvis
Duration 8m
A big drinker in India tries to reform for a woman whom he believes is worth making the transformation for. As the first woman reveals herself to be less than holy herself, the man is blind to her faults, and exalts her virtues as his savior, even after he has married a good woman. An anthropological and sociological study of Raj India and human fo...
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