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Author: P.G. Wodehouse
Author P.G. Wodehouse
Narrator Martin Jarvis
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.
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Author: James Joyce
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...
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The Foolhardy Mouse and the Cautious Cat
Author: James Thurber
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: Jane Austen
Author Jane Austen
Narrator Helen Johns
Duration 47m
Helen Johns reads some fascinating early writings by Jane Austen from the fictionalised A Collection of Letters. A prolific letter writer herself, in this collection we see how the budding writer is experimenting, and starting to explore the medium as a literary convention.
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The Fright: Woodside School Series, Book 1
Author: Jean Ure
Series: Woodside School, Book 1
Author Jean Ure
Narrator Jean Ure
SeriesWoodside School, Book 1
Duration 34m
Childhood adventures that are fun for all the family. Poor Catherine Onslow! Everybody was either part of a group or had a best friend except Catherine. The first in a series of 4 unabridged audiobooks for girls aged 6 - 9 set at Woodside School.
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Author: Joanna Trollope
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...
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Author: John Buchan
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...
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Author: John Buchan
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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The Man of Property & Indian Summer of A Forsyte
Author: John Galsworthy
Series: The Forsyte Saga, Book 1
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...
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Author: John Galsworthy
Series: The Forsyte Saga, Book 2
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...
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Author: John Wyndham
Author John Wyndham
Narrator Alex Jennings
Duration 5h 15m
When Bill Masen leaves hospital and goes into the centre of London, he finds that looting is rife as people are grabbing anything from the shelves of shops that they think they might find useful - mainly food. While surveying the scene he comes across an attractive young woman who also wasn't blinded in the comet shower, Josella. Together they retu...
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Author: Jonathan Swift
Author Jonathan Swift
Narrator Philip Jackson
Duration 4h 47m
Gulliver's Travels has been in print since its first publication in 1726, due to its popularity with young and old alike. As well as a wildly imaginative tale of travel and adventure, it is a comment on human nature and an overblown explorer's story, rich in symbolism and humour. Lemuel Gulliver, an English surgeon, sets sail on expeditions to extr...
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Author: Katherine Mansfield
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.
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Author: Louisa May Alcott
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...
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Author: Aubin De Teran Lisa St.
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...
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Author: Louisa May Alcott
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?
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In Flander's Fields and Other Poems About War
Author: John McCrae, Wilfred Owen
Author John McCrae, Wilfred Owen
Narrator Ralph Cosham
Duration 53m
In WWI, possibly the most horrific modern war, two soldier poets described inner impressions telling us much about war and the people who fight them.
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Author: Mark Twain
Author Mark Twain
Narrator Richard Griffiths
Duration 7m
Set in the gold and quartz-mining community, this queer and amusing little vignette explains why Dick Baker's cat, who always had such a propensity for finding the premium gold-panning plots, takes strongly against quartz mining and never is to be swayed otherwise. A sweet, funny and well-written short, that showcases Twain's wit and skill brillian...
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Author: Mary Elizabeth Braddon
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.
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Author: Mary Shelley
Author Mary Shelley
Narrator David Rintoul
Duration 2h 22m
Victor Frankenstein decides to build a `man' from assembled body parts stolen from corpses. He becomes obsessed with his 'project' and believes that he is pioneering scientific discovery - without considering the potential consequences. What results, of course, is a `monster', who looks grotesque and frightens any living soul who ever comes into co...
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Author: Matthew Solon
Author Matthew Solon
Narrator Various
Duration 56m
On September 15, 2008, Lehman Brothers, one of the oldest and largest investment banks in the world, with its headquarters in New York, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. It was the largest bankruptcy filed in US history and sent the already unstable global financial markets into an uncontrollable tailspin. Based on insider interviews, thi...
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