The Rainbow by D. H. Lawrence audiobook. Genre: drama Set in the English Midlands from the late 1800s into the early 20th century, The Rainbow follows the Brangwen family across generations as they struggle to reconcile the solidity of rural life with a restless hunger for something beyond it. At Marsh Farm, Tom Brangwen is drawn into a marriage that reshapes his sense of belonging and awakens a fierce emotional and physical intensity. As the family grows, the focus shifts to the women who inher...
Jan 04, 2023•19 hr 59 min•Ep. 657
The Prussian Officer and Other Stories by D. H. Lawrence audiobook. Genre: drama D. H. Lawrence's The Prussian Officer and Other Stories gathers a sharp, unsettling set of early tales in which ordinary lives are pressed to the edge by authority, desire, shame, and the body itself. In the title story, an aging Prussian captain, rigid with discipline and pride, drives his young orderly through relentless marches and humiliations, until the closed world of military hierarchy becomes a pressure cham...
Jan 04, 2023•7 hr 46 min•Ep. 656
The Lost Girl by D. H. Lawrence audiobook. Genre: drama 'There is no mistake about it, Alvina was a lost girl. She was cut off from everything she belonged to.' In this most under-valued of his novels, Lawrence once again presents us with a young woman hemmed in by her middle-class upbringing and (like Ursula Brangwen in The Rainbow) longing for escape. Alvina Houghton's plight, however, is given a rather comic and even picaresque treatment. Losing first her mother, a perpetual invalid, and late...
Jan 03, 2023•14 hr 57 min•Ep. 655
Sea and Sardinia by D. H. Lawrence audiobook. Genre: biography In Sea and Sardinia, D. H. Lawrence turns a simple winter trip into a sharp, restless travel memoir full of landscape, conversation, and cultural friction. Leaving the chill and routines of mainland Italy, Lawrence and his wife, Frieda, set off by train and ship toward Sardinia, an island that feels both near and startlingly separate. As they navigate delays, cramped compartments, and the small dramas of fellow passengers, Lawrence w...
Jan 03, 2023•9 hr 6 min•Ep. 654
England, My England by D. H. Lawrence audiobook. Genre: drama In England, My England, D. H. Lawrence turns a fierce, intimate gaze on an English countryside that is being hollowed out by modern life and the pressures of war. At the center is Egbert, a charming, high-born dreamer who drifts through his days as if real responsibilities belong to someone else. His wife, Winifred, practical and increasingly exasperated, tries to hold together a household and a future that Egbert seems determined to ...
Jan 03, 2023•8 hr 19 min•Ep. 653
Tor, A Street Boy of Jerusalem by Florence Morse Kingsley audiobook. Genre: history In Roman-occupied Jerusalem, Tor survives the way a hungry street boy must: by quick hands, quicker feet, and a hard heart that expects nothing from anyone. He drifts through dusty lanes and crowded marketplaces where beggars fight for scraps and soldiers enforce order with sudden brutality, learning early that kindness can be a trap. When Tor tangles with a blind beggar he once served and narrowly escapes punish...
Jan 02, 2023•3 hr•Ep. 652
The Heart of Philura by Florence Morse Kingsley audiobook. Genre: religion Once again Mrs Kingsley does not shy away from the highs and lows of life in the quickly changing world of the 1900s…the ageing women working to support themselves or their families, in jobs that will soon disappear...the washerwoman, butter-woman and the little dressmaker….the contrast between the socialite of Boston and the drudge in the kitchen….the old farmers and the independent, college-educated young people…and, wi...
Jan 02, 2023•9 hr 7 min•Ep. 651
Neighbors by Florence Morse Kingsley audiobook. Genre: family In the small but fast-changing township of Innisfield, everyone knows everyone - or thinks they do. As the town grows, new faces begin to appear: outsiders and immigrants the locals call 'fur'ners,' bringing unfamiliar customs, accents, and opinions that test old friendships and easy assumptions. At the heart of the story is Mrs. Philura Pettibone, whose long-running personal journey reaches a decisive new stage, and Miss Malvina, a q...
Jan 02, 2023•9 hr 7 min•Ep. 650
Miss Philura’s Wedding Gown by Florence Morse Kingsley audiobook. Genre: romance In the small township of Innisfield, the once-overlooked Miss Philura stands on the brink of the life she hardly dared to want: a future shaped not by resignation, but by hope. Newly engaged to the town's minister, Silas Pettibone, Philura tries to hold fast to the bright, unsettling idea that changed everything for her - that if you ask with true faith, you have already received. Now that belief is about to be test...
Jan 02, 2023•3 hr 58 min•Ep. 649
And So They Were Married by Florence Morse Kingsley audiobook. Genre: romance In a snow-bright New England town, Elizabeth 'Bessie' North is twenty, newly in love, and certain happiness will be simple once she says yes to Samuel Brewster, a serious young civil engineer building his career. But engagement dreams quickly collide with practical questions: how much can a young couple afford, what does a 'proper' wedding require, and how much should family opinions shape a marriage? As Bessie and Sam...
Jan 02, 2023•2 hr 30 min•Ep. 648
The Turnpike House by Fergus Hume audiobook. Genre: mystery On a mist-choked November evening at a lonely crossroads, the decaying Turnpike House shelters a frightened woman and her young son, Gilbert, both dreading the return of the boy's brutal father - a recently released convict named Jenner. When violence erupts and Jenner is found dead, the scandal hardens into legend, and the ruined house becomes synonymous with murder, misery, and a silence that will not speak. Years later, the past resu...
Dec 29, 2022•7 hr 45 min•Ep. 647
The Spider by Fergus Hume audiobook. Genre: mystery Arthur Vernon, member of the Athenian club and member of “society,” has a secret. His father has died and left him destitute, so he has begun a private investigation agency under the name “Nemo.” It would be disastrous if this were known among his associates at the club, and especially if his intended in-laws found out. But he is quite sure no one else knows, that is until his old college classmate, Constantine Maunders, visits him with a propo...
Dec 29, 2022•10 hr 21 min•Ep. 646
The Silver Bullet by Fergus Hume audiobook. Genre: mystery On a walking tour across the lonely English moors, Dr. Jim Herrick and his friend Robin Joyce stumble on an eerie sight: a great house blazing with light, its doors standing wide as if inviting anyone in. Inside the silent rooms they find not a host, but a corpse - Colonel Carr, shot and left in the middle of his strange, deserted grandeur. The discovery pulls the two friends into a case where every detail feels deliberately staged, and ...
Dec 29, 2022•12 hr 28 min•Ep. 645
The Sacred Herb by Fergus Hume audiobook. Genre: mystery Bored with the easy privileges of his title and fortune, Lord Prelice is goaded into action by his formidable aunt and sent to the Old Bailey to witness a sensational murder trial. The accused is Mona Chent, a poised young woman charged with killing her wealthy uncle, Sir Oliver Lanwin, at his country house, Lanwin Grange. Her only champion is Edward Shepworth, a struggling barrister and Mona's fiance, who must fight not only the prosecuti...
Dec 29, 2022•10 hr 15 min•Ep. 644
The Pagan’s Cup by Fergus Hume audiobook. Genre: mystery In the sleepy English seaside village of Colester, where an ancient chapel and older families still govern daily life, newcomer Richard Pratt arrives with money, charm, and a disconcerting talent for winning his way into closed doors. To ingratiate himself with the locals, Pratt offers an extravagant gift to the church: a remarkable antique cup to serve as an altar chalice. But the village peace cannot survive the cup's arrival. Whispers s...
Dec 29, 2022•7 hr•Ep. 643
The Opal Serpent by Fergus Hume audiobook. Genre: mystery In Edwardian London, young Paul Beecot breaks away from a stifling life in the country to chase a writing career and a chance at independence. His new start takes an ominous turn when he crosses paths with the guarded pawnbroker Aaron Norman and Norman's captivating daughter, Sylvia, whose loyalty to her father is matched only by her fear of a peculiar piece of jewelry: an opal brooch shaped like a coiled serpent. When the old man is foun...
Dec 29, 2022•9 hr 59 min•Ep. 642
The Mikado Jewel by Fergus Hume audiobook. Genre: mystery In fog-bound Edwardian London, Patricia Carrol, an out-of-work Irish governess, is scraping by at a shabby Bayswater boarding house optimistically nicknamed The Home of Art. When the lodgers troop off to celebrate a play premiere, Patricia stays behind to tend Mrs. Pentreddle, the landlady's grim, secretive sister. The old woman offers Patricia five pounds for a simple errand: meet a stranger by the Serpentine and collect a small box. But...
Dec 28, 2022•8 hr 17 min•Ep. 641
The Lady From Nowhere by Fergus Hume audiobook. Genre: mystery On a warm July night in 1896, the quiet London suburb of Grangebury is jolted awake by a single cry: murder. Maria Presk, a hard pressed landlady in Paradise Row, has found her newest lodger, the reclusive Miss Ligram, strangled inside a lavish chamber drenched in yellow silk and candlelight. Called in to assist the plodding local inspector, Scotland Yard detective Absolom Gebb arrives to face a puzzle that is equal parts crime scene...
Dec 28, 2022•6 hr 22 min•Ep. 640
The Girl From Malta by Fergus Hume audiobook. Genre: mystery One evening as the P. and O.'s vessel 'Neptune' steams away from Australia to Britain, Ronald Monteith, a young, wealthy Australian is taken into the confidence of a fellow-passenger Lionel Ventin who relates the story of his rather tragic life. When Ventin is found stabbed to death in his cabin the next morning Monteith vows to find the murderer, thinking it must surely be the vengeful wife of whom he spoke who is responsible. When ar...
Dec 28, 2022•6 hr 18 min•Ep. 639
The Crimson Cryptogram by Fergus Hume audiobook. Genre: mystery In late-Victorian England, young Dr. Robert Ellis is running out of money, patience, and hope. Night after night, he and his journalist friend, Harry Cass, talk in their shabby rooms about a future that never seems to arrive - until a frantic neighbor, the young and shaken Mrs. Moxton, bursts in with a nightmare announcement: her husband has been found dead, murdered in the garden. Ellis and Cass rush to the scene and discover a chi...
Dec 28, 2022•6 hr 22 min•Ep. 638
The Clock Struck One by Fergus Hume audiobook. Genre: mystery In the sun-baked lanes outside Canterbury, Dora Carew rides her bicycle with the confidence of a modern young woman, but the home she returns to - the lonely Red House - is steeped in old fears. Her guardian, Julian Edermont, has lived in strict seclusion for years, yet a single church service rattles him to the core: at the prayer for deliverance from murder and sudden death, he nearly collapses, and the name of a newly arrived socie...
Dec 28, 2022•6 hr 18 min•Ep. 637
The Bishop’s Secret by Fergus Hume audiobook. Genre: mystery Bishop Pendle is the Church of England bishop in a small fictitious English cathedral town. Several years into his work, he receives a visit from a disreputable-looking visitor. The bishop is much upset. What transpired between them that has so upset the good churchman? And then there is the murder. Fergus Hume was one of the most prolific and most popular of 19th century novelists. 'Mr. Hume won a reputation second to none for plot of...
Dec 28, 2022•12 hr 53 min•Ep. 636
Red Money by Fergus Hume audiobook. Genre: mystery At Lord Garvington's country estate, a languid shooting-season house party goes looking for novelty in Abbot's Wood: a traveling Romany camp offering fortunes, music, and a brush with the forbidden. The excursion would be harmless gossip, if the neighborhood were not already nervous about a string of burglaries - and if Garvington were not so eager to boast that any midnight intruder will be met with a bullet. When gunfire shatters the quiet and...
Dec 28, 2022•10 hr 3 min•Ep. 635
Mystery of a Hansom Cab by Fergus Hume audiobook. Genre: mystery “The following report appeared in the Argus newspaper of Saturday, the 28th July, 18-- “Truth is said to be stranger than fiction, and certainly the extraordinary murder which took place in Melbourne on Thursday night, or rather Friday morning, goes a long way towards verifying this saying. A crime has been committed by an unknown assassin, within a short distance of the principal streets of this great city, and is surrounded by an...
Dec 28, 2022•7 hr 50 min•Ep. 634
Hagar of the Pawn-Shop by Fergus Hume audiobook. Genre: mystery Hagar Stanley, a beautiful young Gypsy, is driven by sexual harassment to leave her tribe and seek refuge with her uncle Jacob, a miserly London pawnbroker. He dies after teaching Hagar the business, and she takes over running the popshop till the legitimate heir can be traced. In the odd assortment of objects that pass across her counter, Hagar uncovers one mystery after another. Some items are linked to actual crimes, others to in...
Dec 28, 2022•8 hr 35 min•Ep. 633
The Offshore Pirate by F. Scott Fitzgerald audiobook. Genre: romance Set in the glittering early 20th century, The Offshore Pirate follows Ardita Farnam, a sharp-tongued, wealthy young woman who is tired of being treated like an ornament and determined to steer her own life. Escaping watchful chaperones aboard her uncle's yacht, Ardita insists on adventure - and finds it in the most unexpected way when a sleek motorboat cuts across the waves and a self-styled pirate stages a daring takeover. The...
Dec 28, 2022•1 hr 22 min•Ep. 632
The Ice Palace by F. Scott Fitzgerald audiobook. Genre: drama In The Ice Palace, F. Scott Fitzgerald introduces Sally Carrol Happer, a spirited young woman from a small Southern town who feels both cherished and confined by the languid rhythms of Georgia life. When she becomes engaged to Harry Bellamy, a promising man from the North, Sally Carrol sees a chance to step into a larger world - and to test whether her restlessness is real or just a romantic daydream. Traveling to Harry's Midwestern h...
Dec 28, 2022•1 hr 6 min•Ep. 631
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button by F. Scott Fitzgerald audiobook. Genre: fantasy In a quietly uncanny Baltimore, a child is born under extraordinary circumstances: Benjamin Button arrives with the appearance and manner of an old man, setting his family on a collision course with confusion, embarrassment, and reluctant wonder. As the years pass, Benjamin moves through school, work, love, and social life in the most unexpected direction, forcing everyone around him - and especially Benjamin hi...
Dec 28, 2022•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 630
The Beautiful and Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald audiobook. Genre: drama Set in the glittering, uneasy years just before and after World War I, The Beautiful and Damned follows Anthony Patch, a charming Harvard graduate who believes his real life will begin once he inherits his wealthy grandfather's fortune. In New York City he meets Gloria Gilbert, a magnetic young woman whose beauty and appetite for pleasure match his own. They marry and plunge into a social world of parties, cocktails, and fas...
Dec 28, 2022•13 hr 10 min•Ep. 629
Tales of the Jazz Age by F. Scott Fitzgerald audiobook. Genre: drama In Tales of the Jazz Age, F. Scott Fitzgerald gathers a vivid set of stories that capture the glitter and unease of post-World War I America, when prosperity, parties, and reinvention seemed to promise a new kind of freedom. Moving from Manhattan drawing rooms to small town streets and into dreamlike, even fable-like landscapes, Fitzgerald follows ambitious young men and women chasing status, romance, and a sense of self in a w...
Dec 27, 2022•8 hr 47 min•Ep. 628
