The complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: https://n9.cl/p6g01 Byron's Narrative of the Loss of the Wager By John Byron Narrated by Graham Scott Embarking from England as part of Commodore Anson’s expedition to the Pacific, HMS Wager was wrecked on a desert island to the southward of Chiloe. Following the wreck, the crew suffered dreadful privations from famine and descended into mutinous factionalism, theft, and murder. This account by young midshipman John Byron describes...
Oct 01, 2024•4 min
The complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: https://n9.cl/upj9o Life Among Hollywood’s ‘Extra’ Girls By Edgcumb Pinchon Narrated by Lee Ann Howlett The 1920s was a bustling time in Hollywood, as starry-eyed young women sought fame and fortune—only to discover that their dreams did not match the reality of the film industry. Edgcumb Pinchon was there to report on it all. He interviewed women who worked as “extras” in Hollywood, and was himself involved in the film business as...
Oct 01, 2024•5 min
The complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: https://n9.cl/l2znyh Eloisa to Abelard By Alexander Pope Read by Denis Daly The romantic epistle was published in 1717 and aroused considerable interest because of its mildly suggestive content. It portrays an incident in which Héloïse d'Argenteuil, now immured in a convent chances on a letter from her former lover and later, husband, the brilliant philosopher Peter Abelard. The two met when Abelard was engaged as tutor to the prec...
Sep 27, 2024•3 min
The complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audiible.com: https://n9.cl/nxwnn Carmilla By Sheridan Le Fanu Narrated by Linda Barrans When the tale begins, a strange and sudden malady is claiming the lives of the local peasants in Styria. Laura, an innocent girl of eighteen, lives a lonely life there with her loving father and two governesses. Then a dramatic coach crash on Laura’s doorstep brings a mysterious, beautiful, but languorous young woman to stay with them. This is Carmilla. Car...
Sep 16, 2024•3 min
The complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: https://n9.cl/dpaqs The Hardy Boys Mysteries - Volume 1 By Franklin W. Dixon Narrated by Gary D. MacFadden Franklin W. Dixon was a pseudonym used by several authors writing series books for the Stratemeyer Syndicate, including The Hardy Boys and the Nancy Drew series. This collection introduces The Hardy Boys, two teenage brothers who hope to follow in the footsteps of their father, a famous private detective. Frank and Joe live wi...
Sep 11, 2024•5 min
The complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: https://n9.cl/66vj2o Fairies and Fusiliers By Robert Graves Narrated by Denis Daly Poet, soldier, novelist, translator and critic Robert Graves (1895 - 1985) was deeply familiar with both war and death. Three times during his life Graves was considered to be on the point of death due to serious illness. One of these was after his participation in the Battle of the Somme, after which he had been actually pronounced dead due to sever...
Sep 11, 2024•2 min
The complete audiobook is availble for purchase at Audible.com: https://t.ly/nYdeu Grace the Amazing By Aleesah Darlison Narrated by Sarah Bacaller and Rachel Mason What would you do if you were about to lose your best friend … forever? Grace Marshall is eleven years old. She’s curious and creative and dreams of becoming a magician called Grace the Amazing! Grace’s only friend is her art teacher, Pamela. When she discovers that Pamela is ill, the fragile certainties Grace relies on threaten to s...
Sep 03, 2024•4 min
The complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: https://t.ly/JX7C8 Keith Murdoch’s Gallipoli Letter By Sir Keith Murdoch Narrated by Sarah Bacaller The National Library of Australia describe Keith Murdoch’s Gallipoli Letter in the following way: “The Gallipoli letter is an 8000-word private report written by journalist Keith Arthur Murdoch, with the help of British war correspondent Ellis Ashmead-Bartlett, after visiting the Gallipoli peninsula in September 1915. It describes th...
Sep 03, 2024•3 min
The complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: https://t.ly/3oukL The War in the Air By H. G. Wells Narrated by Gregory Dwyer Bert Smallways, a “kind of bicycle engineer,” is creatively trying to avoid bankruptcy when he meets by chance a certain Mr. Butteridge—the inventor of a new form of aircraft. Butteridge, Bert discovers, has plans to sell his invention either to British Government—or to the Germans, if the British won’t have it. When one of Butteridge’s aircrafts is shot...
Sep 03, 2024•5 min
The complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: https://t.ly/0osdV Poems of Emily Dickinson: Series 1 Edited by Thomas W. Higginson and Mabel Loomis Todd. Emily Dickinson was one of the most reclusive of all poets. She spent much of her life in seclusion in her father’s house in Amherst, and only a handful of her 1800 poems were published in her lifetime. Credit for the posthumous publication of her work must be given to her editor and friend Thomas W. Higginson, who reported th...
Sep 03, 2024•3 min
The complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: https://www.audible.com/pd/B0DFMY3HQJ The House of the Whispering Pines By Anna Katharine Green Narrated by Martha H. Weller This classic murder mystery uses elements that have since become very common in crime literature - an abandoned house, a fugitive figure fleeing from the scene and a dead body. In the house at Whispering Pines, which is supposed to be closed, the narrator discovers a dead body. On closer inspection, and much ...
Aug 30, 2024•5 min
The complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: https://www.audible.com/pd/Lady-Susan-Audiobook/B0DCGJKYWK Lady Susan By Jane Austen Narrated by Linda Barrans, Denis Daly, Catherine Bilson This epistolary novel was probably written in 1794, but was not published until 1871. Lady Susan Vernon, middle-aged and recently widowed, has retained her looks and appealing vivacity. She makes use of her bereavement and her loss of wealth by imposing herself on the hospitality of relatives,...
Aug 28, 2024•4 min
The complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: Sam and the Resistance By Linda Barrans Narrated by Linda Barrans, Cate Barratt Sam the sheep is having a hard time. He is pining for Ava the fox, and his actor friends are away performing their play without him. What’s more, someone has decided to build a Community Center in the next field, and the noise is simply terrible. One of the builders has deeply offended Morag the Tabby Cat, and she is starting a Resistance movement – tho...
Aug 27, 2024•4 min
The complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: https://www.audible.com/pd/The-Dancing-Floor-Audiobook/B0DB2JB7ZW The Dancing Floor By John Buchan Narrated by Graham Scott A third adventure for Sir Edward Leithen, in which Leithen befriends young Vernon Milburne, a man haunted by an annually recurring dream in which some dark and mysterious challenge moves year by year closer. After the war, as the culmination of Vernon’s dream approaches, both men meet – and take an instant dis...
Aug 27, 2024•4 min
The complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: https://www.audible.com/pd/Gitanjali-Audiobook/B0DDWG4LQM Gitanjali By Rabindranath Tagore With an Introduction by W. B. Yeats Narrated by Denis Daly Gitanjali (song offerings) is a collection of 103 devotional poems written originally in Bengali and first published in 1910. In 1912 a translation into English by the author was published in 1912, and led to his being awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913. The Indian sage, P...
Aug 23, 2024•4 min
The complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com. https://www.audible.com/pd/Dust-Audiobook/B0DB2K21TP Dust By Anna Marcet Haldeman-Julius and Emanuel Haldeman-Julius Narrated by Lori Nadeau Richardson Unmet expectations, disappointment, and broken promises … Martin and Rose Wade’s life together is hard. Their farm is demanding – but not as demanding as Martin’s unyielding practicality and decidedly untender personality. Rose finds herself challenged again and again, through bitte...
Aug 20, 2024•5 min
The complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com. https://www.audible.com/pd/Hegel-Marx-and-Vygotsky-Audiobook/B0DB9C214H Hegel, Marx and Vygotsky Essays on Social Philosophy By Andy Blunden Narrated by Gary D. MacFadden Andy Blunden’s Hegel Marx & Vygotsky, Essays in Social Philosophy presents his novel approach to social theory in a series of essays. Blunden aims to use the cultural psychology of Lev Vygotsky and the Soviet Activity Theorists to renew Hegelian Marxism as an ...
Aug 20, 2024•5 min
The complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com. Three Stories and Ten Poems By Ernest Hemingway Narrated by Gary D. MacFadden Three Stories and Ten Poems is a collection of short stories and poems by Ernest Hemingway. It was privately published in 1923 in a run of only 300 copies. While not as well known as Hemingway’s later works (For Whom the Bell Tolls, The Old Man and the Sea, etc.) the three stories show the early development of Hemingway’s writing techniques.
Aug 20, 2024•3 min
The complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: In teh Arena Written and read by Beau Robinson Success isn’t a linear path. There are unplanned twists and turns, soaring highs and devastating lows. But through it all, there are certain traits that set the successful apart from the rest of the pack… In his first book, former professional rugby player turned business leadership coach, Beau Robinson, delivers a fresh perspective on what it takes to find success - in business and in...
Aug 14, 2024•5 min
The complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: https://www.audible.com/pd/A-Selection-from-Rumi-Audiobook/B0DCQ5X5TK A Selection from Rumi Edited by Nathan Haskell Dole and Belle Walker. Translations by E. H. Whinfield and Reynold H. Nicholson. Narrated by Denis Daly. Jelalu-'d-Din, today know simply as Rumi, was the greatest mystical poet of the golden age of classical Persian literature. In later years, he renounced the world and founded a famous order of Dervishes called the...
Aug 13, 2024•3 min
The complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: https://www.audible.com/pd/B0DC1YMXXS A Difficult Problem By Anna Katharine Green Narrated by Martha H. Weller Lucy Holmes has been happily married for six months. Her husband is expected home from a business trip to Philadelphia when she receives the following cryptic telegram: "Come at once. Your husband found dead in his room this morning. Doctors say heart disease. Please telegraph." Foul play is suspected, but the search for m...
Aug 03, 2024•3 min
The complete audiobook is available for purchase at Kobo.com: https://www.kobo.com/au/en/audiobook/finding-miriama Finding Miriama by Donna Goodacre Narrated by Naomi Barton It is 2003 in New Zealand, and Louisa Greenwood and her daughter Ngaroma are on a quest to discover their ancestry. Louisa has a greenstone necklace left to her in her father’s will, and from the first time Ngaroma wears it, she has unusual experiences, both good and bad. It leads her to various locations in New Zealand and ...
Jul 30, 2024•4 min
The complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: www.audible.com.au/pd/Scaramouche-Audiobook/B0D8JWQ6LS Scaramouche By Rafael Sabatini Narrated by Cate Barratt, Simon Paxton, Amy Soakes, Johnathan Welsh, Robin Siegerman, David Stifel, David Shears, John Burlinson, Marty Krz, Russell Gold, Aisling Gray, Kendra Murray, Melissa Green Audio editing by Susan Iannucci Romance and the French Revolution! Politics and love! Scaramouche, published in 1921, explores age-old tensions that co...
Jul 30, 2024•5 min
The complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com:https://www.audible.com.au/pd/The-Tragical-History-of-Doctor-Faustus-Audiobook/B0D8JTXB3Y The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe Narrated by Blaise Doran, Denis Daly, Laura E. Richcreek, Christopher Dukes and Dara Brown The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus is one of the earliest and most compelling presentations of the story of a man who sold his soul to the Devil. It is based on the popular history of Johan...
Jul 30, 2024•5 min
The complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: voicesoftoday.net/gods The Olympian Gods By Henry M. Tichenor Narrated by Oberon Michaels Henry Mulford Tichenor (1858 - 1922) was a writer and journalist, who was a very active free thinker in the early Twentieth Century. A special target of Tichenor was organized religion, which he viewed as an absurdly contrived cultural artefact. In The Olympian Gods he applies a critical scalpel to the religion of the ancient Greeks, which he ...
Jul 26, 2024•3 min
The complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: voicesoftoday.net/za9 The Necessity of Atheism By Percy Bysshe Shelley Narrated by Oberon Michaels Introduction by Henry S. Salt. Narrated by Oberon Michaels The Necessity of Atheism was first published by Shelley in 1811. In 1813 he printed a revised and expanded version of it as one of the notes to his poem Queen Mab. Shelley evinced a searing contempt for organized religion but maintained a belief in a benevolent non-sectarian W...
Jul 26, 2024•3 min
The complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: voicesoftoday.net/bellona The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club By Dorothy L. Sayers Narrated by Graham Scott As veterans of many wars mingle in the funereal halls of the Bellona Club on Armistice Day, old General Fentiman is found dead in his accustomed chair beside the fire. On the same day, the General's sister, Lady Dormer, also dies, leaving a curious will in which her vast fortune passed to the General if he is still living ...
Jul 26, 2024•5 min
The complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: voicesoftoday.net/jze Instructions to his Son By Sir Walter Raleigh Narrated by Denis Daly During his long internment in the Tower of London Elizabethan adventurer and statesman Sir Walter Raleigh (1552 - 1618) took time to compose this thoughtful homily to his son. It consists of ten short chapters dealing with a variety of important issues such as the choice of friends and a wife, the maintenance of a good reputation, the managem...
Jul 25, 2024•3 min
The complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: voicesoftoday.net/foam Sand and Foam by Kahlil Gibran Narrated by Denis Daly This collection of aphorisms, poems and parables has been described as the reflections of a philosopher watching from his window and commenting on the scenes passing before him. Barbara Young in her biographical study of Gibran, "The Man from Lebanon," assessed this text as follows: "Sand and Foam is a book that will penetrate the consciousness deeply and ...
Jul 25, 2024•3 min
The complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: voicesoftoday.net/milton Short Poems of John Milton With a preface by Samuel Thurber Narrated by Denis Daly While the issues of the day that consumed the attention of scholar, accomplished linguist, politician and severe Puritan, John Milton (1608 - 1674) are now largely of historical interest, the verse which they inspired remains a staple of English literature. Although he is best known today for his poetic epics, Paradise Lost a...
Jul 25, 2024•4 min
