The complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: https://n9.cl/67wja Edward Leithen 3 Adventures By John Buchan Narrated by Graham Scott In The Power-House, Leithen’s quiet life is disrupted when he is pitted against the murderous forces of an international network of anarchists, and its chilling leader. Then, adopting the nom de guerre of “John Macnab,” Leithen and two friends risk their reputations when they take to poaching in the Highlands of Scotland in an effort to recover ...
Feb 20, 2025•5 min
The complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: https://n9.cl/t174z Horses and Riders A Collection By Rolf Boldrewood Narrated by Denis Daly Horses and horse racing have been staple themes in classic Australian fiction, and feature prominently in the works of iconic authors like Henry Lawson and “Banjo” Paterson. In this collection of six stories, Rolf Boldrewood provides vivid pictures of the days when horses and horse-drawn transport were intimately involved in daily life in b...
Feb 20, 2025•5 min
The complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: https://n9.cl/umiag Yoga Philosophy An Outline of the Secret Hindu Teachings By Hereward Carrington Narrated by Lori Nadeau Richardson Carrington presents a fairly deeply detailed look at understanding the 8 limbs of Yoga. Originally published in 1923 as a Westerner’s perspective and understanding of the practice Yoga, Carrington reveals a surprising depth of understanding as that of an adept, and manages to impart a lot of informa...
Feb 15, 2025•5 min
Epigrams and Epitaphs By Alexander Pope Edited by W. C. Armstrong Read by Denis Daly Pope's mastery of the heroic couplet and his perceptive wit are apparent in the many epigrams and epitaphs that he composed. The subjects of these snippets of verse are widely varied, ranging from encomiums to great celebrities like Sir Isaac Newton to witty soupçons, like that attached to the collar of a dog that the poet gave to Prince George (later King George II). This recording also includes an extensive co...
Feb 14, 2025•3 min
The complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: https://n9.cl/x7se0n Diverging Roads By Rose Wilder Lane Narrated by Martha H. Weller Diverging Roads, set sometime between 1912 and 1919, is one of Lane’s earliest published novels (1919). It is somewhat autobiographical and depicts the life of Helen Davies.We meet Helen when she is about to graduate from high school and is in love with a fellow student, Paul. Both of their families are struggling financially. Paul must support hi...
Feb 14, 2025•4 min
The complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: https://n9.cl/gemm3 Leonardo da Vinci Pathfinder of Science By Henry S. Gillette Narrated by Margaret Wakeley Leonardo da Vinci is best known for his art, including the portrait of Mona Lisa, but there was so much more to this man. His genius extended into his greatest passions: scientific discovery, experimentation, and design. Nothing in (or out of) this world was unworthy of his curiosity; he pursued the study of botany, anatomy...
Feb 14, 2025•5 min
The complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: https://n9.cl/6a54k Miss Hurd—An Enigma By Anna Katharine Green Narrated by Roberta Jackson An artist, Mr Ruxton, is seeking an ideal model for a planned sculpture of Antigone. He travels to the Beech Grove estate in search of his model and encounters Miss Hurd, who is employed at the house. He is overwhelmed by her beauty and feels compelled to pursue her. However, he quickly finds that he has a rival for the lady's affections, a ...
Feb 14, 2025•3 min
The complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com https://n9.cl/67o08 Henry IV, Part 1 & Part 2 By William Shakespeare Narrated by Laura E. Richcreek, Blaise Doran, Alan Weyman, Rory Barnett, Tim Dehn, Graham Scott, Geraint Pickard, Noni Lewis, Roberta Jackson, Denis Daly, Christopher Dukes, Sarah Jane Rose, Josh Innerst, Gregory Dwyer and Shane Emmett This full cast presentation includes Part 1 and Part 2 of Shakespeare’s Henry IV.In 1598 appeared a Quarto with the following t...
Jan 21, 2025•5 min
The complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: https://n9.cl/8wt7i Moral Essays Or Epistles to Several Persons By Alexander Pope Edited by W. C. Armstrong Narrated by Denis Daly These four poems, which deal with ethical issues, were collated and published in 1751 by William Warburton, seven years after Pope's death.The poems were inspired by Pope's admiration for Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke, a philosopher and Tory politician. Also included in this recording is Pope'...
Jan 15, 2025•5 min
The complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: https://n9.cl/q0xhy The Church and the People By Joseph McCabe Narrated by Oberon Michaels As socialism became an increasingly powerful movement in the later nineteenth century, the Catholic Church sought to assure workers that organized Christianity had always been their friend. One of the most notable documentary icons of the period was the papal encyclical Rerum Novarum, in which Leo XIII attempted to articulate a set of industr...
Jan 15, 2025•4 min
The complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: https://n9.cl/m2jys Three Lives By Gertrude Stein Narrated by Martha H. Weller Three Lives was written in 1905/06 and published in 1909 at the author’s expense. The work consists of three independent novellas: The Good Anna, Melanctha, and The Gentle Lena. Each of the titular characters lives in Bridgepoint, a fictional town based on Baltimore. The Good Anna explores the life of strong-willed Anna Federner, a woman of “solid lower ...
Jan 15, 2025•5 min
The complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: https://n9.cl/di6bh Marked Personal By Anna Katharine Green Narrated by Rebecca Stern On the evening of July 13, 1863, two men, Samuel White from Washington and Lemuel Phillips from Buffalo, each received a mysterious letter marked 'personal', which he destroyed after reading. The letters are a summons to visit New York to attend to some unknown business. The two men, now living lives of privilege and respectability, are linked by ...
Jan 10, 2025•5 min
The complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: https://n9.cl/d8jab Echoes of the Divine And Other Steampunk Stories By Danielle Ackley-McPhail Narrated by Jennifer Fournier Welcome to a World of Invention. To a mermaid watching airships as she dreams of the sky… to an orphan girl caught between innovation and tradition… From a desperate Lady turning to science to search for the rightful heir… The Age of Steam is full of potential—and peril—for those with the vision to wonder wh...
Jan 10, 2025•3 min
The complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: https://n9.cl/ew8v3h The Lyrical Poems of Alexander Pope Narrated by Evan and Marie Blackmore Alexander Pope was the most influential and most admired writer of his time, famous for satirical and reflective poems such as The Rape of the Lock and the Essay on Man. His lyrical poems are tantalizingly few in number but predictably high in quality, with all the beauty of sound and incisiveness of sense familiar from his other works. Co...
Jan 10, 2025•2 min
The complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: https://n9.cl/wmx033 Poems by Robert Herrick By Robert Herrick Evan Blackmore - introduction Narrated by Evan Blackmore This collection contains 201 lively little poems by the most playful of English Golden Age writers, Robert Herrick. All his favorite pieces are here: Delight in Disorder, Corinna's Going A-Maying, To the Virgins to Make Much of Time, To Anthea Who May Command him Anything, To Daffodils, The Night-Piece to Julia, a...
Jan 10, 2025•2 min
The complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: https://n9.cl/wtk33 The War Poems of Siegfried Sassoon Read by Denis Daly Unlike his more famous fellow war poets, Wilfred Owen and Rupert Brooke, Siegfried Sassoon survived the First World War. In this collection of 64 poems, first published in 1920, Sassoon portrays the dehumanizing horror of modern warfare with its staggering death toll, while also satirizing the jingoistic fervour of politicians and armchair strategists. Sassoo...
Jan 10, 2025•2 min
The complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: https://n9.cl/kpyxx1 Collected Verse of Louis Esson Narrated by Denis Daly Esson’s first collection of poems, Bells and Bees, was published in 1910; a second collection, Red Gums and Other Verses, in 1912. Although Esson published no further poetry collections, his verse continued to appear in magazines such as The Bulletin until the late 1920s. Included in his verse are not only bush ballads such as Whaling up the Lachlan, but als...
Dec 19, 2024•3 min
The complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: https://n9.cl/x96ab In the Days of the Comet By H. G. Wells Narrated by Gregory Dwyer At the time of a passing comet in the sky, while the world is at a turning point and the industrialization of Victorian England is affecting lives. Willie Leadford is a young man facing personal crises of life. A breakdown in his employment, social beliefs, and relationship initially turns him towards a trail of vengeance against those he holds re...
Dec 19, 2024•5 min
The complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: https://n9.cl/01uimz Chips and Splinters A Collection of Poems and Essays By E. S. Sorenson Narrated by Gregory Dwyer A delightful selection of entertaining poems, short essays, and written conversations involving the people of 20th century rural Australia and some of their working animals.This collection includes “When Dad Drives Home From Town,” “When the Sailor Rode the Brumby,” “The Old Barn School,” and many more.
Dec 19, 2024•3 min
The complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: https://n9.cl/yuatd Benjamin Franklin By E. M. Tomkinson Narrated by Ron Altman Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790) is today best known as one of the founding fathers of the United States. However, he was a true polymath, active as an author, philosopher, social reformer, scientist, inventor, diplomat and businessman. Franklin was also a man of principle, who, as the author of this engaging biography states: “He was one of the few peop...
Dec 19, 2024•4 min
The complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: https://n9.cl/eae3n8 The Secret of the Caves By Franklin W. Dixon Narrated by Gary D. MacFadden The Secret of the Caves is the seventh novel in The Hardy Boys mystery stories series. At their home in Bayport Frank and Joe and Fenton, receive a visitor who informs them that Professor Morgan Todd from Kenworthy College has disapperared. At the time Fenton is working on security for a coastal radar station, which is under construction...
Dec 19, 2024•5 min
The complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: https://n9.cl/0wnr8 Sam the Sudden By P. G. Wodehouse Narrated by Graham Scott Exiled by his uncle to England, and a job with Lord Tilbury's Mammoth Publishing Company, spirited young American Sam Shotter resolves to pursue the girl of his dreams - who, unfortunately, he knows only from a single photograph, torn from a magazine and pinned by some unknown hand to the wall of a remote Canadian fishing cabin. A night of misadventures ...
Dec 19, 2024•5 min
The complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: https://n9.cl/4zle6 The World Set Free By H. G. Wells Narrated by Roberta Jackson Of this book, H. G. Wells wrote:“The World Set Free was written in 1913 and published early in 1914. It is the latest of a series of three fantasias of possibility, stories which all turn on the possible developments in the future of some contemporary force or group of forces. The World Set Free was written under the immediate shadow of the Great War....
Dec 12, 2024•4 min
The complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: https://www.audible.com/pd/Sanditon-Audiobook/B0DLQ29PGY Sanditon Fragment of a Novel By Jane Austen Narrated by Catherine Bilson, Sarah Jane Rose, Graham Scott, Linda Barrans and Denis Daly n January 1817 Jane Austen commenced work on a new novel, to which she never assigned a name. By mid-March, she had completed twelve chapters, at which time she ceased working due to illness. The unfinished work was eventually published in 1925...
Dec 10, 2024•5 min
The complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: https://www.audible.com/pd/Eight-Shakespeare-Comedies-Audiobook/B0DLLMC3GH Eight Shakespeare Comedies Presented by Voices of Today The collection contains eight of Shakespeare's best loved comedies. They all exhibit the vigour, humour and brightness of the young master before he turned to the gloom and bitterness of the great tragedies. Contents A Midsummer Night's Dream All's well That Ends Well Twelfth Night Much Ado About Nothin...
Dec 10, 2024•5 min
The complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: https://www.audible.com/pd/Belle-StarrThe-Bandit-Queen-Audiobook/B0DLLM62RB Belle Starr – The Bandit Queen By William Yancey Shackelford Narrated by Lee Ann Howlett Legendary outlaw Belle Starr has been written about and portrayed in various media for well over one hundred years. Born Myra Maybelle Shirley in Missouri in 1848, Belle lived most of her life in Texas. She became notorious after living with and hanging out with members...
Dec 10, 2024•5 min
The complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: https://www.audible.com/pd/Lavender-and-Old-Lace-Audiobook/B0DM9P2TC6 Lavender and Old Lace By Myrtle Reed Narrated by Martha H. Weller In Lavender and Old Lace, we are presented with a poignant and humorous tale of four romances along with dashes of mystery and even a touch of the supernatural. Ruth Thorne, a newspaper reporter in the city, comes to stay in the home of Jane Hathaway, an aunt whom she has never met. Aunt Jane is on...
Dec 10, 2024•4 min
The complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: https://www.audible.com/pd/Ark-in-the-Park-Audiobook/B0DMWYC98N Ark in the Park Writtten and read by Wendy Orr It was the biggest, the strangest, the most wonderful pet shop in the whole world. It was called The Noahs’ Ark, and it was built like a ship. After all,” said Mrs Noah, “with a name like ours, what other kind of shop could we have?” But instead of rocking on the deep blue sea, the ship sat in the middle of a wide green pa...
Dec 10, 2024•2 min
The complete audio book is available for purchase at Audible.com: https://www.audible.com/pd/Frankie-Dupont-and-the-Lemon-Festival-Fiasco-Audiobook/B0DM9JFCKJ Frankie Dupont and the Lemon Festival Fiasco A mystery for ages 8-12. Written and read by Julie Anne Grasso Hot off cracking his first official case, Frankie Dupont is on the scene when his new teacher takes ill. The pint-sized detective suspects a classic case of sour grapes, but the evidence leads him to the one place he wouldn’t mind av...
Dec 10, 2024•5 min
The complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: https://n9.cl/i5pg7 The Complete P. C. Lee By Edgar Wallace Narrated by Graham Scott A collection of 24 short stories from the prolific British writer Edgar Wallace, exploring the adventures of the astute and phlegmatic Police Constable Lee of the Metropolitan Police, as he performs his duties among the varied and colourful criminal characters inhabiting the Notting Dale Division.
Dec 08, 2024•4 min
