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Taras Bulba; a Tale of the Cossacks

Read by Simon Hoare

Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol

Taras Bulba is a romanticised historical novella by Nikolai Gogol set in Russia’s equivalent of America’s wild frontier, what is today Ukrai…

Huntingtower

Read by Simon Evers

John Buchan

Dickson McCunn, a respectable, newly retired grocer, plans a walking holiday in the hills of south-west Scotland. He meets a young English p…

The Grand Babylon Hotel

Read by Anna Simon

Arnold Bennett

Theodore Racksole, a rich American multi-millionaire, buys the Grand Babylon Hotel, a luxurious hotel in London, as a whim - and then finds …

A Silent Witness

Read by Anna Simon

R. Austin Freeman

In this detective novel, the young doctor Humphrey Jardine stumbles upon a corpse during a walk near Hampstead Heath in the middle of the ni…

Patricia Brent, spinster

Read by Anna Simon

Herbert George Jenkins

A romantic comedy, written in 1918, but with a modern feel to it. Patricia Brent one day overhears two fellow-boarders pitying her because s…

Lady Anna

Read by Simon Evers

Anthony Trollope

When it appeared in 1874, Lady Anna met with little success, and positively outraged the conservative - `This is the sort of thing the readi…

Malcolm Sage, Detective

Read by Anna Simon

Herbert George Jenkins

A collection of short stories that chronicles the first year of the Malcolm Sage Detective Bureau.Sequel or companion story of John Dene of …

The Praise of Folly

Read by Anna Simon

Desiderius Erasmus

The Praise of Folly (Greek title: Morias Enkomion (Μωρίας Εγκώμιον), Latin: Stultitiae Laus, sometimes translated as In Praise of Folly, Dut…