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Academy of Unholy Boys

by David Fitzpatrick ...

A scintillating LGBTQ+ novel that ricochets around the sleepy, affluent shoreline town of Gently, Connecticut. Partly a love story, other times an obsessional and dark fable, the only lacking element is a moral compass. Isolated sixteen-year-old Jay Souther is a rising sophomore at St. Andrew's High School for Boys. Full of buoyancy and verve, Jay tries out for varsity football and makes the team ... Read more

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A scintillating LGBTQ+ novel that ricochets around the sleepy, affluent shoreline town of Gently, Connecticut. Partly a love story, other times an obsessional and dark fable, the only lacking element is a moral compass. Isolated sixteen-year-old Jay Souther is a rising sophomore at St. Andrew's High School for Boys. Full of buoyancy and verve, Jay tries out for varsity football and makes the team
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Anatole France - A Short Story Collection

Nobel prize winning mutli talented French author

by Anatole France ...

Narrated by David Shaw-Parker, Elliot Fitzpatrick, Richard Mitchley ...

Unabridged

2 hours 3 min

François-Anatole Thibault was born on the 16th April 1844 in Paris, France, the son of a bookseller and bibliophile.He studied at the Collège Stanislas, a private Catholic school, and after graduating joined his father in the bookstore, which specialised in works on the French Revolution. Several years later he secured a position as cataloguer at Bacheline-Deflorenne and at Lemerre before being ... Read more

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François-Anatole Thibault was born on the 16th April 1844 in Paris, France, the son of a bookseller and bibliophile.He studied at the Collège Stanislas, a private Catholic school, and after graduating joined his father in the bookstore, which specialised in works on the French Revolution. Several years later he secured a position as cataloguer at Bacheline-Deflorenne and at Lemerre before being
... Read more
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Foundations of Fiction, The - French Realism

Stories that helped shape one of literatures most acclaimed genres

by Alexandre Dumas, Alphonse Daudet, Emile Zola, Guy de Maupassant, Honore de Balzac, Prosper Merimee, Victor Hugo ...

Narrated by David Shaw-Parker, Elliot Fitzpatrick, Richard Mitchley ...

Unabridged

8 hours 9 min

In this series we turn the pages of classic short stories to put together the literary building blocks of how a particular genre or theme began, how it built its foundations to become the well-loved and well-worn genre that it is today.Do authors have the same ideas at more or less the same time? Or can they sniff out an opportunity as to which way the tastes of an audience are moving.Success ... Read more

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In this series we turn the pages of classic short stories to put together the literary building blocks of how a particular genre or theme began, how it built its foundations to become the well-loved and well-worn genre that it is today.Do authors have the same ideas at more or less the same time? Or can they sniff out an opportunity as to which way the tastes of an audience are moving.Success
... Read more
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Detective Stories – London

Truth and justice by way of clues

by Frank Howel Evans, Baroness Orczy, Charles Dickens, E W Hornung, Ernest Bramah, Arthur Morrison, J Jefferson Farjeon, Clarence Rook, Victor L Whitechurch ...

Narrated by Robert Maskell, Elliot Fitzpatrick, David Shaw-Parker ...

Unabridged

6 hours 7 min

The Detective has been a mainstay of fiction writing ever since we can remember.Their deductive powers, their intuition and fleet-footed grasp of every detail can often turn the unlikeliest situation, or bunch of red herrings, into a breakthrough to capture even the most ingenious and dastardly of criminals.In this series our classic authors explore not only various themes, such as Occult ... Read more

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The Detective has been a mainstay of fiction writing ever since we can remember.Their deductive powers, their intuition and fleet-footed grasp of every detail can often turn the unlikeliest situation, or bunch of red herrings, into a breakthrough to capture even the most ingenious and dastardly of criminals.In this series our classic authors explore not only various themes, such as Occult
... Read more
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Neglected Authors, The - Russian Men

Celebrated in their time, forgotten in ours

by Leonid Andreyev, Mikhail Petrovich Artzybashev, Valery Bryusov, Vsevolod Garshin, I N Potapenko, Nikolai Schedrin, S T Semyonov, Fyodor Sologub ...

Narrated by Elliot Fitzpatrick, David Shaw-Parker, Mark Rice-Oxley ...

Unabridged

4 hours 58 min

Throughout the long centuries of human history is the want, and the need, to share information, to exchange ideas and for that knowledge and experience, for curiosity and learning, to be the basis of a civil society.In literature the ambition is much narrower. In order to be known, to be popular, you had to be published. And for that people had to know you existed and your ideas worth reading. ... Read more

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Throughout the long centuries of human history is the want, and the need, to share information, to exchange ideas and for that knowledge and experience, for curiosity and learning, to be the basis of a civil society.In literature the ambition is much narrower. In order to be known, to be popular, you had to be published. And for that people had to know you existed and your ideas worth reading.
... Read more
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Short Stories About A Deal with the Devil

What would you sacrifice for your dreams to become reality

by Leo Tolstoy, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Charles Baudelaire, John Buchan, Niccolo Machiavelli, Nikolai Gogol, Robert Louis Stevenson, Washington Irving, William Makepeace Thackeray ...

Narrated by David Shaw-Parker, Elliot Fitzpatrick, Christopher Ragland ...

Unabridged

7 hours 1 min

It’s really very simple. You will sell me your eternal soul and in return I shall make you fabulously rich, powerful, talented and famous for your entire Earthly life. Or maybe even eternity.For an atheist it’s a great deal, though it does suggest atheism may have a weak point. For those of faith it’s a matter of jam now and purgatory tomorrow. A bargain many artists feel is something they can ... Read more

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It’s really very simple. You will sell me your eternal soul and in return I shall make you fabulously rich, powerful, talented and famous for your entire Earthly life. Or maybe even eternity.For an atheist it’s a great deal, though it does suggest atheism may have a weak point. For those of faith it’s a matter of jam now and purgatory tomorrow. A bargain many artists feel is something they can
... Read more
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Top 10 Short Stories, The - The 1920's - The Europeans

The ten best stories written from 1920-1929 by European authors

by Mikhail Bulgakov, Franz Kafka, D H Lawrence, Stefan Zweig, Hristo Smirenski, Luigi Pirandello, Isaac Babel, John Buchan, Hanns Heinz Ewers, Dorothy Edwards ...

Narrated by David Shaw-Parker, Elliot Fitzpatrick, Mark Rice-Oxley ...

Unabridged

5 hours 53 min

Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart. A few pages can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere.In this series we try to offer up tried and trusted ‘Top Tens’ across many different themes and authors. But any anthology will ... Read more

$19.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart. A few pages can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere.In this series we try to offer up tried and trusted ‘Top Tens’ across many different themes and authors. But any anthology will
... Read more
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3 Stories - Love Letter Stories

A trio of classic tales perfect for a commute, walk or quiet night in

by Thomas Hardy, Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, Morley Roberts ...

Narrated by Elliot Fitzpatrick, David Shaw-Parker ...

Unabridged

1 hour 33 min

There is something about the number 3.The Ancient Greeks believed 3 was the perfect number, and in China 3 has always been a lucky number, and they know a thing or two.Most religions also have 3 this and 3 that and, of course, in these more modern times, three’s a crowd may be too many, except when it’s a ménage à trois. It seems good things usually come in threes.Whatever history and culture says ... Read more

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There is something about the number 3.The Ancient Greeks believed 3 was the perfect number, and in China 3 has always been a lucky number, and they know a thing or two.Most religions also have 3 this and 3 that and, of course, in these more modern times, three’s a crowd may be too many, except when it’s a ménage à trois. It seems good things usually come in threes.Whatever history and culture says
... Read more
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Stories From the Shadows - Vampires

Embrace the darkness

by John Willaim Polidori, E T A Hoffman, Jan Neruda, Phil Robinson, Hume Nisbet, E F Benson, F G Loring, Ernst Raupach ...

Narrated by David Shaw-Parker, Elliot Fitzpatrick, Mark Rice-Oxley ...

Unabridged

4 hours 40 min

An author’s talents may seem obvious and indisputable as they move words and ideas into gathered phrases and stories.But where do these ideas and stories come from? A lonely thought that suddenly gathers form? An inspiration from a Muse? A suggestion from an everyday event?Perhaps in the case of their darker, more malevolent stories, other forces are at work. They help to nourish single words into ... Read more

$19.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

An author’s talents may seem obvious and indisputable as they move words and ideas into gathered phrases and stories.But where do these ideas and stories come from? A lonely thought that suddenly gathers form? An inspiration from a Muse? A suggestion from an everyday event?Perhaps in the case of their darker, more malevolent stories, other forces are at work. They help to nourish single words into
... Read more
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3 Stories - Femme Fatales

A trio of classic tales perfect for a commute, walk or quiet night in

by H P Lovecraft, F Marion Crawford, E F Benson ...

Narrated by Elliot Fitzpatrick, David Healy ...

Unabridged

2 hours 41 min

There is something about the number 3.The Ancient Greeks believed 3 was the perfect number, and in China 3 has always been a lucky number, and they know a thing or two.Most religions also have 3 this and 3 that and, of course, in these more modern times, three’s a crowd may be too many, except when it’s a ménage à trois. It seems good things usually come in threes.Whatever history and culture says ... Read more

$9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

There is something about the number 3.The Ancient Greeks believed 3 was the perfect number, and in China 3 has always been a lucky number, and they know a thing or two.Most religions also have 3 this and 3 that and, of course, in these more modern times, three’s a crowd may be too many, except when it’s a ménage à trois. It seems good things usually come in threes.Whatever history and culture says
... Read more
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Stories Set On Trains

Enjoy the journey

by Saki, Aleister Crowley, Richard Marsh, Leonara Wodehouse, Arthur Morrison, Amelia Edwards, Sabine Baring-Gould, W G Kelly, Barry Pain, John Davys Beresford, Gertrude Colmore ...

Narrated by Robert Maskell, David Shaw-Parker, Elliot Fitzpatrick ...

Unabridged

4 hours 50 min

A train seems a very reliable mode to bring out the best in authors and sometimes the worst in their fictional characters. In this volume our narratives are usually set inside the carriage compartment where they are really are up close and personal with each other. All our authors need to do is to light the touchpaper and stand well back. ... Read more

$19.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

A train seems a very reliable mode to bring out the best in authors and sometimes the worst in their fictional characters. In this volume our narratives are usually set inside the carriage compartment where they are really are up close and personal with each other. All our authors need to do is to light the touchpaper and stand well back.
... Read more
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3 Stories About - Cannibals

A trio of classic tales perfect for a commute, walk or quiet night in

by H P Lovecraft, M R James, The Brothers Grimm ...

Narrated by Richard Mitchley, David Shaw-Parker, Elliot Fitzpatrick ...

Unabridged

1 hour 12 min

There is something about the number 3.The Ancient Greeks believed 3 was the perfect number, and in China 3 has always been a lucky number, and they know a thing or two.Most religions also have 3 this and 3 that and, of course, in these more modern times, three’s a crowd may be too many, except when it’s a ménage à trois. It seems good things usually come in threes.Whatever history and culture says ... Read more

$9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

There is something about the number 3.The Ancient Greeks believed 3 was the perfect number, and in China 3 has always been a lucky number, and they know a thing or two.Most religions also have 3 this and 3 that and, of course, in these more modern times, three’s a crowd may be too many, except when it’s a ménage à trois. It seems good things usually come in threes.Whatever history and culture says
... Read more

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