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Writing Teams - A Short Story Collection

Two is better than one

by H P Lovecraft, Harry Houdini, Hesketh Pritchard, Kate Pritchard, Claude Askew, Alice Askew, Alexandre Chatrian, Emile Erckmann, L T Meade, Robert Eustace ...

Narrated by Michael Lyons, Stephen Hogan, Robert Maskell ...

Unabridged

4 hours 43 min

Writing can be a lonely art. Distractions and writers block are just two of the many impediments to a burnished stream of prose. But sometimes two heads really can be better than one. When one author decides to team up with another, either occasionally or full time, their new creations seem to amplify and encourage the words and ideas of each writer, helping to create narratives that are both new, ... Read more

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Writing can be a lonely art. Distractions and writers block are just two of the many impediments to a burnished stream of prose. But sometimes two heads really can be better than one. When one author decides to team up with another, either occasionally or full time, their new creations seem to amplify and encourage the words and ideas of each writer, helping to create narratives that are both new,
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Forgotten Authors, The - Volume 2

M McDonell Bodkin Q C to Constance Cotterell

by Camillo Boito, Guy Boothby, D K Broster, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, William E Burton, Fernan Caballeron, Mona Caird, Ivan Cankar, Minna Canth, Bernard Capes, Ion Luca Caragiale, Arthur Gask, Gertrude Colmore ...

Narrated by Robert Maskell, Richard Mitchley, Ghizela Rowe ...

Unabridged

12 hours 30 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.
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Treasure in the Forest, The

Two adventurers search for buried treasure

by H G Wells ...

Narrated by Robert Maskell ...

Unabridged

20 min

Herbert George Wells was born on September 21st, 1866 at Atlas House, 46 High Street, Bromley, Kent. He was the youngest of four siblings and his family affectionately knew him as ‘Bertie’.The first few years of his childhood were spent fairly quietly, and Wells didn’t display much literary interest until, in 1874, he accidentally broke his leg and was left to recover in bed, largely entertained ... Read more

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Herbert George Wells was born on September 21st, 1866 at Atlas House, 46 High Street, Bromley, Kent. He was the youngest of four siblings and his family affectionately knew him as ‘Bertie’.The first few years of his childhood were spent fairly quietly, and Wells didn’t display much literary interest until, in 1874, he accidentally broke his leg and was left to recover in bed, largely entertained
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Forgotten Authors, The - Men - Volume 2

William E Burton to Richard Garnett

by William E Burton, Ivan Cankar, Bernard Capes, Ion Luca Caragiale, Arthur Gask, J J Connington, Louis Couperus, Aleister Crowley, Ulric Daubeny, Ernest Dowson, Gwyn Evans, John Ferguson, Charles Foley, Anatole France, Richard Garnett ...

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

Unabridged

13 hours 38 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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Two Looks

Short story from a Nobel Prize winning author

by John Galsworthy ...

Narrated by Robert Maskell ...

Unabridged

10 min

John Galsworthy was born on the 14th August 1867 on the family estate, Parkfield, in Kingston-upon-Thames. His family’s wealth came from the shipping industryAt age nine he began his education at Saugeen, a Bournemouth preparatory school, before moving to Harrow school in 1881, distinguishing himself as an athlete.Galsworthy attended New College, Oxford to read law and left with a second-class ... Read more

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John Galsworthy was born on the 14th August 1867 on the family estate, Parkfield, in Kingston-upon-Thames. His family’s wealth came from the shipping industryAt age nine he began his education at Saugeen, a Bournemouth preparatory school, before moving to Harrow school in 1881, distinguishing himself as an athlete.Galsworthy attended New College, Oxford to read law and left with a second-class
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Detective Stories – Volume 2

E M Delafield to Anna Katharine Green

by E M Delafield, Charles Dickens, Arthur Conan Doyle, Edith Stewart Drewery, Frank Howel Evans, Jacques Futrelle, Lettice Galbraith, John Galsworthy, Arthur Gask, Anna Katharine Green ...

Narrated by Robert Maskell, Janet Fullerlove, David Shaw-Parker ...

Unabridged

8 hours 11 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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H2 etc

From their pens to your ears, genius in every story

by A J Alan ...

Narrated by Robert Maskell ...

Unabridged

12 min

Leslie Harrison Lambert was born on 11th November 1883 in Nottingham.After attending Rugby School he trained to be a surveyor. One of his passions was magic and such was his prowess that he joined The Magic Circle, and performed at society events.By the beginning of World War I he was an amateur radio ham and volunteered to work at a coastguard station in Norfolk to intercept German radio ... Read more

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Leslie Harrison Lambert was born on 11th November 1883 in Nottingham.After attending Rugby School he trained to be a surveyor. One of his passions was magic and such was his prowess that he joined The Magic Circle, and performed at society events.By the beginning of World War I he was an amateur radio ham and volunteered to work at a coastguard station in Norfolk to intercept German radio
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Victorian Ghost Story, The - Volume 2

The iconic ghost stories of English literature

by Henry James, Mrs Ellen Wood, Tom Hood, Thomas Street Millington, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Amelia Edwards, Margaret Oliphant, Robert Louis Stevenson ...

Narrated by Robert Maskell, Elliot Fitzpatrick, Laurel Lefkow ...

Unabridged

6 hours 34 min

Almost always when we think of Ghost Stories, we first think of those written by the Victorians.When you consider the depth of literary talent available over the extraordinary length of Queen Victoria’s reign, allied to the fascination with their all things spiritual on ‘the other side’, then perhaps it’s simply right place, right time.Whatever the reasons given or proffered the reality and known ... Read more

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Almost always when we think of Ghost Stories, we first think of those written by the Victorians.When you consider the depth of literary talent available over the extraordinary length of Queen Victoria’s reign, allied to the fascination with their all things spiritual on ‘the other side’, then perhaps it’s simply right place, right time.Whatever the reasons given or proffered the reality and known
... Read more
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Box of Counters, The

Two Germans in China discuss the difference in European empires, leading to tragedy

by Hanns Heinz Ewers ...

Narrated by Robert Maskell ...

Unabridged

Hanns Heinz Ewers was born on 3rd November 1871 in Düsseldorf, Germany.His first published poem was at 17 on the death, after a reign of only 99 days, of the German Emperor Frederick III.A stint in the German military was cut short after only 44 days because of his myopia. Writing was to be the way forward for him with a book of satiric verse published in 1901. At the same time he co-founded a ... Read more

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Hanns Heinz Ewers was born on 3rd November 1871 in Düsseldorf, Germany.His first published poem was at 17 on the death, after a reign of only 99 days, of the German Emperor Frederick III.A stint in the German military was cut short after only 44 days because of his myopia. Writing was to be the way forward for him with a book of satiric verse published in 1901. At the same time he co-founded a
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Lettice Galbraith - A Short Story Collection

A gifted supernatural author whose identity remained a mystery for almost 100 years

by Lettice Galbraith ...

Narrated by Robert Maskell ...

Unabridged

3 hours 46 min

Lettice Galbraith is yet another of those mysterious women of British literature of whom little was recorded.Lizzie Susan Gibson was born on the 27th January 1859 in Kingston-Upon-Hull in Yorkshire into a comfortable middle-class family.Her education was primarily private but at fifteen her father died, and life became rather different.After several years in London, she moved with her mother to ... Read more

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Lettice Galbraith is yet another of those mysterious women of British literature of whom little was recorded.Lizzie Susan Gibson was born on the 27th January 1859 in Kingston-Upon-Hull in Yorkshire into a comfortable middle-class family.Her education was primarily private but at fifteen her father died, and life became rather different.After several years in London, she moved with her mother to
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Ghost-Ship, The

A unique and humorous take on a ghost story

by Richard Middleton ...

Narrated by Robert Maskell ...

Unabridged

22 min

Richard Barham Middleton was born on the 28th October 1882 in Staines, Middlesex.His education was primarily at Cranbrook School in Kent before he began work as a clerk, in 1901, at the Royal Exchange Assurance Corporation in London. There he struggled with constraints and boundaries and by night he took to a bohemian lifestyle.Middleton moved into rooms in Blackfriars and joined the New Bohemians ... Read more

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Richard Barham Middleton was born on the 28th October 1882 in Staines, Middlesex.His education was primarily at Cranbrook School in Kent before he began work as a clerk, in 1901, at the Royal Exchange Assurance Corporation in London. There he struggled with constraints and boundaries and by night he took to a bohemian lifestyle.Middleton moved into rooms in Blackfriars and joined the New Bohemians
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Professor's Mummy, The

Egyptian artifacts, abuse, love and murder all mix in this Victorian thriller

by Fergus Hume ...

Narrated by Robert Maskell ...

Unabridged

33 min

Ferguson Wright Hume was born in Powick, Worcestershire on the 8th July 1859.When he was three the family emigrated to Dunedin in New Zealand. Here he started his education at the Otago Boys' High School before studying law at the University of Otago. Hume was admitted to the New Zealand bar in 1885.He moved to become a barrister’s clerk to Melbourne and once there also began writing plays. The ... Read more

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Ferguson Wright Hume was born in Powick, Worcestershire on the 8th July 1859.When he was three the family emigrated to Dunedin in New Zealand. Here he started his education at the Otago Boys' High School before studying law at the University of Otago. Hume was admitted to the New Zealand bar in 1885.He moved to become a barrister’s clerk to Melbourne and once there also began writing plays. The
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