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The Third Person

Read by Anthony Orr


Henry James


The Third Person is an amusing spoof on spooking. The 'ghostly man about the house' in whom two increasingly competitive maiden ladies come …

Chapter 12

In A Dark Night's Work

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Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell


Love, murder and class commentary in Mrs Gaskell's usual brilliant style! This novel was originally serialised and published by Charles Dick…

Murder in the Gunroom

Read by Anthony Wilson


H. Beam Piper


The Lane Fleming collection of early pistols and revolvers was one of the best in the country. When Fleming was found dead on the floor of h…

Kipps

Read by Anthony Ogus


H. G. Wells


Arthur Kipps, an orphaned draper’s assistant of humble means, unexpectedly inherits a large sum of money and that is when all his troubles b…

The Three Clerks (version 2)

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Anthony Trollope


Romance and crime in the mid-19th century British Civil Service. In this early novel,Trollope draws on his own experiences as a junior clerk…

Pictures from Italy

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Charles Dickens


Dickens takes time off his novels to give an account of travels which he and his family undertook in France and Italy. There are vivid descr…

Nina Balatka

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Anthony Trollope


A romance set in Prague between a Catholic and a Jew. In this short novel, Trollope moves away from his usual milieu to explore a theme whic…

A Man and His Unicorn

Read by Anthony Matthews


Anthony Matthews


Vern was an ordinary college instructor and looking forward to spring break. But on the last day of classes and dreaming about a gorgeous ga…

The New Machiavelli

Read by Anthony Ogus


H. G. Wells


About a political idealist who changes his colours and engages in a sexual adventure, this novel by H.G. Wells generated controversy when it…

Love and Mr Lewisham

Read by Anthony Ogus


H. G. Wells


The teaching profession, science and politics in late 19th century England. H. G. Wells’ humorous early novel, drawing on his own life, show…

An Eye for an Eye

Read by Anthony Ogus


Anthony Trollope


A short but typical Trollope romance in which a young nobleman is torn between love for an impoverished Irish girl and the expectations of h…

A Phantom Lover

Read by Anthony Leslie


Vernon Lee


A Phantom Lover is a supernatural novella by Vernon Lee (pseudonym of Violet Paget) first published in 1886. Set in a Kentish manor house, t…