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A Man from the North
Read by Simon Evers
Arnold Bennett
Richard Larch, a young man from the north of England, arrives in London to seek his fortune. By day he works as a clerk in an office but has…
The Gateway
Read by Steve Simons
Steve Simons
This book was written for children, it was originally serialised on the podcast show KidsCastSciFi. It follows the adventures of two boys wh…
Mr. Prohack
Read by Simon Evers
Arnold Bennett
Mr Prohack, an ordinary official in the Treasury and leading a hum-drum life, suddenly and unexpectedly inherits a large sum of money which,…
Double Crossed
Read by Howard Skyman
Wilfrid Douglas Newton
Clement Seadon is a young man of free spirit and a lust for a life of independence. However after receiving an odd request from a lawyer he …
Loner In Space
Read by Steve Simons
Steve Simons
This book was written originally for children, but the adults in Steve's test audience also enjoyed it.
The book tells the story of a bo…
The Wonderful Year
Read by Simon Evers
William John Locke
Martin Overshaw and Corinna Hastings are leading dull and unproductive lives in Paris, having fled humdrum England. They fall in with Fortin…
Stephen Mitchell's Journey
Read by TriciaG
Pansy
Stephen Mitchell is a young man without a place in the world. He hates farming, although he works endless hours on the poor family farm. He …
Brighton Beach Memoirs By Neil Simon
In Neil Simon's darkly funny memoir of his family in 1930's Brooklyn, fourteen-year-old Eugene is preoccupied by his passion for the Yankees…
Septimus
Read by Simon Evers
William John Locke
The book concerns the tangled lives of four people: Zora, a young widow who seeks some purpose in her life; Septimus Dix, an other-wordly bu…
Caging Schrödinger's Cat - Quantum Nanotechnology
Read by Simon C. Benjamin
Simon C. Benjamin
University of Oxford Podcasts
Discoveries: Essays in Literary Criticism
Read by Jim Locke
John Middleton Murry
Introductory Note: I have called these essays and lectures by a title that some people may think presumptuous: first, because it is the titl…
Sister Simon's Murder Case
Read by Maria Therese
Margaret Ann Hubbard
Set in the picturesque wilds of a Midwestern resort town at the height of the tourist season, Sister Simon’s Murder case begins with the mur…
Jude the Obscure (Version 2)
Read by Tadhg
Thomas Hardy
Eleven-year-old Jude Fawley, inspired by his teacher Mr. Phillotson, who leaves Marygreen for Christminster to take a university degree, dec…
The Lost Art of Reading
Read by Joseph Tabler
Gerald Stanley Lee
Gerald Stanley Lee speaks here-in of books and self in the time of factories, tall buildings and industry and big city making, the effects o…
Eminent Victorians
Read by Margaret Espaillat
Giles Lytton Strachey
On Modern Library's list of 100 Best Non-Fiction books, "Eminent Victorians" marked an epoch in the art of biography; it also help…
The Awkward Age
Read by Anna Simon
Henry James
Nanda Brookenham is coming of age, and thus 'coming out' in London society - which leads to complications in her family's social set in Lond…
Regenis 4 Chronicles (Book 1)
Read by Steve Simons
Steve Simons
This book is the story of two young men, well they are not exactly boys being 16 and 18. They make a discovery, that seems to indicate a pl…
Daniel Deronda
Read by Becky Miller
George Eliot
In this enduring Victorian classic written in 1876, two stories weave in and out of each other: The first is about Gwendolen, one of Eliot's…