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    Tragedy on the London and Mid-Northern, The

    A 19th century mystery involving a Russian killer and an amateur detective

    Narrated by Mark Rice-Oxley ...

    Unabridged

    27 min

    Victor Lorenzo Whitechurch was born on the 12th March 1868 at Norham in Northumberland.He was educated at Chichester Grammar School and then Chichester Theological College. Whitechurch held various positions as curate until he was appointed the vicar at St Michael's, Blewbury in 1904. In 1913 he became Chaplain to the Bishop of Oxford, and an honorary canon of Christ Church. By 1918 he had become ... Read more

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    Marsyas in Flanders

    From their pens to your ears, genius in every story

    by Vernon Lee ...
    Narrated by Mark Rice-Oxley ...

    Unabridged

    34 min

    Vernon Lee was born Violet Paget on 4th October 1856 in Boulogne, France to intellectual expatriate British parents.In common with several other very talented literary women of the day she felt it necessary to publish under a masculine pseudonym in order for her writing to be taken seriously. Indeed she seems to have adopted that persona across her whole lifestyle becoming personally known and ... Read more

    $2.73 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Rose of the Ghetto, A

    Jewish author Zangwill gives us an insight into struggles of the East End of London

    Narrated by Mark Rice-Oxley ...

    Unabridged

    37 min

    Israel Zangwill was born in London on 21st January 1864, to a family of Jewish immigrants from the Russian Empire.Zangwill was initially educated in Plymouth and Bristol. At age 9 he was enrolled in the Jews' Free School in Spitalfields in east London. Zangwill excelled here. He began to teach part-time at the school and eventually full time. Whilst teaching he also studied with the University of ... Read more

    $6.86 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Making Machu Picchu

    The Politics of Tourism in Twentieth-Century Peru

    by Mark Rice ...
    Speaking at a 1913 National Geographic Society gala, Hiram Bingham III, the American explorer celebrated for finding the “lost city” of the Andes two years earlier, suggested that Machu Picchu “is an awful name, but it is well worth remembering.” Millions of travelers have since followed Bingham’s advice. When Bingham first encountered Machu Picchu, the site was an obscure ruin. Now designated a ... Read more

    $26.39 CAD

  • Locked Down Bubbling Up

    by Mark Rice ...
    Short stories and poetry: written by three Irish writers, two living in Wexford and one in Dublin who worked together virtually during the Covid 19 pandemic in 2020. All writing is fictional, some relating to the virus and its effects, others reflecting different topics inspired during the time. Writing the book provided the writers with an escape and they took comfort in the task.We hope it ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Dean Worcester's Fantasy Islands

    Photography, Film, and the Colonial Philippines

    by Mark Rice ...
    Dean Worcester’s Fantasy Islands brings to life one of the most significant (but under examined) figures in the history of U.S. colonialism in the Philippines. Upon the outbreak of the Spanish-American War, Worcester, a scientist who had traveled twice to the Philippines on zoological expeditions, established himself as one of America’s leading experts on the Philippines. Over a fourteen-year ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • Murder in Maspalomas

    by Mark Rice ...
    Murder in Maspalomas is a novel which starts in Dublin where Matt, an ordinary contract accountant finds himself contacted by the Sullivans, a notorious drug gang who are chasing a debt.The gang are led by Anto, a thirty something who came from a broken family, he broke it. His enforcer, Ciaran is his second in command and a right nasty piece of work who carries a piece wherever he goes. Rocky, in ... Read more

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    Murder in Saltashe Woods, The

    From their pens to your ears, genius in every story

    Narrated by Mark Rice-Oxley ...

    Unabridged

    42 min

    Emma Magdolna Rozália Mária Jozefa Borbála Orczy de Orci, or more familiarly, Baroness Emmuska Orczy, was born on the 23rd September 1865, in Tarnaörs, Heves County, Hungary.The family lived in their ancestral home; a great, rambling farmhouse on the river Tarna. Orczy’s memories of the time were of sophisticated parties, sparkling conversation, joyful dancing and gypsy music. But fear of a ... Read more

    $2.73 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    White Line, The

    An underrated British classic, think Sherlock Holmes on the water

    by John Ferguson ...
    Narrated by Mark Rice-Oxley ...

    Unabridged

    35 min

    John Ferguson was born on the 18th August 1881 in Stirling in Scotland.He attended the High School there and little other information is available.It is known that he worked primarily in the banking industry.His literary canon is exceedingly small, this being the only volume of his poems ever published. What is known is that he suffered from ill-health and these poems were written whilst in a ... Read more

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  • Underneath the Lemon Tree

    A Memoir of Depression and Recovery

    On paper, things looked good for Mark Rice-Oxley: wife, children, fulfilling job. But then, at his 40th birthday party, his whole world crumbled as he succumbed to depression...How many men do you know who have been through periods when their lives haven't seemed right? How badly askew were things for them? Many men suffer from depression yet it is still a subject that is taboo. Men often don't ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

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    Extraordinary Adventure of Mr John Proudie, The

    Story written in 1919 about a London chemist

    Narrated by Mark Rice-Oxley ...

    Unabridged

    37 min

    Margaret Gabrielle Vere Campbell was born on the 1st November 1885 on Hayling Island in Hampshire.Her childhood was fraught with problems, her alcoholic father left early in her life and was later found dead on a London Street. Life thereafter was poverty with an uncaring mother.However, her talents took her to the Slade School of Fine Art and later to study in Paris.Her first fiction, written at ... Read more

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  • The Practice Of Operational Art In Operation Weserübung: The German Invasion Of Norway 1940

    The planning and execution of Operation Weserübung was the first major joint operation of its kind in history utilizing naval, ground, air, and airborne forces. Its conduct proves to be one of the most noteworthy applications of operational art and the principles of war during all of World War II. The principles of surprise and security were the most critical in the German success. The German ... Read more

    $1.38 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus