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  • Audiobook

    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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    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

    $6.86 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    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

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    Amy Foster

    A desperate love story that begins with a shipwreck

    by Joseph Conrad ...
    Narrated by Mark Rice-Oxley ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 23 min

    Joseph Conrad was born on 3rd December 1857 in Berdychiv in the Ukraine, then part of the Russian Empire. His birthplace had been part of Poland which its neighbours dismembered into their own Empires.Conrad’s early years were spent in constant movement, his father was politically active and frequently in trouble trying to help re-ignite a Polish state which meant arrests and exile and the young ... Read more

    $10.98 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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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

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    Arrest of Arsene Lupin, The

    From their pens to your ears, genius in every story

    Narrated by Mark Rice-Oxley ...

    Unabridged

    30 min

    The bookshelves of European literature are incredible collections that have gathered together centuries of very talented authors. From this continent their fame spread and whilst among their number many are now forgotten or neglected their talents endure. Among them is masterful French detective writer Maurice Leblanc. ... Read more

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  • Audiobook

    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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    How They Stopped the 'Run'

    From their pens to your ears, genius in every story

    by Anthony Hope ...
    Narrated by Mark Rice-Oxley ...

    Unabridged

    8 min

    Sir Anthony Hope Hawkins was born on 9th February 1863 in Clapton, London.He was educated at St John's School, Leatherhead, Marlborough College and Balliol College, Oxford. Hope trained as a lawyer and barrister and was called to the Bar by the Middle Temple in 1887. Despite what was thought to be a promising legal career he had literary ambitions and wrote in his spare time.His early works ... 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

  • Audiobook

    Successful Rehearsal, A

    From their pens to your ears, genius in every story

    by Anthony Hope ...
    Narrated by Mark Rice-Oxley ...

    Unabridged

    9 min

    Sir Anthony Hope Hawkins was born on 9th February 1863 in Clapton, London.He was educated at St John's School, Leatherhead, Marlborough College and Balliol College, Oxford. Hope trained as a lawyer and barrister and was called to the Bar by the Middle Temple in 1887. Despite what was thought to be a promising legal career he had literary ambitions and wrote in his spare time.His early works ... Read more

    $2.73 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    Successful Rehearsal, A

    From their pens to your ears, genius in every story

    by Anthony Hope ...
    Narrated by Mark Rice-Oxley ...

    Unabridged

    Sir Anthony Hope Hawkins was born on 9th February 1863 in Clapton, London.He was educated at St John's School, Leatherhead, Marlborough College and Balliol College, Oxford. Hope trained as a lawyer and barrister and was called to the Bar by the Middle Temple in 1887. Despite what was thought to be a promising legal career he had literary ambitions and wrote in his spare time.His early works ... Read more

    $2.73 CAD

  • Audiobook

    Aloysha the Pot

    From their pens to your ears, genius in every story

    by Leo Tolstoy ...
    Narrated by Mark Rice-Oxley ...

    Unabridged

    Leo Tolstoy was born in 1828 in the Russian province of Tula to a wealthy noble family. As a child, he had private tutors but he showed little interest in any formal education. When he went to the University of Kazan in 1843 to study oriental languages and law, he left without completing his courses. Life now was relaxed and idle but with some writing also taking place. Gambling debts forced an ... Read more

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