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Title: Aunts and Pianos

Author: E. F. Benson

Narrator: Cathy Dobson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 21 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-11-17

Publisher: Red Door Audiobooks

Genres: Classics, British Literature

Publisher's Summary:

Edward Frederic Benson (1867-1940) was an English novelist, biographer, memoirist, archaeologist, and short story writer, best known for his masterly and uncanny ghost stories. Less well known are his wonderful humorous stories, of which Aunts and Pianos is one.

Bobby is an accomplished and charming pianist who has befriended a number of rich elderly widows and spinsters, each of which he refers to as 'aunt'. He already has his own Bechstein grand piano, plus another concert grand which was (touchingly but highly inconveniently) left to him by a late 'aunt'. Now various of his other 'aunts' are also keen to offload their grand pianos on him....

Members Reviews:

A good story spoiled

This short story was so poorly read that it was painful to listen to, which is unfortunate as the story has Benson's characteristic charm and wit.

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Title: The Byzantine Omelette

Author: Hector Hugh Munro, Saki

Narrator: Cathy Dobson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-06-17

Publisher: Red Door Audiobooks

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Classics, British Literature

Publisher's Summary:

Hector Hugh Munro (1870-1916) is better known by the pen name Saki. He remains hugely popular as a British writer whose witty, mischievous and sometimes macabre stories satirized Edwardian society and culture.

Sophie Chattel-Monkheim was a socialist by conviction and a Chattel-Monkheim by marriage. When the Duke of Serbia does her the honour of joining her house party, despite her left-wing leanings, Sophie is determined to make a good impression. So she hires an emergency chef who is an expert in making Byzantine omelettes. Within a very short time the entire household is thrown into disarray....

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Title: The Disappearance of Crispina Umberleigh

Author: Hector Hugh Munro

Narrator: Cathy Dobson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-05-17

Publisher: Red Door Audiobooks

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Classics, British Literature

Publisher's Summary:

Hector Hugh Munro (1870-1916) is better known by the pen name Saki. He remains hugely popular as a British writer whose witty, mischievous and sometimes macabre stories satirised Edwardian society and culture. 'The Disappearance of Crispina Umberleigh' is a tale recounted by a traveller on a train to a fellow passenger. It concerns the bizarre circumstances of the mysterious disappearance...and reappearance after eight years...of his formidable and tyrannical aunt.

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Title: The Child's Story

Author: Charles Dickens

Narrator: Michael Page

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-05-17

Publisher: Dreamscape Media, LLC

Genres: Classics, British Literature

Publisher's Summary:

Originally published in the 1852 Christmas edition of Dickens's journal Household Words, The Child's Story is the account of a man's life from childhood to the present as told to his grandson in the form of a fairytale about a traveler and the people he meets. This version of The Child's Story was recorded as part of Dreamscape's The Christmas Stories of Charles Dickens.

Members Reviews:

Great present for grandfather

I bought this book for my father who has just retired. It is a touching book with beautiful illustrations. My daughter enjoyed it but I think that it is a children's book that an adult would appreciate more than a child. If you are looking for a touching book to give your father-grandfather I would recomend this book.

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Title: A Comedy of Capricorn

Author: Morley Roberts

Narrator: Cathy Dobson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 50 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-29-17

Publisher: Red Door Audiobooks

Genres: Classics, British Literature

Publisher's Summary:

Morley Roberts (1857-1942) was an adventurer who worked on railways and cattle and sheep ranches all over Africa and the Americas and still found time to write a large number of very varied novels and stories with a zest that only real-life experience can give.

'A Comedy of Capricorn' is a humorous romantic tale. When Gwendolen invites the supremely eligible animal lover Lord Bampton to meet her parents so that he can ask permission to court her, she warns her family of the visitor's fondness for pets. Even the butler is warned to allow any strange or exotic animal which might accompany his Lordship into the drawing room without batting an eyelid. So when a stray goat turns up by chance at the same time as Lord Bampton, chaos, confusion and hilarity are predestined.

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Title: Ways of Escape

Author: J. D. Beresford

Narrator: Cathy Dobson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 36 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-23-17

Publisher: Red Door Audiobooks

Genres: Classics, British Literature

Publisher's Summary:

John Davys Beresford (1873-1947) was an English writer, now remembered for his early science fiction and short stories in the horror and ghost story genres.

'Ways of Escape' is a mystery story. The strange Mrs. Trevarrian lives in a lonely cottage on the moors with her elderly housemaid. The villagers are beginning to suspect that there is something rather odd about the lady.

In particular, she has a studio photograph of a maidservant on her mantelpiece and tells all visitors that she hopes to get this maid to return to her house again in the future. One foggy afternoon, a most strange event occurs which throws Mrs. Tervarrian's household - and indeed the entire village - into uproar.

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Title: Bats in the Belfry

Author: Harry Graham

Narrator: Cathy Dobson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 43 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-23-17

Publisher: Red Door Audiobooks

Genres: Classics, British Literature

Publisher's Summary:

Harry Graham (1874 - 1936) made a great name for himself as a writer of light verse and humorous stories, including the inimitable Ruthless Rhymes for Heartless Homes.

Bats in the Belfry is a humorous short story in the tradition of the Victorian bedroom farce. Percy Biffin, an awkward house-guest at the summer residence of Sir Borwick Trout, is unexpectedly called on in the middle of the night to remove a bat from the beautiful young Julia Trout's bedroom. His presence in the young lady's bedroom is misinterpreted by every person who learns of it...and the more Biffin tries to extricate himself, the worse the situation becomes.

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Title: A Skinful of Trouble

Author: Arthur Morrison

Narrator: Cathy Dobson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 35 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-16-17

Publisher: Red Door Audiobooks

Genres: Classics, British Literature

Publisher's Summary:

Arthur George Morrison (1863-1945) was an English writer and journalist known for his realistic novels and stories about working-class life in London's East End.

A Skinful of Trouble is the humorous tale of Mr. Dowdall, a gentleman who has invested as shareholder in a circus of dubious repute. All attempts to pursue the circus and recoup his investment are frustrated, but as his letters become more and more threatening, the circus manager writes back announcing that in the lack of funds, he will send property of the circus to the value of the sum demanded.

Mr Dowdall is quite satisfied with this resolution of the dispute - until next afternoon when a large crate is delivered containing a circus tiger, which is duly deposited on the street outside the Dowdall house in London. Dowdall's efforts to rid himself of the tiger are increasingly frantic and comical.

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Title: The Leather Case

Author: Walter S. Masterman

Narrator: Cathy Dobson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 49 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-11-17

Publisher: Red Door Audiobooks

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 3 votes

Genres: Classics, British Literature

Publisher's Summary:

Walter Sydney Masterman (1876 - 1946) was an English author of mystery, fantasy, horror and science fiction novels and stories.

The Leather Case is an adventure story about a young man who has just reached Paris after five years working in India as an engineer. While in Paris, he is startled by seeing a young woman whose face seems remarkably familiar, although it is impossible that he can have ever met her before. Moreover, the companion of the girl - apparently an uncle - seems to be going out of his way to engage the young engineer in a mysterious project in Silesia.

Eventually the young man remembers an incident in the trenches during the great war when he saved an enemy officer who was bleeding to death. The Prussian officer had given him a leather case containing two photographs - and one of them is a dead ringer for the mystery woman in Paris. But who are these people that are now trying to entice him to a remote part of Silesia - and what can they really want with him?

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Title: Dr Finlay's Casebook

Author: A. J. Cronin

Narrator: Cameron Stewart

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 47 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-01-17

Publisher: Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd

Genres: Classics, British Literature

Publisher's Summary:

The original stories featuring A. J. Cronin's much-loved Scottish country doctor.

Dr Finlay's Casebook brings together Adventures of a Black Bag and Dr Finlay of Tannochbrae, A. J. Cronin's two hugely popular collections featuring his most famous creation, Dr Finlay.

Set in and around the fictional Scottish town of Levenford and village of Tannochbrae during the interwar years, the stories found here are heartwarming, funny and touching, full of fascinating characters and unforgettable encounters.

Made famous by the much-loved adaptations for radio and television, the classic tales of Dr Finlay, his senior colleague, Dr Cameron, and their unruffled housekeeper, Janet, remain as fresh and entertaining now as they were upon first publication.

Members Reviews:

The second volume not Cronins best

This audiobook covers two very different books. The first volume is more typical of what youd expect if youd watched the old BBC series (b&w!). There are witty observations on Scottish life, though based more in the industrial city of Levenford (Dumbarton) than in the heathery hills of Tannochbrae.

Finlay doesnt have a first name - except Doctor - Cameron isnt nearly as beneficent as his TV persona; hes rather lazy and scheming, hypochondriacal and he shows a stereotypical attitude to sd.

Janet is younger and less contented with her lot as skivvy to Dr Cameron, and Finlay really is hopeless when it comes to women- luckily hes quicker on the uptake where medicine is concerned! Some of his (fairly) well intentioned behaviour would now have him investigated by the GMC!

The second part is a continuing story of one of Finlays disastrous relationships with women. We learn that the young doctor is a Catholic (TV omitted this, sectarianism having been a significant blot on Scottish life in the era of the stories and continuing when the series was made. I dont think viewers furth of Scotland would have understood anyway.)

Its harmless easy listening though.

I didnt like the narrator at first but he grew on me.