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Title: Satan's Circus

Author: Lady Eleanor Smith

Narrator: Elliot Fitzpatrick

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 0 hours 43 minutes

Release date: January 1, 2023

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Lady Eleanor Furneaux Smith was born in Birkenhead, Merseyside in England on the 7th August 1902 into a privileged family steeped in titles and politics.Part of her education was at Miss Douglas's school at Queen's Gate. Here she met and befriended several other young women that the British tabloid press would later call the 'Bright Young Things', a group of bohemian young aristocrats and socialites in 1920s London.Smith's paternal great-grandmother, was said to have been a Gypsy, and this sparked an early and life-long interest with the Romani people, she even went so far as to learn to read and speak the language, which she called 'musical and broken.'Her life was full of adventure and mishaps. A mistaken encounter with a man she thought could help her into the film business turned out to threats of marriage and death from a man wanted for the murder of his father. She was even arrested twice. Once for listing her career as a journalist and another, in Rome, for walking around in a sleeveless dress.Smith began her career writing society gossip columns for various newspapers but later received an offer to write for the newly-formed Great Carmo Circus, with which she travelled for several years and was the source material for many of her books.Her first novel, 'Red Wagon', was published when she was 28 and it was an immediate bestseller. A prolific writer several of her works were also adapted for films.Smith also wrote ghost stories and others flavoured with evil. Her support for the Conservative party may be forgiven but her attributed quote to be a 'warm adherent of General Franco' less so.Lady Eleanor Furneaux Smith died on the 20th October 1945 in Westminster after a long illness. She was 43.

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Title: D H Lawrence - A Short Story Collection - Volume 2

Author: D.H. Lawrence

Narrator: Richard Mitchley

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 3 hours 50 minutes

Release date: January 1, 2023

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

David Herbert Lawrence was born on the 11th September 1885 in Eastwood, Nottinghamshire, a coal mining town where the reality of a harsh life was only useful as experiences for future literary works.He was educated at Beauvale Board School and became the first local boy to receive a scholarship to attend Nottingham High School. After 3 years he became a junior clerk in Haywood's surgical appliances factory. He was also attempting a literary career which, in the short term, led to a teacher training position in Eastwood and later a teaching qualification from University College, Nottingham. Lawrence's first efforts were poems, short stories and a draft of 'The White Peacock'. Moving to London and a teaching position in Croydon his writing attracted the attention of Ford Madox Ford, editor of The English Review, and he commissioned him to write 'Odour of Chrysanthemums'. Wanting to write full-time he now began work on what would become 'Sons and Lovers. In 1912 he met the older and married mother-of-three Frieda Weekley. They eloped to Germany and here Lawrence could see for himself the growing tensions with France. So keen was his interest that he was arrested and accused of being a British spy. In early 1914 Frieda obtained her divorce and they returned to Britain to be married just days before the outbreak of war. Owing to her German parentage, and his own public dislike of militarism and violence, the couple were treated with contempt and suspicion throughout the war years. Despite this he continued to write but his reputation in England was so tarnished and, mirrored by his own disdain for the country, he and Frieda left England in November 1919, first for Europe and then America via Ceylon and Australia.They bought a ranch in Taos, New Mexico and visited Mexico several times. The third visit in March 1925 caused a near fatal attack of malaria. To convalesce they moved to Florence. Here he continued work on 'Lady Chatterley's Lover' which for many years would cause controversy. A renewed interest in oil painting resulted in an exhibition in 1929 which was raided by the police and several works were confiscated. D H Lawrence died of complications arising from a bout of tuberculosis on the 2nd of March 1930 in Vence, France. He was 44.1 - D H Lawrence - A Short Story Collection - Volume 2 - An Introduction2 - The Rocking Horse Winner by D H Lawrence3 - The Border Line by D H Lawrence4 - A Fragment of Stained Glass by D H Lawrence5 - Odour of Chrysanthemums by D H Lawrence6 - The Horse Dealer's Daughter by D H Lawrence

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Title: The Top 10 Short Stories - War

Author: Isaac Babel, Guy De Maupassant, William Hope Hodgson, Stacy Aumonier, Arthur Machen, Alphonse Daudet, Emile Zola, Luigi Pirandello, Ambrose Bierce, Kate Chopin

Narrator: Gideon Wagner, David Shaw-Parker, Richard Mitchley

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 3 hours 59 minutes

Release date: January 1, 2023

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author's brain, their soul and heart. A few pages can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere.In this series we try to offer up tried and trusted 'Top Tens' across many different themes and authors. But any anthology will immediately throw up the questions - Why that story? Why that author? The theme itself will form the boundaries for our stories which range from well-known classics, newly told, to stories that modern times have overlooked but perfectly exemplify the theme. Throughout the volume our authors whether of instant recognition or new to you are all leviathans of literature.Some you may disagree with but they will get you thinking; about our choices and about those you would have made. If this volume takes you on a path to discover more of these miniature masterpieces then we have all gained something.In this volume our authors take on War, the destroyer of humanity. Our literary masters bring the true scale of the horror in sometimes tiny fragments of peoples lives to reveal its true and deep-felt effects.01 - The Top 10 - War - An Introduction02 - Two Friends by Guy de Maupassant03 - War by Luigi Pirandello04 - The Locket by Kate Chopin05 - Three Wars by Emile Zola06 - Them Others by Stacy Aumonier07 - An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose Bierce08 - The Siege of Berlin by Alphonse Daudet09 - The Bowmen by Arthur Machen10 - My First Goose by Isaac Babel11 - The German Spy by William Hope Hodgson

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Title: The Top 10 Short Stories - The 1860's - The Men

Author: Himslef, Charles Baudelaire, William Hunt, Edward Everett Hale, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Sabine Baring-Gould, Henry James, Bret Harte, Anthony Trollope, Charles Dickens

Narrator: Mark Rice-Oxley, David Shaw-Parker, Eve Karpf

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 6 hours 44 minutes

Release date: January 1, 2023

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author's brain, their soul and heart. A few pages can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere.In this series we try to offer up tried and trusted 'Top Tens' across many different themes and authors. But any anthology will immediately throw up the questions - Why that story? Why that author? The theme itself will form the boundaries for our stories which range from well-known classics, newly told, to stories that modern times have overlooked but perfectly exemplify the theme. Throughout the volume our authors whether of instant recognition or new to you are all leviathans of literature.Some you may disagree with but they will get you thinking; about our choices and about those you would have made. If this volume takes you on a path to discover more of these miniature masterpieces then we have all gained something.This mid-century decade reveals a journey traversing continents and genres as authors explore and revel in the telling of tumultuous times of social upheaval as nations are divided by Civil War or expand with the brute force of Imperial Dreams. Our writers are here to document and narrate more about this fascinating decade.01 - The Top 10 - The 1860's - The Men - An Introduction02 - The Crocodile. An Extraordinary Incident - Part 1 by Fyodor Dostoyevsky03 - The Crocodile. An Extraordinary Incident - Part 2 by Fyodor Dostoyevsky04 - The Signalman by Charles Dickens05 - The Generous Gambler by Charles Baudelaire06 - The Romance of Certain Old Clothes by Henry James07 - Malachi's Cove by Anthony Trollope08 - The Outcasts of Poker Flat by Bret Harte05 - The Astounding Adventure of Wheeler J Calamity, Related by Himslef by W S Gilbert10 - The Spectre Bridegroom by William Hunt11 - The 9.30 Up-Train by Sabine Baring-Gould12 - The Man Without a Country by Edward Everett Hale

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Title: The Top 10 Short Stories - The 1870's - The Men

Author: Fyodor Dostevesky, Vsevolod Garshin, Edward Page Mitchell, Jan Neruda, Sheridan Le Fanu, Ivan Turgenev, Gustave Flaubert, Bret Harte, Leo Tolstoy, Mark Twain

Narrator: Mark Rice-Oxley, David Shaw-Parker, Stuart Milligan

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 5 hours 25 minutes

Release date: January 1, 2023

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author's brain, their soul and heart. A few pages can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere.In this series we try to offer up tried and trusted 'Top Tens' across many different themes and authors. But any anthology will immediately throw up the questions - Why that story? Why that author? The theme itself will form the boundaries for our stories which range from well-known classics, newly told, to stories that modern times have overlooked but perfectly exemplify the theme. Throughout the volume our authors whether of instant recognition or new to you are all leviathans of literature.Some you may disagree with but they will get you thinking; about our choices and about those you would have made. If this volume takes you on a path to discover more of these miniature masterpieces then we have all gained something.The Century moves on decade by decade. War once again scars Europe, in America wagons roll west. Social unrest continues even as conditions improve markedly for the few and only a little for the many. The list of problems and of challenges described by our authors is long and their stories once again full of valuable and telling insights.01 - The Top 10 - The 1870's - The Men - An Introduction02 - Bobok by Fyodor Dostevesky03 - A Ghost Story by Mark Twain04 - God Sees The Truth But Waits by Leo Tolstoy05 - Dickon the Devil by Sheridan Le Fanu06 - The Legend of Saint Julian the Hospitaller by Gustave Flaubert07 - A Strange Story by Ivan Turgenev08 - A Lonely Ride by Bret Harte09 - Coward by Vsevolod Garshin10 - The Man Without a Body by Edward Page Mitchell11 - The Vampire by Jan Neruda

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Title: The Top 10 Short Stories - The 1920's - The English

Author: M R James, Helen Simpson, E F Benson, G K Chesterton, Radclyffe Hall, Marjorie Bowen, Algernon Blackwood, A.M. Burrage, D.H. Lawrence, Virginia Woolf

Narrator: Elliot Fitzpatrick, Ghizela Rowe, Richard Mitchley

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 6 hours 9 minutes

Release date: January 1, 2023

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author's brain, their soul and heart. A few pages can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere.In this series we try to offer up tried and trusted 'Top Tens' across many different themes and authors. But any anthology will immediately throw up the questions - Why that story? Why that author? The theme itself will form the boundaries for our stories which range from well-known classics, newly told, to stories that modern times have overlooked but perfectly exemplify the theme. Throughout the volume our authors whether of instant recognition or new to you are all leviathans of literature.Some you may disagree with but they will get you thinking; about our choices and about those you would have made. If this volume takes you on a path to discover more of these miniature masterpieces then we have all gained something.In this volume the decade reveals some who are doing very well and the many who are not; underfoot, underpaid and under-represented. Our writers of many hues and telling talents bring both their stories and their characters to bear on the decade between the two world wars with searing clarity.01 - The Top 10 - The 1920's - The English - An Introduction02 - The String Quartet by Virginia Woolf03 - The Horse Dealer's Daughter by D H Lawrence04 - Rats by M R James05 - The Resurrection of Father Brown by G K Chesterton06 - Miss Ogilivy Finds Herself by Radclyffe Hall07 - Running Wolf by Algernon Blackwood08 - Mrs Amworth by E F Benson09 - Smee by A M Burrage10 - Young Magic by Helen Simpson11 - Decay by Marjorie Bowen

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Title: The Last Goddess: A Novel

Author: Kateřina Tučková

Narrator: Nina Yndis

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 13 hours 54 minutes

Release date: May 1, 2022

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

A woman delves into science and superstition, fear and persecution, and the hope and courage of belief in an award-winning and internationally bestselling novel by Kateřina Tučková. Last in a centuries-old lineage of healing women, Dora Idesová was raised by her aunt Surmena in the White Carpathians. Resistant to superstition, Dora grew up hearing stories of the “goddesses” who were said to conjure love and curses and, through divine connection, cure the spirit and the body. Now an academic, Dora is researching the tales that for generations spellbound the hillside where she grew up. As the mysteries become truths, they reveal a stunning discovery that reaches back from the witch trials of the seventeenth century through Nazi-occupied Germany. Embarking on an emotional journey, Dora is about to find out how deeply and fatefully she is entwined with secret tradition. Beautifully weaving together fact, folklore, and fiction, Kateřina Tučková draws on the stories of her ancestors to explore the extraordinary history of goddesses who walked the earth.

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Title: The Half-Life of Ruby Fielding: A Novel

Author: Lydia Kang

Narrator: Saskia Maarleveld

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 10 hours 4 minutes

Release date: May 1, 2022

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

From the bestselling author of A Beautiful Poison comes a spellbinding historical mystery about hidden identities, wartime paranoia, and the tantalizing power of deceit. Brooklyn, 1942. War rages overseas as brother and sister Will and Maggie Scripps contribute to the war effort stateside. Ambitious Will secretly scouts for the Manhattan Project while grief-stricken Maggie works at the Navy Yard, writing letters to her dead mother between shifts. But the siblings’ quiet lives change when they discover a beautiful woman hiding under their back stairs. This stranger harbors an obsession with poisons, an affection for fine things, and a singular talent for killing small creatures. As she draws Will and Maggie deeper into her mysterious past, they both begin to suspect she’s quite dangerous—all while falling helplessly under her spell. With whispers of spies in dark corners and the world’s first atomic bomb in the works, the visitor’s sudden presence in Maggie’s and Will’s lives raises questions about who she is and what she wants. Is this mysterious woman someone they can trust—or a threat to everything they hold dear?

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Title: The Unknown Beloved: A Novel

Author: Amy Harmon

Narrator: Rob Shapiro

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 14 hours 55 minutes

Release date: April 19, 2022

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

From the bestselling author of Where the Lost Wander and What the Wind Knows comes the evocative story of two people whose paths collide against the backdrop of mystery, murder, and the Great Depression. Chicago, 1923: Ten-year-old Dani Flanagan returns home to find police swarming the house, her parents dead. Michael Malone, the young patrolman assigned to the case, discovers there’s more to the situation—and to Dani Flanagan herself—than the authorities care to explore. Malone is told to shut his mouth, and Dani is sent away to live with her spinster aunts in Cleveland. Fifteen years later, Michael Malone is summoned to Cleveland to investigate a series of murders that have everyone stumped, including his friend and famed Prohibition agent Eliot Ness, now Cleveland’s director of safety. There, in a city caught in the grip of a serial killer, Dani and Malone cross paths once again. Malone is drawn to Dani and her affinity for the dead and compassion for the destitute. It doesn’t take long for him to realize that she could help him solve his case. As terror descends on the city and Malone and Dani confront the dark secrets that draw them together, it’s a race to find the killer or risk becoming his next victims.

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Title: The Homecoming

Author: Anna Enquist

Narrator: Clare Corbett

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 12 hours 19 minutes

Release date: April 1, 2022

Genres: Historical

Publisher's Summary:

An internationally bestselling, award-winning novel peering deep into the passions, losses, and reveries of the wife of eighteenth-century explorer Captain James Cook. After twelve years of marriage to English explorer James Cook, Elizabeth has yet to spend an entire year with her husband. In their house by the Thames, she moves to the rhythms of her life as a society wife, but there is so much more to her than meets the eye. She has the fortitude to manage the house and garden, raise their children, and face unbearable sorrow by herself—in fact, she is sometimes in thrall to her own independence. As she prepares for another homecoming, Elizabeth looks forward to James’s triumphant return and the work she will undertake reading and editing his voluminous journals. But will the private life she’s been leading in his absence distract her from her role in aid of her husband’s grand ambitions? Can James find the compassion to support her as their family faces unimaginable loss, or must she endure life alone as he sails off toward another adventure? An intimate and sharply observed novel, The Homecoming is as revelatory as James Cook’s exploration of distant frontiers and as richly rewarding as Elizabeth’s love for her family. With courage and strength, through recollection and imagination, author Anna Enquist brilliantly narrates Elizabeth’s compelling record of her life, painting a psychological portrait of an independent woman ahead of her time and closely acquainted with history.