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Short Stories About Mad Scientists

In search of a better world, power can corrupt even the smartest of us

by H P Lovecraft, Jack London, Ambrose Bierce, Constance Cotterell, Edward Page Mitchell, Emma Vane, L T Meade, Lucy Hamilton Hooper, M R James, Mary Shelley, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Robert Louis Stevenson ...

Narrated by David Shaw-Parker, Christopher Ragland, Garrick Hagon ...

Unabridged

10 hours 27 min

Science has brought us many benefits for our health, our understanding, and our quality of life in all sorts of positive ways. We are all the better for it. But there is also a darker side when science reaches into the shadows. It claims that a fuller knowledge would benefit everyone, it must investigate. But, let’s be honest, some in science have lost their true calling and their ideas and ... Read more

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Science has brought us many benefits for our health, our understanding, and our quality of life in all sorts of positive ways. We are all the better for it. But there is also a darker side when science reaches into the shadows. It claims that a fuller knowledge would benefit everyone, it must investigate. But, let’s be honest, some in science have lost their true calling and their ideas and
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Top 10 Short Stories, The - The 20th Century - The American Women

The top ten Short Stories of the 20th Century written by American women

by Willa Cather, Gertrude Stein, Dorothy Parker, Alice Dunbar Nelson, Ellen Glasgow, Emma Vane, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Martha Gruening, Susan Glaspell, Zona Gale ...

Narrated by Laurel Lefkow, Liza Ross, Kelly Burke ...

Unabridged

6 hours 30 min

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 ... Read more

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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
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Moaning Lily, The

From their pens to your ears, genius in every story

by Emma Vane ...

Narrated by Christopher Ragland ...

Unabridged

25 min

The bookshelves of American 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 Emma Vane. ... Read more

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The bookshelves of American 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 Emma Vane.
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Foundations of Fiction, The - Mad Scientists

Hear the stories that gave birth to the modern genre craze

by Ambrose Bierce, Constance Cotterell, Edgar Allan Poe, Edward Page Mitchell, Emma Vane, H P Lovecraft, Herbert C Ridout, Jack London, L T Meade, Lucy Hamilton Hooper, M R James, Mary Shelley, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Robert Louis Stevenson ...

Narrated by David Shaw-Parker, Christopher Ragland, Robert Maskell ...

Unabridged

11 hours 35 min

In this series we turn the pages of classic short stories to put together the literary building blocks of how a particular genre or theme began, how it built its foundations to become the well-loved and well-worn genre that it is today.Do authors have the same ideas at more or less the same time? Or can they sniff out an opportunity as to which way the tastes of an audience are moving.Success ... Read more

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In this series we turn the pages of classic short stories to put together the literary building blocks of how a particular genre or theme began, how it built its foundations to become the well-loved and well-worn genre that it is today.Do authors have the same ideas at more or less the same time? Or can they sniff out an opportunity as to which way the tastes of an audience are moving.Success
... Read more
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Her Dark Materials - Volume 4

Mary E Penn to Virginia Woolf

by Mary E Penn, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Kate and Hesketh Pritchard, Violet Quirk, Alicia Ramsay, Katherine Rickford, Charlotte Riddell, Gertrude Minnie Robins, Mary Shelley, Dora Sigerson Shorter, Helen Simpson, May Sinclair, Lady Eleanor Smith, Harriet Prescott Spofford, Hesba Stretton, Emma Vane, Clara Venn, Mary Webb, Catherine Wells, Edith Wharton, Ethel Lina White, Mrs Ellen Wood, Virginia Woolf ...

Narrated by Lisa Bowerman, Marie-Pierre, Ghizela Rowe ...

Unabridged

12 hours 14 min

In these more welcome days of equality between the sexes we usually forget that the often cited ‘Gentler Sex’ can have dark and disturbing trains of thought that are more than the equal of their male brethren. Indeed, they can manipulate words in a matter of lines from comforting and loving to dark, foreboding and utterly terrifying. These femme fatales really do create stories that leech vile ... Read more

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In these more welcome days of equality between the sexes we usually forget that the often cited ‘Gentler Sex’ can have dark and disturbing trains of thought that are more than the equal of their male brethren. Indeed, they can manipulate words in a matter of lines from comforting and loving to dark, foreboding and utterly terrifying. These femme fatales really do create stories that leech vile
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Stories From The Shadows - Volume 10

Embrace the darkness

by Hesba Stretton, Ernest R Stuffing, E G Swain, William Makepeace Thackeray, Leo Tolstoy, Mark Twain, Allen Upward, Emma Vane, Clara Venn, Edgar Wallace, Hugh Walpole, Mary Webb, Catherine Wells, H G Wells, Edith Wharton, Ethel Lina White, Oscar Wilde, W J Wintle, Mrs Ellen Wood, Virginia Woolf, Israel Zangwill ...

Narrated by Richard Mitchley, Mark Rice-Oxley, David Shaw-Parker ...

Unabridged

11 hours 30 min

An author’s talents may seem obvious and indisputable as they move words and ideas into gathered phrases and stories.But where do these ideas and stories come from? A lonely thought that suddenly gathers form? An inspiration from a Muse? A suggestion from an everyday event?Perhaps in the case of their darker, more malevolent stories, other forces are at work. They help to nourish single words into ... Read more

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An author’s talents may seem obvious and indisputable as they move words and ideas into gathered phrases and stories.But where do these ideas and stories come from? A lonely thought that suddenly gathers form? An inspiration from a Muse? A suggestion from an everyday event?Perhaps in the case of their darker, more malevolent stories, other forces are at work. They help to nourish single words into
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The Guernsey Girls

A heartwarming historical novel from the bestselling author of The Jam Factory Girls

by Mary Wood ...

Narrated by Emma Vane ...

Series series The Guernsey Girls
Unabridged

9 hours 38 min

**Friendship is found far from home. Set in the years before WW2 and travelling from London to the island of Guernsey, The Guernsey Girls is the first in a touching series from Mary Wood, author of The Jam Factory Girls.'Wood is a born storyteller' – Lancashire Evening PostJanuary 1936.** After the hard work of being a maid at Wallington Manor in the lead-up to Christmas, Annie is thrilled at the ... Read more

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**Friendship is found far from home. Set in the years before WW2 and travelling from London to the island of Guernsey, The Guernsey Girls is the first in a touching series from Mary Wood, author of The Jam Factory Girls.'Wood is a born storyteller' – Lancashire Evening PostJanuary 1936.** After the hard work of being a maid at Wallington Manor in the lead-up to Christmas, Annie is thrilled at the
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The Guernsey Girls Find Peace

The Final Heartbreaking Instalment of the Wartime Trilogy

by Mary Wood ...

Narrated by Emma Vane ...

Series series The Guernsey Girls
Unabridged

9 hours 51 min

**The final heartbreaking instalment of The Guernsey Girls wartime trilogy by Mary Wood, bestselling author of The Orphanage Girls series.Their dreams are worth fighting for . . .**Winter, 1941. Olivia’s life in Guernsey is uprooted by the Nazi occupation. Forced to flee in the dead of night, she escapes to London’s East End. As she steps foot in Bethnal Green, Olivia’s former life is there to ... Read more

$20.99 USD

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**The final heartbreaking instalment of The Guernsey Girls wartime trilogy by Mary Wood, bestselling author of The Orphanage Girls series.Their dreams are worth fighting for . . .**Winter, 1941. Olivia’s life in Guernsey is uprooted by the Nazi occupation. Forced to flee in the dead of night, she escapes to London’s East End. As she steps foot in Bethnal Green, Olivia’s former life is there to
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The Guernsey Girls Go to War

by Mary Wood ...

Narrated by Emma Vane ...

Series series The Guernsey Girls
Unabridged

10 hours 1 min

**From Mary Wood, bestselling author of The Jam Factory Girls, comes the second heartfelt installment in The Guernsey Girls trilogy.War separates them, but it cannot dampen their spirits . . .Spring, 1940.** Annie’s new husband Ricky leaves to fight, but she soon discovers battles brewing closer to home. As her sister Janey begins to unravel, only Annie can pick up the pieces – and, with London’s ... Read more

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**From Mary Wood, bestselling author of The Jam Factory Girls, comes the second heartfelt installment in The Guernsey Girls trilogy.War separates them, but it cannot dampen their spirits . . .Spring, 1940.** Annie’s new husband Ricky leaves to fight, but she soon discovers battles brewing closer to home. As her sister Janey begins to unravel, only Annie can pick up the pieces – and, with London’s
... Read more

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Wartime on Sanctuary Lane

The first novel in a brand new WWI saga series

by Kirsty Dougal ...

Narrated by Gemma Lawrence ...

Unabridged

10 hours 37 min

Brought to you by Penguin.As the Great War rages across Europe, twenty-one year old Ruby Archer decides to ‘do her bit’ at an East End munitions factory. The work is relentless and deafening, but the camaraderie of the other girls carries her through.As the threat of another Zeppelin attack grows by the day, Ruby cannot ignore the abandoned animals scavenging the local streets. She rescues a stray ... Read more

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Brought to you by Penguin.As the Great War rages across Europe, twenty-one year old Ruby Archer decides to ‘do her bit’ at an East End munitions factory. The work is relentless and deafening, but the camaraderie of the other girls carries her through.As the threat of another Zeppelin attack grows by the day, Ruby cannot ignore the abandoned animals scavenging the local streets. She rescues a stray
... Read more

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A Christmas Miracle on Sanctuary Lane

Call the Midwife meets All Creatures Great and Small in this saga series set in a WWI East End Animal Clinic

by Kirsty Dougal ...

Narrated by Gemma Lawrence ...

Unabridged

10 hours 3 min

Brought to you by Penguin.With the Great War raging and Christmas on the horizon, can one woman’s bravery save the day?East London, 1916: The Sanctuary Lane Animal Hospital is proving a huge success. For its founder Ruby Archer, this is a dream come true – and her blossoming romance with a local boy is the icing on the cake.But in wartime things change in the blink of an eye. When a heartbreaking ... Read more

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Brought to you by Penguin.With the Great War raging and Christmas on the horizon, can one woman’s bravery save the day?East London, 1916: The Sanctuary Lane Animal Hospital is proving a huge success. For its founder Ruby Archer, this is a dream come true – and her blossoming romance with a local boy is the icing on the cake.But in wartime things change in the blink of an eye. When a heartbreaking
... Read more

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A New Chapter at the Little Penguin Bookshop

A heartwarming and uplifting World War Two novel about community, friendship and books

by Joanna Toye ...

Narrated by Katy Sobey ...

Unabridged

8 hours 29 min

**Brought to you by Penguin.New stories are being written at The Little Penguin Bookshop…**Carrie Anderson’s business selling books at her local train station is thriving and, with her beloved Mike returned from war, everything feels as though it is falling into place. That is, until Mike is sent to Washington as a liaison between Britain and America.When her twin brother, Johnnie, a fighter pilot ... Read more

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**Brought to you by Penguin.New stories are being written at The Little Penguin Bookshop…**Carrie Anderson’s business selling books at her local train station is thriving and, with her beloved Mike returned from war, everything feels as though it is falling into place. That is, until Mike is sent to Washington as a liaison between Britain and America.When her twin brother, Johnnie, a fighter pilot
... Read more

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