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    About Love

    From their pens to your ears, genius in every story

    by Anton Chekhov ...
    Narrated by Mark Rice-Oxley ...

    Unabridged

    25 min

    Anton Pavlovich Chekhov was born on 29th January 1860 in Taganrog, on the south coast of Russia.His family life was difficult; his father was strict and over-bearing but his mother was a passionate story-teller, a subject Chekhov warmed to. As he later said; ‘our talents we got from our father, but our soul from our mother’.At school Chekhov was distinctly average. At 16 his father mis-managed his ... Read more

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    Kit Bag, The

    One of the earliest examples of serial killer fiction

    Narrated by Mark Rice-Oxley ...

    Unabridged

    28 min

    Algernon Blackwood was born on 14th March 1869 in Shooter’s Hill, South East London, to a religious middle-class family. His mother was a widowed Duchess and his father was a Post Office administrator.Blackwood was interested in the paranormal and the supernatural at an early age, and had a thirst for anything on Buddhism, other Oriental philosophies, mysticism and occultism. In his writings the ... Read more

    $4.99 USD 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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    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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  • 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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  • 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

    $21.99 USD

  • 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

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  • 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

    $22.99 USD

  • 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

    $2.99 USD

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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

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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

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    Cheating the Gallows

    Truly gripping tale of disguises, heists, betrayal and love

    Narrated by Mark Rice-Oxley ...

    Unabridged

    34 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

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus