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The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne

Read by Simon Evers


William John Locke


Marcus Ordeyne is a middle aged bachelor schoolmaster who has inherited both money and a title and thus is able to lead a life of leisure. O…

Helen with the High Hand

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Arnold Bennett


James Ollerenshaw is a middle-aged, wealthy bachelor who lives in Bursley, one of the Five Towns. A chance encounter with Helen, his great s…

Saint's Progress

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John Galsworthy


Edward Pierson is the widowed vicar of a London church. He has two daughters, Eve and Noel, who is 17. In essence, the novel follows the bat…

Septimus

Read by Simon Evers


William John Locke


The book concerns the tangled lives of four people: Zora, a young widow who seeks some purpose in her life; Septimus Dix, an other-wordly bu…

The Gambler (version 2)

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Katherine Cecil Thurston


The book follows the life of Clodagh Asshlin, an Irish girl brought up with her younger sister by her spendthrift father in the wilds of the…

Sacred and Profane Love

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Arnold Bennett


Carlotta Peel is an unusual young woman – clever, self-opinionated, a brilliant author and yearning to love and be loved but also to serve h…

The Wonderful Year

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William John Locke


Martin Overshaw and Corinna Hastings are leading dull and unproductive lives in Paris, having fled humdrum England. They fall in with Fortin…

The Courtship of Susan Bell

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Anthony Trollope


Susan lives with her overbearing sister in a boarding house in Saratoga Springs run by their timid mother. A knock on the door brings an une…

The Thread of Flame

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Basil King


Edward wakes up on board a ship crossing the Atlantic, on his return from the Great War – however, he finds that his memory of who he is and…

Robert Elsmere

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Mary Augusta Ward


Essentially the book covers the life of Robert Elsmere, a boyishly intellectual clergyman. The first part covers his meeting with and eventu…

Huntingtower

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John Buchan


Dickson McCunn, a respectable, newly retired grocer, plans a walking holiday in the hills of south-west Scotland. He meets a young English p…

The Awkward Age

Read by Anna Simon


Henry James


Nanda Brookenham is coming of age, and thus 'coming out' in London society - which leads to complications in her family's social set in Lond…

Andrew the Glad (Dramatic Reading)

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Maria Thompson Daviess


"There are some women who will brew mystery from the decoction of even a very simple life. Matilda is one of them, remarked the major t…

Clayhanger (Version 2)

Read by Simon Evers


Arnold Bennett


A coming-of-age story about Edwin Clayhanger, who leaves school, has his ambition to become an architect thwarted by his tyrannical father, …

Buried Alive

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Arnold Bennett


The hero is Mr Priam Farll, a painter of considerable ability. He is, however, extremely shy – so shy that when his valet, Henry Leek, dies …

George Eliot

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Catherine Brown


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The Masquerader (Version 2)

Read by Simon Evers


Katherine Cecil Thurston


In the London fog, two men bump into each other one night. They are immediately unnerved by their exact resemblance to each other. Jack Chil…

The Ghost: A Modern Fantasy

Read by Simon Evers


Arnold Bennett


The novel opens with Carl Foster, a recently qualified doctor, coming to London to try and make his fortune. He meets a famous tenor, Signor…

The Saint 51 01 14 Simon Takes A Curtain Call



An actor friend of Simon's has come to believe someone's life may be in danger and seeks Simon's help.

A Man from the North

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Arnold Bennett


Richard Larch, a young man from the north of England, arrives in London to seek his fortune. By day he works as a clerk in an office but has…

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