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The Tale of Triona
Read by Simon Evers
William John Locke
Olivia is a newly orphaned young woman looking for adventure and excitement. She rents out her house to Blaise Olifant whose friend Alexis T…
Marriage à la Mode
Read by Simon Evers
Mary Augusta Ward
While travelling in the USA, Roger Barnes, a handsome Englishman, meets and falls in love with Daphne Floyd, a rich and determined American.…
The White Dove
Read by Simon Evers
William John Locke
Sylvester Lanyon, a doctor, is mourning the early death of his wife. His young daughter Dorothy is living with his father, Matthew, also a w…
Loner In Space
Read by Steve Simons
Steve Simons
This book was written originally for children, but the adults in Steve's test audience also enjoyed it.
The book tells the story of a bo…
An Amiable Charlatan
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
E. Phillips Oppenheim
An Englishman is enjoying his dinner at Stephano's, at which he is a regular diner. A man enters quickly, sits at his table, starts eating h…
Leonora
Read by Simon Evers
Arnold Bennett
Leonora Stanway is 40 and lives a comfortable middle-class life with her unsympathetic and dull husband, John. Her three daughters are rapid…
A Study in Shadows
Read by Simon Evers
William John Locke
Among the mixture of people spending the summer in a pension (boarding house) in Geneva are Felicia, a 20-year-old, and Katherine (30) who b…
Patricia Brent, spinster
Read by Anna Simon
Herbert George Jenkins
A romantic comedy, written in 1918, but with a modern feel to it. Patricia Brent one day overhears two fellow-boarders pitying her because s…
The Pickwick Papers (Version 2)
Read by Debra Lynn
Charles Dickens
A sportsman who doesn't hunt; a poet who doesn't write; a lover with no one to love; all three are devoted to their cheerful and benevolent …
The Green Mirror
Read by Simon Evers
Hugh Walpole
Three generations of the Trenchard family, ruled over by the indomitable Mrs Trenchard, live together in comfortable domesticity until Kathe…
Lady Anna
Read by Simon Evers
Anthony Trollope
When it appeared in 1874, Lady Anna met with little success, and positively outraged the conservative - `This is the sort of thing the readi…
The Beloved Vagabond
Read by Simon Evers
William John Locke
The vagabond, Paragot, a truly eccentric bohemian and a wandering scholar with a mysterious past, adopts a London street urchin (whom he cal…
The Pupil
Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)
Henry James
Pemberton, a young American with an Oxford education and out of money, takes a job tutoring Morgan Moreen, the 12-year old son of an America…
The Gateway
Read by Steve Simons
Steve Simons
This book was written for children, it was originally serialised on the podcast show KidsCastSciFi. It follows the adventures of two boys wh…
The Empty Sack
Read by Simon Evers
Basil King
The book follows the fortunes of Jennie Follett, a New York artist’s model, and Teddy, her brother. After their father’s dismissal from his …
The Patrician
Read by Simon Evers
John Galsworthy
The book revolves around the story of two love affairs. Miltoun (an aspiring politician) proposes to Mrs Audrey Noel, only to find that she …
The Island Pharisees
Read by Simon Evers
John Galsworthy
Richard Shelton is wrestling with his conscience. As a member of the upper class at a time when the British Empire is at its height, he sees…
Stella Maris
Read by Simon Evers
William John Locke
Stellamaris is a young paralysed girl who is confined to a bed in the Channel House overlooking the English Channel. She is cared for by her…
The Hand of Ethelberta
Read by Simon Evers
Thomas Hardy
Ethelberta was raised in humble circumstances but became a governess and consequently, at the age of 18, married well. However, her husband …
The Saint The Problem Of The Peculiar Payofff
Korean war news bulletin. Simon find himself being accused of being a blackmailer by a swindler who's being swindled.