Language audiobooks

Through the Looking-Glass

By: Lewis Carroll & Jennifer Bassett

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 1 hour 56 minutes

Abridged: No

'I wish I could get through into looking-glass house,' Alice said. 'Let's pretend that the glass has gone soft and ...Why, I do believe it has! It's turning into a kind of cloud!' A moment later Alice is inside the looking-glass world. There she finds herself part of a great game of chess, travelling through forests and jumping across brooks.... Read more

The Children of the New Forest

By: Rowena Akinyemi & Captain Marryat

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 1 hour 4 minutes

Abridged: No

England in 1647: King Charles is in prison, and Cromwell's men are fighting the King's men. These are dangerous times for everybody. The four Beverley children have no parents; their mother is dead and their father died while fighting for the King. Now Cromwell's soldiers have come to burn the house - with the children in it. The four of them... Read more

Love Among the Haystacks

By: D. H. Lawrence & Jennifer Bassett

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 1 hour 8 minutes

Abridged: No

It is hay-making time on the Wookey farm. Two brothers are building the haystack, but thinking about other things - about young women, and love. There are angry words, and then a fight between the brothers. But the work goes on, visitors come and go, and the long hot summer day slowly turns to evening. Then the sun goes down, covering the world... Read more

Sense and Sensibility

By: Jane Austen & Clare West

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 2 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Sometimes the Dashwood girls do not seem like sisters. Elinor is all calmness and reason, and can be relied upon for practical, common sense opinions. Marianne, on the other hand, is all sensibility, full of passionate and romantic feeling. She has no time for dull common sense - or for middle-aged men of thirty-five, long past the age of... Read more

Great Expectations

By: Charles Dickens & Clare West

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 2 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

In a gloomy, neglected house Miss Havisham sits, as she has sat year after year, in a wedding dress and veil that were once white, and are now faded and yellow with age. Her face is like a death's head; her dark eyes burn with bitterness and hate. By her side sits a proud and beautiful girl, and in front of her, trembling with fear in his thick... Read more

Barchester Towers

By: Anthony Trollope & Clare West

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 3 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Mrs Proudie, the warlike wife of the new Bishop of Barchester, brings the Reverend Slope into the Bishop's Palace to help dominate her husband and rule the local clergy. But Slope is a snake in the grass, determined to find a rich wife, to win advancement for himself, even to fight Mrs Proudie if necessary. Their battle becomes a furious dance,... Read more

Stories from the Five Towns

By: Arnold Bennett & Nick Bullard

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Arnold Bennett is famous for his stories about the Five Towns and the people who live there. They look and sound just like other people, and, like all of us, sometimes they do some very strange things. There's Sir Jee, who is a rich businessman. So why is he making a plan with a burglar? Then there is Toby Hall. Why does he decide to visit... Read more

Tess of the d'Urbervilles

By: Thomas Hardy & Clare West

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 3 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

A pretty young girl has to leave home to make money for her family. She is clever and a good worker; but she is uneducated and does not know the cruel ways of the world. So, when a rich young man says he loves her, she is careful - but not careful enough. He is persuasive, and she is overwhelmed. It is not her fault, but the world says it is.... Read more

Washington Square

By: Henry James & Kieran McGovern

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 2 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

When a handsome young man begins to court Catherine Sloper, she feels she is very lucky. She is a quiet, gentle girl, but neither beautiful nor clever; no one had ever admired her before, or come to the front parlour of her home in Washington Square to whisper soft words of love to her. But in New York in the 1840s young ladies are not free to... Read more

Tales from Longpuddle

By: Thomas Hardy & Jennifer Bassett

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 1 hour 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Tony Kytes is a favorite with the girls but he's not terribly clever. If you meet an old girlfriend and she asks for a ride home in your wagon, do you say yes? And then if you meet the girl you are planning to marry, what do you do? Very soon, Tony is in a great muddle, and does not know how to escape from it. These stories are set in an English... Read more

The Year of Sharing

By: Harry Gilbert

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 1 hour 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Richard is bored with the quiet life of his village. He would like to have a motor-car and drive it ...very fast. But Richard lives in a future world where there are no cars, only bicycles and small villages and green forests. And now he is twelve years old, and like the other children, he must do his Year of Sharing. He must live alone in the... Read more

Lorna Doone

By: R. D. Blackmore & David Penn

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 2 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

One winter's day in 1673 young John Ridd is riding home from school, across the wild lonely hills of Exmoor. He has to pass Doone valley - a dangerous place, as the Doones are famous robbers and murderers. All Exmoor lives in fear of the Doones. At home there is sad news waiting for young John, and he learns that he has good reason to hate the... Read more

Kidnapped

By: Robert Louis Stevenson & Clare West

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 1 hour 38 minutes

Abridged: No

'I ran to the side of the ship. "Help, help! Murder!" I screamed, and my uncle slowly turned to look at me. I did not see any more. Already strong hands were pulling me away. Then something hit my head; I saw a great flash of fire, and fell to the ground ...' And so begin David Balfour's adventures. He is kidnapped, taken to sea, and meets many... Read more

Ear-rings from Frankfurt

By: Reg Wright

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 1 hour

Abridged: No

Richard Walton is in trouble again. He has lost his job, and he has borrowed money from his sister, Jennifer - again. And now he has disappeared. Jennifer is looking for him, and so are the police. They both have some questions that they want to ask him. How did he lose his job? Why did he fly to Frankfurt? Who gave his girlfriend those very... Read more

The Murders in the Rue Morgue

By: Edgar Allan Poe

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 1 hour 6 minutes

Abridged: No

The room was on the fourth floor, and the door was locked - with the key on the inside. The windows were closed and fastened - on the inside. The chimney was too narrow for a cat to get through. So how did the murderer escape? And whose were the two angry voices heard by the neighbours as they ran up the stairs? Nobody in Paris could find any... Read more

Pride and Prejudice

By: Jane Austen & Clare West

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 3 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

'The moment I first met you, I noticed your pride, your sense of superiority, and your selfish disdain for the feelings of others. You are the last man in the world whom I could ever be persuaded to marry,' said Elizabeth Bennet. And so Elizabeth rejects the proud Mr Darcy. Can nothing overcome her prejudice against him? And what of the other... Read more

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

By: Lewis Carroll & Jennifer Bassett

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 1 hour 5 minutes

Abridged: No

There, on top of the mushroom, was a large caterpillar, smoking a pipe. After a while the Caterpillar took the pipe out of its mouth and said to Alice in a slow, sleepy voice, 'Who are you?' What strange things happen when Alice falls down the rabbit-hole and into Wonderland! She has conversations with the Caterpillar and the Cheshire Cat, goes... Read more

The Mystery of Allegra

By: Peter Foreman

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 1 hour 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Allegra is an unusual name. It means 'happy' in Italian, but the little girl in this story is sometimes very sad. She is only five years old, but she tells Adrian, her new friend, that she is going to die soon. How does she know? And who is the other Allegra? The girl in a long white nightdress, who has golden hair and big blue eyes. The girl... Read more

Agatha Christie, Woman of Mystery

By: John Escott

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 1 hour

Abridged: No

What does the name 'Agatha Christie' mean? To many people, it means a book about a murder mystery - a 'whodunnit'. 'I'm reading an Agatha Christie,' people say. 'I'm not sure who the murderer is - I think it's ...' But they are usually wrong, because it is not easy to guess the murderer's name before the end of the book. But who was Agatha... Read more

Red Roses

By: Christine Lindop

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 20 minutes

Abridged: No

'Who is the man with the roses in his hand?' thinks Anna. 'I want to meet him.' 'Who is the girl with the guitar?' thinks Will. 'I like her. I want to meet her.' But they do not meet. 'There are lots of men!' says Anna's friend Vicki, but Anna cannot forget Will. And then one rainy day ... Read more

Five Children and it

By: Edith Nesbit & Diane Mowat

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 55 minutes

Abridged: No

When the children dug a hole in the gravel-pit, they were very surprised at what they found. 'It' was a Psammead, a sand-fairy, thousands of years old. It was a strange little thing - fat and furry, and with eyes on long stalks. It was often very cross and unfriendly, but it could give wishes - one wish a day. 'How wonderful!' the children said.... Read more

The Pit and the Pendulum and Other Stories

By: Edgar Allan Poe & John Escott

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 1 hour 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Everybody has bad dreams. Horrible things move towards you in the dark, things you can hear but not see. Then you wake up, in your own warm bed, and turn over to go back to sleep. But imagine that you wake up on a hard floor, in a darkness blacker than the blackest night. You listen to the silence, and smell a wet dead smell. Death is all around... Read more

One Thousand Dollars and Other Plays

By: O. Henry & John Escott

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Money or love? Which is more important in life? Can money buy anything? Can it help a young man to marry the girl he loves? Does money really make people happy, or does it just cause problems? These four plays about money, love, and life are adapted from short stories written a hundred years ago by the great American storyteller O. Henry. Henry... Read more

Grace Darling

By: Tim Vicary

Narrated by: Multiple Narrators

Length: 1 hour 7 minutes

Abridged: No

All they could hear was the wind, and the waves crashing on to the rocks. All they could see was the night. They could not see the ship, broken in two. They could not see the people holding on to the dark wet rock, slowly dying of cold. And they could not hear the cries for help - only the wind. How could they save the people on the rock? Was... Read more