Short Stories audiobooks

BBC National Short Story Award 2011

By: Various

Narrated by: Indira Varma, Lydia Wilson, Mike Sengelow, Tim ...

Length: 2 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

The five shortlisted titles for the BBC National Short Story Award 2011 administered in partnership with Booktrust, containing: ‘Rag Love’ by M. J. Hyland, read by Mike Sengelow; ‘The Heart of Denis Noble’ by Alison MacLeod, read by Tim Pigott-Smith; ‘Wires’ by Jon McGregor, read by Lydia Wilson; ‘The Human Circadian Pacemaker’ by K. J. Orr,... Read more

Horrid Henry and the Zombie Vampire

By: Francesca Simon

Narrated by: Miranda Richardson

Length: 1 hour 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Four new stories in which Horrid Henry terrorizes his classmates at a school sleepover in the museum; plays with Perfect Peter and tricks him into handing over all his money; gets out of writing his own story for
Miss Battle-Axe by adapting one of Peter's; and meets the Nudie Foodie, a celebrity chef, who comes to the school to improve school... Read more

Great Classic Stories III

By: various authors

Narrated by: various narrators, Bronson Pinchot, Jennifer Br...

Length: 7 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

A great new collection of classic short fiction, brilliantly read by a selection of narratorsThis recording includes the following stories:- “The Lightening-Rod Man” by Herman Melville- “One of the Missing” by Ambrose Bierce- “The Leopard Man’s Story” by Jack London- “Tennessee’s Partner” by Bret Harte- “The New Catacomb” by Sir Arthur Conan... Read more

Train Dreams and Jesus' Son

By: Denis Johnson

Narrated by: Will Patton

Length: 5 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Here are two complete audiobooks by Denis Johnson, narrated by Will Patton. Listen to both Train Dreams, and Jesus’ Son, as well as an excerpt from Denis Johnson’s National Book Award-winning Tree of Smoke.

In Train Dreams Robert Grainer is a day laborer in the American West at the start of the 20th century—an ordinary man in extraordinary times.... Read more

Joe Ledger: The Missing Files

By: Jonathan Maberry

Narrated by: Ray Porter

Length: 4 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

In this collection of five short stories, Jonathan Maberry fills in the blanks in his action-thriller Joe Ledger novels.CountdownIn this prequel to Patient Zero, meet Joe Ledger, Baltimore PD, attached to a Homeland Security task force … who’s about to get a serious promotion.Zero ToleranceZero Tolerance picks up a few weeks after the close of... Read more

Sherlock Holmes and the King’s Evil

By: Donald Thomas

Narrated by: John Telfer

Length: 9 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Here are five stunning novellas featuring the great detective, by the acknowledged master of Sherlockian pastiche.In these five tales of intellectual derring-do, Sherlock Holmes is shown at the height of his powers. He cooperates with a young Winston Churchill in the famed Siege of Sydney Street, helps defeat a plan for a German invasion... Read more

Laura

By: Hector Hugh Munro

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Laura is dying. She confidently predicts that she will be reincarnated as an otter. When the day before her funeral, a she-otter goes on the rampage in her arch nemesis Egbert's chicken run and flower beds, Amanda feels this is far too much of a coincidence. Egbert decides to call in the otter hounds. But even Amanda cannot foresee what happens... Read more

The She-Wolf

By: Hector Hugh Munro

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 17 minutes

Abridged: No

When Mary Hampton challenges Leonard Bilsiter to deploy his self-proclaimed Siberian magic powers to transform her into a she-wolf, nobody reckons with Clovis's cunning. Mrs. Hampton's disappearance in an Azalea bush and the coincidental appearance of a female wolf in exactly the same part of the conservatory during coffee causes considerable... Read more

Supernatural Horror Stories

By: Edith Nesbit

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 5 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Edith Nesbit is best known as the author of children's classics, such as The Railway Children. She was also a renowned author of ghost stories and othertales of terror, the macabre and the supernatural. In this collection of spine-chilling narratives, Nesbit presents us with a truly masterful set of tales of love which reaches out beyond the... Read more

Nate the Great Collected Stories: Volume 3

By: Marjorie Weinman Sharmat & Mitchell Sharmat

Narrated by: John Lavelle

Length: 3 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

New on CD is the third collection of classic stories from Nate the Great and his trusty companion Sludge.

Lost List
When Nate’s friend Claude’s grocery list is lost, Nate sets out to find it before lunch.

Sticky Case
A stegosaurus stamp belonging to Nate’s friend Claude disappears, and the indomitable Nate the Great is called in on the case.

Fishy... Read more

The Lady or the Tiger?

By: Frank R. Stockton

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 21 minutes

Abridged: No

"The Lady Or The Tiger?" is Frank R. Stockton's most famous work, first published in 1882. The semi-barbaric ruler of an ancient kingdom has devised an unusual method of justice. Offenders are placed in the arena of an amphitheatre where they must choose between two doors. Behind one is a hungry tiger and behind the other a beautiful woman whom... Read more

Reasons for and Advantages of Breathing

By: Lydia Peelle

Narrated by: Suzanne Toren, Scott Sowers, Tom Stechschulte &...

Length: 38 minutes

Abridged: No

The compelling short stories of Lydia Peelle have earned her two Pushcart Prizes, an O. Henry Award, and publication in Best New American Voices. This debut collection brings together eight superbly crafted stories that peer deeply into the human heart, exploring lives derailed by the loss of a vital connection to the land and to the natural... Read more

How We Are Hungry

By: Dave Eggers

Narrated by: Dion Graham

Length: 6 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

A Pulitzer Prize finalist and winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, New York Times best-selling author Dave Eggers is the voice of a generation. This stunning collection of his matchless short fiction includes the highly acclaimed "The Only Meaning of Oil-Wet Water." "Eggers imagines emotionally and symbolically resonant scenes as... Read more

How to Escape from a Leper Colony

By: Tiphanie Yanique

Narrated by: Robin Miles, Andrew Garman & Dion Graham

Length: 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Like Gabriel GarcIa MArquez, Edwidge Danticat, and Maryse CondE before her, Tiphanie Yanique has crafted a debut collection that is heartbreaking, hilarious, and mesmerizing. Set mostly in the U.S. Virgin Islands, these lyrical and haunting stories are part oral history, part postcolonial narrative-but ultimately a loving portrait of a wholly... Read more

Sleep Toward Heaven

By: Amanda Eyre Ward

Narrated by: Carol Monda & Susan Bennett

Length: 7 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Amanda Eyre Ward’s debut novel is an intimate portrait of three women whose lives collide during a brutalTexas summer.In Gatestown, Texas, twenty-nine-year-old Karen Lowens awaits her execution with a host of convicted serialkillers on death row. In Manhattan, Dr. Franny Wren, also twenty-nine, tends to a young cancer patient, and resiststhe... Read more

Mord und Seeluft - Abridged

By: Klaus-Peter Wolf

Narrated by: Stefan Kaminski, Paul Kindermann, Claudia Miche...

Length: 3 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Bestsellerautor Klaus-Peter Wolf zeigt sich in seinen Kurz-Krimis auch als Meister der Kurzgeschichten. Erzählt wird von unheilvollen Vorahnungen, tödlicher Eifersucht und Mördern, die glauben, ihnen käme nie jemand auf die Schliche. So erlebt mancher eine böse Überraschung und die Zuhörer werden von hochkarätigen Sprechern wie Stefan Kaminski,... Read more

The Devoted Friend

By: Oscar Wilde

Narrated by: B.J. Harrison

Length: 27 minutes

Abridged: No

How far are you willing to go to secure your friend’s good opinion? Little Hans gives freely of all he possesses, in order that the miller will esteem him as a true friend. The miller even promises to give little Hans his wheelbarrow. Hans’ gratitude is never-ending, and he learns too late what it sometimes means to be a devoted friend. Read more

Between the Thames and the Tiber

By: Ted Riccardi

Narrated by: Simon Prebble

Length: 9 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson traverse the British Isles and the Italian peninsula in a rousing new series of adventures. After a thrilling jaunt in the Far East, Holmes and Watson return to England to address an inheritance left by one of Watson's relatives in Cornwall, half of which he gave to his dear friend, Sherlock Holmes. Financially... Read more

Tortall and Other Lands: A Collection of Tales

By: Tamora Pierce

Narrated by: Various

Length: 11 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Collected here for the first time are all of the tales from the land of Tortall, featuring both previously unknown characters as well as old friends. Filling some gaps of time and interest, these stories, some of which have been published before, will lead Tammy's fans, and new readers into one of the most intricately constructed worlds of... Read more

The Offshore Pirate

By: F. Scott Fitzgerald

Narrated by: B.J. Harrison

Length: 1 hour 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Ardita Farnam, flapper and demimondaine, has a feisty will and a fiery tongue. But when 7 hulking musicians seize her yacht while her rich uncle goes ashore, she soon discovers the limits of her persuasive powers, and a battle of wits begins. Read more

The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye

By: A.S. Byatt

Narrated by: Virginia Leishman

Length: 6 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Glowing with narrator Virginia Leishman's finely tuned phrasing, The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye is the perfect introduction to A.S. Byatt, an author who continues to receive international awards and acclaim. Her wondrous fairy tales are iridescent stories full of spells, marvelous creatures, and beautiful princesses. The title tale focuses... Read more

The James Thurber Audio Collection

By: James Thurber

Narrated by: Keith Olbermann

Length: 3 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Collected fables and short stories from literary legend and iconic American humorist James Thurber, performed by Keith Olbermann""James Thurber was a comedic genius. His fables are not simply parodies of Aesop. They are wry, accurate, and powerful reflections of ourselves, our foibles, our follies, and, above all, our self-importance. And they... Read more

Drei Mann in einem Boot, Episode 8

By: Katrin Wiegand

Narrated by: Oliver Rohrbeck, Jens Wawrczeck & Andreas Fröhlich

Length: 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Episode 8: Ausgebootet? Eine nahrhafte Mahlzeit wird aufwendig zubereitet, und der schöne Abend lädt zu einem Stadtbummel ein. Die drei Herren trennen sich kurzzeitig und finden fast nicht wieder zueinander. Diese Hörspielfassung wurde von Katrin Wiegand - bekannt von der Ferienbande - geschrieben und ist durch den gleichnamigen Roman von Jerome... Read more

Drei Mann in einem Boot, Episode 2

By: Katrin Wiegand

Narrated by: Oliver Rohrbeck, Jens Wawrczeck & Andreas Fröhlich

Length: 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Die Vorbereitungen werden getroffen. Die drei Herren haben allerlei zu planen, besorgen und packen. Und stoßen auf unerwartete Schwierigkeiten. Diese Hörspielfassung wurde von Katrin Wiegand - bekannt von der Ferienbande - geschrieben und ist durch den gleichnamigen Roman von Jerome K. Jerome inspiriert. Read more