Classic Audiobook Collection

A Columbus of Space by Garrett P. Serviss audiobook. Genre: scifi Edmund Stonewall is a quiet, brilliant eccentric whose true obsession is not wealth or fame, but the outer limits of human possibility. When he finally invites a few friends from his New York club circle - including the bold, joking Jack Ashton and the sharper-edged Henry Darton - into his private workshop, he unveils an astonishing vehicle: a compact air-and-space car driven by controlled inter-atomic power. What begins as a demonstration turns into an irrevocable voyage beyond Earth, as Stonewall and his companions are carried toward Venus with no clear map, no rescue, and only Stonewall's nerve and ingenuity to keep them alive. On Venus they find a world divided between burning sunlight and permanent night, with strange landscapes, brutal hazards, and societies shaped by extremes of climate and time. Misunderstandings, rivalries, and the problem of communicating across species and culture quickly become as dangerous as any creature in the shadows. As the travelers struggle to repair their fragile advantage and choose whom to trust, the dream of discovery becomes a test of character: what does it mean to be a 'Columbus of space' when the new world is already inhabited? For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 1 (00:23:28) Chapter 2 (00:46:13) Chapter 3 (01:07:56) Chapter 4 (01:39:12) Chapter 5 (02:01:43) Chapter 6 (02:25:25) Chapter 7 (02:45:23) Chapter 8 (03:09:03) Chapter 9 (03:28:37) Chapter 10 (03:52:19) Chapter 11 (04:11:57) Chapter 12 (04:33:23) Chapter 13 (04:50:41) Chapter 14 (05:08:35) Chapter 15 (05:30:44) Chapter 16 (05:49:12) Chapter 17 (06:12:58) Chapter 18 (06:30:52) Chapter 19 (06:49:28) Chapter 20 (07:08:42) Chapter 21 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Sign of the Broken Sword by G. K. Chesterton audiobook. Genre: mystery In the freezing English countryside, Father Brown leads Flambeau to the many monuments and shrines of the great General St. Claire. 'Sacred to the Memory of General Sir Arthur St. Clare, Hero and Martyr, who Always Vanquished his Enemies and Always Spared Them, and Was Treacherously Slain by Them At Last. May God in Whom he Trusted both Reward and Revenge him.' is the inscription that they read on each of them. Flambeau knows nothing of him but listens to the story of this man as Father Brown tells it. Was St. Claire truly a hero and martyr? What is the mystery behind his last foolish and hopeless charge against an overwhelming enemy? This detective story delves into human psychology for many of the clues to unravel the tangled threads. A fascinating story and said to be one of Chesterton's best Fr. Brown stories. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:23:11) Chapter 02 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

St. Francis of Assisi by G. K. Chesterton audiobook. Genre: biography For Chesterton, Francis of Assisi is a great paradoxical figure, a man who loved women but vowed himself to chastity; an artist who loved the pleasures of the natural world as few have loved them, but vowed himself to the most austere poverty, stripping himself naked in the public square so all could see that he had renounced his worldly goods; a clown who stood on his head in order to see the world aright. Chesterton gives us Francis in his world-the riotously colorful world of the High Middle Ages, a world with more pageantry and romance than we have seen before or since. Here is the Francis who tried to end the Crusades by talking to the Saracens, and who interceded with the emperor on behalf of the birds. Here is the Francis who inspired a revolution in art that began with Giotto and a revolution in poetry that began with Dante. Here is the Francis who prayed and danced with pagan abandon, who talked to animals, who invented the creche. I read this book as a young man and not only did it introduce me to the amazing world of Chesterton, but it was a revelation of how an entire culture could be captured in a slim volume. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:19:12) Chapter 02 (00:55:49) Chapter 03 (01:25:44) Chapter 04 (01:50:46) Chapter 05 (02:23:21) Chapter 06 (02:55:18) Chapter 07 (03:28:11) Chapter 08 (03:59:49) Chapter 09 (04:28:28) Chapter 10 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Heretics by G. K. Chesterton audiobook. Genre: religion The Author Gilbert Keith Chesterton was born in London, England on the 29th of May, 1874. Though he considered himself a mere 'rollicking journalist,' he was actually a prolific and gifted writer in virtually every area of literature. A man of strong opinions and enormously talented at defending them, his exuberant personality nevertheless allowed him to maintain warm friendships with people--such as George Bernard Shaw and H. G. Wells--with whom he vehemently disagreed. Chesterton had no difficulty standing up for what he believed. He was one of the few journalists to oppose the Boer War. His 1922 'Eugenics and Other Evils' attacked what was at that time the most progressive of all ideas, the idea that the human race could and should breed a superior version of itself. In the Nazi experience, history demonstrated the wisdom of his once 'reactionary' views. Chesterton wrote several works of Christian apologetics, the best known of which are 'Orthodoxy', 'Heretics', and 'The Everlasting Man'. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 00 (00:06:25) Chapter 01 (00:26:24) Chapter 02 (00:45:54) Chapter 03 (01:08:42) Chapter 04 (01:29:24) Chapter 05 (02:02:38) Chapter 06 (02:17:27) Chapter 07 (02:32:38) Chapter 08 (02:54:13) Chapter 09 (03:04:34) Chapter 10 (03:15:46) Chapter 11 (03:32:08) Chapter 12 (03:59:03) Chapter 13 (04:10:18) Chapter 14 (04:35:22) Chapter 15 (05:03:42) Chapter 16 (05:30:16) Chapter 17 (05:49:28) Chapter 18 (06:19:17) Chapter 19 (06:45:21) Chapter 20 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Cat of Bubastes by G. A. Henty audiobook. Genre: adventure G.A. Henty’s “tale of ancient Egypt” tells the story of Amuba, prince of the Rebu, who is taken captive when his people are conquered by the Egyptians, and then becomes the servant and companion of Chebron, son of the high priest of Osiris. A mystery unfolds as the lads find evidence of a murderous conspiracy within the ranks of the priesthood; but they must then flee for their lives when they unintentionally kill the cat selected as the successor to the Cat of Bubastes, one of the most sacred animals of Egypt. Amuba and Chebron are strong, courageous, and resourceful – but will this be enough to carry them beyond the long reach of the power of Egypt? For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:32:01) Chapter 02 (01:03:34) Chapter 03 (01:36:41) Chapter 04 (02:09:54) Chapter 05 (02:45:51) Chapter 06 (03:18:22) Chapter 07 (03:53:11) Chapter 08 (04:22:27) Chapter 09 (04:57:09) Chapter 10 (05:32:27) Chapter 11 (06:02:29) Chapter 12 (06:38:02) Chapter 13 (07:10:53) Chapter 14 (07:42:34) Chapter 15 (08:21:58) Chapter 16 (08:56:52) Chapter 17 (09:30:47) Chapter 18 (09:57:03) Chapter 19 (10:29:13) Chapter 20 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky audiobook. Genre: drama In the stifling heat and grinding poverty of St. Petersburg, former student Rodion Raskolnikov is barely surviving - hungry, isolated, and consumed by a private theory that certain extraordinary people can step beyond moral law. When desperation and pride drive him toward a reckless act, he finds that the real punishment is not only legal consequence but the crushing weight of conscience. As he tries to outthink suspicion and justify himself, his world tightens around him: a sharp-minded investigator probes with unsettling patience, friends and family arrive with their own urgent needs, and a young woman named Sonya, marked by suffering and quiet faith, becomes an unexpected mirror to his inner life. Haunted by fear, fever, and a desperate need to be understood, Raskolnikov is forced into a battle between intellect and empathy, arrogance and compassion. Crime and Punishment is a psychological and moral thriller about guilt, responsibility, and the perilous search for meaning in a world that offers little mercy. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 00 (00:05:38) Chapter 01 (00:27:01) Chapter 02 (01:13:58) Chapter 03 (01:47:05) Chapter 04 (02:19:20) Chapter 05 (02:45:11) Chapter 06 (03:16:20) Chapter 07 (03:46:02) Chapter 08 (04:29:13) Chapter 09 (04:55:51) Chapter 10 (05:29:09) Chapter 11 (05:54:33) Chapter 12 (06:22:16) Chapter 13 (07:12:05) Chapter 14 (07:56:46) Chapter 15 (08:32:53) Chapter 16 (09:01:42) Chapter 17 (09:36:20) Chapter 18 (10:04:51) Chapter 19 (10:52:05) Chapter 20 (11:19:47) Chapter 21 (11:50:58) Chapter 22 (12:21:19) Chapter 23 (12:41:47) Chapter 24 (13:23:02) Chapter 25 (14:07:39) Chapter 26 (14:26:34) Chapter 27 (15:06:27) Chapter 28 (15:37:21) Chapter 29 (16:13:33) Chapter 30 (16:57:23) Chapter 31 (17:31:08) Chapter 32 (17:56:10) Chapter 33 (18:32:00) Chapter 34 (18:55:58) Chapter 35 (19:24:05) Chapter 36 (19:59:42) Chapter 37 (20:33:52) Chapter 38 (20:57:14) Chapter 39 (21:23:11) Chapter 40 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Night of the Long Knives by Fritz Leiber audiobook. Genre: fantasy 'I was one hundred miles from Nowhere—and I mean that literally—when I spotted this girl out of the corner of my eye. I'd been keeping an extra lookout because I still expected the other undead bugger left over from the murder party at Nowhere to be stalking me.' In a Post apocalyptic world, the few people left must be strong. And must not hesitate to kill. Of course, killing another Deathlander was one of the chief pleasures and urges of all the solitary wanders in this vast wasteland. Kill and kill again. But this other was a girl and that brought up the second great urge: sex. Which was it to be today? Perhaps both? And who would walk away afterward? For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 1 (00:32:17) Chapter 2 (01:00:01) Chapter 3 (01:34:04) Chapter 4 (02:11:52) Chapter 5 (02:31:56) Chapter 6 (03:01:29) Chapter 7 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Creature from Cleveland Depths by Fritz Leiber audiobook. Genre: scifi In a near-future America where the Cold War has turned catastrophically hot, most citizens have retreated underground into vast, self-contained cities beneath places like Cleveland. Up on the scarred surface live the holdouts: independent-minded eccentrics who refuse the safety-and-control bargain of the depths. Gusterson, a sharp-tongued writer who stays topside with his wife Fay, is one of the last people the underground 'moles' still consult for raw imagination. When an underground research outfit asks for new consumer-tech concepts to keep their buried society efficient and compliant, Gusterson's brainstorm becomes reality: the Tickler, a wearable personal prodding device that does not just remind you of appointments, but nudges your moods, your habits, and your willpower. What begins as a clever productivity tool starts spreading through the subterranean world, linking user to user and quietly rewriting the boundary between helper and master. As humor curdles into dread, Gusterson and Fay find themselves caught between an insulated, gadget-hungry civilization and a creation that seems to be developing its own agenda. Leiber's novella blends satire, paranoia, and prophetic tech anxiety into a compact story about creativity, conformity, and the price of letting machines manage the human mind. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:13:21) Chapter 02 (00:29:17) Chapter 03 (00:45:14) Chapter 04 (01:06:48) Chapter 05 (01:28:54) Chapter 06 (01:35:41) Chapter 07 (01:59:40) Chapter 08 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The 64-Square Madhouse by Fritz Leiber audiobook. Genre: scifi At an international Grand Master chess tournament, a newcomer arrives that does not eat, sleep, or feel nerves: a humming, ozone-scented machine built to play chess at the highest level. Reporter Sandra Lea Grayling has come to cover the event, expecting colorful egos and quiet battles across the board. Instead, she finds herself at the center of a contest that feels like a preview of the future. As the machine is paired against celebrated human masters, Sandra learns the brutal etiquette of tournament play, the private superstitions and rivalries of the competitors, and the subtle psychological warfare that can matter as much as any opening book. The machine calculates with relentless speed, yet it is not invincible, and each game raises unsettling questions: What, exactly, is genius - inspiration, experience, intuition, or raw computation? And what happens when a thinking tool begins to change under pressure, adapting to the tricks and feints of the people who want to prove it can never truly understand? Fritz Leiber turns the 64 squares into a tense arena where pride, obsession, and technology collide. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:21:21) Chapter 02 (00:38:48) Chapter 03 (01:01:51) Chapter 04 (01:20:15) Chapter 05 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

No Great Magic by Fritz Leiber audiobook. Genre: scifi Greta has nowhere to go and no past she can remember. Agoraphobic, amnesiac, and living like a backstage orphan, she has been taken in by a scrappy Shakespeare repertory troupe that performs in Central Park. From the safety of the dressing room and its wonderland of costumes and props, she stitches hems, fetches wigs, and watches strong personalities collide - especially Sid Lessingham, a grandstanding actor-manager with a taste for theatrical experiments, and Iris Nefer, a chillingly intense leading lady who can become Elizabeth I in a heartbeat. But on a night when Macbeth is scheduled and Queen Elizabeth appears anyway, Greta begins to suspect that the companies anachronisms are not just artistic liberties. The costumery seems to reach across centuries, the curtain itself feels less like cloth and more like a boundary, and the troupe's strange mix of accents, habits, and secrets hints at a larger game. As reality and performance blur, Greta is drawn toward a hidden conflict in which art can sway crowds - and the right scene, played at the right moment, might tilt history itself. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 1 (00:23:32) Chapter 2 (00:42:56) Chapter 3 (00:59:59) Chapter 4 (01:11:29) Chapter 5 (01:21:51) Chapter 6 (01:32:05) Chapter 7 (01:40:24) Chapter 8 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Nice Girl With 5 Husbands by Fritz Leiber audiobook. Genre: scifi Tom Dorset arrives at a secluded artists' retreat in the desert hoping the quiet will cure his creative drought. Instead, he meets Lois Wolver, a bright, disarming young woman who casually introduces a complication that stops Tom cold: she has five husbands. Before Tom can decide whether he has stumbled onto a joke, a cult, or a scandal, Lois invites him into the orbit of the Wolvers' tight-knit household - a deliberate experiment in love, loyalty, and shared living that treats jealousy as a problem to be solved rather than a fate to be endured. Drawn by attraction, curiosity, and a nagging sense that his own assumptions about romance are too small, Tom finds himself negotiating rules he does not understand, personalities that do not fit any familiar mold, and a community that can feel both tender and faintly menacing. As the desert heat presses in and Tom's outsider status becomes harder to ignore, he must decide what he truly wants from intimacy, from art, and from the stories he tells himself about what a 'normal' life should be. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:32:20) Chapter 02 (01:08:06) Chapter 03 (01:39:10) Chapter 04 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Tunnel Under the World by Frederik Pohl audiobook. Genre: scifi Guy Burckhardt wakes to the bright familiarity of Tingly, Ohio, with its tidy lawns, friendly neighbors, and the promise of another ordinary day. Yet small glitches keep snagging his attention: a billboard that seems to speak directly to him, conversations that loop back on themselves, and a creeping sense that the town's cheerful routines are too perfectly timed. When Guy begins comparing notes with his wife, Dianne, and watching the behavior of those around him, the comfort of suburbia starts to feel like a set built for an audience he cannot see. Determined to understand why his memories do not quite match what the town insists is true, Guy follows a trail of subtle inconsistencies toward a discovery that threatens everything he believes about his life, his choices, and even what it means to be real. Taut, unsettling, and sharply satirical, The Tunnel Under the World turns a mystery of one man's unease into a chilling meditation on consumer culture, manipulation, and the fragile boundaries between authentic experience and manufactured desire. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 1 (00:15:14) Chapter 2 (00:31:34) Chapter 3 (00:46:39) Chapter 4 (01:07:30) Chapter 5 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Knights of Arthur by Frederik Pohl audiobook. Genre: scifi After the Third World War, New York City is a hollowed-out ruin of scavengers, broken factions, and improvised rules. Into this wreckage come three unlikely partners: Sam Dunlap and Vern Engdahl, sailors trying to stay alive one day at a time, and Arthur - a compact machine intelligence with a brain built for command, logistics, and survival. Arthur is valuable in a way food and bullets cannot match: he can organize people, run systems, and make plans that might actually work. That makes him a prize. When a determined young woman appears with an offer to buy Arthur outright, Sam and Vern realize just how many desperate survivors want Arthur for their own purposes, and how few of them will respect his freedom - or their lives. Forced into flight through a city that has forgotten law, the trio must decide what they owe one another, what kind of community is worth rebuilding, and whether a mind inside a machine can choose its own destiny. Fast, sharp, and wry, Frederik Pohl blends post-apocalyptic tension with big questions about personhood, loyalty, and power. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:15:13) Chapter 02 (00:36:49) Chapter 03 (00:46:55) Chapter 04 (01:03:49) Chapter 05 (01:24:43) Chapter 06 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Search the Sky by Frederik Pohl audiobook. Genre: scifi Ross was a junior trader on Halsey's Planet, and had great prospects but was not happy at all. Everything smelled of decay. The whole planet seemed to be slowly disappearing, the population dwindling month by month and year by year and yet no one seemd to care or even notice. Something was very, very wrong. When the first interstellar transport in 30 years arrived on Halsey's Planet, it brought things to a head. The ship had touched on six other colony worlds - and all six had been devoid of human life. Where was everybody? It was almost as if humankind, when separated by cosmic distances from Mother Earth, could not survive. He didn't know the answer but he knew it all smelled highly of decay. Decay and Rot. This highly praised novel by C.M.Kornbluth and Frederick Pohl was first published in 1954 was seen as a wonderful satire on various trends in the society of the 1950's. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:39:25) Chapter 02 (01:07:27) Chapter 03 (01:24:51) Chapter 04 (01:49:47) Chapter 05 (02:16:03) Chapter 06 (02:43:56) Chapter 07 (03:20:36) Chapter 08 (03:53:40) Chapter 09 (04:22:27) Chapter 10 (04:57:32) Chapter 11 (05:33:26) Chapter 12 (06:08:00) Chapter 13 (06:35:28) Chapter 14 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Over Prairie Trails by Frederick Philip Grove audiobook. Genre: drama When Frederick Philip Grove settled in a remote area of Manitoba in the early years of the 20th century, he found work teaching in a school over 30 miles from his home. He commuted by horse-and-wagon or horse-and-sleigh each weekend, and seven of those long and challenging journeys are recorded in “Over Prairie Trails,” published in 1922. Grove has a sharp eye for details of nature that were of life-and-death importance to the lone prairie traveller — the shifting aspects of skies, wind, fog, and snow. On one level, the book is a treasury of documentary observation and nature writing. However, while Grove claims to offer a naturalist’s “plain truth,” we come to realize that he is creating a “tale” as much as a nature diary. He selects and arranges his material. Sometimes this means transforming his accounts into archetypal heroic journeys, casting himself as the Odyssean adventurer who battles his way through seas of snow and fog to return to his wife and child. At other times, his reports launch meditations on the nature of observation, consciousness, and the construction of meaning. “Over Prairie Trails” is a landmark in Canadian writing, influencing the way nature — especially the Canadian winter— would be written about for decades to come. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:04:27) Chapter 02 (00:48:52) Chapter 03 (01:48:28) Chapter 04 (02:26:57) Chapter 05 (03:02:42) Chapter 06 (03:44:45) Chapter 07 (04:40:43) Chapter 08 (05:10:18) Chapter 09 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Web of the Golden Spider by Frederick Orin Bartlett audiobook. Genre: mystery The Web of the Golden Spider is a tale of mystery, intrigue and adventure that begins in the city, progresses to a mutinous open sea voyage, eventually leading to the remotest areas on the slopes of the Andes of South America. Wilson, our hero, finds himself in the midst of a battle between a deposed queen and revolutionists who have banded together in an effort to bring their country together as a republic. Wilson, although torn between helping mercenaries, freedom fighters and revolutionaries, is more concerned with the rescuing of the girl he has fallen in love with, but who has been snatched from him by a mysterious priest. That, and the finding of the famed treasure of El Dorado rumored to have been buried beneath Lake Guadiva. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:21:22) Chapter 02 (00:47:45) Chapter 03 (01:09:24) Chapter 04 (01:34:47) Chapter 05 (01:54:13) Chapter 06 (02:15:16) Chapter 07 (02:38:31) Chapter 08 (02:59:24) Chapter 09 (03:22:47) Chapter 10 (03:41:06) Chapter 11 (04:00:59) Chapter 12 (04:22:44) Chapter 13 (04:49:24) Chapter 14 (05:03:44) Chapter 15 (05:26:43) Chapter 16 (05:54:33) Chapter 17 (06:19:56) Chapter 18 (06:38:55) Chapter 19 (07:00:20) Chapter 20 (07:29:06) Chapter 21 (07:51:52) Chapter 22 (08:07:34) Chapter 23 (08:29:54) Chapter 24 (08:48:57) Chapter 25 (09:11:50) Chapter 26 (09:32:41) Chapter 27 (09:50:27) Chapter 28 (10:10:29) Chapter 29 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Mystery of the Ravenspurs by Fred M. White audiobook. Genre: mystery Ravenspur Castle, crouched above the North Sea, should be a monument to centuries of English pride. Instead it has become a fortress of dread. For five years the great Ravenspur family has been thinning in a chain of deaths so strange they look like accidents, yet too perfectly timed to be chance - poison, falls, drownings, disappearances - and Scotland Yard can find no clue. citeturn2view0 With only a handful of Ravenspurs left, the old patriarch Rupert keeps his kin under siege behind drawbridge and portcullis, while young Geoffrey Ravenspur and his cousin Vera try to hold on to love in a house where every laughter feels like a challenge to fate. citeturn2view0turn1view0 The crisis sharpens when Ralph Ravenspur, Rupert's estranged and newly blind son, returns carrying secrets he will not speak aloud. citeturn1view0 His path soon crosses an eccentric Russian savant, Dr. Sergius Tchigorsky of 101 Brant Street, a traveler with forbidden knowledge of Lhasa and visitors from Tibet. citeturn3view3 As whispers of an unseen enemy grow louder and foreign shadows begin to fall across an ancient English name, the hunt for the truth stretches from locked rooms and watchtowers to London streets - and toward the chilling aftermath of an adventure in distant Thibet. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:13:26) Chapter 02 (00:25:13) Chapter 03 (00:38:58) Chapter 04 (00:51:11) Chapter 05 (01:05:13) Chapter 06 (01:16:37) Chapter 07 (01:27:08) Chapter 08 (01:41:45) Chapter 09 (01:52:03) Chapter 10 (02:07:54) Chapter 11 (02:22:18) Chapter 12 (02:33:25) Chapter 13 (02:47:31) Chapter 14 (02:56:07) Chapter 15 (03:10:30) Chapter 16 (03:22:42) Chapter 17 (03:36:25) Chapter 18 (03:48:08) Chapter 19 (03:59:10) Chapter 20 (04:13:15) Chapter 21 (04:23:17) Chapter 22 (04:37:43) Chapter 23 (04:51:52) Chapter 24 (05:03:10) Chapter 25 (05:16:41) Chapter 26 (05:28:27) Chapter 27 (05:41:57) Chapter 28 (05:53:43) Chapter 29 (06:03:19) Chapter 30 (06:18:09) Chapter 31 (06:31:24) Chapter 32 (06:42:51) Chapter 33 (06:52:51) Chapter 34 (07:07:44) Chapter 35 (07:21:15) Chapter 36 (07:32:16) Chapter 37 (07:43:09) Chapter 38 (07:57:28) Chapter 39 (08:10:44) Chapter 40 (08:21:54) Chapter 41 (08:35:29) Chapter 42 (08:45:54) Chapter 43 (08:58:49) Chapter 44 (09:09:29) Chapter 45 (09:22:40) Chapter 46 (09:33:35) Chapter 47 (09:46:37) Chapter 48 (09:57:23) Chapter 49 (10:07:28) Chapter 50 (10:21:12) Chapter 51 (10:34:32) Chapter 52 (10:45:40) Chapter 53 (10:59:15) Chapter 54 (11:10:35) Chapter 55 (11:24:10) Chapter 56 (11:34:53) Chapter 57 (11:48:10) Chapter 58 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Harbor of Doubt by Frank Williams audiobook. Genre: mystery When young fishing captain Code Schofield staggers home as the sole survivor of a wreck at sea, he expects grief and hard work, not whispers. Six months after the schooner May Schofield goes down in an Atlantic gale near the rocky islands off Grande Mignon, the tight-knit communities of Freekirk Head and the surrounding coast begin to turn on him. Old friends avert their eyes, dockside gossip hardens into accusation, and the facts that should have saved him - a legal insurance payout and a new vessel, the Charming Lass - only deepen the suspicion that he profited from disaster. With an insurance investigation looming and his oldest rival, Nat Burns, eager to see him fall, Code finds himself fighting on two fronts: the unforgiving ocean that made his name, and the island politics that can destroy it. The one person willing to stand beside him is Elsa Mallaby, a sharp-tongued woman of means whose loyalty comes with its own complications. As Code pushes back out onto dangerous waters, every fog bank, every strange signal, and every hidden grudge threatens to turn doubt into ruin. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:14:34) Chapter 02 (00:30:54) Chapter 03 (00:44:26) Chapter 04 (00:55:56) Chapter 05 (01:15:01) Chapter 06 (01:34:54) Chapter 07 (01:52:13) Chapter 08 (02:01:22) Chapter 09 (02:14:26) Chapter 10 (02:26:34) Chapter 11 (02:50:38) Chapter 12 (03:01:15) Chapter 13 (03:12:52) Chapter 14 (03:18:53) Chapter 15 (03:26:10) Chapter 16 (03:42:01) Chapter 17 (03:56:43) Chapter 18 (04:10:21) Chapter 19 (04:26:46) Chapter 20 (04:40:23) Chapter 21 (04:58:10) Chapter 22 (05:14:22) Chapter 23 (05:34:21) Chapter 24 (05:50:23) Chapter 25 (06:21:54) Chapter 26 (06:34:44) Chapter 27 (06:55:57) Chapter 28 (07:21:23) Chapter 29 (07:48:17) Chapter 30 (08:04:10) Chapter 31 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Buccaneers and the Pirates of Our Coast by Frank Richard Stockton audiobook. Genre: history In Buccaneers and Pirates of Our Coasts, Frank Richard Stockton turns a boyhood fascination with sea rovers into a brisk, story-driven history of piracy in the Caribbean and along the American shoreline. Stockton begins by tracing how the first buccaneers emerged from rough frontier life and escalating conflict with Spanish power, then follows piracy as it becomes a trade, a temptation, and finally a scourge that draws in ambitious captains, desperate recruits, and whole colonial communities caught between fear and profit. Each chapter reads like a self-contained tale, introducing notorious names and vivid incidents: early West Indian raiders, would-be apprentices to the craft, and larger-than-life figures such as Henry Morgan, L'Olonnois, Blackbeard, Stede Bonnet, and Captain Kidd. Along the way come strange episodes - a pearl pirate's gambit, improbable escapes, uneasy alliances with respectable society, and even rare stories of women pirates - all told in Stockton's clear, dramatic voice. Without romanticizing the brutality, the book shows how greed, revenge, and politics shaped the pirate world, and why the legend proved harder to sink than the ships themselves. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:09:14) Chapter 02 (00:23:44) Chapter 03 (00:34:36) Chapter 05 (00:44:40) Chapter 06 (00:56:57) Chapter 07 (01:09:17) Chapter 08 (01:17:46) Chapter 09 (01:26:37) Chapter 10 (01:50:15) Chapter 11 (01:56:39) Chapter 12 (02:04:09) Chapter 13 (02:16:34) Chapter 14 (02:29:27) Chapter 15 (02:46:30) Chapter 16 (03:03:16) Chapter 17 (03:13:44) Chapter 18 (03:21:42) Chapter 19 (03:37:29) Chapter 20 (04:05:09) Chapter 21 (04:15:28) Chapter 22 (04:31:20) Chapter 23 (04:41:28) Chapter 24 (04:52:49) Chapter 25 (05:08:02) Chapter 26 (05:20:50) Chapter 27 (05:33:51) Chapter 28 (05:47:31) Chapter 29 (06:05:24) Chapter 30 (06:23:52) Chapter 31 (06:45:15) Chapter 32 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

3 Science Fiction Stories by Frank Herbert audiobook. Genre: scifi In 3 Science Fiction Stories, Frank Herbert showcases the sharp, unsettling imagination that would later make him famous, through three compact tales from the late 1950s. In Missing Link, junior Interstellar Agency fieldman Lewis Orne lands on the jungle world of Gienah III to investigate a vanished human ship, only to find that the planet's inhabitants may now hold technology they were never meant to touch, and that a single misstep in first contact could trigger ruthless retaliation from distant authorities. Operation Haystack throws Orne into a wider web of political suspicion, where fanatics, hidden bloodlines, and quiet social engineering turn a routine assignment into a dangerous game of infiltration and divided loyalties. Rounding out the collection, Old Rambling House shifts to Earthbound dread: a young couple trades their trailer for an improbably perfect house, and discovers that the dream of stability can become a contract with forces that do not share human ideas of consent, family, or escape. Together, these stories explore power, bureaucracy, and the price of control, with Herbert's trademark tension between individual choice and systems that think in centuries. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 1 (00:45:29) Chapter 2 (01:46:00) Chapter 3 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Concerning Genealogies by Frank Allaben audiobook. Genre: history In Concerning Genealogies (1904), Frank Allaben - a New York publisher and professional compiler of family histories - invites ordinary readers into the surprisingly gripping world of ancestry hunting, while warning them away from the easy mistakes that make so many pedigrees unreliable. Part practical handbook and part spirited essay, the book follows the genealogist from the first questions asked at home to the deeper chase through public records: deeds, wills, church registers, town histories, cemeteries, and archives. Allaben argues that genealogy should be treated as real historical work, built on proof, careful citation, and clear writing, not on family legend or wishful connections. Along the way he compares two competing ways to build a family book: the wide 'clan' approach that gathers every descendant of an early ancestor, and the more personal 'Grafton' approach that traces many direct ancestral lines back from one modern individual. The later chapters shift from research to craft, offering guidance on compiling, organizing, indexing, printing, and even publishing a genealogy that can be trusted and enjoyed for generations. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 0 (00:02:34) Chapter 1 (00:20:56) Chapter 2 (00:39:48) Chapter 3 (00:53:29) Chapter 4 (01:10:09) Chapter 5 (01:27:30) Chapter 6 (01:41:40) Chapter 7 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Tragic Bride by Francis Brett Young audiobook. Genre: tragedy In remote Connemara, Ireland, Gabrielle Hewish grows up as the solitary heir to Roscarna, a fading Anglo-Irish estate held together by stubborn tradition and the unreliable charm of her widowed father, Sir Jocelyn Hewish. With only servants and the harsh beauty of the countryside for company, Gabrielle learns early how silence can shape a life - and how easily affection can be mistaken for rescue. A rare journey beyond Roscarna brings her into the wider world of Dublin society, where she meets Radway, a young officer whose promise offers her a first taste of love and possibility. When loss strikes, Gabrielle is forced into choices that trade passion for security, drawing her into a marriage that cannot answer what she most needs. Years later, the story is pieced together through the wary compassion of Mrs. Payne and the uneasy presence of her troubled son, Arthur, as Gabrielle searches for meaning amid duty, loneliness, and the consequences of longing. Francis Brett Young crafts a restrained, atmospheric portrait of a woman caught between inheritance and desire, and the quiet tragedies that can define an entire lifetime. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 00 (00:16:04) Chapter 01 (00:32:13) Chapter 02 (00:50:07) Chapter 03 (01:04:32) Chapter 04 (01:20:53) Chapter 05 (01:37:44) Chapter 06 (01:51:25) Chapter 07 (02:06:56) Chapter 08 (02:25:20) Chapter 09 (02:40:26) Chapter 10 (02:56:21) Chapter 11 (03:10:10) Chapter 12 (03:26:02) Chapter 13 (03:47:50) Chapter 14 (04:06:47) Chapter 15 (04:25:07) Chapter 16 (04:53:40) Chapter 17 (05:15:34) Chapter 18 (05:27:10) Chapter 19 (06:02:41) Chapter 20 (06:13:39) Chapter 21 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Little Lord Fauntleroy by Frances Hodgson Burnett audiobook. Genre: family In Little Lord Fauntleroy, Frances Hodgson Burnett introduces Cedric Errol, a warm-hearted American boy raised in modest comfort by his devoted mother in New York City. Cedric's life changes overnight when word arrives from England: his stern, wealthy grandfather - the Earl of Dorincourt - has no other heirs, and Cedric is summoned across the Atlantic to become the future lord of an ancient estate. Thrust into a world of titles, cold traditions, and watchful servants, Cedric refuses to be intimidated. With his open manners, unwavering sense of fairness, and a child's belief in the best in people, he begins to challenge the Earl's bitterness and the rigid social order that surrounds him. As Cedric learns what it means to carry a name and a responsibility, his mother must navigate separation, suspicion, and the dangers that come with sudden status. Meanwhile, those who envy the inheritance look for ways to claim it, forcing Cedric and his family to rely on character rather than rank. Tender, hopeful, and sharply observant about class and kindness, the story explores how goodness can be a quiet kind of power. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:22:23) Chapter 02 (01:15:27) Chapter 03 (01:28:00) Chapter 04 (01:53:25) Chapter 05 (02:39:01) Chapter 06 (03:29:41) Chapter 07 (03:47:34) Chapter 08 (04:06:10) Chapter 09 (04:19:21) Chapter 10 (05:09:12) Chapter 11 (05:30:39) Chapter 12 (05:48:26) Chapter 13 (05:59:48) Chapter 14 (06:10:23) Chapter 15 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Lone Ranger Rides by Fran Striker audiobook. Genre: adventure In a remote Texas basin ruled by the ruthless Cavendish clan, the law is something powerful men bend to their will. When a small band of Texas Rangers rides into the territory to investigate trouble in Bryant's Gap, they are met with sudden violence and betrayal, leaving one badly wounded survivor with little more than grit and a badge that suddenly feels like a burden. As he fights to stay alive and understand who set the trap, fate brings him together with Tonto, a skilled and wary Native tracker who knows the mountains and the hidden trails better than any outlaw. With danger closing in from every side, the two men must decide whether trust is possible in a land where ambush is a way of life. Along the way, a powerful white stallion enters the story, and the pieces of a legend begin to fall into place: a mask for protection, a new identity for a new kind of justice, and a partnership built on courage rather than convenience. Fast-paced and steeped in classic Western atmosphere, The Lone Ranger Rides sets the stage for a lone hero to challenge corruption with skill, restraint, and an unshakable code. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:08:47) Chapter 02 (00:24:54) Chapter 03 (00:36:31) Chapter 04 (00:57:57) Chapter 05 (01:14:43) Chapter 06 (01:30:00) Chapter 07 (01:50:01) Chapter 08 (02:04:39) Chapter 09 (02:29:47) Chapter 10 (02:41:55) Chapter 11 (02:51:58) Chapter 12 (03:01:51) Chapter 13 (03:17:45) Chapter 14 (03:31:31) Chapter 15 (03:55:29) Chapter 16 (04:10:09) Chapter 17 (04:30:02) Chapter 18 (04:49:20) Chapter 19 (05:09:48) Chapter 20 (05:24:57) Chapter 21 (05:40:33) Chapter 22 (05:58:32) Chapter 23 (06:09:29) Chapter 24 (06:32:07) Chapter 25 (06:42:59) Chapter 26 (07:01:44) Chapter 27 (07:16:54) Chapter 28 (07:32:13) Chapter 29 (07:48:31) Chapter 30 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Twilight in Italy by D. H. Lawrence audiobook. Genre: history In Twilight in Italy, D. H. Lawrence turns travel into a fiercely attentive way of seeing. Moving through northern Italian lakes and hill towns, he writes as an outsider who is both enchanted and unsettled, recording the physical textures of place - stone streets, cold mountain air, sudden gardens - and the human drama that gathers in kitchens, churches, and crowded public squares. Along the way he meets innkeepers, laborers, priests, and fellow travelers, and he watches festivals, processions, and everyday work with the same sharp intensity he brings to landscape. What begins as a journey becomes a search for something harder to name: an Italy not reduced to postcard beauty, where ancient customs still press against modern pressures, poverty, tourism, and social change. Lawrence is drawn to moments of vitality and menace alike, asking what people sacrifice to survive, what they protect in tradition, and what is lost when a culture starts performing itself for visitors. The book unfolds as a series of vivid episodes, blending observation, argument, and lyrical description into a portrait of a country at the edge of transformation - and of a restless mind testing itself against it. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:28:12) Chapter 02 (00:56:58) Chapter 03 (01:46:49) Chapter 04 (02:44:19) Chapter 05 (03:16:34) Chapter 06 (03:30:45) Chapter 07 (03:45:44) Chapter 08 (04:05:16) Chapter 09 (04:44:42) Chapter 10 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The White Peacock by D. H. Lawrence audiobook. Genre: drama Set in the English countryside at the turn of the 20th century, The White Peacock follows two young friends, Cyril Beardsall and George Saxton, as they drift from boyhood ease into the complicated moral weather of adulthood. Cyril, sensitive and observant, records the rhythms of farms, lanes, and village gatherings with a poet's eye, but his quiet perspective is tested when he becomes entangled in the desires and disappointments of the people closest to him. At the center is Lettie, spirited and ambitious, pulled between the security of respectability and the magnetic unpredictability of others who promise a different kind of life. As courtship, class expectations, and financial pressures tighten their grip, friendship frays and private longings spill into public consequence. D. H. Lawrence's debut novel is both a love story and a portrait of a changing rural world, where beauty and brutality sit side by side and where the characters must confront what they truly want - and what it may cost them. Lyrical, earthy, and psychologically sharp, it explores passion, jealousy, and the struggle to find meaning in ordinary lives. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:22:32) Chapter 02 (00:44:20) Chapter 03 (01:10:51) Chapter 04 (01:40:29) Chapter 05 (02:11:12) Chapter 06 (02:52:50) Chapter 07 (03:34:17) Chapter 08 (04:01:15) Chapter 09 (04:47:01) Chapter 10 (05:37:39) Chapter 11 (06:12:20) Chapter 12 (06:52:51) Chapter 13 (07:23:57) Chapter 14 (07:40:36) Chapter 15 (07:56:53) Chapter 16 (08:29:04) Chapter 17 (08:48:21) Chapter 18 (09:10:35) Chapter 19 (09:41:58) Chapter 20 (10:00:23) Chapter 21 (10:27:22) Chapter 22 (10:52:29) Chapter 23 (11:20:46) Chapter 24 (11:57:44) Chapter 25 (12:18:46) Chapter 26 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Trespasser by D. H. Lawrence audiobook. Genre: tragedy Brief Encounter meets Tristan und Isolde - on the Isle of Wight, under a vast sky florid with stars. The consequence is tragic indeed for one of the parties, Siegmund, when he sacrifices family life for a few days’ transcendent rapture. His lover, the self-contained Helena, is strong enough to bear a return to the scruffy suburbs. Redemption of a kind is granted to the deserted wife, Beatrice. But between these robust Lawrentian women Siegmund is cancelled out. His love-death is no cosmic swoon but a sordid exit in an unkempt box-room. In this very British romance, there is no earthly escape from outworn attachments and life’s deadening routine... For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:21:41) Chapter 02 (00:47:43) Chapter 03 (01:13:47) Chapter 04 (01:23:46) Chapter 05 (01:43:39) Chapter 06 (02:13:12) Chapter 07 (02:30:40) Chapter 08 (02:50:40) Chapter 09 (02:58:31) Chapter 10 (03:07:20) Chapter 11 (03:33:09) Chapter 12 (03:51:40) Chapter 13 (04:08:41) Chapter 14 (04:34:38) Chapter 15 (05:00:27) Chapter 16 (05:17:45) Chapter 17 (05:40:26) Chapter 18 (05:45:49) Chapter 19 (06:18:41) Chapter 20 (06:31:30) Chapter 21 (07:11:13) Chapter 22 (07:30:02) Chapter 23 (07:58:22) Chapter 24 (08:10:17) Chapter 25 (08:28:17) Chapter 26 (08:45:05) Chapter 27 (09:16:33) Chapter 28 (09:29:10) Chapter 29 (09:57:15) Chapter 30 (10:21:14) Chapter 31 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Rainbow by D. H. Lawrence audiobook. Genre: drama Set in the English Midlands from the late 1800s into the early 20th century, The Rainbow follows the Brangwen family across generations as they struggle to reconcile the solidity of rural life with a restless hunger for something beyond it. At Marsh Farm, Tom Brangwen is drawn into a marriage that reshapes his sense of belonging and awakens a fierce emotional and physical intensity. As the family grows, the focus shifts to the women who inherit that same desire for self-definition, especially Ursula Brangwen, whose sharp intelligence and independence push her beyond the boundaries of home, church, and convention. Through schooling, work, love affairs, and clashes of will, Ursula searches for a life that feels fully her own, even as society pressures her toward dutiful roles and respectable choices. Lawrence paints the landscape, the body, and the psyche with equal force, exploring how intimacy can both liberate and wound, and how personal awakening can threaten the structures that claim to keep people safe. Rich, frank, and emotionally exacting, The Rainbow is a sweeping portrait of longing, growth, and the cost of becoming oneself. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 1 (00:35:04) Chapter 2 (01:05:04) Chapter 3 (01:49:11) Chapter 4 (02:30:18) Chapter 5 (03:10:24) Chapter 03 (03:48:22) Chapter 6 (04:28:28) Chapter 7 (05:12:57) Chapter 05 (05:37:07) Chapter 8 (06:08:33) Chapter 9 (06:41:46) Chapter 10 (07:12:07) Chapter 11 (07:45:12) Chapter 07 (08:21:03) Chapter 12 (08:54:31) Chapter 13 (09:30:18) Chapter 14 (09:56:13) Chapter 15 (10:22:01) Chapter 16 (10:47:27) Chapter 17 (11:13:47) Chapter 18 (11:42:07) Chapter 19 (12:09:18) Chapter 20 (12:43:24) Chapter 21 (13:14:56) Chapter 12 (14:02:50) Chapter 22 (14:39:45) Chapter 23 (15:12:22) Chapter 24 (15:50:11) Chapter 25 (16:25:56) Chapter 14 (17:00:24) Chapter 26 (17:33:17) Chapter 27 (18:05:04) Chapter 28 (18:37:09) Chapter 29 (19:19:21) Chapter 16 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Prussian Officer and Other Stories by D. H. Lawrence audiobook. Genre: drama D. H. Lawrence's The Prussian Officer and Other Stories gathers a sharp, unsettling set of early tales in which ordinary lives are pressed to the edge by authority, desire, shame, and the body itself. In the title story, an aging Prussian captain, rigid with discipline and pride, drives his young orderly through relentless marches and humiliations, until the closed world of military hierarchy becomes a pressure chamber of obsession and fear. Around it, Lawrence turns his gaze to miners, clerks, lovers, and families in England and on the Continent, tracing how social class, gender expectations, and unspoken longings shape every gesture. Whether in a cramped home where tenderness curdles into resentment, a relationship tested by jealousy and dependency, or a community that polices what it cannot name, Lawrence writes with intense psychological immediacy and physical detail. These stories do not offer easy comfort; they expose the costs of repression and the dangerous intimacy between cruelty and need. Unflinching and vividly human, the collection is a portrait of people struggling for dignity and connection under forces they barely understand. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:25:46) Chapter 02 (00:44:06) Chapter 03 (00:55:34) Chapter 04 (01:19:06) Chapter 05 (01:40:57) Chapter 06 (01:59:26) Chapter 07 (02:15:41) Chapter 08 (02:35:33) Chapter 09 (02:52:04) Chapter 10 (03:10:52) Chapter 11 (03:34:31) Chapter 12 (03:56:03) Chapter 13 (04:15:17) Chapter 14 (04:29:14) Chapter 15 (04:46:31) Chapter 16 (05:13:03) Chapter 17 (05:34:09) Chapter 18 (06:05:44) Chapter 19 (06:18:46) Chapter 20 (06:31:44) Chapter 21 (06:51:50) Chapter 22 (07:07:20) Chapter 23 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Lost Girl by D. H. Lawrence audiobook. Genre: drama 'There is no mistake about it, Alvina was a lost girl. She was cut off from everything she belonged to.' In this most under-valued of his novels, Lawrence once again presents us with a young woman hemmed in by her middle-class upbringing and (like Ursula Brangwen in The Rainbow) longing for escape. Alvina Houghton's plight, however, is given a rather comic and even picaresque treatment. Losing first her mother, a perpetual invalid, and later her cross-dressing father, a woefully ineffectual small-scale entrepreneur, Alvina feels doomed to merge with the tribe of eternal spinsters who surround her in the dreary mining community of Woodhouse. Into this drab environment enter the Natcha-Kee-Tawara: a polyglot, poly-amorous troupe of travelling players united, on- and off-stage, in a fantasy of Native American nomadism. Enter Ciccio, the surly dark-eyed horseman. The Italian's potent and threatening physicality overwhelms Alvina and soon will propel her into - what? Perdition, or the paradoxical freedom of a girl who 'like(s) being lost'? For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:53:15) Chapter 02 (01:14:15) Chapter 03 (01:46:55) Chapter 04 (02:23:57) Chapter 05 (03:00:34) Chapter 06 (03:34:42) Chapter 07 (04:15:10) Chapter 08 (04:55:40) Chapter 09 (05:38:01) Chapter 10 (06:20:47) Chapter 11 (06:55:21) Chapter 12 (07:24:26) Chapter 13 (08:15:55) Chapter 14 (09:07:40) Chapter 15 (09:48:44) Chapter 16 (10:30:30) Chapter 17 (11:10:27) Chapter 18 (11:44:23) Chapter 19 (12:11:43) Chapter 20 (12:35:53) Chapter 21 (13:33:15) Chapter 22 (13:56:36) Chapter 23 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sea and Sardinia by D. H. Lawrence audiobook. Genre: biography In Sea and Sardinia, D. H. Lawrence turns a simple winter trip into a sharp, restless travel memoir full of landscape, conversation, and cultural friction. Leaving the chill and routines of mainland Italy, Lawrence and his wife, Frieda, set off by train and ship toward Sardinia, an island that feels both near and startlingly separate. As they navigate delays, cramped compartments, and the small dramas of fellow passengers, Lawrence watches everything with a poet's eye and a skeptic's impatience: the shifting sea, the hard outlines of coastal towns, the rhythms of local life, and the uneasy relationship between the island and the larger nation that claims it. In villages and cities alike, he tests his own assumptions about modernity, tradition, and the meaning of freedom, often finding beauty where he least expects it and irritation where others might see romance. By turns comic, lyrical, and biting, the book becomes less a guidebook than a portrait of travel as confrontation - with place, with politics, and with the traveler himself. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:29:10) Chapter 02 (00:54:16) Chapter 03 (01:37:42) Chapter 04 (02:21:29) Chapter 05 (03:05:03) Chapter 06 (03:46:12) Chapter 07 (04:31:16) Chapter 08 (05:13:05) Chapter 09 (05:50:27) Chapter 10 (06:26:18) Chapter 11 (07:07:48) Chapter 12 (07:43:16) Chapter 13 (08:12:23) Chapter 14 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

England, My England by D. H. Lawrence audiobook. Genre: drama In England, My England, D. H. Lawrence turns a fierce, intimate gaze on an English countryside that is being hollowed out by modern life and the pressures of war. At the center is Egbert, a charming, high-born dreamer who drifts through his days as if real responsibilities belong to someone else. His wife, Winifred, practical and increasingly exasperated, tries to hold together a household and a future that Egbert seems determined to treat like a passing mood. As the world beyond their fields tightens with duty, money, and marching orders, their marriage becomes a battleground between freedom and obligation, tenderness and resentment, fantasy and the hard grain of reality. Lawrence follows the shifting power between husband and wife, the pull of class expectations, and the uneasy question of what it means to love a country that is changing faster than its people can admit. Stark, lyrical, and unsentimental, the story builds toward a reckoning that feels both personal and national, capturing a society on the edge of irrevocable change. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:40:38) Chapter 02 (01:13:17) Chapter 03 (01:36:30) Chapter 04 (02:11:57) Chapter 05 (02:38:44) Chapter 06 (03:07:59) Chapter 07 (03:45:59) Chapter 08 (04:27:58) Chapter 09 (04:47:56) Chapter 10 (05:16:10) Chapter 11 (05:34:30) Chapter 12 (05:58:54) Chapter 13 (06:17:50) Chapter 14 (06:38:27) Chapter 15 (06:58:31) Chapter 16 (07:26:21) Chapter 17 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tor, A Street Boy of Jerusalem by Florence Morse Kingsley audiobook. Genre: history In Roman-occupied Jerusalem, Tor survives the way a hungry street boy must: by quick hands, quicker feet, and a hard heart that expects nothing from anyone. He drifts through dusty lanes and crowded marketplaces where beggars fight for scraps and soldiers enforce order with sudden brutality, learning early that kindness can be a trap. When Tor tangles with a blind beggar he once served and narrowly escapes punishment, an unexpected defender steps in, and Tor is pulled toward a circle of Galileans whose calm courage feels dangerously different from the citys usual despair. Soon the streets erupt with shouts of hope as Jesus enters Jerusalem, and Tor, who has never believed in promises, finds himself watching from the edge of the crowd. One encounter with Jesus leaves the boy shaken and curious, and as rumors spread, plots tighten, and powerful men maneuver to silence a threat, Tor must choose what kind of person he will become. Moving from theft and bitterness toward trust and compassion, this brief, vivid tale explores poverty, justice, and the cost of mercy through the eyes of a child who longs for a life larger than survival. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:10:55) Chapter 02 (00:21:10) Chapter 03 (00:38:56) Chapter 04 (00:49:42) Chapter 05 (01:07:34) Chapter 06 (01:23:09) Chapter 07 (01:38:47) Chapter 08 (01:53:28) Chapter 09 (02:08:53) Chapter 10 (02:22:21) Chapter 11 (02:37:12) Chapter 12 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Heart of Philura by Florence Morse Kingsley audiobook. Genre: religion Once again Mrs Kingsley does not shy away from the highs and lows of life in the quickly changing world of the 1900s…the ageing women working to support themselves or their families, in jobs that will soon disappear...the washerwoman, butter-woman and the little dressmaker….the contrast between the socialite of Boston and the drudge in the kitchen….the old farmers and the independent, college-educated young people…and, with an acceptance of the realities of life we might think of as “modern”, the impact of an illegitimate child on the lives of its mother and her whole family. In her new role as the ministers wife, Miss Philura’s independent (dare one say rebellious?) spirit continues to blossom, while deep in her heart there is a secret longing waiting to be realised….The arrival of a mysterious new family in the village will have unexpected consequences for the lives of several people in Innesfield; fortunately the heart of Philura is big enough and brave enough to embrace it all. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 1 (00:22:45) Chapter 2 (00:36:18) Chapter 3 (00:48:01) Chapter 4 (01:07:12) Chapter 5 (01:23:46) Chapter 6 (01:43:57) Chapter 7 (02:01:09) Chapter 8 (02:13:51) Chapter 9 (02:24:58) Chapter 10 (02:42:04) Chapter 11 (03:07:33) Chapter 12 (03:28:33) Chapter 13 (03:44:55) Chapter 14 (03:56:37) Chapter 15 (04:07:49) Chapter 16 (04:32:19) Chapter 17 (04:54:21) Chapter 18 (05:04:19) Chapter 19 (05:24:27) Chapter 20 (05:55:05) Chapter 21 (06:11:26) Chapter 22 (06:16:28) Chapter 23 (06:38:32) Chapter 24 (07:06:52) Chapter 25 (07:18:07) Chapter 26 (07:46:46) Chapter 27 (08:01:11) Chapter 28 (08:27:48) Chapter 29 (08:41:45) Chapter 30 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Neighbors by Florence Morse Kingsley audiobook. Genre: family In the small but fast-changing township of Innisfield, everyone knows everyone - or thinks they do. As the town grows, new faces begin to appear: outsiders and immigrants the locals call 'fur'ners,' bringing unfamiliar customs, accents, and opinions that test old friendships and easy assumptions. At the heart of the story is Mrs. Philura Pettibone, whose long-running personal journey reaches a decisive new stage, and Miss Malvina, a quiet figure whose orderly life is upended by the demands of community, conscience, and unexpected responsibility. With the shadow of war falling across America in 1917, Innisfield's neighborly squabbles and small-town humor take on sharper stakes, as debates over loyalty, pacifism, and patriotism move from the newspaper to the front porch. Florence Morse Kingsley blends gentle irony with moments of earnest feeling to explore what a community owes its members - and what individuals owe their own convictions - when fear and change arrive at the door. Both a warm portrait of everyday life and a timely look at national identity, Neighbors asks whether belonging is inherited, earned, or simply offered one act of kindness at a time. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:15:27) Chapter 02 (00:22:21) Chapter 03 (00:37:54) Chapter 04 (00:54:37) Chapter 05 (01:15:15) Chapter 06 (01:36:53) Chapter 07 (02:04:32) Chapter 08 (02:20:34) Chapter 09 (02:34:10) Chapter 10 (02:45:23) Chapter 11 (02:59:02) Chapter 12 (03:15:35) Chapter 13 (03:25:25) Chapter 14 (03:40:01) Chapter 15 (04:03:35) Chapter 16 (04:26:29) Chapter 17 (04:41:22) Chapter 18 (05:03:37) Chapter 19 (05:22:52) Chapter 20 (05:40:41) Chapter 21 (05:54:42) Chapter 22 (06:04:35) Chapter 23 (06:20:06) Chapter 24 (06:42:13) Chapter 25 (07:01:49) Chapter 26 (07:23:40) Chapter 27 (07:54:11) Chapter 28 (08:14:22) Chapter 29 (08:28:50) Chapter 30 (08:47:32) Chapter 31 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Miss Philura’s Wedding Gown by Florence Morse Kingsley audiobook. Genre: romance In the small township of Innisfield, the once-overlooked Miss Philura stands on the brink of the life she hardly dared to want: a future shaped not by resignation, but by hope. Newly engaged to the town's minister, Silas Pettibone, Philura tries to hold fast to the bright, unsettling idea that changed everything for her - that if you ask with true faith, you have already received. Now that belief is about to be tested in the most public way imaginable. As plans gather for a wedding that the whole community feels entitled to judge, Philura's wedding gown becomes more than a garment: it is a declaration of dignity, joy, and a right to be seen. But Innisfield is a place where opinions travel faster than kindness, where rivalries simmer in church pews, and where well-meaning neighbors can turn ruthless under the banner of propriety. With gentle wit and sharp insight, Florence Morse Kingsley follows Philura through the scrutiny, the whispered doubts, and the everyday battles of small-town life, asking what it really costs to claim happiness - and whether courage can be stitched, like satin and lace, into something strong enough to wear. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:20:36) Chapter 02 (00:45:37) Chapter 03 (01:13:08) Chapter 04 (01:24:04) Chapter 05 (01:40:00) Chapter 06 (01:57:40) Chapter 07 (02:10:53) Chapter 08 (02:37:00) Chapter 09 (02:54:31) Chapter 10 (03:03:38) Chapter 11 (03:12:53) Chapter 12 (03:34:26) Chapter 13 (03:41:35) Chapter 14 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

And So They Were Married by Florence Morse Kingsley audiobook. Genre: romance In a snow-bright New England town, Elizabeth 'Bessie' North is twenty, newly in love, and certain happiness will be simple once she says yes to Samuel Brewster, a serious young civil engineer building his career. But engagement dreams quickly collide with practical questions: how much can a young couple afford, what does a 'proper' wedding require, and how much should family opinions shape a marriage? As Bessie and Sam begin their life together, they are pulled between two worlds. There is the steady, plain-spoken wisdom of Dr. North, the anxious devotion of Bessie's mother, and the sharp-eyed counsel of Grandma Carroll, who believes a home runs on honesty, thrift, and work. And there is the glittering pressure of city society, embodied by the persuasive Miss Tripp, who offers introductions, fashionable advice, and a vision of domestic ease that comes with a price. When a new apartment, new friends, and new household help test Bessie's confidence and Sam's patience, the young bride must discover what kind of wife, and what kind of woman, she truly wants to be. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:11:15) Chapter 02 (00:23:11) Chapter 03 (00:39:34) Chapter 04 (00:51:32) Chapter 05 (01:06:24) Chapter 06 (01:18:55) Chapter 07 (01:31:01) Chapter 08 (01:44:09) Chapter 09 (02:03:41) Chapter 10 (02:14:50) Chapter 11 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Turnpike House by Fergus Hume audiobook. Genre: mystery On a mist-choked November evening at a lonely crossroads, the decaying Turnpike House shelters a frightened woman and her young son, Gilbert, both dreading the return of the boy's brutal father - a recently released convict named Jenner. When violence erupts and Jenner is found dead, the scandal hardens into legend, and the ruined house becomes synonymous with murder, misery, and a silence that will not speak. Years later, the past resurfaces at Hollyoaks, the country home of prosperous merchant Sebastian Cass. His daughter Ruth is impulsive, curious, and dangerously compassionate - and she has given her heart to Neil Webster, a gifted violinist with a fragile constitution and a secret connection to the long-ago crime. As Ruth's family pushes her toward the safer match of Geoffrey Heron, Neil's haunted reticence and Cass's anxious interference hint that the Turnpike House still holds power over their lives. Drawn by love and troubled by unanswered questions, Geoffrey begins to follow a trail of vanished evidence, whispered motives, and uneasy witnesses - from a missing pocket-book to incriminating trinkets and the shadow of blackmail. Each step toward the truth threatens to destroy reputations, shatter loyalties, and decide who deserves freedom - and who will pay for the sins of the past. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:33:24) Chapter 02 (01:03:09) Chapter 03 (01:37:01) Chapter 04 (02:09:30) Chapter 05 (02:36:00) Chapter 06 (03:11:09) Chapter 07 (03:42:27) Chapter 08 (04:15:53) Chapter 09 (04:45:04) Chapter 10 (05:13:42) Chapter 11 (05:40:12) Chapter 12 (06:06:36) Chapter 13 (06:34:20) Chapter 14 (07:03:27) Chapter 15 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Spider by Fergus Hume audiobook. Genre: mystery Arthur Vernon, member of the Athenian club and member of “society,” has a secret. His father has died and left him destitute, so he has begun a private investigation agency under the name “Nemo.” It would be disastrous if this were known among his associates at the club, and especially if his intended in-laws found out. But he is quite sure no one else knows, that is until his old college classmate, Constantine Maunders, visits him with a proposition he can’t refuse. Maunders knows all, and he wants to be made a partner in the agency, providing “Nemo” with black-mail worthy information on other people in society in return for a share of the financial rewards for their silence. Vernon is appalled, particularly as “Nemo” is engaged in solving a high profile blackmail case. These are the beginning of Vernons conundrums as the clues unfold. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:26:23) Chapter 02 (00:56:11) Chapter 03 (01:26:50) Chapter 04 (02:01:47) Chapter 05 (02:23:42) Chapter 06 (02:55:34) Chapter 07 (03:21:58) Chapter 08 (03:51:27) Chapter 09 (04:19:12) Chapter 10 (04:41:37) Chapter 11 (05:07:09) Chapter 12 (05:34:10) Chapter 13 (05:58:57) Chapter 14 (06:29:40) Chapter 15 (06:55:02) Chapter 16 (07:19:26) Chapter 17 (07:42:14) Chapter 18 (08:13:36) Chapter 19 (08:41:52) Chapter 20 (09:14:13) Chapter 21 (09:43:16) Chapter 22 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Silver Bullet by Fergus Hume audiobook. Genre: mystery On a walking tour across the lonely English moors, Dr. Jim Herrick and his friend Robin Joyce stumble on an eerie sight: a great house blazing with light, its doors standing wide as if inviting anyone in. Inside the silent rooms they find not a host, but a corpse - Colonel Carr, shot and left in the middle of his strange, deserted grandeur. The discovery pulls the two friends into a case where every detail feels deliberately staged, and one small piece of evidence, a particular silver bullet, hints at a carefully hidden story behind the killing. When the authorities begin their routine inquiries, Jim cannot let the matter rest. He digs into Carr's past, his secretive household, and the knot of resentments surrounding a man many seemed to fear or despise. As suspicions spread through the countryside and polite conversations turn sharp with implication, Jim and Robin must decide whom to trust, what to reveal, and how far to press for the truth. Fergus Hume delivers a classic whodunit packed with atmosphere, shifting motives, and the unsettling sense that the most dangerous person may be the one who looks least capable of violence. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:26:49) Chapter 02 (00:53:30) Chapter 03 (01:18:57) Chapter 04 (01:45:45) Chapter 05 (02:12:24) Chapter 06 (02:38:15) Chapter 07 (03:06:01) Chapter 08 (03:31:53) Chapter 09 (04:03:05) Chapter 10 (04:32:35) Chapter 11 (05:02:01) Chapter 12 (05:33:59) Chapter 13 (06:00:46) Chapter 14 (06:23:15) Chapter 15 (06:49:52) Chapter 16 (07:16:02) Chapter 17 (07:45:11) Chapter 18 (08:11:09) Chapter 19 (08:36:53) Chapter 20 (09:07:08) Chapter 21 (09:33:34) Chapter 22 (10:01:19) Chapter 23 (10:27:04) Chapter 24 (10:56:31) Chapter 25 (11:24:40) Chapter 26 (11:52:27) Chapter 27 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Sacred Herb by Fergus Hume audiobook. Genre: mystery Bored with the easy privileges of his title and fortune, Lord Prelice is goaded into action by his formidable aunt and sent to the Old Bailey to witness a sensational murder trial. The accused is Mona Chent, a poised young woman charged with killing her wealthy uncle, Sir Oliver Lanwin, at his country house, Lanwin Grange. Her only champion is Edward Shepworth, a struggling barrister and Mona's fiance, who must fight not only the prosecution's evidence but the hungry certainty of London gossip. As Prelice listens, a baffling detail keeps returning: Mona insists that, before the death, the library filled with a strange white smoke and a heavy, sickly perfume that left her helpless. That story seems absurd until Prelice begins to uncover Sir Oliver's fascination with South Seas relics, forbidden ceremonies, and a rare plant said to grow only on distant Easter Island. With the gruff, brilliant Dr. Horace drawn reluctantly into the fray, Prelice finds himself moving from courtroom drama to clandestine dinners, masked revels, and perilous journeys to the Kentish coast, where greed, jealousy, and old secrets converge. Part mystery, part occult-tinged thriller, The Sacred Herb probes how easily appearances can condemn, and how hard the truth is to burn clear. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:20:15) Chapter 02 (00:41:24) Chapter 03 (01:04:26) Chapter 04 (01:24:59) Chapter 05 (01:49:26) Chapter 06 (02:10:34) Chapter 07 (02:31:51) Chapter 08 (02:55:14) Chapter 09 (03:18:53) Chapter 10 (03:41:25) Chapter 11 (04:02:18) Chapter 12 (04:24:05) Chapter 13 (04:49:45) Chapter 14 (05:10:22) Chapter 15 (05:33:46) Chapter 16 (05:56:35) Chapter 17 (06:21:27) Chapter 18 (06:47:33) Chapter 19 (07:12:45) Chapter 20 (07:34:38) Chapter 21 (07:58:43) Chapter 22 (08:22:57) Chapter 23 (08:44:42) Chapter 24 (09:06:01) Chapter 25 (09:27:46) Chapter 26 (09:45:32) Chapter 27 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Pagan’s Cup by Fergus Hume audiobook. Genre: mystery In the sleepy English seaside village of Colester, where an ancient chapel and older families still govern daily life, newcomer Richard Pratt arrives with money, charm, and a disconcerting talent for winning his way into closed doors. To ingratiate himself with the locals, Pratt offers an extravagant gift to the church: a remarkable antique cup to serve as an altar chalice. But the village peace cannot survive the cup's arrival. Whispers spread about its origins and ownership, and when the prized object disappears, suspicion swiftly settles on Leo Haverleigh, the anxious adopted son of the formidable Mrs. Gabriel, whose iron will controls his future and threatens his budding romance with Sybil Tempest, the vicar's bright, idealistic daughter. As reputations fray and old grudges surface, a London detective is drawn into the case, and Pratt's polished facade begins to look less like generosity and more like design. Moving between village gossip, private bargains, and hidden histories, Fergus Hume builds a tense web of motive and misdirection around a single, dangerous treasure - and the lengths people will go to possess it, or to bury the truth about it. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:19:35) Chapter 02 (00:38:45) Chapter 03 (00:57:29) Chapter 04 (01:20:23) Chapter 05 (01:38:27) Chapter 06 (02:01:04) Chapter 07 (02:20:31) Chapter 08 (02:37:46) Chapter 09 (02:57:08) Chapter 10 (03:16:09) Chapter 11 (03:36:08) Chapter 12 (03:55:43) Chapter 13 (04:16:36) Chapter 14 (04:37:31) Chapter 15 (04:59:15) Chapter 16 (05:17:53) Chapter 17 (05:38:26) Chapter 18 (05:59:05) Chapter 19 (06:26:04) Chapter 20 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Opal Serpent by Fergus Hume audiobook. Genre: mystery In Edwardian London, young Paul Beecot breaks away from a stifling life in the country to chase a writing career and a chance at independence. His new start takes an ominous turn when he crosses paths with the guarded pawnbroker Aaron Norman and Norman's captivating daughter, Sylvia, whose loyalty to her father is matched only by her fear of a peculiar piece of jewelry: an opal brooch shaped like a coiled serpent. When the old man is found murdered in a scene as theatrical as it is brutal, the serpent brooch becomes the story's chilling signature and its most valuable clue. Rumors of superstition swirl, but the real menace lies in greed, hidden relationships, and the sudden appearance of competing claims over Norman's fortune and Sylvia's very identity. As Detective Hurd and other investigators push through contradictory testimony and carefully staged alibis, Paul finds himself pulled deeper into the case, torn between ambition, conscience, and his growing attachment to Sylvia. Blending street-level London atmosphere with twists of inheritance, disguise, and motive, The Opal Serpent is a classic puzzle mystery where every secret has a price. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:24:12) Chapter 02 (00:50:10) Chapter 03 (01:13:52) Chapter 04 (01:36:44) Chapter 05 (01:59:51) Chapter 06 (02:23:13) Chapter 07 (02:43:55) Chapter 08 (03:05:56) Chapter 09 (03:27:40) Chapter 10 (03:48:38) Chapter 11 (04:09:24) Chapter 12 (04:30:41) Chapter 13 (04:55:34) Chapter 14 (05:16:29) Chapter 15 (05:39:23) Chapter 16 (05:59:31) Chapter 17 (06:21:06) Chapter 18 (06:41:21) Chapter 19 (06:57:57) Chapter 20 (07:21:39) Chapter 21 (07:45:00) Chapter 22 (08:07:30) Chapter 23 (08:29:22) Chapter 24 (08:53:53) Chapter 25 (09:24:47) Chapter 26 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Mikado Jewel by Fergus Hume audiobook. Genre: mystery In fog-bound Edwardian London, Patricia Carrol, an out-of-work Irish governess, is scraping by at a shabby Bayswater boarding house optimistically nicknamed The Home of Art. When the lodgers troop off to celebrate a play premiere, Patricia stays behind to tend Mrs. Pentreddle, the landlady's grim, secretive sister. The old woman offers Patricia five pounds for a simple errand: meet a stranger by the Serpentine and collect a small box. But the favor turns into a nightmare when Patricia returns to find Mrs. Pentreddle brutally murdered and the quiet house suddenly crawling with suspicion. With the police asking hard questions and the other boarders whispering, Patricia must piece together what really happened during that empty, silent night. The mysterious box points to a much larger story: a legendary jewel linked to hidden motives, dangerous passions, and a Japanese connection that draws in outsiders far beyond Crook Street. Moving from theatrical boarding-house gossip to family secrets and diplomatic intrigue, Fergus Hume spins a classic puzzle where innocence is fragile, alibis are slippery, and the truth has a long shadow. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:27:40) Chapter 02 (00:46:20) Chapter 03 (01:09:48) Chapter 04 (01:32:33) Chapter 05 (01:54:15) Chapter 06 (02:16:22) Chapter 07 (02:39:39) Chapter 08 (03:04:52) Chapter 09 (03:27:22) Chapter 10 (03:49:01) Chapter 11 (04:12:38) Chapter 12 (04:34:58) Chapter 13 (04:56:44) Chapter 14 (05:18:46) Chapter 15 (05:43:43) Chapter 16 (06:09:39) Chapter 17 (06:33:53) Chapter 18 (07:01:11) Chapter 19 (07:33:13) Chapter 20 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Lady From Nowhere by Fergus Hume audiobook. Genre: mystery On a warm July night in 1896, the quiet London suburb of Grangebury is jolted awake by a single cry: murder. Maria Presk, a hard pressed landlady in Paradise Row, has found her newest lodger, the reclusive Miss Ligram, strangled inside a lavish chamber drenched in yellow silk and candlelight. Called in to assist the plodding local inspector, Scotland Yard detective Absolom Gebb arrives to face a puzzle that is equal parts crime scene and theatrical tableau: an eerie 'death-card' left as if to taunt the law, a locked house full of frightened witnesses, and a victim who seems to have stepped into town without history, friends, or even a true name. As newspapers swarm and rumors multiply, Gebb follows the few tangible clues outward from the Yellow Room into a trail of vanished addresses, cautious solicitors, disputed inheritances, and whispers from an old country estate where money and respectability hide dangerous secrets. To solve the killing, he must first discover who Miss Ligram really was, and why someone wanted the lady from nowhere erased before her past could be found. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:14:46) Chapter 02 (00:31:43) Chapter 03 (00:46:20) Chapter 04 (01:00:45) Chapter 05 (01:13:31) Chapter 06 (01:28:09) Chapter 07 (01:41:38) Chapter 08 (01:55:42) Chapter 09 (02:09:13) Chapter 10 (02:22:00) Chapter 11 (02:37:02) Chapter 12 (02:51:45) Chapter 13 (03:05:43) Chapter 14 (03:18:43) Chapter 15 (03:33:13) Chapter 16 (03:46:50) Chapter 17 (04:00:15) Chapter 18 (04:14:39) Chapter 19 (04:28:41) Chapter 20 (04:42:15) Chapter 21 (04:56:02) Chapter 22 (05:08:09) Chapter 23 (05:23:07) Chapter 24 (05:37:32) Chapter 25 (05:55:01) Chapter 26 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Girl From Malta by Fergus Hume audiobook. Genre: mystery One evening as the P. and O.'s vessel 'Neptune' steams away from Australia to Britain, Ronald Monteith, a young, wealthy Australian is taken into the confidence of a fellow-passenger Lionel Ventin who relates the story of his rather tragic life. When Ventin is found stabbed to death in his cabin the next morning Monteith vows to find the murderer, thinking it must surely be the vengeful wife of whom he spoke who is responsible. When arriving in London he immediately seeks the help of a barrister and a detective. However, as he delves deeper into the mystery, he is mortified to find the evidence begins to point to the girl he has fallen in love with - the girl from Malta.. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:36:23) Chapter 02 (01:06:41) Chapter 03 (01:38:50) Chapter 04 (02:03:44) Chapter 05 (02:30:03) Chapter 06 (02:59:24) Chapter 07 (03:27:44) Chapter 08 (03:52:07) Chapter 09 (04:13:41) Chapter 10 (04:36:53) Chapter 11 (05:02:35) Chapter 12 (05:26:37) Chapter 13 (05:44:52) Chapter 14 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Crimson Cryptogram by Fergus Hume audiobook. Genre: mystery In late-Victorian England, young Dr. Robert Ellis is running out of money, patience, and hope. Night after night, he and his journalist friend, Harry Cass, talk in their shabby rooms about a future that never seems to arrive - until a frantic neighbor, the young and shaken Mrs. Moxton, bursts in with a nightmare announcement: her husband has been found dead, murdered in the garden. Ellis and Cass rush to the scene and discover a chilling detail the police cannot ignore - a strange set of marks, scrawled in blood on the victim's sleeve, like a message meant to survive its writer. With no clear suspect and motives buried beneath respectable appearances, the pair are pulled into an investigation that tests Ellis's nerve and Cass's instincts for hidden stories. As they follow a trail of coded clues, uneasy friendships, and carefully guarded secrets, the crimson cryptogram becomes both a puzzle and a warning, hinting at a larger design behind a single violent act. Fergus Hume blends brisk detective work with social tension and mounting suspense, inviting you to solve the code before it is too late. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:14:24) Chapter 02 (00:26:51) Chapter 03 (00:41:13) Chapter 04 (00:57:25) Chapter 05 (01:12:47) Chapter 06 (01:28:29) Chapter 07 (01:42:23) Chapter 08 (01:57:59) Chapter 09 (02:13:01) Chapter 10 (02:26:56) Chapter 11 (02:39:52) Chapter 12 (02:53:08) Chapter 13 (03:07:05) Chapter 14 (03:21:29) Chapter 15 (03:34:39) Chapter 16 (03:49:22) Chapter 17 (04:03:35) Chapter 18 (04:18:16) Chapter 19 (04:33:48) Chapter 20 (04:46:03) Chapter 21 (04:59:48) Chapter 22 (05:13:46) Chapter 23 (05:26:56) Chapter 24 (05:39:44) Chapter 25 (05:52:55) Chapter 26 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Clock Struck One by Fergus Hume audiobook. Genre: mystery In the sun-baked lanes outside Canterbury, Dora Carew rides her bicycle with the confidence of a modern young woman, but the home she returns to - the lonely Red House - is steeped in old fears. Her guardian, Julian Edermont, has lived in strict seclusion for years, yet a single church service rattles him to the core: at the prayer for deliverance from murder and sudden death, he nearly collapses, and the name of a newly arrived society guest, Lady Burville, begins to haunt his mutterings. Dora turns to her fiance, Dr. Allen Scott, for help, only to find his own behavior growing strained and secretive as the household tensions sharpen. Then, after a night of uneasy silence and the hall clock chiming one, Edermont is found violently slain in his study. With the village hungry for scandal and suspicion shifting from friend to stranger, Dora is forced to sift gossip, grudges, and half-buried history for the truth. Fergus Hume blends country-house unease, Victorian intrigue, and a determined heroine into a whodunit where the past refuses to stay locked behind closed gates. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:26:26) Chapter 02 (00:51:57) Chapter 03 (01:18:06) Chapter 04 (01:45:13) Chapter 05 (02:14:50) Chapter 06 (02:43:37) Chapter 07 (03:14:03) Chapter 08 (03:41:25) Chapter 09 (04:09:33) Chapter 10 (04:39:09) Chapter 11 (05:08:07) Chapter 12 (05:37:13) Chapter 13 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Bishop’s Secret by Fergus Hume audiobook. Genre: mystery Bishop Pendle is the Church of England bishop in a small fictitious English cathedral town. Several years into his work, he receives a visit from a disreputable-looking visitor. The bishop is much upset. What transpired between them that has so upset the good churchman? And then there is the murder. Fergus Hume was one of the most prolific and most popular of 19th century novelists. 'Mr. Hume won a reputation second to none for plot of the stirring, ingenious, misleading, and finally surprising kind, and for working out his plot in vigorous and picturesque English. In 'The Bishop's Secret,' while there is no falling off in plot and style, there is a welcome and marvelous broadening out as to the cast of characters, representing an unusually wide range of typical men and women. These are not laboriously described by the author, but are made to reveal themselves in action and speech in a way that has, for the reader, all the charm of personal intercourse with living people....' For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 00 (00:02:55) Chapter 01 (00:22:30) Chapter 02 (00:43:39) Chapter 03 (01:04:06) Chapter 04 (01:24:42) Chapter 05 (01:42:24) Chapter 06 (01:58:54) Chapter 07 (02:18:31) Chapter 08 (02:36:21) Chapter 09 (02:54:21) Chapter 10 (03:12:23) Chapter 11 (03:30:56) Chapter 12 (03:47:31) Chapter 13 (04:06:40) Chapter 14 (04:24:22) Chapter 15 (04:43:55) Chapter 16 (05:02:05) Chapter 17 (05:22:21) Chapter 18 (05:39:55) Chapter 19 (05:58:19) Chapter 20 (06:18:12) Chapter 21 (06:40:02) Chapter 22 (06:57:33) Chapter 23 (07:19:12) Chapter 24 (07:37:56) Chapter 25 (07:56:44) Chapter 26 (08:16:03) Chapter 27 (08:34:25) Chapter 28 (08:53:54) Chapter 29 (09:12:26) Chapter 30 (09:29:54) Chapter 31 (09:48:44) Chapter 32 (10:06:53) Chapter 33 (10:29:13) Chapter 34 (10:50:09) Chapter 35 (11:13:13) Chapter 36 (11:33:25) Chapter 37 (11:55:05) Chapter 38 (12:18:14) Chapter 39 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Red Money by Fergus Hume audiobook. Genre: mystery At Lord Garvington's country estate, a languid shooting-season house party goes looking for novelty in Abbot's Wood: a traveling Romany camp offering fortunes, music, and a brush with the forbidden. The excursion would be harmless gossip, if the neighborhood were not already nervous about a string of burglaries - and if Garvington were not so eager to boast that any midnight intruder will be met with a bullet. When gunfire shatters the quiet and a wounded stranger is seen fleeing across the moonlit grounds, the Manor's polished social games turn instantly lethal. As the authorities close in, suspicion spreads through the guests and the servants alike, and the old tensions beneath the dinner-table chatter boil over: Lady Agnes Pine's uneasy marriage to a powerful millionaire, the return of her impoverished cousin Noel Lambert, and the sharp-eyed interference of Clara Greeby, an heiress with a talent for asking the questions polite society avoids. What begins as a country-house mystery leads into blackmail, hidden identities, and an inheritance whose origin is whispered about as 'red money' - wealth bought at too high a price. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:27:19) Chapter 02 (00:54:36) Chapter 03 (01:22:42) Chapter 04 (01:48:43) Chapter 05 (02:17:57) Chapter 06 (02:48:41) Chapter 07 (03:14:33) Chapter 08 (03:40:57) Chapter 09 (04:06:35) Chapter 10 (04:34:20) Chapter 11 (05:03:40) Chapter 12 (05:33:02) Chapter 13 (05:59:40) Chapter 14 (06:26:55) Chapter 15 (06:53:35) Chapter 16 (07:20:56) Chapter 17 (07:50:23) Chapter 18 (08:17:08) Chapter 19 (08:46:38) Chapter 20 (09:22:07) Chapter 21 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices