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  History of New Brunswick

  Peter Fischer

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  This fascinating work by Peter Fisher was published in 1825 when the Province of New Brunswick was still very young; and that's actually what makes it invaluable! The interested listener get's to know - comprehensively and in detail - about things such as the country, settlements, institutions, productions, the climate, inhabitants, the government, towns, trade, revenue, population... Essential stuff for those of us with a very wide range of interests and passions. Artist Bio Author: Peter Fisher (1782-1848), was a merchant and a historian, living in the British Colony of New Brunswick. Artist Bio Jack Brown: Jack Brown is a passionate reader of classic and genre oriented literature. He enjoys creating high quality audio books.

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  The Island of Doctor Moreau

  H. G. Wells

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  Edward Prendick finds himself floating perilously in the ocean after having been shipwrecked. He is picked up and his life saved by the curious Dr Montgomery, a medical man travelling with a cargo of various wild animals. Prendick soon finds himself once again adrift at sea after an argument with a hostile and drunken captain. 
  For a second time Montgomery appears as his saviour and he is hauled ashore on the Island of Dr Moreau, Montgomery’s mysterious colleague and mentor. 
  As he encounters some of the deformed and bestial inhabitants on the island, Prendick soon comes to realise that he has heard of this infamous Dr Moreau before. Now begins a nightmarish existence as the full truth of Moreau’s scientific ambitions become horribly apparent. 
  Head StoriesAudio presents "The Island of Dr Moreau" by H.G. Wells. Narrated by Simon Hester. With original music.

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  White Bread

  Zona Gale

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  Zona Gale was born on 26th August 1874 in Portage, Wisconsin.  She was exceptionally close to her parents and later used them as the basis for characters in her works.   
   
  She wrote and illustrated her first story at the age of 7 and by 16 she was being paid for stories from the Milwaukee Evening Wisconsin.   
   
  After studies at the University of Wisconsin, where she received a degree and two master's, she moved to New York and a job at the New York World newspaper. She was later hired as a secretary to Edmund Clarence Stedman, the poet, critic, essayist, banker, and scientist. and immersed herself in his literary circle. 
   
  Gale returned to Portage in 1903 and realized her old world was full of new possibilities. She now dedicated herself to full-time writing. 
   
  Her first novel ‘Romance Island’ was published in 1906 and she also began the popular ‘Friendship Village’ series of stories. In 1920 came ‘Miss Lulu Bett’, which depicts life in the Mid-West. Adapted into a play it won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1921.  It was a stellar achievement. 
   
  After the deaths of her parents her works, both fiction and non-fiction, drifted towards mysticism and her belief that problems could be solved through a kind of transcendentalist enlightenment. 
   
  Gale was a suffragist, a liberal Democrat, an active member of the National Woman's Party and a pacifist.  Much of her time was taken up with advancing opportunities for women both at school and in careers. It was a cause she repeatedly emphasized in her novels: women's frustration at their lack of opportunities. 
   
  In the mid 20’s she began caring for a young relative, Leslyn, and later adopted her. At age 54, she married William L Breese, a childhood friend. Now a widower, he was a wealthy banker and hosiery manufacturer. She also became a step-mother to his daughter, Juliette.  
   
  In mid-December 1938 she went to Chicago for medical treatment and contracted pneumonia a few days later.  
   
  Zona Gale died of pneumonia in Passavant Hospital in Chicago on 27th December 1938.  She was 64.

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  Haunted House A (Unabridged)

  Virginia Woolf

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  The narrator, apparently a woman, begins: "Whatever hour you woke there was a door shutting." Along with her husband, the narrator experiences the sensations of a home literally alive with memories. She does not, however, try to keep the reader in suspense regarding the mysterious openings and closings of doors and windows that she and her husband witness. Despite the fact that she knows two ghosts wander through her home, she is not afraid. The ghosts, after all, mean the narrator and her husband no harm...

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  A Breath of French Air - The...

  H.E. Bates

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  In the second novel in the "Pop Larkin" series, the Larkin family descends upon Brittany in France. 
  Like fish out of water, they find out things don't quite turn out their way: the weather is less than ideal, the food is awful and the hotel is in a bad state of repair. 
  But things slowly improve as Pop manages to sweet-talk Mlle. Dupont, Angela Snow and her sister Iris, and Charley and Mariette celebrate their first wedding anniversary. 
  A Breath of French Air is a delightful book full of nostalgia, fun and frivolity.
  ©1959 H. E. Bates (P)2016 Naxos AudioBooks

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  Clue of the Twisted Candle The...

  Edgar Wallace

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  "The Clue of the Twisted Candle" is a novel by Edgar Wallace: The 4.15 from Victoria to Lewes had been held up at Three Bridges in consequence of a derailment and, though John Lexman was fortunate enough to catch a belated connection to Beston Tracey, the wagonette which was the sole communication between the village and the outside world had gone.

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