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  The Tap Dancer

  Andrew Barrow

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  ‘My favourite novel and one I wish I’d written.’ ALAN BENNETT 
  Winner of the McKitterick Prize for best first novel by an author aged over 40, and the Hawthornden Prize for imaginative literature. 
  Everyone craves retirement from the Civil Service, don’t they? That time for an ageing patriarch to enjoy the fruits of a well-earned pension and the respect of his family; maybe even to indulge in a love of music halls and metropolitan life. If only people would listen and do as they were told… 
  His fourth son William, the long-suffering narrator, is the constant butt of his father’s jokes and victim of his brothers’ indifference. But as death, divorce and other darker dramas follow, father and son slowly establish a strange harmony. 
  The Tap Dancer, the latest from award-winning author Andrew Barrow, is a humorous fiction that has been short-listed for its literary excellence. This new classic is a top choice for readers around the globe. 
  For fans of Alan Bennett (The Laying On Of Hands), Anne Tyler (Vinegar Girl), Nina Stibbe (One Day I Shall Astonish the World), Rose Tremain (Absolutely and Forever), and India Knight (Darling). 
  HarperCollins 2023

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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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  The Adventure of the Dancing Men

  Arthur Conan Doyle

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  The Adventure of the Dancing Men, a Sherlock Holmes story written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is one of 13 stories in the cycle published as The Return of Sherlock Holmes in 1905.Doyle ranked "The Adventure of the Dancing Men" third in his list of his twelve favorite Holmes stories. This is one of only two Sherlock Holmes short stories where Holmes' client dies after seeking his help. The other is "The Five Orange Pips", part of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.Holmes's solution to the riddle of the dancing men rests on reasoning that closely resembles that of Legrand in Poe's "The Gold Bug."The original title was "The Dancing Men," when it was published as a short story in The Strand Magazine in December 1903Famous works of the author Arthur Conan Doyle: A Study in Scarlet, The Sign of the Four, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, The Hound of the Baskervilles, The Return of Sherlock Holmes, The Valley of Fear, His Last Bow, The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes, Stories of Sherlock Holmes, The Lost World.

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  Persuasion

  Jane Austen

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  The novel revolves around the life of Anne Elliot, a young woman who had rejected the proposal of her true love, Captain Frederick Wentworth, on the advice of her family and friends, who considered him beneath her in social status and fortune. Years later, Anne finds herself unmarried and regretful of her decision to refuse Wentworth's proposal. He, on the other hand, has become a successful naval captain and has acquired wealth and social status. When they meet again, Anne finds that her feelings for Wentworth have not diminished, but he appears to be indifferent towards her. Read in English, unabridged.

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  Saki's Cats

  Saki Saki

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  Saki's Cats rounds up the tales about cats, big and small, by the undisputed master of the short story.
  'Tobermory', one of Saki's most famous pieces, demonstrates the danger that would ensue from granting cats the power of speech – animals have long lurked unseen, eavesdropping, in the background. The tom in 'The Philanthropist and the Happy Cat' is the only one to enjoy his meal, as is the leopard in 'The Guests'. In 'The Penance' and 'Mrs Packletide's Tiger', hunters who put cats in their sights are humiliated and blackmailed. 'The Achievement of the Cat' considers how cats have come to be served by the human race.
  In addition to the short stories about cats, Saki's Cats also collects Saki's juvenile letters to his sister Ethel about the tiger cub he adopted while living in Burma.
  The feisty felines of these tales are the only clear winners, and, with a characteristic smirk and dash of his pen, it is Edwardian Society that Saki sends slinking off, tail between its legs.

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  Classic Love Stories

  Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Anton...

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  Classic Love Stories - Short Stories 
   
  Track List 
   
  1) An Object of Love by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman 
  2) The Lady with the Dog by Anton Chekhov 
  3) The Stolen Dream by Richard Le Gallienne 
  4) The Friendship of Amis and Amile by William Morris

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