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  The Money Box - From their pens...

  WW Jacobs

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  William Wymark Jacobs was born on 8th September 1863 in Wapping, East London.  
  He was educated at a private school and then Birkbeck Literary and Scientific Institution, now part of the University of London. 
  In 1879, Jacobs began work as a clerk in the civil service, in the Post Office Savings Bank.  In 1885 his first short story was published but it was not until almost the turn of the century that he would abandon his post office career to that as a full-time writer. By then he was a very popular author, his collections selling extremely well and with an excellent income. 
  His best-known work is the macabre ‘The Monkey's Paw’ and he is also highly regarded for his ghost stories although much of his remaining short story output is streaked with humour.  His characters are immediately identifiable and we all know that life will take chunks out of them in no time at all.  
  Jacobs married the noted suffragette Agnes Eleanor Williams in 1900 at West Ham, Essex. They went on to have two daughters and three sons as they settled down to life.  
  By the outbreak of the First World War his literary output had declined and he now mainly spent his time rewriting his earlier stories for the stage.  In all he wrote 18 plays. 
  W W Jacobs died on 1st September 1943 at Hornsey Lane, Islington in London. He was 79.

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  Josephine the Songstress

  Franz Kafka

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  "Josephine the Songstress, or the Mouse Folk"  is the last short story written by Franz Kafka.The story was included in the collection A Hunger Artist published by Verlag Die Schmiede soon after Kafka's death.Franz Kafka's "Josephine the Songstress, or The Mouse Folk" follows the attempts of a member of a community to understand and explain the art of their only singer, Josephine, and the powerful effect that her singing has on the community that ordinarily has no use for song or diversion.

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  The Bobbsey Twins in the Country

  Laura Lee Hope

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  A heartwarming children's story filled with excitement, discovery, and country charm.
  
  When the Bobbsey Twins visit the countryside, they find themselves surrounded by beautiful landscapes, playful adventures, and unexpected surprises. From outdoor explorations to amusing mishaps, every day brings something new and exciting.
  
  As the twins enjoy life in the country, they learn valuable lessons about friendship, teamwork, kindness, and curiosity. Their cheerful spirit and lively imagination make every moment entertaining and memorable.
  
  Filled with wholesome storytelling and gentle humor, this classic captures the joy of childhood and the beauty of simple adventures.
  
  Written by Laura Lee Hope.
  
  Enjoy a charming journey into the countryside with the Bobbsey Twins—download your copy today.

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  Meet Mr Mulliner

  P. G. Wodehouse

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  In Mr Mulliner, P.G Wodehouse (1881 -1975) has created a conduit for all manner of tall tales. The amiable gentleman happily regales the drinkers in the Angler’s Rest Pub with fascinating stories, usually about his own relatives, which range from the somewhat dubious, to the downright unbelievable.  
  Welcome to this eccentric world inhabited by Curates and Bishops high on health tonic, and a lovesick chap who utilises beauty remedies to win his love. A world where a deceased author’s cottage appears to exert a sentimental influence on all who enter, and where an earthquake can lead to marriage. 
    
  Wodehouse’s most famous creations the implacable “Jeeves” and the archetypal English toff “Bertie Wooster” are only the tip of the author’s considerable output. A master of humorous prose, he published over ninety books, forty plays and two hundred short stories.  
  Head Stories presents " Meet Mr Mulliner" - narrated by Simon Hester

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  Desperate Remedies

  Thomas Hardy

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  A young woman with no money takes a post as a lady's maid to a wealthy spinster, and finds that the household's secrets involve the architect she once loved. Hardy published it anonymously at thirty-one, after paying his own guarantee against loss, and wrote it to a publisher's brief: give us a plot with mystery in it. The Wessex he would spend his life mapping is already visible underneath the sensation.

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  Orlando

  Virginia Woolf

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  A classic of the feminist and queer canons, Orlando is loosely based on the life of Virginia Woolf’s lover and friend, Vita Sackville-West. But it’s a story that playfully bends and breaks the bounds of reality.When the book begins, Orlando is living richly as a nobleman in the court of Queen Elizabeth I. After awakening one day transformed into a woman, Orlando returns to England and must navigate a society that suddenly treats her freedom, inheritance, and ambitions very differently. From glittering Elizabethan courts to the bustle of the nineteenth century, Orlando travels through 300 years without seeming to age. An important work of modernist queer fiction, the book moves in strange and unexpected ways, making a smart satire of literary history. At once imaginative and sharp-eyed, it remains one of Woolf’s most original and beloved novels.

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