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  Expecting - The Duology

  P. O. Dixon

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  Experience the timeless tale of Elizabeth and Mr. Darcy as they challenge societal expectations and follow their hearts in this captivating duology. With each story, be swept away by their journey to find love and overcome obstacles that threaten to keep them apart. 
  Book 1 - Expecting His Proposal 
  What if Darcy had not insulted Elizabeth at the Meryton assembly, but had danced with her instead? What if Elizabeth had refused to listen to anything negative that George Wickham had to say about Darcy? What if Elizabeth had been so preoccupied with thoughts of the master of Pemberley that by the time his visit to Kent was coming to an end, she was expecting his proposal? 
  Book 2 - Expecting His Wife 
  Miss Elizabeth Bennet has accepted Mr. Darcy’s proposal. Wedding plans are well underway. What could possibly go wrong? 
  What happens when Elizabeth’s Hertfordshire relations and Mr. Darcy’s aristocratic relations come face to face? Is the couple’s abiding love enough to ensure their path to happily ever after, or will a mishap or two get in their way? You’ll love how this fast-paced, diverting short story of lasting love and ultimate acceptance unfolds. 
  What listeners have said about the books in this duology: 
  “Expecting His Proposal met all my expectations once again, from reading the book to listening to the audiobook. It brought laughter and sighs and made me smile in happiness to listen to yet another masterpiece.” 
  “Pearl Hewitt brings humor and passion into the characters of the story, and brings them to life, which makes the story even better than if one only read the book.” 
  “I just love narrator Pearl Hewitt. She has a spunk and sassiness in her readings that make listening very enjoyable.”

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  Lavender Blue

  Parris Afton Bonds

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  80s Romance Reboot 
  Parris Afton Bonds is the New York Times Bestselling Author of more than 50 novels - most of them are historical fiction and historical romance. Join Parris as she reboots her classic romance novels as audiobooks. 
  Many of these spicy romances were originally published in the 70s, 80s, and 90s. The days of heaving bosoms, throbbing loins, and ripped bodices. He wanted to take her, and she wanted to be taken; but she wasn’t going to tell him that! 
  Travel back in time to the days of big hair, big shoulders, and big libidos.Lavender Blue 
  The Frenchman was everything Jeanette St. John detested. A mercenary, a man with no morals, a renegade. But Kitt was reckless and daring, cautious and calculating – and he was captain of one of the fastest ships on the ocean. And so she bargained with the devil – on his terms. In exchange for transporting her cotton and turning it into medical supplies and ammunition for her beloved Confederacy, she was to let him ravish her for every shipment he delivered.

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  Mismatch of the Season The...

  Michelle Kenney

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  Calling all Bridgerton and Jane Austen fans! You are cordially invited to fall in love with your favourite new Regency romance novel…‘Worthy of Georgette Heyer…the most wonderfully satisfying five star Regency Romp’ Julie Caplin 
  ‘I don’t pretend to know the details of your private life, Miss Fairfax, but you might do better to embrace the fortunate position into which you were born, rather than regret the one that only exists between the covers of a novel’ 
  Miss Phoebe Fairfax dreams of being as free as her four brothers. When she discovers she is to be wed to a repugnant earl who is old enough to be her grandfather, she decides to embark on a real adventure… 
  Enter the insufferable – and insufferably gorgeous – Viscount Damerel. 
  A must-read for fans of Evie Dunmore, Martha Waters and Virginia HeathWhy readers are falling in love with Mismatch of the Season: 
  Enemies to lovers with a Bridgerton style twist! Funny, poignant, inspiring … it's a must read!'⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 
  'Fun, witty, engaging and just overall a great read. Five stars'⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 
  'I loved every minute of it, I couldn’t put it down'⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 
  Looking for a romantic Regency that take all your blues away? Mismatch of the Season delivers'⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 
  'A masterpiece of a book! It was so overwhelmingly good that I couldn't put it down'⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 
  'A brilliant example of this genre. What a film this would make!'⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 
  'Historical enemies to lovers?! Sign me up!'⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐More praise for The Mismatch of the Season: 
  'The Mismatch of the Season is the perfect cosy read for fans of Bridgerton and Little Women. I devoured it like a thick hot chocolate on a cold winter’s night.' Holly Race, author of Midnight's Twins 
  'Proper Regency goodness in book form, with characters I adore!’ Bex Hogan, author of the Isles of Storm and Sorrow trilogy 
  'This had everything I want from a Regency novel: A lively, rule-breaking heroine and a surly Viscount to bicker with. I raced through it faster than a heroine on a runaway horse.' Andreina Cordani, author of The 12 Days of Murder 
  The latest in the series, this humorous sequel promises to be the best yet. Miss Phoebe Fairfax's story continues, filled with comedy and charm, making it a top pick for fans of fiction. 
  For fans of Mary Balogh (Someone to Love), Emma Orchard (For the Viscount's Eyes Only), Sophia Holloway (Celia), Alexandra Vasti (Ne'er Duke Well), and Emma Melbourne (The Mysterious Mr. Oliver). 
  HarperCollins 2025

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  Top 10 Short Stories The -...

  William Makepeace Thackeray, E F...

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  Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart.  A few pages can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere. 
   
  In this series we try to offer up tried and trusted ‘Top Tens’ across many different themes and authors. But any anthology will immediately throw up the questions – Why that story? Why that author?  
   
  The theme itself will form the boundaries for our stories which range from well-known classics, newly told, to stories that modern times have overlooked but perfectly exemplify the theme.  Throughout the volume our authors whether of instant recognition or new to you are all leviathans of literature. 
   
  Some you may disagree with but they will get you thinking; about our choices and about those you would have made.  If this volume takes you on a path to discover more of these miniature masterpieces then we have all gained something. 
   
  In this volume we explore and enjoy the stories of authors who attended one of the great seats of learning.  Amongst their storied number are M R James, Hugh Walpole, William Makepeace Thackeray and a host of others. 
   
  01 - The Top 10 - Cambridge - An Introduction 
  02 - A Little Dinner At Timmin's by William Makepeace Thackeray 
  03 - Caterpillars by E F Benson 
  04 - Cohen of Trinity by Amy Levy 
  05 - The Ash Tree by M R James.wav 
  05 - Major Wilbraham by Hugh Walpole 
  07 - Far Above Rubies by Netta Syrett 
  08 - The Closed Window by A C Benson 
  09 - The Diary of a God by Barry Pain 
  10 - The 9.30 Up-Train by Sabine Baring-Gould 
  11 - The Screaming Skull by F Marion Crawford

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  The Short Stories of Jack London...

  Jack London

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  John Griffith Chaney was born on January 12th, 1876 in San Francisco.   
   
  His father, William Chaney, was living with Flora Wellman when she became pregnant.  Chaney insisted she have an abortion.  Flora's response was to turn a gun on herself.  Although her wounds were not severe the trauma made her temporarily deranged. 
   
  In late 1876 his mother married John London and the young child was brought to live with them as they moved around the Bay area, eventually settling in Oakland where now, calling himself Jack, he completed grade school. 
   
  Jack worked hard at several jobs, sometimes 12-18 hours a day, but his dream was university.  He studied hard and borrowed the money to enrol in the summer of 1896 at the University of California in Berkeley. 
   
  In 1897, at 21, Jack searched out newspaper accounts of his mother's suicide attempt and for the name of his biological father. He wrote to Chaney, then living in Chicago, who claimed he could not be Jack’s father because he was impotent and casually asserted that London's mother had relations with other men.  Jack, devastated by the response, quit Berkeley and went to the Klondike. Other accounts suggest that his dire finances presented Jack with the excuse he needed to leave. 
   
  In the Klondike Jack began to gather material for his writing but also accumulated many health problems, including scurvy, which together with hip and leg problems he would carry for the rest of his life. 
   
  During the late 1890's Jack was regularly publishing short stories and by the turn of the century full blown novels. 
   
  By 1904 Jack had married, fathered two children and was now in the process of divorcing.  A stint as a reporter on the Russo-Japanese war of 1904 was equal amounts trouble and experience. But that experience was always put to good use in a continuing and remarkable output of work. 
   
  In 1905 he married Charmian Kittredge who at last was a soul and companion who brought him some semblance of peace despite his advancing alcoholism and his incurable wanderlust. 
   
  Twelve years later Jack had amassed both wealth and a literary reputation through such classics as ‘The Call of the Wild’, ‘White Fang’ and many others. He had a reputation as a social activist and was a tireless friend of the workers.   
   
  Jack London died suffering from dysentery, late-stage alcoholism and uremia, aged only 40, on November 22nd 1916 at his property in Glen Elen in California. 
  01 - Jack London - A Short Story Collection - An Introduction 
  02 - To Build a Fire by Jack London 
  03 - A Wicked Woman by Jack London 
  04 - The Unparallelled Invasion by Jack London 
  05 - A Thousand Deaths by Jack London

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  George Silverman's Explanation

  Charles Dickens, Dominic Gerrard

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  George Silverman’s Explanation (published in The Atlantic in 1868) is one of Charles Dickens’ rarer short stories. Here the author immerses himself entirely in his character of George Silverman: addressing the reader in a dramatic monologue in which he is reticent, perhaps even unwilling to open up to us, but at the same time compelled to unburden his heart.  
  So deeply does Dickens embody the role of Silverman that in a letter to an editor he writes that: 'I feel as if I had read something (by somebody else) which I should never get out of my head …’ 
  This tale is an indictment against poverty as powerful as you will find in any of Dickens’ larger works. It is also a biting satire against the 'daring ignorance' and little 'meannesses' found in many non-conformist movements. Above all it is a deeply affecting examination of how far a childhood of of both want and punishing religious control can impact a man’s self-worth and future happiness. 
  Narrated by Dominic Gerrard 
  Cover Art by Léna Gibert

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