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A Christmas Carol

A Christmas Carol

Perhaps the most famous and most accessible of Dickens' stories which can be enjoyed every year afresh at Christmas time, as we never tire of the inspirational story of Scrooge's redemption and transformation. Here performed with warmth and compelling...

A Study in Scarlet

A Study in Scarlet

In a Study in Scarlet Conan Doyle first presented to the world his unique creation Mr Sherlock Holmes almost complete.Over successive stories we learn a little more about the man, but it is not for character development that we turn to the Chronicles...

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Lewis Carroll's timeless tale of fantasy, nonsense and beautiful absurdity, narrated by Simon Hester. Author - Lewis Carroll. Narrator - Simon Hester. Published Date - Sunday, 22 January 2023. Copyright - © 1865 Simon Hester ©.

Around the World in 80 Days

Around the World in 80 Days

The imperturbable Englishman Phileas Fogg attempts to makes an exciting journey around the World in 80 Days. By his side is the ever resourceful and faithful Passpartout and on his heels is the determined Detective Fix.Jules Verne's classic story...

Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare

Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare

Step into the timeless world of Shakespeare through the E. Nesbit's "Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare" which bring the Bard's greatest plays to life in clear, engaging prose, preserving their drama, romance, humour, and adventure for readers of all...

Bulldog Drummond

Bulldog Drummond

In the swirling mists of post-World War I England, a character emerged from the pen of "Sapper", (H.C.McNeile) whose adventures would captivate readers and endure through the ages. Bulldog Drummond, the invincible hero, burst onto the literary scene...

Conan Doyle - More Selected Short Stories - Volume 2

Conan Doyle - More Selected Short Stories - Volume 2

A further selection of short tales from the master storyteller Arthur Conan Doyle containing all the imagination and intrigue he brought to his famous detective.Headstories Audio presents Conan Doyle - More Selected Short Stories, narrated by Simon...

Conan Doyle - Selected Short Stories -Volume 1

Conan Doyle - Selected Short Stories -Volume 1

Head Stories Audio presents a selection of 16 short stories by the creator of Sherlock Holmes.Despite being over a century old, Conan Doyle's short stories continue to captivate readers and inspire other works of fiction. Many modern writers including...

Conan Doyle - Short Stories - Volume 3

Conan Doyle - Short Stories - Volume 3

Head Stories presents the 3rd volume of Selected Short Stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, narrated by Simon Hester. With original music.The Brown HandThe King of the FoxesLot 249How It HappenedThe Terror of Blue John GapThe ContestAn IconoclastThe...

Edgar Allan Poe - Selected Tales

Edgar Allan Poe - Selected Tales

Edgar Allan Poe will always be associated with the macabre and mysterious. In this selection of 11 of his short stories Poe's unique voice can be heard in all its Gothic splendour."The Fall of the House of Usher" a death obsessed man, in his desperate...

Edgar Allan Poe - Selected Tales (Volume 2)

Edgar Allan Poe - Selected Tales (Volume 2)

Though he is most often remembered as the architect of the modern tale of terror, Edgar Allan Poe's short fiction ranges far beyond the confines of the macabre. In these 13 selected stories, he deals not merely with fear, but with consciousness...

Five Children and It

Five Children and It

The story of three wishes being granted is an old one and often takes the form of a precautionary tale with the resultant moral being “be careful what you wish for!” Such is the fallibility of human nature that we can’t easily be trusted to use those...

Far from its popular image, the story of Frankenstein as told by Mary Shelley is not a tale that finds horror in a hideous "monster" or a "crazed" scientist. The darkness in the narrative is found in the profound loneliness of both Creator and Created...

Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners

Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners

The text you are about to read, Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners, is an enduring testament to the transformative power of faith and the boundless mercy of divine grace. Written by John Bunyan during his imprisonment in the 1660s, this spiritual...

H.G Wells - Selected Short Stories

H.G Wells - Selected Short Stories

Head Stories Audio presents 16 selected short stories by one of the genre’s masters, H.G. Wells.Not unexpectedly some, such as “The Crystal Egg” and “The Remarkable Case of Davidson’s Eyes” are typical of Wells’ popular science fiction and explore the...

H.G. Wells -More Selected Short Stories

H.G. Wells -More Selected Short Stories

H.G. Wells is widely regarded as one of the most imaginative and visionary writers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Best known for his groundbreaking science fiction novels like The War of the Worlds and The Time Machine, Wells was also a...

Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow

Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow

Jerome. K. Jerome allows us to laugh, with and at, both himself and ourselves in his writing. As we peruse his “Idle Thoughts” on subjects ranging from babies to ambition, from dogs to poverty, we find that the dust of over a hundred years have not...

Just So Stories

Just So Stories

The World has always yearned for creation stories. We cannot hope to know where we are going if we do not know from where we came.Rudyard Kipling’s whimsical tales of the origins of, amongst others, the tides, the Elephant’s trunk, the Leopard’s spots...

King Solomon's Mines

King Solomon's Mines

Written in 1885, “King Solomon’s Mines” by Henry Rider Haggard is at first glance, very much a book of its time. Its narrator, Alan Quartermain, is the archetype Colonial white hunter and adventurer.He thinks nothing of bagging an elephant or two for...

First published in 1905 Kipps soon became H.G Wells’ most popular novel. It is a rags to riches story of a “simple soul” Arthur Kipps, a naïve young man who finds himself suddenly struggling to keep afloat in the deep waters of unlooked for wealth. He...

First published in 1895, Lilith stands as one of George MacDonald’s most enigmatic and haunting works, a blend of fantasy, theology, and metaphysical speculation. Revered by literary giants such as C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien, MacDonald’s fiction...

Lord Peter Views the Body

Lord Peter Views the Body

"Lord Peter Views the Body," first published in 1928, stands as a brilliant testament to Dorothy L. Sayers' mastery of the detective genre. This collection of short stories offers readers an intimate glimpse into the world of Lord Peter Wimsey, one of...

When Max Carrados first appeared in the pages of Ernest Bramah in 1913, readers were invited to reconsider one of the most enduring assumptions in detective fiction: that seeing is knowing.Carrados is blind. Yet he is never portrayed as diminished....

Meet Mr Mulliner

Meet Mr Mulliner

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...

Mr Pim Passes By

Mr Pim Passes By

A.A. Milne will be forever associated with the timeless "Winnie the Pooh" books. In the Pooh stories and in his poetry for children Milne was able to enter the world of childhood in a unique way. Adults continue to enjoy the books as precious windows...