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A New Plan

In Love Me, Love My Dog

Read by Sophia Bishop


Carolyn Verhoeff


As unlikely as it seemed at first, three eleven-year-old girls, thrown together by circumstance, become inseparable friends who call themsel…

Children's Language and Literacy Impairments

Read by Dorothy Bishop


Dorothy Bishop


University of Oxford Podcasts

Ecco che un'altra volta

In Antologia di poetesse italiane

Read by Sophia


Isabella di Morra


Poesie di: Compiuta Donzella (fl. seconda metà del duecento) Nina Siciliana (fl. 1290)* Ricciarda de' Selvaggi (? - 1313)* Eleonora…

Confidence

In Complete Poems

Read by Sophia


Anne Brontë


Anne Brontë was the youngest of the three famous literary sisters and is best known for her novel The Tenant of Wildfell Hall. She wrot…

Farewell, Wife and Children Dear

In Mary Anerley

Read by Sophia Gannaoui


Richard Doddridge Blackmore


It is 1801, in the wild and rugged country that is northern England. A local Squire has died but his manor, Scargate Hall, is left to two si…

The Milky Way Falls Down

In Pee-Wee Harris in Luck

Read by Sophia R


Percy Keese Fitzhugh


Another episode in the life of the loveable Pee-Wee Harris, Boy Scout and Boy of Superior Appetite, who always lands on his feet, even when …

12 - Why There Is a Black Head in the Buzzard Family

In Mother West Wind 'Why' Stories

Read by Sophia Choi


Thornton W. Burgess


Thornton W. Burgess was a conservationist and prolific author of children's books. His gently humorous stories about the animals of the mead…

The Winter Term

In A Prefect's Uncle

Read by Sophia Gannaoui


P. G. Wodehouse


The action of the novel takes place at the fictional "Beckford College", a private school for boys; the title alludes to the arriv…

The Simpleton and his Little Black Hen

In The Wonder Clock

Read by Sophia Noelle


Howard Pyle


"Four and twenty marvellous tales, one for each hour of the day," retold in a novel and entertaining manner by a master of the for…

12 - Chapter 12

In Camille

Read by Sophia Choi


Alexandre Dumas


The Lady of the Camellias (French: La Dame aux camélias) is a novel by Alexandre Dumas, fils, first published in 1848, that was subse…

Thomas Weelkes

In Twelve Good Musicians: From John Bull to Henry Purcell

Read by Sophia Gannaoui


Frederick Bridge


Brief sketches of the lives and music of 12 well-known musicians. - Summary by KevinS

Bk 04 Ch 03

In Les Misérables, Volume 3

Read by Sophia Choi


Victor Hugo, transl. Hapgood and Victor Hugo


This is book 3 of 5.An ex-convict breaks parole and starts a new life as a righteous man, but is pursued by a police inspector. Along the wa…

Chapter 16

In The Woodlanders

Read by Sophia Choi


Thomas Hardy


The story takes place in a small woodland village called Little Hintock, and concerns the efforts of an honest woodsman, Giles Winterborne, …

‘More Faithful than Favoured’ by Miss Eleanor Sellar

In The Animal Story Book

Read by Sophia Kaushik


Various


Edited by Andrew Lang, this book is an anthology of interesting stories about a wide variety of diffferent animals collected from numerous s…

We Take a View of the Ice

In The Frozen Pirate (version 2)

Read by Sophia Gannaoui


William Clark Russell


Drawing on his own experience as a merchant seaman, Russell gives us the fictionalized narrative of one Paul Rodney who found an icebound v…

The Tinder Box

In Fairy Stories my Children Love Best of All

Read by Sophia Field


Edgar Dubs Shimer


In this collection, we get to know which fairy tales Mr Shimer loved to tell his kids. Some of the stories may be familiar, but most of them…