Posted in ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥, England, Fiction, tagged Jenny Sterlin, Mental Illness, Series, Sherlock Holmes, World War I on November 25, 2010| Leave a Comment »
God of the Hive ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥
Read by Jenny Sterlin
10 Discs
Maintaining tenuous contact only by means of coded messages and cryptic notes with her husband, Sherlock Holmes, and with Holmes’ young granddaughter in her safekeeping, Russell will have to call on instincts she didn’t know she had as the famous husband and wife sleuths are pursued by a killer immune from the sting of justice.
Posted in ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥, England, English History, Fiction, History, World History, tagged Art History, Artists, Boarding School, Ceramics, Children's Literature, English Literature, Germany, Homosexuality, Italy, Mothers, Museums, Mythology, Paris, Rosalyn Landor, Scholarship, Subjugation, Suffrage, Suicide, World War I, Writers on January 18, 2010| Leave a Comment »
The Children’s Book ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥
Read by Rosalyn Landor
24 discs
When Olive Wellwood’s oldest son discovers a runaway named Philip sketching in the basement of the new Victoria and Albert Museum, the talented working-class boy is introduced into a completely new world. Olive takes Philip home to meet her family and friends all of whom could be characters out of one of her magical tales. Yet this world conceals more treachery and darkness than Philip has ever imagined and that will soon be eclipsed by far greater forces.
Posted in England, Fiction, tagged Artists, Dating & Relationships, Internment, Letters, Russell Boulter, Subjugation, World War I on November 28, 2009| Leave a Comment »
Life Class ♥ ♥ ♥
Read by Russell Boulter
6 discs
In the spring of 1914, a group of young students gather in an art studio for a life-drawing class. Paul Tarrant and Elinor Brooke are two components of a love triangle, and at the outset of the war, they turn to each other. After volunteering for the Red Cross, Paul must confront the fact that life, love, and art will never be the same for him.
Posted in ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥, Fiction, tagged Jewish Culture, Kim Edwards-Fukei, Mothers, Returning Home, World War I, World War II on November 1, 2009| Leave a Comment »
The Vision of Emma Blau ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥
Read by Kim Edwards-Fukei
5 discs
In 1905, Stefan Blau, recently emigrated from Burgdorf, has a vision of a girl dancing in a courtyard (foreshadowing identifies her as his eventual granddaughter, Emma) and resolves to give substance to his dream in a building that he will call the Wasserburg. Stefan’s passion for the Wasserburg is also a curse, manifested when both his first wife and his second die in childbirth. Determined not to risk another child, he returns to Burgdorf and marries Helene Montag (sister of Leo, the dwarf Trudi’s father in Stones). Helene tricks him and has a child of her own–and survives–but the sibling rivalry among Stefan’s offspring, combined with the personality defects they acquire when he reserves all his love for the Wasserburg, will threaten to destroy the family.
Posted in ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥, Fiction, Read by Actor/Actress, tagged Hugh Bonneville, Islamic Culture, Religion, Turkey, World War I on March 6, 2009| Leave a Comment »
Birds Without Wings ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥
Read by Hugh Bonneville
The setting is a small village in southwestern Anatolia in the waning years of the Ottoman Empire. Everyone there speaks Turkish, though they write it in Greek letters. It’s a place that has room for a professional blasphemer; where a brokenhearted aga finds solace in the arms of a Circassian courtesan who isn’t Circassian at all; where a beautiful Christian girl named Philothei is engaged to a Muslim boy named Ibrahim. But all of this will change when Turkey enters the modern world. Epic in sweep, intoxicating in its sensual detail, Birds Without Wings is an enchantment
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