Audiobooks Narrated by Andy Minter

King Lear is widely held as the greatest of Shakespeare’s tragedies; to some, it is the greatest play ever written.

The Prisoner of Zenda tells the story of Rudolf Rassendyll, an English gentleman on holiday in Ruritania, a country not a thousand miles from Bavaria.

The Old Wives' Tale is a novel by Arnold Bennett, first published in 1908. It deals with the lives of two very different sisters, Constance and Sophia Baines, following their stories from their youth…

The Wrong Box is a comedy about the ending of a tontine (a tontine is an arrangement whereby a number of young people subscribe to a fund which is then closed and invested until all but one of the subscribers have died.

The ‘man of property' of the title is Soames Forsyte, a partner in the family law firm. He is married to Irene but the marriage is not happy and during the book she falls in love with another man.

George MacDonald's fairy stories and fantasy have inspired a number of writers including C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien...

‘The Forsyte Saga' is the story of a wealthy London family stretching from the eighteen-eighties until the nineteen-twenties.

This light-hearted story about Edward Henry Machin is of his rise from humble beginnings to wealth, married bliss and public recognition as the youngest-ever mayor of his home town.

George Stephenson did not invent the steam engine, that was due to Newcomen and later to James Watt. He did not invent the steam locomotive, that was due to a number of people including Cugnot, Trevithick and others.

We have had many novels about alternate histories, often of the ‘What would have happened if Hitler had won the war' type and this is another – except that this one is set in 1913 and the ‘William' of the title is that old bogeyman ‘Kaiser Bill'.