Short Stories audiobooks

The Temptation of Haringay

By: H. G. Wells

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Herbert George Wells (1866 – 1946) was a prolific English writer who is best remembered for his science fiction novels.

"The Temptation of Haringay" is the strange tale of an unsuccessful artist who is unexpectedly approached with an offer by the devil - his soul in return for the thing he most yearns for... Read more

Aepyornis Island

By: H. G. Wells

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Herbert George Wells (1866 – 1946) was a prolific English witer, now best remembered for his science fiction novels, and is often credited as being the father of science fiction.

"Aepyornis Island" is the strange tale of a naturalist who find himself adrift in a canoe in the Indian Ocean, with three mysterious rare giant eggs which he has... Read more

The Crystal Egg

By: H. G. Wells

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Herbert George Wells (1866 – 1946) was a prolific English writer best known for his outstanding science fiction stories and novels. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature four times.

"The Crystal Egg" is a science fiction short story about an antiquarian dealer, Mr. Cave, who discovers that a crystal egg in his shop has strange... Read more

The Diamond Maker

By: H. G. Wells

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Herbert George Wells (1866 – 1946) was a prolific English writer, now best remembered for his science fiction novels.

"The Diamond Maker" is the story of a self-taught chemistry enthusiast who is obsessed with developing a process for creating artificial diamonds. Read more

In the Avu Observatory

By: H. G. Wells

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Herbert George Wells (1866 – 1946) was a prolific English writer of science fiction stories and novels, and is credited as being the father of science fiction.

"In the Avu Observatory" is a story about a scientist working at a remote observatory in a remote forest in Borneo. One night, the astronomer's assistant, Woodhouse, is attacked by a huge... Read more

A Deal in Ostriches

By: H. G. Wells

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Herbert George Wells (1866 – 1946) was a prolific English writer of science fiction stories and novels, and is credited with being the father of science fiction.

""A Deal in Ostriches"" is an amusing tale about a situation on a ship returning from the Indies with several passengers and five ostriches on board. One of the ostriches swallows a... Read more

Die Modernisierung meiner Mutter - Geschichten

By: Bov Bjerg

Narrated by: Bov Bjerg

Length: 3 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Das Best of Bov. Das Beste aus 20 Jahren vom Shootingstar der deutschen Literatur: Geschichten über die schwäbische Heimat, das Berliner Exil und das ferne Amerika. Komisch und melancholisch. Vielschichtig und pointiert. Für den literarischen Genuss und den großen Lesespaß. "Seine Geschichten zu lesen ist ganz einfach immer wieder ein sehr... Read more

East, West

By: Salman Rushdie

Narrated by: Sunil Malhotra & Steven Crossley

Length: 4 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

A rickshaw driver dreams of being a Bombay movie star; Indian diplomats, who as childhood friends hatched Star Trek fantasies, must boldly go into a hidden universe of conspiracy and violence; and Hamlet's jester is caught up in murderous intrigues. In Rushdie's hybrid world, an Indian guru can be a redheaded Welshman, while Christopher Columbus... Read more

The Canal Boat Café

By: Cressida McLaughlin

Narrated by: Jessica Ball

Length: 13 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

The perfect summer romance from the author of A Christmas Tail. Perfect for fans of Sarah Morgan and Holly Martin. Summer Freeman returns to the waterside village of Willowbeck to rescue the Canal Boat Café, her late mother’s picturesque narrowboat, which has run into choppy waters. A family friend, Valerie, has been trying... Read more

The Effigy

By: G. Ranger Wormser

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Gwendolyn Ranger Wormser was a Victorian writer best known for her weird psychological horror stories.

'The Effigy' is the story of Genevieve Evans, a young woman in an unhappy marriage who is dominated by her unscrupulous, controlling father and belittled by her uncaring husband. Her frustration and rage, particularly at her father, whose... Read more

A Haunted House

By: Virginia Woolf

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Adeline Virginia Woolf (January 1882-1941) was an English writer and one of the preeminent modernists of the 20th century. Her stories often seem to take the form of a stream of consciousness.

'A Haunted House' tells the story of a ghostly couple flitting from one room to the next in search of their hidden treasure...but what is it? Read more

Only a Dream

By: H. Rider Haggard

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Sir Henry Rider Haggard (1856 – 1925), known as H. Rider Haggard, was an English writer of adventure stories, often set in exotic locations, especially Africa, and a pioneer of the Lost World literary genre.

"Only a Dream" is a ghost story about the strange experience of a widower about to remarry, who is visited on the eve of his wedding by the... Read more

Four Short Stories by Virginia Woolf

By: Virginia Woolf

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Adeline Virginia Woolf (January 1882-1941) was an English writer and one of the preeminent modernists of the 20th century. Her stories often appear as streams of consciousness as the writer's attention is drawn by things around her, memories and insights which bubble up in her brain and interruptions from the outside world.

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Haunted

By: G. Ranger Wormser

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Gwendolin Ranger Wormser was a Victorian writer of weird psychological horror stories.

'Haunted' is the eerie tale of a man who was once rescued from the sea and who is obsessed with the belief that one day the sea will come and reclaim his soul. But then he meets the fearless fisherman's daughter, Sally.

When Sally's father and brother are caught... Read more

The String Quartet

By: Virginia Woolf

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Adeline Virginia Woolf (January 1882-1941) was an English writer and one of the preeminent modernists of the 20th century.

'The String Quartet' is a beautifully written and evocative stream of semiconscious thought stimulated by listening to a string quartet playing a piece by Mozart. Read more

The Scarecrow

By: G. Ranger Wormser

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Gwendolyn Ranger Wormser's was a Victorian writer best known for her weird psychological horror stories.

The best known of these is 'The Scarecrow', an eerie tale of a sinister scarecrow beckoning to the young son of the farmer from the moonlit cornfield. Read more

Kosmo & Klax. Jahreszeiten-Geschichten - Abridged

By: Alexandra Helmig

Narrated by: Alexandra Helmig

Length: 1 hour 13 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Das mutige Eichhörnchen und der übermütige Ball erleben spannende Abenteuer quer durch die Jahreszeiten. Im Frühling messen sie ihre Fähigkeiten, im Sommer planschen sie im See, im Herbst machen sie Bekanntschaft mit einem hungrigen Pferd und im Winter führen sie Gespräche mit einem Schneemann. Egal zu welcher Jahreszeit bei ihnen ist immer was... Read more

Kosmo & Klax. Gute-Nacht-Geschichten - Abridged

By: Alexandra Helmig

Narrated by: Alexandra Helmig

Length: 1 hour 13 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Das mutige Eichhörnchen und der übermütige Ball erleben spannende Abenteuer mit ihren Freunden. Ob eine Nachtwanderung organisiert, ein Flohmarkt veranstaltet oder die Sonne hergemalt wird – bei den Freunden im verwunschenen Park ist immer etwas los. Die Schauspielerin und Autorin Alexandra Helmig leiht den Figuren ihre Stimme. Auf... Read more

Kosmo & Klax. Freundschaftsgeschichten - Abridged

By: Alexandra Helmig

Narrated by: Alexandra Helmig

Length: 1 hour 18 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Das mutige Eichhörnchen und der übermütige Ball erleben spannende Abenteuer quer durch die Jahreszeiten. Im Frühling messen sie ihre Fähigkeiten, im Sommer planschen sie im See, im Herbst machen sie Bekanntschaft mit einem hungrigen Pferd und im Winter führen sie Gespräche mit einem Schneemann. Egal zu welcher Jahreszeit bei ihnen ist immer was... Read more

Chance Developments

By: Alexander McCall Smith

Narrated by: Jamie Jackson, John Keating, Robert Ian Mackenz...

Length: 5 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

It is said that a picture may be worth a thousand words but an old photograph can inspire many more. In this beguiling book, Alexander McCall Smith casts his eye over five chanced-upon photographs from the era of black-and-white photography and imagines the stories behind them.Who were those people, what were their stories, why are they smiling,... Read more

Little Bible Stories

By: Various

Narrated by: Elizabeth Cottle

Length: 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Introducing youngsters to classic Bible stories, this collection features four beloved tales of courage, friendship and imagination! Kids will love hearing the story of David as he faces Goliath, and following Jonah, as they learn the importance of bravery. The Good Samaritan teaches kindness to all, while Joseph's coat of many colors leads him... Read more

Ninety-Nine Stories of God

By: Joy Williams

Narrated by: Elisabeth Rodgers

Length: 1 hour 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist Joy Williams has a one-of-a-kind gift for capturing both the absurdity and the darkness of everyday life. In Ninety-Nine Stories of God, she takes on one of mankind’s most confounding preoccupations: the Supreme Being.This series of short, fictional vignettes explores our day-to-day interactions... Read more

The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis

By: Max Shulman

Narrated by: George Newbern

Length: 6 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Including stories first published in Cosmopolitan and theSaturday Evening Post, this bestselling collection follows the romantic escapades of Max Shulman's famed collegiate Don Juan. Like most undergraduates, Dobie Gillis is a bit scattered-sometimes he's as quick as a whip, other times dull as a doorstop, and his major keeps changing from... Read more

Bones on the Bayou

By: Carolyn Haines

Narrated by: Kate Forbes

Length: 1 hour 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Christmas is six days away-and Sarah Booth Delaney has her hands full! To honor a group of international investors, Shaw, Mississippi, resurrects the old custom of drifting miniature, lighted Christmas floats down Silver Bayou. The Italian delegation from Venice may bring much-needed new jobs and commercial opportunities to this small,... Read more