Eve Karpf has narrated 13 audiobooks on Listento.it by 15 authors, with an average listener rating of 3★ across 16 ratings. The most-rated is The Bookshop.
The Bookshop
Summary
Short-listed for the Booker Prize. In a small East Anglian town, Florence Green decides, against polite but ruthless local opposition, to open a bookshop. Hardborough becomes a battleground. Florence has tried to change the way things have always been done, and as a result she has to take on not only the people who have made themselves important but natural and even supernatural forces, too. Her fate will strike a chord with anyone who knows that life has treated them with less than justice.
©1978 Penelope Fitzgerald; Introduction David Nicholls 2013; Preface Hermione Lee 2013 (P)2016 HarperCollins Publishers Limited
The Afterdark Princess
Summary
Joe Quail is easily worried - the wrong kind of boy altogether to be a hero. But when Alice Fazackerley shows him the Kingdom of Afterdark and explains that someone's life is at stake, there doesn't seen to be much choice.
©2002 Annie Dalton (P)2014 Audible, Inc.
Ace Ghosts & Ghouls Rule
Summary
Creakie Hall is falling down but there is no money in the bank so Aunt Gardenia Bogey-Mandeville needs to come up with a money making scheme pretty quickly or she and her niece and nephew will be out on the streets. It seems unlikely that opening the Hall as a hotel will be very successful, especially when the first guests through the door are two stuffy, fussy hotel inspectors, but with the 'help' of a pair of ancient ghosts who float down from the attic, all is not lost.
©1998 Karen Wallace (P)2014 Audible, Inc.
The Poetry of Anne Bradstreet
Summary
Anne Bradstreet was born in 1612 in Northampton, England. Her parents' position allowed them to educate Anne across many subjects, which was unusual for its day. In her teens, she contracted smallpox, which was to undermine her health in later years. She married Simon at the age of 16. They, along with her parents, emigrated to America with other Puritans in 1630, arriving on June 14 in Massachusetts. They moved south to Charlestown almost immediately to find better conditions. After a short stay, they moved yet farther south to help found the ‘City on the Hill’, Boston. By 1632 they had moved once more, this time to Cambridge, Massachusetts, where Anne gave birth to her first child, Samuel. The family was instrumental in setting up Harvard University in 1636, but by the early 1640s, Anne, pregnant with her sixth child, and her family, moved for the sixth time to Andover Parish. In all, Anne bore eight children although her health was always weak. She did, however, write some beautiful poetry, and in 1650, the Rev. John Woodbridge had her collection of verse, The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America, composed by 'A Gentlewoman from Those Parts', published in London, making Anne the first female poet ever published in both England and the New World. On July 10, 1666, their North Andover family home burned down to leave them homeless. Tragically, her own personal library of some 800 books was also lost in the flames. By now, Anne's health was slowly failing. She suffered from tuberculosis and had to deal with the loss of cherished relatives. But her will remained strong and her faith in God undiminished. Anne Bradstreet died on September 16, 1672 in North Andover, Massachusetts, at the age of 60. This volume comes to you from Portable Poetry, a specialised imprint from Deadtree Publishing. Our range is large and growing and covers single poets, themes and many compilations.
©2019 Deadtree Publishing (P)2019 Copyright Group
The Lottie Project
Summary
Hi! I'm Charlie (don't call me Charlotte – ever!). History is boring, right? Wrong! The Victorians weren't all deadly dull and drippy. Lottie certainly isn't. She's eleven – like me – but she's left school and has a job as a nursery maid. Her life is really hard, just work work work, but I bet she'd know what to do about my mum's awful boyfriend and his wimpy little son. I bet she wouldn't mess it all up like I do ...
©2008 Jacqueline Wilson (P)2014 Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd
Star Spooks & Funky Phantoms
Summary
Star Spooks Hollywood has come to Creakie Hall! But is Chubby Cellophane really a world-famous director or is he a fake? Once again, the family ghosts, Miasma and Marmaduke, come to the rescue with some out-of-this-world special effects. Funky PhantomsGhost hunters have arrived at Creakie Hall! Miasma and Marmaduke are sure they're imposters who are up to no good. And while they're saving Creakie Hall from danger, things get really hair-raising.
©1998 Karen Wallace (P)2014 Audible, Inc.
The Revolting Baby & The Revolting Holiday
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The Revolting Baby Katie thinks looking after a baby will be easy. But after Emily has covered herself in sticky golden syrup, newspaper print, scrambled egg, a few leaves and plenty of boot polish, Katie has changed her mind!The Revolting Holiday A week in a holiday camp sounds awful to Katie she’s sure she’ll be bored stiff! But then she meets Antonia, whose family wins all the competitions, and suddenly Katie finds lots of opportunities for her family to show off their talents!
©1993 Mary Hooper 1994 (P)2014 Audible, Inc.
The Lighthouse
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Shortlisted for: New Writer of the Year – Specsavers National Book Awards 2012 Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2012 The Lighthouse begins on a North Sea ferry, on the blustery outer deck of which stands Futh: a middle-aged, recently-separated man heading to Germany for a restorative walking holiday. After an encounter with an inexplicably hostile barman at a family-run hotel in Hellhaus, Futh sets out on his week-long circular walk along the Rhine. As he travels, he contemplates his childhood, a complicated friendship with the son of a lonely neighbour, his parents’ broken marriage and his own. But the story he keeps coming back to, the one that affects all others, is his mother abandoning him as a boy. Recalling his first trip to Germany with his newly single father, Futh is mindful of something he neglected to do there; an omission which threatens to have devastating repercussions for him this time around. At the end of the week, sunburnt and blistered, Futh comes to the end of his pilgrimage, returning to what he sees as the sanctuary of the Hellhaus hotel; however, he is blissfully unaware of the events which have been unfolding there in his absence.
©2012 Alison Moore (P)2012 Audible Ltd
Tilly Beany and the Best Friend Machine
Summary
Until Miss Minchin makes them do the Best Friend Project, Tilly never thought about needing one special friend of her own. But Bernice, the new girl, likes Stephanie best and suddenly Tilly sees that everyone in the world goes around in twos.
©1993 Annie Dalton (P)2014 Audible, Inc.
A Creepy Company
Summary
These 11 stories include, amongst others, a terrifying Nordic curse and a country garden inhabited by a deadly ghost. Aiken's other works include 'The Kingdom Under The Sea', 'Mortimer Says Nothing' and 'Past Eight O'Clock'.
©1993 Joan Aiken Enterprises Ltd (P)2014 Audible, Inc.
Women's Short Stories, Volume 1
Summary
The art of writing a short story can be barely noticed by a reader or listener - such is the quality with which they are usually written. It is a difficult trade, an unforgiving discipline, but for those who master it, the rewards are many. In this series of works by our greatest female writers, we bring you a selection of those we consider the best. In Volume 1 we bring you the classics 'A Dill Pickle' by Katherine Mansfield, 'The Storm' by Kate Chopin, and 'The Sexton’s Hero' by Elizabeth Gaskell. These stories are read for you by the renowned actresses Eve Karpf and Liza Ross.
©2010 Word Of Mouth (P)2010 Word Of Mouth
Katherine Mansfield
Summary
These three stories are amongst the finest by Katherine Mansfield, a woman highly regarded as one of the greatest writers of short stories. In these bittersweet tales, she gently reveals the emotions and feelings within the lives of apparently unexceptional people. Her stories offer a sensitive insight into human behaviour, achieved not by creating scenes of high drama, but by revealing the motives and thoughts of believable characters. These stories are read for you by Eve Karpf, who trained at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. She is widely experienced both as a reader of audiobooks and as a BBC radio actress.
©2010 Word Of Mouth (P)2010 Word Of Mouth
The Pre-Raphaelite Poets
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The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood began as a group of painters, including Dante Gabriel Rossetti and William Holman Hunt, who wished to reject the stern and academic strictures of current painting and return to the simpler and more uncomplicated days before the Italian High Renaissance and the days of Raphael. The movement was short lived but very influential and, as well, was taken up by a number of different arts. For poetry, it was a major movement and, because of its depiction of pleasures of the flesh, was, at the time, heavily criticised. One critic called it ‘The Fleshly School of Poetry’. However, the sensationalist aside, it unleashed works that had instant appeal. The movement pushed back against contemporary writings, which seemed full of tradition and the more mundane problems of society. To exploit and gain attention for their ideas, the Brotherhood started their own periodical, The Germ, which, although it lasted only four numbers, did much to bring them attention. Its devotion to the mediaeval, to symbols and a more naturalistic and detailed approach to poetry, was refreshing, especially as the movement sprang up from a Victorian society that believed morals should be strictly managed, at least in public. The Pre-Raphaelites as an organised group eventually went their own way but had behind them works which heavily influenced painting and literature for decades to come. With poets of the calibre of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, his sister Christina Georgina Rossetti, William Morris, Charles Algernon Swinburne and George Meredith, poetry of great beauty, tenderness and even rawness was placed on the page. This volume comes to you from Portable Poetry, a specialized imprint from Deadtree Publishing. Our range is large and growing and covers single poets, themes, and many compilations.
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