New This Month

Sean Barrett explores the hilarious neuroticisms of Italo Svevo’s alter ego Zeno Cosini in a world-premiere recording of Zeno’s Conscience, the novel known to have inspired James Joyce’s Leopold Bloom in Ulysses. Adam Sims brings us The House of the Seven Gables, Nathaniel Hawthorne’s gothic thriller about a family whose fortunes are poisoned by its past misdeeds; Laurel Lefkow follows The Age of Innocence with another of Edith Wharton’s masterpieces, The House of Mirth; and Benjamin Disraeli’s Sybil, a love story about a young working-class woman and a newly elected nobleman, is read by Tim Bentinck.

Known for inspiring James Joyce’s Leopold Bloom in Ulysses, Zeno Cosini is the bumbling yet charming alter ego of Italo Svevo, who…

‘To inherit a great fortune. To inherit a great misfortune.’ These words, from Nathaniel Hawthorne’s notebook, neatly encapsulate the theme…

Single woman of 29, Lily Bart is Edith Wharton’s quintessential trapped heroine. Orphaned following the death of her parents, Lily…

In Sybil, or The Two Nations, social activist, political reformer and twice Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli tells the love story of a young…

The NAB Blog: The Growth of the Podcast

Few people can have failed to notice the recent proliferation of podcasts in the market. A recent survey put the number of podcasts currently available at 700,000, offering a total of over 29 million episodes. There are now an estimated …

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