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No Name, Wilkie Collins’s suspenseful novel about a woman’s quest to avenge the injustice caused to her and her sister, is brought to life by a cast led by Nicholas Boulton. Henry James’s haunting story about crippling obsession, The Beast in the Jungle, is read by Kris Dyer, and Émile Zola’s raw portrait of unrecognised artistic genius, The Masterpiece, is narrated by Leighton Pugh.

Magdalen and Norah Vanstone have known only comfort and affluence for their entire lives. Orphaned suddenly following the unexpected deaths of their parents…

Bachelor John Marcher is haunted by the premonition that something terrible lies in store for him, like a ‘beast in the jungle’ lying in wait. So he spends his life…

Perhaps the most autobiographical of Zola’s Rougon-Macquart cycle of novels, The Masterpiece is a hard, bleak and raw portrait of unrecognised artistic genius.

The NAB Blog: Splendid Isolation: Lockdown Literature

That writers write in isolation is of little surprise… a state of solitude is a necessity for almost all writers. Jane Austen sat by the dining parlour windows of her house at Chawton, writing at her walnut table – the …

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