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Juliet Stevenson brings us the witty misadventures of Lady Arabella in The Female Quixote, a clever parody of Cervantes’ Don Quixote in which a young woman lives in expectation of the romantic adventures that she has read about in French novels. Meanwhile Nicholas Boulton reads The House of the Dead, Dostoyevsky’s semi-autobiographical account of life in a Siberian prison camp, and leads a cast recording of Wilkie Collins’s Armadale, with Lucy Scott as the malevolent charmer Lydia Gwilt. We also have economist Adam Smith’s magnum opus, The Wealth of Nations, read by Peter Wickham.

Young, wealthy Arabella is obsessed with French romances: brought up by a reclusive widowed father in an isolated castle, she has educated herself…

Completed six years after Dostoyevsky’s own term as a convict, The House of the Dead is a semi-autobiographical account of life in a Siberian prison camp…

Two young men linked by a familial murder mystery, a beautiful yet wicked governess who spins a web of deceit, and five individuals named Allan Armadale…

It was Adam Smith (1723–1790) who first established economics as a separate branch of knowledge, and many would say his work has never been surpassed.

The NAB Blog: The Great Plague of London: A Lesson from History

In the Peak District of England lies the small picturesque village of Eyam. With a population of less than 1,000 it has received media attention in recent weeks due to its reaction in the wake of the Great Plague of …

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