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AudioFile Golden Voice Rupert Degas brings us A Tale of One January, Albert Maltz’s moving tale about six people who escape the horrors of Auschwitz. Despite their individual backgrounds and nationalities, they form their own family caught between the euphoria of freedom and the terror of their circumstances after breaking free of death’s embrace. One of the Hollywood Ten, Maltz was blacklisted during McCarthyism and thwarted as a writer for almost 20 years. His work is now being rediscovered.

David Horovitch gives an immersive reading of Victory, Joseph Conrad’s gripping adventure about a European who retreats to a tropical island; Georgina Sutton narrates Hester, Margaret Oliphant’s dramatic story of female power and money tensions in Victorian society; and David Timson reads The Hollow Needle: The Further Adventures of Arsène Lupin, another exciting and entertaining listen for fans of detective fiction.

A Tale of One January (unabridged)

Poland, January 1945. Two women and four men escape from a Nazi death march after enduring the horrors of imprisonment at Auschwitz. Despite their individual backgrounds and nationalities…

Victory (unabridged)

Set in the Dutch East Indies in 1900, Joseph Conrad’s last major novel, Victory, tells the story of Axel Heyst, a European who has retreated to the island of Samburan following a business misadventure.

Hester (unabridged)

Hester (1883) is a dramatic story of female power and family tensions within Victorian society. Using her own money, Catherine Vernon manages to save the family bank from collapse after her cousin…

The Hollow Needle (unabridged)

An exciting and entertaining listen for fans of detective fiction, The Hollow Needle features the popular character Arsène Lupin, gentleman-burglar and master of disguise. Intrigued by a legend…

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The NAB Blog: Breaking Boundaries – Virginia Woolf’s Orlando
Orlando (unabridged)

‘Orlando had become a woman – there is no denying it. But in every other respect, Orlando remained precisely as he had been. The change of sex, though it altered their future, did nothing whatever to alter their identity.’ The …

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