Simon Hester

Dostoevsky's novella " Notes from the Underground" is part embittered monologue and part ...

Today we take for granted the exploration of the fascinating submarine depths of the...

Arguably the most famous Sherlock Holmes stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.Dr Watson is s...

John Buchan himself stated that he set out to write a book in the style of the ubiquitous...

Books often suffer when over taken by the notoriety of the adaptations which they inspire...

To categorise Chesterton’s tale "The Man Who Was Thursday" is near impossible and u...

Head Stories Audio presents 16 selected short stories by one of the genre’s masters...

What would it be really like to have the power of invisibility? What could be achieved fo...

First published in 1895 this classic tale of three friends taking a boating holdiay on th...

Though brief in length, George Eliot’s (Mary Ann Evans) Silas Marner is a beautiful...

Authors all too often become the victims of their own success, forever associated with on...

E. Nesbit’s beautiful story of The Railway Children has faired well in many excelle...

In the third of his series of Father Brown short stories G.K Chesterton is almost reticen...

“It is not out of compliment that lovers keep on telling one another how beautiful ...

The imperturbable Englishman Phileas Fogg attempts to makes an exciting journey around th...

Set against the context of the Late Victorian period H.G Wells narrative of a Martian inv...

Perhaps it took an American to so skilfully write of Tudor history through the lens of US...

Written in 1885, “King Solomon’s Mines” by Henry Rider Haggard is at fi...

H.G Wells takes us on a fascinating and frightening journey forwards in time to find that...

Charles Pooter in the “Diary of a Nobody” is no mere figure of fun, no suburb...

Sherlock Holmes makes his second literary appearence in this thrilling novella by Conan D...

The World has always yearned for creation stories. We cannot hope to know where we are go...

The shadow of Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes would inevitably fall across much of th...

Although the least well known of the four Sherlock Holmes novels, "The Valley of Fear" is...

 Jerome. K. Jerome allows us to laugh, with and at, both himself and ourselves in hi...

Here is a selection of chilling tales only to be enjoyed of a dark evening when safely by...

An author who kills off his hero in so dramatic a fashion relatively early in that hero&r...

The famous and thrilling stories of William Shakespeare's plays are lovingly retold in eq...

Conan Doyle had attempted to bring his Sherlock Holmes stories to a fitting close in 1893...

One would think that after the momentous events of 1969 H.G Wells’ science fiction ...

Edgar Wallace was one of the most prolific British authors of the 20th Century and yet hi...

The Father Brown stories sit in relation to other detective literature much as the diminu...

Edgar Allan Poe will always be associated with the macabre and mysterious. In this select...

First published in 1905 Kipps soon became H.G Wells’ most popular novel. It is a ra...

G.K. Chesterton’s surreal fantasy “The Napoleon of Notting Hill” is set...

“You may think a crime horrible because you could never commit it. I think it horri...

The Scandal of Father Brown was G.K. Chesterton's final set of Father Brown short stories...

Who better to travel to Italy with than Charles Dickens? From the travails of 19th centur...

““What is a ‘Bummel’?” said George. “How would you tr...

Edward Prendick finds himself floating perilously in the ocean after having been shipwrec...

“The Wrong Box” is a wonderful, farcical black comedy co written by Robert Lo...

The story of three wishes being granted is an old one and often takes the form of a preca...

Here are 12 specially selected tales by one of the masters of this miniature art, Saki (H...

In Mr Mulliner, P.G Wodehouse (1881 -1975) has created a conduit for all manner of tall t...

Head Stories Audio presents a selection of 16 short stories by the creator of Sherlock Ho...

In the swirling mists of post-World War I England, a character emerged from the pen of "S...

Charles Kingsley's "The Water-Babies" stands as a timeless masterpiece that has captured ...