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The Book of the Cheese by Thomas Wilson Reid audiobook. Genre: history The Book of the Cheese is a lively historical portrait of Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese, the famous tavern tucked away in Wine Office Court off Fleet Street, London. Compiled by Thomas Wilson Reid, the book treats t ...  Show more

Upper Canada Sketches by Thomas Conant audiobook. Genre: history Upper Canada Sketches is a vivid blend of family chronicle, local history, and frontier memoir in which Thomas Conant looks back on the making of early Ontario, still remembered here by its older name, Upper Canada. ...  Show more

Great Britain’s Regency Era (1811–1820) has long been wildly popular as a subject of historical fiction yet overly focused on the romance genre. The towering figures of Jane Austen and Georgette Heyer have tended to dominate the field to the point where even novels that are not p ...  Show more

Harold Bloom called Persuasion "the perfect novel." Virginia Woolf said "In Persuasion, Jane Austen is beginning to discover that the world is larger, more mysterious, and more romantic than she supposed." In this episode, the first of three parts, Jacke takes a look at Jane Aust ...  Show more

In the world of fantasy fiction, Leigh Bardugo is royalty: Her Grishaverse novels are mainstays on the young adult best-seller list, her “Shadow and Bone” trilogy has been adapted for a Netflix series and her adult novels “Ninth House” and “Hell Bent” established her as a forc ...

Charmian Kittredge London (1871-1955) may be best known as the wife of the famous American writer Jack London, but she was herself a literary trailblazer - and the epitome of a modern woman. In this episode, Jacke talks to biographer Iris Jamahl Dunkle (Charmian Kittredge London ...  Show more