Starting October with a double bill

A double-bill of new Audible releases to start October!

Uneasy Money

First, in PG Wodehouse’s Uneasy Money, amiable but stolid peer Bill, Lord Dawlish, possessor of a slender income and a querulous fiancĂ©e, resolves to seek his fortune in America. But before he can even get on the boat, he discovers that the eccentric American millionaire whom he cured of slicing his approach-shots on the links at Marvis Bay a few months earlier has unexpectedly left him $5 million dollars, as a reward for his altruistic action.

But to Bill, noblesse more or less obliges him to share the fortune with the old man’s disinherited niece, Elizabeth. When Elizabeth refuses to take a dollar, however, Bill discovers just how difficult it can be to give money away, in a tale of assumed identities, bees, automobile magnates, disastrous dancing, and a monkey called Eustace…

A Shropshire Lad

And then, in a change of pace, one of the best-loved collections in English poetry: A. E. Housman’s A Shropshire Lad deals in simple, gently accessible language, with universal themes of life, death, love, and loss, set against the backdrop of the timeless Shropshire countryside.

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