Barchester Towers, Trollope's most popular novel, is the second of the six Chronicles of Barsetshire. The Chronicles follow the intrigues of ambition and love in the cathedral town of Barchester. Trollope was of course interested in the Church, that pillar of Victorian society - in its susceptibility to corruption, hypocrisy, and blinkered conservatism - but the Barsetshire novels are no more `ecclesiastical' than his Palliser novels are `political'. It is the behaviour of the individuals wit...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Fifteen Steps is a coming-of-age crime drama set in a small coastal town in Western Australia during the 1970s.Sam and Charlie have grown up with salt in their hair, surfboards under their arms and the ocean stretching endlessly before them.Then, one afternoon, they make a discovery that changes everything.Hidden beneath an old bridge is a crashed car, a dead man—and a bag containing money.They know someo...

William Blackstone's Commentaries on the Laws of England (1765-69) is perhaps the most elegant and influential legal text in the history of the common law. By one estimate, Blackstone has been cited well over 10,000 times in American judicial opinions alone. Prominent in recent reassessment of Blackstone and his works, Wilfrid Prest also convened the Adelaide symposia which have now generated two collections of essays: Blackstone and his Commentaries*: Biography, Law, His...