Audiobooks narrated by Naomi Barton

"It is 2003 in New Zealand, and Louisa Greenwood and her daughter Ngaroma are on a quest to discover their ancestry. Louisa has a greenstone necklace left to her in her father’s will, and from the first time Ngaroma wears it, she has unusual experiences, both good and bad. It leads her to various locations in New Zealand and England until, through a series of meetings and coincidences, she discovers the final resting place of her five times great grandmother. One hundred and fifty years earlier, Major Joseph Greenwood, with his wife Catherine, is sent via India and England to New Zealand as a Fencible. The couple becomes established in Auckland society and all goes well until Joseph, one drunken night, fathers a son to Miriama Potiki, their live-in housekeeper. What follows is a series of challenges involving the Greenwoods, their friends and family, on both sides of the world, and the ramifications are felt by Louisa and Ngaroma five generations later. Finding Miriama is about identity, chasing dreams and self-determination: a compelling story set against the background of the the first Anglo-Afghan War and Māori-Pakeha relations in colonial New Zealand. NOTE: A PDF with additional information, including glossary, map, and family tree, is available to download with the audiobook purchase."

Donna Goodacre (Author), Naomi Barton (Narrator)

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The Katherine Mansfield Special Collection

"Between 1922 and 1923, Katherine Mansfield wrote four volumes of short stories: The Garden Party and Other Stories Bliss and Other Stories In a German Pension The Dove’s Nest and Other Stories This recording includes all sixty-three stories from the four collections, including a number of incomplete stories collated after Mansfield’s death. This recording also includes an introduction written and narrated by Australian literary scholar Susannah Fullerton."

Katherine Mansfield (Author), Amy Soakes, Erin White, Kylie Elliott, Lisa Giles, Lyndal Curran Doolan, Naomi Barton, Sarah Bacaller, Susannah Fullerton (Narrator)

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The Dove's Nest and Other Stories

"The Dove’s Nest and Other Stories is a collection of both finished and unfinished short stories written by Katherine Mansfield. The collection was published posthumously, not long after Mansfield’s death in 1923, by her husband, John Middleton Murry. CONTENTS: Introductory Note - The Doll’s House - Honeymoon - A Cup of Tea - Taking the Veil - The Fly - The Canary This collection also includes the following unfinished stories: A Married Man’s Story - The Doves’ Nest - Six Years After - Daphne - Father and the Girls - All Serene! - A Bad Idea - A Man and His Dog - Such a Sweet Old Lady - Honesty - Susannah - Second Violin - Mr. and Mrs. Williams - Weak Heart - Widowed “About the author” written and read by Susannah Fullerton."

Katherine Mansfield (Author), Amy Soakes, Erin Marie White, Kylie Elliott, Lisa Giles, Lyndal Curran Doolan, Naomi Barton, Sarah Bacaller, Susannah Fullerton (Narrator)

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Bliss and Other Stories

"This collection of short stories, by celebrated New Zealand writer Katherine Mansfield, was first published in 1920. Many of Mansfield’s short stories explore New Zealand landscapes and identity, and her work has been a shaping force in the short story genre. CONTENTS: Prelude - Je ne Parle pas Français - Bliss - The Wind Blows - Psychology - Pictures - The Man without a Temperament - Mr. Reginald Peacock’s Day - Sun and Moon - Feuille d’Album - A Dill Pickle - The Little Governess - Revelations - The Escape"

Katherine Mansfield (Author), Amy Soakes, Erin Marie White, Kylie Elliott, Lisa Giles, Naomi Barton, Sarah Bacaller, Susannah Fullerton (Narrator)

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In a German Pension

"In a German Pension (1911) was Katherine Mansfield’s first published collection of short stories. Many of these works had been previously published in the British weekly magazine, The New Age, which also featured work by figures including G. K. Chesterton, H. G. Wells, and George Bernard Shaw. The word “pension' in the title refers to a European guest-house. After several relationally tumultuous years—which saw Mansfield fall pregnant out of wedlock, only to marry another man whom she left on the night of the wedding (an outcome that Mansfield’s mother blamed on a lesbian relationship)—Katherine was whisked off by her mother to Bad Wörishofen, a German spa town. Around this time, she miscarried her child. The stories contained in this collection were written soon after. Contents:“Germans at Meat”“The Baron”“The Sister of the Baroness”“Frau Fischer”“Frau Brechenmacher Attends a Wedding”“The Modern Soul”“At ‘Lehmann’s’”“The Luft Bad”“A Birthday”“The Child Who Was Tired”“The Advanced Lady”“The Swing of the Pendulum”“A Blaze” “About Katherine Mansfield'—written and read by Susannah Fullerton."

Katherine Mansfield (Author), Amy Soakes, Erin White, Kylie Elliott, Lisa Giles, Lyndal Curran Doolan, Naomi Barton, Sarah Bacaller, Susannah Fullerton (Narrator)

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Interdimensional Window SHOPping: A System Apocalypse Short Story

"Sometimes what you're buying isn't what they're expecting to sell Earth as a new Dungeon World means opportunities and dangers galore. One of the enduring aspects of the System is the Shop, an interdimensional series of stores that compete for the opportunity to service clients and make a profit doing so. New clients on a new Dungeon World mean rare and heretofore unseen items and massive profits. No surprise that the vultures have arrived, searching for easy marks. Good thing the Council have their own methods of dealing with such matters. Interdimensional Window SHOPping is a short story set in the System Apocalypse universe created by Tao Wong. The System Apocalypse is a completed post-apocalyptic LitRPG series."

Tao Wong (Author), Naomi Barton (Narrator)

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The System Apocalypse Short Story Anthology 2: A LitRPG post-apocalyptic fantasy and science fiction

"Dashing tales of heroics and everyday life abound in the second System Apocalypse short story anthology. Competing alien and human settlements clash, and a simple party planner is caught between in After Party. A New York trashman and his friend fight off loan sharks and exploit the System for gain, finding treasure among others garbage in Completely Trashed and a prisoner must decide between his humanity and humanity itself in WWMRD? With over ten stories from exciting new voices and a few veterans of the universe, the second anthology highlights the lives and struggles of humanity's best and worst years after System advent. The second System Apocalypse short story anthology takes place between books 4 and 6 and covers years two to six during that period. Stories and writers featured in this anthology include: - After Party by D.J. Rezlaw - Daisy's Preschool for Little Adventurers by InkWitch - Ground Control by Craig Hamilton - Song of Whispers by Andrew Tarkin Coleman - Completely Trashed by Mike Parsons - Trouble Brewing by Nick Steele - Seeking and Finding by Chelsea Luckritz - When Our Hero Kills a Ten Story Behemoth by Tao Wong - The Tower of Doom by David R. Packer - Clipper Race by Corwyn Callahan - The Audacity of Soap by E. C. Godhand - WWMRD? by Jason J. Willis"

Andrew Coleman, Chelsea Luckritz, Corwyn Callahan, Craig Hamilton, D.J. Rezlaw, David Packer, E.C. Godhand, Inkwitch, Jason J. Willis, Mike Parsons, Nick Steele, Tao Wong (Author), Blaise Doran, Dean Gallagher, Joel Simler, Logan Sterns, Michael Norman Johnson, Naomi Barton, Nick Podehl, Pj Morgan, Will Tulin, Zach Johnson (Narrator)

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The Garden Party and Other Stories

"The Garden Party and Other Stories was published in 1922. A collection of fifteen short stories, it explores themes including life and death, gender and family roles, relationships and duty. CONTENTS: Introduction to Katherine Mansfield, written and read by Susannah Fullerton“At the Bay”“The Garden Party”“The Daughters of the Late Colonel”“Mr. and Mrs. Dove”“The Young Girl”“Life of Ma Parker”“Marriage à la Mode”“The Voyage”“Miss Brill”“Her First Ball”“The Singing Lesson”“The Stranger”“Bank Holiday”“An Ideal Family”“The Lady’s Maid”"

Katherine Mansfield (Author), Amy Soakes, Erin Marie White, Kylie Elliott, Lisa Giles, Naomi Barton, Sarah Bacaller (Narrator)

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Hunting Blind

"On a perfect summer's day, at a school picnic beside a lake, four-year-old Gemma Anderson goes missing, leaving a family devastated and a community asking questions. Seventeen years later, Gemma's older sister Stephanie is practising as a psychiatrist. A new patient's revelations force her to re-examine the disappearance. Why are their stories so similar? Unable to let the matter rest, Stephanie embarks on a journey to find out what really happened to Gemma on that long-ago afternoon . . ."

Paddy Richardson (Author), Naomi Barton (Narrator)

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No One Can Hear You

"Troubled teen Faith Marsden was one of several girls abducted from Crawton, a country town known for its picturesque lake and fertile farmland. Unlike the others, she escaped, though sixteen years on she still bears the emotional and physical scars. Zoe Haywood returns to Crawton to bury her estranged mother Lillian. As she and Faith rekindle their high-school friendship, they discover notes left by Lillian that point to two more young women who recently disappeared from Crawton. But Lillian's confused ramblings leave them with more questions than answers. As Faith and Zoe delve deeper into the mystery, they become intent on saving the missing women; but in doing so, they are drawn into Auckland's hidden world of drugs, abduction and murder. And then Faith decides to confront the mastermind - on her own."

Nikki Crutchley (Author), Naomi Barton (Narrator)

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The Visitors

"At the turn of the twenty-third century, humanity has colonized much of our solar system. The emerging Sol System culture, largely independent of Earth, is based on asteroid mining and low-gravity processing and manufacturing. The capital city of Mars, Hawkington, is the hub of government, industry, science and technology, education, and the arts. Humanity has faced and overcome the challenges of colonizing space and the resurrection of a nearly-destroyed home world. But is it prepared for the next challenge?"

Richard Ganns (Author), Naomi Barton (Narrator)

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Nothing Bad Happens Here

"SHE LOOKED UP AND AWAY FROM HIS FACE, AND TOOK IN THE CLEAR SPRING NIGHT FULL OF STARS. HER LAST THOUGHTS WERE OF HER MOTHER. WOULD SHE FINALLY CARE, WHEN ONE DAY THEY FOUND HER BODY, AND A POLICEMAN CAME KNOCKING AT HER DOOR? Nothing bad ever happens in the small seaside town of Castle Bay - until the body of missing tourist Bethany Haliwell is found in the bush, buried in a shallow grave. News crews and journalists from all over the country descend as old secrets are dragged up and gossip is taken as gospel. Among them is Miller Hatcher, a reporter battling her own demons, who arrives intent on gaining a promotion by covering the grisly murder. Following an anonymous tip, Miller begins to unravel the mystery. When another woman goes missing, she finds herself getting closer to the truth. But at what cost?"

Nikki Crutchley (Author), Naomi Barton (Narrator)

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Audiobooks Narrated by Naomi Barton