Catholic Fiction

BBC Audiobooks, 2005, unabridged, read by James Wilby 
reviewed by Rachel Murphy
Having been a devoted fan of Jane and Rochester since my mid-teens, I decided to give Bronte’s The Professor a try, on audiobook—though perhaps I was motivated even more by its narrator, the film actor James Wilby (Behind the Lines, A Tale of Two Cities).
The [...]

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Reviewed by John Murphy
Yours, Now and Forever
The last priest in Mexico is on the run. The Church has gone underground, outlawed by the incumbent Powers-that-Be. Owning a rosary or a prayer book will land you in jail. Faithful Catholics thirst for the Mass, for the Eucharist, for God, but must content themselves with [...]

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read by Frank Muller
reviewed by Rachel Murphy 
I first happened upon Frank Muller’s reading of A Tale of Two Cities (Recorded Books, 1986) from our local library last year, and it was clearly a well-used volume of cassettes. The sound quality of at least one of them made it nearly impossible to follow along, especially over [...]

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reviewed by Rachel Murphy
Till We Have Faces, C.S. Lewis’ retelling of the Cupid and Psyche myth, is the story of the sisters Psyche and Orual, Psyche being the beautiful and innocent (taken by many for a goddess) and Orual being the ugly one, though thoroughly devoted to her sister.
Told in Orual’s voice, the novel is [...]

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Reviewed by Debra Murphy
From the back cover of the illustrated Idylls Press edition:
"Originally published in 1908, G.K. Chesterton’s nightmare-fantasy of Police vs. Dynamiters, Law vs. Anarchy, and Religion vs. Nihilism has influenced writers as diverse as Franz Kafka and C.S. Lewis, and remains as exuberant and imaginative, as original and prophetic as when if first [...]

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