A Race with the Sun | L. T. Meade and Clifford Halifax | A Bitesized Audiobook

A rip-roaring and frankly slightly bonkers tale of derring-do from 1897; the shadow of war looms and foreign spies abound. Scientist and inventor Paul Gilchrist finds himself embroiled in a devilish plot devised by "fiends in human shape", culminating in a breathtaking race against time for his very survival... Narrated/performed by Simon Stanhope, aka Bitesized Audio. If you enjoy this content and would like to help me keep creating, there are a few ways you can support me: * Occasional/one-off support via Buy Me a Coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/bitesizedaudio * Monthly support on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/bitesizedaudio * Visit my Bandcamp page to hear more of my performances of classic stories, and you can purchase and download high quality audio files to listen offline: https://bitesizedaudio.bandcamp.com/ * Become a Bitesized Audio Classics member on YouTube, from $1 / £1 / €1 per month: https://www.youtube.com/c/BitesizedAudioClassics/join 00:00:00 Introduction 00:01:20 A Race with the Sun 01:01:32 Credits, thanks and further listening L. T. Meade (Elizabeth Thomasina Meade Smith, 1844–1914) was a prolific author of mystery and suspense stories, dominating the periodicals of the 1890s and early 1900s. Born in County Cork, Ireland, she began writing fiction at the age of 17 and had a highly productive career, publishing almost 300 books in her lifetime. Meade married Alfred Toulmin Smith in London, in 1879, when she was in her mid-30s. She was an advocate of feminist causes, and as a solo writer became most associated with adventure stories for girls and young people, of which the most famous was ‘A World of Girls’, published in 1886. However, she was also much associated with mystery and suspense stories, and her name appeared frequently in the periodicals of the 1890s and early 1900s. Interestingly, in this genre she often wrote in collaboration with medical practitioners, who apparently supplied the scientific details which underpin many of the plots of her stories. Her most frequent