It's the 14th August and on this day in 1867 the English writer John Galsworthy was born in the town of Kingston, Surrey.

The son of a wealthy shipping magnate, he was educated at Harrow and then went on to read law at New College, Oxford University. Although his heart was not in his chosen subject, he qualified as a barrister and was called to the bar in 1890. However as soon as the legal training was finished he abandoned the law and took a job travelling abroad looking after his families’ shipping business interests. During this time he met a young Polish Merchant Seaman named Joseph Conrad. The pair met up on a ship moored in Adelaide harbour in Australia, and having established that they both preferred writing to sailing, struck up a strong friendship. It was following his time with Conrad that Galsworthy returned to London to begin his writing career.

He is best known for his novels and particularly The Forsyte Saga, a series of three novels that chronicle the lives of the leading members of an upper-middle-class British family.
The Man of Property is the first in this hugely successful series of novels and is brought to life by the wonderful British actor Michael Cochrane in an exclusive Silksoundbooks unabridged audio book.

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