Narrated by Amir, a 40-year-old novelist living in California, this audiobook tells the story of a boyhood friendship destroyed by jealousy, fear, and the kind of ruthless evil that transcends mere politics. Running parallel to this personal narrative of loss and redemption is the story of modern Afghanistan and of Amir's equally guilt-ridden relat...

Haroun's father is the greatest of all story-tellers. His magical stories bring laughter to the sad city of Alifbay. But, one terrible day everything goes wrong and his father runs out of stories to tell. Haroun, determined to return the story-teller's gift to his father, flies off on the back of a hoopoe bird to the Sea of Stories... This is a pos...

As well as selections from Pope's shorter poems and epistles, this audiobook includes the full texts of 'An Essay on Criticism', 'The Rape of the Lock' and 'Eloisa to Abelaird', and excerpts from 'The Dunciad', 'An Essay on Man' and his translations of the 'Iliad' and 'Odyssey'.

The evil Master has stolen the Time Lords' file on the horrifying Doomsday Weapon with which, when he finds it, he can blast whole planets out of existence and make himself ruler of the Galaxy! The Time Lords direct Doctor Who and Jo Grant in their TARDIS to a bleak planet in the year 2471, where they find colonists from Earth under threat from mys...

This audiobook celebrates Kipling's truly prolific career. Sit back, relax and enjoy his poetry and stories including 'India and Empire', 'The Three Musketeers' and 'Mowgli's Brothers'.

It is June 1962. In a hotel on the Dorset coast, overlooking Chesil Beach, Edward and Florence, who got married that morning, are sitting down to dinner in their room. Neither is entirely able to suppress their anxieties about the wedding night to come. This audiobook is a story about how the entire course of a life can be changed by a gesture not...

Major Brendan Archer travels to Ireland - to the Majestic Hotel and to the fiancee he acquired on a rash afternoon's leave three years ago. Despite her many letters, the lady herself proves elusive, and the Major's engagement is short-lived. But he is unable to detach himself from the alluring discomforts of the crumbling hotel. Ensconced in the di...

Set in late 1930s London, this is the dark and disquieting tale of George Harvey Bone, a drunk. With few prospects and suffering from mental health problems, George spends most of his time discussing theoretical plans and political issues with his bunch of drinking acquaintances. Driven by loneliness and his increasingly-violent schizophrenic delus...

Bond is back. With a vengeance. 'There's something I need your help with. The details are a little hazy at the moment, but I sense that it's going to be something big. Very big indeed. Have you heard of Dr Julius Gorner?' It's a name that will become seared into James Bond's consciousness. The name of a man who knows no master but his own power-cra...

Including: SONGS OF INNOCENCE - 'The Echoing Green', 'The Lamb', 'The Blossom', 'The Chimney-Sweeper', 'A Cradle Song', 'The Divine Image', 'Nurse's Song' and 'Infant Joy'. SONGS OF EXPERIENCE - 'The Clod and the Pebble', 'The Chimney-Sweeper', 'Nurse's Song', 'The Sick Rose', 'The Tiger', 'London', 'The Human Abstract' and 'Infant Sorrow'.

Drifters in search of work, George and his childlike friend Lennie, have nothing in the world except each other and a dream - a dream that one day they will have some kind of land of their own. Tackling universal themes, friendship and a shared vision, this is a hugely popular audiobook. A great piece of classic fiction which is studied by many at...

Andrew Marvell's poetry went largely unnoticed during his life time. Born in 1621 his poetry was inspired by events of the time, public or personal. Now critics are united in admiration for this metaphysical poet.

Thrilled at his first command, a little brig sloop called Teazer, Thomas Kydd must race to bring his ship to battle readiness - he is desperately needed to defend Malta against Barbary corsairs, ferocious privateers and the French who are frantically trying to rescue the remnants of their army in the Levant. But his jubilation does not last long -...

Thomas Kydd, a wig-maker from Guildford, is seized by the press gang to be a part of the crew of the 98-gun line-of-battle ship. The ship sails immediately and Kydd has to learn the realities of shipboard life fast. Despite all that he goes through in danger of tempest and battle, he comes to admire the skills and courage of the seamen. CONTAINS ST...

This adventure involves UNIT, a gigantic robot, a tremendously overpowered gun, and a plot by a team of quasi-Randian scientists to hold the world at nuclear ransom in order to effect certain a plan of science-based societal reforms. A story featuring the further adventures of the time traveller Dr Who, as he journeys through time and space with a...

Ida Joner gets on her brand new bike and sets off to buy sweets. A good-natured, happy girl, she is looking forward to her tenth birthday. Thirty-five minutes after Ida should have come home, Helga Joner, her mother, starts to worry. She phones the shop and various friends, but no one has seen her daughter. As the family goes out looking for Ida, H...

In 1941, Irene Nemirovsky sat down to write a novel that would convey the magnitude of what she was living through, not in terms of battles and politicians, but by evoking the domestic lives and personal trials of the ordinary citizens of France. Set during a year that begins with France's fall to the Nazis in June 1940, this audiobook falls into t...

Finding himself alone on a desert island when everything and everyone he knows and loved has been washed away in a huge storm, Mau is the last surviving member of his nation. He's also completely alone - or so he thinks until he finds the ghost girl. She has no toes, wears strange lacy trousers like the grandfather bird and gives him a stick which...

As their holiday unfolds, Colin and Maria are locked into their own intimacy. They groom themselves meticulously, as though there waits someone who cares deeply about how they appear. Then, they meet a man with a disturbing story to tell and become drawn into a fantasy of violence and obsession. THIS AUDIOBOOK CONTAINS STRONG LANGUAGE AND/OR ADULT...

Moving to remote Shetland has been unsettling enough for consultant surgeon Tora Hamilton; even before the gruesome discovery she makes one rain-drenched afternoon... Deep in the peat soil of her field she is shocked to find the perfectly preserved body of a young woman, a gaping hole where her heart has been brutally removed and three rune marks e...

When two girls, aged nine and ten are abducted and killed in Wind Gap, Missouri, Camille Preaker is sent back to her home town to investigate and report on the crimes. Camille, self-described 'white trash from old money', is the daughter of one of the richest families in town. Long-haunted by a childhood tragedy and estranged from her mother for ye...