This thoughtful memoir, read by Dame Thora herself, is a fitting tribute to her later years and witness to two of her greatest talents: the ability to tell a story and her determination to stay on top of life even when in severe pain. The audiobook reveals Thora Hird's reflections and her behind-the-scenes stories, from glamorous engagements to dom...

Kevin Lewis never had a chance. Growing up on a poverty-stricken London council estate, beaten and starved by his parents, bullied at school and abandoned by social services, his life was never his own. Even after he was put into care, he found himself out on the streets caught up in a criminal underworld that knew him as 'The Kid'. Yet Kevin su...

'For most people childhood ends slowly, so nobody can see where one part of life finishes and the next bit starts. But my childhood ended suddenly. In a day'. Told from a teenage child's point of view, 'In The Blood' is Andrew Motion's beautiful memoir of growing up in post-war England. A wonderful picture of family life, school life and country...

This is the true story of the author's son, Damon Courtenay, who was born with haemophilia, and contracted AIDS from a blood transfusion in an Australian hospital. An audiobook about love, tragedy and the power of the family.

Catherine Cookson has compiled a selection of thoughts, recollections and observations on life - and death - together with another collection of the poems she prefers to describe as 'prose on short lines'.

Part of the Family Doctor series. This audiobook will help you to understand the causes, symptoms and treatments of these common eye conditions.

Shakespeare was born in Stratford on 23rd April 1564 and died in the same English country town on the same date in 1616. This audiobook is the first in a series of four and explores the birth and youth of Shakespeare, his family fortunes and misfortunes and his emergence onto the London theatre scene.

In the autumn of 1988 Michael Palin set out to circumnavigate the world, following the route taken by Phileas Fogg 115 years earlier. He had to make the journey in 80 days - accompanied by a BBC film crew - using only forms of transport that would have been available to Fogg. Their voyage took them from the opulence of the Orient Express to the ste...

This audiobook is the astonishing story of the struggle to freedom by thousands of African-American slaves who fled the plantations to fight behind British lines in the American War of Independence. With gripping, powerfully vivid story-telling, Simon Schama follows the escaped blacks into the fires of the war, and into freezing, inhospitable Nova...

As an internationally bestselling phenomenon and queen of the Regency Romance, Georgette Heyer is one of the most beloved historical novelists of our time. She's written more than fifty novels - romances, detective stories and contemporary works of fiction - yet her private life was practically inaccessible to any but her closest friends and relati...

At midnight on 15 August 1947, India left the British Empire. This defining moment of world history had been brought about by a handful of people: Jawaharlal Nehru, the fiery Indian prime minister, Mohammad Ali Jinnah, leader of the new nation of Pakistan, Mohandas Gandhi, the mystical figure who enthralled a nation, and Louis and Edwina Mountbatt...

At the age of 19 Laurie Lee had left home, walked to London and then travelled on foot through Spain. Here he describes a return journey to Spain in which he crossed the Pyrenees during the time of the Spanish Civil War. This audiobook is on the Edexcel reading list for GCSE.

Everybody knows Tracy Beaker, Jacqueline Wilson's best-loved character. But what do they know about Jacqueline herself? In this fascinating book, discover how Jacky played with paper dolls like April in 'Dustbin Baby', how she dealt with an unpredictable father like Prue in 'Love Lessons' and how she sat entrance exams like Ruby in 'Double Act'. Bu...

Motor Mouth, Loud Mouth, Tubby DJ, and Overpaid Ego. What is the truth? Who is Chris Moyles? And what does he have to say for himself when he's not on the radio? Who is this man they call 'The Saviour of Radio 1'? In this audiobook, Chris dissects the world around him and tackles all sorts of subjects; from interviewing the world's most famous cele...

Until the early 1990s, when the Berlin Wall came tumbling down, travelling behind the iron curtain was never easy. In undertaking his new journey through Eastern Europe, breathing in its rich history and exquisite sights, and talking to its diverse peoples, Palin fills what has been a void in his own experience and that of very many others. This au...

Nobel Laureate Tutu has long been admired throughout the world for the heroism and grace he presented while encouraging countless South Africans in their struggle for human rights. In his most soul-searching book, he shares the spiritual message that guided him through those troubled times.

John Betjamin was by far the most popular poet of the twentieth century. As Poet Laureate, he became a national icon, but behind the public man were doubts and demons. He led a tempestuous emotional life. For much of his 50 year marriage he had a relationship with another woman, Elizabeth Cavendish, who was the daughter of the Duke of Devonshire...

A dramatic tale of sex, glamour, intrigue, romance and heartbreak, this audiobook traces the rise and rise of the gorgeous Emma Hamilton. Born into poverty, she clawed her way up through London's underworlds of sex for sale to become England's first media superstar. Nothing could stand in the way of her dreams - except her self-destructive desires....

Harry Bernsteins' childhood in the industrial north of England in the shadow of the First World War is one of hardship and hostility. His brutish father spends what little he earns at the tailoring shop on drink, while his devoted mother survives on her dreams: that new shoes might secure Harry's admission to a fancy school; that her daughter might...

A delicious treat of wisdom for better self-awareness and satisfaction. Tackle anxiety, envy, guilt, while giving in to sex, food, friends, family, shopping - and chocolate. What makes women happy? Nothing for more than ten minutes at a time, so stop worrying. In this audiobook, Fay Weldon offers wisdom gleaned from a remarkable life, a brilliantly...

This audiobook finds Chris and his family still at El Valero, their farm on the wrong side of the river in rural Andalucia. And life there continues in decidedly oddball fashion... When Chris arrived in the Alpujarras, fifteen years ago, he could never have imagined the locals would invite him to join an Almond Blossom Appreciation Society, or that...