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Author: A. N. Wilson
Format: MP3 CD
Author A. N. Wilson
Narrator Bill Wallis
Duration 10h 31m
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...
View BookUncle Montague's Tales of Terror
Author: Chris Priestly
Format: MP3 CD
Author Chris Priestly
Narrator Bill Wallis
Duration 5h 15m
Uncle Montague lives alone in a big house and his regular visits from his nephew give him the opportunity to relive some of the most frightening stories he knows. But as the stories unfold, a newer and more surprising narrative emerges, one that is perhaps the most frightening of all. These 'Tales of Terror', it transpires, are not so much works of...
View BookAuthor: Michael Pearce
Format: MP3 CD
Author Michael Pearce
Narrator Bill Wallis
Duration 6h 2m
Why was the body put on the line? Did someone want to halt the progress of the new electric railway out from Cairo to the 'City of Pleasure' being built in the suburbs? Old Egypt is pitted against new and in the middle is Mamur Zapt, British head of Cairo's Secret Police.
View BookOscar Wilde and the Ring of Death
Author: Gyles Brandreth
Format: MP3 CD
Author Gyles Brandreth
Narrator Bill Wallis
Duration 11h 56m
London, May 1892. Wilde - at the height of his fame and fortune - cannot know what has begun when he proposes a game of 'Murder', in which each of his dinner guests must list the names of those they would most like to kill. It is only a game, but within hours the fourteen 'victims' begin to die, one by one.
View BookAuthor: Cornelia Funke
Format: MP3 CD
Author Cornelia Funke
Narrator Bill Wallis
Duration 3h 30m
Mischievous reindeer Twinklestar has bolted - leaving real-life Santa Claus, Niklas, to fall from the sky in his Christmas caravan. Luckily he crash-lands in a friendly neighbourhood, where two children come to his rescue. But he's still in terrible danger. For on his trail are Gerold Goblynch and his bad Santas from Yule Land, who will stop at not...
View BookTumtum and Nutmeg Series Book 4: Tumtum and Nutmeg's Christmas Adventure
Author: Emily Bearn
Format: MP3 CD
Author Emily Bearn
Narrator Bill Wallis
SeriesTumTum and Nutmeg, Book 4
Duration 1h 26m
'Dear Father Christmas, I'm very sorry that you couldn't come last year because the chimney was bricked up. We asked Pa to unblock it, so you could get down this time, but he said he couldn't because the wind would come in and we'd all be very cold'. Christmas is nearing, and for two little mice called Tumtum and Nutmeg it is a very busy time of ye...
View BookTumtum and Nutmeg Series Book 3: The Pirates' Treasure
Author: Emily Bearn
Format: MP3 CD
Author Emily Bearn
Narrator Bill Wallis
SeriesTumTum and Nutmeg, Book 3
Duration 2h 37m
Hidden in the broom cupboard of Rose Cottage is the most delightful house. Shh, it's a secret. No one knows it's there... This is the home of Tumtum and Nutmeg. When General Marchmouse unexpectedly joins the Nutmouses on a camping trip things soon begin to go horribly wrong. Before they know it, the mice are whisked downstream on Arthur's toy boat...
View BookTumtum and Nutmeg Series Book 1: Tumtum and Nutmeg
Author: Emily Bearn
Format: MP3 CD
Author Emily Bearn
Narrator Bill Wallis
SeriesTumTum and Nutmeg, Book 1
Duration 3h 3m
In the broom cupboard of a small dwelling called Rose Cottage stands a house fit for a mouse - well, two mice actually. A house made of pebblestone, with gables on the windows and turrets peeking out of the roof. A house with a ballroom, a billiard room, a banqueting room, a butler's room and a drawing room. The house belongs to Mr and Mrs Nutmo...
View BookAuthor: Harry Horse
Format: MP3 CD
Author Harry Horse
Narrator Bill Wallis
Duration 2h
Grandfather and his dog are off on an expedition to find long lost Uncle Vincent. Grandfather's letters home tell the story of their extraordinary and funny adventures. Winner of the Smarties Gold Award.
View BookAuthor: Walter Musto
Format: MP3 CD
Author Walter Musto
Narrator Bill Wallis
Duration 8h 50m
When Walter took up his diary on January 1st 1939, he was looking forward to retirement with his beloved wife Alice Mary and their ageing dog Nell, and spending more time in his garden. Walter was too old to fight, but he organized his ARP fire-watch unit and, spurred on by the cry of 'Dig for victory!', grew mountains of vegetables for the war eff...
View BookAuthor: Jane Gardam
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Author Jane Gardam
Narrator Bill Wallis
Duration 6h 43m
Old Filth and The Man in the Wooden Hat told with bristling tenderness and black humour the stories of that Titan of the Hong Kong law courts, Old Filth QC, and his clever, misunderstood wife Betty. Last Friends, the final volume of this trilogy, picks up with Terence Veneering, Filth's great rival in work and - though it was never spoken of - in l...
View BookAuthor: Jeffrey Archer
Format: MP3 CD
Author Jeffrey Archer
Narrator Bill Wallis
Duration 7h 39m
This audiobook contains a collection of fourteen short stories, all with that trademark twist in the tale. Witness love at first sight across the train tracks, the cleverest of confidence tricks, the quirks of the legal profession, and the creative financial talents of a member of Her Majesty's diplomatic service.
View BookMonsieur Pamplemousse Hits the Headlines
Author: Michael Bond
Format: MP3 CD
Author Michael Bond
Narrator Bill Wallis
Duration 6h 10m
A chance encounter with a market researcher leaves Monsieur Pamplemousse with a ticket to the filming of Claude Chavignol's popular television show. Chavignol, a magician-turned-chef and a noted gastronome, is the presenter of 'Cuisine de Chavignol', a live weekly program that is part chat show, part game show interspersed with cooking slots.
View BookThe Antisocial Behaviour of Horace Rumpole
Author: John Mortimer
Format: MP3 CD
Author John Mortimer
Narrator Bill Wallis
Duration 3h 30m
ASBOs may be the pride and joy of New Labour, but they don't cut much ice with Horace Rumpole - he takes the old-fashioned view that if anyone is going to be threatened with a restriction of their liberty then some form of legal proceeding ought to be gone through first. Not that Hilda agrees, of course, but she's too busy completing her memoirs to...
View BookAuthor: Michael Pearce
Format: MP3 CD
Author Michael Pearce
Narrator Bill Wallis
Duration 6h 32m
Gareth Cadwallader Owen is the Mamur Zapt, the Head of the Khedive's Secret Police. However, unlike his British colleagues, Owen works for the Khedive. It's not a comfortable perch, as agitation for political and social restructuring grows. Furthermore, Owen is married to a pasha's daughter, Zeinab, herself straddling a cultural divide. The Khedive...
View BookAuthor: Irene Nemirovsky
Format: MP3 CD
Author Irene Nemirovsky
Narrator Bill Wallis
Duration 5h 27m
Born into poverty on the Black Sea, Golder has clawed his way to fabulous wealth by speculating on gold and oil. When the novel opens, he is at work in his magnificent Parisian apartment while his wife and beloved daughter, Joy, spend his money at their villa in Biarritz. But Golder's security is fragile. For years he has defended his business inte...
View BookRumpole and the Reign of Terror
Author: John Mortimer
Format: MP3 CD
Author John Mortimer
Narrator Bill Wallis
Duration 4h 51m
Tiffany Timson's new husband, Mahmoud Khan, is arrested on suspicion of terrorism. Rumpole is frustrated in his defence campaign by New Labour laws that render the British legal system a farce and defending a suspected terrorist proves a tricky task even for the great defender... He insists upon a fair trial, and his fight for justice brings him in...
View BookAuthor: Richard Van Emden
Format: MP3 CD
Author Richard Van Emden
Narrator Bill Wallis
Duration 7h 56m
Harry Patch, 108 years old, is the last British soldier alive to have fought in the trenches of the First World War. From his vivid memories of an Edwardian childhood, the horror of the Great War and fighting in the mud during the Battle of Passchendaele, working on the home front in the Second World War and fame in later life as a veteran, this is...
View BookAuthor: Roman Halter
Format: MP3 CD
Author Roman Halter
Narrator Bill Wallis
Duration 9h 58m
This is a story of impossible misfortune and improbable good luck - the compelling and uplifting account of the boy who made it outof the ghetto, survived Auschwitz and Stutthof and endured the Dresden bombing, before escaping to England. CONTAINS STRONG LANGUAGE AND ADULT THEMES
View BookMonsieur Pamplemousse and the French Solution
Author: Michael Bond
Format: MP3 CD
Author Michael Bond
Narrator Bill Wallis
Duration 6h 5m
In this latest adventure, Monsieur Pamplemousse and his canine partner, Pomme Frites, must get to the bottom of a mystery surrounding the tarnishing of the integrity of Le Guide - France's premier hotel and restaurant guide.
View BookAuthor: Robert Harris
Format: MP3 CD
Author Robert Harris
Narrator Bill Wallis
Duration 13h 54m
When Tiro, the confidential secretary of a Roman senator, opens the door to a terrified stranger on a cold November morning, he sets in motion a chain of events which will eventually propel his master into one of the most famous courtroom dramas in history. The stranger is a Sicilian, a victim of the island's corrupt Roman governor, Verres. The sen...
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