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Author: Bill Bryson
Author Bill Bryson
Narrator William Roberts
Duration 10h 30m
Bill Bryson drove 14,000 miles in search of the mythical small town of his youth. Instead he found a lookalike strip of gas stations, motels and hamburger joints; a continent lost to itself through greed, pollution and television, and lost to him because he had become a foreigner in his own country. A funny and analytical view of smalltown America.
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Author: Virginia Ironside
Author Virginia Ironside
Narrator Maureen Beck
Duration 10h 15m
Virginia Ironside, a journalist and writer on personal and family relationships, examines bereavement. The death of her own father and her researches since highlight that many people find grief a chaotic and violent process. This audiobook looks at the feelings of shock, anger, guilt, powerlessness and fear which surround the informal rituals of de...
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Author: Roald Dahl
Author Roald Dahl
Narrator Stephen Fry
Duration 25m
The Enormous Crocodile is a horrid greedy grumptious brute who loves to guzzle up little boys and girls. But the other animals have had enough of his cunning tricks, so they scheme to get the better of this foul fiend, once and for all!
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Something Like Fire: Peter Cook Remembered
Author: Lin (editor) Cook
Author Lin (editor) Cook
Narrator Robert Pennant Jones
Duration 10h
Peter Cook's comic genius set the tone for the new British comedy of the sixties. His appearances on stage, television and film over three decades were legendary, as was his partnership with Dudley Moore. This audiobook offers a composite portrait, both of the public performer and the private man, written by many of the writers, performers and frie...
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Author: Sebastian Faulks
Author Sebastian Faulks
Narrator Peter Firth
Duration 15h 10m
Set in France before and during the First World War, this is the story of Stephen Wraysford, a young Englishman who finds his true love on a trip to Amiens in 1910. Unfortunately, she's already married to a wealthy textile baron. Wraysford convinces her to leave a life of passionless comfort to be at his side, but things do not turn out according t...
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Author: Lynne Truss
Author Lynne Truss
Narrator Lynn Fairleigh
Duration 8h
A pre-Bridget Jones collection of comic journalism in the form of a guide to the life of a cat-owning modern single woman in her 30s. Truss struggles with procrastination, single bananas, unclear cooking instructions and the ungrateful (and occasionally homicidal) nature of cats.
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Author: John Casson
Author John Casson
Narrator John Casson
Duration 13h
In 1909, actress Sybil Thorndike wed Welsh-born actor/director Lewis Casson. This is the story of their great theatre partnership as told by their son John.
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Author: Elizabeth Berridge
Author Elizabeth Berridge
Narrator Katreen Lack
Duration 9h
A middle-aged divorcee inherits a house in the Welsh village where she grew up and decides to start afresh and rebuild her life. She begins to renew old friendships, make new ones and re-examine her relationships with her mother and daughter.
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Author: F Scott Fitzgerald
Author F Scott Fitzgerald
Narrator William Hope
Duration 2h 38m
Jay Gatsby causes quite a stir when he buys a mansion on the east coast of America and sets about hosting the most lavish parties. Anyone who is anyone wants to be seen at his glittering parties, but Gatsby himself always seems to be watching and waiting. Who or what is he waiting for?
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Author: Various
Author Various
Narrator Nigel Hawthorne
Duration 3h
Seven chuckle-inducing tales including: 'Brugglesmith' by Rudyard Kipling, 'The Cricket Match' from 'England, their England' by A.G. Macdonell, 'Reginald on House Parties' by Saki, 'The Great Winglebury Duel' by Charles Dickens, 'The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County' by Mark Twain, 'A Photographer's Day Out' by Lewis Carroll and 'Jeff Pe...
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Author: Various
Author Various
Narrator Patrick Malahide
Duration 3h
A collection of eight classic horror stories: 'The Monkey's Paw' by W.W Jacobs; 'Timber' by John Galsworthy; 'The Masque of the Red Death' by Edgar Allan Poe; 'The Squaw' by Bram Stoker; 'Martin's Close' by M.R James; 'The Man in the Bell' by W.E Aytoun; ' Caterpillars' by E. F Benson and 'A Tale of Terror' by Thomas Hood.
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Author: Various
Author Various
Narrator Richard Pasco
Duration 3h
The following spooky vampire stories are given a spine-tingling read by Richard Pasco: 'The Mark of the Beast' by Rudyard Kipling; 'Aurelia' by E.T.A Hoffman; 'Ligeia' by Edgar Allan Poe; 'Mrs Amsworth' by E. F Benson and 'Dracula's Guest' by Bram Stoker.
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Classic Tales of the Paranormal
Author: Various
Author Various
Narrator Robin Bailey
Duration 3h
A collection of the following mysterious and chilling stories: 'The Man of the Night' by Edgar Wallace; 'No 1 Branch Line: 'A Terribly Strange Bed' by Wilkie Collins; 'Sredni Vashtar' by Saki; 'The Werewolf' by Frederick Marryat; 'The Mezzotint' by M.R. James and 'The Black Cat' by Edgar Allan Poe. This audiobook also includes 'The Signalman' by Ch...
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Author: Various
Author Various
Narrator Richard Pasco
Duration 6h
A spine-tingling collection of the following 14 tales:' The Judge's House' by Bram Stoker; 'The Upper Berth' by F. Marion Crawford; 'Narrative of the Ghost of a Hand'; 'To Be Taken with a Grain of Salt' by Charles Dickens; 'The Tell-Tale Heart' by Edgar Allan Poe; 'Gabriel-Ernest ' by Saki; 'The Furnished Room' by O. Henry, 'My Own True Ghost Story...
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The Chronicles of Narnia Series Book 4: Prince Caspian
Author: C S Lewis
Series: The Chronicles of Narnia, Book 4
Author C S Lewis
Narrator Andrew Sachs
SeriesThe Chronicles of Narnia, Book 4
Duration 6h
Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy are mysteriously transported back to Narnia where they discover that it has been hundreds of years since their reign as Kings and Queens of the land ended. Cair Paravel, the castle where they lived, is in ruins and the evil King Miraz has taken charge. Along with their old friend Prince Caspian, the children race to ov...
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Author: Wilkie Collins
Author Wilkie Collins
Narrator Ian Holm
Duration 24h 45m
Late one night on his way to Limmeridge House in Cumberland, drawing teacher Walter Hartright meets a mysterious woman dressed in white. Who is she, and what is her connection to the teacher's new pupil, a beautiful heiress?
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Author: P.G. Wodehouse
Author P.G. Wodehouse
Narrator Martin Jarvis
Duration 3h
A humorous novel in which Bertie Wooster wonders how he ever managed without his trusted manservant Jeeves, who manages to get Bertie out of innumerable scrapes with formidable aunts, madcap girls and uninvited guests.
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Author: Graham Greene
Author Graham Greene
Narrator Jeremy Northam
Duration 7h
Wormold, a vacuum cleaner salesman, was short of money. His daughter had reached an expensive age - so he accepted Hawthorne's offer of $300-plus a month and became Agent 59200/5, MI6's man in Havana. To keep the job, he pretends to recruit sub-agents and sends fake stories, which, to his horror, begin to come true...
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Author: Lawrence Durrell
Author Lawrence Durrell
Narrator Andrew Sachs
Duration 3h
'Bitter Lemons' is Durrell's paen to the beauty and mystery of Cyprus, from the romance of the characters living in Bellapaix where Durrell bought a house, to the beauty of the mountain ranges and the excitement of the slow but gradual uprising of the Greek Cypriots who are determined to achieve 'Enosis' - union with Greece and freedom from British...
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Author: William Dalrymple
Author William Dalrymple
Narrator Michael Maloney
Duration 3h
In the summer of 1986, two Cambridge history undergraduates set out on Marco Polo's famous journey across Central Asia to the city of Xanadu in Mongolia. This account traces their experiences in the war-torn Middle East and along 1500 miles of the Silk Road to their eventual destination.
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Author: Alan Moorehead
Author Alan Moorehead
Narrator Christopher Timothy
Duration 3h
Alan Moorehead, a widely respected reporter, earned his reputation as a war correspondent during the Second World War. 'No Room in the Ark' describes his journey from Johannesburg to Uganda, the Belgian Congo and Kenya. The main theme is the negative impact of civilisation on the wild animals of southern and eastern Africa.
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