White nights of passion and revenge in St Petersburg. A bingo-hall tyrant trapped by masked intruders. The sleazy flipside of the international publishing scene. An author succumbing to the deadly lure of cybersex. This audiobook contains grit, sex, glamour, intrigue and unexpected turns. CONTAINS ADULT THEMES.

The fifth book in the detective series featuring Precious Ramotswe of The No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency. Mma Ramotswe is still engaged to Mr J.L.B. Matekoni. She wonders when a day for the wedding will be named, but she is anxious to avoid putting too much pressure on her fiance. For indeed he has other things on his mind - notably a frightening re...

Mma Ramotswe reads the foreword she has written to these African tales, then goes on to narrate them all herself, passing them on to us verbally as her father's aunt did to her. From animal fables to mysterious forces residing in the landscape, this collection demonstrates the wealth and variety of African folk tales and the particular magic of Afr...

This story is narrated by a painter, who specialises as a copyist. All around him, the women with whom he is in love leave signs which alter emotional details: Clio, his child-bride, is destructive in her pliancy; his first wife, Helen, betrays him; and Maisie, his forthright East End mother has her own secrets. And the two central figures - the pa...

Alison Hart is a medium by trade: dead people talk to her. With her cynical assistant and business partner, the slender, flint-hearted Colette, Alison travels the clubs and psychic fairs of London's orbital road, passing the messages of the dead. But behind Alison's plump, smiling public persona is a tormented woman. When Colette persuades her to d...

It is Edinburgh, 1297. Margaret Kerr, fiercely loyal to the deposed king John Balliol, has come in search of her absent husband Roger - a man in the service of Balliol's enemy Robert the Bruce - but terrifying raids and a brutal murder bring the wrath of the English to Margaret's door. Roger's sudden disappearance enables Margaret to escape from th...

Captain Jack Aubrey sets sail for the South China Sea with a new lease of life, having earned reinstatement to the Royal Navy through his exploits as a privateer. Now he shepherds Stephen Maturin on a diplomatic mission to prevent links between Bonaparte and the Malay princes which could put English merchant shipping at risk. The thirteenth book in...

Aubrey and Maturin are sent on a bizarre decoy mission to the fever-ridden lagoons of the Gulf of Guinea to suppress the slave trade. But their ultimate destination is Ireland, where the French are mounting an invasion which will test Aubrey's seamanship and Maturin's resourcefulness as an intelligence agent. The seventeenth book in the Aubrey-Matu...

When an attempt on the President's life is thwarted, White House operative Blake Johnson and his British counterpart, Sean Dillon, set out to trace the source of the attempt. But this is only the beginning. Someone is recruiting a shadowy network of agents with the intention of creating terror.

When the corpse of the shady industrialist, who owns the local football team, is found both shot and stabbed with a Parmesan knife, Italian police inspector Aurelio Zen is called to Bologna to oversee the investigation. Recovering slowly from surgery, and fleeing an equally painful crisis in his personal life, Zen is only too happy to take on what...

Now married and living on an Italian estate, the art connoisseur, harpsichord aficionado, master of souffles and genius of improvisational murder, finds his complacency shaken when he is scorned at a local party. While others might repay the insult with some mild act of retribution, the game Ripley has in mind is far subtler and infinitely more sin...

Bill Corde looked down at the face of the murdered girl and saw beauty and youth and the horror of sudden death. He could not know, as he stood there at the trampled, muddy scene beside the college girl's corpse, that his own life was about to slip into terror. Before Bill knows it, the girl's killer is trailing him and his unsuspecting family. CON...

At the request of London police, psychologist Kit Quinn agrees to evaluate Michael Doll, a sexual predator who slashes her face. As she recovers, Kit has horrible dreams of a red room. Months later, Doll is arrested for murder. As Doll's obsession with Kit escalates, Kit is gripped with a paralyzing fear that the killer isn't Doll but someone close...

This audiobook is based on the BBC1 television programme Ballykissangel. English curate Peter Clifford begins to find his feet in the eccentric Irish community where he is being trained. However, the activities of certain members of the community and the arrival of two mysterious strangers prove to be a recipe for confusion for the entire village.

With a harsh childhood behind him, Riley left school with little in the way of knowledge but brimful of optimism, and secure in the understanding that one of his teachers, Fred Beardsley, had faith in his future. While on his honeymoon in Paris, Fred ran into Riley, who said he had been offered a 'position' at The Little Palace Theatre in Fellburn....

In the Swansea of the fifties, there is only one thing for a boy to do when he gets a girl 'into trouble' and that is to marry her - and quickly. Blighted by an unhappy childhood, passionately in love for the first time in his life, Jack can't wait to do 'the right thing'. A happy family of his own is all he ever wanted but not even in his wildest...

The Todd family are strangers to city life when they move into a flat on the Scotland Road; their previous home was a canal barge. Harry gets a job as warehouse manager and his wife, Martha, works in a grocer's shop, whilst Seraphina trains as a teacher, Angela works in Bunney's Department Store and young Evie starts at regular school. Then circums...

Dinah and her sister Lisa are growing up in 1950s South Africa, where racial laws are tightening. Dinah is weedy and doesn't eat much. Lisa is an angel-face who likes chocolate sprinkles on bread. At school, the sadistic Mrs Vaughan-Jones provides instruction in mental arithmetic and racial prejudice. And then there's the puzzle of lunch-break. 'Wo...

Written by actor Ethan Hawke, this audiobook tells the story of Jimmy Heartsock who is so afraid of losing his love Christy that he goes AWOL from the army and chases her to propose marriage. Christy is terrified, not so much that she's expecting a baby, but because if she takes on Jimmy, she may end up with two. Can Jimmy stop taking recreational...

Catherine Hubbard is at a crossroads in her San Francisco life. She is twice divorced and her three children are grown and scattered. Then news comes that she has inherited her grandmother Georgia's home in Vermont. Catherine finds in Vermont not only the ghosts of her own past but those of Georgia's as well. Georgia's diaries, discovered in the at...

Critic Kenneth Tynan, the impresario who created 'Oh Calcutta', was also an eccentric and connoisseur of cuisine, wine, literature and women. For over three decades he was at the centre of the theatre and film worlds and his diaries record a judicious blend of aesthetics, theatre lore, love, marriage, sex and politics. CONTAINS STRONG LANGUAGE.