Stranger in the House
Women's Stories of Men Returning from the Second World War
Julie Summers
'It is as if I have been waiting for someone to ask me these questions for almost the whole of my life.' From 1945, more than four million...
The Homecoming and Other Stories
Maeve Binchy, Sean Campion, Joanna Myers, Patricia Hodge and Kate Binchy
This work features four Maeve Binchy short stories, exclusively written for BBC Radio 4. Maeve Binchy is one of Britain's most popular storytellers, and these four tales demonstrate...
Remarkable Creatures
Tracy Chevalier
In the early 19th century, a windswept beach along the English coast brims with fossils for those with the eye. From the moment she's struck by lightning as...
Forgotten Voices of the Great War
Max Arthur
In 1960, the Imperial War Museum began a momentous and important task. A team of academics, archivists and volunteers set about tracing WWI veterans and interviewing them at...
The Pelican Brief
John Grisham
Two Supreme Court Justices are dead. Their murders remain unsolved. Darby Shaw, a brilliant and beautiful New Orleans legal student, draws up a speculative legal brief which links...
Jaws
Peter Benchley
It was just another day in the life of a small Atlantic resort until the terror from the deep came to prey on unwary holiday makers. The first...
Brighton Rock
Graham Greene
A gang war is raging through the dark underworld of Brighton. Seventeen-year-old Pinkie, malign and ruthless, has killed a man. Believing he can escape retribution, he is unprepared...
East Fortune
James Runcie
The boy stepped out into the road. He stretched his arms out and his legs apart, making an X, palms facing the windscreen, the hands with a slight...
Birdsong
Sebastian Faulks
Set before and during the great war, Birdsong captures the drama of that era on both a national and a personal scale. It is the story of Stephen,...
Mister Pip
Lloyd Jones
‘You cannot pretend to read a book. Your eyes will give you away. So will your breathing. A person entranced by a book simply forgets to breathe. The...
Handle with Care
Jodi Picoult
Charlotte O'Keefe's beautiful, much-longed-for, adored daughter Willow is born with osteogenesis imperfecta - a very severe form of brittle bone disease. If she slips on a crisp packet...
Nineteen Minutes
Jodi Picoult
Sterling is a small, ordinary New Hampshire town where nothing ever happens – until a student enters the local high school with an arsenal of guns and starts...
Fathers and Sons
Richard Madeley
Richard Madeley is fascinated by the speed of change in family life and how being a father has changed since the time of his father and grandfather. In...
Hercule Poirot's Christmas
Agatha Christie
It is Christmas Eve. The Lee family reunion is shattered by a deafening crash of furniture, followed by a high-pitched wailing scream. Upstairs, the tyrannical Simeon Lee lies...
Wolf Hall
Hilary Mantel
''Lock Cromwell in a deep dungeon in the morning,' says Thomas More, 'and when you come back that night he'll be sitting on a plush cushion eating larks'...
The Winter Ghosts
Kate Mosse
From the bestselling author of Labyrinth and Sepulchre - a compelling story of ghosts and remembrance. The Great War took much more than lives. It robbed a generation...
Interview with the Vampire
Anne Rice
In a darkened room, a young man sits telling the macabre and eerie story of his life - the story of a vampire, gifted with eternal life, cursed...
The Woman in Black
Susan Hill
Proud and solitary, Eel Marsh House surveys the windswept reaches of the salt marshes beyond Nine Lives Causeway. Arthur Kipps, a junior solicitor, is summonded to attend the...
The Historian
Elizabeth Kostova
Late one night, exploring her father's library, a young woman finds an ancient book and a cache of yellowing letters addressed ominously to 'My dear and unfortunate successor'....
Mother Tongue
The Story of the English Language
Bill Bryson
'More than 300 million people in the world speak English and the rest, it sometimes seems, try to...' Only Bill Bryson could make a book about the English...
Lights Out Liverpool
Maureen Lee
As Britain stands alone against a monstrous enemy, the inhabitants of Pearl Street face hardship and heartbreak with courage and humour. The war touches each of them in...
Tuesdays With Morrie
Mitch Albom
Maybe it was a grandparent, or a teacher or a colleague. Someone older, patient and wise, who understood you when you were young and searching, and gave you...
The Green Mile
Stephen King
This novel (now complete in one volume) taps into what Stephen King does best: character-driven storytelling. The setting is the small 'death house' of a Southern prison in...
Call the Midwife
A True Story Of The East End In The 1950s
Jennifer Worth
Jennifer Worth came from a sheltered background when she became a midwife in the Docklands in the 1950s. The conditions in which many women gave birth just half...
How I Write: Secrets of a Bestselling Author
Janet Evanovich
How many people would kill to be a bestselling novelist? Especially one like Janet Evanovich. Writers want to know how a bestselling author thinks, writes, plans, and dreams...
A Pocket Full of Rye
Agatha Christie
BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation starring June Whitfield as the deceptively mild spinster sleuth. A Pocket Full of Rye With only one bizarre clue to the agonizing death...
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