Collection: Talking Book CD

Richard Cantrell, an American colonel falls passionately in love with an Italian countess in Venice just after World War Two has ended. The fighting may have ended but for some the longed-for peace has come too late.

A young Asian couple moves into a dilapidated house in Upton Park. The woman, Nasreen, spends much of her time working alone on the house, her husband Abdullah preoccupied with his job. John Sawyer is a veteran of the war in Afghanistan. Since his discharge, he has been volatile and is now homele...

France, 1943. Forced to flee war-ravaged Poland, Sara and her parents are offered refuge in a beautiful but dilapidated house in the French alps. It seems the perfect hideaway, despite haunting traces of the previous occupants who left in haste. But shadows soon fall over Sara's blissful summer, ...

1660. Colonel Edward Whalley and his son-in-law, Colonel William Goffe, cross the Atlantic. They are on the run and wanted for the murder of Charles I. Under the provisions of the Act of Oblivion, they have been found guilty in absentia of high treason. In London, Richard Nayler, secretary of the...

A young French girl living in Paris during the occupation falls for an older married German officer. The novel examines the tensions this causes within her family of patriots and resistance workers.

Ray is not a bad guy. Sure, he's just cheated on his heavily pregnant wife. He secretly despises all of his friends. His career as a freelance tech journalist is dismal, and he can't afford any of the hovels that pass for a first-time buyer's house, and he spends his afternoons churning out listi...

When Dalziel and Pascoe are sent to investigate a disinterred corpse at a college, they do not expect the rash of killings that they find there. While Pascoe rekindles an old flame, Dalziel is harassed by some protesting students.

Amid the foggy streets of sinister London, Holmes and Watson once more solve the unsolvable. In 'Speckled Band', 'The Engineer's Thumb' and ten other stories, Holmes grapples with the very extremes of treachery, duplicity and murderous end.

The world-famous crime-solving duo Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson are on sterling form in this compilation of six unabridged cases, so fiendishly complex that only the great Sherlock Holmes would dare to investigate. For he alone has the extraordinary faculty of perception and boundless energy whi...

The world-famous crime-solving duo Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson are on sterling form in this compilation of six unabridged cases, so fiendishly complex that only the great Sherlock Holmes would dare to investigate. For he alone has the extraordinary faculty of perception and boundless energy whi...