Collection: TALKING BOOK

Challenged by the violent death of his son and by an unwanted divorce, Macon Leary trades the certainties of a well-ordered existence for the surprises of a renewed life.

After starting their risky venture of a private forensic consultancy six months earlier in 1955, Doctor Richard Pryor and forensic biologist Angela Bray have now become firmly established in their base in the Wye Valley on the Welsh Borders. An apparent bizarre suicide in a Welsh farm starts them...

The Doctor lands on the planet Cawdor 30 years after the Succession of Blood brought Empress Cheni to the throne. For the most of her reign there has been peace and prosperity. But 5 years ago, the War came. Now the Drashani are at war with the mysterious alien race known as the Wrath, led by the...

Set in an imaginary, ancient Japanese society, it is the story of Takeo, an exceptional boy who lives in a remote mountain village. Knowing only peace but possessing the supernatural powers of the Tribe, Takeo's life is in conflict - until he is saved by the mysterious Lord Otori Shigeru.

Walking through London's West End after a night at the theatre, Amory Ames and her husband Milo run into old friends, the wealthy investor and former actor Gerard Holloway and his wife Georgina. When Holloway invites them to the dress rehearsal of a new play he is directing, Amory readily accepts...

4th book in the Adrian Mole saga. Adrian now aged twenty-three and three-quarters, works for the Department of the Environment, having special responsibilities for newts. Spurned by his former sweetheart, Pandora, he now lives in a spare room in her flat.

In the many years Jim has spent talking and writing about the quirkier events and people in our history, he has come across characters whose lives have amazed, surprised and amused him. This is a book about some of those people and their bizarre, remarkable and out of the ordinary lives. And in o...

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle had a great talent for creating memorable characters. The hero of 'The Adventures of Brigadier Gerard' is one of his most ingenious, brought to life, here, with wicked humour by Rupert Degas.

This collection contains many of the famous cases - and great strokes of brilliance - that made the legendary Sherlock Homes one of fiction's most popular creations.

The classic story of a mischievous 19th-century boy in a Mississippi River town and his friends, Huck Finn and Becky Thatcher, as they run away from home, witness a murder, and find treasure in a cave.