• Mark Twain's marvelous enduring wit will charm the entire family. Destined to become an instant classic, this audiobook will help introduce your family to the unique pleasure of classic literature.
  • A fresh vision of Britain's greatest story: The epic of King Arthur - from his conception in sorcerous lust, to the shining wonder of his...
  • Gone are the days of scavenging for food and fighting for survival on the streets of eighteenth-century London. Instead, Jacky is becoming a skilled and respected sailor as the crew pursues pirates.
  • By Sorrow's River continues the Berrybender party's trail across the endless Great Plains of the West toward Santa Fe, where those lucky enough to survive the journey intend to spend the winter.
  • Falsely accused of being a rebel, Peter Blood is sent to Barbados and sold into slavery.
  • Blood poses as a liberated Spanish prisoner, as his captured ship is stopped off Hispaniola by a a Spanish Galleon.
  • Even holding a Kings Commission, Colonel Bishop plans to capture and hang Captain Blood at Port Royal.
  • In a spectacular battle on both land and sea, Captain Blood and his buccaneers attack Cartagena.
  • A holiday classic as you've never heard it before. Tiny Tim, Bob Cratchit and Ebenezer Scrooge come to marvelous life in Patrick Stewart's critically-acclaimed solo interpretation of A Christmas Carol
  • A BBC Radio 4 dramatisation of Jane Austen's perceptive study of middle class morals and mores in the nineteenth century.
  • Through her description of the lives of two Greek traders, Bryher creates a common man’s view of the greatest struggle in the ancient Roman Republic’s history: the Second Punic War. Bryher, born Winifred Ellerman in England in 1894, was praised for her historical vision and her passion for...
  • Four BBC Radio 4 Episodes from Jimmy Perry and David Crofts classic wartime comedy.
  • Four BBC Radio 4 Episodes from Jimmy Perry and David Crofts classic wartime comedy.
  • Four BBC Radio 4 Episodes from Jimmy Perry and David Crofts classic wartime comedy.
  • Four BBC Radio 4 Episodes from Jimmy Perry and David Crofts classic wartime comedy.
  • Four BBC Radio 4 episodes from Jimmy Perry and David Croft's classic wartime comedy.
  • Four BBC Radio 4 Episodes from Jimmy Perry and David Crofts classic wartime comedy.
  • Four BBC Radio 4 Episodes from Jimmy Perry and David Crofts classic wartime comedy.
  • Four BBC Radio 4 Episodes from Jimmy Perry and David Crofts classic wartime comedy.
  • Four BBC Radio 4 Episodes from Jimmy Perry and David Crofts classic wartime comedy.
  • Four BBC Radio 4 Episodes from Jimmy Perry and David Crofts classic wartime comedy.
  • Four BBC Radio 4 Episodes from Jimmy Perry and David Crofts classic wartime comedy.
  • Young farmer Kurt Dorn is torn between going to France to fight the Germans or staying in America to be with the woman he loves and to protect his wheat crop against saboteurs who question his loya...
  • Commissioned to rescue Governor Bligh of Bounty fame, Captain Jack Aubrey and his friend and surgeon, Stephen Maturin...
  • Set in 1632, this is the story of New England's first pirate, a fur trapper named Dixie Bull
  • Set in the Old West, this story of a man with special gifts is a Parody of Sherlock Holmes.
  • Pasternak’s masterpiece about the poet and doctor Zhivago, caught up in the events of revolutionary Russia.
  • The Companions are back in the first volume that features an untold story from the War of the Lance...
  • Anchee Min's bestselling novel is based on the true story of China's last Empress and set in the Forbidden City...
  • The journals of Meriwether Lewis and William Clark remain the single most important document in the history of American exploration.
  • A deadly political rivalry... an intricate love triangle... a religious revolution that changed the world
  • The Eye in the Door was the richly deserving winner of the 1993 Guardian Fiction Prize, the second volume in Pat Barker's brilliant...
  • It is still the War of 1812. Patrick O’Brian takes his hero Jack Aubrey and his tetchy, sardonic friend Stephen Maturin...
  • Captain Jack Aubrey, RN, arrives in the Dutch East Indies to find himself appointed to the command of the fastest and best...
  • Lyme Regis, 1867: Charles, a respectable scientist, already betrothed to Ernestina, meets Sarah, a fallen woman, and risks everything in pursuit of her.
  • William Monk and his wife Hester desperately hope to save a friend accused of cold-blooded murder.
  • In this captivating sequel to National Book Award nominee The Birchbark House, Louise Erdrich continues the story of Omakayas and her family.
  • Two college students, Woodroe Raynor and Leonora Goldstein, meet in the fall of 1960 before embarking on separate paths. But a singular romance blooms as the two make their way through a tumultuous...
  • A sweeping novel that juxtaposes the legends of the Civil War with the lives of modern-day mountain folk.
  • Griet, the young daughter of a tile maker in seventeenth century Holland, obtains her first job, as a servant in Vermeer's household...
  • H.M.S. Surprise follows the variable fortunes of Captain Jack Aubrey's career in Nelson's navy as he attempts to hold his ground...
  • The first work of fiction by a President of the United States - a sweeping novel of the American South and the War of Independence.
  • Napoleon pushes his enemies toward their doom at Waterloo. Their only hope is a force of Russian and Austrian allies on the way. But the allied force is endangered by a horde of Muslim missionaries. To stop the Muslims, Jack and Stephen must intercept the camel caravan carrying their payment in...
  • Anton Lesser and Anna Madeley star in this BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of the fourth novel in Lindsey Davis’s bestselling series featuring Roman private eye Falco.
  • 'The love of battle is the food upon which we live – the dust of the melee is the breath of our nostrils! we live not – we wish not to live...
  • A captivating suspense novel, rich in historical detail, set in the 1930s midwest, about two escaped prisoners - coauthored by the Academy Award-winning actor.
  • Justine is the first volume in The Alexandria Quartet, four interlinked novels set in the sensuous, hot environment of Alexandria just before the Second World War.
  • The Lady and the Unicorn tapestries are a set of six medieval tapestries. Beautiful, intricate and expertly made...
  • Lady Chatterley’s Lover deals with adultery and love.
  • Shortly after arriving in Uganda, Scottish doctor Nicholas Garrigan is appointed the personal physician of Idi Amin. So begins a fateful dalliance with the African leader whose autocracy becomes a reign of terror, in this venturesome meditation on conscience, charisma, and the slow corruption of...
  • The Last Kingdom is set in the England of the ninth and tenth centuries. These were the years when the Danish Vikings had invaded and occupied three of England's four kingdoms...
  • A classic story of love, loyalty, courage and of America's coming of age.
  • In this beautifully written tour de force of a novel, Beth Gutcheon takes readers back to the coastal village of Dundee, Maine.
  • Jack Aubrey is a naval officer, a post-captain of experience and capacity. When ' The Letter of Marque' opens he has been struck off...
  • Macbeth is among the most powerful of Shakespeare's tragedies, a dark but fascinating glimpse into the soul of evil, set in medieval Scotland.
  • Set in the depths of rural France. Flaubert's masterpiece tells the story of a woman destroyed by love.
  • The princess of Latin American literature returns with the legendary love affair between Hernan Cortes and his interpreter, Malinalli....
  • Johanna Lindsey presents the passionate Regency-era tale of an earl’s daughter who dares to pose as the wife of a deadly mercenary in order to save her former guardian.
  • Master and Commander is the first of Patrick O’Brian’s now famous Aubrey/Maturin novels, regarded by many as the greatest series...
  • Captain Ring Montgomery was handsome, a skilled rider, a crack shot, popular with the men and their ladies.
  • It is World War II, and while the RAF struggles to keep the Luftwaffe at bay, Britain faces an even more sinister threat from 'the enemy within' - Nazis posing as ordinary citizens.
  • It is the lowest time for the Saxons. Defeated comprehensively by the Vikings who now occupy most of England, Alfred and ...
  • A masterpiece of historical writing that explodes with passion and power
  • The powerful prose sequel to the Academy Award-winning Road to Perdition – an epic tale of family secrets and heartbreaking betrayal.
  • An action adventure read by Richard Armitage, who plays Guy of Gisborne in Robin Hood, and featuring Robin and his loyal band of brothers, as seen in the hit BBC TV series.
  • They took the most contrary bunch of frontiersmen, cowpokes, shiftless no-accounts, shootists rascals, and politicians, jumbled them together, and called it Texas—but for defenseless women and chil...
  • Savannah {or} a Gift for Mr. Lincoln is a tale of Southern Civil War home life as the end draws near.
  • A young woman gives birth to an illegitimate child in seventeenth century New England and she must endure public condemnation and the burden of a terrible secret.
  • The classic American story of Hester Prynne, accused of adultery, ostracized by her Puritan community, and abandoned by both her lover and her husband.
  • When Hester Prynne bears an illegitimate child she is introduced to the ugliness, complexity, and ultimately the strength...
  • The youngest Sherbrooke brother finds love when he visits his new land holdings in Scotland.
  • The New York Times–bestselling author of Lie by Moonlight and The Paid Companion takes you on a thrilling adventure filled with the simmering passions of the Victorian age - and the lure of ancient...
  • A Secret Garden heals.
  • Tightly paced and atmospheric, The Secret Supper is a dazzling historical thriller with a unique vision of both da Vinci's genius and his masterpiece—which you will never look at in the same way again
  • A heroic tale of duty amidst the battle of Trafalgar, Seize the Fire is an unmissable epic.
  • She was sensible and clever; but eager in everything: her sorrows, her joys, could have no moderation...
  • A magical passport to the age of Victoria at its brilliant zenith.
  • No caveats for readers of Davis's second playful, well-plotted mystery featuring imperial agent Falco...
  • 'Sharpe's Battle' takes Richard Sharpe and his Riflemen back to the spring of 1811 and one of the bitterest battles of the Peninsular...
  • Sharpe's Escape takes place in the summer of 1810, once again in the Peninsular War. The French are mounting their third and most..
  • It is 1803, and closing on the retreating Mahrattas in western India is Sir Arthur Wellesley’s army and with it Ensign Richard Sharpe...
  • A small British force is trapped by a French army, and the only hope now lies with the outnumbered redcoats who, on a hill beside the sea, refuse to admit defeat.
  • It is 1809 and Lieutenant Sharpe, who belongs to a small British army that has a precarious foothold in Portugal...
  • India, 1803. It is four years since Richard Sharpe earned his sergeant's stripes at the siege of Seringapatam...
  • Tom Kedrick is hired by a financial syndicate to run off a gang of "vagrants and outlaws" who are occupying a sizable strip of land. But the vagrants turn out to be hard working ranchers and farmer...
  • Silas Marner's redemption and restoration endorses the goodness in people...
  • A riveting new Thomas and Charlotte Pitt novel, in which Anne Perry again proves her mastery of the people, the mores, and the politics of the Victorian era she has made her own.
  • Benjamin Weaver, the quick-witted pugilist turned private investigator, first introduced in the Edgar Award-winning novel, THE CONSPIRACY OF PAPER, returns.
  • Nathaniel Starbuck is a rebel, a young Yankee fighting for the South against the North in the American Civil War. It is the summer of ...
  • A compelling tale of the coming together of two extremes in order to combat American racism in such a way as to change it forever...
  • Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin are ordered home by despatch vessel to bring the news of their latest victory to the government...
  • As 'The Thirteen-Gun Salute' opens Jack Aubrey has been reinstated to his command, and he and his old friend Dr Maturin are sailing..
  • Uniquely among authors of naval fiction, Patrick O’Brian’s characters develop with experience, and although the Jack Aubrey...
  • Something is horribly wrong at Hellebore Hall and evil reaches out to ensnare Jacqueline, trapping her in a web of insidious whispers that paint her as a double murderess.
  • This intensely dramatic and moving novel has remained a best-selling classic since it was first published in 1852.
  • A riveting thriller that brings to life one of the most dramatic periods of the Civil War.
  • In a village there are no secrets. As head of Fairacre's two-class school, Miss Read's every deed is subject for speculation, and she is inevitably involved in most of her neighbours' concerns...
  • A sumptuous historical novel from bestselling author of The Other Boleyn Girl and The Queen's Fool.
  • Precocious twelve-year-old Louisa Mae Cardinal lives in the hectic New York City of 1940 with her family. Then tragedy strikes.
  • Captain Jack Aubrey's ship Bellona has been assigned to the fleet blockading the port of Brest, but what had promised to be a dull...