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This volume in CSA Word's famous Short Story compilation series focuses on the very best in timeless short fiction...

Short Stories: The Timeless Collection features 20 well-loved and unabridged tales from the best-loved authors in the history of English literature, including the deliciously sardonic Saki and a brilliant semi-autobiographical tale by Charles Dickens, inspired by the railway. An array of...

A collection of the full-cast BBC Radio dramatisations of novels by Terry Pratchett Somewhere on the frontier between thought and reality exists the Discworld, a parallel time and place which might sound and smell very much like our own, but which looks completely different... Published for the...

Here are 10 hilarious stories from the genius pen of Richmal Crompton, featuring legendary, lateral-thinking schoolboy William Brown.

Adapted by David Mamet from a translation by Vlada Chernornirdik. In this classic of Chekhov’s canon, an overbearing professor pays a visit to his country estate, where Sonya and Vanya, his daughter and former brother-in-law, have slaved to maintain his wealth. But Vanya is enchanted by the professor’s new wife, while Sonya has fallen for the town’s melancholy doctor. Includes a conversation with Rosamund Bartlett, author of Chekhov: Scenes from a Life.

Here is a timeless classic in an exclusive audio edition featuring Matilda, who told such dreadful lies; George, who played with a dangerous toy and suffered a catastrophe of considerable dimensions; and many, many other colourful characters. Witty, memorable, and always instructive, join the...

This stunning audio production brings to life everyone's favourite canine cast. Featuring Martin Jarvis as the voices of Pongo, Missus Pongo, Perdita, the Sheepdog Colonel, Lucky, Patch, Cadpig and Roly Poly, plus many, many more! The Hundred and One Dalmatians is one of the best-known and...

Forty-nine-year-old Fabian Tulley is trying to run his own art gallery in London's Mayfair in peace. But someone seems determined to ruin his life. Accused of selling a fake Alfred Munnings painting, he is unable to prove his innocence because the police are holding the piece as evidence. While running a retail sale at Cheltenham Racecourse, some of his other paintings are vandalised. Then, a couple of men try to run him down in the racecourse parking lot.

When an art dealer's misfortunes start to look premeditated, he uncovers a conspiracy that he'll stop at nothing to expose in the next Dick Francis novel—perfect for fans of Harlan Coben. Forty-nine-year-old Fabian Tulley is only trying to run his own art gallery in London’s Mayfair in peace...

Over twenty unabridged selections of Rudyard Kipling's stories, poems and letters, including famous works such as "If" and "How The Whale Got his Throat". 1. PRELUDE - "To Departmental Ditties" (1885) read by Rupert Degas 2. TODS' from "Plain Tales from the Hills" read by Martin Jarvis 3. THE...

Plain Tales from the Hills conjures up an intimate, evocative, often funny portrait of India. These unabridged observations of the British in India and Indian life were originally commissioned for The Civil and Military Gazette where Kipling worked as a journalist in the 1880s. Incredibly...

Christmas would not be the same without the most famous Christmas story ever written. A Christmas Carol in Prose, Being a Ghost Story of Christmas, commonly shortened to A Christmas Carol, is a true classic. Its central character, Ebeneezer Scrooge, is the meanest, most miserly and most...

This ever-popular story combines mystery, unrequited love, suspense and comedy with Dickens' own bitter-sweet memories of his impoverished childhood. In Dickens' 1861 classic, Pip falls in love with Estella and is financed to become a gentleman by a mysterious benefactor. Memorable characters...

The story of David Copperfield. A coming of age narrative presents the eponymous hero's journey through love, loss, happiness and tragedy. And of course, Dickens' dark sociopolitical detail and comic caricatures are never far from the action...

Five thrilling novelisations of TV stories set on exotic planets, from Marinus to Mars and beyond. In The Keys of Marinus the First Doctor, Susan, Ian and Barbara are enlisted to find five crucial items vital to peace on Marinus. in The Nightmare of Eden a distress call brings the Fourth Doctor...

Jeffrey Archer's first novel, Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less, is page-turning tale of fraud, revenge and determination as four men stop at nothing to get back what was stolen from them. One million dollars – that's what Harvey Metcalfe, lifelong king of shady deals, has pulled off with...

The opening of a letter leads to a desperate chase across Europe in A Matter of Honour by Jeffrey Archer, one of the world's bestselling novelists. Adam Scott listens to the reading of his father's will, aware that the contents can only be meagre. The Colonel, after all, had nothing to leave -...

A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of the third adventure in C. S. Lewis' classic Narnia series. Life in a small fishing village in the south of Calormen is all that young Shasta knows until, one day, he overhears his father planning to sell him into slavery to a stranger and discovers that...

Four plays by the award-winning Italian playwright and innovator Luigi Pirandello Luigi Pirandello was an Italian playwright, novelist, and short-story writer and winner of the 1934 Nobel Prize for Literature. In the first performance of Six Characters in Search of an Author, an enraged Rome...

Two award-winning spy novels featuring intelligence agent Dr David Audley by Anthony Price, dramatised with full casts Crime novelist and journalist Anthony Price was highly regarded for his 19 espionage thrillers featuring intelligence agents Dr David Audley and Colonel Jack Butler. Here are...