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Wealth and privilege can't buy you love... or keep your secrets safe. The de Santoval sisters are heiresses to a glamorous fashion house and the darlings of LA society. Violetta is the hottest reality TV star of the moment, with a fierce press interest to rival Hollywood's A-list. Carlotta is an exclusive horse trainer, as wild as the stallions she breaks in. Fine-arts consultant Grace is hiding a dark secret she must keep hidden at all costs. Their mother, wealthy fashion maven Birdie De Santoval, lies unconscious following a mysterious accident.

The major part of the human population lives under the surface of Earth. Humankind has created a Machine which meets all possible needs. Travelling is permitted but people do not feel the need for it. Everybody lives in a separate room and communication is made via messages and videos only. However, not everyone is content with this life. There are rebels like Kuno who want to explore and get out of the limitations set by the Machine. Kuno will try to escape but without success.

Lucy Honeychurch and her cousin are on a vacation in Florence. The girls are given a room looking into the courtyard, but they would rather have one with a view over the river. George Emerson and his father offer the two girls to change rooms and this is how George and Lucy meet for the first time. George grows fond of Lucy but she is not sure of her feelings towards him. She returns home to England where she accepts to marry Cecil Vyse, a man who had already proposed to her three times.

1988: Harper Richardson's mum and dad are divorced. Her mum got custody of her, the Mini and five hundred tins of baked beans. Her dad got a mouldering cottage in a Midlands backwater village and plenty of free time to indulge his WWII obsession. What a Way to Go is a warm, wise and witty tale...

When 16-year-old Hannah Sheraton is arrested for the murder of her stepgrandfather, the chief justice of the California Supreme court, her distraught mother turns to her old college roommate, Josie Baylor-Bates, for help. Josie, once a hot-shot criminal defense attorney, left the fast track behind for a small practice in Hermosa Beach, California. But Hannah Sheraton intrigues her and, when the girl is charged as an adult, Josie cannot turn her back. But the deeper she digs the more Josie realizes that politics, the law, and family relationships create a combustible situation.

Lorelei Clay versucht verzweifelt, hinter ihren Schlossmauern in Sicherheit zu bleiben. Allerdings braucht sie dringend Geld. Als ein magischer Auftragskiller sie um Hilfe in einer heiklen Angelegenheit bittet, in die ein skrupelloser Vampir-Mafioso verwickelt ist, willigt Lorelei ein –...

Lorelei Clay ist nicht wie andere Leute. Sie ist nicht einmal wie andere Übernatürliche. Ihre Spezialität sind die Albträume der Lebenden, die Kommunikation mit den Toten und das Braten von Speck, bis er goldbraun und perfekt knusprig ist – und das ganz ohne Magie. Vor sechs Monaten zog...

A mile outside the Cotswolds, everyone knows everyone in Honeystone, and for many years the villagers have lived quiet, steady lives. But a wind of change is here... Anthea is the new owner of Spindle Hall. A renowned perfumer who lost her sense of smell, she's not interested in making new...

Die Pläne von Bethany Anne werden auf den Kopf gestellt, als eine entstehende Künstliche Intelligenz gegen ihren Willen auf dem kurtherianischen Computer in ihrem Kopf eine neue Heimat findet. Dann muss sie sich natürlich auch noch um den Verstoßenen David und seine Taten kümmern, am besten...

The best literary analysis of novels ever written.

A sparkling BBC Radio dramatisation of E M Forster's classic comedy of manners, set in Edwardian England and Italy Young, naive Lucy Honeychurch is visiting Italy for the first time, accompanied by her older cousin and chaperone, Charlotte Bartlett. On arrival at the Pension Bertolini, a mix-up...

Der Roman von Josef Forster beschreibt anhand einer Oberpfälzer Bauernfamilie ein eindrucksvolles und umfassendes Sitten- und Gesellschaftsbild der Menschen im nordostbayerischen Grenzgebiet um 1900. Die Jahrhundertwende läutete auch im damaligen Nordgau das Industriezeitalter ein, während sich die Menschen ihren Sitten und Gebräuchen des 19. Jahrhunderts noch verpflichtet fühlten. Es war eine Zeit großer Neuerungen, die von den Menschen mit Bravour und viel Geschick gemeistert wurden, ohne dadurch die ursprünglichen Traditionen zu vernachlässigen oder zu verleugnen.

Dramatisations and readings of EM Forster’s finest works, plus Stephen Wakelam’s radio play A Dose of Fame and the documentary feature Forster in India: Sex, Books and Empire One of the greatest English novelists of the 20th century, EM Forster was also an accomplished short story writer...

Based on the classic novel by E M Forster, this epic full-cast drama is set against the backdrop of the British Raj and the Indian Independence movement during the 1920s. When Adela Quested and her companion Mrs Moore arrive in the Indian town of Chandrapore, they quickly feel trapped by its...

Spring 1905, England. When Helen Schlegel goes to stay at Howards End - the country home of the Wilcox family, her own life, along with that of her sister Margaret, is changed forever. This is the tale of three families at the beginning of the twentieth century: the rich Wilcoxes, the gentle...

Bloomsbury presents Second Act at Appleton Green by Kate Forster, read by Fiona Sheehan. After losing her voice before the audition of a lifetime, West End hopeful Lily Baxter flees to the one place that’s always felt like home: her grandmother Violet’s cosy cottage in the heart of Appleton...