The youngest child of debtor William Dorrit, Amy is born in the Marshalsea prison. She is befriended by Arthur Clennam, whose mother employs 'Little Dorrit' as a seamstress. Then, following the discovery of a large and unexpected inheritance, the fortunes of the Dorrits undergo an extreme change and the family moves to Italy.
Britain is in the depths of recession. A left-leaning young Oxford academic and his barrister girlfriend take an off-peak holiday on the Caribbean island of Antigua. Seemingly by chance they bump into a Russian millionaire called Dima who owns a peninsula and a diamond-encrusted gold watch. He has a tattoo on his right thumb.
Harriet finds herself ensnared in a nightmare of romance and terror, with only the tiniest shreds of clues to challenger her powers of detection - and those of her paramour, Lord Peter Wimsey.
The complete first series of Matt Lucas and David Walliams' BBC Radio 4 Sony Award-winning comedy sketch show featuring Tom Baker. Catchphrase comedy at its very best... characters that are surely destined to enter the comedy pantheon The Sunday Times Brilliant characters...
The second novel in the "Inspector Lynley mystery" series. An isolated Scottish mansion is the venue for a reading of a controversial new play. But on the first evening, the playright is savagely murdered. One of the suspects is Helen Clyde - the woman Lynley loves.
Winston Churchill steered Britain through its darkest hours during World War II. He was one of the 20th century's greatest orators, and the speeches he painstakingly composed, rehearsed and delivered inspired courage in an entire nation.
To rescue her family from poverty and avoid marrying her cousin, seventeen-year-old Orchid competes to be one of the Emperor's wives. When she is chosen as a lower-ranking concubine, she enters the ritualised Forbidden City and is exposed to all the chaos, corruption and treachery of the final days of the Chinese empire.
Told against the backdrop of Arthur Conan Doyle's family life - his own passionate affair with the woman who was to become the second Lady Conan Doyle and his wife's lengthy battle with TB - this novel is based on Arthur's extraordinary real-life fight for justice.
At a boys' grammar school in Sheffield, eight boys are being coached for the Oxbridge entrance exams. This title includes four characters, each with contrasting outlooks on teaching: Hector, an eccentric English teacher; Irwin, a teacher who sees history as 'entertainment'; Mrs Lintott, a traditionalist; and a Headmaster obsessed with results.
A radio dramatization of Shakespeare's "Hamlet, Prince of Denmark". The play is introduced by Richard Eyre, former Director of The Royal National Theatre. The sleeve notes include a scene-by-scene synopsis, full character analysis, and an essay on interpretation from the producer.
The 1963 radio dramatization, with Richard Burton as the narrator, of Dylan Thomas's "play for voices", about the inhabitants of a small Welsh village.
Lord Peter Wimsey is invited to view a corpse which has been deposited in the bathtub of an architect. The corpse is quickly identified as that of Sir Reuben Levy, the City financier; and just as quickly it is proved to be someone else. Where is Sir Reuben? And whose body was in the bath?
A radio dramatization of Shakespeare's "Macbeth". The play is introduced by Richard Eyre, former Director of The Royal National Theatre. The sleeve notes include a scene-by-scene synopsis, full character analysis, and an essay on interpretation from the producer.
Set in a parallel world very similar to our own, "Northern Lights" tells the contemporary story of 12-year-old Lyra's quest to rescue her friend and find her father, aided by her daemon, an armoured bear and a witch-queen.
Written and read by the bestselling author of "Eats, Shoots & Leaves", this book asks why rudeness is a universal flashpoint and examines specific sources of affront. It explores the boorishness of the world, and the sense of outrage that infects us when we discover that other people are - generally speaking - crass, selfish, and inconsiderate.
Explores the highways and byways of the English language in four programmes, as heard on BBC Radio 4. This title includes: "The Trial of Qwerty"; "He Said, She Said"; "Accentuate the Negative"; and, "Future Conditional".
In the third part of the His Dark Materials trilogy, Lyra and Will find themselves in the final part of the story facing great perils. But there are old friends who come to their aid, not least Iorek Byrnison, the armoured bear and the scientist, Dr Mary Malone.
This is part 2 of the trilogy "His Dark Materials". Will is 12 years old, and he's just killed a man. Now he's on his own, on the run, determined to discover the truth about his father's disappearance.
A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of the third book in the His Dark Materials trilogy. For all those who are dying to learn the fate of Will and Lyra, hoping for the return of Iorek Byrnison, longing to know the truth about Dust, and waiting to face the ultimate clash of opposing powers.
A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of the first book in Philip Pullman's trilogy His Dark Materials. Set in a world which is like, yet very unlike, our own, the story begins in Oxford. Children are disappearing from the streets.
