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Narrated by the Olivier Award-winning Alex Jennings Suspenseful and mesmerizing, This Was a Man is the seventh and final novel in international bestseller Jeffrey Archer’s the Clifton Chronicles – an epic and poignant conclusion. Harry Clifton is set to write his magnum opus, and as he...

Alex Horne and his special guests bring together stand-up and live music in a free-wheeling and spontaneous combination. Each episode sees Alex, his band and guests explore a different topic. These range from love to technology, the seasons to the body. In this collection of the complete series 1-3 Alex is joined by comedians including David O’Doherty, Isy Suttie, Kevin Eldon, Phill Jupitus, Matt Lucas, Doc Brown, Sara Pascoe, James Acaster, Marcus Brigstocke and Adam Buxton.

“A gripping page turner!” Closer The perfect home. The perfect nightmare? Seren Carter can’t believe her luck. After working for years as a nurse for people with cancer and living in a tiny apartment with her partner Matt, she’s exhausted, and barely holding herself together. Netherham...

One of Dickens' early works, Nicholas Nickleby combines comedy and tragedy in a tale of triumph over adversity that is interspersed with Dickens' moving condemnation of society's mistreatment of children and the cruelty of the educational system. Young Nickleby struggles to seek his fortune in Victorian England, yet succeeds despite social injustice, in a story that mirrors Dickens' own rise from poverty to great success.

A dazzling selection of 30 short stories from the world's best-loved storyteller - the perfect Christmas gift for children aged 6 and up! Get ready for snowball fights and sleigh rides in this collection of thirty classic short stories from Enid Blyton, celebrating the magic and excitement of...

Welcome to the town of Adventure Bay, where you can meet six heroic pups: Marshall, Rubble, Chase, Rocky, Zuma and Skye. Led by a 10-year-old boy, Ryder, they make up the PAW Patrol, and working together as a team they use their different skills to help anyone in need. This time the PAW Patrol gets brand new flight packs and have to help Captain Turbot and his cousin Francois. And the pups have to help Carlos and get support from new friends: Tracker! No job is too big, no pup is too small!

Narrated by the Olivier Award-winning Alex Jennings Thrilling and absorbing, Cometh the Hour is the sixth novel in international bestseller Jeffrey Archer’s the Clifton Chronicles and sees the Clifton and Barrington families navigate the 1970s in an epic tale of tragedy and hope. There are...

Captivating radio dramatisations of seven of Charles Dickens' most famous novels. Charles Dickens is one of the most renowned authors of all time, and this first digital volume of the dramatised canon of his work includes seven of his most popular novels. This collection includes the episodic...

Renowned novelist and poet Thomas Hardy is best known for his fatalistic, often tragic novels set in the 'realistic dream-country' of Wessex, in south and south-west England. Drawing on his own life, he created some of the most memorable characters and stories in Victorian literature—many of which are included here. In five dramas taken from Radio 4's 'Hardy's Women' season, we meet a few of Thomas Hardy's most compelling female protagonists.

Welcome to Adventure Bay, where Ryder and the PAW Patrol are always ready for action. This time, Cat Pack members Wild and Shade join the Mighty Pups to stop a runaway rocket. Then the pups must help recover a priceless golden lion mask, rescue a bumbling Tooth Fairy in Julius' dream, and solve...

When a young solicitor, Jonathan Harker, visits the heart of Transylvania - ostensibly to meet reclusive nobleman Count Dracula - he cannot begin to imagine what horrors might lie in store for him there...or the chain of events he will set in motion at Castle Dracula. Soon, Dracula's bloodlust spreads to England's shores, and Harker's fiancée, Mina Murray, becomes embroiled in his affairs.

From the director of Bone Tomahawk A brutal and unflinching tale that takes many of its cues from both cinema and pulp horror, Wraiths of the Broken Land is like no Western you’ve ever seen or read. Desperate to reclaim two kidnapped sisters who were forced into prostitution, the Plugfords...

PAW Patrol: This is Chase, Marshall, Rocky, Zuma, Rubble and Skye. The six heroic dogs are led by Ryder. Traveling Travis is on a great adventure when he lands in Antarctica but believes he's actually on Mars and in another adventure Mr. Porter and Alex go on a sightseeing hike but get trapped inside a huge maze! The Mighty Pubs are also needed. Harold, Ladybird, and The Copycat team up, and three Super baddies take the mighty pups' mighty meteor! The Mighty Pups must get their meteor back and Charge Up to stop them before the team of baddies destroys Adventure Bay!

When Rachel Prince cruises. It's no honeymoon! Rachel's dream honeymoon is disrupted when Sarah's eccentric cousin is found dead. With wedding plans up and down, Rachel and Carlos have finally managed to tie the knot and head off on a Mediterranean cruise. Their honeymoon spirals out of control when murder interrupts marital bliss, and Carlos receives a mysterious phone call from an old flame.

This hilarious compendium celebrates a decade of Taskmaster's inspired chaos. Relive the most outrageous tasks, iconic meltdowns, and ingenious victories from your favourite contestants.

Captivating and suspenseful, Best Kept Secret is the third novel in international bestseller Jeffrey Archer’s outstanding Clifton Chronicles. It sees our hero Harry Clifton and Giles Barrington, brother of Harry’s beloved wife Emma, become entwined in the fate of the Barrington family...

PAW Patrol: This is Chase, Marshall, Rocky, Zuma, Rubble and Skye. The six heroic dogs are led by Ryder. This time a very special adventure awaits the furry friends: When a fallen meteor gives the pups mighty powers, they'll need to use them on a super-heroic mission to keep Mayor Humdinger and his nephew from taking over Adventure Bay! But for the Mighty Pups no job is too big, no paw is too small!

The unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of Charles Dickens: A Life, the major new biography from the highly acclaimed Claire Tomalin, published for the 200th anniversary of his birth. Charles Dickens was a phenomenon: a demonicly hardworking journalist, the father of ten children, a...

An anthology of over 50 classic children's poems, read by some of our finest actors. Full of fun, excitement, and magic, the poems in this collection are guaranteed to spark the imagination and open up a world of wonder. Favourites from authors such as Edward Lear, Lewis Carroll, and Robert Louis Stevenson are all here, as well as less familiar but nonetheless hugely entertaining poems such as" The Camel's Complaint"and "The Elephant, or The Force of Habit".

They all had a reason. Only one had the nerve. Twenty years ago, student Daisy Harrington went out for the evening and never came home. Her body was found a week later. The killer was caught. Case closed. Now, on what would have been her fortieth birthday, her five university housemates are...