
The Reef
Anna Leath is a young widow, an American living in France. Behind her lies an arid marriage and a life deeply influenced by the rigid code of Old New York. Ahead lies new hope: a chance encounter...
£22.50
The Parasites
Reader: Eleanor Bron
The Delaneys have the reputation of being difficult guests. When they arrive, order departs, chaos reigns.
Maria, Niall and Celia have grown up in the shadow of their famous parents –...£24.50
Three Men in a Boat
Reader: Ian Carmichael
There were four of us: George, William Samuel Harris, and myself, and Montmorency (the dog). We were in need of some rest, and it was George who first suggested a trip up the river. He said it...
£21.50
Framley Parsonage
The fourth of the ‘Barsetshire Chronicles’, ‘Framley Parsonage' was published in 1860 to wide acclaim and has always been one of Trollope’s most popular novels. In it, the values of a...
£26.50
The Well-Beloved
Reader: Robert Powell
Jocelyn Pierston, a sculptor of growing fame, is determined to find his ideal in womanhood, a quest that has led to many fruitless encounters. For just as it seems that he has found his heart’s...
£22.50
The Prisoner of Zenda
Reader: James Wilby
Rudolf Rassendyll bears the name of an English duke and a remarkable resemblance to the King of Ruritania, the result of a scandalous liaison between an earlier Rassendyll and the royal Elphbergs....
£21.50
The Vicar of Wakefield
Reader: Timothy West
The story opens in the country parsonage of Dr Primrose, a kindly man who has a good heart, a good family and a good income. Suddenly, his idyllic life is cruelly devastated by a series of...
£21.50
Therese Raquin
Set in the claustrophobic atmosphere of a dingy haberdasher’s shop in the passage du Pont-Neuf in Paris, this powerful novel tells how the heroine and her lover, Laurent, kill her husband,...
£21.50
Silas Marner
Reader: Andrew Sachs
Exiled by superstition and betrayal and cut off from faith and human love, for fifteen years the solitary, simple–hearted weaver Silas Marner has plied his loom in Raveloe and devoted himself to...
£21.50
Ruth
Reader: Eve Matheson
The orphaned heroine Ruth, apprenticed to a dressmaker, is seduced and then abandoned by wealthy young Henry Bellingham. Shamed in the eyes of society by her illegitimate son, and yet rejecting...
£25.50
Sir Harry Hotspur of Humblethwaite
On the death of his only son, the wealthy baronet Sir Harry Hotspur had determined to give his property to his daughter Emily. She is vigorous, beautiful and as strong-willed and high-principled...
£22.50
The Canterbury Tales
Lively, absorbing, often outrageously funny, Chaucer’s ‘The Canterbury Tales’ is a work of genius, an undisputed classic that has held a special appeal for each generation of listeners....
£27.50
The Go-Between
Reader: Edward Petherbridge
The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there...
A man in his sixties looks back on his boyhood for the first time in fifty years, recalling events that took place on...£22.50
Doctor Zhivago
One of the world’s great novels, set on the vast stage of Russia during the first half of the twentieth century. It paints a panoramic picture of a country in the throes of the most radical...
£27.50
The Diary of a Nobody
Reader: Terrence Hardiman
Mr Pooter is a man of modest ambitions, content with his ordinary life. Yet he always seems to be troubled by disagreeable tradesmen, impertinent young office clerks and wayward friends, not to...
£20.50
Jude the Obscure
Reader: Stephen Thorne
Jude Fawley is a stonemason with a passion for scholarship who longs to study at the nearby university town of Christminster. Then Arabella Donn comes into his life. His longing for her eclipses...
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Cold Comfort Farm
Reader: Anna Massey
Orphaned Flora Poste, expensively, athletically and lengthily educated, descends upon her relatives at Cold Comfort Farm to find a motley crew indeed. There’s Judith, alone in her grief; Amos,...
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