An Imaginative Experience
Reader: Samuel West
A traveller on a train returning to London smells the burn of brakes as it hisses to a stop in the middle of the countryside. He sees a white-faced woman leap from the train and race to the aid of...
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The School for Husbands
Reader: Suzy Aitchison
Sophie’s marriage was perfect. But now it’s all gone wrong. Mark works late and she’s left with the baby, domestic drudgery, her own career to keep on the go and a feeling Mark’s up to...
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In the Forest
Set in the countryside of western Ireland, ‘In the Forest' centres on unwitting victims for sacrifice: a radiant young woman, her young son and a trusting priest, all despatched to the...
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Kissing Alice
Arthur Craythorne has barely married Queenie May when he is called away to fight in the First World War. When he returns from the trenches, he is a changed man. He struggles to contain the violent...
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Old Filth
Reader: Bill Wallis
Filth, in his heyday, was an international lawyer with a practice in the Far East. Now, only the oldest QCs and Silks can remember that his nickname stood for Failed In London Try Hong Kong.
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Amy Wingate's Journal
When Amy consults her doctor about her increasing mood swings, she is advised to keep a diary as an outlet for her bursts of irritation. And her life obligingly becomes eventful enough to provide...
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Not the End of the World
Reader: Geraldine James
Everyone knows the story of the Ark. The flood rising, the animals entering two by two, Noah. But what about the women and children? Did they all accept Noah’s orders to ignore their friends and...
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Village Affairs
In ‘Village Affairs', the people of Fairacre are up in arms about the possible closure of the village school. This anxious time for Miss Read is made bearable by the support of all her friends...
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Blind Trust
Reader: Thomas Judd
On the face of it, househusband Joe Wynde has it all apart from his sight. Robbed of 90% of his vision by a degenerative eye disorder, Joe's goals are simple: to raise his two sassy daughters...
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Journey's End
Reader: Carole Boyd
As Barney Davidson watched the liner sail away with his beloved family on board, bound for America, he stood a devastated and broken man. His dream was over, but theirs was just beginning.
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Busy Woman Seeks Wife
Because she’s too busy bringing home the bacon to cook it.
On the surface, Alex Hill is every inch the polished high-flying marketing executive of a global sportswear company. But...£10.02 £17.19£13.12 £22.50
Chalcot Crescent
This is the story of Fay’s might-have-been younger sister, Frances.
It’s 2013, and 80-year-old Frances (has-been writer) is sitting on the stairs of No.3 Chalcot Crescent, Primrose...£10.02 £17.19£13.12 £22.50
The Unknown Bridesmaid
Reader: Siân Thomas
When Julia was eight, she was asked to be a bridesmaid at her beautiful cousin Iris's wedding. Her mother saw this as a chore - expensive, inconvenient - but Julia was thrilled. When the time...
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Fraud
Reader: Anna Massey
When Anna Durrant is reported missing her friends seem unconcerned at her disappearance. After all, her life has been one of concealment. For years Anna submitted to the protective dependence of...
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The Market Square
'The Market Square' opens at the end of the Victorian era, with the happy anticipation of the coronation of Edward VII. It follows the changing fortunes of two closely knit families – the...
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Velvet
Velvet is a laundress in a Victorian steam laundry. With both her mother and father dead, she is an orphan and has to rely upon her own wits to make a living. The laundry's work is back-breaking...
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The Time is Now
Reader: Siân Thomas
Take a year in Soho and a house like no other.From a woman grieving on New Year's Day to a Victorian maid's passion for poetry, from a wartime widower picking up the pieces of his life to a...
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The Market Square
The first charming Caxley tale introduces the deep-rooted camaraderie between Septimus Howard, a calm and controlled man, and Bender North, a confident, successful but gruff ironmonger. Their...
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The Magic Toyshop
Reader: Miriam Margolyes
One night, Melanie walks through the garden in her mother’s wedding dress. The next morning her world is shattered. Forced to leave the comfortable home of her childhood, she is sent to London...
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News from Thrush Green
One bright April morning, a red Mini stopped outside Tullivers, the neglected old house that had stood empty for two years since old Admiral Trigg and his sister Lucy had died. Discreet onlookers...
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How Not to Shop
Reader: Kate Harbour
Personal shopper Annie Valentine is about to hit the big time: presenting a glamorous TV makeover series! But too late, Annie discovers this is TV on a shoestring. They’re paying her buttons and...
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Olivia Joules and the Overactive Imagination
Reader: Suzy Aitchison
Enter Olivia Joules: fearless, dazzling, independent beauty-journalist turned master-spy. From the white heat of Miami to the implants of LA, the glittering waters of the Caribbean to the deserts...
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The Chocolate Lovers' Diet
Reader: Clare Corbett
Lucy Lombard thought her ‘Happily Ever After’ was all sorted when her gorgeous boss finally declared his love for her. But when she catches him in bed with another woman it’s time to call an...
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A Family Romance
As the solitary child of mild and gentle parents, Jane is fascinated and astounded by her exotically European aunt, Dolly. Dolly’s ways are certainly not her parents’ ways, yet she is an...
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Bilgewater
Reader: Anna Bentinck
Marigold Green calls herself ‘hideous, quaint and barmy’. Other people call her Bilgewater, a corruption of Bill’s daughter. Growing up in a boys’ school where her father is housemaster,...
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