Miss Julia Garnet, prompted by the death of a friend, goes to live in an out-of-the-way corner of Venice. Here she meets with people and experiences which fracture her known world: Nicco, a...

After his mother's death, Richard, a newly remarried hospital consultant, decides to build bridges with his estranged sister, inviting Angela and her family for a week in a rented house on the...

Italy, 1605: For the ruling Borgia family, Rome is a place of grand palazzos and frescoed cathedrals. For the lowly artist Caravaggio, it is a place of rough bars, knife fights, and grubby whores....

Poor Judd Foxman returns home early to find his wife in bed with his boss - in the act. He now faces the twin threats of both divorce and unemployment. His misery is compounded further with the...

Maurice Hall is born into a privileged way of life, well aware of his role in society. Modest and generally conformist, he nevertheless finds himself increasingly attracted to his own sex. Through...

Tom Loxley is holed up in a remote cottage in the bush, trying to finish a book on Henry James, when his dog goes missing, trailing a length of orange twine. The house belongs to Nelly Zhang, an...

The monarchy has been dismantled... When a Republican party wins the General Election, their first act in power is to strip the royal family of their assets and titles and send them to live on a...

It was a morning when all nature shouted ‘Fore!’

P.G. Wodehouse leads the listener out on to this little nine-hole course with a collection of nine Golf stories – as observed by...

A moving exploration of conflict, loss and love from award-winning author Graham Swift. In 1972, Robert Beech, First World War survivor and present-day armaments maker, is killed by a car bomb....

As I have been given a large and magnificent diary for Christmas... I intend to fill it in as long as my ardour lasts.

Luckily, Miss Read’s ardour lasts all year, encompassing every...

When modest Quaker Honor Bright sails from Bristol with her sister, she is fleeing heartache for a new life in America, far from home. But tragedy leaves her alone and vulnerable, torn between two...

As a boy, Daniel Rooke was always an outsider. At school he learned to hide his clever thoughts from his peers; at home his parents were bemused by their bookish son. Daniel could only hope that...

Gil is on a collision course with his scientist father, and when he meets Jude, a passionate animal rights activist, things soon reach crisis point.

As Jude’s plans become clear, Gil...

Who is about to disturb the peace in Prior’s Ford?

Actress Meredith Whitelaw, axed from a popular television soap, has descended upon Prior’s Ford to rest - but instead she creates...

A happily married woman commits suicide for no apparent reason; a young man tries to break some important news to the beautiful girl he had hoped to marry; a con girl plays the same bold game too...