
Summer at the Villa Rosa
Raffaella Moretti is the new housekeeper at the Villa Rosa in the Italian town of Triento. But this is not the life she imagined for herself.
Just over a year ago she married the only...£23.50
Hettie of Hope Street
Reader: Maggie Ollerenshaw
Hettie is an orphan, taken in by Ellie Pride and her husband to their Preston home. But she has never felt she truly belonged. Hettie has a special gift - a beautiful singing voice - and, on the...
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The Accident
Reader: Peter Berkrot
Glen Barber isn’t the only person in the small town of Milford with things on his mind. The recession has been bad for his construction business, especially after a mysterious fire destroys one...
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Fallen Angels
Reader: Anna Bentinck
The Lazenders, a gilded family, have been the envy and pride of Britain for centuries. But Toby Lazender, the heir, is now mysteriously absent. His sister, Campion, is running the family estates....
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Beautiful Lies
Reader: Wanda McCaddon
It is 1887, and an unsettled London is preparing for Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee. For Maribel Campbell Lowe, the beautiful, bohemian wife of a maverick politician, it is the year she plans to...
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Blessings in Disguise
Glasgow is a city teeming with immigrants, rich and poor, schemers and victims alike. And the McKennas, fresh from Ireland, have no intention of being victims. When they arrive on Cissie...
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The Line of Beauty
Reader: Alex Jennings
It is 1983, and young Nick Guest has moved into the Notting Hill home of the Feddens: Gerald, an ambitious new Tory MP, his wealthy wife Rachel, and their children Toby and Catherine. Nick had...
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Caligula
Reader: Russell Boulter
Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus, the third Roman Emperor, is better known by another name: Caligula, a name synonymous with decadence, cruelty and madness.
Rufus, a young...£20.50
Sword Song
Reader: Paul Blake
The year is 885, and England is at peace, divided between the Danish kingdom to the north and the Saxon kingdom of Wessex in the south. Uhtred, the dispossessed son of a Northumbrian lord, warrior...
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Other People's Marriages
They were the Five Families: the pleasant hospitable Frosts; the brash and sexy Cleggs; flirtatious Jimmy Rose and aloof Star; maternal Vicky and reliable Gordon Ransome; and Michael Wickham with...
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Rebecca's Tale
Reader: Robert Powell
April 1951. It is twenty years since the death of Rebecca, the beautiful first wife of Maxim de Winter, and since Manderley, the ancient family seat, was razed to the ground. Now, family friend...
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The September Girls
On a rainy night in 1920, Brenna Caffrey, her husband and their two young sons arrive at Liverpool docks from Ireland. They have come in search of a better life. Then Brenna, who is expecting her...
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The Loop
Reader: Lorelei King
‘The Loop’ is the story of Helen Ross, a twenty–nine–year–old biologist sent alone to the hostile Rocky Mountain ranching town of Hope, Montana to protect a pack of wolves from those...
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The Children's Hour
In the big old house overlooking the sea, five small children listened as their mother read them a story. Theirs was an idyllic childhood, as they played on the beach, in the gardens and the...
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Footprints in the Sand
Reader: Ruth Sillers
When Emily Kingsley arrives at the church for her eccentric Great-Aunt Mary’s funeral, she is still grieving for her broken relationship with the mean and unfaithful Ted, and has little sorrow...
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Those Who Serve
Within two years of leaving school, Kate and Cass are both married to sub-lieutenants and living in Hampshire close to the submarine base H.M.S. Dolphin. Cass revels in the freedom her husband’s...
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Finders and Keepers
Reader: Kate Jarman
Harry’s babyhood was blighted by a brutal stepfather. However, when he was five his mother, Sali, finally met and married a decent man – Lloyd Evans, a Rhondda coal miner. Loved and cosseted...
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The Greatest Enemy
In World War Two, HMS Terrapin was part of a crack hunter/killer group in the Battle of the Atlantic. Now she is working out her last commission in the Gulf of Thailand. To Lieutenant Commander...
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Rose Alley
Reader: Carole Boyd
Rose Alley is one of Liverpool’s worst slums – a place where hunger, filth and violence are a way of life.
It’s no place for proud Queenie Logan and her daughter Gillyflower. And...£24.50
The Sea Change
Reader: Eleanor Bron
'The Sea Change' is a beautiful and unusual novel concerned with four people: a 61-year-old playwright who is half-Irish, half-Jewish; his younger wife who has a weak heart and is unable to...
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Sharpe's Escape
Reader: William Gaminara
It is 1810 and the French are making yet another attempt to invade Portugal and push the British back into the sea by sending their largest army yet across the Spanish frontier. Facing them is a...
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The Captive Heart
Glasgow in the 1920s. World War I ended well for the Franklins, prosperous Clydeside shipbuilders.
But trouble is brewing behind their respectable façade: Lindsay Franklin...£24.50
Thanks for the Memories
Reader: Caroline Lennon
Joyce Conway remembers things she shouldn’t. She knows about tiny cobbled streets in Paris, which she has never visited. And every night she dreams about an unknown little girl with blonde hair....
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With All Despatch
Spring, 1792. A troubled peace with France means that even a frigate captain as famous as Richard Bolitho is forced to swallow his pride and visit the Admiralty daily to plead for a ship. But, as...
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A Home at the End of the World
Reader: Various
This is the story of two boyhood friends: Jonathan, lonely and introspective; and Bobby, hip and inarticulate. When Bobby moves in with Jonathan and his roommate, Clare – a veteran of New York...
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