It's the end of the world. Six students have taken cover in Cortege High but shelter is little comfort when the dead outside won't stop pounding on the doors. One bite is all it takes to kill a...

Tammy Franklin has learned too much about death, too quickly. Two years ago she lost her mother to a long, lingering illness and now the body of the woman her father married in an attempt to...

Alice Baxter knows the best things in life are free. But the approach of her 40th wedding anniversary and 60th birthday surely warrants a proper celebration. With visions of a glorious family...

Once when Benet was about fourteen they had been on a train together, alone in the carriage, and Mopsa had tried to stab her with a carving knife. It was some time now since Benet had seen her mad...

When the body of a half-clothed woman is discovered in an Edinburgh park, a murder investigation is launched. The victim has not been reported missing and there are few clues to her identity. Soon...

Nick Lansing and Susy Branch are young, attractive but impoverished New Yorkers. They are in love and decide to marry, but realise their chances of happiness are slim without the wealth and...

An unabridged reading of the classic novel by Jane Austen.

When the personable Captain Wentworth reappears in Anne Elliot’s life several years after she had been persuaded to break...

This collection of stories continues the adventures of Arthur Conan Doyle’s much-loved fictional detective. In these intriguing tales, Holmes and Watson solve cases that range from the...

David Troughton reads this exciting novelisation of a classic Doctor Who adventure.In the dark, uncharted depths of the North Sea it has lurked, growing in strength, growing in size, and...

Schalken the Painter by J. S. Lefanu; Sredni Vashtar by Saki (H. H. Munro); The Room in the Tower by E. F. Benson; Charles Ashmore's Trail by Ambrose Bierce; The Mark of the Beast by Rudyard...

Dublin, 1907: a city of whispered rumours. An actress, still in her teens, begins an affair with a damaged older man, the leading playwright at the theatre where she works. Rebellious, irreverent,...

After a dramatic accident Kit and his parents find themselves washed up on a small island. But there is no sanctuary here. The local community is hostile and menacing. Soon Kit's life is in danger...

On a crowded train from Pusan to Seoul, the brutal rape of a young mother sparks rage on the powder-keg peninsula of Korea, pitting Koreans against Americans and the 8th Army brass against the...

When Gaynor's god-fearing father drives her childhood sweetheart away, she's certain she will never love again. But a young German soon helps her to forget her sorrows. Until, with the war...

Could the sudden death of Sir Charles Baskerville have been caused by the gigantic ghostly hound which is said to have haunted his family for generations? Arch-rationalist Sherlock Holmes...