When Richard Hannay offered sanctuary to the man he found on the doorstep of his London flat in the middle of the night, he took the first step on a trail of peril, murder, conspiracy and...

An anthology of 39 British and American poets, from Shakespeare and Dunne to Whitman and Yeats.

Set in old Verona, this is Shakespeare's famous tragedy of two star-crossed lovers, their doomed romance and the bitter enmity between their respective families, the Capulets and the Montagues....

A beautiful novel in itself, ‘Swann’s Way' (‘Du côté de chez Swann') is also the introduction to the great seven-part work ‘Remembrance of Things Past' ('A la Recherche du Temps Perdu')...

Shakespeare's light-hearted comedy of mistaken identity, tangled lovers, meddling fairies and bumbling amateur actors set in a wood on Midsummer Night is vividly retold by award-winning author...

Tom Baker reads Charles Dickens' timeless seasonal story. Charles Dickens' story of solitary miser Ebenezer Scrooge, who is taught the true meaning of Christmas by the three ghosts of Christmas...

Shakespeare's thought-provoking tale of a merchant in debt to a heartless Jewish moneylender who demands his pound of flesh is movingly retold by award-winning author Leon Garfield. Read by Simon...

The Victorian-era writers featured in this collection are known for their power of invention and command of horror and the supernatural. Includes 'A Watcher by the Dead' by Ambrose Bierce; 'The...

The story follows the life of Tina, a young woman caught between the mother who adopted her, the beautiful, upstanding Delia, and her true mother, her plain, unmarried ‘aunt’ Charlotte, who...

Shakespeare's tragic tale of the tormented prince of Denmark, his failure to avenge his father's murder and his descent into madness is stirringly retold by award-winning author Leon Garfield....

Katherine Mansfield was compared by contemporary critics to Chekhov for her insights into ordinary events, and this recording contains four of her best stories.

In ‘The Daughters of...

A classic tale of men at sea. Oscar nominee Stuart Whitman, whose roles have included many rugged characters such as Wolf Larsen, delivers a compelling dramatic reading.