‘A small miracle... endlessly surprising and suspenseful... a dazzling first novel’ - Sunday Telegraph.

When attractive, impulsive, English widow Lilia takes a holiday in Italy,...

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...

Little Women is recognized as one of the best-loved classic children's stories of all time. Originally written as a "girls' story," its appeal transcends the boundaries of time and age, making it...

The case of Jarndyce and Jarndyce has ground its way through the courts for generations. At its heart are Ada Clare and Richard Carstone, who find love - and terrible loss - through their...

In ‘Phineas Finn’, the second of the ‘Palliser’ novels, Trollope balances the rival demands of public and private life, entangling political ambitions with the experiences of love.

Jay Gatsby is the man who has everything. But one thing will always be out of his reach... Everybody who is anybody is seen at his glittering parties. Day and night his Long Island mansion buzzes...

In a fit of drunken anger, Michael Henchard sells his wife and baby daughter for five guineas at a country fair. Over the course of the following years, he manages to establish himself as a...

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.

Emma Woodhouse, motherless and mistress of her father’s home from an early age, is used to getting her own way. ‘Handsome, clever and rich’, she has every advantage. Employing her extensive...

Lady Dona St Columb is beautiful, headstrong – and bored. Desperate to escape the pomp and ritual of the Restoration Court, she retreats to the hidden creeks and secret woods of the family...

An unabridged reading of the classic novel by Edith Wharton.In the exclusive world of upper-class New York, in which attendance at balls and dinner passes for occupation, Newland Archer...

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...

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....

T.S. Eliot described ‘The Moonstone’ as ‘the first and the greatest English detective novel’.

The stone of the title is an enormous diamond plundered from an Indian shrine...

Frank Gresham is set upon an unsuitable match. The son of the impoverished squire of Greshambury, he has fallen in love with the obscure and penniless Mary Thorne, ward of Doctor Thorne.