This novel tells of three young people from very different backgrounds, whose fates are bound together in strange ways. The vision of one of them, Hugh, brings all three together, and gives each...

The final episode of the current series about Manchester's finest paralegal team. Frank thinks he's going to have a quiet day, but then a childhood pal turns up and he is forced to revisit the...

And now the second of our stories celebrating the riotous, cocktail-swilling, 'Bright Young Things' of the interwar years. Laurel Lefkow reads F Scott Fitzgerald's classic Jazz Age tale set in...

Three new short stories, specially commissioned by BBC Radio 4 to celebrate Derry Londonderry's status as UK City of Culture, from some of the city's leading literary figures. Seamus Deane,...

Before World War II has even been officially declared, ten-year-old Hazel Morgan and her eight-year-old brother Peter are evacuated, leaving London for the safety of the Sussex countryside.With...

Stone Arabia tells the story of a brother and sister, Nik and Denise, now in their forties. The sister is the reluctant caregiver in the family, dealing with an ailing mother and single-parenting...

Hornblower becomes a national hero when he escapes a French firing squad. But the Terror of the Mediterranean becomes Europe's most wanted man, forced to fight alone for England - and liberty.

Commander Graham Martineau was awarded the Victoria Cross for pressing home an attack against impossible odds. Few survived, and the crimson ribbon remains a haunting symbol of the sacrifice of...

Aunt Margaret, surrogate mother to teenage Saskia, has sent her niece to Canada for a year. Now, buoyed up by an unexpected legacy that's given her a year of freedom, Aunt Margaret decides to kick...

Helen Huntingdon flees a disastrous marriage and retreats to the desolate, half-ruined moorland mansion, Wildfell Hall. With her small son, Arthur, she adopts an assumed name and makes her living...

Sam Kinkade is finally feeling at home as a minister in rural Toms Brook, Virginia, content with his life and Shenandoah Valley congregation. But his plans to welcome the area's growing Hispanic...

A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation by Martyn Wade of Anthony Trollope's classic novel, 'Orley Farm'.This novel, described as a '... brilliantly choreographed legal thriller' (Mail on Sunday),...

The first of three short story commissions on the theme of social networking. 'Together' by Naomi Alderman walks the line between science fiction and our own near future, in a love story involving...

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...

Helen Majinsky is sixteen, Jewish and in love - like every Merseyside schoolgirl - with four mop-topped young men.After school, she and her friend Colette escape to the Cavern Club and dance to...