Collection: Audio CD

Bloomsbury Books has resisted change for a hundred years, run by men and guided by the general manager's unbreakable rules. But after the turmoil of war, the women in the shop have plans. The brilliant and stylish Vivien Lowry has a long list of grievances, the biggest of which is Alec McDonough,...

It starts innocently enough at the intimate review 'absolutely everyone is talking about', Light and Frothy, where its glamorous star, Frou Frou Gavotte, has rather taken the fancy of Blotto's school friend Giles 'Whiffler' Trumpington. But while Blotto and Whiffler wait for the star outside the ...

An Old Etonian chum begs Blotto to join him on a cricket tour of India. But they still need a twelfth man - a vacancy which his ridiculously capable sister Twinks will have no problem in filling. The Dowager Duchess assents readily: Blotto is more tolerable when situated on the other side of the ...

April, 1865. Having been an eye witness to the assassination of President Lincoln, Matthew Grand, a former captain of the 3rd Cavalry of the Potomac, has come to London on an undercover assignment to hunt down the last of the assassin's co-conspirators...

Napoleon has been defeated at Waterloo, but the ensuing peace becomes ugly for Captain Jack Aubrey, with violent celebrations of the English sailors in Gibraltar and the desertion of nearly half his crew. To cap it all off, the Surprise is nearly sunk in a shattering night collision on the first ...

Shetland Detective Jimmy Perez knows it will be a difficult homecoming when he returns to Fair Isle. It's a community where strangers, while welcomed, are still viewed with a degree of mistrust. With the autumn storms raging, the island feels cut off from the rest of the world. Tempers among the ...

Monday: five-year-old Matthew Faraday is abducted. His face is splashed across newspapers. His parents and the police are desperate. Can anyone help find their little boy? Psychotherapist Frieda Klein just might know something. One of her patients describes dreams of seizing a boy who is the spit...

Jack Reacher is a former military cop, trained to notice things. He's on a Greyhound bus, watching an elderly man sleeping in his seat, with a fat envelope of cash hanging out of his pocket. Another passenger is watching too, obviously hoping to get rich quick. When the mugger finally makes his m...

Things can't get much worse for detective Jane Tennison. Unceremoniously kicked off the adrenaline-fuelled Flying Squad, she now plies her trade in Gerald Road, a small and sleepy police station in the heart of London's affluent Knightsbridge. With only petty crime to sink her teeth into, Tennis...

As a kid, Nina spent her summers at her grandparents' cabin by Stepping Stone Bay. Sunny days spent with her best friends Leo, his brother Adrian, and local girl Maeve - and, later, falling in love with Leo. But those glorious days ended abruptly one summer night. Twelve years later, Nina returns...