Collection: Audio CD

Inga Karlson died in a fire in New York in the 1930s, leaving behind three things - a phenomenally successful first novel, the scorched fragments of a second book and a literary mystery that has captivated generations of readers. Nearly fifty years later, Brisbane bookseller Caddie Walker is wait...

It is 1873. Mrs. Eliza Touchet is the Scottish housekeeper—and cousin by marriage—of a once-famous novelist, now in decline, William Ainsworth, with whom she has lived for thirty years. Mrs. Touchet is a woman of many interests: literature, justice, abolitionism, class, her cousin, his wives, thi...

At eight years old, Thea Paris watched her brother being snatched from his bed. Her inability to save him has haunted both their lives ever since. Twenty years later, the unthinkable happens when her billionaire father is abducted. But this time, she is prepared. Now, Thea is at the top of her ga...

Oliver Cross is fresh out of jail. His plans for the future are to live out his days in regret, back pain and a bottle of Lone Star. But when he finds out his granddaughter, a wild child who reminds him of his late wife, has vanished, bless her hell-raising heart, Oliver jumps parole. With a sket...

A stand-out new family novel from the critically acclaimed, Booker-prize shortlisted author of A Spool of Blue Thread The major new novel from the beloved prize-winning author -- a brilliantly perceptive, painfully true and funny journey deep into one family's foibles, from the 1950s right up to...

A forgotten manuscript that threatens to unravel the past ... Fresnes Prison, 1940. Former maid at a luxury villa on the Riviera, Margot Bisset, finds herself in a prison cell with writer and French Resistance fighter, Josephine Murant. Together, they are transferred to a work camp in Germany for...

Left profoundly deaf after an accident, Emile is no stranger to isolation - or heartbreak. Now, as Nazi planes loom over Guernsey, he senses life is about to change forever. Trapped in a tense, fearful marriage, Isabelle doesn't know what has become of Emile and the future she hoped for. But when...

Sally left Nicolas, her French boyfriend of ten years and Lila's father, after she discovered that he was having an affair with his secretary. Six months later and she's beginning to bounce back. But making a new start is fraught with complications.

In 1920s Liverpool, Jane, her little brother Alfie and their mother Ellen have faced the horrors of the workhouse together. But when Ellen dies, two very different paths open up for the siblings...

Heather has wasted years in a controlling, soul-destroying marriage, walking on eggshells around Anthony’s moods for the sake of their daughters. When a holiday throws them together with vivacious Amy and happy-go-lucky Joe, change is forced on Heather – but will it be the change she wanted? Be...