Collection: Audio CD

Sussex, 1912. In a churchyard, villagers gather on the night when the ghosts of those who will die in the coming year are thought to be seen. Here, where the estuary leads out to the sea, superstitions still hold sway. Standing alone is the taxidermist's daughter. At seventeen, Constantia Gifford...

In 1995, journalist and author Roland Perry wrote to Sir Donald Bradman requesting an interview for a biography he was planning of the great cricketer. Surprisingly, the Don agreed. It was the start of a conversation that continued for years, during which the real Bradman shone, not only as a gre...

She keeps everyone’s secret, until there’s a murder. Sydney, 1965. After a chance encounter with a stranger, tea ladies Hazel, Betty and Irene become accidental sleuths, stumbling into a world of ruthless crooks and racketeers in search of a young woman believed to be in danger. In the meantime, ...

The Marjorie Marshall Memorial Cafeteria has been serving refreshments and raising money at the hospital for over fifty years - long after anybody can remember who Marjorie Marshall actually was. Staffed by successive generations of dedicated volunteers, the beloved cafeteria is known as much for...

'There was no denying it, being cheerful was a challenge. You just had to be grateful for small mercies: a sunny day, a night without an air raid, an extra rasher of bacon from the butcher.' England, 1942: 23-year-old Betty runs away from Bristol to make a new life for herself. Betrayed by her hu...

No strangers to evil, criminal profiler Reni Fisher and detective Daniel Ellis both still grapple with traumatising pasts. It unites them. So has a crime they must solve before someone else dies. At a campsite on California's Pacific Crest Trail, a guide is murdered and three young hikers vanish ...

England: The Calder family seems to have it all. Until the day Adrian Calder takes a gun and shoots his wife and children dead. It looks like an open and shut case, but PC Lucy Davies isn't convinced. Russia: A sleeper agent in Moscow demands an urgent meeting with Dan Forrester, but when Dan's c...

For Dr. David Beck, the loss was shattering. And every day for the past eight years, he has relived the horror of what happened. The gleaming lake. The pale moonlight. The piercing screams. The night his wife was taken. The last night he saw her alive. Everyone tells him it's time to move on, to ...

Nearly a decade after his last volume of short stories was published, Archer returns with his eagerly awaited, brand-new collection, Tell Tale, giving us a fascinating, exciting and sometimes poignant insight into the people he has met, the stories he has come across and the countries he has visi...

The tale of a town, and a nation. Provoked by a half-hidden account, Ashenden sets out to understand how the story of ‘relations between two racial groups within a single field of life’ has been told and not told, in this town and across the nation. In a riveting combination of memoir, reportage ...