Lucy Snowe, an English girl, goes to work as a governess in Brussels and finds solace in an unlikely suitor. Largely autobiographical fiction. Based on Charlotte's work as a governess in Brussels, Villette concerns the life of Lucy Snowe, an English girl who obtains a post at a girl's school in Belgium. With few friends and little money, Lucy conc...

The story of Paul Morel, torn between three women. A observant and insightful look at the complexities and dangers surrounding human love and attraction. Sons and Lovers is the moving and explicit account of a young man growing up in a closed mining village. Born into a difficult marriage, Paul Morel is shy and introverted and impressionable. As a...

This story is both shocking and absorbing, a vivid evocation of the dynamics within relationships between husbands and wives, which are not always happy, and can be violent. An apocalyptic masterpiece, Women in Love was originally refused publication for four years after completion due to its strong content. Describing violent relationships, animal...

Moll Flanders is an often humorous and always brazen woman, who, born into poverty in Newgate prison, has to cheek and swindle her way through life to survive. A loveable and chastizable heroine makes for a great listen. Moll Flanders is the epitome of a 'bawdy' woman, who makes few excuses for herself and is unashamed of her shady past. Now conve...

One of the greatest 'castaway novels ever written, 'Robinson Crusoe' sees its namesake struggling on a desert island after a shipwreck. Robinson Crusoe is a sailor who becomes stranded on a desert island for over twenty years when a storm destroys the boat he is travelling on. The ultimate tale of isolation and survival against the odds, Crusoe ha...

The first full-length detective novel to use fingerprinting as a means of detection, its intricate plotting and the double-twist in the final minutes, and not least its engaging hero, painter and amateur sleuth Philip Trent, have assured the book a place in classic fiction of this genre.

Adela Quested travels to India with her chaperone Mrs Moore, on the premise of deciding whether to marry Mrs Moore's son Ronny Heaslop, the city magistrate. Finding her India very disappointingly English, Adela jumps at the chance the two women are given to travel to the distant Marabar caves with Aziz, a charismatic young Indian Doctor. When Adela...

Lucy Honeychurch, accompanied by her vigilant guardian, Charlotte Bartlett, makes her first foray into the world, touring Italy and discovering a country very different to the English countryside she was brought up in. Torn between two lovers, she has to make a decision that will transform her from a girl to a woman. A talented pianist with a good...

This dark, gothic tale is a twisted love-story of sorts which explores the theme of love truly knowing no bounds...even in death! A man's beautiful and erudite wife dies, then he remarries and his second wife tragically dies, also. However, all is not as it seems, and this surprising and perturbing supernatural story will have a listener both on th...

Edgar Allan Poe's well known classic: the story of a vicious plague and a prince's attempts to remove himself and his friends from the horrors affecting the masses. Gothic literature at its very finest.

Eerie classic by Edgar Wallace - George Thomas, a criminal, meets a stranger by night, who persuades him to let his violent urges against his wife run their course.

Short story featuring Wallace's amateur female thief Four Square Jane and the remarkable disappearance of a heavily guarded painting.

'Revive the warriors!' The TARDIS materialises inside Sea Base Four, which lies on one of Earth's ocean beds in the year 2184. The Doctor, Tegan and Turlough quickly run into trouble, as the base's personnel suspect them of belonging to an enemy power bloc. Nearby, a group of Silurian reptiles - who in habited Earth centuries before mankind - are r...

The Navy Lark, one of radio's longest running laughter-makers, kept the nation on the crest of a comic wave from 1959 to 1977. All at sea in the Senior Service were conniving Petty Officer Jon Pertwee, silly-ass Sub-Lieutenant Leslie Phillips and the constantly bemused Stephen Murray as 'Number One'. Below decks Ronnie Barker was just about working...

Launching a new range of Classic Radio Sci-Fi releases, this six-part BBC radio drama stars none other than Peter Cushing and Vincent Prince, who between them became two of the most famous horror film stars of the 1950s and 1960s. Aliens in the Mind is based on a story by the then-foremost Doctor Who script editor Robert Holmes. It centres around t...

Four more classic episodes of high jinks on the high seas with the crew of HMS Troutbridge. Back from the Antarctic (2 July 1967)The Naval Review (30 July 1967)Troutbridge's Silver Jubilee (10 September 1967)Sub Lt. Phillips at Dartmouth (29 October 1967). The Navy Lark, one of radio's longest running laughter-makers, kept the nation on the crest o...

Avon and the crew of Scorpio again face the ruthless machinations of Servalan in two thrilling full-cast BBC Radio 4 adventures. The Sevenfold Crown: Raiding Servalan's HQ, the crew discover that she possesses a jewel that belongs to an ancient, long-lost crown - a mystical artefact of indescribable power. Suddenly the Scorpio crew are as determine...

Featuring: The Booted Gorilla, The Sale of Manhattanm The Choking Horror and The Ink Shortage. From 1952 to 1960 the Goons ruled the airwaves, the most celebrated and influential clowns in the history of radio. This latest release features four more episodes of classic Goonery, starring the inimitable Harry Secombe, Peter Sellers and Spike Milligan...

William Hartnell stars as the first Doctor in this classic four-episode story from 1966, which pits the TARDIS crew against one of the most powerful enemies they have ever encountered...The travellers arrive in the dangerous domain of the Toymaker, where their failure to win at a series of games could result in them becoming his playthings for eter...

Giles Wemmbley Hogg 2m's, 2g's world traveller and proud graduate in Canadian Studies tries his hand and his knees and ankles at being a Chalet Girl on the ski slopes of France.

Chrysalids: Ten-year-old David is a happy, ordinary boy, untroubled except for occasional strange dreams about a mysterious city - until he befriends Sophie, who is unlike anybodyhe has met before: she has six toes. But in the ultra-religious village of Waknut,all abnormality is abhorred as an offence against God, and he must keep her secret to him...