The story is an illustration of the power of Mrs Hauksbee. (It is Kipling's third story about her in book form.) Tarrion, a "clever and amusing" young officer in an unfashionable regiment, longs for a permanent appointment in Simla. There he has the good fortune to do Mrs Hauksbee a favour, and in return is due his reward.

Robert Graves relates his time in the trenches. Robert Graves's writing is versatile and intense. Famous as a war poet, his prose works are on a stage of their own, especially this piece, which is an autobiographical account of Grave's school days and life as a soldier in the trenches in World War 1. Political as well as personal, the piece is imp...

Home for the Holidays' is a wonderful story of everyone's favourite loveable scamp William Brown. Taken from its namesake collection from CSA Word, this unabridged story is a chucklesome treat that sees William getting up to his trademark mischief and driving the adults around him to distraction and despair - even if he does have dubiously good int...

Jimmy's brother Roger and Roger's two friends Charles and Bill are an inseparable trio who call themselves 'The Three Musketeers'. One morning, they set out in search of an adventure, hoping to find some valuable hidden treasure. There's only one small set-back: they don't know where to look for it, although their preparation is second-to-none. Cha...

Holidays need to be reformed. Children work really hard at school but don't get enough time off from school to rest their brains. The sometimes- irascible William Brown holds great stock in these statements. He believes that he sorely needs to rest his brain and that altering the school holidays time to term time, and term time to holiday time is a...

Seventeen favourite stories about the irrepressibleWilliam Brown, specially selected and read by Martin Jarvis. Whether a long-standing fan or a first time listener, this collection of stories is the ultimate Just William audio experience. With over four hours of laugh-out-loud stories, including two stories performed to a live audience, Just Will...

This collection of stories follows the adventures of that irrepressible and ageless schoolboy William Brown. Perpetually scruffy, mud-stained and mischievous, he is a lovable scamp whose pranks end in distaster - for his elders at least!

On July 19, 2001, Jeffrey Archer - international best-selling author - is sentenced to four years in prison for perjury. He becomes Prisoner FF8282 and spends the first twenty-two days of his sentence in a high-security prison that house some of Britain's most violent criminals. During those twenty-two days, Archer contemplates suicide; he is allow...

The Kipling story Kidnapped was first published in the Civil and Military Gazette on March 21st 1887, in the first Indian edition of Plain Tales from the Hills in 1888, and in subsequent editions of that collection.

Two sisters, Edith and Maud, are both in love with Saumarez. They have "a strong likeness between them in look and voice", and it is only a matter of time before they are mistaken for each other by the unlucky man. This was one of Rudyard Kipling's earlier tales, and made its first appearance in 'Plain Tales From the Hills', one of his celebrated c...

Bingo Little, friend of butler Jeeves' master Bertie Wooster and a member of the Drones Club, is also a hopeless romantic. Our heroes Jeeves and Wooster often try to help him into or out of romantic entanglements but to little avail, or at least they often make matters worse! Sublime comedy from the master of humor.

Gepetto's creation, the wooden puppet Pinocchio, longs to be a real boy. This is the story of all the mischief he makes and his incredible nose which grows whenever he tells a lie!

Our narrator stays on a Mediterranean island much longer than he intended to for a number of reasons. One reason is to prove his mother and his girlfriend wrong, who both say that to decamp to an island for a whole winter to write a novel is melodramatic and rather a clich‚. Most nights, to abate loneliness and pass the time, he talks to the...

As well as Jeeves and his master Bertie Wooster, these unabridged stories also feature many regular favourites, including Tuppy Glossop, Bingo Little, Bobbie Wickham, Aunt Dahlia, Aunt Agatha and Sir Roderick Glossop. All voiced masterfully by veteran Wodehouse reader Martin Jarvis.

Part of the P. G. Wodehouse Blandings series. When a valuable scarab belonging to an American millionaire is absent-mindedly stolen by Lord Emsworth, young writers Ashe Marson and Joan Valentine are tasked with infiltrating Blandings Castle to retrieve it. Meanwhile, vacuous Freddie Threepwood worries that some compromising letters may scupper his...

The second instalment of Jeeves and Wooster's bally adventures is chock-full of unabridged stories to bring a sparkle to even the dimmest eye. Martin Jarvis is on top form as usual, voicing superbly the many colourful characters, including the hapless and ever-romantic Bingo Little. From money-making schemes involving placing wagers on vicars to po...

Gregor Samsa, a seemingly typical man, wakes up one morning to discover he has been transformed into a gigantic insect. Frustrated and depressed about his physical alteration - and his family's rejection - Samsa's plight is filled with underlying meaning. This important literary work, written against the backdrop of increasing turmoil in central Eu...

William is back in a succession of stories 'dressed as a Red Indian, cooking an experimental mixture of treacle and lemonade in an old sardine tin', escaping from a wrathful shopkeeper by pretending to be a window dummy and turning the tables on his deadly rivals - the Hubert Lane Gang. William's long-suffering parents might not agree, but there is...

This classic Shakespeare tale of false identities, cross-dressing, disguises and romantic confusion is brought to life in a story (rather than a play) format. Based in a Dutchy in France, most of the action in fact takes place in 'The Forest of Arden' where the characters in the play fall in love, fall out with each other and find out some unlikely...

The timeless and enchanting festive story of Scrooge, who declares Christmas 'Humbug' and is taught otherwise. Ebenezer Scrooge is a money-grabbing skinflint who makes his own life and the lives of those around him nigh-unbearable with his mean and economical ways. One night just before Christmas, tucked up in his cold bed, he is shocked to meet ap...

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.