A plane crashes on a desert island and the only survivors, a group of schoolboys, assemble on the beach and wait to be rescued. By day they inhabit a land of bright fantastic birds and dark blue seas, but at night their dreams are haunted by the image of a terrifying beast. As the boys' delicate sense of order fades, so their childish dreams are tr...

Kipling story which appeared as part of Plain Tales from the Hills - Strickland, a police officer with a deep knowledge of the local Indian people falls in love with Miss Youghal but her parents don't approve of the match.

This audiobook celebrates Kipling's truly prolific career. Sit back, relax and enjoy his poetry and stories including 'India and Empire', 'The Three Musketeers' and 'Mowgli's Brothers'.

Once again we find ourselves at that idyllic country seat, Blandings. This time it's debonair charmer, Frederick Altamont Cornwallis Twistleton, fifth Earl of Ickenham (known to most as 'Uncle Fred') who has been lured to the castle by affable Lord Emsworth. His lordship requires an expert in human behaviour to prevent the egg-throwing Duke of Duns...

Galahad's causing the usual uproar at Blandings, this time by deciding to write his memoirs - a choice not all of his high-society childhood buddies are keen on! Wodehouse's typically British farce is joyfully read by Martin Jarvis, who lends charismatic character voices to a plot which is as funny as it is ridiculous. Pig-kidnap also included!

The debonair Uncle Fred makes a welcome return to Blandings, where plotting and confusion is rife. Blackmail, sabotage, jilted lovers and pigs under threat of kidnap all feature largely, making this hilarious instalment in the Blandings series irresistible to fans and newcomers alike. The story sees lovely debutante Myra Schoonmaker unhappily ensco...

Right Ho, Jeeves sees Bertie Wooster blithely attempting to assume the role of Jeeves himself as a matters-of-the-heart adviser. Very unwise: from Gussie Fink-Nottle's romance with Madeline Bassett, to Tuppy Glossop and his stop/go engagement to Angela Travers, the young master succeeds only in making a bally mess of everyone's love-lives. Toss int...

Galahad is writing his memoirs, but will he upset all of his high-society friends in the process? The setting is the glorious Blandings castle, where Galahad Threepwood is trying to write his memoirs, which may well upset a few of his friends, whose youthful indiscretions he plans on exposing. A host of colourful and relatively ridiculous character...

When Bertie's indomitable Aunt Agatha asks him to chaperone a visitor to New York, Jeeves and Wooster dare not disobey, and have to step up to the plate. Unfortunately, their charge is a rather ill-behaved scoundrel called Bassington-Bassington, who finds himself in a whole bally lot of trouble almost as soon as his feet touch American soil. Add to...

The Doctor walked slowly forward into the cul-de-sac. The giant dinosaur turned its head to focus on the midget now approaching... The Doctor aimed his gun to fire... suddenly from behind came a great roar of anger. He spun round - blocking the exit from the narrow street towered a Tyrannosaurus Rex, its savage jaws dripping with blood... The Docto...

William Brown, the loveable rogue created by Richmal Crompton in the 1930s, is as well-received today as he was almost 80 years ago. This title includes stories such as: 'William and the Musician', 'Willaim Holds the Stage', 'The Outlaws and the Triplets', 'William and the Eastern Curse', 'The New Neighbour', 'Mrs. Bott's Hat', 'William and the Pri...

A selection of stories about 10 year old William Brown and his trusty band of friends. Scruffy, mud-stained and mischievous, William is a lovable scamp whose hilarious pranks usually end in disaster - for his harassed elders at least.

Billy Bunter makes a surprising appearance in the Remove soccer team when Smithy the Bounder is sacked for the remainder of the term by the captain, Harry Wharton. Cripes! Following the usual order of chaos, this leads to the resignation of many members of the team in protest. Meanwhile, the Fat Owl of the Remove plots to booby trap Smithy in his s...

An adaptation of Shakespeare's comedy in which hapless couples are forced into cross-dressing to avoid their loan-shark woes: Charles and Mary Lamb turn the master of all playwright's works to prose to great effect.

'Plain Tales from the Hills' is an outstanding collection of stories of colonial life capturing all the richness of India's sights, sounds and smells. The tales Kipling tells are ones of loss, suffering and broken faith, a far cry from the celebratory patriotism that surrounded the Empire at the time. He writes with passion about the cultural, raci...

This story makes Shakespeare's world-famous play accessible to everyone in Charles and Mary Lamb's acclaimed prose form. Ideal as a study aid for students, or as an introduction to the play's plot for any listener. Macbeth and Lady Macbeth plot to seat Macbeth as the king of Scotland, both of them knowing that they will have to get their hands very...

Charles and Mary Lamb revolutionized Shakespeare by re-writing the great Bard's plays into short stories, originally intended for children, in 1807. Since then, generations after generations of people have read and listened to their stories, which appeal just as much to adults as they do to children. Also good resources for students studying Shakes...

The life and times of 'Mr Chips', a much-loved classics master at Brookfield school since 1870. Full of the jokes and eccentricities of school life, Mr Chipping's journey starts as a diffident young master taking prep for the first time, progressing through middle-age and his encounters with Katherine, whose 'new woman' opinions create far-reaching...

The story of a handsome and ambitious carpenter's son, Julian Sorel, and of his life torn between the military (the scarlet) and the church (the black). Sorel is determined to rise above his humble peasant origins and make something of his life. To do this, he realises he must adopt the code of hypocrisy by which early 19th-century French Resoratio...

Six 'Just William' stories for Christmas: 1. 'William and the Carol Singers', 2. 'A Busy Day', 3. 'William All The Time', 4. 'William's Christmas Eve', 5. 'The Outlaws Fetch The Holly', and 6. 'A Present from William'.

A humorous novel in which Bertie Wooster wonders how he ever managed without his trusted manservant Jeeves, who manages to get Bertie out of innumerable scrapes with formidable aunts, madcap girls and uninvited guests.