A comical romp of an adventure involving Jeeves, Wooster and 'Bicky', whose uncle, the Duke of Chiswick, has the potential to be a wealthy benefactor to his nephew. Unfortunately, the Duke is what's known in the right circles as a 'hard-boiled egg' - ie 'notoriously the most prudent spender in England'. When Bicky contacts Bertie, our jaunt begins,...

Bertie is feeling really rather spiffing, when he receives a surprise visit from the writer Lady Malvern and her son Wilmot. A friend of Bertie's Aunt Agatha, Lady Malvern requests that Wilmot stay with Bertie for a couple of weeks whilst she is away in America. Whilst not perfectly happy with the idea, Bertie agrees, to find that the seemingly mil...

Hapless and often hopeless romantic Bingo Little has fallen for yet another young lady in this Jeeves and Wooster story of terrible cravats, far-from-fine dining and love's perhaps-not-so-young dream. Bertie is rather confounded by Bingo's love for a girl below his rightful station, so long-suffering Jeeves is roped in to talk to Bingo's uncle, who...

A short story first published in the United States in The Saturday Evening Post on November 28, 1916, and in the United Kingdom in the April 1923 edition of Strand Magazine. Its first book publication. From 'Carry on, Jeeves'. Uncle Willoughby guest-stars in this story of engagement, surprise and of course, a whole lot of raucous comedy.

This tale is a cultural insight into the exotic land of India. Based in Narsipur, where panthers and leopards are hunted, the narrator is assisted in this story by local shikari, Subhar. He is unlike other natives, and the pair adventure together in this compelling study of life in India and story of big game hunting.

A surprisingly shocking short story which is darkly comical, mainly concerning female submission and the necessary loss of identity to survive in an unfair male-dominated world. Humphrey's mother meets an intriguing stranger at a dance and agrees to go for a walk with him. The events that follow shape the rest of her life, that of her husband and o...

Actor J. Kingston Platt makes an appearance in this amusing story about a supposed 'get away' to the country that is not all that it seems. Asked by his agent to accompany him and his girlfriend down to a country cottage in the Cotswolds, Kigston Platt reluctantly agrees, to find out that there is more to the trip than meets the eye. Entangled furt...

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...

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...

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...

An insight into early science fiction full of marvelous imagination and rare scientific genius reaching far beyond the author's time.

When Irish protagonist Bryden suffers from blood poisoning, his doctor advises him to go on a voyage overseas to aid his recuperation. He travels to Ireland from New York, and on returning home he gets a job - also a big shock at how different Ireland is to New York...and starts to reevaluate the advantages of a slower, village life.

Orwell was arguably one of the first 'gonzo' journalists. In this unabridged, enlightening and often shocking expose of life on the streets of two of Europe's most romanticised and celebrated cities, Orwell describes in detail the day-to-day life of a 'down-and-out', which involves hunger, filth, derision and often prejudice and violence. Alcohol i...

Read by members of the cast of the exciting new film based on 'The Decameron', 'Virgin Territory', Boccacio's raunchy 14th-Century work is given a new lease of life in this inventive and witty production by CSA WORD. A group of Florentine youth escape to the mountain countryside during the time of the plague, only to regale each other with vignette...

Winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and twice adapted into films, The Good Companions also inspired the Yorkshire Television series of the same name. One of Priestley's best-known works, it follows the fortune of a group of misfits who decide to join a concert troupe. An excellent choice for audio due to Priestley's use of regional diale...

The Dead are not alone. There is something in the mist and it talks to them. In a remote clinic in 18th-century Italy, a lonely girl writes to her mother. She tells of pale English aristocrats and mysterious Russian nobles. She tells of intrigues and secrets, and strange faceless figures that rise from the sea. And she tells about the enigmatic Mr...

G.R. Owen is the last of Cardiff's old department stores. Times are hard and the ancient firm has gone into administration. But who are the Administrators? What goes on behind the shutters at night? And why are customers disappearing? Torchwood are already investigating; G.R. Owen is the site of their oldest unsolved cases, and Jack is determined...

One of Joyce's celebrated tales from his 'Dubliners' collection, which follows Maria, a likeable maid, as she travels from work to her make-shift-family home. Written in Joyce's famous train-of-consciousness style, his words work well on audio, especially when read in T.P. McKenna's lyrical and nimble Irish tone.

A day in the life of Farrington, an Irish man X who faces daily trials and tribulations in this anthropological story from James Joyce's Dubliners. A listener hears Farrington's tribulation-full journey from the office, to the pub and home. This tale makes no judgments but portrays a life-beaten man who is neither entirely wrong nor right in his ow...

From Dubliners: The Dead - At a party, Gabriel Conroy offends three women and realizes in an epiphany that passionless people like himself are already dead. At 15-16,000 words this story has also been classified as a novella. The Dead was adapted to film by John Huston, written for the screen by his son Tony and starring his daughter Anjelica as M...

The story involves a boy, the narrator, and his friend, Mahony, taking a day off from school and going to the shore, to seek adventure in their otherwise dull lives. As the narrator says, "The mimic warfare of the evening became at last as wearisome to me as the routine of school in the morning because I wanted real adventures to happen to myself....