Audio Books

The life of William Butler Yeats is a remarkable one—poet, playwright, essayist, politician, occultist, astrologer, founder of a national theatre, voluminous correspondent, lover, husband and father. It was a life that extended to a packed,...

The Knight's Tale of medieval wars and chivalry is the first tale told to the pilgrims as they set out to Canterbury. It concerns Theseus, returning from fighting at Thebes, two brother knights Palamon and Arcite, imprisoned but yearning for their loves...

The first CD audiobook of readings by Percy Wyndham Lewis (1882-1957), the influential British modernist writer, artist and self-styled 'Enemy' feted both by T.S. Eliot and Mark E. Smith. Lewis is best known as the founder in 1914 of the celebrated...

The award-winning Sherlock Holmes narrator David Timson leads US through Conan Doyle's most famous tale. This extended story brings the archetypal detective to the moors with his friend and biographer Dr Watson to investigate the mystery of a beast...

Tess of the D Urbervilles tells the story of Tess Durbeyfield, forced by her family's poverty to claim kinship with the wealthy D Urbervilles. Violated by the son, Alec, her hopes of rebuilding her life with the gentle and bookish Angel Clare founder...

Space Mutiny is a remake of the 1988 B-Movie of the same name. This 4 CD set is housed in a mini box set with a booklet featuring producer's notes, behind the scenes pictures, a star chart and a dedication to Richard Hatch.1. Space Mutiny 2. Fail Safe 3...

Sheridan's most famous play, the School for Scandal, has been called the best existing English comedy of intrigue. A favorite with audiences and critics alike since it's premier in 1777, this play is a classic English comedy of manners. Full of satirical...

Set in the fictional South American country of Costaguana, Nostromo explores the volatile politics and crippling greed surrounding the San Tom silver mine. The story of power, love, revolutions, loyalty and reward is told with richly evocative...

Sarajevo, in the 1990s, is a hellish place. The ongoing war devours human life, tears families apart and transforms even banal routines, such as acquiring water, into life-threatening expeditions. Day after day, a cellist stations himself in the midst of...

Prince Lef Mikolayevitch Muishkin is one of the great characters in Russian literature. Is he a saint or just naive, an idealist or, as many in General Yepanchin's society feel, an idiot? Certainly, his return to St Petersburg after years in a Swiss...

One of the best anthologies of the year... An arresting, deeply moving collection of the best of British poetry read by a star-studded cast.' - the Independent This exceptional anthology, based on Lord Owen' published anthology Seven Ages - Poetry for a...

Information is everything in Hard-boiled Wonderland. A specialist encrypter is attacked by thugs with orders from an unknown source, is chased by invisible predators, and dates an insatiably hungry librarian who never puts on weight. In the End of the...