The Lace Reader
Drawn by family. Driven by fear. Haunted by fate.
William Collins
The Palace of Strange Girls
I-SPY AT THE SEASIDE
Hello, children! Welcome to your very own I-Spy Book. In these pages you’ll be able to look for all kinds of secret, exciting things that are found only by the sea.
Clips From A Life: Abridged edition
Classic stills from the life of one of Britain’s most cherished entertainers.
The Queen’s Sorrow
A queen brought low by love compromised and power abused – the tragedy of Mary Tudor.
The Duchess: Abridged edition
Sex, intrigue and adultery in the world of high politics and huge wealth in late eighteenth-century England.
A Personal Anthology: Unabridged edition
A selection of poems by various poets, including W.B Yeats, Gerard Manley Hopkins, and D.H. Lawrence. There are also readings especially devoted to John Milton’s ‘Comus’ and ‘Paradise Lost’ with Dylan Thomas as Satan.
Quite Early One Morning (And Other Memories)
Dylan Thomas tells stories of his childhood in Wales, piling on the sights and smells and sounds experienced by one rough-and-tumble Welsh lad with a miraculous sense of wonder.
Under Milk Wood
Dylan Thomas’ fantastic reading of ‘Under Milk Wood’ performed by Dylan Thomas and a remarkable cast available for the first time on CD.
Broken
You thought your neighbours were bad? Wait till you meet the Oswalds. They’re crass, cruel and seemingly untouchable. Until, that is, they go one step too far – and the results begin to tear an entire community apart.
Empire of the Sun: Abridged edition
The heartrending story of British boy Jim’s four year ordeal in a Japanese prison camp during the second world war. Filmed by Steven Spielberg.Now available for the first time on CD.
Monarchy: England and her Rulers from the Tudors to the Windsors: Abridged edition
David Starkey’s ‘Monarchy’ charts the rise of the British monarchy from the War of the Roses, the English Civil War and the Georgians, right up until the present day monarchs of the 20th Century.
The Puzzle of God
Peter Vardy’s much acclaimed introduction to the study of ideas about God – now revised and updated.
The Puzzle of Ethics
A guide to the complex subject of ethics explained in clear and entertaining language. This new edition is fully revised and updated.