Juliet Stevenson
Author
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
This voyage is special. It will change everything ? One September evening in 1785, the merchant Jonah Hancock hears urgent knocking on his front door. One of his captains is waiting eagerly on the step. He has sold Jonah?s ship for what appears to be a mermaid. As gossip spreads through the docks, coffee shops, parlours and brothels, everyone wants to see Mr Hancock?s marvel. Its arrival spins him out of his ordinary existence and through the doors...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Underneath her graceful exterior lies a passion nobody knew about, least of all Flappy herself? Flappy Scott-Booth is the self-appointed queen bee of Badley Compton, a picturesque Devon village. While her husband Kenneth spends his days on the golf course, she is busy overseeing her beautiful house and gardens, and organising unforgettable events, surrounded by friends who hang on to her every word. Her life is a reflection of herself...
Author
Language
English
Description
Athens 1941. After decades of political uncertainty, Greece is polarised between Right- and Left-wing views when the Germans invade. Fifteen-year-old Themis comes from a family divided by these political differences. The Nazi occupation deepens the fault-lines between those she loves just as it reduces Greece to destitution. She watches friends die in the ensuing famine and is moved to commit acts of resistance. In the civil war that follows the end...
4) Trespass
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Set among the hills and gorges of the Cevennes, the dark and beautiful heartland of southern France, 'Trespass' is a novel about disputed territory, sibling love and devastating revenge.
5) Here and now
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Marigold has spent her life taking care of those around her, juggling family life with the running of the local shop, and being an all-round leader in her quiet yet welcoming community. When she finds herself forgetting things, everyone quickly puts it down to her age. But something about Marigold isn't quite right, and it's becoming harder for people to ignore. As Marigold's condition worsens, for the first time in their lives her family must find...
Author
Publisher
Bolinda audio
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
'They cut her hair before they dragged her to the place of sacrifice. Her mouth was gagged to stop her cursing her father, her cowardly, two-tongued father. Nonetheless, they heard her muffled screams.' On the day of his daughter's wedding, Agamemnon orders her sacrifice. His daughter is led to her death, and Agamemnon leads his army into battle, where he is rewarded with glorious victory. Three years later, he returns home and his murderous action...
7) Hamlet
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
BBC Radio has a unique heritage when it comes to Shakespeare. Since 1923, when the newly formed company broadcast its first full-length play, generations of actors and producers have honed and perfected the craft of making Shakespeare to be heard. In the acclaimed BBC Radio Shakespeare series, each play is introduced by Richard Eyre, former Director of the Royal National Theatre. Revitalised, original and comprehensive, this is Shakespeare for the...
9) One of us
Publisher
2 Entertain
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
Four-part BBC mystery drama. After a young, newly-wed couple is murdered in their home in Edinburgh, shortly after returning from their honeymoon, their families, the Douglases and Elliots, are left devastated. When the prime suspect makes his way to the childhood sweethearts' former home in the remote countryside, he crashes his car en route and is rescued by the shocked Douglases and Elliots. They lock him up for the night in the outside shed but...
10) House of names
Author
Publisher
Bolinda audio
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
'They cut her hair before they dragged her to the place of sacrifice. Her mouth was gagged to stop her cursing her father, her cowardly, two-tongued father. Nonetheless, they heard her muffled screams.' On the day of his daughter's wedding, Agamemnon orders her sacrifice. His daughter is led to her death, and Agamemnon leads his army into battle, where he is rewarded with glorious victory. Three years later, he returns home and his murderous action...
11) Peter Pan
Author
Language
English
Description
The night that Peter Pan flies into the Darling children's nursery is the night that magic flies into their lives. It's the night that Wendy and her brothers follow Peter out of the window and soar through the sky to Neverland. They discover a world of mermaids, fairies, and pirates, of lost boys, and of Captain Hook.