Shakespeare?s famous tragedy, describing how a lust for power and the prophecy of three witches transform a brave nobleman into a traitor and murderous tyrant, has mesmerised audiences since its first performance over four centuries ago. Macbeth?s temptation and descent into evil, his wife?s ruthlessness and subsequent madness and the overarching presence of the supernatural are brilliantly evoked in this BBC Radio archive production from 2000, directed...

A riveting historical novel from New York Times bestselling author, Philippa Gregory.

TWELVE FAMILIES. ONE THRONE. The city of Darien stands at the weary end of a golden age. Twelve families keep order with soldiers and artefacts, spies and memories, clinging to a peace that shifts and crumbles. The people of the city endure what they cannot change. Here, amongst old feuds, a plot is hatched to kill a king. It will summon strangers to the city - Elias Post, a hunter, Tellius, an old swordsman banished from his home, Arthur, a boy who...

The King's forbidden innocent... For just twenty-four hours! When Elsie Wynter is stranded in Silvabon, she dreads seeing arrogant King Felipe. He knows far too much about the scandalous secrets in her past. And yet her attraction to him returns with a dangerous intensity... Felipe has vowed he'll be the last to wear his kingdom's heavy crown. He'll take no queen and sire no heirs. But with tantalising Elsie back in the palace for one night only he...

In Unruly, David Mitchell explores how England?s monarchs, while acting as feared rulers firmly guiding their subjects? destinies, were in reality a bunch of lucky sods who were mostly as silly and weird in real life as they appear today in their portraits. Taking us right back to King Arthur (spoiler: he didn?t exist), David tells the founding story of post-Roman England up to the reign of Elizabeth I (spoiler: she dies). It?s a tale of narcissists,...

The second in 'The Conqueror Series', this novel is an epic story of Genghis Khan continuing to dominate the scene as he matures from the young boy of 'Wolf of the Plains' to the great Conqueror.

Aelin's journey from assassin to queen has entranced millions across the globe and fans will be left breathless as kingdoms collide in this fifth installment in the New York Times bestselling series The long path to the throne has just begun for Aelin Galathynius. As the kingdoms of Erilea fracture around her, enemies must become allies if Aelin is to keep those she loves from falling to the dark forces poised to claim her world. With war looming...

Eighteen-year-old Celaena Sardothien is bold, daring and beautiful � the perfect seductress and the greatest assassin her world has ever known. But though she won the King�s contest and became his champion, Celaena has been granted neither her liberty nor the freedom to follow her heart. The slavery of the suffocating salt mines of Endovier that scarred her past is nothing compared to a life bound to her darkest enemy, a king whose rule is so...