Collection: Adult Spoken Word CD 1-8

Told in a series of cascading vignettes, featuring a multitude of voices, 'After Sappho' is Selby Wynn Schwartz's joyous reimagining of the lives of a brilliant group of feminists, sapphists, artists and writers in the late 19th and early 20th century as they battle for control over their lives; ...

When Cora is murdered, the remark she made the previous day at her brother's funeral suddenly takes on a chilling significance. She had been heard questioning if he was murdered. In desperation, the solicitor turns to Poirot to solve the mystery.

How many parents does it take to make a baby? In the case of Rosalind Melrose Smithson it took four: one birth mother; one legal father; one interfering neighbour and one turkey baster filled with the defrosted essence of an anonymous donor. Or not so anonymous as it turned out. For donor no. 116...

This is a collection of six short stories from the cult Japanese writer, exploring the violence beneath the surface of modern Japan.

1921, New Zealand. Bright and pretty, 16-year-old Lottie O'Brien lives with her troubled family in an impoverished part of Wellington. Aspiring for a better life, Lottie is befriended by her class teacher who introduces her to her affluent family. Her life is soon transformed, but is Lottie prepa...

Born into hardship in a Northumbrian mining village, Annie Manon needs all her strength to survive the bleak years following the First World War. As her family fractures around her, she longs to make something of her life. Through hard work and determination, Annie eventually leaves the property ...

The sequel to 'Me Before You'. Lou Clark has lots of questions. Like how it is she's ended up working in an airport bar, spending every shift watching other people jet off to new places. Or why the flat she's owned for a year still doesn't feel like home. Whether her close-knit family can forgive...

Kate Madison's stylish second-hand clothing shop has been a big success in New York, supporting her and her four kids since her husband's untimely death. Now her children have grown up and are ready to forge lives of their own. Isabelle, a dedicated attorney, is in line to make partner at her fir...

12 BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisations of short stories by the Queen of Crime. First broadcast in the early 2000s, the stories were adapted and brought up-to-date for a contemporary audience.

Agatha Raisin has never been one for enforced holiday cheer, but her friendly little village of Carsely has always prided itself on its traditional Christmas festivities. But this year the bells will not be ringing out Silent Night.