Collection: Adult Spoken Word CD 1-8

Author James Lee Burke brings readers a captivating tale of justice, love, brutality, and mysticism set in the turbulent 1960s. The American West in the early 1960s appears to be a pastoral paradise: golden wheat fields, mist-filled canyons, frolicking animals. Aspiring novelist Aaron Holland Bro...

In the early years of their love affair, Romilly was happy. She had worked hard for her stunning, modern house in one of Bristol's most fashionable suburbs. She adored her gorgeous, gap-toothed daughter and her handsome, kind husband. Sure, life was sometimes exhausting - but nothing that a large...

A widow, Ursula Ottoway lives in a cottage, high up on the Cumbrian fells overlooking idyllic countryside. But life is far from peaceful as her landlord, ambitious politician Marcus Grenville, wants his property back.

As he travels from Day of the Dead celebrations in Mexico to a slum outside of Nairobi and to a meditation retreat deep in the Massachusetts woods, Oliver Burkeman introduces us to an unusual group of people who share a single, surprising way of thinking about life.

George Surridge, director of the Birmington Zoo, is a man with many worries: his marriage is collapsing; his finances are insecure; and an outbreak of disease threatens the animals in his care. As his debts mount and the pressure on him increases, he begins to dream of miracle solutions. But is h...

One by one, the Moorhouse children left the family farm in Kilmarnock to settle in Glasgow. All that is apart from Mungo, who has remained a farmer. The death of their father and step-mother takes the siblings back to Kilmarnock to attend the funerals, but what does the future hold for them?

When one of the Timson children is given an ASBO for playing football in the street, Rumpole soon realises something fishy is going on. Why are the residents pursuing the Timson boy so strongly? Could they have a sinister motive?

When Sheila Malory is badgered by Annie Roberts to write the village history, she grudgingly agrees. When Annie suffers a fatal bout of food poisoning, Sheila questions whether her death is as accidental as it first seems.

Years ago, Lucy Barton, a successful New York writer, spent time in hospital, with her mother at the foot of her bed to keep her company. Avoiding the distance between them, they spoke at length about people from their home town, the rural, dusty town of Amgash, Illinois. Writing these stories, L...

Four young women are sharing a loft apartment in New York. They also share an ambitious streak. But with the arrival of various challenges to their relationships, careers and family lives, is a bright future within their reach? Whatever happens, the bonds created while living together will stay w...