Collection: Adult Spoken Word CD 1-8

Roscoe T. Martin has set his sights on a new type of power spreading at the start of the 20th century: electricity. It becomes his training, his life's work. But when his wife Marie inherits her father's failing farm, Roscoe has to give it up, with great cost to his pride and sense of self, his m...

When a 15-year-old is murdered, it soon emerges she's not only a schoolgirl but a working girl. Is Shell killed because she's on the game? And are the other street girls on Bev's manor in danger? Within days, one disappears and another's in hospital.

When her love life crashed down around her, Edie turned to work for solace. But things go downhill with the departure of her work wife, Ruby, and the arrival of new guy Cameron - a chauvinist, a womaniser and the very opposite of a team player. But is Cameron the bad guy he seems to be? When a be...

This title revels in the quirkier and more humorous side of cricket, while offering behind-the-scenes action of David Lloyd's years spent following cricket around the globe, from Accrington to Lahore. He waxes lyrical on everything from the genius of Shane Warne to the merits of a Lancashire hotpot.

It's 1926 and Wilfred Price, purveyor of superior funerals, is newly married to the beautiful Flora Myfanwy. His brief and painful marriage to Grace is in the past. He's busy with funerals - and preparing for fatherhood. As much as he loves Flora, he senses her distance from him - are marriage an...

After oil tycoon Sir Robert King is killed in a bombing at MI6 headquarters, his daughter, Elektra, inherits his fortune and the attentions of her father's killer. His name is Renard. A bullet lodged in his brain has rendered him unable to feel physical pain, and he has but one reason left to liv...

Norman Stone, author of 'Europe Transformed' and the Wolfson Prize-winning 'The Eastern Front, 1914-1917', presents a short history of the First World War, from the build-up to war to its aftermath.

The author grew up in World's End, Chelsea during the Blitz years. His world was torn apart by school drills with gas masks and evacuation plans; bombs rained through the Black Out. Then came the night that Donald's world ended.