Paulo Coelho inspired millions around the world and became one of the most beloved storytellers of our time with the international best-selling phenomenon The Alchemist. Now, in the beloved companion to his classic, The Warrior of The Light: A Manual...

Warrior of the Light

‘It was a sweet finish after the bitter pills of floggings and bullets with which these same governments, just at that time, dosed the German working-class risings’.  The Communist Manifesto is, perhaps surprisingly, a most engaging and accessible wo...

The Communist Manifesto

New York Times best-selling author Hazel Gaynor has joined with Heather Webb to create this unforgettably romantic novel of the Great War.  August 1914. England is at war. As Evie Elliott watches her brother, Will, and his best friend, Thomas Harding...

Last Christmas in Paris

Magic is her birthright.... The daughter of one of the strongest magical lineages, Ninian Malcom Siddons is a powerful witch. Determined to use her magic only for good, she lives a simple, solitary life as a healer in her village, where she meets Dro...

Merely Magic

He's a Lonely Highland Lord.... Aidan Dougal is deadly, and he knows it. His self-imposed isolation is to keep others out of harm's way. However, it also makes any kind of intimacy impossible...and certainly not marriage! Asking for help is beyond hi...

Magic Man

An Explosive Attraction.... Lady Leila Staines has always felt like an outcast among her magically gifted sisters. Desperate to discover her own talent, she seeks out Dunstan Ives, a dark and brooding aristocrat with a scientific bent who may hold th...

Must Be Magic

Is Her Magic a Gift or a Curse...? All the Malcolms have some magic, but Lady Felicity's ability to read people's emotions simply by touching them or their possessions overwhelms her. She's reached a marriageable age, but how can she ever wed when sh...

The Trouble with Magic

A Desperate Duke Everything about Lord Harry's easygoing life is about to change. After unexpectedly inheriting the title of duke of Sommersville, he's also discovered it comes with a load of debt. To save the estate, he's going to need money. Lots o...

This Magic Moment

Something is wrong with our banking system. We all sense that, but Mervyn King knows it firsthand; his 10 years at the helm of the Bank of England, including at the height of the financial crisis, revealed profound truths about the mechanisms of our ...

The End of Alchemy

The Art of War is an ancient Chinese military treatise attributed to Sun Tzu. This version by Magpie Audio offers the original 13 chapters in their entirety. Stripped of all notes and commentary, it adopts the classic translation by Lionel Giles, dispenses with the numbering of paragraphs, and is read by British narrator and actor, Greg Wagland.

The Art of War

A skeletal body is unearthed in a wooded area of Peterborough, Cambridgeshire. DI James Bliss, together with DC Penny Chandler, investigates the case and discovers that the young female victim had been relocated from her original burial site. A witne...

Bad to the Bone

A taut psychological tale of obsession and betrayal set over the course of a dinner party, The Party tells the story of two married couples who, in a single evening, will come to question everything they thought they knew about each other as the long...

The Party

H. G. Wells is rightly regarded as one of the founding fathers of the science fiction genre. This compilation of nearly 20 hours' duration comprises four of his finest sci-fi works, and they really need little introduction. They are, in order: The Time Machine, The War of the Worlds, The First Men in the Moon and The Island of Doctor Moreau. They are complete and unabridged and narrated by Greg Wagland.

H. G. Wells Sci-Fi Omnibus: Four Great Novels

Twelve years after he left Peterborough under a cloud, DI Bliss returns to the city and the major crimes team. Having spent years policing organised crime, Bliss is plunged straight into the heart of a serial murder investigation.  Meanwhile, Penny C...

The Scent of Guilt

Apologia Pro Vita Sua (A Defence Of His Life) by Cardinal Newman offers a marvellous insight into the mind of a devout Christian, a colossal figure of the nineteenth century. It is, moreover, one of the greatest spiritual autobiographies ever written...

Apologia Pro Vita Sua [A Defense of One's Life]

When a torched body is found in a country lane, DI Bliss and Chandler are called in to investigate.    The detectives are drawn towards recent missing person reports and believe their victim will prove to be one of them. Bliss thinks he knows which a...

If Fear Wins

The greatest victories from the British Navy's golden age, told through never-before-seen letters from the officers themselves.  When Napoleon eventually died in exile, the Lords of the Admiralty ordered that the original dispatches from seven major ...

In the Hour of Victory

This wide-ranging collection comprises the following six short stories by Joseph Conrad:  Youth: A Narrative (1902) Karain: A Memory (1898)  An Outpost of Progress (1898) The Lagoon (1898) Amy Foster (1909) The Anarchist - A Desperate Tale (1903)  Yo...

Six Short Stories

The Prince, Machiavelli's 'little book', was written in 1513 and is dedicated to Lorenzo de' Medici. It remains a compelling and controversial treatise on politics, dispensing often cynical, sometimes brutal advice on gaining power and retaining it. Essential listening for our masters perhaps, but most certainly for those of us who would not be mastered. The text used here is the unabridged and classic translation by W. K. Marriott.

The Prince

This work, unsurprisingly, offers invaluable insights into the life and times of Charles Darwin, his personality and the formative influences that made him what he was, for here we have his own words and ‘voice’ at the close of a prodigiously product...

The Autobiography of Charles Darwin

Mike Lynch is going through hard times. But things get much worse when he witnesses a murder in a lay-by. Snatching the victim’s car in order to get away, Mike soon makes a shocking discovery - the victim’s young daughter and her nanny are hiding in ...

Scream Blue Murder

When the silent spacecraft arrived and took the light from the world, no one knew what to expect. When the Overlords finally showed themselves it was a shock but one that humankind could now cope with, and an era of peace, prosperity and endless leis...

Childhood's End

‘The animal within me licking the chops of memory….’ The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is a chilling novella written by Robert Louis Stevenson and published in 1886. The subject matter may be partly that of a shilling shocker, but the whole...

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

The war on drugs has been lost but for want of the courage to face the fact that the whole world is rapidly becoming one vast criminal network. From pop stars and princes to crack whores and street kids. From the Groucho Club toilets to the poppy fie...

High Society

'But these chaps were not much account, really. They were no colonists; their administration was merely a squeeze, and nothing more, I suspect. They were conquerors, and for that you want only brute force - nothing to boast of, when you have it, sinc...

Heart of Darkness

E. F. Benson's (1867-1940) ghost and supernatural stories are marvellous jewels, that combine elegant writing with moments of blood-curdling horror. This collection comprises thirteen of his finest stories:  The Man Who Went Too Far The Horror Horn T...

A Collection of Ghost Stories

The First Men in the Moon, published in 1901, is the gripping tale of man's first journey to the moon, undertaken by one Mr. Bedford, a bankrupt businessman; and the eccentric scientist Mr. Cavor. Here they discover a sophisticated civilization, dominated by an insectlike race they call the Selenites.  It is exciting, funny, profound and tragic by turns: a beautifully written scientific romance, in fact. It is read by Greg Wagland.

The First Men in the Moon

The Island of Doctor Moreau is a science fiction novel by H. G. Wells, first published in 1896.  It recounts the adventures of shipwrecked Edward Prendick, who is rescued only to be set adrift near the volcanic, tropical island of Doctor Moreau, an o...

The Island of Doctor Moreau

Franz Kafka's profound and disturbing novella Metamorphosis was first published in German in 1915. In this recent translation by David Wyllie, Gregor Samsa, a travelling salesman, wakes to find himself "transformed in his bed into a horrible vermin". How he, his family, and others deal with this untoward situation is subsequently revealed. 

Metamorphosis

That the conflicts unleashed by Great War did not end in 1918 is well known. World War II and the Cold War clearly constitute key moments in the drama that began in August 1914. This audiobook argues that the battle of ideas which crystallised during...

First World War: Still No End in Sight

A missing man. A determined hunter. A deadly case. When Mike Lynch is contacted by his ex-wife about the missing nephew of her new husband, he offers to help find the young man with the help of his friend Terry Cochran. Arriving in LA to try to track...

Cold Winter Sun

A Personal Record is a "fragment of biography", an autobiographical work by Joseph Conrad, published in 1912. It is also a masterpiece of atmospheric writing and the main contemporary source to detail his early life. Conrad, Polish by birth, who goes...

A Personal Record

Written to commemorate the centenary of Karl Marx’s birth, Max Beer, an Austrian historian of the socialist and Marxist movements, presents a clear, detailed and highly accessible work: the first half comprises a biography, full of fascinating quotat...

The Life and Teaching of Karl Marx

Right Ho, Jeeves is considered by many to be P. G. Wodehouse's finest comic novel. Many of the Jeeves and Wooster regulars are quickly embroiled in the extraordinary goings-on at Brinkley Court. These include Bertie's formidable aunt Dahlia; Uncle To...

Right Ho, Jeeves

Arthur Ransome (1884-1967) wrote Old Peter's Russian Tales while he was in Russia during the First World War, prior to becoming a war correspondent for The Manchester Guardian. There are 22 stories in all and are told by Old Peter at the behest of hi...

Old Peter's Russian Tales

If you could travel back in time, the period from 1660 to 1700 would make one of the most exciting destinations in history.  It's the age of Samuel Pepys and the Great Fire of London, bawdy comedy and the libertine court of Charles II, Christopher Wr...

The Time Traveller's Guide to Restoration Britain

Sherlock Holmes meets Dirk Gently with a touch of Doctor Who - this brand-new comedy thriller delivers big laughs and big adventures with real heart. Meet Knightley and Son - two great detectives for the price of one... Alan Knightley is an expert in...

Knightley and Son

While staying at a friend’s house in an apparently humdrum London suburb, the sceptical Hugh Grainger sees and then converses with an unsettling stranger from his bedroom window in the very dead of night. But what could be the meaning of this curious...

The Bus-Conductor: An E.F. Benson Ghost Story

A gripping story of obsession and betrayal, privilege and hypocrisy, set in the unassailable heart of the British establishment.  "As the train pressed on, I realised that my life was in the process of taking a different direction, plotted according ...

Tono-Bungay is very possibly H. G. Wells' finest novel, bringing together so many strands of his work: that of the novelist, the scientific romancer, the humorist, the historian, and the prophet-like sociologist. It was published in 1909, and althoug...

Tono-Bungay

These two unabridged chapters from Charles Mackay’s two-volume evergreen work, Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds (1841) deal with the disastrous South Sea Bubble and the extraordinary outbreak of Tulipomania in Holland. The South Sea Compan...

The South Sea Bubble and Tulipomania: Financial Madness and Delusion

This unabridged chapter, titled Witch Mania, is from Charles Mackay’s evergreen work, Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds. Published in 1841 it is a stylish and comprehensive dissection of the witch mania which beset much of Europe in the 16t...

Witch Mania: The History of Witchcraft

‘And the fruiterers were radiant in their glory. There was great, round, pot-bellied baskets of chestnuts, shaped like the waistcoats of jolly old gentlemen, lolling at the doors, and tumbling out into the street in their apoplectic opulence. There w...

A Christmas Carol

Life is good for DI Dan Hellier until the discovery of two headless, handless bodies buried in a bog on Dartmoor.  How can he identify the victims when nobody has reported them missing? The tension mounts when the death of a young man plunges Hellier...

Death on Dartmoor

Meet Detective Inspector Dan Hellier, a man who needs to redeem his career and catch a killer.  Soon after DI Hellier returns home to Exeter under a cloud, the body of a talented young singer is found in the woods. When her death reveals links to the...

Death in the Woods

DCI Kenny Murrain sees, hears and feels things that others do not. It’s a gift but also a curse.  When he wakes to the phantom sound of screaming, he knows a murder has been committed, but not where or why. Then a woman’s body is found in a Stockport...

Late Checkout

A recurrent dream you have goes on for years and years. Well, actually, it’s not a dream, it is, most assuredly a nightmare. Every night in sleep, you encounter the same people, you hold the same conversations, you witness the same disturbing sights ...

The Room in the Tower: An E.F. Benson Ghost Story

H. G. Wells' classic science fiction work, first serialized in 1897, is one of many invasion narratives prevalent in British literature towards the end of the 19th century. However, The War of the Worlds not only introduces the extraterrestrial eleme...

The War of the Worlds

Can DCI Dan Hellier decipher the twisted mind behind the ritualised burning of homeless men on Devon’s beaches before more people are sacrificed?  When images from the burning appear all over social media, Hellier realises that he is dealing with a cult and a mystery that will lead back to the Irish Troubles.  Hellier is forced to battle a bitter man who has plotted revenge for more than 20 years, without a care for the lives he will destroy.

Death on the Coast

A missing child's body is found on the edge of the Peak District. As DCI Kenny Murrain and his team investigate, more attempted child abductions are reported. Murrain's instincts tell him this is a community with secrets, and those secrets have their...

Dark Corners

The Horror Horn is set in the Swiss Alps and opens in the cosy lounge of a resort hotel, where a string ensemble strikes up with the sugary strains of Puccini. Our hero is further entertained to an unlikely yarn of savage sub-humans living near the U...

The Horror Horn: An E. F. Benson Ghost Story

Robert Louis Stevenson’s An Inland Voyage is his first published book (1878). It is a travelogue, a pioneering work of touristic adventure, which records his canoeing holiday in the summer of 1876, with a friend (Sir Walter Grindlay Simpson), through...

An Inland Voyage

The death of a gangster draws super-spy Paul Chavasse into a breathtaking adventure on the high seas - an unforgettable tale from one of the true masters of modern thriller writing, the best-selling author of Midnight Runner and The Keys of Hell. Cau...

A Fine Night for Dying

The Man Who Went Too Far: A Ghost Story by E. F. Benson opens one summer’s day in a beautiful, sequestered garden on the edge of the New Forest. A forty-something artist visits a friend to recuperate from a debilitating illness but is staggered to di...

The Man Who Went Too Far: An E. F. Benson Ghost Story

‘He flew out of his chair with deadly, inconceivable terror clutching at his heart. The shape, whose left hand rested on the table, was rising to a standing posture behind his seat, its right hand crooked above his scalp. There was black and tattered...

M. R. James: Five Ghost Stories

From the best-selling author of true military classics Zero Six Bravo, The Nazi Hunters and Churchill's Secret Warriors.  In the Spring of 1940, as Britain reeled from defeats on all fronts and America seemed frozen in isolation, one fear united the ...

Hunting Hitler's Nukes

Tales of Troy and Greece by classicist and gifted storyteller Andrew Lang is an ideal introduction to the The Iliad and The Odyssey, recounting the Homeric legend of the wars between the Greeks and the Trojans. Paris, Achilles, the lovely Helen of Tr...

Tales of Troy and Greece: The Iliad & The Odyssey Plainly Told

Taking a winter holiday in a splendid resort in the Swiss Alps our hero finds himself billeted in a surprisingly large room, furnished with two beds. He checks with the man at the bureau, but there’s no mistake: it’s all his, a veritable snip at 12 f...

The Other Bed: An E.F. Benson Ghost Story

Who will hold the winning hand? Sherlock meets Ocean's Eleven in this wickedly funny, action-packed crime caper. Darkus Knightley is used to expecting the unexpected. An extraordinary solver of crimes, with immense powers of deduction, and regularly ...

Knightley & Son: 3 of a Kind

John Forster’s The Life of Charles Dickens is the fount, the foundation stone of all subsequent Dickens’ biographies. Forster’s three volume work is a vivid and fascinating account of Dickens’ prodigiously productive and fascinating life. Wilkie Coll...

The Life of Charles Dickens: Volume One, 1812-42

'The decisions Harry made within the next few seconds would stay with him for the rest of his life - or result in his immediate death. And he knew it.'  When a gang war threatens to rip the metropolis apart, 'London's top copper' finds himself under ...

London Large: Blood on the Streets

In the beautiful Villa Cascana on the Italian Riviera, all is not as it seems. Why does the hostess leave a perfectly charming bedroom unoccupied? Why does Arthur Inglis present our hero with a caterpillar in a cardboard pill-box one lunchtime? And r...

Caterpillars: An E.F. Benson Ghost Story

Darkus Knightley, tweed-wearing, mega-brained, thoroughly logical 13-year-old investigator of the weird, was just getting used to having his dad back in his life. Then Alan Knightley went off-radar, again, leaving Darkus with a traumatised ex-bomb-di...

Knightley & Son: K-9

Paradise Lost Book IX by John Milton is read by Greg Wagland for Magpie Audio. Satan having come past the Earth, with meditated guile returns as a mist by Night into Paradise, enters into the Serpent sleeping. Adam and Eve in the Morning go forth to ...

Paradise Lost, Book IX

Following Murdoch's journey from a small-town newspaperman to a globe-dominating media mogul, a clear-eyed examination of Rupert Murdoch's business philosophies and management techniques, from a key advisor of 35 years.  After having worked closely w...

The Murdoch Method

One winter's night, a lone figure arrives on foot in a remote Pennine village.   The next morning, as the first heavy snow begins to fall, a man's body is discovered in the village churchyard.  Anne Tilston, one of three sisters living in a brooding ...

Snow Fallen

DI Jimmy Bliss continues in another gripping crime novel.   DI Bliss and his team absorb two new cases which don't initially present as major crimes. But who is the man who stepped in front of an express train? Did he willingly commit suicide or was ...

Darker Days to Come

Following many years of war with Rome, Carthage is exhausted. Yet the trouble is not yet over.  As mercenaries land in Carthage to claim payment for services rendered, they do not receive what they expect. Lacking a shared culture, structure and even...

Mutiny

"The Red-Headed League" is one of Arthur Conan Doyle's stories from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes(1892).  Conan Doyle ranked it second in the list of his favourite Holmes tales. Find out what happens when hapless ginger pawnbroker Jabez Wilson comes to consult Sherlock Holmes at 221B Baker Street. It is read by Greg Wagland for Magpie Audio.

The Red-Headed League

Selected Poems by Robert Browning (1812-1889) is read by Greg Wagland for Magpie Audio. The selection is as follows: "The Bishop Orders his Tomb at St Praxed’s Church" "The Lost Leader" "Pictor Ignotus" "Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister" "Love Among...

Robert Browning: Selected Poems

Mass murder. A damaged, hurting cop at war with his son. One last shot at redemption.  Bound by Blood is the second book in the London Large crime thriller series, featuring the exploits of Detective Inspector Harry 'H' Hawkins, an old-school London ...

London Large: Bound by Blood

Poems was published in 1920. The poems of that work are included here and are as follows: Strange Meeting; Greater Love; Apologia pro Poemate Meo; The Show; Mental Cases; Parable of the Old Man and the Young; Arms and the Boy; Anthem for Doomed Youth...

The Poems of Wilfred Owen

His Royal Highness The Duke of Edinburgh, KG, KT, OM, GBE has been at the forefront of British public life since he married Princess Elizabeth in 1947. In the 70 years since, his wit (and the occasional 'gaffe') has continued to endear him to the nat...

The Wicked Wit of Prince Philip

Selected Poems by Edward Thomas (1878-1917) is read by Greg Wagland for Magpie Audio. The selection is as follows:   "March"  "Old Man"  " Tears"  "But These Things Also"  "Melancholy"  "The Glory"  "Words"  "Aspens"  "This is No Case of Petty Right or Wrong"  "Rain"  "No One So Much As You"  "The Sun Used to Shine"  "As the Team’s Head-Brass"  "Gone, Gone Again"  "Lights Out"  "The Lane"   

Edward Thomas: Selected Poems

In this humane and important exploration of modern medicine, Druin Burch examines the future of medicine, our changing physicalities and the implications of longer life.  From birth to death and through the exploration of topics such as disease, sex,...

The Shape of Things to Come

The new best-seller from the author of Zero Six Bravo.  By 2007 Viktor Bout had become the world's foremost arms dealer. Known as the 'Merchant of Death' he was both "Public Enemy No. 1" to the global intelligence agencies and a ruthless criminal wor...

Operation Relentless

In a series of revolts starting in 1820, four military officers rode forth on horseback from obscure European towns to bring political freedom and a constitution to Spain, Naples, and Russia; and national independence to the Greeks. The men who launc...

The Four Horsemen

How does a mother protect her child from the unknown?  During a visit to a local theatre, four-year-old Chloe Hollis becomes hysterical. But her mother, Mel, doesn’t realise that this is just the beginning of the nightmare. In the coming weeks, Chloe...

The Liar's Promise

The ultimate non-technical guide to the fast-developing world of quantum computing. Computer technology has improved exponentially over the last 50 years. But the headroom for bigger and better electronic solutions is running out. Our best hope is to...

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