Published under a pseudonym, J. K. Rowling’s brilliant debut mystery introduces Detective Cormoran Strike as he investigates a supermodel's suicide in “one of the best books of the year” (USA Today).  After losing his leg to a land mine in Afghanista...

The Cuckoo's Calling

Private investigator Cormoran Strike must track down a missing writer - and a sinister killer bent on destruction - in this "wonderfully entertaining" mystery (Harlan Coben, New York Times Book Review) that inspired the acclaimed HBO Max series C.B. ...

The Silkworm

A disturbing package leads Detective Cormoran Strike and his assistant Robin Ellacott to investigate four dangerous murder suspects in this "magnetic" British mystery (Michiko Kakutani, New York Times) that inspired the acclaimed HBO Max series C.B. ...

Career of Evil

An unsettling cold case investigation ensnares Cormoran Strike and his partner in a web of dangerous secrets in this number one New York Times best seller - "Rowling's wizardry as a writer is on fulsome display" (USA Today).  When a troubled young ma...

Lethal White

In the epic fifth installment in this “compulsively readable” (People) series, Galbraith’s “irresistible hero and heroine” (USA Today) take on the decades-old cold case of a missing doctor, one which may be their grisliest yet. Private Detective Corm...

Troubled Blood

Shortlisted for the BBC Audio Drama Awards 2015 My name is Simon. I’m 10 years old. I’m a serial killer. Robert Stern (Rupert Penry-Jones), a successful defense attorney, doesn’t know what lies in store for him when he agrees to meet a new client in ...

The Child

Now a major BBC drama: The Strike series. When novelist Owen Quine goes missing, his wife calls in private detective Cormoran Strike. At first, she just thinks he has gone off by himself for a few days - as he has done before - and she wants Strike t...

On a small estate just outside Rome in the first century BC, two boys become blood brothers, little imagining the extraordinary future that lies before them. As friends and rivals, Gaius and Marcus are destined to find lasting fame.

EMPEROR: The Gates of Rome, Book 1 (Unabridged)

Now a major BBC drama: The Strike series. When a troubled model falls to her death from a snow-covered Mayfair balcony, it is assumed that she has committed suicide. However, her brother has his doubts, and calls in private investigator Cormoran Stri...

Abandoned after months of captivity, Julius Caesar gathers recruits that he will forge into a unit powerful enough to gain vengeance on his captors. But soon a new crisis threatens: a gladiator named Spartacus.

EMPEROR: The Death of Kings, Book 2 (Unabridged)

Shortlisted for best audiobook in the Specsavers National Book Awards 2018. I seen a kid killed.... He strangled it, up by the horse. When Billy, a troubled young man, comes to private eye Cormoran Strike's office to ask for his help investigating a ...

“A taut page-turner with all the hallmarks of a good historical thriller.” (Orlando Sentinel) The gripping true story of the “duel to end all duels” in medieval France that pits a knight against a squire accused of violating the knight’s beautiful yo...

The Last Duel

Winner of the 2016 Audie Mystery Award  Now a major BBC drama as part of the Cormoran Strike series.  When a mysterious package is delivered to Robin Ellacott, she is horrified to discover that it contains a woman's severed leg.  Her boss, private de...

A gripping psychological thriller set on high seas. A transatlantic crossing that becomes a nightmare.  With no police to investigate and no escape, could it be the perfect setting for a crime? Martin Schwartz (Beesley) is an undercover detective who...

Passenger 23

A masterly retelling of Homer’s epic poem 'The Iliad' recreates the age of heroes in this spellbinding introduction to the Greek Classics.

Black Ships Before Troy

No witnesses.  Twelve-year-old Josy has an inexplicable illness. She vanishes without a trace from her doctor's office during treatment. Four years later Josy's father, psychiatrist Viktor Larenz, has withdrawn himself to an isolated North Sea island...

Therapy

Three BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisations starring John Shrapnel as Morse and Robert Glenister as Lewis, plus a bonus reading by Colin Dexter of one of his short stories.  In Last Seen Wearing, Inspector Morse is reluctant to take over an old missin...

Inspector Morse: BBC Radio Drama Collection

As a young man, Leon Nader suffered from insomnia. As a nightwalker, he even turned to violence during his nocturnal excursions and had psychiatric treatment for his condition.  Eventually he was convinced he had been cured - but one day, years later...

The Nightwalker

The long siege is ended. Troy lies in ashes. The black ships of the Greek war-host set sail for home – but for King Odysseus of Ithaca, the return voyage holds hazards far greater than any he faced in the Trojan War.  A sequel to Black Ships Before T...

The Wanderings of Odysseus

Naxos AudioBooks begins its new series of Great Poets with William Blake. This program contains all of his most popular works - including "Tyger", "The Auguries of Innocence", and "Jerusalem" - as well as some lesser-known poetry that demonstrates the range and power of his verse.

The Great Poets: William Blake

Two celebrated statements about the experience of being human. Kahlil Gibran was Lebanese by birth but spent a major part of his life in America in the early part of the 20th century. He wrote many collections of stories with a wise or whimsical tone, but none more popular than The Prophet, his first collection, or The Wanderer, his final anthology.

The Prophet & The Wanderer

The highly-acclaimed BBC Radio 4 dramatisation of Milton's epic poem telling the story of the fall of man and also its sequel, Paradise Regained.  Out of chaos shall come order and out of darkness shall come light. Paradise is lost - and then regaine...

Paradise Lost & Paradise Regained

This anthology of Kipling's most famous poems - including "If", "Mandalay", "Gunga Din" - is taken from Naxos AudioBooks' Great Poets series. Though sometimes still regarded as a product of the colonial era, Kipling touches a very popular nerve in Britain's literary tradition and is regarded more generously now as a master of popular verse. It is often forgotten that he won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1907.

The Great Poets: Rudyard Kipling

Enthralling radio dramatisations of eight of Charles Dickens' much-loved novels.  Charles Dickens is one of the most renowned authors of all time, and this second digital volume of the dramatised canon of his work includes eight of his classic novels...

The Charles Dickens BBC Radio Drama Collection: The Later Years

In the late seventies an extraordinary document came to light which for fifty years had been held on deposit by the bankers of the deceased John Herbert Watson MD - better known to devotees of Conan Doyle as Dr Watson. A continuous narrative in the d...

The Last Sherlock Holmes Story

Robert Glenister and Ian McDiarmid star in a gripping BBC Radio 4 dramatisation of William Peter Blatty’s classic horror novel.  Summoned to a case of apparent possession, Father Karras is at first sceptical then horrified. The victim - a 12-year-old...

The Exorcist

He didn’t kill them, he didn’t rape them, he didn’t torture them; his crime was far, far worse.  Three women go missing without trace. A week is enough for the psychopath known in the press as the 'the Soul-Breaker' to destroy them. By the seventh da...

The Soul-Breaker

My name is Simon. I'm 10 years old. I'm a serial killer.  Robert Stern, a successful defence lawyer, doesn't know what lies in store for him when he agrees to meet a new client in a derelict estate on the outskirts of Berlin. To his astonishment, the...

Captivating radio dramatisations of seven of Charles Dickens' most famous novels.  Charles Dickens is one of the most renowned authors of all time, and this first digital volume of the dramatised canon of his work includes seven of his most popular n...

The Charles Dickens BBC Radio Drama Collection: The Early Years

Five seminal science fiction classics are brought vividly to life in these gripping BBC Radio dramatisations, with casts including Robert Glenister, William Gaunt, Carleton Hobbs and Joanne Froggatt.  Frankenstein (1994) is adapted from one of the fi...

Classic Radio Sci-Fi: BBC Drama Collection

The year is 1967. Thirteen-year-old Maisie is at her decaying family home, once a medieval abbey. Lucas, an artist and friend, is painting a portrait of Maisie and her sisters. Maisie embarks on a portrait of her own: telling the story of herself, he...

The Landscape of Love

A gripping BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation based on the second novel in C. J. Sansom's best-selling Tudor crime series.  Summer, 1540. It has been three years since the terrible events at Scarnsea monastery, and lawyer-detective Matthew Shardlake...

Shardlake: Dark Fire

It's rare for a young woman to die from a stroke, and when three such deaths occur in short order it starts to look like an epidemic. Then a sharp pathologist notices traces of benzodiazepine in one of the victim's blood samples and just traceable da...

Sleepyhead

The collected BBC dramatisations of the fiction of Virginia Woolf, with star casts including Kristin Scott-Thomas, Vanessa Redgrave, Juliet Stevenson, Laura Fraser, Robert Glenister and Fenella Woolgar. This collection includes: The Voyage Out A motl...

The Virginia Woolf BBC Radio Drama Collection

Someone, a woman or somebody pretending to be a woman, is writing to convicted rapists in prison, befriending them and then brutally killing them when they are released. DI Tom Thorne must discover the link between these killings and a murder/suicide...

Lazybones

'The moment I heard how McAra died I should have walked away. I can see that now. I should have said, "Rick, I'm sorry, this isn't for me, I don't like the sound of it," finished my drink and left. But he was such a good storyteller, Rick - I often t...

The Ghost

Luke Mullen, sixteen year old son of a former high-ranking police officer has disappeared, presumed kidnapped. While no-one quite dares to voice the fear that he could also be presumed dead, Detective Inspector Tom Thorne is brought in to beef up the...

Buried

A BBC Radio 3 full-cast dramatisation of H. G. Wells' pioneering science fiction adventure. Wells' thrilling story of an inventor who travels in time and discovers a nightmarish dystopian future has been adapted several times for TV and film. This fi...

The Time Machine

In a vicious, calculated murder, a victim is selected at Euston Station, followed home, and strangled in front of her child. When a second body is discovered, killed in the same way at King's Cross station, DI Tom Thorne comes to a horrifying conclusion: this is not one killer, but two.

Scaredy Cat

Tom Thorne's career is on the skids. Depressed by the recent loss of his father, berated for overstepping the mark on his last case, he's been 'encouraged' to take leave. It's a fairly dire situation. But not as dire as the situation for London's hom...

Lifeless

BBC radio productions of H. G. Wells' finest fiction - plus hear H G Wells in his own words in a selection of original radio broadcasts from the 1930s and 40s. H. G. Wells is one of the founding fathers of science fiction, renowned for his futuristic...

The H G Wells BBC Radio Collection

"Delivering the death message". That's what coppers call it when they have to tell someone that a loved one has been killed. Now DI Tom Thorne is receiving messages of his own: photos of murder victims sent to his mobile phone.  The killer is quickly...

Death Message

Here's a BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of Falkner's gripping tale of mystery and high adventure in a Dorset smuggling villlage.  When 15-year-old John Trenchard discovers a secret passage into the vault of the powerful Mohune family, his peacef...

Moonfleet (BBC Children's Classics)

From the acclaimed author of the His Dark Materials trilogy comes an outrageously funny middle-grade twist on a familiar fairy tale.  “I was a rat!” So insists a scruffy boy named Roger. Maybe it’s true. But what is he now? A terrifying monster runni...

I Was a Rat!

First published in monthly parts between October 1846 and April 1848. Mike Walker's adaptation of Charles Dickens's classic tale of family relationships tells the story of Paul Dombey, head of the House of Dombey, who lacks a son and cannot reconcile...

Dombey and Son (BBC Radio 4: Woman's Hour Drama)

No witnesses. Twelve-year-old Josy has an inexplicable illness. She vanishes without a trace from her doctor's office during treatment. Four years later Josy's father, psychiatrist Viktor Larenz, has withdrawn himself to an isolated North Sea island ...

It seems like a straightforward domestic murder until a bloodstained sliver of X-ray is found clutched in the dead woman's fist - and it quickly becomes clear that this case is anything but ordinary. Thorne discovers that the victim's mother had hers...

Bloodline

Here is the first volume in this unabridged, chilling collection of short tales from the author of the best-selling Inspector Banks series.  Peter Robinson is one of the crime world's finest stylists. This is a collection that will explore our hidden...

Not Safe after Dark, Volume One

When Donna Langford receives a very recent photo of her ex-husband in the post, she gets the shock of her life - because she’s just spent ten years in prison for organising his murder.  When her daughter goes missing, Donna believes there can only be...

From the Dead

Six more radio monologues written by Lynne Truss, author of the phenomenal best sellers Eats, Shoots & Leaves and Talk to the Hand. In the tradition of Alan Bennett’s Talking Heads come Lynne Truss’s male monologues: six tales of fidelity, pride, fri...

A Certain Age, Vol. 2: Male Monologues

Respect: That’s what Lewis wants from his classmates. Nicknamed Useless Lewis or Loo Brush, he’s fed up with his stammer, fed up that he can’t pluck up the nerve to join the drama club – and fed up that the only football he gets to play is pretend ma...

The Bottle-Top King

The third volume in this unabridged chilling collection of short tales from the author of the best-selling Inspector Banks series. Peter Robinson is one of the crime world's finest stylists. This is a collection that will explore our hidden paranoia,...

Not Safe after Dark, Volume Three

The second volume in this unabridged chilling collection of short tales from the author of the best-selling Inspector Banks series. Peter Robinson is one of the crime world's finest stylists. This is a collection that will explore our hidden paranoia...

Not Safe after Dark, Volume Two

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Glenister made his first television appearance in the sitcom Sink or Swim in 1980. He has also appeared in shows such as Soldier Soldier, Doctor Who (in the serial The Caves of Androzani, opposite his Sink or Swim co-star Peter Davison), Only Fools and Horses (as Myles the millionaire garden centre owner and chairman of the SWANS committee), A Touch of Frost and Hustle as Ash Morgan, as well as several films. He is probably best known for his starring role in the BBC drama Hustle; Ash Morgan is a high-level con-man who has to convincingly play various roles or characters in order to pull off a con and lure a 'mark'. He is the only actor who has appeared in every episode of the series. He has also had regular starring roles in the BBC dramas

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