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The Broken | Best friends tell you everything; about their kitchen renovation; about their little girl’s schooling. How one of them is leaving the other for a younger model. Best friends don’t tell li...

Hotel New Hampshire | 'The first of my father's illusions was that bears could survive the life lived by human beings, and the second was that human beings could survive a life led in hotels.' So says...

Alone Time. Four cities, four seasons and the pleasures of solitude | The average adult spends about a third of his or her waking time alone. Yet research suggests we aren't very good at using, never ...

Mix Tape | You never forget the one that got away. Daniel was the first boy to make Alison a mix tape. But that was years ago and Ali hasn't thought about him in a very long time. Even if she had, she...

Gridlock | Gridlock is when a city dies. Killed in the name of freedom. Killed in the name of oil and steel. Choked on carbon monoxide and strangled with a pair of fluffy dice. How did it come to this...

The Sleepwalker | 'He said he didn't remember killing them…' As a series of rolling blackouts plunge the city into darkness, Detective Aidan Waits sits on an abandoned hospital ward, watching a mass m...

The Forest of Wool and Steel | What he experienced that day wasn’t life-changing . . . It was life-making. Tomura is startled by the hypnotic sound of a piano being tuned in his school. It seeps into ...

Duende. A Journey In Search of Flamenco | Having pursued a conventional enough path through school and university, Jason Webster was all set to enter the world of academe as a profession. But when his...

Meltdown | For amiable City trader Jimmy Corby money was the new Rock n' Roll. His whole life was a party, adrenalin charged and cocaine fuelled. If he hadn't met Monica he would probably have ended u...

The Rector's Wife | It's never too late to find your own way For twenty years, Anna Bouverie, as a priest's wife, has served God and the parish in a variety of ways. She has baked for the Brownies, de...

At Home | In At Home, Bill Bryson applies the same irrepressible curiosity, irresistible wit, stylish prose and masterful storytelling that made A Short History of Nearly Everything one of the most la...

Hello World. How to be Human in the Age of the Machine | Would you let an algorithm determine your fate? Hannah Fry lifts the lid on the world of algorithms, examining how they impact our future and w...

Gatecrasher | The latest installment in Rosamunde Pilcher's Bookshelf series presents Fleur Daxney, who preys on rich and newly widowed men, charming her way into their lives, their beds, and their ba...

Uncommon People. The Rise and Fall of the Rock Stars 1955-1994 | As heard on BBC 6 Music with Shaun Keveny, BBC Radio 5 Live and Talk Radio with Eamonn Holmes The age of the rock star, like the age of...

American Wife | The acclaimed word-of-mouth bestseller about the marriage of an American First Lady: A rich, utterly absorbing, powerful story of how an ordinary girl from an unremarkable town grows u...

Follow Me To Ground | In house in a wood, Ada and her father live peacefully, tending to their garden and the wildlife in it. They are not human though. Ada was made by her father from the Ground, a u...

Blue River, Black Sea | A fascinating and revelatory journey along the Danube to appeal to fans of Michael Palin's New Europe. The Danube is Europe's Amazon. It flows through more countries than any o...

Sisterland | Identical twins, Kate and Violet are about as unlike as two peas from the same pod can be. Except in one respect - they share a hidden gift. But after Kate inadvertently reveals their sec...

The Electric Kool Aid Acid Test | I looked around and people's faces were distorted...lights were flashing everywhere...the screen at the end of the room had three or four different films on it at onc...

Knife Edge | You never know where danger may come from... 6.45 am. A sweltering London rush hour. And in the last 27 minutes, seven people have been murdered. In a series of coordinated attacks, seven...

The Orphan Master's Son | Young Pak Jun Do is convinced he is special. He knows he must be the unique son of the master of the orphanage, and definitely not some kid dumped by his parents. Surely it w...

Caesar's Last Breath. The Epic Story of The Air Around Us | With every breath, you literally inhale the history of the world. On the ides of March, 44 BC, Julius Caesar died of stab wounds in the Roma...

A Dangerous Crossing | England, September 1939 Lily Shepherd boards a cruise liner for a new life in Australia and is plunged into a world of cocktails, jazz and glamorous friends. But as the sun beat...

The Secretary | She knows all your secrets. But will she keep them? Look around you. Who holds the most power in the room? Is it the one who speaks loudest, who looks the part, who has the most money,...

Other People's Children | For eight-year-old Rufus life has become complicated. His parents, Josie and Tom, have divorced and are setting off on separate paths. But now, other people have had to becom...

A Fatal Inheritance | London 1948: Eve Forrester is trapped in a loveless marriage, in a gloomy house, in a grey suburb. Out of the blue, she receives a solicitor's letter. A wealthy stranger has left...

It Must Have Been the Mistletoe | At Christmas, Anything Can Happen... Thea's parents decide to host a big family Christmas in a house by the sea... even though they are, in fact, about to split up. A...

The Wood. The Life & Times of Cockshutt Wood | Written in diary format, The Wood is the story of English woodlands as they change with the seasons. Lyrical and informative, steeped in poetry and folkl...

Once Upon a River | Some say the river drowned her... Some say it brought her back to life On a dark midwinter's night in an ancient inn on the Thames, the regulars are entertaining themselves by tell...

The Book of Negroes | Based on a true story, Lawrence Hill's epic novel spans three continents and six decades to bring to life a dark and shameful chapter in our history through the story of one brav...

A Passionate Man | One encounter and life is never the same again... The Logans were an enchanting and admirable couple. Archie had snatched Liza from her own engagement party to someone else, wooed h...

Lost | How can you solve a crime if you can't remember the clues? There is an explosion at a military ball. The casualties are rushed to hospital in eight ambulances, but only seven vehicles arrive. C...

Setting Free The Bears | 'The brown bears paced, brushing their thick coats against the bars; their heads swayed low to the ground, in rhythm with some ritual of stealth they were born knowing and poi...

The Man Who Forgot His Wife | Lots of husbands forget things: they forget that their wife had an important meeting that morning; they forget to pick up the dry cleaning; some of them even forget their...

And God Created Cricket | Cricket defines Englishness like no other national pastime. From its earliest origins in the sixteenth century (or an early version played by shepherds called creag in the 13...

Diary of a Dog-walker. Time spent following a lead | Edward Stourton muses on the meaning of life and all things canine as he walks his dog Kudu. 'If you are accompanied by a dog you can talk to anyon...

Wedding Night | It's all gone wrong with the man Lottie thought was Mr Right. Then out of the blue she gets a call from her first love. She decides it must be Fate, and rushes off to marry him and rek...

Big Sky | Jackson Brodie has relocated to a quiet seaside village in North Yorkshire, in the occasional company of his recalcitrant teenage son Nathan and ageing Labrador Dido, both at the discretion ...

Transcription | In 1940, eighteen-year old Juliet Armstrong is reluctantly recruited into the world of espionage. Sent to an obscure department of MI5 tasked with monitoring the comings and goings of ...

The Book Of Echoes | Brixton 1981. Sixteen-year-old Michael is already on the wrong side of the law. In in his community, where job opportunities are low and drug-running is high, this is nothing new....

Balancing Act | Four strong women. All working in a family business. But what happens when they begin to want different things? And what about the men – and the children – in their lives? Susie Moran ...

Elsewhere | From her first life-changing solo trip to Australia as a young graduate, Rosita Boland was enthralled by travel. In the last thirty years she has visited some of the most remote parts of t...

The Last Good Kiss | Meet Private Detective C. W. Sughrue. Private detectives are supposed to find missing persons and solve crimes. But more often than not Sughrue is the one committing the crimes – ...

I Am An Island | When Tamsin Calidas first arrives on a remote island in the Scottish Hebrides, it feels like coming home. Disenchanted by London, she and her husband left the city and high-flying car...

The Happiest Kids in the World. Bringing up Children the Dutch Way | Why do: · Dutch babies seem so content, and sleep so well? · Dutch parents let their kids play outside on their own? · The Dutch tr...

The Girl on the Train | Rachel catches the same commuter train every morning. She knows it will wait at the same signal each time, overlooking a row of back gardens. She's even started to feel like sh...

Marrying The Mistress | Merrion Palmer has been Judge Guy Stockdale's mistress for the last seven years and his wife and two grown-up sons know absolutely nothing about her. Up until now, Guy and Merr...

Can You Keep a Secret? | Emma is like every girl in the world. She has a few little secrets. Secrets from her mother: 1. I lost my virginity in the spare bedroom to Danny Nussbaum while Mum and Dad we...

The Music Shop | 1988. Frank owns a music shop. It is jam-packed with records of every speed, size and genre. Classical, jazz, punk - as long as it's vinyl he sells it. Day after day Frank finds his c...

The Wrong Boy | It's 1991. Raymond Marks is a normal boy, from a normal family, in a normal northern town. Only lately, he's been feeling dead down. His dad left home after falling in love with a five...

The Best Of Friends | Does 'friends' ever really mean just 'friends'? Gina and Laurence have been the best of friends ever since they were teenagers. Love has never been a factor. Now, Gina is married...

Being There | The classic story of an innocent who changes the world The hero of this astonishing novel is called Chance - he may be the man of tomorrow. Flung into the real world when his rich benefa...

Life Isn't All Ha Ha Hee Hee | There's no such thing as a happy ending , is there …? Sunita - perfect housewife - is married to Akash, but is her marriage what it seems? Chila - warm, loveable - has m...

A Son Of The Circus | 'The doctor was fated to go back to Bombay; he would keep returning again and again - if not forever, at least for as long as there were dwarves in the circus.' Born a Parsi in B...

Started Early, Took My Dog | The fourth Jackson Brodie novel: literary crime from the prizewinning number-one bestselling author of Big Sky and Transcription. A day like any other for security chief T...

The Things We Thought We Knew | The first memory I have of you is all knickers and legs. You had flipped yourself into a handstand and couldn't get back down. We became best friends, racing slugs, pre...

The Choir | Only a miracle can unite a congregation in turmoil... In the gentle precinct of Aldminster Cathedral, crisis looms. The urbane and worldly Dean wants nothing so much as to restore and beau...

D. A Tale of Two Worlds | It all starts on the morning the letter D disappears from the language. First, it vanishes from her parents' conversation at breakfast, then from the road signs outside. Soon...

Expectation | What happened to the women we were supposed to become? Hannah, Cate and Lissa are young, vibrant and inseparable. Living on the edge of a common in East London, their shared world is abl...

The Unmumsy Mum | This is not a parenting manual. This is real life. The Unmumsy Mum writes candidly about motherhood like it really is: the messy, maddening, hilarious reality, how there is no 'one s...

Snap | Snap Decisions Can Be Dangerous... On a stifling summer's day, eleven-year-old Jack and his two sisters sit in their broken-down car, waiting for their mother to come back and rescue them. Jack...

Friday Nights | They wouldn't let anything - or anyone - get in the way of their friendship, would they? Friday nights, the best night of the week, the night they all looked forward to more than they ...

Where the Light Gets In | Sometimes the cracks in your heart can be mended in unexpected ways . . . If Lorna's learned one thing, it's that courage is something you paint on like red lipstick, even wh...

Crippen | July 1910: The grisly remains of Cora Crippen, music hall singer and wife of Dr Hawley Crippen, are discovered in the cellar of 39 Hilldrop Crescent, Camden. But the Doctor and his mistress,...