'A delicious story that wraps itself around your heart' Evie Woods 'This book felt like a cozy blanket—comforting, gentle, and full of charm.' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐Everyone has a story…The local library is a place for community members to enjoy a cup of coffee, to read a book, to swap a book, to exchange ideas, and maybe even share a piece of themselves. It’s also a refuge for people like Hattie, looking to reconnect with her past, and Avril, trying to hid...

The next thrilling golden-age-style mystery from #1 Icelandic bestseller Ragnar Jónasson, author of Death at the Sanatorium and Reykjavík. This program features multicast narration as well as sound design and special effects to enhance your enjoyment**. Listen out for the click and hiss of the tape recorder, and fully immerse yourself in the interview recordings.**One winter evening, bestselling crime author Elín S. Jónsdóttir goes missing....

This is the story of the marriage behind some of the most famous literary works of the 20th century —and a probing consideration of what it means to be a wife and a writer in the modern world"Simply, a masterpiece...Funder not only re-makes the art of biography, she resurrects a woman in full." —Geraldine Brooks, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, author of HorseAt the end of summer 2017, Anna Funder found herself at a moment of peak ov...

A BBC Radio 4 dramatisation of the atmospheric murder mystery novel by Agatha Christie, first published in 1961.A dying woman confesses a terrible secret to her priest along with a cryptic list of nine names. Before he is able to uncover anything more, the priest is struck dead in the fog and the police discover the list in his shoe.Our hero Mark Easterbrook, a historian, learns of a secretive organisation known as The Pale Horse and of their supernatural connections in the...

Benedict Cumberbatch and Louise Brealey read a love story in letters, played out against the backdrop of the Second World War.‘Can you feel, as you read these words, that I am thinking of you now; aglow, alive, alert at the thought that you are in the same world, and by some strange chance loving me.’A small blue box opened in 2008 revealed a wartime world of love, longing and frustration. Inside were bundles and bundles of letters written neatly i...

A rollicking wartime comedy set in the personnel department of the Cabinet War Rooms, starring Fenella Woolgar as Dot.“Little chills the blood so much as the phrase ‘new Radio 4 comedy’. But, dear reader, be un-chilled… a lovely, period-mocking script delivered with its eyebrow at precisely the right level of archness,” – The Times“Dot’s quirky wit is all of her own,” – The Observer“Excellent, eccentrically comic,” – The Daily Mail.

A new investigation from Dr Mark Aldridge, exploring a lifetime of Agatha Christie’s Miss Jane Marple.Winner of the 2025 H.R.F Keating Award for the best 2024 biography or critical book related to crime fiction.In Agatha Christie’s Marple: Expert on Wickedness,‘Agathologist’ Dr Mark Aldridge looks at nearly a century of St Mary Mead’s most famous resident and uses his own detective skills to uncover new information about Miss Jane ...

Brought to you by Puffin.Return to the incredible days of Ten this Christmas . . .For the Tenth Doctor, the festive season always brought adventure.In fact, he's saved Christmas across space and time more times than we ever knew . . .Join the Doctor (and Donna and Martha and Rose, and other friends old and new) for incredible tales of daring and danger. From Daleks plotting to save humanity to Sycorax working to exp...

Brought to you by Penguin.THREE LOST SOULS.A LONG-BURIED SECRET.THE TRUTH THAT COULD SET THEM FREE...-----London, 1915: Tarot reader Katerina is trying to hold her life together amid the wartime chaos. When she opens a bakery that offers divination alongside sweet treats, she is hailed as a beacon of hope. But Katerina is hiding a dark truth that could cost her everything.Germany, 1918:...

**Brought to you by Penguin.Enter the secret lives of Britain's ordinary garden birds and the brilliant, unconventional woman who opened her doors to them.**In the late 1930s, Len Howard packed up her life in London, bought a plot of land in Sussex and built herself a little house there. This was to be Bird Cottage, a place where the doors of the house were open to the birds of the garden – great tits, blue tits, robins, blackbirds, willow warblers and many others. Len live...

**Brought to you by Penguin.Following the success of Birds as Individuals, Len Howard spent the 1950s continuing to deepen her understanding of the birds in her garden.**This book tells the story of one exceptional great tit that Len called Star. With patience, consistency and sensitivity, Len succeeds in teaching this little bird to count using taps. Star's character and intelligence is revealed in this intimate bird biography, unlike any told before. In opening h...

A BBC Radio adaptation of Hugh Walpole's historical novel, set in the Lake District during the 18th CenturyDriven by a wild romantic impulse, Francis Herries uproots his family from Doncaster to the lakeland valley of Borrowdale. Accompanied by his housekeeper/mistress, Alice, they settle in his tumbledown ancestral home, Herries, in the shadow of the Cumberland fells.Proud, stubborn and temperamental, Francis cuts himself off from...