Miss Marple, living a quiet life in St Mary Mead, is saddened to hear of the death of Jason Rafiel. Not that they were friends - the old financier was much too irascible and self-centred for friendship - but they had once been allies in solving a series of murders that took place on the tiny Caribbean island of St Honoré. She is therefore greatly surprised by a summons to the dead man's solicitor, where she receives a bizarre challenge in the form of a posthumous letter. According to Mr Ra...

The lavish seven-part saga of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table'Wonderful... pure pleasure' The ListenerThe Arthurian legends have long held a powerful grip on our collective imagination, inspiring numerous poets, novelists and playwrights to interpret them in countless different ways. In this epic play cycle, based on Malory's classic Le Morte D'Arthur, Graeme Fife gives us his dramatic, in-depth ret...

Saga parisienne, série en trois romans, raconte l'histoire d'une famille sur autant de générations, de l'Occupation à nos jours. L'intrigue se noue alors que le clan Ormen se déchire entre la collaboration et la Résistance. Un tableau de Picasso, L'Heure bleue, disparaît dans la grande rafle du 17 juillet 1942 pour ne ressurgir qu'un demi-siècle plus tard. Entre-temps, on se soupçonne, on oublie, on se souvient, on aime, on pleure...To...

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Thomas Hardy by Claire Tomalin, read by Jill Balcon and David Shaw-Parker.Paradox ruled Thomas Hardy's life. His birth was almost his death; he became one of the great Victorian novelists and reinvented himself as one of the twentieth-century's greatest poets; he was an unhappy husband and a desolate widower; he wrote bitter attacks on the English class system yet prized the friendship of aristocrats.In the hands of Whitbre...