Brought to you by Penguin.This Penguin Classic is performed by Don Warrington, known for his roles in Death in Paradise and The Five as well as his multiple Shakespearean performances. This definitive recording includes an Introduction by Oliver Ready.'A truly great translation . . . This English version really is better' - A. N. Wilson, The SpectatorTIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT BOOKS OF THE ...

David Tennant, Anthony Head, Don Warrington and Shaun Dingwall read these six original stories featuring the Tenth Doctor.In 'The Stone Rose', a missing boy and a strange stone effigy spell trouble for the Doctor and Rose. In 'The Feast of the Drowned', the dead crew of a naval cruiser haunt loved ones all over London. 'The Resurrection Casket' finds the Doctor and Rose in search of lost treasure, whilst 'The Nightmare of Black Island' takes them to a Welsh village where children a...

Bloomsbury presents Hungry Ghosts by Kevin Jared Hosein, read by Don Warrington._____________________________* A BBC TWO BETWEEN THE COVERS BOOK CLUB PICK FOR 2023 ** WINNER OF THE WALTER SCOTT PRIZE FOR HISTORICAL FICTION 2024 *‘A shimmering slice of Trinidadian gothic’ THE TIMES‘An astonishing novel’ BERNARDINE EVARISTO‘Deeply impressive ’ HILARY MANTELThe music was still playing when Dalton Changoor vanished into thin air...On...

In the second book in Isobel Wycherley's The Dons Of Warrington Series, two novice gangsters are sent on their biggest mission yet: killing the notorious Helmut Baulsack.If they succeed, the entire world will be under attack. If they don’t, the entire world will be under attack. It is impossible to imagine how they will make it through, but with the help of German mystic Bertolt Bertalt III, anything is possible.Prepare to be sent on an unimaginable journey of cruelty, mist...

As Mafia families wreak havoc across the globe, two unexpected twin sisters cause even more of a stir when they unite with the Italian Mafia family operating in Manchester - the exact family their father, DC Tim Shelley, is tailing.Sent on treacherous missions by Don Fontana, the twins set out to make a name for themselves in the criminal underworld, with the police hot on their tail. But is it worth the fight?Assassinations, SWAT team raids and illegal activity all take th...

LONGLISTED FOR THE SWANSEA UNIVERSITY DYLAN THOMAS PRIZEWINNER OF THE WALTER SCOTT PRIZE FOR HISTORICAL FICTION“This is a deeply impressive book, and I think an important one. Its intensity, its narrative attack, the fascinations of its era and setting, make it impossible to tear the attention away. Energy and inventiveness distinguish every page.” — Hilary MantelFrom an unforgettable new voice in Caribb...

Don Warrington stars as the enigmatic Deacon in this gritty contemporary fantasy trilogyIn the spaces between inner-city Bristol and the netherworld walks Deacon, a mysterious, centuries-old drifter who arrives when least expected to save lost souls. In these three dramas, he comes to the aid of a boxer turned petty criminal, a teenager in danger and a refugee in hiding.DeaconOffered a 'job' by his former boxing trainer Jimm...

All three books in Isobel Wycherley's 'The Dons of Warrington Trilogy', now in one volume!The Dons of Warrington: In this thrilling crime novel, Detective Constable Tim Shelley refuses to carry out an Italian Mafia family's hit, so they kidnap his twin daughters, Al and Sonny Shelley. After realizing the girls' exceptional intelligence, the Fontanas enlist them for their first drug-smuggling mission to Amsterdam, followed by a request to kill the Detective who defi...

DC Tim Shelley is on a mission to find Len Moscow and avenge his daughter's death. Meanwhile, her twin sister, Sonny, is trailing the man who made the murder possible: her ex-mafia colleague Mario Fontana.After a meeting in Amsterdam, Shelley joins forces with Bertolt in order to find the killer. Anastacia Smirnoff also has her part to play, as each of them makes their way toward the inevitable confrontation.Old debts will be paid, and sacrifices made, as the Warrington sag...

Full-cast dramatisations of six masterpieces from the founding fathers of dystopian fictionDark and disturbing, provocative and prescient, dystopian literature has long captured our imagination with its nightmarish visions of forbidding future worlds. Included here are six classic novels of time-travel, totalitarianism and terror, written by some of the masters of speculative fiction and adapted for radio with all-star casts.The Time Machine

A radical landmark in Caribbean literature, reissued with a new foreword by Jamaica Kincaid to mark Wilson Harris' centenary: this visionary masterpiece tracing the dreamlike voyage of a riverboat crew through the jungle defies definition sixty years on.I dreamt I awoke with one dead seeing eye and one living closed eye ...A crew of men are embarking on a voyage up a turbulent ...

A heart-warming and achingly relevant story about elephant conservation, from picture book legend, Michael Foreman.Noa loves to watch the elephants play in the water near his small village in East Africa. One day tragedy strikes and the baby is left all alone, his mother killed by poachers.When Noa and his village adopt the lonely orphan, a beautiful friendship is born. Until one stormy night when Noa may need his friend to save him too…In Association with Tusk, the ...