Collection: Adult Spoken Word(All formats)

A terrible accident forces Natalia to make a devastating choice about her future as a dancer, in this sweeping tale of love and redemption Prima ballerina Natalia Leonova was once celebrated across the world, her signature bravura in demand on stages from St. Petersburg to Paris to New York. But ...

There is a curious symmetry about the lives of Don Revie and Brian Clough. They were born just a brisk walk away from each other in Middlesbrough, in 1927 and 1935 respectively. Part footballing chronicle, part social history, this book brings a fresh perspective on their early years and tells ho...

Charlie Cooper is in New York, posing undercover as a delegate at the United Nations. He's investigating a threat to Group Fifteen interests when a Code Blue - the UN's emergency alert - is triggered. Charlie needs to locate and eliminate the threat while protecting his identity in his most chall...

How far would you go to keep a secret at work? Would you kill for it? I used to enjoy my job. I was good at it and felt fulfilled. I also used to enjoy spending time with the people I worked with. They say you spend more time with your work colleagues than you do with your family members, but tha...

Prize-winning novelist and short-story writer Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse's harrowing, urgent memoir documents and reconstructs her escape, at the age of 15, from the Rwandan massacres of 1994, in which 800,000 Tutsi were slaughtered.

1940 finds Adam Southey in a mood of bitter resentment: he cannot join up because he is lame. But at the school where he is teaching, the headmaster, Sam Cooke, is a brilliant scientist. And Adam suddenly finds that the battleground is not the only place to fight a war - for Dr. Cooke has develop...

Ruth's tireless research into the disease that killed her young daughter had an unexpected outcome - the discovery of a vaccine against old age. Just one jab a year reverses your biological clock, guaranteeing a long, healthy life. But Ruth's cure was hijacked by her colleague, Erik Grundleger, w...

A cold case of poisonings heats up at a quaint guest house. A string of suspicious murders follows a crime writer's tour bus. Two seedy stowaways uncover an infamous smuggling ring. Everyone needs a break now and then but sometimes getting away from it all can be murder. Martin Edwards presents a...

Simmy is four months pregnant, working partly from home and partly from her Windermere florist shop when her husband Christopher asks her to take flowers to Eleanor Padgett. Eleanor has helped him in his auction house, as she is an expert in antique textiles. She lives near the church at Dacre, a...

In Britain, everyone knows their place. But are the upper classes venal fops who think only of titles and money? Are the middle classes as pathetically status-obsessed as they appear? Are the working classes all white van drivers consumed by Ginsters pasties and Ralph Lauren polo shirts? The answ...