Collection: Adult Spoken Word(All formats)

A daring, darkly funny first novel set in a seedy Hollywood bar among deranged drug addicts, determined drinkers and desperate women.

A body has washed up from the Grand Canal. A woman, wearing the robes of a priest - a desecration known as the Abomination. The trail leads Captain Kat Tapo from the backstreets of Venice to an abandoned Catholic asylum. Suddenly the case is closed down.

Donna Leon's novel is as subtle, gripping and topical as ever, bringing the sights, sounds and smells of Venice flooding to life.

Molly has moved from London to rural Herefordshire chasing the Good Life. Swapping the tube for the saddle, she is living the country dream. Apart from it isn't really her dream. It's her husband David's. And David is, well, rather dead now. Then a distant relative of her late husband kicks the b...

'I need you to say that I was with you' - with these simple words, two women's enduring friendship is put to the ultimate test. For one, the appeal is borne of desperation to conceal a secret and a desire to protect her family. For the other, the request turns her world upside down.

Heavily in debt, and earning peanuts as a 'trolley dolly', Saskia Swann desperately needed to get her life back on track. After a chance meeting, she landed a job as cabin crew - but this time on a private jet. Suddenly, she found herself transported into the glittering world of oligarchs and bil...

It's after a night in Cardiff's loudest gay bar that Toni first lays eyes on Gav, a retired Welsh boxer, and his boyfriend Karol, an aspiring Polish photographer. The trio soon fall into an intimate, ambiguous love triangle. After a tragic event at a beach in Swansea, the trio are ripped apart, a...

An ISIS attack on America is narrowly averted when the FBI uncovers a plot to detonate a weapon of mass destruction in Dallas, Texas during the Super Bowl. A federal grand jury indicts 24 co-conspirators, including Omar al Mustafa, a notorious and charismatic Muslim cleric known for his incendiar...

Marianne Clifford, 15, only child of a peppery army colonel and his vain wife, Lal, falls helplessly and absolutely for Simon Hurst, 18, whose cleverness and physical beauty suggest that he will go forward into a successful and monied future, helped on by doting parents. But fate intervenes. Simo...

Clare Wald, world-renowned author, mother, critic, takes up her pen and confronts her life. Sam Leroux has returned to South Africa to write Clare's biography. As Sam and Clare turn over the events of her life, she begins to seek absolution. But in the stories she weaves and the truth just below ...