Thomas Hardy

A haunting collection of strange and macabre short stories, ideal for listening to around the fire on a cold winter evening....

A gripping collection of weird and fantastical stories of supernatural and unbelievable happenings....

A wonderful anthology of fifteen of the great classic Novellas....

A thoroughly engaging collection of classic short stories from some of the greatest writers who lived....

Set on Egdon Heath, a fictional barren moor in Wessex, Eustacia Vye longs for the excitement of city life but is cut off from the world in her grandfather's lonely cottage....

The Woodlanders concerns the fortunes of Giles Winterborne, whose love for the well-do-do Grace Melbury is challenged by the arrival of a dashing and dissolute doctor....

When Tess Durbeyfield is driven by family poverty to claim kinship with the wealthy D'Urbervilles and seek a portion of their family fortune, meeting her 'cousin' Alec proves to be her downfall.... 

When confronted with three suitors, among them the dashing Sergeant Troy, Bathsheba Everdene shows a reckless capriciousness that threatens the stability of the whole community....

When John Durbeyfield discovers a family connection to the ancient Norman family, the D'Urbervilles, the fate of daughter Tess is transformed....

Fifty of the world's greatest classic short stories....

A glittering collection of some of the world's finest short stories....

Grace Melbury, the timber merchant's daughter, comes back to Little Hintock after some years at finishing school....

Independent and spirited Bathsheba Everdene has come to Weatherbury to take up her position as a farmer on the largest estate in the area....

Thomas Hardy, never one to be conventional, took a very unconventional moral stance in this novel, which shocked readers of the time....

A rich and varied collection of classic short stories by British writers....

Deep in the grounds of Welland House lies an ancient memorial tower, surrounded by a prehistoric wilderness that isolates it from the rest of the land. When one day Viviette Constantine, the wife of the estate's owner, investigates the tower, she there discovers Swithin St. Cleeve....

A grisly collection of despicable crimes told by some of the world's best writers....

Dance with a lobster, telephone an elephant or knock on a moonlit door....

Tony Kytes is a favourite with the girls but he’s not terribly clever. If you meet an old girlfriend and she asks for a ride home in your wagon, do you say yes?

A collection of the greatest poetry from the Romantic period, the battlefield and the Victorian era, read by some of the 20th century’s most renowned actors....