Uppläsare Samuel West

Brought to you by Penguin.FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLING AUTHOR Summer 1914. A world on the brink of catastrophe.In London, 26-year-old Venetia Stanley - aristocratic, clever, bored, reckless - is having a love affair with the Prime ...

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Brought to you by Penguin. Birdsong is a mesmerising story of love and war spanning three generations between WW1 and present day. THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 1910. Amiens, Northern France. Stephen Wraysford, a young Englishman, arrives in the Fre...

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The heartrending story of British boy Jim?s four year ordeal in a Japanese prison camp during the second world war. Filmed by Steven Spielberg.Now available for the first time on CD.Based on J. G. Ballard?s own childhood, this is the extraordinary...

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The childhood of Chrestomanci. Everything in this book happens at least twenty-five years before the story told in Charmed Life...Discovering that he has nine lives and is destined to be the next 'Chrestomanci' is not part of Christopher's plans f...

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Top ten Sunday Times Bestseller?Engaging, ambitious and creative? GuardianWhere are we? Are we alone? Who are we? Why are we here? What is our future?Human Universe tackles some of the greatest questions that humans have asked to try and understan...

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An electrifying story of friendship, power and betrayal by the bestselling, Baileys-prize shortlisted author of The Bees.'A memorable eco-thriller. This is a world of arms dealers, heroic arctic adventurers and power crazed captains of industry. A...

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Sunday Times BestsellerA breathtaking and beautiful exploration of our planet, this groundbreaking book accompanies the BBC One TV series, providing the deepest answers to the simplest questions.How did life on Earth begin?What is the nature of sp...

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'This is my manifesto for morning.There is an energy in the earlier hours, an awareness I enjoy. In today's world we tend to wake as late as we can, timed to when we have to work. But we don't need to chase the day.'In Morning, Allan Jenkins shows...

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?So staggering you go ?whoa!? every few seconds? Guardian?Really impressive? Eamonn Holmes, ITV This MorningA companion book to the critically acclaimed BBC series.The bestselling authors of Wonders of the Universe are back with another blockbuste...

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The acclaimed political thriller that first introduced the unforgettable Francis Urquhart MP and launched Michael Dobbs' No 1 bestselling career.Michael Dobbs' entertaining tale of skulduggery and intrigue within the Palace of Westminster has been...

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Newly elected Prime Minister Francis Urquhart takes on the new King, in the controversial No 1 bestselling second volume in the Francis Urquhart trilogy - now reissued in audio.After scheming his way to power in 'House of Cards', Francis Urquhart ...

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Francis Urquhart's eventful career as Prime Minister comes to a spectacular end in the final volume in the Francis Urquhart trilogy - now reissued in audio.He schemed his way to power in 'House of Cards' and had a memorable battle of wills with th...

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J.R.R. Tolkien's writings on the Second Age of Middle-earth, collected for the first time in one volume.J.R.R. Tolkien famously described the Second Age of Middle-earth as a 'dark age, and not very much of its history is (or need be) told'. And fo...

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Brought to you by Penguin.We are unprepared for the greatest discovery of modern science. Scientists are confident that there is alien life across the universe yet we have not moved beyond our perception of 'aliens' as Hollywood stereotypes. The t...

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Brought to you by Puffin. An exciting new publication in celebration of the centenary of his birth, a recently discovered funny and poignant animal story by Dick King-Smith, completed by his great granddaughter, Josie Rogers. Ambrose may seem like...

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Penguin Classics presents Thomas Hardy''s Jude the Obscure , adapted for audio and available as a digital download as part of the Penguin English Library series. Read by Samuel West. ''As you got older, ... you were seized with a sort of shudderin...

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Brought to you by Penguin.VINTAGE CLASSICS MURDOCH: Funny, subversive, fearless and fiercely intelligent, Iris Murdoch was one of the great writers of the twentieth century. To celebrate her centenary Vintage Classics presents special editions of ...

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Samuel West reads ten of Rudyard Kipling's famous tales, as broadcast on BBC Radio 4.How the Whale Got His ThroatHow the Leopard Got His SpotsThe Beginning of the ArmadillosHow the Rhinoceros Got His SkinThe Cat That Walked By HimselfHow the Camel...

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