The Sunday Sessions

The Sunday Sessions consists of twenty-six poems, the contents of two tapes recorded by Philip Larkin in Hull in February 1980 - reportedly, each on a Sunday, after lunch with John ...

A brilliantly original new poem which is also a translation of Homer’s Iliad, by a poet who is also a classicist.

Matthew Arnold praised the Iliad for its ‘nobility ...

Cats! Some are sane, some are mad and some are good and some are bad.

Meet magical Mr Mistoffelees, sleepy Old Deuteronomy and curious Rum Tum Tugger. But you’ll ...

Some of the most delightful poems ever written for children, brought evocatively to life in this wonderful new audio edition.

Ted Hughes' poetry for children is as rich, powerful and ...

A selection of Ted Hughes's wonderfully vivid children's fiction, read by the author and selected and introduced by Michael Morpurgo.

These stories have delighted children for years and ...

You won't find Grubtown on any maps. The last time any map-makers were sent anywhere near the place they were found a week later wearing nothing but pages from ...

Harry Hill’s unexpurgated diary of his year promises to do for the celebrity memoir what the Hadron Collider has done for particle acceleration.

Think Samuel Pepys meets Katie Price ...

So. Were you glad, deep down? Were you glad to be rid of her? Your perfect sister? Were you secretly glad when she was killed?

Following a horrific tragedy that ...

New York City, Spring 1967: Twenty-year-old Adam Walker, an aspiring poet and student at Columbia University, meets the enigmatic Frenchman Rudolf Born, and his silent and seductive girlfriend Margot. Falling ...

Described by the New York Times as ‘an original and remarkable genius’, Kazuo Ishiguro is the author of six novels, including Never Let Me Go and The Remains of the ...

Four Quartets is the culminating achievement of T.S. Eliot's career as a poet. While containing some of the most musical and unforgettable passages in twentieth-century poetry, its four ...

A plane crashes on an uninhabited island and the only survivors, a group of schoolboys, assemble on the beach and wait to be rescued. By day they inhabit a land ...

Istanbul, 1838. In his European palace on the Bosphorus, Sultan Mahmud II, architect of Ottoman reform, is dying and the city swirls with rumours and alarms.

The unexpected arrival of ...

A unique 15 CD boxed set of Seamus Heaney reading his 11 poetry collections in their entirety, produced by Radio Telefis Eireann, the Irish national broadcasting corporation.

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Over the past three years Alice Oswald has been recording conversations with people who live and work on the River Dart in Devon.

Using these records and voices as a ...

The Sunday Sessions consists of twenty-six poems, the contents of two tapes recorded by Philip Larkin in Hull in February 1980 - reportedly, each on a Sunday, after lunch with John ...

Coda is Simon Gray's frank, profoundly moving and often painfully funny account of what he refers to as ‘the beginning of my dying’. During a holiday with his wife ...

Everything you think you know is wrong ... Listen and learn! The number-one bestseller is now available in audio. Impress your friends, frustrate your enemies and win every argument.

Henry VIII ...

In Istanbul, in the late 1590s, the Sultan secretly commissions a great book: a celebration of his life and his empire, to be illuminated by the best artists of the ...

Dear Friends,

When Og the Frog came to live in Room 26, I felt a little jealous. Still, I tried to be welcoming but I soon discovered that it's ...