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He’s going to be a star, instead of sweating over each football boot he makes, each stitch he sews, each box he packages. He’s going to play for the greatest team on earth, rather than in the square behind the factory where he works.But one unlucky kick brings Budi’s world crashing down, because ...

When Melanie Hunter goes missing, the men in her life come under suspicion.And there's plenty to suspect: lies, half-truths, deceptions. When you pull one thread, the whole fabric of family life can come apart. There are secrets in Melanie's past, and pain she tried to hide from the world. Slider...

A new friendship with Nathalie Fanshawe brings interest to her life and makes possible a welcome visit to the seaside. On her return to Lincoln, she finds that Canon Trimmer and his family have moved into the cathedral close and visiting them is Mrs Trimmer's brother, Sir Gareth Blades. The baron...

A small mining village is rocked by a shocking murder in the latest Monika Paniatowski mystery . . . - Tensions are running high in the small mining village of Bellingsworth. There has been a call for further strikes, and retired miner Len Hopkins, who was known to be against a new strike, is mur...

Healer Lassair returns to England and uncovers a secret that puts the lives of everyone she knows in grave danger, in the final Aelf Fen medieval mystery. It is the summer of 1100, and after seven long years away in Spain, Lassair is finally going home. Back to her beloved mentor Gurdyman. Back t...

Summer 1930 on St Kilda – a wild, remote Scottish island.Two strangers from drastically different worlds meet . . .Eighteen year old Effie Gillies has lived all her life on St Kilda; she’s the best climber on the island, as skilled and brave as any of the men. But in matters of the heart, she’s a...

Menacing and at times darkly humourous there are echos of Roald Dahl and Daphne du Maurier in these stories, many of which have been commissioned for Radio 4

Nizami inspired rock star, Eric Clapton, to write his song "Layla".

Each story in this series offers a poignant glimpse of family life – the ties we cling to; the ties we try to sever; and the ties that make us who we are. Told from a myriad of perspectives, from a dazzling array of some of the finest short story writers of our generation (including Jhumpa Lahiri...

The Little Citrus Cookbook offers 40 recipes for everything from fresh summer salads to Mediterranean-inflected meat dishes, to the perfect lemon drizzle cake. Whether you’re looking for zingy new ways to use up lemons, limes and oranges, or to discover the sweet, sour, bitter and umami-enhancing...