Book at Bedtime
Readings from modern classics, new works by leading writers and literature from around the world
Book at Bedtime - A Kestrel for a Knave
James Anthony Pearson reads from Barry Hines's novel, which was the inspiration for the film Kes. Unhappy teenager Billy Casper's life is changed when he finds and trains a wild kestrel
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Book at Bedtime - A Night with a Vampire
David Tennant reads five disturbing Victorian Vampire stories
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Book at Bedtime - A Perpetual Love Affair
Series of readings from authors' writing about Venice
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Book at Bedtime - A Room with a View
Juliet Stevenson reads from EM Forster's classic romance
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Book at Bedtime - A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy
Bill Nighy reads from Laurence Sterne's 1768 comic riposte to his contemporary Tobias Smollett's travel journal
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Book at Bedtime - A Thousand Splendid Suns
Seeta Indrani reads from Khaled Hosseini's eagerly awaited second novel
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Book at Bedtime - A Tiny Bit Marvellous
Dawn French reads from her debut novel about a dysfunctional family
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Book at Bedtime - A Vision of Loveliness
Emilia Fox reads from the darkly comic by novel by Louise Levene, set in 1960s London
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Book at Bedtime - Addition
Toni Jordan's touching story about a woman learning to cope with obsessive compulsive disorder and whose world is ruled by numbers. Read by Federay Holmes
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Book at Bedtime - Alex y Robert
By Wena Poon. Alex is Texan but her grandfather was a famous Spanish matador and she's inherited his passion for bullfighting. One summer she flies to Spain to find out more
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Book at Bedtime - An Equal Stillness
Tom Goodman-Hill reads Francesca Kay's story of a painter's lifelong struggle to balance her vocation with her life as a lover, wife, daughter and mother
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Book at Bedtime - And Another Thing...
Stephen Mangan reads from Eoin Colfer's sequel to Douglas Adams's Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series
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Book at Bedtime - And the Land Lay Still
Liam Brennan reads from the new novel by James Robertson, an ambitious portrayal of the last six decades of Scotland's history through the lives of a handful of characters
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Book at Bedtime - Anybody Can Do Anything
Debora Weston reads Betty MacDonald's comic novel about life as a single mother in America during the Great Depression
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Book at Bedtime - Ascent
Jed Mercurio's epic novel of exploration and endurance, abridged by Lisa Osborne
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Book at Bedtime - Augustus Carp Continued
Terry Wale reads extracts from the classic spoof memoir by Sir Henry Howarth Bashford
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Book at Bedtime - Before The Earthquake
Sian Thomas reads from Maria Allen's historical mystery, set in southern Italy
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Book at Bedtime - Black Orchids
Amanda Root reads from Gillian Slovo's love story, set in 1950s Ceylon and London
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Book at Bedtime - Blackout in Gretley
Anton Lesser reads from JB Priestley's atmospheric wartime thriller, set in a Midlands industrial town during the blackout
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Book at Bedtime - Breath
Richard Roxburgh reads from Tim Winton's tale of adolescence on the edge, set on the Western fringe of Australia
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Book at Bedtime - Brooklyn
Niamh Cusack reads Colm Toibin's story of duty, love and a girl who moved from the south of Ireland to seek a new life in New York in the 1950s
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Book at Bedtime - Burning Bright
Tracy Chevalier's novel, abridged by Jane Greenwood, is set in London in 1792
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Book at Bedtime - Capturing America
As part of Radio 4's Capturing America series, Mark Lawson selects short pieces by five American authors
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Book at Bedtime - Christine Falls
Thriller by the Man-Booker Prize winner John Banville, writing as Benjamin Black
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Book at Bedtime - Consequences
Penelope Lively's multi-generational family saga and love story, abridged by Sally Marmion and read by Penelope Wilton
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Book at Bedtime - Crimson China
Penny Downie and Elizabeth Tan read from Betsy Tobin's novel
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Book at Bedtime - Engleby
Douglas Hodge reads from Sebastian Faulks's novel, abridged by Miranda Davies
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Book at Bedtime - Family Money
Hannah Gordon reads Nina Bawden's psychological thriller which tells the story of recently-widowed Fanny Pye, and how her life is changed when she intervenes to stop a street brawl
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Book at Bedtime - Fathers and Sons
Douglas Hodge reads from Ivan Turgenev's 1862 novel about the eternal struggle between the generations and the rise and fall of a charismatic young nihilist
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Book at Bedtime - Fire in the Blood
Irene Nemirovsky's compelling portrayal of youthful indiscretion and worldly sagacity
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Book at Bedtime - God's Own Country
Matt Smith reads from Ross Raisin's compelling and disturbing tale of adolescence on the edge, set on the Yorkshire Moors
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Book at Bedtime - Heartland
Alex Jones and David Holt read from the novel by Anthony Cartwright, set in 2002 in the fictional Black Country community of Cinderheath
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Book at Bedtime - Helpless
Kathryn Akin reads from Barbara Gowdy's thriller, abridged by Lauris Morgan-Griffiths
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Book at Bedtime - In Cold Bedtime
Truman Capote's true account of a vicious quadruple murder in 1950s America, abridged by Fiona McAlpine and read by Kerry Shale and Tom Stoppard
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Book at Bedtime - In Office Hours
Hadyn Gwynne and Lyndsey Marshal read from the novel by Lucy Kellaway
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Book at Bedtime - Interpretation of Murder
Adaptation of Jed Rubenfeld's novel, in which psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud is drawn into a murder investigation in New York. Read by William Hope and Martin T Sherman
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Book at Bedtime - It's Beginning To Hurt
Series of five enigmatic and psychologically gripping short stories by James Lasdun
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Book at Bedtime - La's Orchestra Saves the World
By Alexander McCall Smith. In a sleepy Suffolk village in 1939, a young widow forms an amateur orchestra to entertain the locals and soothe her own broken heart
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Book at Bedtime - Let the Northern Lights Erase your Name
A woman discovers that the man who raised her was not her father, and embarks on a journey of discovery which takes her to the Arctic Circle. By Vendela Vida, read by Teresa Gallagher
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Book at Bedtime - Love and Summer
Dermot Crowley reads from the novel by William Trevor about a brief summer love affair in the rural west of Ireland
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Book at Bedtime - Metamorphosis
Franz Kafka's famous horror story, read by Andrew Sachs, is a haunting parable on the human reaction to suffering
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Book at Bedtime - Mister Pip
Lloyd Jones's adventure, set on a South Pacific island. Read by Nikki Amuka-Bird
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Book at Bedtime - Moonlight in Odessa
Jane Collingwood reads from Janet Skeslien Charles's debut novel, set in the Ukraine
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Book at Bedtime - Mr Chartwell
By Rebecca Hunt. Set across five days in July 1964, we follow the intertwined lives of Sir Winston Churchill, Esther Hammerhans and the unwelcome visitor they share
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Book at Bedtime - Neglected Classics: The Rector's Daughter
Juliet Stevenson reads from FM Mayor's 1924 novel about a plain, reliable parson's daughter whose life of duty and service is thrown into confusion by an unexpected and unsought love affair
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Book at Bedtime - No And Me
Emerald O'Hanrahan reads from Delphine de Vigan's novel about a 13-year-old girl with an IQ of 160 from a dysfunctional home whose life is changed when she meets a homeless girl
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Book at Bedtime - Notwithstanding: Stories from an English Village
Hugh Bonneville reads from Louis de Bernieres's new book of linked stories about the vanishing charms and eccentric characters of the fictional Surrey village of Notwithstanding
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Book at Bedtime - On the Black Hill
Iestyn Jones reads from Bruce Chatwin's novel about the lives of identical twin brothers Lewis and Benjamin Jones, on their farm in the Welsh Marches
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Book at Bedtime - One Day
Julian Rhind-Tutt reads from the bittersweet novel by David Nicholls
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Book at Bedtime - One Morning Like A Bird
Michael Maloney reads from the novel by Andrew Miller. Tokyo, 1940: With Japan's war with China escalating and the threat of conscription in the air, the Takano family feel the new mood of nationalism
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Book at Bedtime - Ordinary Thunderstorms
David Holt reads from the thriller by William Boyd. Adam Kindred, a young scientist, loses everything and is pursued by the police and a ruthless hitman
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Book at Bedtime - Out of a Clear Sky
Nicola Walker reads from Sally Hinchcliffe's psychological thriller
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Book at Bedtime - Perfect Night
Jamie Glover reads from Peter Grimsdale's thriller about a video archivist who discovers that a terrorist who is supposed to be dead is still alive
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Book at Bedtime - Revolutionary Road
Richard Yates's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel paints a vivid picture of the postwar generation of Americans trying to adjust to family life in the 1950s
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Book at Bedtime - Riceyman Steps
Robert Powell reads from the 1923 novel by Arnold Bennett about the poignant struggles of everyday London life
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Book at Bedtime - Salmon Fishing in Yemen
Comic novel by Paul Torday which gently mocks the machinations of government and spin whilst shedding a little light on the question of belief. Read by Michael Sheen
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Book at Bedtime - Seeds of Greatness
Stephen Mangan reads an abridged version of Jon Canter's text
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Book at Bedtime - Sentimental Education
Alex Jennings reads from Flaubert's novel, set amid the turbulence and glamour of mid-nineteenth century Parisian high society
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Book at Bedtime - Sister
Hattie Morahan reads from the debut novel by Rosamund Lupton. Beatrice is shocked when her sister Tess goes missing, and is determined to find out what happened to her
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Book at Bedtime - Someone at a Distance
Deborah Findlay reads from Dorothy Whipple's 1953 novel, abridged by Jill Waters
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Book at Bedtime - South of the River
Douglas Hodge reads from Blake Morrison's multi-stranded tale of English life at the end of the 20th century
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Book at Bedtime - The Aspern Papers
Samuel West reads from the novella by Henry James, set against the decaying grandeur of Venice
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Book at Bedtime - The Behaviour of Moths
Stephanie Cole reads from Poppy Adams's powerful novel about family secrets and loss
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Book at Bedtime - The Betrayal
Sara Kestelman reads Helen Dunmore's novel of Cold War Leningrad
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Book at Bedtime - The Coral Thief
Dan Stevens reads from Rebecca Stott's love story, set in Paris in 1815 in the aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars
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Book at Bedtime - The Dark Flower
John Galsworthy's tale of obsessive love and thwarted passion, set in the late-19th century and charting 30 years in the life and loves of a young man, Mark Lennan
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Book at Bedtime - The Earth Hums in B Flat
Joanna Page reads Mari Strachan's magical story of a child detective, set in 1950s Wales
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Book at Bedtime - The Egg and I
Debora Weston reads from Betty MacDonald's bitingly funny memoir of early married life on a chicken ranch during the 1920s, in the wildest part of the North Western United States
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Book at Bedtime - The First Men in the Moon
Tim Pigott-Smith reads from the 1901 novel by HG Wells
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Book at Bedtime - The Ghost
Robert Harris's thriller about a professional ghost writer who takes on an assignment to write the memoirs of former Prime Minister Adam Lang
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Book at Bedtime - The Golden Age
By Tahmina Anam. Set in Bangladesh during the War of Independence of 1971, this is the story of a mother's attempts to protect her son and daughter as the country is torn apart. Read by Sudha Bhuchar
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Book at Bedtime - The Good Plain Cook
Sian Thomas reads from Bethan Roberts's novel set in the summer of 1936, abridged by Elizabeth Burke
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Book at Bedtime - The Good Soldier
Toby Stephens reads Ford Madox Ford's classic tale of passion and deceit, set in Europe during the early years of the 20th century
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Book at Bedtime - The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
Emilia Fox, Ben Crowe, Stewart Clapp and Sian Thomas read from Mary Ann Shaffer's novel, set in the aftermath of the Second World War
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Book at Bedtime - The House of Special Purpose
John Boyne's haunting novel travels to the heart of the Russian empire where young imperial family bodyguard Georgy Jachmenev is privy to the secrets of Tsar Nicholas and his wife Alexandra
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Book at Bedtime - The Ingoldsby Legends
Nicholas Murchie and Lucy Robinson read from a collection of myths, legends, ghost stories and poetry by the Rev Richard Barham, first published in book form in 1840
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Book at Bedtime - The Island of Dr Moreau
Jonathan Pryce reads from H G Wells's classic horror story about the nightmarish excesses of biological experimentation
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Book at Bedtime - The Lessons
Rory Kinnear reads from Naomi Alderman's story of a group of a group of gilded undergraduates at Oxford
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Book at Bedtime - The Lifted Veil
Nigel Cooke reads from George Eliot's spooky tale of mind reading and clairvoyance
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Book at Bedtime - The Man in the Picture
Susan Hill's ghost story reveals the background to a mysterious depiction of masked revellers at the Venice Carnival which hangs in the college rooms of a Cambridge professor. Read by Nigel Anthony
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Book at Bedtime - The Night of the Mi'rag
Gripping crime novel set in contemporary Saudi Arabia, by Zoe Ferraris. Abridged by Alison Joseph
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Book at Bedtime - The Nine Tailors
Alex Jennings reads from Dorothy L Sayers's classic mystery
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Book at Bedtime - The Outcast
Emma Fielding reads from Sadie Jones's compelling novel about transgression and redemption
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Book at Bedtime - The Outlander
Denica Fairman reads from the novel by Gil Adamson, set in Canada in 1903
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Book at Bedtime - The Pleasure Seekers
Indira Varma reads from Tishani Doshi's comic and tender novel about four generations of the Patel-Joneses, inspired by her own Welsh-Gujurati background
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Book at Bedtime - The Post Office Girl
Emma Gregory reads Stefan Zweig's reworking of the Cinderella story, set in post-WWI Austria
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Book at Bedtime - The Ruling Passion
David Horovitz reads from David Pownall's novel, recounting the life of Edward II, his troubled reign and his divisive relationship with the knight Piers Gaveston
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Book at Bedtime - The Spy Game
Diana Quick reads the novel by Georgina Harding, set in 1960s England
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Book at Bedtime - The Still Point
Emma Fielding reads from Amy Sackville's debut novel about true courage and enduring love, in which the lives of two couples, living a hundred years apart, collide unexpectedly one summer's day
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Book at Bedtime - The Story of a Marriage
The Story of a Marriage, by Andrew Sean Greer. Read by Adjoa Andoh
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Book at Bedtime - The Taxi Queue
Janet Davey's subtle and moving study of repressed desire and its effect on suburban lives. Read by Julian Rhind-Tutt
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Book at Bedtime - The Testament of Gideon Mack
Stuart McQuarrie reads James Robertson's strange story of a Church of Scotland minister
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Book at Bedtime - The True Deceiver
By Tove Jansson. The story of two very different women, set in the deep winter snows of the fictional Swedish hamlet of Västerby
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Book at Bedtime - The Truth Commissioner
By David Park, abridged by Neville Teller. Following the South African model, a Truth Commissioner is appointed to the new Northern Ireland
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Book at Bedtime - The Uninvited
A Chinese factory-worker, posing as a journalist to get free meals at promotional banquets, discovers rampant corruption and feels himself compelled to act
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Book at Bedtime - The White Tiger
Sagar Arya reads Aravind Adiga's Man Booker Prize-winning novel that explores contemporary India through the eyes of streetwise Delhi chauffeur Balram
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Book at Bedtime - The Whole Day Through
Samantha Bond and Nathaniel Parker read from the romantic novel by Patrick Gale
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Book at Bedtime - Things Fall Apart
Chuk Iwuji reads from Chinua Achebe's classic novel, abridged by Jane Marshall
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Book at Bedtime - To Heaven By Water
Bill Nighy reads from the novel by Justin Cartwright, about a family as they come to terms with the loss of a wife and mother
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Book at Bedtime - Travels Through France and Italy
Roger Allam reads from the 1766 travel memoir by Tobias Smollett. He and his wife set off on a long journey, determined to see France and Italy, but was rarely happy with what he found there
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Book at Bedtime - Travels with My Aunt
Graham Greene's classic comedy adventure about a retired bank manager and his journeys with his septuagenarian Aunt
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Book at Bedtime - Trespass
Sara Kestelman reads from the new and disturbing novel by Rose Tremain. Set in the Cevennes, an untamed area of southern France, it is the story of two very different sets of siblings
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Book at Bedtime - Troubles
Jim Norton reads J. G. Farrell's tragi-comic masterpiece set against the Irish struggle for independence - the recipient of the Lost Man Booker Prize for 1970
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Book at Bedtime - Winter's Bone
Daniel Woodrell's tale, set deep in the Ozark mountains of Missouri, tells the story of the Dolly clan
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