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Readings from modern classics, new works by leading writers and literature from around the world

logo for Book at Bedtime - A Christmas Carol
Book at Bedtime - A Christmas Carol

David Jason reads from Dickens's festive classic

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logo for Book at Bedtime - A Kestrel for a Knave
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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logo for Book at Bedtime - A Night with a Vampire
Book at Bedtime - A Night with a Vampire

David Tennant reads five disturbing Victorian Vampire stories

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logo for Book at Bedtime - A Perpetual Love Affair
Book at Bedtime - A Perpetual Love Affair

Series of readings from authors' writing about Venice

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logo for Book at Bedtime - A Room with a View
Book at Bedtime - A Room with a View

Juliet Stevenson reads from EM Forster's classic romance

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logo for Book at Bedtime - A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy
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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logo for Book at Bedtime - A Thousand Splendid Suns
Book at Bedtime - A Thousand Splendid Suns

Seeta Indrani reads from Khaled Hosseini's eagerly awaited second novel

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logo for Book at Bedtime - A Tiny Bit Marvellous
Book at Bedtime - A Tiny Bit Marvellous

Dawn French reads from her debut novel about a dysfunctional family

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logo for Book at Bedtime - A Vision of Loveliness
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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logo for Book at Bedtime - Addition
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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logo for Book at Bedtime - Alex y Robert
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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logo for Book at Bedtime - An Equal Stillness
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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logo for Book at Bedtime - And Another Thing...
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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logo for Book at Bedtime - And the Land Lay Still
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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logo for Book at Bedtime - Anybody Can Do Anything
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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logo for Book at Bedtime - Arabella
Book at Bedtime - Arabella

Georgette Heyer's comic romance set in the Regency period

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logo for Book at Bedtime - Ascent
Book at Bedtime - Ascent

Jed Mercurio's epic novel of exploration and endurance, abridged by Lisa Osborne

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logo for Book at Bedtime - Augustus Carp Continued
Book at Bedtime - Augustus Carp Continued

Terry Wale reads extracts from the classic spoof memoir by Sir Henry Howarth Bashford

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logo for Book at Bedtime - Before The Earthquake
Book at Bedtime - Before The Earthquake

Sian Thomas reads from Maria Allen's historical mystery, set in southern Italy

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logo for Book at Bedtime - Black Orchids
Book at Bedtime - Black Orchids

Amanda Root reads from Gillian Slovo's love story, set in 1950s Ceylon and London

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logo for Book at Bedtime - Blackout in Gretley
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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logo for Book at Bedtime - Breath
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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logo for Book at Bedtime - Brooklyn
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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logo for Book at Bedtime - Burning Bright
Book at Bedtime - Burning Bright

Tracy Chevalier's novel, abridged by Jane Greenwood, is set in London in 1792

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logo for Book at Bedtime - Capturing America
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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logo for Book at Bedtime - Christine Falls
Book at Bedtime - Christine Falls

Thriller by the Man-Booker Prize winner John Banville, writing as Benjamin Black

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logo for Book at Bedtime - Consequences
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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logo for Book at Bedtime - Crimson China
Book at Bedtime - Crimson China

Penny Downie and Elizabeth Tan read from Betsy Tobin's novel

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logo for Book at Bedtime - Damage
Book at Bedtime - Damage

Josephine Hart's dark novel

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logo for Book at Bedtime - Dancing Backwards
Book at Bedtime - Dancing Backwards

Eileen Atkins reads from Salley Vickers's new novel

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logo for Book at Bedtime - Engleby
Book at Bedtime - Engleby

Douglas Hodge reads from Sebastian Faulks's novel, abridged by Miranda Davies

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logo for Book at Bedtime - Family Money
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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logo for Book at Bedtime - Fathers and Sons
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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logo for Book at Bedtime - Fire in the Blood
Book at Bedtime - Fire in the Blood

Irene Nemirovsky's compelling portrayal of youthful indiscretion and worldly sagacity

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logo for Book at Bedtime - God's Own Country
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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logo for Book at Bedtime - Heartland
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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logo for Book at Bedtime - Helpless
Book at Bedtime - Helpless

Kathryn Akin reads from Barbara Gowdy's thriller, abridged by Lauris Morgan-Griffiths

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logo for Book at Bedtime - In Cold Bedtime
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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logo for Book at Bedtime - In Office Hours
Book at Bedtime - In Office Hours

Hadyn Gwynne and Lyndsey Marshal read from the novel by Lucy Kellaway

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logo for Book at Bedtime - Interpretation of Murder
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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logo for Book at Bedtime - It's Beginning To Hurt
Book at Bedtime - It's Beginning To Hurt

Series of five enigmatic and psychologically gripping short stories by James Lasdun

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logo for Book at Bedtime - Jamaica Inn
Book at Bedtime - Jamaica Inn

Tamsin Greig reads Daphne Du Maurier's gothic tale

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logo for Book at Bedtime - Julian Barnes Stories
Book at Bedtime - Julian Barnes Stories

A selection of short stories by Julian Barnes

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logo for Book at Bedtime - La's Orchestra Saves the World
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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logo for Book at Bedtime - Let the Northern Lights Erase your Name
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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logo for Book at Bedtime - Love and Summer
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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logo for Book at Bedtime - Metamorphosis
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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logo for Book at Bedtime - Mister Pip
Book at Bedtime - Mister Pip

Lloyd Jones's adventure, set on a South Pacific island. Read by Nikki Amuka-Bird

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logo for Book at Bedtime - Moonlight in Odessa
Book at Bedtime - Moonlight in Odessa

Jane Collingwood reads from Janet Skeslien Charles's debut novel, set in the Ukraine

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logo for Book at Bedtime - Mr Chartwell
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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logo for Book at Bedtime - Neglected Classics: The Rector's Daughter
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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logo for Book at Bedtime - No And Me
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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logo for Book at Bedtime - Notwithstanding: Stories from an English Village
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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logo for Book at Bedtime - On Chesil Beach
Book at Bedtime - On Chesil Beach

On Chesil Beach, by Ian McEwan. Read by Alex Jennings

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logo for Book at Bedtime - On the Black Hill
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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logo for Book at Bedtime - One Day
Book at Bedtime - One Day

Julian Rhind-Tutt reads from the bittersweet novel by David Nicholls

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logo for Book at Bedtime - One Morning Like A Bird
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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logo for Book at Bedtime - Ordinary Thunderstorms
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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logo for Book at Bedtime - Out of a Clear Sky
Book at Bedtime - Out of a Clear Sky

Nicola Walker reads from Sally Hinchcliffe's psychological thriller

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logo for Book at Bedtime - Perfect Night
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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logo for Book at Bedtime - Revolutionary Road
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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logo for Book at Bedtime - Riceyman Steps
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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logo for Book at Bedtime - Salmon Fishing in Yemen
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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logo for Book at Bedtime - Seeds of Greatness
Book at Bedtime - Seeds of Greatness

Stephen Mangan reads an abridged version of Jon Canter's text

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logo for Book at Bedtime - Sentimental Education
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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logo for Book at Bedtime - Sister
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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logo for Book at Bedtime - Snowdrops
Book at Bedtime - Snowdrops

Crime thriller set in the Moscow criminal underworld

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logo for Book at Bedtime - Solar
Book at Bedtime - Solar

Hugh Bonneville reads from Ian McEwan's new novel

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logo for Book at Bedtime - Someone at a Distance
Book at Bedtime - Someone at a Distance

Deborah Findlay reads from Dorothy Whipple's 1953 novel, abridged by Jill Waters

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logo for Book at Bedtime - South of the River
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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logo for Book at Bedtime - Taking Pictures
Book at Bedtime - Taking Pictures

Short stories from Anne Enright's latest collection

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logo for Book at Bedtime - The Aspern Papers
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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logo for Book at Bedtime - The Behaviour of Moths
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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logo for Book at Bedtime - The Betrayal
Book at Bedtime - The Betrayal

Sara Kestelman reads Helen Dunmore's novel of Cold War Leningrad

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logo for Book at Bedtime - The Coral Thief
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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logo for Book at Bedtime - The Dark Flower
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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logo for Book at Bedtime - The Earth Hums in B Flat
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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logo for Book at Bedtime - The Egg and I
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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logo for Book at Bedtime - The First Men in the Moon
Book at Bedtime - The First Men in the Moon

Tim Pigott-Smith reads from the 1901 novel by HG Wells

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logo for Book at Bedtime - The Ghost
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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logo for Book at Bedtime - The Glass Room
Book at Bedtime - The Glass Room

Greta Scacchi reads from the novel by Simon Mawer

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logo for Book at Bedtime - The Golden Age
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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logo for Book at Bedtime - The Good Plain Cook
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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logo for Book at Bedtime - The Good Soldier
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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logo for Book at Bedtime - The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
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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logo for Book at Bedtime - The House of Special Purpose
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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logo for Book at Bedtime - The Ingoldsby Legends
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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logo for Book at Bedtime - The Island of Dr Moreau
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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logo for Book at Bedtime - The Land of Spices
Book at Bedtime - The Land of Spices

Kate O'Brien's novel is set in an enclosed convent

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logo for Book at Bedtime - The Lessons
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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logo for Book at Bedtime - The Lifted Veil
Book at Bedtime - The Lifted Veil

Nigel Cooke reads from George Eliot's spooky tale of mind reading and clairvoyance

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logo for Book at Bedtime - The Man in the Picture
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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logo for Book at Bedtime - The Night of the Mi'rag
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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logo for Book at Bedtime - The Nine Tailors
Book at Bedtime - The Nine Tailors

Alex Jennings reads from Dorothy L Sayers's classic mystery

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logo for Book at Bedtime - The Outcast
Book at Bedtime - The Outcast

Emma Fielding reads from Sadie Jones's compelling novel about transgression and redemption

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logo for Book at Bedtime - The Outlander
Book at Bedtime - The Outlander

Denica Fairman reads from the novel by Gil Adamson, set in Canada in 1903

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logo for Book at Bedtime - The Pleasure Seekers
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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logo for Book at Bedtime - The Post Office Girl
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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logo for Book at Bedtime - The Rapture
Book at Bedtime - The Rapture

Denise Black reads from Liz Jensen's eco-thriller

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logo for Book at Bedtime - The Ruling Passion
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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logo for Book at Bedtime - The Secret Scripture
Book at Bedtime - The Secret Scripture

By Sebastian Barry, abridged by Neville Teller

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logo for Book at Bedtime - The Spy Game
Book at Bedtime - The Spy Game

Diana Quick reads the novel by Georgina Harding, set in 1960s England

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logo for Book at Bedtime - The Still Point
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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logo for Book at Bedtime - The Story of a Marriage
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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logo for Book at Bedtime - The Taxi Queue
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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logo for Book at Bedtime - The Testament of Gideon Mack
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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logo for Book at Bedtime - The True Deceiver
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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logo for Book at Bedtime - The Truth Commissioner
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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logo for Book at Bedtime - The Uninvited
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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logo for Book at Bedtime - The White Tiger
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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logo for Book at Bedtime - The Whole Day Through
Book at Bedtime - The Whole Day Through

Samantha Bond and Nathaniel Parker read from the romantic novel by Patrick Gale

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logo for Book at Bedtime - Things Fall Apart
Book at Bedtime - Things Fall Apart

Chuk Iwuji reads from Chinua Achebe's classic novel, abridged by Jane Marshall

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logo for Book at Bedtime - To Heaven By Water
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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logo for Book at Bedtime - Travels Through France and Italy
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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logo for Book at Bedtime - Travels with My Aunt
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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logo for Book at Bedtime - Trespass
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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logo for Book at Bedtime - Troubles
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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logo for Book at Bedtime - Winter's Bone
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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