Audio Books

It is June 1950 and a sleepy English village is about to be awakened by the discovery of a dead body in Colonel de Luce's cucumber patch. The police are baffled, and when a dead snipe is deposited on the Colonel's doorstep with a rare stamp impaled on its beak, they are baffled even more.

For the first time, comedian Jack Dee reveals the highs and lows of his early life and disastrous day jobs. You don't just wake up jaundiced and bitter; it's taken Jack years of dedication and commitment to brew his unique cocktail of disillusionment and bile. What turned this once optimistic young man into a grumpy middle-aged git? Was it working in an artificial-leg factory? Or delivering incontinence pads for the NHS? Or was it the time when he was shunned by his peers for daring to thrash a one-armed man at tennis?

This box set collection presents the episodes of "The Goon Show" in chronological order as they were scheduled to be broadcast. This fourth volume includes: "The Hastings Flyer - Robbed", "The Mighty Wurlitzer", "The Raid of the International Christmas Pudding", "The Tales of Montmartre", "The Jet-Propelled Guided NAAFI", "The House of Teeth", "The Choking Horror", "The Great Tuscan Salami Scandal", "The Treasure in the Lake" (aka "The Treasure of Loch Lomond"), "Fear of the Wages" (aka "The Fear of Wages"), "Scradje", "The Man Who Never Was" and "China Story".

This book contains four classic stories: "Wuthering Heights", "The Tenant of Wildfell Hall", "Jane Eyre" and "Villette". The Bronte sisters' writing is timeless, and their novels were as varied as their personalities. However, all are grounded in a strong sense of place - strongly influenced their family home, Haworth Parsonage, which was surrounded by moorland and quite isolated.