Audiobooks Narrated by Robert Powell

An espionage thriller that has been called the first great spy novel, it has sustained its popularity, being embraced by each new generation.

This is the remarkable story of the English language; from its beginnings as a minor guttural Germanic dialect to its position today as a truly established global language....

Opera, said MoliƩre, is the most expensive noise known to man. From its beginnings in the 16th Century, through to today when there...

Lawrenceā€™s style is bold, intimate and inventive and he always has the capacity to shock.

Set on the Isle of Slingers, this novel follows the exploits of Jocelyn Pierston, a sculptor who falls in love successively with three generations of island women....

From Gregorian Chant to Henryk Gorecki, the first living classical composer to get into the pop album charts, here is the fascinating story of over a thousand years of Western classical music and the composers who have sought to express in music the deepest of human feelings and emotions.

Volume 2, covering the years 1919-1939, looks at a Britain ravaged by war and at the mercy of millions of striking workers....

From Frederick Forsyth, the grand master of international suspense, comes his most intriguing story ever - his own.

Far eastern Tales is a collection of Maugham's short stories, all born of his experiences in Malaysia, Singapore, and other outposts of the former British Empire....

Volume 1, covering the years 1901-1919, looks at the impact of the death of Queen Victoria, the growth of the Suffragette Movement, changes in the capital....