This recording has been digitally produced, by DeepZen Limited, using a synthesized version of an audiobook narrator’s voice under license. DeepZen uses Emotive Speech Technology to create digital narrations that offer a similar listening experience to human narration.A murder gone wrong. A worldwide police hunt for the killer. And a fugitive who became a legend: The 7th Earl of Lucan. The Lord Lucan Scandal is one of the greatest and most extraordinary mysteries of the 20th Centur...

Compellingly vivid, the most sustained description of apocalypse since Robert Harris’s Pompeii. The Financial TimesOne man miraculously survives the Atomic Bomb of Hiroshima. Two days later he catches the last train home. Home to Nagasaki. He arrives just 90 minutes before the world s second atomic bomb explodes into his life. As he battles through the scene of apocalyptic destruction, surrounded by unthinkable suffering, he is plagued by ...

'A delicious tale in which class, politics, and a toxic press all jostle for our horrified attention' Tunku Varadarajan, The Wall Street JournalEton Rogue is a hilarious and shocking story of scandal and rebellion – all set in the heart of the world’s most famous school, Eton College.Meet our Eton Rogue: Seventeen-year-old Cary, now embarking on his extraordinary final year at Eton. Prince William has joined the school and the British tabl...

It’s 1998 and Kim is 'The Sun'’s correspondent in New York City, zigzagging across America chasing exclusives, among them President Bill Clinton’s infamous relations with Monica Lewinsky, an affair symbolic of a climate in which multiple lovers are increasingly becoming the norm. Back in Manhattan, though, Kim thinks he’s found the only woman for him: Elise is beautiful, witty, intelligent and, it goes without saying, a sensational lover. The only catch is that she doesn’t want just him – ...

Kim is a rookie reporter in the heart of the Cotswolds – learning his trade and desperate for love. But there’s only one woman he wants: the beautiful, ethereal, unobtainable Sasha.Men throw themselves at Sasha. Every week, they’re buying her flowers and offering her Champagne – and if Kim would win her heart, then he must do something completely different.After a year of cool courtship, and after the pair have nearly drowned, Kim makes his move, and they fall helplessly, h...

Charming, moving, uplifting. Why can't all love stories be like this? Tunku Varadarajan, The Wall Street JournalThis is a charming and uplifting book. Piers MorganSeventeen-year-old schoolboy Kim is an idle drifter at one of Britain's most extraordinary institutions, Eton College - crammed with over a thousand boys and not a girl in sight. His head is full of the Falklands War and a possible army career, until the day he hears his new piano...

THE POP MOGUL Simon Cowell as you've never seen him before.Here and in his own words, Cowell spills the beans on his superstar chums, including Madonna, Cheryl Cole and Piers 'Magnificent' Morgan - and not forgetting, of course, his secret passion for Angelina Jolie.Gunned down by a fan, Cowell wakes up in hospital to find he's got no money, no home and no mates. Worse still, his face looks like it's been through a blender; a tough blow indeed for the vainest man in Britain...

This account of a fugitive gun moll masterfully compresses the essence of “noir” fiction into three incredibly tense pages.

Kim is a waiter in a Dorset hotel, an absolute hot-bed of sex. But he’s seeing none of it. Instead he falls for Cally, a 43-year-old artist who is steaming with chutzpah. She is a woman who grabs life by the throat; she knows what she wants – and most of the time she gets it, too. She lives only in the moment, losing a number of her nine lives – and nearly killing Kim in the process.Kim finds love as he has never known it before – but even when he’s completely in Cally’s thrall, he...

Meet our Eton Rogue: Seventeen-year-old Cary, now embarking on his extraordinary final year at Eton. Prince William has joined the school and the British tabloids are ravenous for headlines. Cary is the mole who’s making thousands selling stories to the Sun newspaper - and while he’s at it, he’s secretly dating a housemaster’s daughter.Based on true events, the rule of Eton Rogue is simple: The more outrageous the tale, the greater the chances that it actually occurred.Eton...

The Lord Lucan Scandal: 50th Anniversary EditionA murder gone wrong. A worldwide police hunt for the killer. And a fugitive who became a legend: The 7th Earl of Lucan.The Lord Lucan Scandal is one of the greatest and most extraordinary mysteries of the 20th Century. Ever since Lucky Lord Lucan disappeared in 1974 after the murder of his nanny, the world has wondered what happened to Britain’s most dashing Peer. Here, in his own hand, is the answer. This is ...

Charming, moving, uplifting. Why can't all love stories be like this? Tunku Varadarajan, The Wall Street JournalThis is a charming and uplifting book. Piers MorganSeventeen-year-old schoolboy Kim is an idle drifter at one of Britain's most extraordinary institutions, Eton College - crammed with over a thousand boys and not a girl in sight. His head is full of the Falklands War and a possible army career, until the day he hears his new piano...