Abridged by Neville Teller



TITLE - AUTHOR - LENGTH (mins) 

"Scarlet and Black" - Stendhal 180
"A Dark-Adapted Eye" - Barbara Vine 180
"No Night is Too Long" - Barbara Vine 180
"Star Signs" - Carole Golder 180
"Managing to Survive" - John Harvey-Jones 180
"Bad Girls Good Women" - Rosie Thomas 180
"Murderers and Other Friends" - John Mortimer 180
"Pemberley" - Emma Tennant 180
"Dancing in the Moonlight" - Ronnie Barker 180
"Pride and Prejudice" - Jane Austen 180

"Farewell My Lovely" - Raymond Chandler 180
"Other People’s Marriages" - Rosie Thomas 180
"An Unequal Marriage" - Emma Tennant 180
"A Suitable Boy" - Vikram Seth 360
"Mind Over Matter" - Ranulph Fiennes 180
"Emma" - Jane Austen 360
"Daphne du Maurier" - Margaret Foster 180
"The Trial" - Franz Kafka 180
"A Bonus of Laughter" - Leslie Crowther 180
"Lark Rise to Candleford" - Flora Thompson 360

"Lost Heart of Asia" - Colin Thubron 180
"Diana - Her New Life" - Andrew Morton 180
"King Solomon’s Carpet" - Barbara Vine 180
"Brandenburg" - Glenn Meade 180
"The Twisted Playground" - Bryan Forbes 180
"Cliff Richard" - Paul Gambaccini 180
"Orlando" - Virginia Woolfe 180
"David Copperfield" - Charles Dickens 360
"When the Lion Feeds" - Wilbur Smith 360
"Master And Commander" - Patrick O’Brian 270

"A Town Like Alice" - Nevil Shute 180
"The Sound of Thunder" - Wilbur Smith 360
"On the Beach" - Nevil Shute 180
"Who He?" - Bille Whitelaw 180
"The Scarlet Letter" - Nathaniel Hawthorne 180
"The Brimstone Wedding" - Barbara Vine 180
"The Crow Road" - Iain Banks 180
"Complicity" - Iain Banks 180
"Enigma" - Robert Harris 360
"Outcast" - Josephine Cox 180

"Alley Urchin" - Josephine Cox 180
"Vagabonds" - Josephine Cox 180
"Down & Out in Paris & London" - George Orwell 180
"Burmese Days" - George Orwell 180
"Road to Wigan Pier" - George Orwell 180
"Homage to Catalonia" - George Orwell 180
"Nineteen Eighty-Four" - George Orwell 360
"Dirty Tricks" - Michael Dibdin 180
"The Tryst" - Michael Dibdin 180
"Moby Dick" - Herman Melville 360

"A Sparrow Falls" - Wilbur Smith 360
"Moonfleet" - J Meade Falkner 180
"The Sett" - Ranulph Fiennes 180
"The Day of the Jackal" - Frederick Forsyth 180
"Mr Norris Changes Trains" - Christopher Isherwood 180
"Goodbye to Berlin" - Christopher Isherwood 180
"Men at Arms" - Evelyn Waugh 180
"Officers and Gentlemen" - Evelyn Waugh 180
"Unconditional Surrender" - Evelyn Waugh 180
"My Name Escapes Me" - Alec Guinness 180

"Blessings in Disguise" - Alec Guinness 180
"Mr Nice" - Howard Marks 180
"The Operators" - 180
"Adventures of Sherlock Holmes"-Conan Doyle 540
"The Last of the Mohicans" - Fennimore Cooper 180
"The Sign of Four" - Conan Doyle 180
"The Echo" - Minette Walters 180
"Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy" - John Le Carré 180
"The Honourable Schoolboy" - John Le Carré 180
"Congo Journey" - Redmond O’Hanlon 360

"Watership Down" - Richard Adams 360
"The Long Patrol" - Brian Jacques 180
"New York Trilogy" - Paul Auster 180
"Julie Walters is an Alien" - Julie Walters 180
"Woof!" - Allan Ahlberg 180
"Our Mutual Friend" - Charles Dickens 180
"Three Men In a Boat" - Jerome K Jerome 180
"The Chimney Sweeper’s Boy" - Barbara Vine 180
"The Demon Headmaster" - Gillian Cross 180
"Rainbow Journey" - Brenda Davies 150

"Smith" - Leon Garfield 180
"Marlfox" - Brian Jacques 180
"The Kremlin Device" - Chris Ryan 180
The Surgeon of Crowthorne" - Simon Winchester 180
"The Wasp Factory" - Iain Banks 180
"Song of Stone" - Iain Banks 180
"The Safe House" - Nicci French 180
"Walking on Glass" - Iain Banks 180
"A Long Finish" - Michael Dibdin 180
"All Points North" - Simon Armitage 180

"The Bridge" - Iain Banks 180
"A Positively Final Appearance" - Alec Guinness 180
"Two Degrees West" - Nicholas Crane 180
"Aquila" - Andrew Norriss 180
"Vinegar Street" - Philip Ridley 180
"Vector" - Robin Cook 180
"The Legend of Luke" - Brian Jacques 180
"Havana Bay" - Martin Cruz Smith 180
"Parcel Arrived Safely" - Michael Crawford 180
"The Fog" - James Herbert 180

"Killing Me Softly" - Nicci French 180
"The Rats" - James Herbert 180
"Pongwiffy" - Kaye Umansky 180
"Consolations of Philosophy" - Alain de Botton 180
"The Grasshopper" - Barbara Vine 180
"The Survivor" - James Herbert 180
"Domain" - James Herbert 180
"Lord Brocktree" - Brian Jacques 180
"The Hit List" - Chris Ryan 180
"An Accidental MP" - Martin Bell 180

"Lip Reading" - Maureen Lipman 180
"Take a Girl Like You" - Kingsley Amis 180
"Beneath the Skin" - Nicci French 180
"Colony" - Chris Ryan 180
"Lucky Jim" - Kingsley Amis 180
"Death on the Nile" - Agatha Christie 180
"The Tiger in the Smoke" - Margery Allingham 180
"Living Every Second" - Tracy Edwards 180
"The Mysterious Affair at Styles" -Agatha Christie 180
"The Murder of Roger Ackroyd" - Agatha Christie 180

"Evil Under the Sun" - Agatha Christie 180
"Murder in Mesopotamia" - Agatha Christie 180
"The Riddle of the Sands" - Erskine Childers 180
"The Watchman" - Chris Ryan 180
"The Red Room" - Nicci French 180
"Strong Poison" - Dorothy Sayers 180
"The Thin Man" - Dashiell Hammett 180
"Seize the Day" - Tanni Grey-Thompson 180
"Freud Ego " - Clement Freud 180
"Endless Night" - Agatha Christie 180

"The Blood Doctor" - Barbara Vine 360
"Porno" - Irvine Welsh 360
"Funny Valentine" - Amy Jenkins 120
"Rumpole and the Primrose Path"-John Mortimer 180
"Isobel’s Wedding" - Sheila O’Flanagan 120
"Whispers on the Water" - Audrey Howard 120
"Liberation Day" - Andy McNab 180
"The Light of Day" - Graham Swift 180
"High Society" - Ben Elton 180
"Bootleg" - Alex Shearer 180

"Lady Chatterley's Lover" - D H Lawrence 360
"Shackleton's Way" - Morrell and Capparell 120
"Greed" - Chris Ryan 180
"The Statement" - Brian Moore 300
"Where There's A Will" - John Mortimer 180
"The Adventure of English" - Melvyn Bragg 180
"Dark Winter" - Andy McNab 180
"Play to the End" - Robert Goddard 180
"The Increment" - Chris Ryan 180
"The Penge Bungalow Murders - John Mortimer 180

"No Room for Secrets" - Joanna Lumley 180
"Piccadilly Jim" - P G Wodehouse 180
"The Graft" - Martina Cole 360
"Deep Black" - Andy McNab 180
"Blackout" - Chris Ryan 180
"Survival" - Chris Ryan 180
"Rat-Catcher" - Chris Ryan 180
"Quite Honestly" - John Mortimer 180
"Aggressor" - Andy McNab 180
"Memoirs of Casanova" - Jacques Casanova 240

"A Pelican at Blandings" - P G Wodehouse 240
"Empress Orchid" - Anchee Min 240
"Above Suspicion" - Lynda La Plante 360
"Kidnapped" - Robert Louis Stevenson 75
"Ultimate Weapon" - Chris Ryan 180
"A Lyon Among the Unicorns" - Geoffrey Robinson 150
"Eats, Shoots and Leaves" - Lynn Truss 75
"West End Girls" - Jenny Colgan 210
"The Greatest Knight" - Elizabeth Chadwick 350
"Scott and Amundsen" - Roland Huntford 350

"The Decameron" - Giovanni Boccaccio 150
"The Blunkett Tapes" - David Blunkett 360
"The Testament of Gideon Mack" - James Robertson 150
"I See You" - Gregg Hurwitz 250
"Ironhand" - Charlie Fletcher 250
"Goodbye To All That" - Robert Graves 280
"Rumpole and the Reign of Terror" - John Mortimer 210
"Summer Lightning" - P G Wodehouse 280
"Heavy Weather" - P G Wodehouse 280
"Spilling the Beans" - Clarissa Dickson Wright 150

"Mad, Bad and Dangerous to Know" - Ranulph Fiennes 150
"Tunnels" - Roderick Gordon and Brian Williams 150
"New Europe" - Michael Palin 150
"Victoria's Empire" - Victoria Wood 150
"You Can Be Thin" - Marisa Peer 140
"The Good Soldier Schweik" - Jaroslav Hasek 420
"Uncle Fred in the Springtime" - P G Wodehouse 280
"The Master and Margarita" - Mikhail Bulgakov 420
"Brilliant Idea" - Douglas Miller 140
"Down River" - John Hart 210

"Centurion" - Simon Scarrow 280
"Barnaby Rudge" - Charles Dickens 420
"The Art of Conversation" - Catherine Blyth 210
"One Flew into the Cuckoo's Egg" - Bill Oddie 140
"The Road" - Cormac McCarthy 280
"Lark Rise to Candleford" - Flora Thompson 280
"The American Future" - Simon Schama 280
"Stranger in the House" - Julie Summers 140
"Dick Barton-Special Agent" - Mike Dorrell 140
"Brilliant CV" - Jim Bright and Joanne Earl 140

"ABC of the Mind" - Temi Metseagharun 140
"Pigs Have Wings" - P G Wodehouse 280
"Blood Meridian" - Cormac McCarthy 420
"No Country for Old Men" - Cormac McCarthy 280
"Lewis Hamilton - the Full Story" - Mark Hughes 140
"The Colonel of Tamarkan" - Julie Summers 210
"Rifling Through My Drawers" - Clarissa Dickson Wright 140
"The Gladiator" - Simon Scarrow 280
"Jamaica Inn" - Daphne du Maurier 280
"Flanagan's Run" - Tom McNab 280

"Lorna Doone" - R D Blackmore 280
"Overcoming Anxiety" Foreman, Elliott & Smith 120
"Neuro-Linguistic Programming" Ready & Burton 120
"Meditation" Stephen Bodian 120
"Cognitive Behaviour Therapy" Wilson & Branch 120
"Boost your Confidence with NLP" Ian McDermott 140
"Tigerlily's Orchid" Ruth Rendell 210
"Confident Networking" Gael & Stuart Lindenfield 140
"The Ascent of Money" Niall Ferguson 350
"Hypnoquit" Susan Hepburn 140

"Heaven's Command" Jan Morris 420
"Pax Britannica" Jan Morris 420
"Farewell the Trumpets" Jan Morris 420
"Lady Chatterley's Lover" D H Lawrence 280
"Mindfulness" Mark Williams and Danny Penman 140
"Beware of the Dog" Brian Moore 140
"Oliver Twist" Charles Dickens 70
"Little Women" Louisa M Alcott 70
"What Katy Did" Susan Coolidge 70
"The Secret Garden" Frances Hodgson Burnett 70

"Treasure Island" Robert Louis Stevenson 70
"A Christmas Carol" Charles Dickens 70
"Great Expectations" Charles Dickens 70
"Moonfleet" J Meade Falkner 70
"Heidi" Johanna Spyri 70
"Gulliver's Travels" Jonathan Swift 70
"Life Coaching" Jeni Purdie 140
"Mindfulness" Shamash Alidina 140
"Silver" Andrew Motion 140
"Five Children and It" Edith Nesbit 70

"The Three Musketeers" Alexandre Dumas 70
"Alfie" Alfie Boe 140
"Cold Grave" Kathryn Fox 280
"The Deep Blue Sea" Tasmina Perry 420
"Jambusters" Julia Summers 140