Richard Brown Audio

The year 1984 has come and gone, yet George Orwell's prophetic nightmare vision in 1949 of the world we were becoming is timelier than ever.

George Orwell’s classic satire of the Russian Revolution is an intimate part of our contemporary culture.

The year 1984 has come and gone, yet George Orwell's prophetic nightmare vision in 1949 of the world we were becoming is timelier than every.

Graham Greene provides us with a masterpiece of psychological realism, a fascinating study of evil, sin, and the “appalling strangeness of the mercy of God.”

Dorothy’s strength has its limits; one night as she works feverishly on costumes for the church-school play, she blacks out.

With money he has won at a race, George Bowling steals a vacation from his wife and family to visit Lower Binfield, the village where he grew up.

In this masterly work of synthesis, Peter Mansfield explores two centuries of history in the Middle East...

Gordon Comstock, a poor young man who works by day in a grubby London bookstore, spends his evenings shivering in a rented room and trying to write.

Manchester challenges the assumption that Churchill's finest hour was as a wartime leader. During the years 1932-1940...

The great Russian novelist and historian here reveals his round-by-round personal account of what it was like to be a writer in a Communist regime. He tells of his ten-year war to outwit Russia's rulers...