Showing results by publisher "Andrews UK Limited" in Literature & Fiction

Widely acclaimed for its warm humour, lyricism and honesty, as well as its accurate evocation of the '30s, Ash on a Young Man's Sleeve has become a sung-after classic. In this delightful autobiographical novel, Dannie Abse skilfully interweaves public and private themes, setting the fortunes of a Jewish family in Wales against the troubled backcloth of the times - unemployment, the rise of Hitler and Mussolini and the Spanish Civil War.

In this episode, vampire hunters close in on the demonic count. As his thoughts reach backwards in time, can he find a way to sharpen his resolve?

Treasure Island, here starring Orson Welles, is the classic tale of pirates, treasure maps, danger, and buried treasure chests! Join young Jim Hawkins on his adventures on the high sea as he searches for the gold of the evil Captain Flint. Pieces of eight!! Pieces of eight!! This is one of the Classic Radio Theatre productions you will want to listen to over and over again!

Veronica is a grotesque monster with or without her clothes. At least that's what she's always been told, and when she sees her twisted body in the mirror every day, she knows it to be true. Kept out of the sight of everyone, she grows up isolated and unfamiliar with how a normal person should behave. When she accidentally reveals her distorted frame to the undergardener on her 18th birthday and he is not revolted, she takes the first tentative steps in a journey of sexual awakening that knows no bounds. 

A professional escort takes a client for the very first time. Fresh off the orientation for her new job, she’s trained and ready for the encounter. But she’s heard stories. Will he be a good client or a bad one? This erotic short story from critically acclaimed genre author Erin Pim contains graphically descriptive scenes of a sexual nature and is suitable only for a mature and open-minded audience.

In the story, a young, scientifically minded college professor finds an old bronze whistle while exploring the ruins of a Knights Templars' preceptory. That night, he blows on the whistle and a vision comes to him of a dark expanse with a lonely figure in its midst. The sound also appears to call up a gust of wind, but the sensible professor dismisses it as a coincidence. More strange incidents follow, however, to shake his disbelief in the supernatural.

Starring Ray Milland, Ruth Roman and Frank Lovejoy. As they travel together on a train, a psychotic stranger confronts a pro tennis star with his theory on how two complete strangers could commit murder for each other - a theory he plans to implement!! One of the Classic Radio Theatre productions you will want to listen to over and over again!

In this episode, we learn exactly what drove Abraham Van Helsing to become a hunter of the undead from the man himself - the true origin story of the man who became scourge of the dreaded Nosferatu.

When the boss suggests an evening meeting at his home and makes it quite clear that his wife is away for the night, you can guarantee that there will be more than statistics and spread sheets on the agenda - and by the end of the night a new sort of business partnership has been created...

When American secret agent Milo Stanich is found dead, agent Jack Wilson is sent to determine who killed him and to finish the job Stanich had been assigned: to keep a Pakistani scientist from selling fissile material to America’s enemies. In a wild, erotic tale of cross and double-cross that has Wilson working undercover to turn the Pakistani before the Russians can, Wilson beds the scientist, identifies Stanich’s killer and brings his assignment - and the Pakistani scientist - to a satisfying climax!

When Lisa asks her boyfriend, Grimm, to tell her one of his deepest secrets, she is shocked to learn about his experience with another guy back in his college days. This sensual and exciting short story is expertly read by leading erotic narrator Jon Curtis.

Every summer, Neil rents his guest room to a performer in the summer show in the small seaside town where he lives. His rates are cheap, he enjoys the company and he’s usually left alone to get on with his work as an illustrator. But he’s never had a tenant like PJ. PJ is a handsome, talented magician with a decidedly dominant streak who stirs unexpected feelings in Neil. He thinks Neil might be the ideal person to help him perfect his new trick - and when he brings out the ropes and the St Andrew’s cross, Neil is bound to enjoy what comes next....

First published in 1957 The Strange Case of Mr Pelham is Anthony Armstrong’s masterclass in suspense, a slow-burning examination of a man’s descent into paranoia.

Myra Swinley is convinced that her police constable husband’s death was no accident and that he would never have lost his footing on a dark, foggy November night on the quayside of Newhaven Harbour while on his beat. Determined to get to the truth she visits Scotland Yard to ask his former friend Detective Superintendent Street to investigate. But when Myra fails to return home from her visit to the Yard, Inspector Ryga is sent down to the Sussex coast to investigate.

When the body of a man dressed in a pinstriped suit is discovered by war photographer Eva Paisley in a secluded bay on Portland Island, Dorset, Inspector Alun Ryga of Scotland Yard is sent to investigate. Recently promoted, the thoughtful, observant Ryga is on his first solo investigation outside of London and is keen to prove his worth.

Maggie had fallen on hard times, and money was running out fast. She could see no way out of her situation until she answered a mysterious advert in the newspaper for participants in a medical trial. With the promise of a large payday, Maggie signed up. Having been drugged to make her more compliant, Maggie now found herself in a milking pen, strapped up to a complicated supporting structure. Kept subdued by a drug added to the contents of her feed - which was available to her through a carefully positioned pipe - Maggie had no idea that she was just one of hundreds of such women participating in the same ‘trial’.

Stan works as a valet at high-dollar charity events where he can cater to his automobile fetish by masturbating in expensive cars. Then he learns that Kelly, one of the female valets, shares the same fetish. This erotic short story from Michael Bracken is the perfect quickie listen for those who prefer the back seat of the car....

The Rape of Lucrece is a brilliant, brutal narrative poem giving an account of the terrible crime of rape and its dreadful consequences for victim and perpetrator. As ever, though, Shakespeare goes beyond the obvious, following the ramifications of the crime wherever they take him, shining a light on a band of human behaviour encompassing the bestial and the beautiful.

This is the unabridged audio recording of M R James' excellent ghost story "The Residence at Whitminster". Read by David Collings, this is sure to scare and delight in equal measure.

In 1828, the beautiful Rosina Wheeler married one of Victorian England’s most successful and prolific writers, Edward Bulwer-Lytton. What followed shocked and entertained the public for over thirty years. After their marriage broke down, Rosina refused to be silenced. She pursued her husband with a single-minded and very public crusade to prove she was in the right. She even interrupted her husband’s election campaign to denounce him to the assembled voters. Edward responded by threatening to have her committed to a lunatic asylum.