Audiobooks: Modern

Lieutenant of the Royal Navy Bartholomew Hoare is 007 of Napoleonic period

The Secret Agent is arguably one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century. Its brilliant depiction of a terrorist underworld, its ruthless irony and its black satire is the culmination of many influences on Conrad, including that of Dickens and of Dostoyevsky.

The Riddle of the Sands is regarded as the first great modern spy story. Adventures of the effete Foreign Office high-flyer Carruthers and his friend Davis.

This story is set in the Southlands, once known as Cornwall, after global warming has happened and our industrial civilization is wrecked. Human passion is alive and well and a hundred years on pagan worship of the love Goddess Freya has come again. Four young companions, two men and two women...

British diplomat and former spymaster faces ruin if he does not betray his country.

Top SIS China-watcher David Nairn mounts an investigation - and uncovers an ugly trail of deception and violence.

Four stories, full of anarchic humour and set alternately in the United States and England.

A fast-moving thriller involving arms smuggling against the background of the tense situation in the middle-east.

A successful New York banker is headhunted by a San Francisco investment company and unwillingly becomes involved in money-laundering.