Sandy Balfour
What I Love About Cricket

Read by Clive Mantle
What I Love About Cricket is the story of a summer when a ‘master’ cricket obsessive teaches his novice ‘pupil’ the wisdom of the game. Sandy Balfour is cast as the supposed master and his 16-year-old daughter’s new boyfriend is the reluctant pupil. This beginner’s guide to the infuriatingly perverse game of cricket is a love letter addressed both to those who utterly fail to understand it and to those who need reminding why they fell in love in the first place. What unfolds is wonderfully observed and very funny and as much about fathers and daughters, love and life, as it is about cricket.

Kevin Flude
Divorced, Beheaded, Died

Read by Cornelius Garrett
From Henry VIII dispatching his numerous wives to Edward VIII’s unprecedented abdication, Britain’s monarchs have personally been responsible for shaping some of the most dramatic events in the nation’s history. Encompassing murder, civil war, adultery, usurpation and madness, Divorced, Beheaded, Died . . . relates the extraordinary stories of all of England’s kings and queens, plus some of the less well-known Scots and Welsh rulers.

Chuck Korr & Marvin Close
More Than Just a Game: Football v Apartheid

Read by Rupert Holliday-Evans This is the true story of how the political prisoners of South Africa’s infamous Robben Island turned football into an active force in their struggle for freedom. Despite torture, regular beatings and backbreaking labour, these extraordinary men defied all odds and played organised football – with strict adherence to FIFA rules – in one of the ugliest and most brutal hellholes on earth. This incredible story celebrates bravery and heroism and shows how sport has the power to unite and overcome adversity.

Robert Rowland Smith
Breakfast With Socrates

Read by Mark Meadows
Breakfast with Socrates explains what history’s greatest thinkers would say about everything we do each day, from heading to work, through going to the gym, making dinner and falling back to sleep. We rarely think about how these everyday activities relate to wider ideas about the world, but Robert Rowland Smith illuminates the connections with wit, warmth and authority. In this hour-by-hour commentary on a single day in our lives, you’ll find Lucretius explaining why it’s good to be unprepared and Emerson advising you on booking a holiday. You’ll get insight from Jung about your dreams, thoughts from Mill on bunking off, and the lowdown on sex from Aristophanes.