National Network for Equitable Library Service

Bernardine Evaristo shares an account of life and career as she rebelled against the mainstream and fought over several decades to bring her creative work into the world. It's a manifesto for anyone who has ever stood on the margins, and anyone who wants to make their mark on history. It's a manifesto for being unstoppable.

A lady ready and waiting to be deemed on the shelf has her transition into spinsterhood disrupted when the nobleman she had once thought she loved returns to London and fate and circumstance conspire to force them to discover what love truly is and what it means to them.

Mary Poppins has returned to take the Banks children on another unforgettable adventure. On the most magical of nights, Midsummer's Eve, all kinds of strange things can happen. But Mary Poppins takes it all in stride, drawing everyone into the spirit of the holiday.

Bridey Kelly has come to the holiday home of Agatha Christie to care for children evacuated from the Blitz. When a body washes ashore, Bridey is horrified to realize this is not a victim of war, but of a brutal killing.

What happens when you promise to find a fallen star? When Tristran Thorn vows to do just that for the girl he loves, he ventures beyond the wall that borders his country village and into the magical realm beyond.

Justine had always been told that her mother came from royal blood. The proof could be found in her mother's elegance, and in a cryptic letter hinting at her claim to a country estate. After her mother's death, overcome with grief, Justine found herself drawn back to that letter. Its contents revealed a mystery that would stretch back to the early years of World War II and lead her across the Atlantic Ocean to discover a truth she could scarcely imagine.

Lady Joan can't seem to avoid scandals, but her latest plan could ruin her: to join a theater act in the title role of a prince, in breeches. Viscount Greywick vows that he will keep her safe, and strikes a bargain.

In this program, listeners will find glamour and gaffes on and off the stage, clarifying snippets of queer theory, terrifyingly selfish bosses, sex, quick sex, KFC binges, group sex, the kind of honesty that banishes shame, glimmers of hope, blazes of ambition, tender sex, mad dashes in last night's heels plus a full face of make-up, and a rom-com love story for the ages. This is where the unspeakable becomes the celebrated. This is the diary of a drag queen-one dazzling, hilarious, true performance of a real, flawed, extraordinary life.

Christy Carlyle dazzles with the first romance in her enchanting Love on Holiday series. Will Hart, the Duke of Ashmore, is everything his father was not: scrupulously honest, forbidding, and apparently joyless. As a duke, he's a catch, but as a grumpy stick-in-the mud, no lady knows quite how to catch his eye. When his sisters concoct a plan for him to visit a run-down family property in Cornwall, he reluctantly agrees, hoping it will be a chance for him to rediscover the carefree man he once was.

In which, a 17-year-old apprentice dealer in rare books is sent from Paris to England by her father, to obtain incunabula and medieval books of devotion-and whatever secrets of political intrigue or finance may come to hand in the process. In the course of her business, though, Minnie meets Harold Grey (Lord John's elder brother), the newly-widowed (and alarmingly deranged) Duke of Pardloe, and things Fall Out. One of the two final novellas of Seven Stones to Stand or Fall .