Jacqueline King

Set in 91AD in Roman Britain, Aurelia Marcella is a young innkeeper from Italy and runs the Oak Tree Mansio on the road to York. A string of savage murders disrupts her peaceful life and a traveller, Quintus, is nearly killed close to the inn. He and Aurelia must track down and identify the mysterious masked warrior, the Shadow of Death.

After the death of her parents, Hannah Miller has to grow up quickly if she is to protect herself and her younger sister from their bullying guardian. Forced to flee from their home, Hannah and Alice are taken in by Maudie whose home is a den of young thieves and pickpockets. But can Hannah ever be happy living outside the law?

Jacqueline King reads this brand-new adventure for Doctor Who's 60th Anniversary, based on a script by Russell T Davies and featuring the Fourteenth Doctor and Donna Noble, as played on TV by David Tennant and Catherine Tate. A life-changing encounter. A fugitive from the stars. Wrathful warriors in pursuit. Landing on Earth, the Doctor finds a stranded alien in need of protection - and is dragged headlong into the life of his old friend Donna Noble, knowing that if she ever remembers their time together, she will die… Jacqueline King, whose plays Sylvia Noble in the BBC TV series, reads Gary Russell's novelisation of the 2023 television adventure by Russell T Davies.

Maudie Tipstaff leaves Glasgow for the first time to spend four months with each of her three children. What she finds in her children’s homes leads her to reassess her own life.