Acclaimed British Hollywood actor Ralph Fiennes reads Rudyard Kipling's poems and excerpts from the Jungle Book, Kim, and the Just So Stories. Classic short stories and children's favourites (including 'Rikki-Tikki-Tavi') recorded in the study at Bateman's, Kipling's Jacobean house where he wrote many of his books.
The third novel in Annie Murray's "Birmingham" series. While Genie's father is away fighting in World War II, her mother has a ruinous affair which leaves her pregnant; Genie's little brother leaves, never to return; while Genie herself meets a man who then disappears to war.