Welcome to The Pigeonhole Library

A stellar comic classic of a boat, three men and a dog

10 staves total
~ 22 mins each

READ, LISTEN and DISCUSS your way through the Roaring 20s!

10 staves total
~ 16 mins each

Classic 1722 account of the epidemic that ravaged England nearly 60 years earlier.

12 staves total
~ 30 mins each

A spoilt orphan is sent to live with her uncle in Yorkshire. Despising it at first, she finds solace in unlikely friendships and a secret garden.

10 staves total
~ 26 mins each

Life on the Mississippi with Jim and Huck

18 staves total
~ 20 mins each

A novel without a hero

35 staves total
~ 28 mins each

Oscar Wilde’s only novel – a cautionary tale of the desire for beauty and youth

6 staves total
~ 42 mins each

A metaphysical, anarchist thriller set in Edwardian London

9 staves total
~ 21 mins each

A witty comedy about the proud Mr Darcy and the prejudiced Elizabeth Bennet

4 staves total
~ 1 hour 41 mins each

Virginia Woolf’s finest hour

12 staves total
~ 17 mins each

Black spots and buried treasure

11 staves total
~ 20 mins each

Beloved family drama charting four sisters' entrance into womanhood

12 staves total
~ 52 mins each

James Joyce's short stories

16 staves total
~ 13 mins each

The ultimate ghost story from a master of menace

7 staves total
~ 20 mins each

The original adventures of the infamous pairing, Watson and Holmes

12 staves total
~ 28 mins each

Set sail for a secret, thrilling invasion

16 staves total
~ 22 mins each

The original blood-sucker

14 staves total
~ 38 mins each

Austen's posthumously published satire of the Gothic novel and high society

12 staves total
~ 21 mins each

Eliot's sprawling masterpiece of rural English life in the 19th century

31 staves total
~ 34 mins each

The desolate and wild Yorkshire moors are the backdrop to this heart-breaking classic

10 staves total
~ 39 mins each

An epic search for prehistoric creatures in the wilds of the Amazon

16 staves total
~ 15 mins each

The story of a wife and mother who struggles against the strictures of her society

12 staves total
~ 17 mins each

The powerful memoir of a former African slave

6 staves total
~ 44 mins each

The first account of a black woman's life ever to be published in Britain

4 staves total
~ 11 mins each

The true story of a captured citizen

18 staves total
~ 13 mins each

“If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles.”

13 staves total
~ 2 mins each

Take the plunge and tackle the leviathan classic!

31 staves total
~ 22 mins each

A pigeon’s eye view of life in Africa’s great cities – Harare, Cairo, Lagos and Nairobi

10 staves total
~ 32 mins each

The thriller to end all thrillers – with disappearing staves!

10 staves total
~ 13 mins each

A sinister classic of adventure, plunder and obsession on the River Congo

11 staves total
~ 11 mins each

The original castaway novel

20 staves total
~ 20 mins each

One woman's account of 18th-century Scandinavia

12 staves total
~ 12 mins each

A tale of family life in an unforgiving coal-mining community

25 staves total
~ 21 mins each

The Christmas story of a man who is shown the error of his ways

5 staves total
~ 18 mins each

The controversial masterpiece recounting the life of a fallen Victorian woman

26 staves total
~ 19 mins each

A sparkling anthology of fairy tales retold

8 staves total
~ 30 mins each

Ballard's tale of alien invasions and extraterrestrial warfare in the home counties

11 staves total
~ 17 mins each

Join the legions of fans of this classic comic novel

17 staves total
~ 7 mins each

The eternal satire of the human condition

15 staves total
~ 22 mins each

Jeeves and Wooster star in an original collection of P.G. Wodehouse stories

8 staves total
~ 21 mins each

Workers of the world unite!

7 staves total
~ 5 mins each

Dive deep into Berlin life with a series of essays from writers around the city

12 staves total
~ 15 mins each

From the bedroom to the jail cell, Moll Flanders is a wild ride

15 staves total
~ 30 mins each

Read the works of the 2018 Caine Prize shortlist

5 staves total
~ 15 mins each

STORIES THAT GO BUMP IN THE NIGHT

10 staves total
~ 22 mins each

Phileas Fogg bets his companions that he can travel across the globe in just eighty days, in this classic adventure novel.

10 staves total
~ 20 mins each

People come to the guest house for fresh air and views across the Atlantic. But if they're lucky, they might just leave with the second chance they didn't know they needed...

10 staves total
~ 34 mins each

Charles Dickens’ masterpiece of first love and lost identity

10 staves total
~ 1 hour 1 mins each

It is 1688. Calumny Spinks has a big plan, but his father has an even bigger secret.

10 staves total
~ 47 mins each

Get ready for Barbara Kingsolver with our Dickens serialisation

13 staves total
~ 1 hour 31 mins each