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The Book of Disquiet
Fernando Pessoa;Read. Adam Sims
Left unedited by the Portuguese writer and poet Fernando Pessoa (1888–1935), this ‘factless autobiography’ is credited to one of the author’s ‘heteronyms’, Bernardo Soares, an assistant bookkeeper who leads a lonely, humdrum life, yet he can be and do anything in his mind. This strange masterpiece is read by Adam Sims. Unabridged.

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Gargantua and Pantagruel
François Rabelais;Read. Bill Homewood
François Rabelais’ no-holds-barred comic masterpiece ranges across time from antiquity to the Renaissance as it follows the exuberant adventures of father and son giants, Gargantua and Pantagruel. This is the classic translation by Thomas Urquhart, read by Bill Homewood. Unabridged.

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Dreaming of Jupiter
Ted Simon;Read. Rupert Degas
Thirty years after his first 64,000-mile journey, Ted Simon took to the road again, this time on a modified BMW R80GS, retracing his earlier travels, meeting up with old friends and acquaintances, revisiting landmarks and locations and rediscovering himself along the way. Read by Rupert Degas. Unabridged.

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Jupiter's Travels
Four Years on One Motorbike
Ted Simon;Read. Rupert Degas
In October 1973 Ted Simon loaded up his 500cc Triumph Tiger motorbike and said goodbye to London. Over the next four years he was to travel 64,000 miles around the world on ‘Jupiter’, experiencing breakdowns, revolutions, war, a spell in prison and a Californian commune. His account of that journey is read here by Rupert Degas, with an introduction read by Simon himself. Unabridged.

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Pensées
Blaise Pascal;Read. Peter Wickham
Fragments written in preparation for a defence of Christianity, unfinished at Pascal’s death in 1669 and published posthumously in 1669, Pensées has since been regarded as a masterpiece of French prose as well as a great work of philosophy and theology. Among the ‘Thoughts’ is the famous ‘wager’ argument for the rationality of believing in God that draws on another of Pascal’s works of genius, the theory of probability. Pensées is read, unabridged and in English, by Peter Wickham.

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Farewell the Trumpets
An Imperial Retreat
Jan Morris;Read. Roy McMillan
In the final volume of her Pax Britannica trilogy, Jan Morris charts the decline and dissolution of the British Empire, from the first signs of decay during the Boer Wars to the death of Winston Churchill in 1965. Read by Roy McMillan. Unabridged.

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The Letters of Abelard and Heloise
Pierre Abelard;Read. Gunnar Cauthery;Alison Pettitt;David Rintoul
Written in the twelfth century, this extraordinary correspondence between the bible scholar and philosopher Peter Abelard and his beautiful and precocious student, Heloise, tells the tragic story of the star-crossed lovers forced to live apart in religious orders, but also discusses philosophical and theological issues, revealing much about the medieval mind and emotions. Read by Gunnar Cauthery, Alison Pettitt and David Rintoul. Unabridged.

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The Door
Magda Szabó;Read. Siân Thomas
The Hungarian writer Magda Szabó tells the story of two women of very different temperaments: an intellectual writer, and her elderly housekeeper – a mysterious woman who renounces religion, education authority. Read by Siân Thomas. Unabridged.

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Great Victorians
David Angus;Read. Benjamin Soames;Georgina Sutton
Michael Faraday, Charles Dickens, Isambard Kingdom Brunel, David Livingstone, William Ewart Gladstone, Charles Darwin and Florence Nightingale: the seven great Victorians profiled in this recording are representative of the tremendous progress made in virtually every field of endeavour, from physics to nursing care, during the 19th century. Read by Benjamin Soames. Age 12+

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The Scarlet Letter
Nathaniel Hawthorne;Read. Adam Sims
Set in 17th-century Boston, Hawthorne's great enquiry into Puritan conscience and the mystery of sin tells the tragic story of the shamed adulteress Hester Prynne, the husband who disowns her and the lover too cowardly to stand beside her. Read by Adam Sims. Unabridged.

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Justine
Marquis de Sade;Read. Polly Edsell;Nicholas Boulton
Written while he was a prisoner in the Bastille, the Marquis de Sade’s novel tells of two sisters, the pious and virginal Justine and her amoral sister Juliette, but it is the virtuous Justine who is subjected to cruel punishments at the hands of abusive deviants. Read by Polly Edsell, with Nicholas Boulton. Unabridged.

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She
A History of Adventure
H Rider Haggard;Read. Bill Homewood
H Rider Haggard’s masterpiece of suspense and adventure follows Leo Horace Holly and his son in their quest to find the fabled queen of the African Amahaggers tribe – Ayesha, She-who-must-be-obeyed. Read by Bill Homewood. Abridged.

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The Monk
Matthew Lewis;Read. Nicholas Boulton;Georgina Sutton
Matthew Lewis's 1796 dark Gothic saga of sex, magic and madness tells of the downfall of Ambrosia, a formerly pious Capuchin monk whose voyage of seduction leads irresistibly to the corruption of his soul. Read by Nicholas Boulton. Unabridged.

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Moll Flanders
Daniel Defoe;Read. Georgina Sutton
In Daniel Defoe’s ‘romance’, Moll tells of her 'fortunes and misfortunes': how she was brought up as an orphan, survived seduction and five marriages, turned to crime and was transported to Virginia – then started anew. Read by Georgina Sutton. Unabridged.

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Phineas Redux
Anthony Trollope;Read. David Shaw-Parker
With renewed political ambition after the death of his young wife, Phineas regains his parliamentary seat and returns to England, only to be caught up in a storm of love, money and politics, eventually finding himself wrongfully accused of murdering the president of the Board of Trade. This is the fourth Palliser novel. Read by David Shaw-Parker. Unabridged.

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Good Wives
Louisa May Alcott;Read. Liza Ross
In this second volume of Louisa May Alcott’s saga of the March sisters, Meg is married to John and a mother of twins, but struggling to balance being a wife with motherhood. Meanwhile Jo, after a brief adventure in New York, comes home to care for ailing Beth, and Amy sets off on a trip to Europe. This abridged version is read by Lisa Ross.

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Clarissa or the History of a Young Lady
Volume 1
Samuel Richardson
Samuel Richardson’s masterpiece, this long, epistolary novel follows the life of Clarissa Harlowe, a chaste young woman desperate to protect her virtue, who refuses to marry the man that her family favour, the rich but repulsive Mr Solmes, only to fall prey to a worse fate at the hands of the libertine Robert Lovelace. On this recording, the novel is read by a full cast, with Lucy Scott as Clarissa and Samuel West as Samuel Richardson. The recording is in three volumes. Unabridged.

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Clarissa or the History of a Young Lady
Volume 2
Samuel Richardson
Samuel Richardson’s masterpiece, this long, epistolary novel follows the life of Clarissa Harlowe, a chaste young woman desperate to protect her virtue, who refuses to marry the man that her family favour, the rich but repulsive Mr Solmes, only to fall prey to a worse fate at the hands of the libertine Robert Lovelace. On this recording, the novel is read by a full cast, with Lucy Scott as Clarissa and Samuel West as Samuel Richardson. The recording is in three volumes. Unabridged.

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Clarissa or the History of a Young Lady
Volume 3
Samuel Richardson
Samuel Richardson’s masterpiece, this long, epistolary novel follows the life of Clarissa Harlowe, a chaste young woman desperate to protect her virtue, who refuses to marry the man that her family favour, the rich but repulsive Mr Solmes, only to fall prey to a worse fate at the hands of the libertine Robert Lovelace. On this recording, the novel is read by a full cast, with Lucy Scott as Clarissa and Samuel West as Samuel Richardson. The recording is in three volumes. Unabridged.

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Nightmare Alley
William Lindsay Gresham;Read. Adam Sims
Set among the sideshows and cheap thrills of carnival, Gresham’s 1946 noir classic follows showman Stanton Carlisle as he aims for the big time – on vaudeville or conning the rich with fake spiritualism – but is haunted by his own dark fear. Read by Adam Sims. Unabridged.

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The Story of My Life
Volume 1
Giacomo Casanova;Read. Peter Wickham
Born in Venice in 1725, Giacomo Casanova (1725–1798) lived the life of a libertine and adventurer, gambling, womanizing and sometimes staring at prison walls. His voluminous memoirs, written during his final years as librarian at the Castle of Dux in Bohemia, secured his reputation, but also provide an invaluable account of eighteenth-century life. Volume 1 covers his early years, up to his first visit to Paris – and prison. Unabridged.

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The Story of My Life
Volume 2
Giacomo Casanova;Read. Peter Wickham
Born in Venice in 1725, Giacomo Casanova (1725–1798) lived the life of a libertine and adventurer, gambling, womanizing and sometimes staring at prison walls. His voluminous memoirs, written during his final years as librarian at the Castle of Dux in Bohemia, secured his reputation, but also provide an invaluable account of eighteenth-century life. In Volume 2, Casanova embarks on ‘the Eternal Quest’ – his life of amorous liaisons – and ‘Adventures in the South’. Unabridged.

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The Story of My Life
Volume 3
Giacomo Casanova;Read. Peter Wickham
Born in Venice in 1725, Giacomo Casanova (1725–1798) lived the life of a libertine and adventurer, gambling, womanizing and sometimes staring at prison walls. His voluminous memoirs, written during his final years as librarian at the Castle of Dux in Bohemia, secured his reputation, but also provide an invaluable account of eighteenth-century life. The third and last volume continues his adventures ‘In London and Moscow’ and ‘Spanish Passions’. Unabridged.

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The Diary of a Madman
And Other Stories
Nikolai Gogol;Read. Nicholas Boulton
In the title story of this collection a government clerk loses his sanity, claiming that he can communicate with dogs and that he is next in line to the Spanish throne; in The Nose another civil servant wakes to find his nose missing; and a recluse harbours one ambition, to replace his old overcoat ... Colourful, often bizarre, these 13 short stories are among Gogol’s finest. Here, Nicholas Boulton reads the classic Constance Garnett translation. Unabridged.

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Father Goriot
Honoré de Balzac;Read. Bill Homewood
One of the most celebrated novels of La Comédie Humaine, this is the story of Père Goriot, an old vermicelli-maker who bankrupted himself supporting his two ungrateful daughters, and his fellow lodgers in Madame Vauquer’s boarding house, the impoverished young aristocrat, Eugène de Rastignac, and Vautrin, a criminal in hiding. Read by Bill Homewood. Unabridged.

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20,000 Leagues under the Sea
Jules Verne;Read. Bill Homewood
The story of Captain Nemo’s underwater voyage in his ship Nautilus is among the earliest and most influential science fiction novels. Here, Bill Homewood reads FP Walter’s 1870 translation. Unabridged.

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The Golden Bowl
Henry James;Read. Juliet Stevenson
A wealthy American, Maggie Verver has everything she could ask for except a husband and a title; when her widowed father finds her the perfect partner – an impoverished Italian aristocrat – she returns the favour and chooses a new wife for him. Henry James’s exploration of the politics of love and marriage is read here by Juliet Stevenson. Unabridged.

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Arabian Sands
Wilfred Thesiger;Read. Laurence Kennedy
Between 1945 and 1950, the British explorer Wilfred Thesiger crossed the Arabian Peninsula on foot and on camels. This is his account of trekking through Yemen, The Empty Quarter, Oman and parts of the then Trucial States, crossing and re-crossing around 250,000 miles of inhospitable terrain. Read by Laurence Kennedy. Unabridged.

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London Labour and the London Poor
Henry Mayhew;Read. David Timson
Originally a series of articles for the Morning Chronicle, Mayhew’s ground-breaking researches into the lives and work of London’s poor and his interviews with working people, market traders, beggars, street entertainers, prostitutes and mudlarks were published in book form as London Labour and the London Poor in 1861. The work is read here by David Timson. Unabridged.

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The Life of Samuel Johnson
James Boswell;Read. David Timson
One of the great biographies of world literature, Boswell’s portrait of his friend Dr Johnson is full of anecdote and characterization, giving a compelling insight into Johnson’s intellectual brilliance and rough humour, but also painting a vivid picture of 18th-century London and its prominent personalities. Read by David Timson. Unabridged.

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Naples '44
Norman Lewis;Read. Nicholas Boulton
In the year following the Allied landings in Sorrento, Norman Lewis worked as a British counter-intelligence officer in Naples, a city under Allied occupation. An unflinching autobiographical account of life there, Naples ’44 describes the deprivation and suffering caused by war and the resilience of local community. Read by Nicholas Boulton. Unabridged.

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A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
Mary Wollstonecraft;Read. Fiona Shaw
Fiona Shaw reads the unabridged text of Mary Wollstonecraft’s famous argument for the education of woman and against a social system that kept women in ‘ignorance and slavish dependence’. First published in 1792.

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Selected Poetry by Lewis Carroll
Lewis Carroll;Read. Roger May
Beginning with the first ‘Mock Turtle’s Song' from Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, this selection includes ‘Jabberwocky’, ‘The Hunting of the Snark’ and ‘Phantasmagoria’, a strange conversation between Tibbets and a ghost.

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The Planets and The Solar System
Dr Jen Green;Read. Ruth Sillers
With notes on how to be an amateur stargazer, a brief history of astronomy from Keplar to the International Space Station; and a journey through the Solar System, Jen Green introduces young listeners to the study of the night sky. Naxos Junior Classics.

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Phineas Finn
Anthony Trollope;Read. David Shaw-Parker
Phineas Finn is a young Irish barrister who moves to London after being elected to Parliament, but faced with dilemmas of principle over party politics and love over money, he retreats from the world of politicians and rich women, returns to Ireland and marries a pretty Irish girl. David Shaw-Parker reads this second novel in Trollope’s Palliser or ‘parliamentary’ series.

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The Janissary Tree
Jason Goodwin
Istanbul 1836: ten years after the Janissaries, the Sultan’s elite guard, had been disbanded and slaughtered, men from the New Guard go missing; while in the palace, a young concubine has been murdered. These first, mysterious cases for Yashim, the eunuch detective, are read by Andrew Sachs. Abridged.

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Aeneid Book VI
Seamus Heaney;Read. Ian McKellen
This is Seamus Heaney’s last completed work, an inspired translation of the sixth book of Virgil’s Aeneid in which Aeneas travels through death’s dark door, into the underworld to meet the spirit of his father. The poem is read here by Ian McKellen.

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Othello
William Shakespeare;Perf. Hugh Quarshie;Anton Lesser et al
Othello, a Moor and a general in the service of Venice, is played here by Hugh Quarshie, with Emma Fielding as his wife, Desdemona and Anton Lesser as the villainous Iago.

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Romeo and Juliet
William Shakespeare;Perf: Michael Sheen;Kate Beckinsale et al
Michael Sheen plays Romeo and directs this full cast production, with Kate Beckinsale as Juliet and Fiona Shaw as the nurse.

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The Call Of Cthulhu and Other Stories
HP Lovecraft;Read. William Roberts
The Call of Cthulhu (1928) introduced the malevolent Great Old One trapped beneath the ocean who will one day resurface. The story is accompanied by The Hound, The Dunwich Horror and Dagon. Read by William Roberts. Unabridged.

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The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
Robert Louis Stevenson;Read. John Sessions
Dr Jekyll’s elixir was meant to help him explore the hidden depths of his personality, but instead created the monstrous and uncontrollable alter ego, Edward Hyde. A condensed version of Stevenson’s famous horror story is read here by John Sessions.

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Treasure Island
RL Stevenson;Read. Jasper Britton
Jasper Britton reads this abridged version of one of the best adventure stories ever written: Stevenson's tale of Jim Hawkins, the sinister Pew, Long John Silver's treacherous crew and Captain Flint's treasure. Abridged.

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Cotillion
Georgette Heyer;Read. Clare Wille
Told she must marry one of her cousins, the impetuous Kitty courts wholesome cousin Freddy to make dashing cousin Jack jealous and propose; but in the whirl of London society, things don’t go to plan for Kitty. Read by Claire Wille. Abridged.

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Ulysses
James Joyce;Read. Jim Norton;Marcella Riordan
James Joyce’s famous (and once infamous) novel catalogues the events of one day – 16 June 1904 – as Leopold Bloom wanders around Dublin, musing on his wife Molly and meeting another wanderer, Stephen Daedalus. Read by Jim Norton and Marcella Riordan. Abridged.

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The Great Gatsby
F Scott Fitzgerald;Read. William Hope
F Scott Fitzgerald’s story of the enigmatic Jay Gatsby, living in luxury in his Long Island mansion, captures the flamboyance, carelessness and cruelty of the wealthy during America's Jazz Age. Read by William Hope. Unabridged.

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Zorro - 3 Audiobooks
Johnston McCulley
Zorro, the masked alter ego of Don Diego de la Vega, first rode out on his black stallion to avenge the oppressed of Spanish California in The Curse of Capistrano (1919). Zorro was so popular, his creator, Johnston McCulley (1883–1958), wrote three more books of adventures. The novellas are read here by Bill Homewood. Unabridged. The items included in this set are:Sign of Zorro (Read more...) Further Adventures of Zorro (Read more...) Zorro Rides Again (Read more...)

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The Spanish Bride
Georgette Heyer;Read. David Collins
When Brigade-Major Harry Smith meets the beautiful Juana Maria, a spark is kindled, and she rides with the troops on his campaigns. Set against the backdrop of the Napoleonic Wars, Georgette Heyer’s novel is both a stirring true love story and a dramatic account of Wellington’s Spanish battles. Unabridged.

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Frankenstein
Mary Shelley
In Mary Shelley’s powerful Promethean fable, Dr Frankenstein’s experiment and its terrible outcome is told through the letters of an English explorer who met the doomed scientist as he pursued his monster into the Arctic wilderness. This abridged version is read by Daniel Philpott, Jonathan Oliver and Chris Larkin. Naxos Young Adult Classics. 2 CDs 2hrs 37mins, plus a bonus CD-ROM with a full text and study guide.

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The Essential Edgar Allan Poe
Stories. Poems. Biography
Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849) felt that his vocation was poetry, despite the enduring popularity of stories such as The Pit and the Pendulum, The Tell-Tale Heart and The Murders in the Rue Morgue. In addition to those tales, this collection features five more stories, poems such as The Raven and a biography of Poe. Read by Kerry Shale, William Roberts and John Chancer. Unabridged.

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Scouting for Boys
Robert Baden-Powell
Robert Baden-Powell intended his 1908 scoutcraft manual to be a book of practical advice and instruction for boys' self-improvement, but its success gave impetus to the foundation of the Scout movement. Mixing practical advice on topics such as woodcraft, camping and first aid with personal anecdotes and moral observations. Read by Hugh Dennis. Abridged.

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Famous Heroes of the American West
William Roberts
William Roberts tells the stories of iconic figures from the history of the American ‘Wild West’, exploring in detail the real exploits of ‘heroes’ including Daniel Boone, Kit Carson, Davy Crockett, Sitting Bull, Geronimo, Calamity Jane and Wyatt Earp. The text is read by Adam Sims, with music by Gottschalk and Macdowell. Age 12+

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Pirates!
Roy McMillan
‘It’s the dramatic, astonishing, comic or eye-popping truth that you’ll hear about in Pirates! ’ Roy McMillan traces the history of piracy on the high seas – often more extraordinary than fiction – since antiquity and tells the stories of notorious individuals such as Blackbeard, Anne Bonny, Barbarossa and Mary Read. Read by Jasper Britton.

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What Katy Did at School
Susan Coolidge
Based on Susan Coolidge’s own upbringing in a well-to-do New England family, the Katy books are among the best-loved of children’s classics. This second book in the series sees Katy and her sister Clover adjusting to life in boarding school. Here, the American actress Laurel Lefkow reads an abridged version.

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A Life of Dante
Benedict Flynn;Read. John Shrapnel

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Silas Marner
George Eliot;Read. Anna Bentinck
Silas Marner is a linen weaver, a miser and an outsider, living alone in the village of Raveloe. Marner is robbed of his gold but given a child when two-year-old Eppie arrives at his cottage. Read by Anna Bentinck.

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Thumbelina and Other Fairy Tales
Hans Christian Andersen
These ten fairy tales by Hans Christian Andersen, some familiar and others less well-known, are read by the finalists of the Naxos Audio Books/The Times Voice of the Year competition, with each story accompanied by classical music and sound effects.

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The Book of the Courtier
Baldassare Castiglione;Read. Nicholas Boulton
Set in the court of Urbino in 1507, Castiglione’s book provides insights into Renaissance court life and culture as it explores the question: What should a courtier be like? Over four nights of debate, the dialogue covers a wide range of topics, including dancing, war, religion, courtly love, and a surprisingly modern defence of women and equal rights. Read by Nicholas Boulton. Unabridged.

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Christmas Stories
Charles Dickens;Read. David Timson
Unabridged

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The Mimic Men
VS Naipaul;Read. Sam Dastor
A brutal commentary on post-colonial life, VS Naipaul’s sixth novel tells the story of a former government minister: Ralph Singh is a perpetual outsider, born in West India but now displaced, disillusioned and living in exile. Read by Sam Dastor. Unabridged.

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The Further Adventures of Zorro
Johnston McCulley;Read. Bill Homewood
Zorro’s beloved, the beautiful Lolita Pulido, is captured by the evil Captain Ramon and our hero is forced to go to sea and fight pirates to win her back.

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Zorro Rides Again
Johnston McCulley;Read. Bill Homewood
To save the people of Reina de Los Angeles and establish his own innocence, Zorro must unmask an evil impostor who is terrorizing the town and marking his victims’ faces with Zorro’s trademark: ‘Z’ cut by rapier.

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The Sign of Zorro
Johnston McCulley;Read. Bill Homewood
A devious villain is threatening to kidnap the Governor of California and has duped Vicente Canchola, a wealthy landowner. To save the family estate, Canchola’s sister Panchita desperately needs Zorro’s help.

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Worzel Gummidge Again
Barbara Euphan Todd
The second novel finds Worzel married to Earthy Mangold, and taking on the roles of schoolteacher, handyman and policeman, with chaotic results. Read by Jessica Martin. Unabridged

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More About Worzel Gummidge
Barbara Euphan Todd
In his third volume of riotous adventures, our turnip-headed hero gets stuck in a chimney, rides a horse and becomes the star attraction at a circus. Read by Jessica Martin. Unabridged

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Worzel Gummidge Takes a Holiday
Barbara Euphan Todd;Read. Jessica Martin
The scarecrows Worzel Gummidge, Earthy Mangold and Hannah Harrow are creating havoc in May: among other disasters, a swarm of bees invades Mrs Bloomsbury-Barton’s living room.

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Julius Caesar
William Shakespeare;Read. Andrew Buchan;Paul Rhys et al
Sean Barrett as Caesar, Andrew Buchan as Mark Antony and a full cast perform Shakespeare’s classic study of political power and its effect on an individual life.

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The Damned Utd
David Peace;Read. John Simm
This hard-hitting story of Brian Clough's troubled time as manager of Leeds United was criticised for its portrayal of Ol' Big Head but nevertheless added to his legend and garnered acclaim as one of the best sports novels ever written. Abridged.

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The Last King of Scotland
Giles Foden;Read. Forbes Masson
A young Scottish doctor working in a medical mission in Uganda becomes dangerously compromised when he is chosen as personal physician to Idi Amin, the country’s brutal and unpredictable dictator. This abridged version of the bestselling thriller is read here by Forbes Masson.

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The Snake Stone
A Yashim the Eunuch Mystery
Jason Goodwin;Read. Andrew Sachs
In 1838, Maximilien Lefèvre, a French archaeologist, arrives in Istanbul to excavate a Byzantine treasure, but rumours about his real motives abound and Yashim is hired to investigate him. Then Lefèvre’s mutilated body is discovered, and in his second case, Yashim himself becomes the suspect. Read by Andrew Sachs. Abridged.

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Friendship According to Humphrey
Betty G Birney;Read. Greg Proops
In the second story in the According to Humphrey series, the classroom hamster learns how to overcome jealousy and make new friends after a rival pet arrives at school. Read by American comedian Greg Proops. Unabridged. Age 7+

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His Illegal Self
Peter Carey;Read. Greta Scacchi
Raised by his wealthy New York grandmother, Che sets out to find his radical activist parents – a quest that will turn him into an outlaw and lead him to a hippy commune in the Queensland rainforest. Abridged.

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Beautiful Malice
Rebecca James;Read. Anna Skellern
Katherine is a teenage girl who is trying to escape a tragedy in her past. When she arrives in town to start a new life at a different school, she is befriended by Alice, a beautiful, gregarious girl whose own dark secrets are gradually revealed. Age 12+

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Grubtown Tales
Stinking Rich and Just Plain Stinky
Philip Ardagh;Read. David Mitchell
In Grubtown, mayhem rules the day and exceptional silliness is a way of life. In the first story of the series, everyone wants the repulsive Mr Org to leave town, until the discovery of a large diamond changes everything. Age 5+

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The Sunday Sessions
Philip Larkin Reading his Poetry
Philip Larkin
Recorded in February 1980, in the garage of Larkin’s friend John Weeks, the two Sunday Sessions tapes contain 26 poems from four collections: The North Ship, The Less Deceived, The Whitsun Weddings and High Windows. The tapes were found in the garage in 2006 and are released on a vinyl LP recording, as befits Larkin’s love of records.

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Wrongful Death
Lynda La Plante;Read. Jennifer Egan
The death of Josh Reynolds, a London nightclub owner, was a simple case of suicide, but DCI Anna Travis has to reopen the investigation when a man awaiting trial for armed robbery claims that Reynolds was murdered. Abridged.

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No Cunning Plan
My Story
Tony Robinson
After stints in regional theatre in Leeds, Birmingham and Bristol, Tony Robinson played small parts on television during the 1970s, including presenting Play Away, and began to make his name as a comedian in the early 1980s with the sketch show Who Dares Wins. The Blackadder star reads his engaging autobiography in this 12-CD set.

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More Great Scientists
and Their Discoveries
David Angus;Read. Benjamin Soames
Including extracts from classical music, this CD features scientists ranging from Copernicus to Humboldt, Babbage and Oppenheimer. Often self-taught, each individual had passion, dedication and the ability to overcome great obstacles in the quest for truth.

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Little Men
Louisa May Alcott;Read. Liza Ross
Now married, Jo March (of Little Women) and her husband have founded Plumstead, a school for boys that is the antithesis of the grim, repressive institutions of Tom Brown’s Schooldays or Dickens’s Dotheboys Hall. Abridged.

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More Great Inventors
David Angus;Read. Benjamin Soames
From the Montgolfier Brothers’ hot air balloon to Whittle’s jet engine, via the steam engine, braille, photography and TV, here are some of the greatest innovations of the past 300 years, demonstrating the relentless curiosity and problem-solving ability of the human mind.

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Junichir Tanizaki
In Praise of Shadows
Junichirō Tanizaki;Read. David Rintoul
In this classic essay, Junichiro Tanizaki (1886–1965) celebrates the aesthetics of traditional Japanese culture and its use of natural light, shade and darkness. The 1933 Harper and Seidensticker translation is read, unabridged by David Rintoul.

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The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
Robert Louis Stevenson;Read. Roy McMillan

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The Vikings
David Angus
David Angus‘s account of the Vikings follows the Norsemen on their long voyages, explores their far-flung settlements and describes Viking social life and culture. The text is read by Joe Marsh, with music by Wagner and Mendelssohn. Naxos Junior Classics. Age 12+

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Classic Poems For Boys
Read. Anton Lesser;Roy McMillan;Benjamin Soames et al
Including classics such as 'Ozymandias', 'The Charge of the Light Brigade' and 'The Tyger', Michael Caine reading 'If–' and Benjamin Zephaniah reading his own 'Talking Turkeys', this compilation presents 23 poems for boys of all ages.

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Great Men and Women in the History of Medicine
David Angus;Read. Benjamin Soames
From ‘father of modern medicine’ Hippocrates and early medics Galen, Ibn Sina and Hildegard of Bingen, this title goes on to examine Jenner and Pasteur’s achievements, concluding in the 20th century with Curie, Fleming and the discovery of DNA.

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Faro's Daughter
Georgette Heyer;Read. Laura Paton
Max Ravenscar sets out to prevent his cousin, young Lord Maplethorpe, from marrying the daughter of a gaming-house owner; but Miss Grantham proves to be a worthy and disconcertingly attractive opponent. Unabridged.

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The Railway Children
E Nesbit;Read. Eve Karpf;Delia Paton et al
Written in 1906, Nesbit’s novel tells the story of siblings Roberta, Peter and Phyllis as they adapt to a new life in the country after their father mysteriously disappears. This recording presents a full cast performing a dramatized version.

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Peter Pan
JM Barrie;Read. Samuel West
JM Barrie's tale of the boy who never grows old, the mischievous Tinker Bell and the villainous Captain Hook has fired the imagination of children since 1904. Read by Samuel West. Abridged.

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Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen;Read. Jenny Agutter
Jenny Agutter reads this abridgement of Jane Austen’s ingenious tale of the five Bennet girls, single men in possession of good fortunes and misunderstandings all round.

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David Copperfield
Charles Dickens;Read. Anton Lesser
‘Of all my books,’ wrote Charles Dickens, ‘I like this the best’. The story of how the orphaned boy makes his way in the world, through trials and tribulations to ultimate happiness, is read here by Anton Lesser. Abridged.

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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes II
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle;Read. David Timson
Four of Holmes’s finest cases – The Scandal in Bohemia; The Adventure of the Engineer’s Thumb; The Five Orange Pips; and Silver Blaze – are read by David Timson. Unabridged.

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Famous People in History
Nicolas Soames;Read. Trevor Nichols et al
Through energy, imagination, courage or determination, the individuals featured in this collection had a unique impact on the world. Among the nine remarkable people are Christopher Columbus, William Shakespeare, Lord Nelson, Florence Nightingale and Anne Frank.

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Twelfth Night
William Shakespeare;Read. Stella Gonet et al
With its themes of identity, disguise and deception and youthful folly, Twelfth Night, or What You Will is now a favourite among Shakespeare’s comedies. It is performed here by Stella Gonet, Gerald Murphy and a full cast.

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Famous People in History 2
Nicolas Soames;Read. Daniel Philpott;Laura Brattan et al
Nicolas Soames presents the biographies of a varied group of men and women who changed the course of history. Figures covered include Alexander the Great, Joan of Arc, da Vinci, Washington and Gandhi. Age 12+

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Classic American Poetry
65 Favourite Poems
Read. Garrick Hagon;Liza Ross;William Hootkins et al
Between Anne Bradstreet (1612–72) and Alice Walker (b.1944) the major American poets represented here include Longfellow, Emily Dickinson and Whitman; plus popular anonymous works such as Frankie and Johnny and music from Grofe, Gershwin and Macdowell.

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The History of Theatre
David Timson;Read. Derek Jacobi
The diverse and absorbing history of the theatre ranges from the tragedies and comedies of ancient Greece to the high-tech musicals of today. Derek Jacobi’s engaging reading is illustrated with more than 50 extracts from classic plays, performed by some of today’s leading actors.

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Classic Fairy Stories
Bernard Cribbins
Bernard Cribbins reads this selection of eight, mainly English fairy stories, including ‘Dick Whittington’, ‘Goldilocks’, ‘Beauty and the Beast’ and ‘Jack and the Beanstalk’, with music by Bizet, Grieg, Massenet and other classical composers. Age 5+

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