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Leslie Norris: Collected Stories
Author: Leslie Norris
Format: MP3 CD
Author Leslie Norris
Narrator Peter Beton
Duration 16h
Leslie Norris' stories are among the hidden treaures of modern short story writing. His fiction is one of epiphany and celebration; it charts the personal discoveries, small and large, which shape the growth of character and the intimate relationships between people. Stories include: 'Snowdrops', 'The Girl From Cardigan', 'The Mallard' and many mor...
View BookAuthor: Carol Ann Duffy
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Author Carol Ann Duffy
Narrator Peter Beton
Duration 6h 33m
Disappear to faraway lands of wicked witches, evil monsters and brave heroines in Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy's stunning collection of fairy tales. Including her beautiful and haunting retellings of the Grimm classics Hansel and Gretel, Snow White and the Pied Piper, as well as other tales from around the world, and new stories of her own, this b...
View BookAndrew Marvell: Selected Poems
Author: Andrew Marvell
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Author Andrew Marvell
Narrator Peter Beton
Duration 1h 32m
Andrew Marvell's poetry went largely unnoticed during his life time. Born in 1621 his poetry was inspired by events of the time, public or personal. Now critics are united in admiration for this metaphysical poet.
View BookSelected Poems From 'songs of Innocence and Experience'
Author: William Blake
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Author William Blake
Narrator Peter Beton
Duration 1h 25m
Including: SONGS OF INNOCENCE - 'The Echoing Green', 'The Lamb', 'The Blossom', 'The Chimney-Sweeper', 'A Cradle Song', 'The Divine Image', 'Nurse's Song' and 'Infant Joy'. SONGS OF EXPERIENCE - 'The Clod and the Pebble', 'The Chimney-Sweeper', 'Nurse's Song', 'The Sick Rose', 'The Tiger', 'London', 'The Human Abstract' and 'Infant Sorrow'.
View BookTurning Points In History: Pearl Harbour
Author: Richard Tames
Format: MP3 CD
Author Richard Tames
Narrator Peter Beton
Duration 1h 4m
This audiobook examines this major historical watershed and its impact on the world, recounting the chain of events and analysing their repercussions both immediate and long term.
View BookThe Red Room and Other Stories
Author: H.G. Wells
Format: MP3 CD
Author H.G. Wells
Narrator Peter Beton
Duration 12h
Wells was at his best as a short-story writer, opening up new horizons and other worlds through a remarkable mixture of imagination and compassion. This collection includes 'The Country of the Blind', 'The Cone' and 'The Valley of the Spiders'.
View BookJane Eyre: York Notes For GCSE (9-1)
Author: Sarah Durragh
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Author Sarah Durragh
Narrator Peter Beton
Duration 4h 39m
Featuring a fully revised exam section: expert guidance on understanding the question, planning an answer, writing about effects and using quotations, plus tips on spelling, punctuation and grammar. All the key skills covered: 'Exam focus' model answer extracts with annotations, and 'Progress and Revision Checks' will guide students' learning, help...
View BookAuthor: W B Yeats
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Author W B Yeats
Narrator Richard Popple, Peter Beton
Duration 6h 54m
W B Yeats (1865-1939) is one of the great and innovative poets of the twentieth century. Much of his most vigorous verse on love, sex, Irish and international politics, the complexites of the occult and the 'sedentary toil' of poetry was produced in the years between his fiftieth birthday in 1915 and his death in 1939. Timothy Webb is Professor of...
View BookYou Wouldn't Want To Live Without Bees!
Author: Alex Woolf
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Author Alex Woolf
Narrator Peter Beton
Duration 33m
What would happen if there were no bees in this world? It would be a disaster! Without bees, we would, of course, have no honey. But we'd also lose a lot of other foods and useful products like cotton produced by plants that bees pollinate. Around half the fruit and vegetables in our supermarkets would disappear! Not only that, we would also lose t...
View BookAlexander Pope: Selected Poetry
Author: Alexander Pope
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Author Alexander Pope
Narrator Peter Beton
Duration 6h 18m
As well as selections from Pope's shorter poems and epistles, this audiobook includes the full texts of 'An Essay on Criticism', 'The Rape of the Lock' and 'Eloisa to Abelaird', and excerpts from 'The Dunciad', 'An Essay on Man' and his translations of the 'Iliad' and 'Odyssey'.
View BookEssential Histories: The Vietnam War 1956-1975
Author: Andrew A. Wiest
Format: MP3 CD
Author Andrew A. Wiest
Narrator Peter Beton
Duration 4h 34m
The Vietnam War was arguably the most important event, or series of events, of the "American century". America entered the brutal conflict certain of its moral mission to save the world from the advance of communism. As this title explains, however, the war was not at all what the US expected. Outnumbered and outgunned the North Vietnamese and Viet...
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