AuthorNicola Barber, Patrick Lee-Browne
NarratorKrystyna Gajda
Duration57m
CategoriesChildren and Young Adult Non-Fiction and Educational Titles, English Non Fiction, English, History
Key StageKS3
PublisherInhouse
VersionUnabridged
This audiobook looks at the lives of six extraordinary poets (Blake, Wordsworth, Shelley, Coleridge, Byron and Keats) whose work helped shape the Romantic movement, and examines the historical, political and social background that influenced them.
Author: Livia Bitton-Jackson
Author Livia Bitton-Jackson
Narrator Christine Williams
Duration 6h 37m
Imagine being a thirteen-year-old girl in love with boys, school, family-life itself. Then suddenly, in a matter of hours, your life is shattered by the arrival of a foreign army. You can no longer attend school, have possessions, talk to your neighbors. One day your family has to leave your house behind and move into a crowded ghetto, where you lo...
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Author: Leon Leyson
Author Leon Leyson
Narrator Danny Burstein
Duration 4h 14m
Even in the darkest of times - especially in the darkest of times - there is room for strength and bravery. A remarkable memoir from Leon Leyson, one of the youngest children to survive the Holocaust on Oskar Schindlers list. Leon Leyson (born Leib Lezjon) was only ten years old when the Nazis invaded Poland and his family was forced to relocate to...
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Author: Nicola Barber, Jacqueline Dineen
Author Nicola Barber, Jacqueline Dineen
Narrator Robin Houston
Duration 2h 12m
Take a tour of art from all over the world, from the earliest cave paintings to the latest experiments in installation art. Find out about crafts such as pottery, textiles and metalworking, as well as the history of photography and the techniques of sculpture. There is also a section on the methods and materials of painting as well as a glossary of...
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Writers In Britain: Jane Austen
Author: Nicola Barber
Author Nicola Barber
Narrator Juliet Prague
Duration 58m
This audiobook takes a look at the so-called 'uneventful' life of Jane Austen, her family, and the social, political and economic background that provides the backdrop to her six novels. Lively and authoritative, this is an excellent introduction to one of our greatest writers.
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Author: Kenneth C. Davis
Author Kenneth C. Davis
Narrator Macleod Andrews
Duration 4h 40m
With 2018 marking the 100th anniversary of the worst disease outbreak in modern history, the story of the Spanish flu is more relevant today than ever. This dramatic narrative, told through the stories and voices of the people caught in the deadly maelstrom, explores how this vast, global epidemic was intertwined with the horrors of World War I-and...
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An Interview With Robin Stevens
Author: Books Listening
Author Books Listening
Narrator Robin Stevens
Duration 14m
We speak to the author of the very popular children's series, A Murder Most Unladylike.
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Author: Pam Pollack
Author Pam Pollack
Narrator Karyn O'Bryant
Duration 56m
Joan of Arc was born in a small French village during the worst period of the Hundred Years' War. For generations, France had been besieged by the British. At age 11, Joan began to see religious visions telling her to join forces with the King of France. By the time she was a teenager, she was leading troops into battle in the name of her country....
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The Boys Who Challenged Hitler
Author: Phillip Hoose
Author Phillip Hoose
Narrator Phillip Hoose
Duration 4h 51m
At the outset of World War II, Denmark did not resist German occupation. Deeply ashamed of his nation's leaders, fifteen-year-old Knud Pedersen resolved with his brother and a handful of schoolmates to take action against the Nazis if the adults would not. Naming their secret club after the fiery British leader, the young patriots in the Churchill...
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Backgrounds To English Literature: The Modernist Period 1900-1945
Author: Patrick Lee-Browne
Author Patrick Lee-Browne
Narrator Robin Houston
Duration 4h 35m
Designed for students at AS and A2 level, this audiobook looks at literature of the Great War, the growth of Irish Nationalism, the Modernist movement, women in literature and the writings of the 1930s and Second World War.
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Writers In Britain: Poets of the First World War
Author: Nicola Barber, Patrick Lee-Browne
Author Nicola Barber, Patrick Lee-Browne
Narrator John Gibbens
Duration 58m
Focusing on five major war poets: Ivor Gurney, Wilfrid Owen, Isaac Rosenberg, Siegried Sassoon and Edward Thomas, this audiobook examines the experiences of the soldiers who found artistic expression in their poetry for the horrors of warfare. An informative introduction to the poets of the First World War.
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