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Turning Points In History: The Steam Engine
Author: Richard Tames
Format: MP3 CD
Author Richard Tames
Narrator Peter Beton
Duration 55m
Designed to tie in with the national curriculum, the Turning Points in History series examines the events and effects of a major historical watershed. This audiobook looks at how the steam engine revolutionized energy and its historical effect.
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Andrew Marvell: Selected Poems
Author: Andrew Marvell
Format: MP3 CD + Stream / Download
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.
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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...
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The Cold War: A Very Short Introduction
Author: R J Mcmahon
Format: MP3 CD
Author R J Mcmahon
Narrator Peter Beton
Duration 6h 55m
The massive disorder and economic ruin following the Second World War inevitably predetermined the scope and intensity of the Cold War. But why did it last so long? And what impact did it have on the United States, the Soviet Union, Europe, and the Third World? Finally, how did it affect the broader history of the second half of the twentieth cen...
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Author: Carol Ann Duffy
Format: MP3 CD + Stream / Download
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...
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Selected Poems From 'songs of Innocence and Experience'
Author: William Blake
Format: MP3 CD + Stream / Download
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'.
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Turning 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.
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The 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'.
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Scotland: A Very Short Introduction
Author: Rab Houston
Format: MP3 CD
Author Rab Houston
Narrator Peter Beton
Duration 6h 30m
Since Devolution in 1999, Scotland has become a focus of intense interest both within Britain and throughout the wider world. In this 'Very Short Introduction', Rab Houston explores how an independent Scottish nation emerged in the Middles Ages, how it was irrevocably altered by Reformation, links with England and economic change, and how Scotland...
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Jane Eyre: York Notes For GCSE (9-1)
Author: Sarah Durragh
Format: MP3 CD + Stream / Download
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...
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You Wouldn't Want To Live Without Bees!
Author: Alex Woolf
Format: MP3 CD + Stream / Download
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...
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Alexander Pope: Selected Poetry
Author: Alexander Pope
Format: MP3 CD + Stream / Download
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'.
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Essential 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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Politics: A Very Short Introduction
Author: Kenneth Minogue
Format: MP3 CD
Author Kenneth Minogue
Narrator Peter Beton
Duration 4h 35m
The author discusses the development of politics from the ancient world to the twentieth century. A thought-provoking audiobook that asks whether democracy is always a good thing, and what future politics may have in the twenty-first century.
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Backgrounds To English Literature: The Romantics
Author: Neil King
Format: MP3 CD
Author Neil King
Narrator Peter Beton
Duration 7h 30m
Designed for students at AS and A2 level, this audiobook examines the historical, economic and social framework of this period, as well as looking at the cult of the individual, the gothic and supernatural, painting and music and post-Romanticism.
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