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Games at Twilight and Other Stories
Author: Anita Desai
Author Anita Desai
Narrator Stephanie Beattie
Duration 4h 45m
A collection of stories peopled with intensely individual characters. Meet the man spiritually transformed by the surface texture of melon; the American wife who, homesick for the farmlands of Vermont, turns to the hippies in the Indian hills; and the painter living in a slum who fills his canvasses with flowers, birds and landscapes he has never s...
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Key Stage Three Shakespeare: Much Ado About Nothing
Author: CGP Publications
Author CGP Publications
Narrator Stephanie Beattie
Duration 2h 30m
This revision guide walks you through the plot of William Shakespeare's play 'Much Ado About Nothing', describes the characters and delves deeper into the key scenes. It is designed to help students with their SATs.
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Author: Salman Rushdie
Author Salman Rushdie
Narrator Stephanie Beattie
Duration 5h
Haroun's father is the greatest of all story-tellers. His magical stories bring laughter to the sad city of Alifbay. But, one terrible day everything goes wrong and his father runs out of stories to tell. Haroun, determined to return the story-teller's gift to his father, flies off on the back of a hoopoe bird to the Sea of Stories... This is a pos...
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Would You Believe... the Losers Were Killed In Mayan Football?! and Other Perilous Pastimes
Author: Richard Platt
Author Richard Platt
Narrator Stephanie Beattie
Duration 1h 6m
This audiobook looks at the outlandish history of sport and leisure around the world. Discover the story behind the games we play like never before as we examine the amazing peculiarities of international sport and leisure activities past and present. Learn about the wacky and often bloodthirsty games that our ancestors liked such as fierce gladiat...
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GCSE History: The American West & Medicine Through Time - the Revision Guide
Author: CGP Publications
Author CGP Publications
Narrator Stephanie Beattie
Duration 4h 37m
This audiobook covers the AQA A, OCR A and Edexcel C courses for the American West and Medicine Through Time. Each module has its own section including all the facts, and plenty of hints and tips to help students stay one step ahead of the examiners! GCSE history courses are changing in 2010 - so this book's ideal for students taking their exams in...
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The Commonwealth: A Family of Nations
Author: Liz Paren, Caroline Coxon, Cheryl Dorall
Author Liz Paren, Caroline Coxon, Cheryl Dorall
Narrator Stephanie Beattie
Duration 4h 14m
This audiobook explains how the the commonwealth came into being, how it developed into what it is today, why it matters, what it does for ordinary people and especially its relationship with young people. It's an invaluable resource for citizenship.
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Going Up! the No-worries Guide To Secondary School
Author: J Alexander
Author J Alexander
Narrator Stephanie Beattie
Duration 1h 24m
Can't wait to change schools, or worried about fitting in? Listen to this audiobook to have fun from day one. Including: having the right stuff, finding your way around, making new friends, staying on top of classwork and homework and getting on with the older kids.
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GCSE English 'Of Mice and Men': The Text Guide
Author: CGP Publications
Author CGP Publications
Narrator Stephanie Beattie
Duration 3h
This text guide is designed to help GCSE students write better essays about 'Of Mice and Men' by John Steinbeck. It is packed with useful explanations about the themes, characters, context and interpretations of the book, all backed up with quotes. There are four sections, all written in CGP's clear, chatty style. It would also make a handy referen...
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Take Me Back: A Trip Through History From the Stone Age To the Digital Age
Author: Various
Author Various
Narrator Stephanie Beattie
Duration 13h 40m
This audiobook is packed with thousands of years of bloody battles, glorious empires, revolting revolutions, monstrous monarchies, and more. Want to meet the movers, shakers and gods of Ancient Greece? Go on a shopping spree in a medieval town? Log onto Captain Cook's blog about his voyages of discovery? Or chart the progress of World War II from i...
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Author: Richard Hughes
Author Richard Hughes
Narrator Stephanie Beattie
Duration 5h 35m
Published to great acclaim in 1929, this classic and bestselling tale did away with sentimental Victorian visions of childhood and paved the way for later works such as Golding's 'Lord of the Flies'. Set in the last century against a tropical landscape and the ever-present sea, this audiobook tells the story of a family of English children who, on...
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Author: Roald Dahl
Author Roald Dahl
Narrator Stephanie Beattie
Duration 6h 42m
A collection of short stories to startle, surprise and satisfy. How would you get rid of a murder weapon without causing suspicion? Where would you hide a diamond where no else would think of looking? What if you found out that the tattoo on your back was worth over a million pounds? A recommended text for GCSE English.
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Author: William Trevor
Author William Trevor
Narrator Stephanie Beattie
Duration 8h 27m
'You're beautiful', Johnny told her, and so, full of hope, seventeen-year-old Felicia crosses the Irish Sea to England to find her lover and tell him she is pregnant. Desperately searching for Johnny in the bleak post-industrial Midlands, she is, instead, found by Mr Hilditch, a strange and lonely man, a collector and befriender of homeless young g...
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Would You Believe... Vatican City Is A Country?! and Other Metropolitan Marvels
Author: Richard Platt
Author Richard Platt
Narrator Stephanie Beattie
Duration 1h 2m
Young readers will get a real sense of how towns and cities have developed all over the world from medieval towns to the extreme cities in the jungle and polar regions. What is suburban bliss and why are some of our cities dying? Listen to this audiobook from start to finish for a riveting social history or dip in and out for some fascinating and o...
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Author: Virginia Woolf
Author Virginia Woolf
Narrator Stephanie Beattie
Duration 5h 50m
Jacob's Room is Virginia Woolf's first truly experimental novel. It is a portrait of a young man, who is both representative and victim of the social values which led Edwardian society into war. Jacob Flanders first appears as a child playing by the seaside. The novel follows his progress to school, Cambridge, London, Paris, Italy, Greece and to hi...
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Author: Anne Fine
Author Anne Fine
Narrator Stephanie Beattie
Duration 6h 34m
Colin is in many ways an ideal citizen. A responsible job for the council, visits to his aged mother Norah, and cooking and shopping for her. But no-one knows about his other - much more secret - life that involves a garden shed, a circus acrobat, and a much-adored three-year-old charmer.
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Horrible Histories: The Smashing Saxons
Author: Terry Deary
Author Terry Deary
Narrator Stephanie Beattie
Duration 1h 32m
Readers can discover all the foul facts about the Smashing Saxons, including who got cow pats as Christmas presents, why wearing a pig on your head is lucky and how to make a dead Saxon happy.
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Author: Terry Deary
Author Terry Deary
Narrator Stephanie Beattie
Duration 1h 36m
It's history with the nasty bits left in! Want to know: Why the Aztecs liked to eat scum? When the world is going to end? How to play a really violent ball game? Discover all the foul facts about the Angry Aztecs - all the gore and more!
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KS2 English: Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling Study Book
Author: CGP Publications
Author CGP Publications
Narrator Stephanie Beattie
Duration 1h 10m
This book explains everything KS2 students will need to know about Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling for the English SATS. There are plenty of examples to demonstrate each point, with quick recap questions for every topic and exam-style tasks at the end of each section.
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Author: Gillian Clarke
Author Gillian Clarke
Narrator Stephanie Beattie
Duration 3h
A beautiful collection of poems by Gillian Clarke.
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Michael Rosen's A To Z: The Best Children's Poetry From Agard To Zephaniah
Author: Michael Rosen
Author Michael Rosen
Narrator Stephanie Beattie
Duration 2h 26m
From Agard to Zephaniah, this wonderful anthology is rich with the many cultures, voices and sounds of the most exciting children's performance poets in Britain today. Whether it's haunting or funny, musical or compassionate, the brilliant Michael Rosen, our Children's Laureate, has created a simply stunning collection of the best of children's poe...
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Critical Thinking: An Introduction
Author: Alec Fisher
Author Alec Fisher
Narrator Stephanie Beattie
Duration 11h 7m
In this highly accessible book, Alec Fisher shows students how they can develop a range of creative and critical thinking skills that are transferable to other subjects and contexts. Critical Thinking includes topics such as: argument analysis, clarifying terms and interpreting ideas, skilful decision making and value judgements, and applying criti...
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