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Citizenship In Focus: The Citizen and the Law
Author: Keith West
Author Keith West
Narrator Robin Houston
Duration 2h 20m
Simple, direct and accessible information on Britain's laws, and on how the courts, police and prison services operate. This audio book also encourages students to consider what could be changed to make society more equal and more just. A HarperCollins title.
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Author: Colin Thubron
Author Colin Thubron
Narrator Peter Holmes
Duration 15h
Until 1991, foreigners were only allowed along the Trans-Siberian railway. Colin Thubron searches for the `core of Siberia', Russia's wild east - and encounters Mongol shamans; the 2,500,000- year-old mummified remains of a princess; sweaty 85 degree temperatures and Akademogorodok, an abandoned city where a lone professor experiments with cosmic c...
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Author: Arabella Weir
Author Arabella Weir
Narrator Patanne Fairfoot
Duration 9h
Hat Grant is getting married. She is having a proper, big wedding. That is until something goes wrong - six weeks before the wedding, her fiance dumps her. Hat is devastated. This is her special day, she can't cancel everything - what about the flowers, her dress the photographer, the caterers, her ghastly mother? So, she doesn't - she decides to g...
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Author: Celia Rees
Author Celia Rees
Narrator Aiofe Nally
Duration 2h 20m
Mary's grandmother is executed for witchcraft, and Mary is forced to leave her home to avoid the same fate. At first she flees to the English countryside, but when the atmosphere of superstition and suspicion becomes all-consuming she leaves on a boat for America in the hope that she can start over and forget her past. But during the journey, she r...
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Author: Ali Smith
Author Ali Smith
Narrator Julia Damassa
Duration 7h
Five disparate voices inhabit Ali Smith's dreamlike 'Hotel World', set in the luxurious anonymity of the Global Hotel, in an unnamed northern English city. The disembodied yet interconnected characters include Sara, a 19-year-old chambermaid who has recently died at the hotel; her bereaved sister, Clare, who visits the scene of Sara's death; Penny,...
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The Rivals: The Intimate Story of A Political Marriage
Author: James Naughtie
Author James Naughtie
Narrator James Naughtie
Duration 13h
'The Rivals' is an insider's view of the potent alliance between Tony Blair and Gordon Brown. Behind the public face of a prime minister and chancellor united in policy and instinct, James Naughtie reveals the tensions of power in action. This is a unique account of the most enduring, complex and important relationship in recent times.
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Author: Maeve Binchy
Author Maeve Binchy
Narrator Kate Binchy
Duration 18h 12m
Ria Lynch and Marilyn Vine have never met. Ria lives in a big ramshackle house in Tara Road, Dublin, which is filled with family and friends, while Marilyn lives in New England, absorbed in her career. A chance phone call brings them together and they decide to exchange homes. So a magical summer begins, full of discovery, unexpected friendships an...
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Author: Graham Greene
Author Graham Greene
Narrator Oliver Clement
Duration 10h 10m
These stories, all written between 1929 and 1954, all share the themes that feature so strongly in Graham Greene's novels: humour and violence, pity and hatred, betrayal and pursuit. Comic, sad, shocking and tragic, they recount the tales of Mr Maling's loud stomach, destructive gangs of children, indiscretions revealed and secrets uncovered. CONTA...
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Author: Mary Shelley
Author Mary Shelley
Narrator Jeff Bellamy
Duration 8h 30m
Obsessed by creating life itself, Doctor Victor Frankenstein plunders graveyards for the material to fashion a new being, which he shocks into life using electricity. But his botched creature, rejected by Frankenstein and denied human companionship, sets out to destroy his maker...
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Author: Robert Cormier
Author Robert Cormier
Narrator Lorne Magory
Duration 2h 25m
Maimed and disfigured whilst fighting in the Second World War, Francis Cassavant must hide both his face and identity when he returns home to Frenchtown, USA, for his past holds a bitter secret.
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Author: Jane Shuter
Author Jane Shuter
Narrator Robin Houston
Duration 1h 42m
This audiobook is part of the Heinemann Secondary History Project. It looks at the economic boom in the 1920s, the causes and consequences of the Wall Street crash, and the success and failure of the New Deal. It covers topics on GCSE Modern World History syllabuses. A Heinemann Educational title.
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Author: Penelope Fitzgerald
Author Penelope Fitzgerald
Narrator Maria Darling
Duration 3h 15m
This collection of short stories, previously published in anthologies and newspapers, consists of miniature studies of the endless absurdity of human behaviour. It includes 'Our Lives Are Only Lent To Us', discovered amongst the author's papers after her death.
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Author: William Shakespeare
Author William Shakespeare
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 2h 50m
As Romeo and Juliet come from opposing families, their love must be concealed until after their marriage. But having slain Juliet's cousin Tybalt, Romeo is banished and despite the well-meaning intervention of Friar Laurence, fate ensures that the marriage is never truly celebrated. Dramatisation of the New Cambridge version of the text.
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Romeo and Juliet - Smartpass Study Guide
Author: William Shakespeare
Author William Shakespeare
Narrator Various
Duration 5h
A study guide to 'Romeo and Juliet'. The play's commentary focuses on themes, language, imagery and Shakespeare's most beautiful use of poetry to express the fated teenagers' love and tragic end.
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Author: Nicky Singer
Author Nicky Singer
Narrator Stephen Kemble
Duration 6h 15m
Selected members of Robert's class are chosen to visit the elderly residents of Mayfield Rest Home - to interact with them and to find out about their lives. Robert's main enemy at school, Jonathan Niker, may think them all 'vegetables', but Robert's own buried personality is slowly unearthed by Edith Sorrel - a prickly and enigmatic resident who s...
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Author: Benjamin Zephaniah
Author Benjamin Zephaniah
Narrator The Author, Peter Kenny
Duration 4h 25m
After suffering severe facial injuries in a joyriding accident, Martin must adjust to living with his new appearance, and to coping with the changing and sometimes discriminatory attitudes of those around him. This audio book also features an exclusive commentary by the author, in which he discusses what inspired him to write the book.
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Author: Benjamin Zephaniah
Author Benjamin Zephaniah
Narrator The Author, Peter Kenny
Duration 6h 10m
Life is not safe for Alem, His father is Ethiopian, his mother Eritrean - and with both countries at war, he is welcome in neither place. So his father does an astonishing thing, which at first appears callous, but is in fact the ultimate gift of love from a parent to a child. This audio book also features an exclusive commentary by the author, in...
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Author: Simon Armitage
Author Simon Armitage
Narrator Charles Bainbridge
Duration 1h 40m
The first collection of poetry from an award winning poet. This audiobook features `It ain't what you do it's what it does to you' and other poems included for study at GCSE. CONTAINS SOME STRONG LANGUAGE.
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Author: Ursula le Guin
Author Ursula le Guin
Narrator Crispin Letts
Duration 7h
A classic tale of wizards, dragons and terrifying shadows. The young wizard Sparrowhawk, tempted by pride to try spells beyond his powers, lets loose an evil shadow-beast in his land. Only he can destroy it, and this quest leads him to the farthest corner of Earthsea.
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Author: William Trevor
Author William Trevor
Narrator Emma Lowe
Duration 7h 30m
Captain Gault has decided that his family must leave their home in Lahardane. They are after all Protestants living in the big house in rural Cork in 1921, and Ireland is in turmoil. But 8-year-old Lucy can't bear to leave the seashore, the old house, the woods - so she hatches a plan. It is then that the calamity happens - an accident almost, but...
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Author: John Galsworthy
Series: The Forsyte Saga, Book 5
Author John Galsworthy
Narrator Stephen Kemble
SeriesThe Forsyte Saga, Book 5
Duration 9h 55m
'The Silver Spoon' continues the tale of Soames' daughter Fleur. Married to Michael Mont, in line for a Barony, the story focuses on Michael's start in Parliament and Fleur's dissatisfaction with her marriage. The American, Frances Wilmont, enters the scene bringing news that Fleur's real love, Jon, forbidden to her as the son of her father's ex-wi...
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