Author: Ian Mcewan
Author Ian Mcewan
Narrator Ian Mcewan
Duration 4h 30m
It is June 1962. In a hotel on the Dorset coast, overlooking Chesil Beach, Edward and Florence, who got married that morning, are sitting down to dinner in their room. Neither is entirely able to suppress their anxieties about the wedding night to come. This audiobook is a story about how the entire course of a life can be changed by a gesture not...
View BookAuthor: J. G. Farrell
Author J. G. Farrell
Narrator Sean Barrett
Duration 5h
Major Brendan Archer travels to Ireland - to the Majestic Hotel and to the fiancee he acquired on a rash afternoon's leave three years ago. Despite her many letters, the lady herself proves elusive, and the Major's engagement is short-lived. But he is unable to detach himself from the alluring discomforts of the crumbling hotel. Ensconced in the di...
View BookAuthor: Patrick Hamilton
Author Patrick Hamilton
Narrator Julian Rhind-Tutt
Duration 5h
Set in late 1930s London, this is the dark and disquieting tale of George Harvey Bone, a drunk. With few prospects and suffering from mental health problems, George spends most of his time discussing theoretical plans and political issues with his bunch of drinking acquaintances. Driven by loneliness and his increasingly-violent schizophrenic delus...
View BookAuthor: Sebastian (writing As Ian Fleming) Faulks
Author Sebastian (writing As Ian Fleming) Faulks
Narrator Jeremy Northam
Duration 8h 15m
Bond is back. With a vengeance. 'There's something I need your help with. The details are a little hazy at the moment, but I sense that it's going to be something big. Very big indeed. Have you heard of Dr Julius Gorner?' It's a name that will become seared into James Bond's consciousness. The name of a man who knows no master but his own power-cra...
View BookAuthor: Michael Palin
Author Michael Palin
Narrator Michael Palin
Duration 11h 32m
Until the early 1990s, when the Berlin Wall came tumbling down, travelling behind the iron curtain was never easy. In undertaking his new journey through Eastern Europe, breathing in its rich history and exquisite sights, and talking to its diverse peoples, Palin fills what has been a void in his own experience and that of very many others. This au...
View BookAuthor: Anita Desai
Author Anita Desai
Narrator Rachel Sternberg
Duration 5h 20m
An award-winning story about a family's survival in a small fishing village in India. With their mother drunk, Hari and Lila have to earn the money to keep house and look after their two young sisters. In desperation, Hari runs away to Bombay, and Lila is left to cope alone. Possible prose text for Edexcel GCSE English.
View BookIt's Elementary! Putting the Crackle Into Chemistry
Author: Robert Winston
Author Robert Winston
Narrator Pearl Scott
Duration 4h 5m
How do you make a dog? Why are helium balloons lighter than air? What are the secrets of the Philosopher's Stone? 'It's Elementary' takes an amazing look at the stuff that stuff is made of. Discover the elements that make up everything from you to your dog. See what the elements are, how they were discovered and the extraordinary ways they affect o...
View BookWould 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...
View BookSelected Poems From 'songs of Innocence and Experience'
Author: William Blake
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 BookAuthor: Meredith Hooper, Lucia de Leiris
Author Meredith Hooper, Lucia de Leiris
Narrator Jane Steel
Duration 24m
Take one small island. Beautiful. Remote. Explorable. Then follow it on a journey. Where has it come from? Where is it heading? How fast is it travelling? This audiobook tracks one very small piece of the Earth's crust through time and space, introducing the ideas of plate tectonics to young listeners.
View BookGCSE 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...
View BookAuthor: John Steinbeck
Author John Steinbeck
Narrator Ian Porter
Duration 3h 33m
Drifters in search of work, George and his childlike friend Lennie, have nothing in the world except each other and a dream - a dream that one day they will have some kind of land of their own. Tackling universal themes, friendship and a shared vision, this is a hugely popular audiobook. A great piece of classic fiction which is studied by many at...
View BookAndrew Marvell: Selected Poems
Author: Andrew Marvell
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 BookTwilight In the Land of Nowhen
Author: Nury Vittachi
Author Nury Vittachi
Narrator Paul Vates
Duration 3h 20m
Simon lives three seconds ahead of everyone else, which creates embarrassing problems, such as answering questions that haven't yet been asked and trying to walk through doors that haven't yet been opened. This inventive story takes you on a journey through space-time, while offering valuable lessons in acceptance and understanding. A great mix of...
View BookThomas Kydd Series Book 7: Command
Author: Julian Stockwin
Series: Thomas Kydd, Book 7
Author Julian Stockwin
Narrator Christian Rodska
SeriesThomas Kydd, Book 7
Duration 10h 38m
Thrilled at his first command, a little brig sloop called Teazer, Thomas Kydd must race to bring his ship to battle readiness - he is desperately needed to defend Malta against Barbary corsairs, ferocious privateers and the French who are frantically trying to rescue the remnants of their army in the Levant. But his jubilation does not last long -...
View BookThomas Kydd Series Book 1: Kydd
Author: Julian Stockwin
Series: Thomas Kydd, Book 1
Author Julian Stockwin
Narrator Christian Rodska
SeriesThomas Kydd, Book 1
Duration 10h
Thomas Kydd, a wig-maker from Guildford, is seized by the press gang to be a part of the crew of the 98-gun line-of-battle ship. The ship sails immediately and Kydd has to learn the realities of shipboard life fast. Despite all that he goes through in danger of tempest and battle, he comes to admire the skills and courage of the seamen. CONTAINS ST...
View BookAuthor: Victoria Wood
Author Victoria Wood
Narrator The Author
Duration 7h 51m
Victoria's irreverent pilgrimage takes her to key places around the world that also share her namesake, from Fort Victoria in Ghana, to Victoria, Nova Scotia, and finishing at Zambia's Victoria Falls. Victoria's adventure is fuelled by her fascination with the Queen Victoria - both her public and private persona. She explores how Victoria felt abou...
View BookDoctor Who and the Giant Robot
Author: Terrance Dicks
Author Terrance Dicks
Narrator Tom Baker
Duration 3h 47m
This adventure involves UNIT, a gigantic robot, a tremendously overpowered gun, and a plot by a team of quasi-Randian scientists to hold the world at nuclear ransom in order to effect certain a plan of science-based societal reforms. A story featuring the further adventures of the time traveller Dr Who, as he journeys through time and space with a...
View BookAuthor: Andrew Smith
Author Andrew Smith
Narrator Glen Mccready
Duration 15h 38m
The Apollo moon programme has been called the last optimistic act of the twentieth century. Over a strange three-year period between 1969 and 1972, twelve men made the longest and most eccentric of all journeys and all were indelibly marked by it. In this audiobook, Andrew Smith sets out to find and interview the remaining moonwalkers in order to l...
View BookAuthor: Truman Capote
Author Truman Capote
Narrator William Hope
Duration 14h 32m
Controversial and compelling, this audiobook reconstructs the murder in 1959 of a Kansas farmer, his wife and both their children. Truman Capote's comprehensive study of the killings and subsequent investigation explores the circumstances surrounding this terrible crime and the effect it had on those involved. At the centre of his study are the amo...
View BookAuthor: Karin Fossum
Series: Inspector Sejer, Book 6
Author Karin Fossum
Narrator David Rintoul
SeriesInspector Sejer, Book 6
Duration 8h 48m
Ida Joner gets on her brand new bike and sets off to buy sweets. A good-natured, happy girl, she is looking forward to her tenth birthday. Thirty-five minutes after Ida should have come home, Helga Joner, her mother, starts to worry. She phones the shop and various friends, but no one has seen her daughter. As the family goes out looking for Ida, H...
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