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Author: Alan Garner
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Author Alan Garner
Narrator Robert Powell
Duration 1h 48m
Shortlisted for the 2022 Booker Prize and a Guardian Best Fiction Book of 2021 An introspective young boy, Joseph Coppock squints at the world with his lazy eye. Living alone in an old house, he reads comics, collects birds’ eggs and plays with his marbles. When, one day, a rag-and-bone man called Treacle Walker appears, exchangi...
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Author: D H Lawrence
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Author D H Lawrence
Narrator Robert Powell
Duration 2h 17m
The story of Paul Morel, torn between three women. A observant and insightful look at the complexities and dangers surrounding human love and attraction. Sons and Lovers is the moving and explicit account of a young man growing up in a closed mining village. Born into a difficult marriage, Paul Morel is shy and introverted and impressionable. As a...
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Author: Bernieres Louis De
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Author Bernieres Louis De
Narrator Robert Powell
Duration 3h 25m
In 1941 Captain Antonio Corelli is posted to the Greek island of Cephallonia. It isn't long before he is involved in a heated affair with Pelagia, a local girl, despite her engagement to a young fisherman, Mandras, who has gone off to join Greek partisans. Love is complicated enough in wartime, even when the lovers are on the same side, but as Core...
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Author: Thomas Hardy
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Author Thomas Hardy
Narrator Robert Powell
Duration 2h 21m
A gritty and absorbing glimpse into the lives of women and men living in a small community, and the often unpleasant truths that relationships can sometimes hold. Bathsheba Everdene flees her abusive husband and spends the night by a stagnant and spooky swamp. When light begins to break over her hiding-place, she sees strong parallels between her...
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Author: Christopher Lee
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Author Christopher Lee
Narrator Anna Massey, Robert Powell
Duration 3h 5m
This volume of Christopher Lee's history of Britan looks at the Thatcher years, the Falklands War and the Royal Wedding.
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Author: Christopher Lee
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Author Christopher Lee
Narrator Anna Massey, Robert Powell
Duration 3h 4m
Christopher Lee's history of Britain, This Sceptred Isle, provided the definitive radio account of the nation from the arrival of Julius Caesar to the death of Queen Victoria. This Sceptred Isle, The Twentieth Century, continues the story, taking us through decades of whirlwind change and technological advancement in the diverse and colourful count...
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Author: Christopher Lee
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Author Christopher Lee
Narrator Anna Massey, Robert Powell
Duration 3h
Christopher Lee's history of Britain, 'This Sceptred Isle', provided the definitive radio account of the nation from the arrival of Julius Caesar to the death of Queen Victoria. Volume 2, covering the years 1919-1938, looks at a Britain ravaged by war and at the mercy of millions of striking workers. It also takes in the lighter side of life in the...
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Alderley Series Book 3: Boneland
Author: Alan Garner
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Author Alan Garner
Narrator Robert Powell
SeriesAlderley Series, Book 3
Duration 4h 56m
Boneland is Alan Garner's continuation of the story thread which began in his first and enduringly popular fantasy children's novel, The Weirdstone of Brisingamen. The Weirdstone was published in 1960 (it has never been out of print since), and The Moon of Gomrath followed, in 1963. This took the story further with the same two children, Colin and...
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