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Would You Believe... the Losers Were Killed In Mayan Football?! and Other Perilous Pastimes
Author: Richard Platt
Format: Online
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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It's Elementary! Putting the Crackle Into Chemistry
Author: Robert Winston
Format: Online
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...
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Author: Anita Desai
Format: Online
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.
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Author: Michael Palin
Format: Online
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...
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Author: Sebastian (writing As Ian Fleming) Faulks
Format: Online
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...
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Author: Patrick Hamilton
Format: Online
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...
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Author: J. G. Farrell
Format: Online
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...
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Author: Ian Mcewan
Format: Online
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...
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Author: Rudyard Kipling
Format: Online
Author Rudyard Kipling
Narrator Martin Jarvis, Richard Pasco, Liza Goddard
Duration 5h
This audiobook celebrates Kipling's truly prolific career. Sit back, relax and enjoy his poetry and stories including 'India and Empire', 'The Three Musketeers' and 'Mowgli's Brothers'.
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Author: Nick Hornby
Format: Online
Author Nick Hornby
Narrator Nicholas Holt
Duration 7h 15m
'Not only is Hawk the world's best skater, he's also good to talk to. So I talk to Tony Hawk, and Tony Hawk talks back. Because just when it seemed like everything had come together for me, I had to go and screw it all up. It only took five seconds. But all of me knew. One risk. One mistake and my life would never be the same. Hawk had a few things...
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Author: Richmal Crompton
Format: Online
Author Richmal Crompton
Narrator Martin Jarvis
SeriesJust William, Book 14
Duration 7h 30m
William Brown, the loveable rogue created by Richmal Crompton in the 1930s, is as well-received today as he was almost 80 years ago. This title includes stories such as: 'William and the Musician', 'Willaim Holds the Stage', 'The Outlaws and the Triplets', 'William and the Eastern Curse', 'The New Neighbour', 'Mrs. Bott's Hat', 'William and the Pri...
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Doctor Who and the Doomsday Weapon
Author: Malcolm Hulke
Format: Online
Author Malcolm Hulke
Narrator Geoffrey Beevers
Duration 4h 47m
The evil Master has stolen the Time Lords' file on the horrifying Doomsday Weapon with which, when he finds it, he can blast whole planets out of existence and make himself ruler of the Galaxy! The Time Lords direct Doctor Who and Jo Grant in their TARDIS to a bleak planet in the year 2471, where they find colonists from Earth under threat from mys...
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Confessions of Georgia Nicholson Series Book 8: Luuurve Is A Many Trousered Thing
Author: Louise Rennison
Format: Online
Author Louise Rennison
Narrator Louise Rennison
SeriesThe Confessions of Georgia Nicolson, Book 8
Duration 4h 40m
Sound the Cosmic Horn! The original Sex God has re-landed, Masimo the Italian Stallion wants to be her boyfriend, and Dave the Laugh is still a regular snoggee. How will Georgia cope juggling all three boys? Have her days on the rack of love really gone for good? Surely not!
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How the Incredible Human Body Works
Author: Brainwaves The
Format: Online
Author Brainwaves The
Narrator Zoe Bond
Duration 2h 36m
What defeats food eating fungi? How does the brain tell you you're hungry? Where's there an acid bath in your body? Get ready for a rollicking rip roaring romp around the human body. Including a fight against an invasion of horrible toxic bacteria, dodge squirting digestive juices, and a white knuckle ride on red rapids of gushing blood.
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Prof. Gunning's Erudite Course of Fact Retrieval (How To Revise)
Author: CGP Publications
Format: Online
Author CGP Publications
Narrator Paul Vates
Duration 44m
This audiobook offers the ultimate course in revision skills - a clear, practical technique for effective revision. It's ideal for pupils at any level from KS3 to GCSE or A-level and beyond.
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11 Killer Exam Tips For...Chemistry
Author: CGP Publications
Format: Online
Author CGP Publications
Narrator Paul Vates
Duration 41m
This audiobook is designed to help students do well at GCSE chemistry. It gives 11 tips to boost marks and covers the most common mistakes made in chemistry exams and how to avoid them. It can also help improve revision skills fast!
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11 Killer Exam Tips For...Physics
Author: CGP Publications
Format: Online
Author CGP Publications
Narrator Paul Vates
Duration 45m
This audiobook is designed to help students to do well at GCSE physics. It gives 11 tips to boost marks, covering the most common mistakes made in physics exams and how to avoid them. Suitable for Key Stage 3, GCSE and A Level.
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11 Killer Exam Tips For...Biology
Author: CGP Publications
Format: Online
Author CGP Publications
Narrator Paul Vates
Duration 45m
This audiobook is designed to help students to do well at GCSE biology. It gives 11 tips to boost marks, covering the most common mistakes made in biology exams and how to avoid them. Suitable for Key Stage 3, GCSE and A Level.
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11 Killer Exam Tips For...Maths
Author: CGP Publications
Format: Online
Author CGP Publications
Narrator Paul Vates
Duration 45m
This audiobook is designed to help students to do well at GCSE maths. It gives 11 tips to boost marks, covering the most common mistakes made in maths exams and how to avoid them. Suitable for Key Stage 3, GCSE and A Level.
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Alexander Pope: Selected Poetry
Author: Alexander Pope
Format: Online
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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Author: Benjamin Zephaniah
Format: Online
Author Benjamin Zephaniah
Narrator Paul Vates
Duration 24m
Cutting-edge performance poet Benjamin Zephaniah has written poems about 13 children from all over Britain who come from a whole range of different backgrounds. This is the rhyming, rapping, rhythmic way to learn about Britain in the 21st Century!
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