Author: Markus Zusak
Format: Online
Author Markus Zusak
Narrator Allan Corduner
Duration 14h
This audiobook is narrated in the all-knowing matter-of-fact voice of Death, witnessing the story of the citizens of Molching and especially two children's struggle to steal from the Nazi book burning piles. While it is a tale of the cruel twists of fate and the coincidences on which all our lives hinge, this is also a joyous look at how books can...
View BookThe Boy In the Striped Pyjamas
Author: John Boyne
Format: Online
Author John Boyne
Narrator Michael Maloney
Duration 5h
Nine year old Bruno knows nothing of the Final Solution or the Holocaust. When he moves house he meets Shumel, a boy who lives a strange parallel existence on the other side of the adjoining wire fence and who, like the other people there, wears a uniform of striped pyjamas. Features an exclusive interview with the author.
View BookAuthor: Stephen Hawking
Format: Online
Author Stephen Hawking
Narrator Erik Davies
Duration 4h 30m
In this audiobook Hawking attempts to make the ideas and concepts of his bestseller 'A Brief History of Time' even more accessible. It is up-to-date with the latest scientific observations and findings, and is a guide to non-scientists everywhere in the search for the secrets of time and space.
View BookAuthor: Rosemary Sutcliff
Format: Online
Author Rosemary Sutcliff
Narrator Charlie Simpson
Duration 4h 32m
Roman Britain: Marcus Flavius Aquilla, a young centurion is forced into retirement after he is wounded in his first major engagement against a rebel British tribe. It allows him the freedom to embark upon a dangerous mission to find out what happened to the Ninth Legion which, years before, disappeared in the savage lands of the Picts. Will he find...
View BookAuthor: Charles Darwin
Format: Online
Author Charles Darwin
Narrator Richard Dawkins
Duration 6h
In this work Darwin challenged many of the most deeply held beliefs of the Western World, and therefore it is high on any serious list of the most important and influential books ever written. This audiobook has been abridged to remove those chapters that are now known to be wrong, notably those concerned with genetics.
View BookAuthor: Richard Hampton, David Weston
Format: Online
Author Richard Hampton, David Weston
Narrator Derek Jacobi
Duration 2h 30m
The fascinating story of England's history and of the public and private life of her Royal Family is highlighted by extracts from the diaries and speeches of English Monarchs and observations by their contemporaries.
View BookDiscworld Series Book 34: Thud!
Author: Terry Pratchett
Format: Online
Author Terry Pratchett
Narrator Stephen Briggs
SeriesDiscworld, Book 34
Duration 10h 20m
Commander Sam Vimes of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch admits he may not be the sharpest knife in the cutlery drawer - he might not even be a spoon. But he's dogged and honest and he'll be damned if he lets anyone disturb his city's always-tentative peace - and that includes a rabble-rousing dwarf from the sticks (or deep beneath them) who's been stirr...
View BookAuthor: A E Housman
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Author A E Housman
Narrator Anthony Richardson
Duration 1h 10m
First published in 1896, 'A Shropshire Lad' contains sixty-three poems on the nature of friendship, the passing of youth, the vanity of dreams and other human concerns. They are long prized by literary scholars for their perfection of form and feeling and loved by generations of readers for their simplicity, sensitivity and direct emotional appeal.
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