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Grimm's Fairy Stories written by The Brothers Grimm performed by Joanna Daniel on MP3 CD (Unabridged)£39.99

Full of magic and trickery, Grimm's Fairy Stories have delighted generations with such timeless classics as Cinderella, Red Riding Hood, Hansel and Gretel, Snow White, and Rapunzel. They are the stories we've known since we were children. But the works originally collected by the Brothers Grimm in the early 1800s are not necessarily the...

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The Death of Ivan Ilyich written by Leo Tolstoy performed by Oliver Ford Davies on MP3 CD (Unabridged)£24.99

Drawing on the experience of his own struggle to find enlightenment and a deeper spiritual understanding of life, Leo Tolstoy takes us on the final journey towards death with Ivan Ilyich, who, falling victim to an incurable illness, ponders his life in its shallowness and lack of compassion, ultimately wondering about the meaning of it all.

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The Determined Heart - The Tale of Mary Shelley and Her Frankenstein written by Antoinette May performed by Susan Duerden on MP3 CD (Unabridged)£29.99

The Determined Heart reveals the life of Mary Shelley in a story of love and obsession, betrayal and redemption. The daughter of political philosopher William Godwin and feminist Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Shelley had an unconventional childhood populated with the most talented and eccentric personalities of the time. After losing her mother...

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The Duke's Children written by Anthony Trollope performed by David Shaw-Parker on MP3 CD (Unabridged)£39.99

Bereft of his beloved wife Glencora and his role as Prime Minister, Plantagenet Palliser enters the realm of family politics as he struggles to guide and connect with his three wayward children. Lord Silverbridge, the Duke's first born and natural inheritor, expelled from Oxford, a gambler at the racetrack and an elected Conservative, further troubles...

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The Home for Unwanted Girls written by Joanna Goodman performed by Saskia Maarleveld on MP3 CD (Unabridged)£24.99

Philomena meets The Orphan Train in this suspenseful, provocative novel filled with love, secrets, and deceit—the story of a young unwed mother who is forcibly separated from her daughter at birth and the lengths to which they go to find each other. In 1950s Quebec, French and English tolerate each other with precarious civility—much like...

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The Motion of the Body Through Space written by Lionel Shriver performed by Laurence Bouvard on MP3 CD (Unabridged)£29.99

In Lionel Shriver's entertaining send-up of today's cult of exercise—which not only encourages better health, but now like all religions also seems to promise meaning, social superiority, and eternal life—an aging husband’s sudden obsession with extreme sport makes him unbearable. After an ignominious early retirement, Remington announces to...

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The Witch of Eye - A Love that Leads to Treason written by Mari Griffith performed by Jilly Bond on MP3 CD (Unabridged)£24.99

From the best-selling author of Root of the Tudor Rose. A love that leads to treason - England, 1435. Eleanor Cobham has married into the highest ranks of the aristocracy - she is now the Duchess of Gloucester. She and her husband, the Duke Humphrey, set up a court of their own to rival the royal court in London, surrounding themselves with...

A Picture of Britain written by David Dimbleby performed by David Dimbleby on Audio CD (Unabridged)£14.99

Accompanying a major BBC1 series presented by David Dimbleby, and an exhibition at Tate Britain, A Picture of Britain is a celebration of the British landscape and the art it has inspired, from Constable to Lowry, from Turner to Nash. From the slopes of Snowdonia to the industrial Black Country, from the grandeur of the Scottish Highlands to the...