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  • Audiobook

    Justine

    Narrated by Nigel Anthony ...

    Abridged

    3 hours 57 min

    Justine is the first volume in The Alexandria Quartet, four interlinked novels set in the sensuous, hot environment of Alexandria just before the Second World War. Within this polyglot setting of richly idiosyncratic characters is Justine, wild and intense, wife to the wealthy business man Nessim, a mari complaisant. Her emotional and sexual wildness fuels a highly-charged atmosphere which, caught ... Read more

    $15.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    Crimes against History

    Narrated by Nigel Anthony ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 39 min

    Crimes against History takes a global approach to the extreme forms of censorship to which history and historians have been subjected through the ages.The book opens by considering the varieties of censorship, from suppression, dismissal, and defamation to persecution and murder. Part I, "Kill switch," tells the tragic story of how the censorship of history has sometimes turned into deadly crimes ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Dangerous Decade

    Taiwan’s Security and Crisis Management

    Narrated by Nigel Anthony ...

    Unabridged

    3 hours 54 min

    Taiwan’s position looks increasingly precarious, and tensions threaten to grow into a major strategic crisis. Chinese President Xi Jinping has made reunification with Taiwan a central pillar of his vision for China, and has ramped up diplomatic and economic pressure on Taiwan. Its inhabitants are increasingly estranged from the mainland, and Tsai Ing-wen’s administration refuses to conduct ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Jack Aubrey & Stephen Maturin: Master & Commander & other adventures

    A BBC Radio 4 full cast drama collection

    Unabridged

    15 hours 47 min

    BBC Radio productions of the first seven books in Patrick O'Brian's hugely popular Napoleonic naval series - plus bonus materialWidely regarded as the most engaging historical novels ever written, the 21 books in Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey/Maturin series have garnered millions of fans since the publication of the first volume over 50 years ago. Included here are BBC radio adaptations of the first ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Henry V

    Directed by David Timson

    Unabridged

    3 hours 6 min

    This widely-studied play is one of the best sellers of the Shakespeare canon. This production is the seventh Shakespeare play in the series undertaken by Naxos AudioBooks in conjunction with Cambridge University Press. ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    Clea

    Narrated by Nigel Anthony ...

    Abridged

    3 hours 54 min

    ‘I knew that Clea would share everything with me, withholding nothing not even the look of complicity which women reserve only for their mirrors.’ In Clea, the concluding part of The Alexandria Quartet, Darley returns to Alexandria now caught by war-fever. The conflagration has its effect on his circle on Nessim and Justine, Balthazar and Clea, Mountolive and Pombal a clarity of purpose emerges as ... Read more

    $15.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    The Lady of the Camellias

    Abridged

    2 hours 9 min

    The tragic but doomed love of Marguerite and Armand, recounted so passionately in La Dame aux Camélias, became one of the great love stories from its first publication in 1848. The title role of the consumptive heroine and her ultimate sacrifice inspired actresses from Sarah Bernhardt to Greta Garbo and Giuseppe Verdi to write La Traviata. In this sound dramatisation, the story of passion and ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    Crime and Punishment

    Narrated by Nigel Anthony ...

    Abridged

    2 hours 20 min

    Crime and Punishment is set in the claustrophobic slums of St Petersburg in the heat of the summer. The novel's setting mirrors the inner life of the main characters as they struggle with their problems of grinding poverty. Central to the plot are the thoughts and actions of Rodion Raskolnikoff, an embittered yet idealistic student who is disastrously influenced by new ideas on morality. He is ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    Land of Wondrous Cold

    The Race to Discover Antarctica and Unlock the Secrets of Its Ice

    Narrated by Nigel Anthony ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 6 min

    In this audiobook, Nigel Anthony narrates the gripping history of the polar continent, from the great discoveries of the nineteenth century to modern scientific breakthroughsAntarctica, the ice kingdom hosting the South Pole, looms large in the human imagination. The secrets of this vast frozen desert have long tempted explorers, but its brutal climate and glacial shores notoriously resist human ... Read more

    $17.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    Rumpole: The Age of Miracles & other stories

    Three BBC Radio 4 dramatisations

    Unabridged

    2 hours 12 min

    Benedict Cumberbatch plays Horace Rumpole in this fourth collection of dramatic court casesRumpole and the Bubble ReputationErskine-Brown is working on a sordid ABH and affray case which allegedly occurred in a Soho night club. When he and Rumpole visit the disreputable scene of the crime, they meet Maurice Machin, the editor of the Daily Beacon, whose paper is being sued for libel.Rumpole and the ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Nostromo

    Narrated by Nigel Anthony ...

    Unabridged

    18 hours 8 min

    Set in the fictional South American country of Costaguana, Nostromo explores the volatile politics and crippling greed surrounding the San Tomé silver mine. The story of power, love, revolutions, loyalty and reward is told with richly evocative description and brilliantly realised characters. But Nostromo is more than an adventure story; it is also a profoundly dark moral fable. Its language is as ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Lady Susan

    Unabridged

    2 hours 30 min

    Lady Susan was the first of Jane Austen’s novels to be completed. An epistolary novel in eighteenth-century style, it tells the story of the recently widowed Lady Susan Vernon, intelligent but highly manipulative, who is intent on gaining financially secure relationships for both herself and her wayward but shy teenage daughter Frederica. Less known than Austen’s six great later novels, it ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus