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Ozzy & Me

Life Lessons, Wild Stories, and Unexpected Epiphanies from Forty Years of Friendship with the Prince of Darkness

by Stephen Rea, Jack Osbourne ...

An entertaining, heartwarming memoir detailing the adventures and valuable life lessons learned from the author’s four decades of friendship with Ozzy Osbourne and the Osbourne family.Stephen Rea was born in Northern Ireland in 1969, the same year “The Troubles” began. Violence was everywhere. His grandmother was nearly killed when gunmen opened fire on the wrong house, leaving young Stephen to ... Read more

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An entertaining, heartwarming memoir detailing the adventures and valuable life lessons learned from the author’s four decades of friendship with Ozzy Osbourne and the Osbourne family.Stephen Rea was born in Northern Ireland in 1969, the same year “The Troubles” began. Violence was everywhere. His grandmother was nearly killed when gunmen opened fire on the wrong house, leaving young Stephen to
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Finn McCool's Football Club

The Birth, Death, and Resurrection of a Pub Soccer Team in the City of the Dead

by Stephen Rea ...

"This is a book for fans of New Orleans, of the universal ball game, of ex-pats and of pubs. Score 10-nil for Rea and the McCools."--The Irish American Post"Rea's book brings one of the biggest stories of the century down to a touching, emotional, personal level in a solid debut effort."--Phil Schoen, GolTV commentatorAfter jetting around the world, Stephen Rea left Belfast to settle in New ... Read more

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"This is a book for fans of New Orleans, of the universal ball game, of ex-pats and of pubs. Score 10-nil for Rea and the McCools."--The Irish American Post"Rea's book brings one of the biggest stories of the century down to a touching, emotional, personal level in a solid debut effort."--Phil Schoen, GolTV commentatorAfter jetting around the world, Stephen Rea left Belfast to settle in New
... Read more
World Cup Fever

A Fanatic's Guide to the Stars, Teams, Stories, Controversy, and Excitement of Sports' Greatest Event

by Stephen Rea ...

For the Summer 2018 World Cup, the ultimate book for soccer fans around the globe!The world will be riveted by the globe’s greatest sporting event in summer of 2018 (more than 27 million Americans watched the final game of the last tournament in Brazil). The 2018 edition will bring the sports’s greatest stars together, but who will take home the trophy?favorites Germany, France, Brazil, Argentina? ... Read more

$10.99 USD

For the Summer 2018 World Cup, the ultimate book for soccer fans around the globe!The world will be riveted by the globe’s greatest sporting event in summer of 2018 (more than 27 million Americans watched the final game of the last tournament in Brazil). The 2018 edition will bring the sports’s greatest stars together, but who will take home the trophy?favorites Germany, France, Brazil, Argentina?
... Read more
Finn McCool's Football Club

The Birth, Death, and Resurrection of a Pub Soccer Team in the City of the Dead

by Stephen Rea ...

In 2004, Belfast-born Stephen Rea moved to New Orleans, a city where "football" means something entirely different than what it does back home. After struggling to find a place to watch European soccer games, Rea discovered Finn McCool's pub and its mixed clientele of good-humored European ex-pats, charismatic New Orleanians, and assorted matchless personalities. Before long he was playing on the ... Read more

$12.99 USD

In 2004, Belfast-born Stephen Rea moved to New Orleans, a city where "football" means something entirely different than what it does back home. After struggling to find a place to watch European soccer games, Rea discovered Finn McCool's pub and its mixed clientele of good-humored European ex-pats, charismatic New Orleanians, and assorted matchless personalities. Before long he was playing on the
... Read more
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The James Joyce BBC Radio Collection

Ulysses, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man & Dubliners

by James Joyce, Gordon Bowker ...

Narrated by Andrew Scott, Frances Barber, Full Cast, Henry Goodman, Jim Norton, Niamh Cusack, Stephen Rea ...

Unabridged

13 hours 12 min

Three BBC radio productions of major works by James Joyce – plus Gordon Bowker’s fascinating biographical account of his lifeUlyssesIn this full-cast dramatisation of Joyce’s epic modernist novel, the stories of Stephen Dedalus and Leopold Bloom combine as they meander through Dublin in the course of one day, 16 June 1904. Andrew Scott stars as Stephen, with Henry Goodman as Bloom, Niamh Cusack< ... Read more

$19.99 USD

Three BBC radio productions of major works by James Joyce – plus Gordon Bowker’s fascinating biographical account of his lifeUlyssesIn this full-cast dramatisation of Joyce’s epic modernist novel, the stories of Stephen Dedalus and Leopold Bloom combine as they meander through Dublin in the course of one day, 16 June 1904. Andrew Scott stars as Stephen, with Henry Goodman as Bloom, Niamh Cusack<
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Sophocles’ Greek Tragedies: A BBC Radio Drama Collection

Oedipus, Antigone, Electra and more

by Sophocles ...

Narrated by Fiona Shaw, Kristin Scott-Thomas, Kenneth Cranham, Vinette Robinson, Stephen Rea, John Lynch, Nadine Marshall, Brendan Gleeson, Jack Lowden, Russell Dixon, Michael Feast, William Ash, Jude Akuwudike, Diana Quick, Full cast ...

Unabridged

6 hours 27 min

A collection of full-cast dramatisations of Sophocles’ finest Greek tragediesOne of the three great tragic playwrights of ancient Greece, Sophocles wrote over 120 plays during his 60-year career, though only seven survive today. The most famous of these are the Theban Plays, all three of which are included in this collection alongside adaptations of Electra and Philoctetes, brought to life by ... Read more

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A collection of full-cast dramatisations of Sophocles’ finest Greek tragediesOne of the three great tragic playwrights of ancient Greece, Sophocles wrote over 120 plays during his 60-year career, though only seven survive today. The most famous of these are the Theban Plays, all three of which are included in this collection alongside adaptations of Electra and Philoctetes, brought to life by
... Read more
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Book at Bedtime: A BBC Radio Collection

10 Unmissable Classics

by Robert Louis Stevenson, Jane Austen, Thomas Hardy, Henry James, Jerome K. Jerome, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, Ford Madox Ford, F.M. Mayor, Charlotte Brontë ...

Narrated by Juliet Stevenson, Samuel West, Anne-Marie Duff, Alan Cumming, Amanda Hale, Hugh Laurie, Stephen Rea, Douglas Hodge, Toby Stephens ...

Unabridged

26 hours 33 min

A bumper collection of accessible classics from the perennially popular BBC Radio 4 seriesThis diverse, wide-ranging anthology features readings of 10 of the greatest books in the English language, taken from the BBC's Book at Bedtime and performed by a stellar cast of narrators. Here are nearly 27 hours of sensational stories, from iconic romances and humorous travelogues to pioneering Modernist ... Read more

$21.99 USD

A bumper collection of accessible classics from the perennially popular BBC Radio 4 seriesThis diverse, wide-ranging anthology features readings of 10 of the greatest books in the English language, taken from the BBC's Book at Bedtime and performed by a stellar cast of narrators. Here are nearly 27 hours of sensational stories, from iconic romances and humorous travelogues to pioneering Modernist
... Read more
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Ulysses

by James Joyce ...

Narrated by Full Cast, Sinead Cusack, Stephen Rea ...

Unabridged

7 hours 25 min

The young poet Stephen has been recalled from Paris to Dublin to be at his mother’s deathbed. But he refuses her dying wishes: to kneel and pray for her. Now, holed up in his Martello tower outside the city walls, he has to suffer the taunts of Buck Mulligan by day and, by night, the vision of ‘her eyes, shaking out of death to shake and bend my soul.’ Timelessly evocative, Ulysses is far more ... Read more

$13.99 USD

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The young poet Stephen has been recalled from Paris to Dublin to be at his mother’s deathbed. But he refuses her dying wishes: to kneel and pray for her. Now, holed up in his Martello tower outside the city walls, he has to suffer the taunts of Buck Mulligan by day and, by night, the vision of ‘her eyes, shaking out of death to shake and bend my soul.’ Timelessly evocative, Ulysses is far more
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Ozzy & Me

Life Lessons, Wild Stories, and Unexpected Epiphanies from Forty Years of Friendship with the Prince of Darkness

by Stephen Rea ...

Narrated by Simon Slater ...

Unabridged

9 hours 24 min

An entertaining, heartwarming memoir detailing the adventures and valuable life lessons learned from the author’s four decades of friendship with Ozzy Osbourne and the Osbourne family.Stephen Rea was born in Northern Ireland in 1969, the same year “The Troubles” began. Violence was everywhere. His grandmother was nearly killed when gunmen opened fire on the wrong house, leaving young Stephen to ... Read more

$25.99 USD

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An entertaining, heartwarming memoir detailing the adventures and valuable life lessons learned from the author’s four decades of friendship with Ozzy Osbourne and the Osbourne family.Stephen Rea was born in Northern Ireland in 1969, the same year “The Troubles” began. Violence was everywhere. His grandmother was nearly killed when gunmen opened fire on the wrong house, leaving young Stephen to
... Read more

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The Well of Saint Nobody

by Neil Jordan ...

Narrated by Stephen Rea ...

Unabridged

7 hours 38 min

William Barrow finds himself in lonely retirement in West Cork. Once an internationally renowned pianist, a terrible skin disease has attacked his hands and made it impossible for him to perform.Tara is a piano teacher with barely enough pupils to pay the month's rent. In the local café, the elegant writing of a job advertisement catches her eye: 'WANTED. HOUSEKEEPER.'She begins to work in William ... Read more

$13.99 USD

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William Barrow finds himself in lonely retirement in West Cork. Once an internationally renowned pianist, a terrible skin disease has attacked his hands and made it impossible for him to perform.Tara is a piano teacher with barely enough pupils to pay the month's rent. In the local café, the elegant writing of a job advertisement catches her eye: 'WANTED. HOUSEKEEPER.'She begins to work in William
... Read more

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Banned Books: A BBC Radio Drama Collection

Four Full-Cast Dramatisations of Modern Classics

by James Joyce, Radclyffe Hall, Aldous Huxley, George Orwell ...

Narrated by Andrew Scott, Niamh Cusack, Valerie Edmond, Jonathan Coy, Anton Lesser, Tim Piggott-Smith, Pippa Nixon, Christopher Eccleston, Henry Goodman, Stephen Rea, Justin Salinger, Full Cast ...

Unabridged

10 hours 50 min

Four modern masterpieces that dared to push boundaries and disrupt the status quoDeviant. Depraved. Dangerous. Denounced for their transgressive themes and inflammatory ideas, these 20th-century classics have all been considered so seditious that they had to be suppressed. Find out what made these iconic works so threatening to governments worldwide in these superlative dramatisations, featuring ... Read more

$19.99 USD

Four modern masterpieces that dared to push boundaries and disrupt the status quoDeviant. Depraved. Dangerous. Denounced for their transgressive themes and inflammatory ideas, these 20th-century classics have all been considered so seditious that they had to be suppressed. Find out what made these iconic works so threatening to governments worldwide in these superlative dramatisations, featuring
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A Conspiracy of Lies

A Political Thriller - The Dublin Bombings, 1974.

by Frank Connolly, Frank Connolly ...

Narrated by Stephen Rea ...

Unabridged

8 hours 58 min

'A propulsive and gripping political thriller hewn from one of The Trouble's darkest days, Connolly skilfully blends fact and fiction to arrive at something that feels blazingly true. A blistering read.' —Noel O'Regan' An essential and disturbing novel that describes the bombing of Dublin 50 years ago with insights into the ensuing cover-up'—Christy Moore'This is a vivid and absorbing fictional ... Read more

$35.99 USD

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'A propulsive and gripping political thriller hewn from one of The Trouble's darkest days, Connolly skilfully blends fact and fiction to arrive at something that feels blazingly true. A blistering read.' —Noel O'Regan' An essential and disturbing novel that describes the bombing of Dublin 50 years ago with insights into the ensuing cover-up'—Christy Moore'This is a vivid and absorbing fictional
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