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  • The Hare with Amber Eyes: A Hidden Inheritance

    "An Excellent Book"

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    I enjoyed every aspect of this reading, the reader's voice was perfect, in fact, there were many moments I imagined it was the author himself speaking.



    The story is told so well and covers many countries and huge world and life-changing events in a clear and personal way.



    It made me think about acquisitions, about art's place in history and about the difference between oriental and occidental art in our culture.



    Well worth listening to for a thoughtful and evocative read!

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    The Hare with Amber Eyes: A Hidden Inheritance

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    • By Edmund de Waal
    • Narrated By Michael Maloney
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    Winner of the 2010 COSTA Biography Award. A total of 264 wood and ivory carvings, none of them larger than a matchbox: potter Edmund de Waal was entranced when he first encountered the collection in the Tokyo apartment of his Great Uncle Iggie. Later, when Edmund inherited the 'netsuke', they unlocked a story far larger than he could ever have imagined....

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  • The Complete Barchester Chronicles (Dramatisation)
    The Complete Barchester Chronicles (Dramatisation)

    "Pure Trollopian Delight!"

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    Absolutely enchanting - nearly 20 hours of pure Victorian predjudices, values, witicisms and ironies - truly irresistable

  • War and Peace (Dramatised)
    War and Peace (Dramatised)

    "An easy-listening epic !"

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    Superb from beginning to end, an absolute joy to listen to with music that will stir your soul, this is most definitely the way to embrace War and Peace.

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  • Story: Substance, Structure, Style, and the Principles of Screenwriting
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    Story: Substance, Structure, Style, and the Principles of Screenwriting

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    Robert McKee's screenwriting workshops have earned him an international reputation for inspiring novices, refining works in progress, and putting major screenwriting careers back on track. Quincy Jones, Diane Keaton, Gloria Steinem, Julia Roberts, John Cleese, and David Bowie are just a few of his celebrity alumni. Writers, producers, development executives, and agents all flock to his lecture series, praising it as a mesmerizing and intense learning experience.

    Teemu says: "Just great"
  • The War of the Worlds: Classic Radio Sci-Fi (Dramatised)
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    The War of the Worlds: Classic Radio Sci-Fi (Dramatised)

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    • By H. G. Wells
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    When a Martian spacecraft lands on Woking Common, mankind is terrorised by aliens in tall, armoured capsules which stalk the countryside on three legs. The machines wreak havoc on London and the Southern Counties, and survivors are driven underground. Scientist John Nicholson (Paul Daneman) tells how he was plunged into a paralysing nightmare of stark terror, savage madness and utter destruction.

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  • The History of Western Art
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    The History of Western Art

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    • By Peter Whitfield
    • Narrated By Sebastian Comberti
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    What is art? Why do we value images of saints, kings, goddesses, battles, landscapes or cities from eras of history utterly remote from ourselves? This history of art shows how painters, sculptors and architects have expressed the belief systems of their age: religious, political and aesthetic. From the ancient civilisations of Egypt, Mesopotamia and Greece, to the revolutionary years of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the artist has acted as a mirror to the ideals and conflicts of the human mind.

    Alun says: "Not entirely what was expected"
  • The Good, The Bad and The Multiplex
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    In It's Only a Movie, the incomparable Mark Kermode took us into the weird world of a film critic's life lived in widescreen. Now, The Good, The Bad and the Multiplex takes us into the belly of the beast to ask: 'What's wrong with the modern movie business - and how can we make it right?'

    Joseph says: "Most definitely 'The Good'"
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  • How Music Works: The Science and Psychology of Beautiful Sounds, from Beethoven to the Beatles and Beyond
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    How Music Works: The Science and Psychology of Beautiful Sounds, from Beethoven to the Beatles and Beyond

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    Have you ever wondered how off-key you are while singing in the shower? Or if your Bob Dylan albums really sound better on vinyl? Or why certain songs make you cry? Now, scientist and musician John Powell invites you on an entertaining journey through the world of music. Discover what distinguishes music from plain old noise, how scales help you memorize songs, what the humble recorder teaches you about timbre (assuming your suffering listeners don't break it first), and more.

    M.J. says: "Music is my business"
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    The quintessential grumpy old man, Barry Cryer's standup combines the quick wit of Radio 4 with the charm and class of the "Great Men of Comedy". He has been a regular panelist on I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue and Just a Minute, the latter of which he also chaired. In 1998, Barry wrote his autobiography, You Won't Believe This But..., which has been broadcast on Radio 4.

    Bob says: "Be prepared to laugh aloud......"
  • The Oscar Wilde Collection
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    • By Oscar Wilde
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    Four classic comedies from one of the wittiest playwrights in Western literature: Lady Windermere's Fan, A Woman of No Importance, An Ideal Husband and The Importance of Being Earnest, all featuring star-studded casts with the likes of Jacqueline Bisset, Miriam Margolyes, James Marsters, Alfred Molina, Roger Rees, Yeardley Smith, Eric Stoltz, and many more. Also includes a chilling dramatization of Wilde's sole novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray.

  • John Lennon: The Life, Volume 1
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    John Lennon: The Life, Volume 1

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    For more than a quarter of a century, Philip Norman's internationally best-selling Shout! has been unchallenged as the definitive biography of the Beatles. Now, at last, Norman turns his formidable talent to the Beatle for whom belonging to the world's most beloved pop group was never enough. Drawing on previously untapped sources, and with unprecedented access to all the major characters, here is the most complete and revealing portrait of John Lennon that is ever likely to be published.

    Paul says: "Volume 1.....Looking forward to Volume 2!"
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  • The Complete Barchester Chronicles (Dramatisation)
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    Here is a new audio edition of the acclaimed BBC Radio 4 dramatisations of Anthony Trollope's gently satirical tales of provincial life, available together in one download. Nearly 20 hours of ironic, witty, and wonderfully written drama is contained in this audiobook. The cast includes Anna Massey, Alex Jennings, David Haig, Rosemary Leach, Kenneth Cranham, Emma Fielding, and Brenda Blethyn.

    Ian says: "Barchester comes alive!"
  • Bleak Expectations: The Complete Second Series
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    Bleak Expectations is the remarkable adventures of young Philip Bin as he struggles to rescue himself and his sisters from the plotting of his guardian, the scheming, evil and badly-named Mr Gently Benevolent, and the blood-curdling Hardthrasher brothers.

    Sm says: "Hilarious"
  • The Nation's Favourite Poems
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    In a nationwide poll conducted by BBC Television's Bookworm to find the nation's favourite poem, Rudyard Kipling's "If" was voted number one. This compilation brings together over 40 poems from the poll, including the top 10, all stirringly read by John Nettles, Siobhàn Redmond, Greg Wise, and Emma Fielding.

    Peter says: "The Nation's Favourite Poems"
  • Bleak Expectations: The Complete First Series
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    A Victorian epic of awful schools inc the aptly named St Bastards, worse prisons, nuns at St Bitches, giant rabbits, and long lost super-hero aunts, in the style of Charles Dickens after far too much gin.

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  • The News from Lake Wobegon from A Prairie Home Companion, June 15, 2013
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    "It's been a quiet week in Lake Wobegon, my hometown..." Garrison Keillor first did his monologue in 1974 to an audience of 20 in a St. Paul theater. Today, more than 2.2 million people tune in each week to hear the tall tales and sweet stories about the citizens of this small Minnesota town. It's a town where "the women are strong, the men are good-looking, and all of the children are above average."

  • A Pianist Under the Influence
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    A Pianist Under the Influence

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    • By Jonathan Biss
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    A Pianist Under the Influence reflects on Biss' lifelong, intense, multilayered relationship with the composer's music and historical treatment. As Biss writes from the unique position of performer, scholar, and fan, his work is both a personal and professional love letter to the 19th-century composer. An engaging listen for anyone interested in the creative process, it also includes a guide for listeners who wish to delve further into the material.

  • The Crowd, The Critic, and the Muse: A Book for Creators
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    The Crowd, The Critic, and the Muse: A Book for Creators

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    In The Crowd, the Critic, and the Muse, Michael Gungor takes an uncompromising - and humorous - look at our creative selves and the world that we have fashioned around us. Through story and reflection, Gungor shows how our deepest beliefs and assumptions about the universe affect how we order creation. Surveying pop songs and church services, fine art and movies, Gungor shows what these works of creation reveal about us - for better and worse - and offers a powerful argument for why we can do better.

  • Beethoven's Shadow
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    Beethoven's Shadow

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    The American pianist Jonathan Biss is known to audiences throughout the world for his artistry, musical intelligence and deeply felt interpretations. What is less known until now is that Jonathan Biss writes about music in a most compelling and engaging way. For anyone who has ever enjoyed a Beethoven concert or a Beethoven recording or one of the many films about Beethoven, this audiobook is an inspiring listening experience. For those of you who have heard Beethoven in concert or listened to a Beethoven recording, Jonathan Biss takes you behind the scenes of those performances.

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  • The News from Lake Wobegon from A Prairie Home Companion, June 08, 2013
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    The News from Lake Wobegon from A Prairie Home Companion, June 08, 2013

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    Lais

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  • Curious Perception: Poetry Inspired by Life Experiences, Emotions & Thoughts
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    This is a collection of poetry inspired by life experiences, emotions and thoughts.

  • The Prelude: Growth of a Poet's Mind: An Autobiographical Poem
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    Wordsworth's The Prelude is the consummation of his achievement as the great founder of English romanticism. An autobiography in verse, it tells of his childhood in the Lake District, his student days in Cambridge, his passion for the French Revolution and his later disenchantment with it. It also tells of his personal journey to a belief in Nature as the great moral and spiritual force which shapes human life, but on which human society all too often turns its back.

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  • Changing Lives: Gustavo Dudamel, El Sistema, and the Transformative Power of Music
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    Changing Lives: Gustavo Dudamel, El Sistema, and the Transformative Power of Music

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    When Gustavo Dudamel, at the age of 28, ascended the podium at the Hollywood Bowl for his inaugural concert as conductor of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, he immediately captivated the hearts of his audience, just as he had the minds of music critics who designated him a modern-day Leonard Bernstein. In Changing Lives, the maestro's story becomes the entry point to an equally captivating subject: El Sistema, the music education program that nurtured his musical talent, first as a young violinist and then as a budding conductor under the mentorship of its founder, Jos Antonio Abreu.

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    Seven at the Sevens is a collection of stories, poems, and thoughts, all exactly seven words long. Among the contributors are a senior Harvard executive, a senior software engineer from MIT, a classically trained musician, a securities trader and entrepreneur, a psychologist as well as a scientist for Harvard Medical School, and a world-renowned biomedical researcher from Cornell who has focused the past 30 years of his life on studying Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases.

  • Love is... (Volume 1)
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    Love is... (Volume 1)

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    Love is... is a collection of poems that chronicles the timeless nature of being in love by the American poet and writer S. D. Webb. Among the poems in the collection are "Just Because" and "What is Love?".

  • The News from Lake Wobegon from A Prairie Home Companion, June 01, 2013
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    "It's been a quiet week in Lake Wobegon, my hometown..." Garrison Keillor first did his monologue in 1974 to an audience of 20 in a St. Paul theater. Today, more than 2.2 million people tune in each week to hear the tall tales and sweet stories about the citizens of this small Minnesota town. It's a town where "the women are strong, the men are good-looking, and all of the children are above average."