Audio Books

Space Mutiny is a remake of the 1988 B-Movie of the same name. This 4 CD set is housed in a mini box set with a booklet featuring producer's notes, behind the scenes pictures, a star chart and a dedication to Richard Hatch.1. Space Mutiny 2. Fail Safe 3...

Sheridan's most famous play, the School for Scandal, has been called the best existing English comedy of intrigue. A favorite with audiences and critics alike since it's premier in 1777, this play is a classic English comedy of manners. Full of satirical...

Set in the fictional South American country of Costaguana, Nostromo explores the volatile politics and crippling greed surrounding the San Tom silver mine. The story of power, love, revolutions, loyalty and reward is told with richly evocative...

Sarajevo, in the 1990s, is a hellish place. The ongoing war devours human life, tears families apart and transforms even banal routines, such as acquiring water, into life-threatening expeditions. Day after day, a cellist stations himself in the midst of...

Prince Lef Mikolayevitch Muishkin is one of the great characters in Russian literature. Is he a saint or just naive, an idealist or, as many in General Yepanchin's society feel, an idiot? Certainly, his return to St Petersburg after years in a Swiss...

One of the best anthologies of the year... An arresting, deeply moving collection of the best of British poetry read by a star-studded cast.' - the Independent This exceptional anthology, based on Lord Owen' published anthology Seven Ages - Poetry for a...

How did the great scientists make their remarkable discoveries? And what kind of men were they? This companion volume to Inventors and their Inventions introduces the work of ten men to younger readers, and range from the world of Ancient Greece to the...

Historical recordings of actors from the beginning of the recording era. CD 1: Historical Shakespeare performances by Ainley, John Barrymore, Bourchier, Casson, Forbes-Robertson, John Geilgud (1920s and 1940s). CD 2: A miscellany. Some startling...

Hedda Gabler, a deceased General's daughter, marries dull George Tesman and foresees a life of middleclass tedium stretching ahead when they return from a honeymoon they could not afford to a house they cannot afford. Increasingly, she is drawn into the...

From Socrates to Charles I, Danton to Lincoln here are some of history's most significant figures with their most important speeches. Fighting for justice, for freedom of speech, and sometimes even for their own lives, these orators demonstrate the...

Four more delightful tales from one of the most entertaining storytellers of all time. Though writing in the thirteenth century, Chaucer's wit and observation comes down undiminished through the ages, especially in this accessible modern verse...

Demobilised officer, finding peace incredibly tedious, would welcome diversion. Legitimate if possible; excitement essential. When Captain Hugh Drummond, DSO, MC placed that advertisement, he was looking for adventure. What he finds is an international...