This Sceptred Isle
Author: Christopher Lee
Reader: Anna Massey
List price: £150.00
Our Price: £75.00
Publisher: BBC Audiobooks Ltd
Format: CD-Audio
A boxed set of 28 CDs of a major Radio 4 series telling the history of Britain from the Roman invasion to the death of Victoria. Narrated by Anna Massey, the series includes extracts from Churchill's "A History of the English-speaking Peoples", read by Paul Eddington and Peter Jeffrey. Covers 55BC - 1901.

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Letters To My Grandchildren
Author: Tony Benn
Reader: Tony Benn
List price: £14.99
Publisher: Random House Audiobooks
Format: CD-Audio
As a diarist I have chronicled the time through which I have lived in meticulous detail: but all that is history. What matters now is the future for those who will live through it. The past is the past but there may be lessons to be learned which could help the next generation to avoid mistakes their parents and grandparents made. Certainly at my age I have learned an enormous amount from the study of history - not so much from the political leaders of the time but from those who struggled for justice and explained the world in a way that shows the continuity of history and has inspired me to do my work.

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The Secret Pilgrim
Author: John Le Carre
List price: £15.99
Publisher: BBC Audiobooks Ltd
Format: CD-Audio
Simon Russell Beale stars in this BBC Radio full-cast dramatisation of John le Carre's last "Smiley" novel. 'A radio triumph...Simon Russell Beale's pitch-perfect master spy' - "Financial Times". George Smiley is one of the most brilliantly realised characters in British fiction. Bespectacled, tubby, eternally middle-aged and deceptively ordinary, he has a mind like a steel trap and is said to possess 'the cunning of Satan and the conscience of a virgin'. The Berlin Wall is down, the Cold War is over, but the world's second oldest profession is very much alive. Smiley accepts an invitation to dine with the eager young men and women of the Circus' latest intake; and over coffee and brandy, by flickering firelight, he beguilingly offers them his personal thoughts on espionage past, present and future.

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Judi Dench and Michael Williams: With Great Pleasure
List price: £12.99
Publisher: BBC Audiobooks Ltd
Format: CD-Audio
This title features two archive BBC Radio programmes in which Judi Dench and Michael Williams, accompanied by friends John Moffatt and Alec McCowen, read a cornucopia of poetry and prose. In this enchanting pair of programmes from 1991 and 1996, Dame Judi Dench and husband Michael Williams shared an eclectic selection of pieces that they loved, admired or simply found entertaining.

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Ford County
Author: John Grisham
Reader: John Grisham
List price: £16.99
Publisher: Random House Audiobooks
Format: CD-Audio
In his first collection of short stories John Grisham takes us back to Ford County, Mississippi, the setting of his first novel, "A Time to Kill". Wheelchair-bound Inez Graney and her two older sons, Leon and Butch, take a bizarre road trip through the Mississippi Delta to visit the youngest Graney brother, Raymond, who's been locked away on death row for 11 years.

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The Infinities
Author: John Banville
Reader: Julian Rhind-Tutt
List price: £19.99
Publisher: Macmillan Digital Audio
Format: CD-Audio
One midsummer's day in Arden, the Godley family gather at their dying father's bedside, a collection of troubled individuals and fraying relationships. The gods, those mischievous spirits, look on silently; unable to resist intervening, they spy, tease and seduce their mortal playthings.

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The Long Song
Author: Andrea Levy
List price: £19.99
Publisher: Hachette Audio
Format: CD-Audio
You do not know me yet. My son Thomas, who is publishing this book, tells me, it is customary at this place in a novel to give the reader a little taste of the story that is held within these pages. As your storyteller, I am to convey that this tale is set in Jamaica during the last turbulent years of slavery and the early years of freedom that followed. July is a slave girl who lives upon a sugar plantation named Amity and it is her life that is the subject of this tale.

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The Forgotten Highlander
Author: Alastair Urquhart
Reader: David Rintoul
List price: £14.99
Publisher: Hachette Audio
Format: CD-Audio
Alistair Urquhart was a soldier in the Gordon Highlanders captured by the Japanese in Singapore. He not only survived working on the notorious Bridge on the River Kwai , but he was subsequently taken on one of the Japanese 'hellships' which was torpedoed.

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