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ID: 297212

Title: Christina Georgina Rossetti: The Poetry

Author: Christina Georgina Rossetti

Narrator: Ghizela Rowe, Richard Mitchley

Format: Abridged

Length: 00:58:55

Language: English

Release date: 05-04-17

Publisher: The Copyright Group Ltd.

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Poetry

Summary:

Christina Georgina Rossetti - An Introduction. Christina was born in London in 1830 one of four children who were all to become artists and writers. Educated at home, her life was filled with the Italian influences of her Father and the wide ranging interests of her mother. She began to write at age 12 as her Fathers health broke and the family's descended to near poverty. She first published aged 18 and over the following decade her writing was to flourish and in 1860 her most famous work Goblin Market was released and her reputation was set. A sufferer from Graves disease from the 1870's she also developed breast cancer which subsequently recurred and was to cause her death in 1894. She is buried in Highgate Cemetery. Our poems are; Christina Georgina Rossetti - An Introduction, A Birthday, A Pause Of Thought, A Study, A Soul, Sonnets Are Full Of Love, Dreamland; Echo, By The Sea, Ferry Me Across The Water, Frog & Toad, If A Mouse Could Fly, The City Mouse And The Country Mouse, Lambs At Play, A Spring Carol, In The Willow Shade, Summer, Summer Is Ended, If All Were Rain And Never Sun, An October Garden, Christmas Eve, Good Friday, A Years Windfalls, How Many Seconds In A Minute, Who Has Seen The World, Wife To Husband, Bitter For Sweet, If Stars Dropped Out Of Heaven, An Emerald Is As Green As Grass, Is The Moon Tired, Goblin Market, In The Bleak Midwinter, Winter - My Secret, January Cold Desolate, After This The Judgement, After Death, Sappho, Goodbye In Fear Goodbye In Sorrow, Dead Before Death, Life And Death, Remember & Requiem. Among our readers are David Shaw-Parker and Ghizela Rowe.

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ID: 296439

Title: Auf Wiedersehen Pet: The Magnificent Seven

Author: Fred Taylor

Narrator: Christopher Fairbanks

Format: Abridged

Length: 02:46:26

Language: English

Release date: 05-04-17

Publisher: The Copyright Group Ltd.

Genres: Fiction & Literature, General

Summary:

Settled in Germany in a Stalag-like hut on a desolate building site, a very long way from home, the three 'likely lads' from Newcastle ricochet from one disaster to another, with their four very unlikely companions - a gentle giant from Somerset, an over-sexed Cockney, a bike riding Brummie and a dodgy Scouser.... An exceptionally talented actor, Christopher Fairbanks brings The Magnificent Seven to life with great warmth and humour.

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ID: 297021

Title: Ghost Train

Author: Arnold Ridley

Narrator: James McNicholas, Julia Burchell, Katy Manning

Format: Unabridged

Length: 01:33:23

Language: English

Release date: 05-04-17

Publisher: The Copyright Group Ltd.

Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy

Summary:

Thanks to the mindless actions of Teddy Deakin, a group of mismatched rail passengers find themselves stranded in a dark and isolated station, having missed the last connection of the night. Tales of superstition prevail as the local station master - unable to persuade them to leave - reveals that very night, twenty years ago, a train crashed leaving a number of passengers dead. Legend has it, that the station is still haunted as the train relives its final moments as it roars through the station to its demise. The passengers begin to panic as the body of the station master is found on the platform, and a mysterious young lady arrives, foretelling the oncoming of the Ghost Train...

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ID: 296882

Title: Nonsense Verse

Author: Edward Lear, Lewis Carroll

Narrator: Ghizela Rowe, Nigel Planer

Format: Unabridged

Length: 00:46:14

Language: English

Release date: 05-04-17

Publisher: The Copyright Group Ltd.

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Poetry

Summary:

Nonsense Verse. Each of us has giggled uncontrollably as a child or adult at some silly nothing, some play on words, some nonsense that, for a moment at least, makes the world seem genuinely funny if a little mad. In this volume of Nonsense verse you'll find many favourites to take you back to the time and place where most things are a little upside down or back to front including favourites from Edward Lear, Lewis Carroll and quite a few others to giggle along with.

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ID: 296860

Title: Ambition

Author: Julie Burchill

Narrator: Georgina Hale

Format: Abridged

Length: 05:17:04

Language: English

Release date: 05-04-17

Publisher: The Copyright Group Ltd.

Genres: Erotica, Modern

Summary:

Julie Burchill is a renowned journalist and prolific columnist whose provocative opinions and observations sometimes create controversy and division but always make for compulsive reading. Her first novel, the bestseller Ambition, have these same ingredients and more as she elevates the sex and shopping formula to an erotic, witty and imaginative account of Susan Street's exploits to reach the top. Wild orgies in exotic locations and political intrigue at home expose a fashionable jet set world that our heroine conquers on her journey propelled by her desperate unyielding and enduring Ambition.Accomplished actress Georgina Hale gives a reading that captures the provocative and sexy mood in indomitable style.

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ID: 296454

Title: Happy Hooker

Author: Xaviera Hollander

Narrator: Xaviera Hollander

Format: Abridged

Length: 03:20:41

Language: English

Release date: 05-04-17

Publisher: The Copyright Group Ltd.

Genres: Erotica, Modern

Summary:

Xaviera Hollander's life as a call girl and Madam in the US was captured here in her frank 1971 landmark book. Whether this open account is a valid contribution to positive writing about sex at a time when this was a rare phenomena or an unnecessarily racy telling to titillate, it cannot be denied that it makes compulsive listening especially with the author's own voicing.

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ID: 296978

Title: Billy Budd

Author: Herman Melville

Narrator: Christopher Timothy

Format: Abridged

Length: 02:20:52

Language: English

Release date: 05-04-17

Publisher: The Copyright Group Ltd.

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Literary Fiction

Summary:

The action of Billy Budd is set within the claustrophobic confines of a British man-of-war ship in the mutiny shadowed summer of 179

7. Here, cramped between decks, live the crew of HMS Indomitable, many of them pressed into service against their will, and all bound by the Royal Navy's iron discipline. The innocent and handsome Billy Budd, however, enjoys naval life. Claggart the evil master-at-arms, loathes such cheerful innocence and, setting out to entrap and ruin the young sailor, accuses him of mutiny. From this false charge springs a naval tragedy.

1. A HANDSOME SAILOR. When a press-gang from the navel vessel HMS Indomitable intercepts the merchant ship Rights-of-Man looking to recruit sailors, they find a prize in Billy Bud, a youthful seaman. Billy's shipmaster, captain Graveling, begs lieutenant Ratcliffe of the warship to leave the boy, but Ratcliffe will not be dissuaded and Billy is willingly taken away. On leaving the Rights-of-Man, he bids the ship farewell, surprisingly the officers of the Indomitable think he is being sarcastic. This is not the case, however, for Billy has an innocent, open nature.

2. AN OFFICER'S DISLIKE Several mutinies disturb the navy in the summer of 1797, but Captain Vere, a man of noble birth and esteemed for his naval abilities aboard the Indomitable, is not over-worried. Billy, too, is happy with life on the warship and is keen to please, especially after he witnesses a flogging. He does, however, get into trouble for small faults, such as stowing his bag wrongly. This worries him because he is conscientious boy and takes his failings seriously. Billy talks to a Danish man, the Dansker, who tells him that John Claggart, the master-at-arms, is 'down' on him. The boy does not believe this because Claggart is so pleasant to him, soon after, when Billy spills some soup on the deck near Claggart, the non-commissioned officer jokes about it, confirming Billy's view. In fact, Claggart has taken a violent dislike to Billy Budd.

3. CLAGGART'S BLACK SOUL Claggart's hatred of Billy springs from his envy of the boy's youth, good looks and innocence. The master-at-arms assumes that Billy returns his hatred and tells one of his underlings to gather, or fabricate, information against the boy. On deck, a few nights later, Billy is woken by an unknown sailor who tries to bribe him to join a mutiny. Billy indignantly scorns the idea but is upset by the offer. He tells the Dansker, who again says that Claggart is against him. Billy, in his innocence, rejects this idea.

4. FALSE ACCUSATION. Billy forgets his worries while busy with daily life at sea. Claggart also seems to smile on him. However, the man is merely biding his time until one day, after an encounter with the enemy, he approaches Captain Vere with damning news. The Captain, who instinctively dislikes Claggart, is annoyed by his comparison of the Indomitable with another ship involved in a recent mutiny, he is also astonished when Claggart claims that Billy is a mutineer. Claggart insists that the boy's innocence is false.

5. MURDEROUS INNOCENCE. Vere, recalling his favourable impressions of Billy, decides to see him and Claggart privately in his cabin. Billy is surprised but not worried to find himself with the two officers, until he is accused of mutiny. Then he is dumbfounded. Vere, observing Billy, guesses that boy is struggling to overcome a stutter and is suffused with anger.

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ID: 297145

Title: Warwickshire Murders

Author: Kevin Turton

Narrator: Phil Reynolds

Format: Unabridged

Length: 03:37:20

Language: English

Release date: 05-04-17

Publisher: The Copyright Group Ltd.

Genres: Non-Fiction, True Crime

Summary:

Warwickshire has seen its fair share of murder down the centuries. This latest collection explores notorious crimes from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, using contemporary documents; trial transcripts and newspaper accounts to examine cases that gripped both the county and the nation.

Warwickshire Murders is a powerful and fascinating reappraisal of some of the most brutal and gruesome killings in the country's history. Among the stories included is the case of Edwin James Moore, who set fire to his murder after an argument over supper at Leamington Spa in 1907, the Coventry bombing in 1939, for which two men were executed in February 1940, and the case of Thomas Ball, who was poisoned by his wife in 1848.

She was later tried and executed in Coventry and was the last woman to be executed in public. From Warwick to Rugby, Coventry to Nuneaton and Stratford to Leamington Spa, Warwickshire Murders is a unique re-examination of the darker side of the county's past and is sure to be a must-listen for true crime enthusiasts everywhere.

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ID: 297146

Title: Waxing Lyrical

Author: Judith Paris

Narrator: Judith Paris

Format: Unabridged

Length: 01:15:04

Language: English

Release date: 05-04-17

Publisher: The Copyright Group Ltd.

Genres: Biography & Memoir

Summary:

"History is an account not of what actually happened, but of what people think happened" Queen Victoria. Marie Tussaud was a remarkable woman. She escaped the guillotine and survived the horrors of the French revolution. She toured the towns of Britain for thirty three hard years with her travelling wax cabinet, fighting off competition against a background of fire, riot, shipwreck and betrayal. She personified persistence, fortitude, dedication and self belief. Why does every one know of her exhibition but no one knows her story?

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ID: 297171

Title: Poetry of October

Author: Christina Rossetti, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Henry Alford, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Thomas Hardy, William Wordsworth

Narrator: Ghizela Rowe, Richard Mitchley

Format: Unabridged

Length: 00:40:13

Language: English

Release date: 05-04-17

Publisher: The Copyright Group Ltd.

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Poetry

Summary:

October - The tenth month of the year in the Gregorian calendar and the land prepares to give up more it its colourful coverings.

On this and other themes our poets including Wordsworth, Rossetti, Arnold, Bryant and Alford have much to say. Among our readers are Richard Mitchley and Ghizela Rowe. The tracks are; October - An Introduction; Song Of The Democratic Review Of It's Birthday, October 1st 1857 By William Ross Wallace; An Ode, Written October 1819 Before The Spaniards Had Recovered Their Liberty By Shelley; Anticipation, October 1803 By William Wordsworth; Embarcation (Southampton Docks, October 1899) By Thomas Hardy; Give Me October's Meditative Haze By Alfred Austin; Hymn For The Celebration At The Laying Of The Cornerstone Of Harvard Memorial Hall, Cambridge, October 6th 1870 By Oliver Wendell Holmes; An October Garden By Christina Georgina Rossetti; North Wind In October By Robert Seymour Bridges; October By George Arnold; On The Tenth Of October By Phillip Henry Savage; October By John Jay Chapman; Through October Fields by James Edwin Campbell; October On The Sheep Range By Arthur Chapman; The National Prayer, October 1840 By Henry Alford; October By John Payne; October By Paul Laurence Dunbar; On The Road To Waterloo, 17th October (En Vigilante, 2 Hours) By Dante Gabriel Rossetti; October By William Cullen Bryant; An October Sunset By Archibald Lampman; October 1915 By Dora Sigerson Shorter; October 21st 1905 By George Meredith; October Musings 1866 By Janet Hamilton; Lines Written October 23rd 1836, A Few Hours After The Birth Of My First Child By Henry Alford; Written At Lovere, October 1736 By Mary Wortley Montagu; On St Crispins Day, October 25th, 1763 By James Wilson Claudero; Octobers Bright Blue Weather By Helen Hunt Jackson; Last Week In October By Thomas Hardy; An October Evening By William Wilfred Campbell; from October - On Nearing Halloween By James Graham.

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