HEATHCOTE WILLIAMS
Sacred Elephant (Unabridged) Heathcote Williams [ Naxos Audiobooks / 2 CD - released 29/Jan/2007 ] Sacred Elephant is a moving portrayal of the world's largest land-living mammal. The poem explores the life of elephants in their natural habitat and in captivity, and details their relentless destruction at the hands of man. Evocatively read by... |
LEW WALLCE
Ben Hur Read by Jeff Harding [ Naxos Audiobooks / 2 CD - released 1/Jan/1994 ] Ben Hur could be said to be the first blockbuster. When it was published in 1880, it sold over two million copies and was translated into numerous languages. It combines all the best elements of popular classic, epic and action story against a... |
Voices Of Black America
[ Naxos Audiobooks / 2 CD - released 1/Jan/2002 ] This unique collection, compiled especially for Naxos AudioBooks, features original recordings from 1908-1946 of Booker T. Washington's Atlanta Exposition Address, the poetry of Paul Laurence Dunbar and Langston Hughes, the rarely heard humour of... |
DARREN HENLEY
Famous Composers Aled Jones (narrator) [ Naxos Audiobooks / 2 CD - released 3/Oct/2005 ] Following on the success of The Story of Classical Music, Darren Henley and Aled Jones combine forces again to tell, in more detail, the lives of six key composers Bach, Vivaldi, Mozart, Beethoven, DvoĆák and Shostakovich. Their colourful lives and... |
THOMAS HARDY
Winter Words Bruce Alexander & Janet Maw [ Naxos Audiobooks / 2 CD - released 1/Apr/2001 ] |
VARIOUS POETS
Classic Poems For Girls Roy McMillan, Laura Paton, Anne-Marie Piazza [ Naxos Audiobooks / CD - released 2/Jul/2012 ] Classic Poems for Girls is a collection of over 25 funny, whimsical and moving poems for 5-10-year olds, designed to fuel the imagination. From the adventures of the Jumblies, who sail away in a sieve, to the sticky end of a girl named Matilda, to... |
Choderlos de Laclos
Dangerous Liaisons Michael Sheen (Reader), Sarah Woodward (Reader), Polly Hayes (Reader) [ Naxos Audiobooks / 3 CD ] |
HERBERT ERNEST BATES
Bates: A Little What You Fancy (unabridged) Philip Franks (narrator) [ Naxos Audiobooks / 6 CD Box Set - released 10/Dec/2016 ] In the third sequel to The Darling Buds of May, Charley and Mariette decide to get baby Blenheim christened, leading to a wholesale christening of all seven of the Larkin children. Chaos abounds as the vicar Mr Candy is run ragged by the naughty... |
MATTHEW ARNOLD
The Great Poets: Matthew Arnold Read by Jonathan Keeble [ Naxos Audiobooks / CD - released 18/Aug/2017 ] Considered the bridge between romanticism and modernism, Matthew Arnold wrote verse that is simple, unadorned and straightforward. From the hypnotic and beautiful lines of Dover Beach to the pastoral narrative of The Scholar Gipsy, Arnold cast a gaze... |
RICHARD FAWKES
Fawkes: The History Of Classical Music (Unabridged) Read by Robert Powell [ Naxos Audiobooks / 4 CD Box Set - released 28/Jun/2004 ] From Gregorian Chant to Henryk Gorecki, the first living classical composer to get into the pop album charts, here is the fascinating story of over a thousand years of Western classical music. |
RICHARD FAWKES
Fawkes: The History Of Opera (Unabridged) Read by Robert Powell [ Naxos Audiobooks / 4 CD Box Set - released 1/Aug/2005 ] Since its origins in the sixteenth century, opera has been an extravagant, costly affair, arousing great passions. It has also produced some of the most sublime works of art, from Monteverdi to Wagner. .. |
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Macbeth (Unabridged) Stephen Dillane/ David Timson / Bruce Alexander / Fiona Shaw [ Naxos Audiobooks / 3 CD Box Set - released 27/Jun/2005 ] Macbeth, Shakespeare's last great tragedy, has remained one of the most popular plays since it's first performance in 1606-probably in front of King James. This exciting new audiobook production is directed with fresh imagination by Fiona Shaw who... |
SHAKESPEARE / KEATS / CLARE / BLAKE / etc
Poetry For The Winter Season James Barraclough, Ron Bloomfield, Christine Dimble, Roger McGough, James Murphy, Hazel Pardon, and others [ Naxos Audiobooks / 2 CD - released 2/Oct/2006 ] In November 2005, hundreds of people submitted recordings of Shakespeare, Wordsworth and Roger McGough in an attempt to win a prize - participation in the recording of this new poetry collection by Christina Hardyment, historian and audiobook... |
ANONYMOUS
The Revelation of St John the Divine Read by Heathcote Williams [ Naxos Audiobooks / CD - released 1/Jan/1999 ] The theme of Revelation is apocalypse: the end of the world and the coming of Christ in judgement. The date of the composition was probably some time in the nineties AD. One of the most controversal and quoted texts of the New Testament, The... |
Farley Mowat
Never Cry Wolf Read by Adam Sims [ Naxos Audiobooks / 4 CD - released 5/Jul/2010 ] More than half a century ago, the naturalist Farley Mowat accepted an assignment to investigate why wolves were killing Arctic caribou. Mowat's account of the summer he lived in the frozen tundra alone - studying the wolf population and developing a... |
HENRY JAMES
James: The Europeans (Unabridged) Adam Sims (narrator) [ Naxos Audiobooks / 6 CD Box Set - released 30/Jan/2018 ] After the collapse of her marriage to an illustrious German prince, Baroness Eugenia Münster arrives in America with her brother, in search of wealthy New England relatives. The duo have an immediate impact on their American cousins, the Wentworths.... |
WILLIAM LINDSAY GRESHAM
Nightmare Alley (Unabridged) Adam Sims (narrator) [ Naxos Audiobooks / 8 CD Box Set - released 30/Jun/2011 ] Published in 1946, Nightmare Alley is a noir classic-at once a vivid insight into the sub-culture of the carny, and a bleak and gripping fable. |
DARREN HENLEY
The Story Of Classical Music (Unabridged) Aled Jones (narrator) [ Naxos Audiobooks / 4 CD Box Set - released 26/Jul/2010 ] The lives and music of the great composers of classical music unfold in this entertaining account, introduced by singer and presenter Aled Jones. |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
The Story Of Classical Music Marin Alsop (narrator) [ Naxos Audiobooks / 4 CD Box Set - released 1/Apr/2009 ] "The Story of Classical Music is the sort of project that hardly ever gets reviewed and at which people are likely to turn up their noses." (Julian Lloyd Webber) |
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
The Sonnets (unabridged) Alex Jennings (narrator) [ Naxos Audiobooks / 3 CD Box Set - released 1/Sep/2015 ] Everyone knows something of Shakespeare's sonnets, even if only in memorable fragments like 'the darling buds of may' or 'remembrance of things past' 'the marriage of minds'. For centuries these wonderfully-crafted, intense lyrics have stood for... |