Genre: ‘Non-Fiction’
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Dark Star Safari
by Paul Theroux narrated by Norman Dietz
ISBN: 978 1 4074 6840 2 Reference: DIR1374
Duration: 23h (approx.) on 19 CDs
CD Edition
£34.99
"Safari" in Swahili means a journey, typically a long one. In Dark Star Safari, Theroux's itinerary is African, from Cairo to Cape Town - down the Nile, through Sudan and Ethiopia, to Kenya, Uganda and beyond to South Africa. Journeying by train, boat and cattle truck, he passes through some of the most beautiful - and often... Read More »
Dead Men's Wages
by Lilian Pizzichini narrated by Patricia Gallimore
ISBN: 978 1 4074 6774 0 Reference: DIR1360
Duration: 10h 30m (approx.) on 9 CDs
CD Edition
£19.99
Part biography, part literary memoir, Dead Men's Wages is a stunning book to inspire, haunt and move you. Lilian Pizzichini's grandfather Charlie Taylor was a conman who worked with some of London's most notorious gangsters. In this haunting and insightful account of his life, she recreates the world of criminals and... Read More »
Death of a Dissident
by Alex Goldfarb and Marina Litvinenko narrated by Pete Bradbury
ISBN: 978 1 4074 2196 4 Reference: DIR2032
Duration: 15h 15m (approx.) on 11 CDs
CD Edition
£24.99
On 23 November 2006, Alexander Litvinenko died, apparently from radiation poisoning. In a dramatic statement from his deathbed, he accused his former employers at the Kremlin of being responsible for his murder. Who was Alexander Litvinenko? What had happened in Russia since the end of the Cold War to make his life there... Read More »
A Dog's Life
by Paul Bailey narrated by the author
ISBN: 978 1 4074 8142 5 Reference: DIR1967
Duration: 5h 30m (approx.) on 5 CDs
CD Edition
£17.99
In the spring of 1985, novelist Paul Bailey found himself becoming the unlikely owner of a dog. He saw the puppy in the window of a pet shop and was instantly (and lastingly) beguiled. She was given the name Circe by Bailey's dying partner, David, who was also overcome by her charms, though after a good deal of... Read More »
Fabergé's Eggs
by Toby Faber narrated by Jonathan Keeble
ISBN: 978 1 4074 2278 7 Reference: RTL1120
Duration: 10h (approx.) on 9 CDs
CD Edition
£19.99
This is the story of Faberge's Imperial Easter eggs - of their maker, of the tsars who commissioned them, of the middlemen who sold them and of the collectors who fell in love with them. It's a story of meticulous craftsmanship and unimaginable wealth, of lucky escapes and mysterious disappearances, and ultimately of greed... Read More »
Fading into the Limelight: The Autobiography
by Peter Sallis narrated by the author
ISBN: 978 1 4074 6122 9 Reference: DIR1058
Duration: 9h (approx.) on 10 CDs
CD Edition
£24.99
For more than thirty years, Peter Sallis has played Clegg in Last of the Summer Wine, the world's longest-running sitcom. With his dry, cynical wit and cautious nature, Clegg has been taken to the hearts of the nation. Now the man behind this creation, and the voice of Wallace in Wallace & Gromit, is telling his... Read More »
Genome
by Matt Ridley narrated by Paul Matthews
ISBN: 978 1 4074 6067 3 Reference: DIR1039
Duration: 14h 30m (approx.) on 13 CDs
CD Edition
£24.99
Popular scientist Matt Ridley's renowned as much for readability as for learning. Following the succes of The Red Queen and The Origins Of Virtue, Genome is a Sunday Times Top Tet Bestseller and a Guardian Book of the Year. Genome unravels the secrets of human nature without the usual reams of technical jargon. It shows... Read More »
The God Delusion
by Richard Dawkins narrated by Richard Dawkins and Lalla Ward
ISBN: 978 1 4074 8082 4 Reference: DIR1935
Duration: 14h (approx.) on 12 CDs
CD Edition
£24.99
As the author of many classic works on science and philosophy, Richard Dawkins has always asserted the irrationality of belief in God and the grievous harm it has inflicted on society. He now turns his fierce intellect exclusively on to this subject denouncing its faulty logic and the suffering it causes. While Europe is... Read More »
Greece on my Wheels
by Edward Enfield narrated by the author
ISBN: 978 1 4074 7867 8 Reference: DIR1779
Duration: 9h 30m (approx.) on 8 CDs
CD Edition
£19.99
Fired by a long enthusiasm for all things Greek, Edward Enfield mounts his trusty Raleigh to follow in the tracks of such notable travellers as Benjamin Disraeli, Edward Lear and Lord Byron. His journey is set against the great panorama of Greek history and fuelled by fresh fish suppers and a plentiful supply of Retsina... Read More »
Hotel Babylon
by Imogen Edwards-Jones and Anonymous narrated by Gordon Griffin
ISBN: 978 1 4074 7865 4 Reference: DIR1777
Duration: 8h 30m (approx.) on 7 CDs
CD Edition
£19.99
From chambermaids' tips, to doormen making £2,000 a week, to the concierge taking backhanders - everyone in the hotel trade is on the make. Hotel Babylon is a trawl through the highs and lows, the extremes, the tragedies, the miseries, the decadence and the debauchery of the ultimate service industry - where money not only... Read More »
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