Gardening
Don, Monty. The road to Le Tholonet: a French garden journey. TB 20705.
Part travelogue to some of France's best and most historic gardens, part treasure-trove of historical anecdotes, part memoir.
2013. Read by Greg Wagland. 10 hours 22 minutes. TB 20705.
History
Churchill, Winston S. A history of the English-speaking peoples. TB 20495.
The English-speaking peoples comprise perhaps the greatest number of human beings sharing a common language in the world today. These people also share a common heritage. This volume begins in 55 B.C. and ends with the Battle of Bosworth in 1485.
2006. Read by Christian Rodska. 17 hours 6 minutes. TB 20495.
Feeney, Paul. A 1950s childhood: from tin baths to bread and dripping. TB 20711.
From waking up to ice on the inside of the windows, washing in a tin bath by the fire and spoonfuls of cod-liver oil, home life was very different to today.
2009. Read by Richard Derrington. 5 hours 42 minutes. TB 20711.
Fraser, Antonia. Perilous question: the drama of the Great Reform Bill 1832. TB 20710.
'Perilous Question' evokes a key period of pre-Victorian political and social history - the passing of the Great Reform Bill of 1832. For our inconclusive times, there is an attractive resonance with 1832, with its 'rotten boroughs' of Old Sarum and the disappearing village of Dunwich, and its lines of most resistance to reform.
2013. Read by Helen Bourne. 14 hours 23 minutes. TB 20710.
Kynaston, David. Modernity Britain, 1957-59. TB 20922.
The late 1950s and early 1960s were a period in their own right: neither the stultifying 'high' Fifties nor the liberating 'high' Sixties, but instead an action-packed, sometimes dramatic time in which the contours of modern Britain started to take shape.
2013. Read by Keith Hill. 15 hours 11 minutes. TB 20922.
Lethbridge, Lucy. Servants: a downstairs view of twentieth-century Britain. TB 20565.
An original, authoritative look at the social history of the 20th century, retold through the eyes of the household servants.
2013. Read by Sally Anne Newton. 12 hours 54 minutes. TB 20565.
McKinstry, Leo. Lancaster: the Second World War's greatest bomber. TB 20562.
While addressing the political controversy surrounding the bombing offensive against Germany, McKinstry draws on first-hand accounts from pilots and crew members to bring to life the important characters and events of the Lancaster's career.
2010. Read by Geoffrey Drew. 27 hours 1 minute. TB 20562.
Salmon, Andrew. To the last round: the epic British stand on the Imjin River, Korea 1951. TB 20807.
This is the story of the most desperate battle fought by British soldiers since WWII. In three whirlwind nights of battle, one regiment of artillery fired as many shells as were fired at El Alamein. Salmon has interviewed veterans of every unit engaged, to produce an account of the action as they experienced it.
2010. Read by Richard Burnip. 20 hours 21 minutes. TB 20807.
Humour
Sedaris, David. Let's explore diabetes with owls. TB 20576.
A new roundup of personal essays from the No. 1 bestselling writer named America's favourite humorist by Time magazine.
2012. Read by Eric Meyers. 6 hours 57 minutes. TB 20576.
Personal improvement
Armstrong, John. How to worry less about money. TB 20909.
Money is too important a part of life for us not to worry about it, but by approaching it differently, we can change the way we perceive its worth.
2012. Read by David Learner. 3 hours 23 minutes. TB 20909.
Pets
Bradshaw, John W. S. Cat sense: the feline enigma revealed. TB 405080.
Worshipped as gods, feared as demonic servants, seen as both wild opportunists and beloved companions, cats often seem as unfathomable, enigmatic and magical to us today as they did in ancient times. Cat Sense is a scientific portrait of the true, surprising nature of cats.
2013. Read by female synthetic voice. 12 hours 47 minutes. TB 405080.
Poetry
Astley, Neil. Staying alive: real poems for unreal times. TB 20543.
Staying Alive includes many of the great modern love poems and elegies, but it also shows the power of poetry in celebrating the ordinary miracle, taking you on a journey around many of the different aspects of everyday life explored in poems.
2002. Read by Brian Fenton. 17 hours 8 minutes. TB 20543.
Heaney, Seamus. Human chain. TB 20912.
Human Chain is Seamus Heaney's twelfth collection of poems, and it elicits continuities and solidarities, between husband and wife, child and parent, then and now, inside an intently remembered present .
2010. Read by Brian Fenton. 1 hour 11 minutes. TB 20912.
Politics
Grayson, Richard S. British politics: a beginner's guide. TB 405091.
Introduction to British politics covers the structure of the British government, the civil service, political parties, the media, the EU and the UK's special relationship with the US.
2010. Read by female synthetic voice. 7 hours 51 minutes. TB 405091.
Science
Ferguson, Kitty. Stephen Hawking: his life and work: the story and science of one of the most extraordinary, celebrated, and courageous figures of our time. TB 20167.
An account of the Cambridge genius who has earned international celebrity and become an inspiration to those who have witnessed his triumph over disability.
2012. Read by Carole Boyd. 12 hours. TB 20167.
Transport
Holmes, Richard. Falling upwards: how we took to the air. TB 20728.
Meet the pioneer generation of balloon aeronauts, the enigmatic group of men and women who risked their lives to take to the air (or fall from the sky) and so discovered a new dimension of human experience.
2013. Read by Peter Crerar. 14 hours 4 minutes. TB 20728.
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