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Ron Fawcett – Rock Athlete

The story of a climbing legend

by Ron Fawcett, Ed Douglas ...

Narrated by Dan Bottomley ...

Unabridged

7 hours 20 min

WINNER: Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountain LiteratureRon Fawcett is a natural-born climber. In 1969, while still at school in his native Yorkshire, he tied into a climbing rope for the first time and was instantly hooked. From that moment on, it seemed nothing else in his life mattered nearly as much as his next vertical fix.Ten years later, Fawcett was the most famous rock climber in Britain and ... Read more

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WINNER: Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountain LiteratureRon Fawcett is a natural-born climber. In 1969, while still at school in his native Yorkshire, he tied into a climbing rope for the first time and was instantly hooked. From that moment on, it seemed nothing else in his life mattered nearly as much as his next vertical fix.Ten years later, Fawcett was the most famous rock climber in Britain and
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Crime and Punishment (Easy Classics)

by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Gemma Barder ...

Narrated by Dan Bottomley ...

Series series The Easy Classics Epic Collection
Unabridged

55 min

An adapted and illustrated edition of the Russian classic, at an easy-to-read level for all ages! Once a promising young student, Raskolnikov does not know how he ended up poor and miserable. Determined to get his life back on track, he commits a terrible act. But as his desperate mother and sister turn up on his doorstep, and a stern police detective starts sniffing around, Raskolnikov’s troubles ... Read more

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An adapted and illustrated edition of the Russian classic, at an easy-to-read level for all ages! Once a promising young student, Raskolnikov does not know how he ended up poor and miserable. Determined to get his life back on track, he commits a terrible act. But as his desperate mother and sister turn up on his doorstep, and a stern police detective starts sniffing around, Raskolnikov’s troubles
... Read more
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Fathers and Sons (Easy Classics)

by Ivan Turgenev, Gemma Barder ...

Narrated by Dan Bottomley ...

Series series The Easy Classics Epic Collection
Unabridged

54 min

An adapted and illustrated edition of the Russian classic, at an easy-to-read level for all ages! Nickolai Kirsanov is excited for his son’s return to their family estate – but not so thrilled to meet the strange friend he brings with him. While Arkady is friendly and kind, Bazarov is quiet, unemotional and only interested in cold hard facts. He is a Nihilist. Faced with glamorous balls and first ... Read more

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An adapted and illustrated edition of the Russian classic, at an easy-to-read level for all ages! Nickolai Kirsanov is excited for his son’s return to their family estate – but not so thrilled to meet the strange friend he brings with him. While Arkady is friendly and kind, Bazarov is quiet, unemotional and only interested in cold hard facts. He is a Nihilist. Faced with glamorous balls and first
... Read more
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Eugene Onegin (Easy Classics)

by Alexander Pushkin, Gemma Barder ...

Narrated by Dan Bottomley ...

Series series The Easy Classics Epic Collection
Unabridged

49 min

An adapted and illustrated edition of the Russian classic, at an easy-to-read level for all ages! Eugene Onegin is young, handsome, rich … and bored. Nothing impresses him: not his grand house filled with expensive furniture, not the glittering balls he attends, not the sumptuous dinners he eats. When his uncle dies, leaving him his rundown estate, Eugene moves to the countryside. Here he meets ... Read more

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An adapted and illustrated edition of the Russian classic, at an easy-to-read level for all ages! Eugene Onegin is young, handsome, rich … and bored. Nothing impresses him: not his grand house filled with expensive furniture, not the glittering balls he attends, not the sumptuous dinners he eats. When his uncle dies, leaving him his rundown estate, Eugene moves to the countryside. Here he meets
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Oblomov (Easy Classics)

by Ivan Goncharov, Gemma Barder ...

Narrated by Dan Bottomley ...

Series series The Easy Classics Epic Collection
Unabridged

53 min

An adapted and illustrated edition of the Russian classic, at an easy-to-read level for all ages! Ilya Oblomov should be the happiest person in St Petersburg. He has a fashionable house, a large country estate, and endless invites to fancy dinners and glamorous balls. But Oblomov finds things difficult. The outside world overwhelms him. Even thinking about it makes him exhausted! He would much ... Read more

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An adapted and illustrated edition of the Russian classic, at an easy-to-read level for all ages! Ilya Oblomov should be the happiest person in St Petersburg. He has a fashionable house, a large country estate, and endless invites to fancy dinners and glamorous balls. But Oblomov finds things difficult. The outside world overwhelms him. Even thinking about it makes him exhausted! He would much
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Wonderful Wizard of Oz, The

by L. Frank Baum, Marc Platt ...

Narrated by Ally Doman, Dan Bottomley, Alex Jordan, Daniel Brocklebank ...

Unabridged

2 hours 24 min

After a tornado uproots her from her home in Kansas, Dorothy and her dog Toto are whisked away to the magical Land of Oz, where the Wicked Witch of the West will do everything in her power to ensure that Dorothy never makes it back to Kansas... ... Read more

$21.99 USD

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After a tornado uproots her from her home in Kansas, Dorothy and her dog Toto are whisked away to the magical Land of Oz, where the Wicked Witch of the West will do everything in her power to ensure that Dorothy never makes it back to Kansas...
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Three Sisters (Easy Classics)

by Anton Chekhov, Gemma Barder ...

Narrated by Dan Bottomley ...

Series series The Easy Classics Epic Collection
Unabridged

54 min

An adapted and illustrated edition of the Russian classic, at an easy-to-read level for all ages! When their parents die, sisters Olga, Masha and Irina are left to look after their beautiful family home. Each sister longs for more from life: Olga and Irina want to return to Moscow, while Masha is miserably married to a man she does not love. Then their brother, Andrey, marries the demanding ... Read more

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An adapted and illustrated edition of the Russian classic, at an easy-to-read level for all ages! When their parents die, sisters Olga, Masha and Irina are left to look after their beautiful family home. Each sister longs for more from life: Olga and Irina want to return to Moscow, while Masha is miserably married to a man she does not love. Then their brother, Andrey, marries the demanding
... Read more
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War and Peace (Easy Classics)

by Leo Tolstoy, Gemma Barder ...

Narrated by Dan Bottomley ...

Series series The Easy Classics Epic Collection
Unabridged

54 min

An adapted and illustrated edition of the Russian classic, at an easy-to-read level for all ages! Pierre is nothing like his confident, handsome friend Andrei. He is awkward and shy – and when his father dies and leaves Pierre a vast fortune, suddenly very popular. As war rages on the edges of Moscow and the charming young Natasha catches the eye of both friends, Pierre must decide what he wants ... Read more

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An adapted and illustrated edition of the Russian classic, at an easy-to-read level for all ages! Pierre is nothing like his confident, handsome friend Andrei. He is awkward and shy – and when his father dies and leaves Pierre a vast fortune, suddenly very popular. As war rages on the edges of Moscow and the charming young Natasha catches the eye of both friends, Pierre must decide what he wants
... Read more
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Anna Karenina (Easy Classics)

by Leo Tolstoy, Gemma Barder ...

Narrated by Dan Bottomley ...

Series series The Easy Classics Epic Collection
Unabridged

54 min

An adapted and illustrated edition of the Russian classic, at an easy-to-read level for all ages! Anna Karenina appears to have the perfect life. Young and beautiful, she lives in a fashionable house in Moscow with her respected husband and their young son. But Anna is deeply unhappy. Her older husband bores her, and she misses the lively city she grew up in. Then Count Vronsky, a dashing young ... Read more

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An adapted and illustrated edition of the Russian classic, at an easy-to-read level for all ages! Anna Karenina appears to have the perfect life. Young and beautiful, she lives in a fashionable house in Moscow with her respected husband and their young son. But Anna is deeply unhappy. Her older husband bores her, and she misses the lively city she grew up in. Then Count Vronsky, a dashing young
... Read more
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Brothers Karamazov, The (Easy Classics)

by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Gemma Barder ...

Narrated by Dan Bottomley ...

Series series The Easy Classics Epic Collection
Unabridged

54 min

An adapted and illustrated edition of the Russian classic, at an easy-to-read level for all ages! Dimitri is angry and reckless. Ivan is smart and logical. Alyosha is caring and forgiving. And their half-brother Smerdyakov is treated no better than a servant by their father. When Dimitri falls in love with a woman who isn’t his fiancée and sets out to get the money his father is keeping from him, ... Read more

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An adapted and illustrated edition of the Russian classic, at an easy-to-read level for all ages! Dimitri is angry and reckless. Ivan is smart and logical. Alyosha is caring and forgiving. And their half-brother Smerdyakov is treated no better than a servant by their father. When Dimitri falls in love with a woman who isn’t his fiancée and sets out to get the money his father is keeping from him,
... Read more
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What the Shadows Hide (DI Ridpath 9)

by M J Lee ...

Narrated by Dan Bottomley ...

Series Audiobook 9 - DI Ripath Crime Thriller
Unabridged

9 hours 6 min

To love and to cherish, till death did them part... Two desiccated bodies are found in each other's arms in the bricked up room of a derelict Victorian warehouse.After six months of work, the police have nothing and Ridpath is finally called in to investigate. Dubbed the Romeo and Juliet murders by the press, so many questions remain unanswered. Who are they? Why were they there? Who killed them? ... Read more

$20.00 USD

To love and to cherish, till death did them part... Two desiccated bodies are found in each other's arms in the bricked up room of a derelict Victorian warehouse.After six months of work, the police have nothing and Ridpath is finally called in to investigate. Dubbed the Romeo and Juliet murders by the press, so many questions remain unanswered. Who are they? Why were they there? Who killed them?
... Read more
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What the Dying See

by M J Lee ...

Narrated by Dan Bottomley ...

Unabridged

8 hours 21 min

The system is broken - and it wants you dead!An elderly ex-soldier is found dead in his home starved, alone and long forgotten. No one notices. No one cares.The same day, a man walks into a Manchester police station and calmly confesses: "I just killed my father."DI Thomas Ridpath is called to investigate both cases. What begins as two unconnected deaths soon unravels into something far more ... Read more

$20.00 USD

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The system is broken - and it wants you dead!An elderly ex-soldier is found dead in his home starved, alone and long forgotten. No one notices. No one cares.The same day, a man walks into a Manchester police station and calmly confesses: "I just killed my father."DI Thomas Ridpath is called to investigate both cases. What begins as two unconnected deaths soon unravels into something far more
... Read more