 | The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
Buy new: £8.80 / Used from: £8.35 The finest audio CD I've encountered. William Hope has a amazing accent & the story is well intoned and enuniciated.
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 | End the Struggle and Dance with Life by Susan Jeffers
Buy new: £11.02 / Used from: £18.66 A motivational classic. Normally writers make for poor readers, but Mrs Jeffers has a resonant voice and makes a superb rendition of her book.
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 | The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Primary Phase (BBC Audiobooks) by Douglas Adams
Buy new: £11.15 / Used from: £7.00 'Voted No 1 Audio Book ever'. I don't quite agree, but the series as a whole is peerless & this one is the best...
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 | The Odyssey (Radio Collection) by Homer
Buy new: £11.15 / Used from: £7.95 BBC dramatisations can be hit & miss, but this one is utterly flawless and makes a difficult book into a flowing masterpiece.
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 | Fry and Laurie Read Daudet and Jerome by Alphonse Daudet
Buy new: £11.22 / Used from: £7.50 A real treat (see my review). The material is well chosen & Fry and Laurie make storytelling seem effortless.
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 | Around the World in 80 Days (Radio Collection) by Michael Palin
Buy new: £9.78 / Used from: £5.98 My favourite one of his travellogues (again see review). Somehow the first trip is always best, and Mr Palin's voice is ideal material for taking you to those place in spirit.
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 | Emperor: The Gods of War by Conn Iggulden
Buy new: £10.69 / Used from: £7.50 The best of the series & excellently narrated. The voices of the speaker make you convinced you are there, and the excellent story & battle scenes are compelling.
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 | The Last Kingdom by Bernard Cornwell
Buy new: £10.26 / Used from: £6.00 The God of Historical Fiction! A wonderfully convincing version of his passionate 1st Alfred novel. So convincing is the narrator that you would swear it was really a campfire story told by Uhtred...
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 | Elizabeth by David Starkey
Buy used from: £6.00 For all you Starkey fans. This one was not covered on TV and provides valuable insight into Elizabeth's unbringing, helping you understand how her struggles made her our greatest monarch.
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 | Casino Royale by Ian Fleming
Buy used from: £19.39 Think you know Bond? Try these! Rufus Sewell brings out the gritty aspect of Bond & the original stories are more varied than the films have become...
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 | Devil May Care (unabridged) by Sebastian Faulks
Buy new: £13.01 / Used from: £3.50 A more modern attempt at Bond, with interesting results & a new Bond song at the end that is simply to die for.
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![The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (Abridged Audio CD Set) [AUDIOBOOK]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/11HAJDBZPAL._SL75_.jpg) | The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (Abridged Audio CD Set) [AUDIOBOOK]
Buy used from: £1.60 Heard the whole series (in several versions) and this was the best in both content and style. The music and dialogue combine to make a symphony...
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 | The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief by Francis S Collins
Buy new: £29.95 / Used from: £11.89 Francis Collins defending the existence of God without reference to Pascal's Wager or Creationism!
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 | The Picture of Dorian Gray (Classic Fiction) by Oscar Wilde
Buy new: £9.09 / Used from: £6.50 Oscar's only novel and an interesting, yet dark tale on the price of a man's soul.
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 | Lady Windermere's Fan : CDs: Performed by Juliet Stevenson & Cast (Classic Drama) by Oscar Wilde
Buy new: £7.57 / Used from: £16.17 An unexpected treat (see review). A full dramatised version of one of Oscar Wilde's more forgotten plays (includes the line 'A Cynic knows the Price of everything & the Value of nothing')
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 | Life of Pi by Yann Martel
Buy used from: £8.99 Like 'Last Kingdom', it seems like a story round a campfire. This particular story has a wonderful, hallucinatory quality which is perfect for commuters escapism!
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 | The Beach by Alex Garland
Buy used from: £17.99 Another excellent escapist story. Better than the film in many ways, with a touch of horror to make the journey more interesting...
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 | The Lord of the Flies (Penguin) by William Golding
Buy new: £6.77 / Used from: £1.99 Much darker than the former (and far less escapist!), but well read and interesting nonetheless.
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 | Moby Dick (Classic Fiction) by Herman Melville
Buy new: £11.04 / Used from: £5.25 On the subject of all things bleak, this is a wonderfully gloomy, yet spiritually powerful tale. If ever there were a poetic novel, this one is it...
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 | The Owl and the Pussycat: And Other Nonsense Rhymes (Cover to Cover) by Edward Lear
Buy new: £4.05 / Used from: £2.25 Poetry is normally poorly rendered on Audio CD & is difficult with poets like Betjeman etc. This poetry is, however, simple and a joy to listen to in Alan Bennet's ironically morose voice!
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 | The One Minute Manager by Ken Blanchard
Buy new: £7.46 / Used from: £9.99 A little cheesy and 'Yuppie religious' in its tone, but nevertheless very useful, simple and gambit laden in its ideas...
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 | Never Give In!: No. 1: Winston Churchill's Greatest Speeches (Radio Collection) by Winston S. Churchill
Buy new: £7.59 / Used from: £4.80 Clarkson went to France with the speeches of Thatcher, and so this is ideal for feeling proud and British (even when present economic conditions don't make you feel so...)
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 | The "Mighty Boosh" (BBC Audiobooks) by N Fielding J Barratt
Buy new: £7.82 / Used from: £6.30 Last three aren't strictly Audio books, but are great comedy. This one you will either love or hate, but is significantly better than the TV show (partly because the scenery is better in your head!)
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 | The Complete Beyond The Fringe by Jonathan Miller
Buy new: £14.98 / Used from: £13.49 A comedy treat - 4 great comedians using razor-sharp satire and wit to create somewhat of a timeless classic (esp 'Take a Pew')
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 | Philosophy: The Best Of Bill Hicks by Bill Hicks
Buy new: £7.38 / Used from: £4.82 Quite simply the greatest gift to the world of comedy CD's, ever! A latter-day secular prophet with much to say to people of the present day...
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