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The Odyssey

• UNABRIDGED (13 hrs and 26 mins)
• By Homer (translated by Robert Fagles)
• Narrated By Ian McKellen
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A Discovery of Witches

• UNABRIDGED (23 hrs and 57 mins)
• By Deborah Harkness
• Narrated By Jennifer Ikeda

When historian Diana Bishop opens an alchemical manuscript in the Bodleian Library, it's an unwelcome intrusion of magic into her carefully ordered life. Though Diana is a witch of impeccable lineage, the violent death of her parents while she was still a child convinced her that human fear is more potent than any witchcraft. Now Diana has unwittingly exposed herself to a world she's kept at bay for years; one of powerful witches, creative, destructive daemons and long-lived vampires.

World Without End

• UNABRIDGED (45 hrs and 38 mins)
• By Ken Follett
• Narrated By John Lee

On the day after Halloween, in the year 1327, four children slip away from the cathedral city of Kingsbridge. They are a thief, a bully, a boy genius, and a girl who wants to be a doctor. In the forest they see two men killed. As adults, their lives will be braided together by ambition, love, greed and revenge. They will see prosperity and famine, plague and war.

Rab the Rhymer: The Greatest Poems and Songs of Robert Burns

• ABRIDGED (1 hr and 16 mins)
• By Robert Burns
• Narrated By David Rintoul, Vivien Heilbron, Mhairi Lawson, and others

Robert Burns is renowned worldwide as Scotland's national poet. To celebrate the 250th anniversary of his birth, Rhymescheme is proud to present brand-new recordings of his best-known poems and songs.

44 Scotland Street

• ABRIDGED (6 hrs and 4 mins)
• By Alexander McCall Smith
• Narrated By Blythe Duff

First published in 110 episodes in The Scotsman newspaper, 44 Scotland Street revolves around the comings and goings at No. 44 Scotland Street, a fictitious building in a real street in the author's home city of Edinburgh. This is vintage McCall Smith, tackling issues of trust and honesty, snobbery and hypocrisy, love and loss, but all with great lightness of touch.

The Nine Tailors

• UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 32 mins)
• By Dorothy L Sayers
• Narrated By Ian Carmichael

Storm-bound over the New Year at a Fenland rectory, Lord Peter Wimsey willingly lends a hand in the ringing of a New Year's Eve peal of the church bells. Some months later, a handless, disfigured corpse is discovered in a fresh grave in the churchyard. Lord Peter receives a plea for help from the rector and embarks on one of his most complicated investigations - for this is not the first crime the village has experienced.

The Road

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 39 mins)
• By Cormac McCarthy
• Narrated By Tom Stechschulte

America is a barren landscape of smoldering ashes, devoid of life except for those people still struggling to scratch out some type of existence. Amidst this destruction, a father and his young son walk, always toward the coast, but with no real understanding that circumstances will improve once they arrive. Still, they persevere, and their relationship comes to represent goodness in a world of utter devastation.

A Short History of Ireland

• UNABRIDGED (22 hrs and 55 mins)
• By Jonathan Bardon

In the wake of its 30th birthday celebrations in 2006, BBC Radio Ulster marked the beginning of a new broadcasting era by embarking on the station's most ambitious project to date: a recounting of the history of Ireland.

The Monarchy of England: The Beginnings

• UNABRIDGED (5 hrs and 15 mins)
• By David Starkey
• Narrated By Tim Piggot-Smith

This is the first of three volumes, which, taken together under the over-arching title of Monarchy, will form a new, ground-breaking history of England as told through the lives of its Kings and Queens.