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Under Milk Wood and other plays (unabridged)
Under Milk Wood is Dylan Thomas’s undisputed and unforgettable masterpiece – an affectionate, but hilarious portrait of a small Welsh town. The classic 1954 recording, …
The NAB Blog: Breaking Boundaries – Virginia Woolf’s Orlando
‘Orlando had become a woman – there is no denying it. But in every other respect, Orlando remained precisely as he had been. The change of sex, though it altered their future, did nothing whatever to alter their identity.’ The …
News from Nowhere (unabridged)
Although William Morris is known primarily as a designer, he was also a writer of poetry and prose. The novel News from Nowhere (subtitled …
King Richard III (unabridged)
Kenneth Branagh heads an outstanding cast in playing one of Shakespeare’s strongest characters. The eighth production in the widely admired series of Shakespeare plays …
The NAB Blog: The NAB Blog
Welcome to the latest feature on naxosaudiobooks.com. The genesis of this is that things happen so fast behind the scenes of Naxos AudioBooks that news becomes old news very quickly. And having been a journalist for thirty years before the …
The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Volume III: 1667-1669 (unabridged)
The Diary of Samuel Pepys is one of the most entertaining documents in English history. Written between 1660 and 1669, as Pepys was establishing …
The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Volume II: 1664-1666 (unabridged)
The Diary of Samuel Pepys is one of the most entertaining documents in English history. Written between 1660 and 1669, as Pepys was establishing …
The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Volume I: 1660-1663 (unabridged)
The Diary of Samuel Pepys is one of the most entertaining documents in English history. Written between 1660 and 1669, as Pepys was establishing …
Macbeth (unabridged)
Macbeth, Shakespeare’s last great tragedy, has remained one of the most popular plays since it’s first performance in 1606 – probably in front of King …
The NAB Blog: The History of the Audiobook
Audiobooks is currently the fastest growing segment of publishing, with its current value being estimated at $3.5 billion on the back of sharp increases over the past few years. The number of new titles being released into the market has …
Nostromo (abridged)
Set in the fictional South American country of Costaguana, Nostromo explores the volatile politics and crippling greed surrounding the San Tomé silver mine. The …
Hard Times (unabridged)
Hard Times is Dickens’s most political novel. Set in the industrial north of England, in Coketown, he examines the lives of working people, who …
Torrents of Spring (unabridged)
When young Russian aristocrat Dimitri Sanin, on his way home from Italy, enters a patisserie in Frankfurt, he little dreams it will alter the …
The NAB Blog: The Utopian Tradition – William Morris and Edward Bellamy
In its strictest sense, ‘Utopia’ signifies an ideal society. The word itself (derived from the Greek words ‘ou’ and ‘topos’, meaning ‘no place’ or ‘nowhere’) was coined by Thomas More in his 1516 work as the name of a fictional …
The Great Poets – John Milton (selections)
Milton stands alongside Shakespeare and the Bible in the power of his verse and its continuing impact. He is one of the great voices …
Money (unabridged)
Zola’s Money (L’Argent, 1891) shows the corrupting effect of untrammelled stock-market speculation. While some seek redemption through philanthropic and evangelical ventures, others – such …
The Golden Notebook (unabridged)
One of the most important books of the growing feminist movement of the 1950s, it was brought to a wider public by the Nobel …
The Just Men of Cordova (unabridged)
The Four Just Men, dedicated to ridding the world of unpunished criminals and profiteers, take their campaign into the treacherous, aristocratic world of gambling, …
The NAB Blog: Naxos AudioBooks Celebrates 25 Years
This year sees the 25th anniversary of the inception of Naxos AudioBooks. The company was founded in 1994 by Klaus Heymann, founder and Chairman of the Naxos Music Group, and journalist Nicolas Soames. Its initial aim was to release recordings …
Titus Groan (abridged)
Deep in the labyrinthine corridors of Gormenghast Castle, a child is born. Titus, 77th Earl of Groan, is heir to arcane and all-embracing rituals …
The NAB Blog: Audiobooks: An Upward Revolution
Naxos AudioBooks was present at the Audiobook Revolution sessions at the recent FutureBook conference in London. The strong attendance was a sign, if one were needed, of the impressive growth that the audiobook market is currently enjoying. It was unsurprising …
The Lost World (unabridged)
Somewhere in South America, there is a plateau; and roaming in its forests are dinosaurs… Only one man has ever been there, and his …
Venice (unabridged)
Venice stands, as she loves to tell you, on the frontiers of the east and west, half-way between the setting and the rising sun. …
Don Juan (unabridged)
Lord Byron’s satirical take on the legend of Don Juan is a moving and witty poem that sees the young hero in a reversal …
Never Cry Wolf (unabridged)
More than half a century ago, the naturalist Farley Mowat accepted an assignment to investigate why wolves were killing Arctic caribou. Mowat’s account of …
The Essential John Milton (selections)
This thoughtful collection of John Milton’s finest poetry marks the quatercentenary of the poet’s birth in 1608. It is read by several of Britain’s …
Phineas Finn (unabridged)
Phineas Finn, a handsome young man of 23, comes to England to make his fortune in parliamentary politics. But despite all his aspirations, Finn …
The Guermantes Way (unabridged)
Remembrance of Things Past is one of the monuments of 20th-century literature. Neville Jason’s unabridged recording of the work runs to 150 hours. The …
The Life and Works of Chopin (unabridged)
Fryderyk Chopin is the pianist-composer par excellence. Regarded as one of the most mesmeric performers of his day, he lives on in his music – …
The NAB Blog: Drama on audiobook (1)
‘I love listening to radio plays – it is like theatre of the mind.’ This is probably the most used comment on radio drama, and we all know exactly what it means. Radio drama/audiobook drama is, on the face of it, …
The Innocence of Father Brown – Volume 2 (unabridged)
Here are the six final stories from The Innocence of Father Brown relating the crime-solving adventures of a rather unconventional detective. Having accumulated wisdom …
Gulliver’s Travels: Retold for younger listeners (abridged)
Lemuel Gulliver sets out on a series of travels, but each time he finds himself shipwrecked in new and unfamiliar lands. And how unfamiliar …
Reader: Clare Corbett
Clare Corbett won the prestigious Carleton Hobbs award in 2000 and has worked in voice acting …
The NAB Blog: So you want to download your audiobooks?
Everyone is talking about downloading music and audiobooks at the moment. Travel on the train or the London Underground and you see more and more people with tiny headphones in their ears (particularly the distinctive white buds of the iPod) …
Faust (abridged)
Faust is one of the pillars of Western literature. This classic drama presents the story of the scholar Faust, tempted into a contract with …
The Sword in the Stone (abridged)
This abridgement of the first novel in The Once and Future King, the tale of King Arthur and the rise and fall of Camelot, …
Poems of the Orient (selections)
The Rubá’iyát of Omar Khayyam, in the famous translation by Edward FitzGerald, remains one of the most popular poems. It expressed the fascination of …
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Volume I (unabridged)
In this collection are four of the finest cases of Mr Sherlock Holmes, narrated by his faithful friend and admirer Dr Watson. What was …
The Wealth of Nations (abridged)
It was Adam Smith (1723–90) who first established economics as a separate branch of knowledge, and many would say his work has never been …
The NAB Blog: Copyright, Territory, Classical Music and Audiobooks
I don’t often write about real backroom stuff on this blog, but from time to time we get queries about why certain recordings are available in one country but not another. For example, our recording of Haruki Murakami’s best-selling novel …
Gulliver’s Travels (unabridged)
Lemuel Gulliver, a slightly staid ship’s doctor, relates the tales of his astonishing travels. He encounters the tiny, warring Lilliputians; the giant, sceptical Brobdingnagians; …
The Great Poets – Robert Browning (selections)
Robert Browning’s popular poems The Pied Piper of Hamelin and How They Brought the Good News are often anthologised, but it is in his …
Hamlet (unabridged)
Hamlet, which dates from 1600-1601, is the first in Shakespeare’s great series of four tragedies, the others being Othello (1603), King Lear (1605) and …
The Adventures of Brigadier Gerard (unabridged)
With a horse between his thighs and a weapon in his grip, the dashing Brigadier Etienne Gerard, Colonel of the Hussars of Conflans, gallops …
Religions of the World (unabridged)
Religion is central to the lives of millions of people around the globe. But how did the great religions begin, and what do their …
Dracula (unabridged)
For a century Bram Stoker’s Dracula has reigned supreme as the undisputed masterpiece of horror writing. We have all grown up beneath the shadow …
The Renaissance – In a Nutshell (unabridged)
The fifth in the new Naxos Audiobooks series ‘In a Nutshell’, The Renaissance is a short and accessible introduction to the era that gave …
A History of the Olympics (unabridged)
An unusual release on audiobook format! The 2008 Beijing Olympics take place in August. John Goodbody, for many years chief sports news writer for …
Reader: Clare Wille
Clare Wille was born in Manchester, studied English Literature at Bristol University and trained at RADA. …
A Simple Story (unabridged)
Published in 1791, A Simple Story concerns Miss Milner, who announces her passion for her guardian, a Catholic priest, thereby breaking through the barriers …
The NAB Blog: Stoicism in The Age of Anxiety – The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius
In 1947 W.H. Auden published his eclogue The Age of Anxiety, which went on to win the Pulitzer Prize in the following year. The poem is essentially pessimistic, suggesting that man’s ambition to find his identity in a rapidly changing …
The NAB Blog: Some Plato or Nietzsche for this week’s commute, sir?
Imagine! You are the Naxos AudioBooks sales rep and you turn up to see the Waterstone’s buyer or The White House Bookshop – that delightful establishment in Burnham Market, Norfolk – and you say, ‘Can I interest you in a four-CD set …
The Way We Live Now (unabridged)
The Way We Live Now is a complex and compulsive tale that traces the career of Augustus Melmotte, a strange and mysterious financier who …
Dr Thorne (unabridged)
Dr Thorne, the third novel in Anthony Trollope’s Chronicles of Barsetshire, sees the author steer away from the church politics of the first two …
Opera Explained – L’elisir d’amore (unabridged)
L’elisir d’amore, or The Elixir of Love, has remained popular for almost two centuries because of a touching tale and a galaxy of comic …
The NAB Blog: All Change at the Helm
Two decades ago, in 1994, Klaus Heymann and I started Naxos AudioBooks as a literary addition to the rapidly growing classical label Naxos. Its purpose was clear: to provide top-quality audiobook recordings along the theme of ‘Classic Literature with Classical …
The Lost World (abridged)
The precursor of Jurassic Park. Somewhere in South America, there is a plateau; and roaming in its forests are dinosaurs. Only one man has …
The Great Poets – Alfred Lord Tennyson (selections)
The 200th anniversary of the birth of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892), one of the most popular of poets, is celebrated in 2009. Works such …
Within a Budding Grove (unabridged)
Remembrance of Things Past is one of the monuments of 20th-century literature. Neville Jason’ unabridged recording of the work runs to 150 hours. Within …
Reader: Sean Barrett
Sean Barrett started acting as a boy on BBC children’s television in the days before colour, …
Reader: Andrew Wincott
Andrew Wincott is a graduate of Christ Church, Oxford. He trained as an actor at the …
King Lear (unabridged)
The tragedy of King Lear receives an outstanding performance in an all-star cast led by Britain’s senior classical actor, Paul Scofield. He is joined …
Popular Poetry, Popular Verse – Volume II (selections)
Nearly 100 of the most popular and loved poems in the English language, this collection is one of the most comprehensive anthologies of its …
Winter Words (unabridged)
This selection of Hardy’s poetry does full justice to its humanity, integrity, humour and evocative power, ranging from charming anthology pieces such as ‘Weathers’ …
Reader: Hugh Dennis
Hugh Dennis is perhaps best known as the star of BBC Two’s hit topical panel show …
The NAB Blog: Tomartoes, Tomaytoes, Potartoes, Potaytoes
We get, I am glad to say, a steady stream of appreciative reviews from critics (professional and amateur), in newspapers, magazines, internet sites as well as on podcasts and radio; and it must be said, not a few letters from …
Karma and Rebirth – In a Nutshell (unabridged)
Buddhist teacher and writer Jinananda considers the history, the tradition and the more contemporary view on Karma and Rebirth in this controversial and largely …
Favourite Essays: An Anthology (selections)
Here, in this unusual collection, are some of the greatest essays in Western literature. Witty, informative and imaginative; the topics vary from starvation in …
The Cellist of Sarajevo (unabridged)
Sarajevo, in the 1990s, is a hellish place. The ongoing war devours human life, tears families apart and transforms even banal routines, such as …
The Secret Agent (unabridged)
Joseph Conrad’s The Secret Agent is a tale of anarchism, espionage and terrorism. Our agent, a man named Mr Verloc, minds his own business …