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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, …
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 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 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 …
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 …
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 …
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: 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 …
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 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 …
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 …
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 …
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 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 …
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 …
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 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 …
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 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 …
Hamlet (Gielgud) (abridged)
This outstanding historical recording made in 1941 for radio is widely regarded as one of the finest Hamlet performances ever, and one of John …
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: 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 …
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 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: 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 …
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. …
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 …
Reader: Clare Wille
Clare Wille was born in Manchester, studied English Literature at Bristol University and trained at RADA. …
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 …
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; …
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 …
Worzel Gummidge and Saucy Nancy (unabridged)
When Worzel hears that John and Susan have gone on holiday to the seaside, he decides that he and Earthy Mangold should join them. …
Worzel Gummidge (unabridged)
Spending their summer holidays with Farmer Braithwaite and his wife in Scatterbrook, John and Susan come across a particularly lifelike scarecrow in a nearby …
Worzel Gummidge Takes a Holiday (unabridged)
John and Susan are back at Scatterbrook – this time in May, though that makes little difference to the havoc caused by Worzel Gummidge …
Reader: Samuel West
Samuel West has played Hamlet and Richard II for the Royal Shakespeare Company, Jeffrey Skilling in Enron in …
The NAB Blog: The Kalevala: A World Premiere
Keith Bosley The starting points for our recordings vary considerably. Sometimes it is very clear: the major English-language classics are the bedrock of Naxos AudioBooks, and we realise that it is about time we turned our attention to William Thackeray …
Reader: Marcella Riordan
Marcella Riordan began her career at The Abbey School in Dublin and has worked in theatres …
More About Worzel Gummidge (unabridged)
John and Susan are back at Scatterbrook for the Easter holidays. Worzel, temporarily resident in the orchard, is up to his old tricks once …
Worzel Gummidge Again (unabridged)
With his turnip head and broomstick legs, Worzel Gummidge, now married to Earthy Mangold, is back for another series of adventures. In his own …
Reader: Laurence Kennedy
Laurence Kennedy’s theatre credits include Communicating Doors, An Inspector Calls and Steptoe and Son (West End), …
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 …
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 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) …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Julius Caesar (unabridged)
Julius Caesar is Shakespeare’s most political play. He examines whether political assassination can ever be justified, and the effect of this act of violence …
Famous Americans in History (unabridged)
Here are the life stories of eight remarkable people who were born and grew up in America and who made their mark upon American …
War & Peace - Volume II (unabridged)
War and Peace is one of the greatest monuments in world literature. Set against the dramatic backdrop of the Napoleonic Wars, it examines the …
Anna Karenina (unabridged)
Anna Karenina is beautiful, married to a successful man, and has a son whom she adores. But a chance meeting at a train station …
The Count of Monte Cristo (unabridged)
On the eve of his marriage to the beautiful Mercedes, having that very day been made Captain of his ship, the young sailor Edmond …
Barchester Towers (unabridged)
Barchester Towers, the sequel to The Warden, is the second novel in Trollope’s major series, the Chronicles of Barsetshire. It focuses on the power …
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 …
Opera Explained – Tosca (unabridged)
Tosca is Puccini at the peak of his theatrical power. The story of the jealous, impassioned opera singer Floria Tosca and her doomed love …
A History of the Olympics (unabridged)
This unique audiobook history of the Olympics, first issued in 2008, has been updated to include the Beijing Olympics and released to coincide with …
The Prince (unabridged)
The Prince (1532) is a treatise that systematically charts the best strategies for successful governing. It unapologetically places realism above idealism, showing would-be kings …
The Pickwick Papers (unabridged)
In The Pickwick Papers, his first novel, Dickens displays the talents and skills that became his trademark; observational humour, pathos and social comment abound …
Reader: Aled Jones
Aled Jones is the presenter of the Sunday breakfast show on Classic FM and Sunday morning …
The Decline & Fall of the Roman Empire – Part 1 (abridged)
Gibbon’s The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire is one of the greatest texts in the English language. In magisterial prose, Gibbon charts …