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Make Way for Noddy - Noddy's Perfect Gift and The Magic Powder written by Enid Blyton performed by Jan Francis on Audio CD (Unabridged)£29.99

Two stories from the 'Make Way for Noddy' series are brought together on 1 CD, read by Jan Francis, with original music and sound effects from the popular TV series. Two favourite stories from the 'Make Way for Noddy' series now available together on one CD. Jan Francis brings the loveable characters to life with the help of sound effects and music from the popular TV series. Listen and find out what happens when Noddy wants to give Tessie Bear a special birthday present...

A Few Green Leaves written by Barbara Pym performed by Jan Francis on Audio CD (Unabridged)

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ISBN: 9781445860718
Genre - Main: Fiction
Genre - Specific: Modern
Duration: 405 mins
Length: Unabridged
Author: Barbara Pym
Performer 1: Jan Francis
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Barbara Pym was an incomparable chronicler of ordinary, quiet lives. With warmth, humour, precision and great vividness, she gave her best characters an independent life we recognise as totally familiar. In A Few Green Leaves, her last novel, her heroine is Emma Howick, anthropologist. Through her eyes...

Barbara Pym examines in her own ironic and individual style the quiet revolution in English village life, combining the rural settings of her earliest novels with the themes and characters of her later works.

The result is a compelling portrait of a town that seems to be forgotten by time, but which is unmistakably affected by it. Romance shares the pages with death in this engaging novel that is the culmination of Barbara Pym's acclaimed writing career.

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As a child, Elizabeth was sent from her war-torn, rather loveless home in London to stay with a big, boisterous family in a small town in Ireland. There she meets Aisling, and begins what becomes a long-lasting friendship. Over the next 20 years, Aisling and Elizabeth's paths will cross and re-cross. As they face their loves, their marriages, and their disappointments, they realise that not all problems will be solved, nor....