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  With One Lousy Free Packet of Seed , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 345min

  Here, in Lynne Truss' first novel, we meet Osborne Lonsdale, a down-at-heel journalist, mysteriously attractive to women, who writes a regular celebrity interview for Come into the Garden. This week his "Me and My Shed" column will be based on the charming garden outhouse owned by TV sitcom star Angela Farmer. Unbeknownst to Osborne, driving down to Devon to interview Angela in her country retreat, the sleepy magazine has been taken over by new management. And so Osborne's research trip is interrupted by a trainload of anxious hacks from London - Lillian the fluffy blonde secretary, Michelle the subeditor who has a secret crush on Osborne, and Trent Carmichael, crime novelist and best-selling author of S is for Secateurs! ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Robert Bathurst. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/007904/bk_blak_007904_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Shakespeare's Venus and Adonis , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 82min

  Venus and Adonis is a rich and rewarding work. This version includes substantial in introductory and concluding commentary from Shakespeare expert Charlie Creed, in addition to the full poem. Written in glorious language, the story balances comic invention with a tragic and moving love story. Appearing in quarto form in 1593, Venus and Adonis was Shakespeare’s first published work - for though several of the author’s plays had been performed by this date, none had been printed. It is believed that the poem was composed a year earlier when, in 1592, the London theatres were closed to halt the spread of a plague outbreak. Facing a hiatus in his career as an actor and playwright, Shakespeare turned to poetry. As in Ovid’s version of the myth, Shakespeare’s poem tells the story of Venus, the Roman goddess of love, and her passion for Adonis, a beautiful young man destined to be killed by the tusks of a wild boar. There are several noteworthy departures from the source material, however: Shakespeare’s work is far longer and more detailed; in contrast to Ovid’s rather demure goddess, Shakespeare’s Venus is wild, subject to uncontrollable passions; and while Ovid’s Adonis willingly returns the goddesses’ love, in Shakespeare’s poem her feelings are unrequited. This version includes the full play with additional introductory and concluding comments from Charlie Creed. Charlie Creed is a writer of fiction and nonfiction for children. After studying English Literature at Cambridge University, he worked variously as a musician, a subeditor, and a sports journalist. Now a full-time writer, he lives in Bristol, England. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jon Brattin, Nathan Chatelier. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/232975/bk_acx0_232975_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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