This is the study of a profound and remarkable love between an elephant and a human being. In the middle of the 18th century, a ship docks at Bristol with an extraordinary cargo: two young elephants. Bought by a wealthy landowner, they are taken to his estate in the English countryside. A stable boy, Tom Page, is given the task of caring for them. The Elephant Keeper is Tom's account of his life with the elephants. This recording is unabridged. Typically abridged audiobooks are not more than 60 per cent of the author's work and as low as 30 per cent with characters and plotlines removed.

Product Description: Book by Nicholson, Christopher

Product Description: Assembled from stories written over a period of twenty years, No Sacred Cows offers an opportunity to engage with moral matters through wry humour and a careful understanding of the difficulties faced in seeing justice come to pass, be that in the courts or in everyday matters...read more

Product Description: Ten years into South African Democracy we need to find answers to some hard questions. Did the negotiations that lead to the new South Africa include an agreement that some of the masterminds of murder would be immune from prosecution? Have these men refused to confess their deed and shame in the certain knowledge that they will not be punished for their crimes? Will the families of Matthew Goniwe, Fort Calata, Sparrow Mkonto and Sicelo Mhlauli—as well as many others—ever know for certain who authorised the murders of their loved ones?This is the fascinating story of the search for the people ultimately responsible for the deaths of the Cradock Four...read more

Describes the construction and history of some of the world's most famous lighthouses. This book talks about the story of the rock lighthouse - from the day the first granite block was laid, through construction, automation, the disappearance of the lighthouse keeper, to the technology of modern times with the use of solar and wind power.

Product Description: A November morning in the 1920s finds an elderly man in his eighties walking the grounds of his Dorchester home, pondering his past and future with deep despondence. That man is the revered novelist and poet Thomas Hardy, and Christopher Nicholson's fictionalized account of the final years of the accomplished writer's life is as engrossing as it is heartbreaking...read more