The British Library Jane Austen Diary 2010 combines quotations from Jane Austen's letters and novels, with colour images, taken from the British Library collection, and silhouette drawings by her nephew, James Edward Austen-Leigh.

The British Library Diary 2010 combines quotations by Jane Austen with colour imaes and charming silhouette drawings by her nephew James Edward Austen-Leigh. Available in desk and pocket format with a week to a view and 56 illustrations and quotations. All major and religious holidays are included.

Features around 30 writers who talk about their lives and work. This title includes historic recordings of the first generation of writers whose voices survive through to senior figures of the present day including Rudyard Kipling, Virginia Woolf, Ian Fleming and Harold Pinter.

Features 27 American writers who talk about their lives and work. This title includes recordings of two early American winners of the Nobel Prize for Literature: Sinclair Lewis and Pearl Buck. It also features Arthur Miller who talks about his marriage to Marilyn Monroe, and John Steinbeck who talks about why he wrote The Grapes of Wrath .

Features recordings of the typical songs and calls of the fifty-two species most commonly found in British gardens. This CD presents an introduction to learning and identifying bird sounds in your garden.

Draws from the BBC Radio broadcasts of Ted Hughes and features live and studio recordings of the poet introducing and reading his own work. This title includes his earliest surviving poetry broadcast and extensive selections from Remains of Elmet and Moortown Diary .

Turning the Pages was originally conceived for the new British Library exhibition galleries, and pages from the new Lindisfarne Gospels were the first to go digital in 1998. Now extracts from 12 great masterpieces are available on CD-ROM, allowing users to interact with these precious manuscripts from the comfort of their own home. Whether zooming in on the high-quality digitised images, or ...

Presents an hour-long recording that captures the magical awakening of bird-life at daybreak in the British countryside. This CD offers a selection of British woodland recordings taken from the collection of the wildlife section of the British Library sound archive.

Bob Cobbing (1920-2002) was a crucial figure in the British avant-garde poetry and publishing scenes of the latter half of the twentieth century. This title includes BBC recordings of Bob Cobbing reading his early work.

For this illustrated anthology, 40 memorable passages have been selected; each is accompanied by a detail from one of the British Library's finest illuminated manuscripts, including the Sherborne Missal, the Luttrell Psalter and the Bedford Hours.

Presents Edith Sitwell's poetry. This work features such poems as Aubade , Dark Song , The Youth with the Red-Gold Hair , and The Canticle of the Rose .

Presents 35th annual report.