AuthorMadeleine L'Engle
NarratorHope Davis
SeriesTime Quartet, Book 1
Duration6h 24m
CategoriesAdult Fiction, Science Fiction, Fantasy
Key StageKS2
PublisherPenguin Random House Audio Publishing
VersionUnabridged
This special edition of A Wrinkle in Time includes a new essay that explores the science behind the fantasy.Rediscover one of the most beloved children's books of all time: A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle:Meg Murray, her little brother Charles Wallace, and their mother are having a midnight snack on a dark and stormy night when an unearthly stranger appears at their door. He claims to have been blown off course, and goes on to tell them that there is such a thing as a "tesseract," which, if you didn't know, is a wrinkle in time. Meg's father had been experimenting with time-travel when he suddenly disappeared. Will Meg, Charles Wallace, and their friend Calvin outwit the forces of evil as they search through space for their father?
A Song of Ice and Fire Series Book 3: A Storm of Swords
Author: George R. R. Martin
Author George R. R. Martin
Narrator Roy Dotrice
SeriesA Song of Ice and Fire, Book 3
Duration 47h 33m
The Seven Kingdoms are divided by revolt and blood feud, and winter approaches like an angry beast. Beyond the Northern borders, wildlings leave their villages to gather in the ice and stone wasteland of the Frostfangs. From there, the renegade Brother Mance Rayder will lead them South towards the Wall. Robb Stark wears his new-forged crown in the...
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Author: Marie Brennan
Author Marie Brennan
Narrator Kate Reading
Duration 10h 20m
From Scirland to the farthest reaches of Eriga, Isabella, Lady Trent is known to be the world's preeminent dragon naturalist. Here at last, in her own words, is the true story of a pioneering spirit who risked her reputation and her prospects to satisfy her scientific curiosity; of how she sought true love and happiness despite her lamentable eccen...
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Author: George Orwell
Author George Orwell
Narrator Andrew Wincott
Duration 12h 20m
1984 is the year in which it happens. The world is divided into three great powers: Oceania, Eurasia and Eastasia. Throughout Oceania 'The Party' rules by the agency of four ministries whose power is absolute. In The Ministry of Truth, which deals in propaganda, Winston Smith's job is to edit the past. Over time, the impulse to escape the machine t...
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A Song of Ice and Fire Series Book 2: A Clash of Kings
Author: George R. R. Martin
Author George R. R. Martin
Narrator Roy Dotrice
SeriesA Song of Ice and Fire, Book 2
Duration 36h 38m
Throughout Westeros, the cold winds are rising. From the ancient citadel of Dragonstone to the forbidding lands of Winterfell, chaos reigns as pretenders to the Iron Throne of the Seven Kingdoms stake their claims through tempest, turmoil and war. As a prophecy of doom cuts across the sky - a comet the colour of blood and flame - five factions stru...
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A Time Quartet Book 3: A Swiftly Tilting Planet
Author: Madeleine L'Engle
Author Madeleine L'Engle
Narrator Jennifer Ehle
SeriesTime Quartet, Book 3
Duration 7h 23m
Fifteen-year-old Charles Wallace and the unicorn Gaudior undertake a perilous journey through time in a desperate attempt to stop the destruction of the world by the mad dictator Madog Branzillo. They are not alone their quest. Charles Wallace's sister, Meg--grown and expecting her first child, but still able to enter her brother's thoughts and emo...
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A Song of Ice and Fire Series Book 4: Feast For Crows
Author: George R. R. Martin
Author George R. R. Martin
Narrator Roy Dotrice
SeriesA Song of Ice and Fire, Book 4
Duration 33h 49m
The Lannisters are in power on the Iron Throne.The war in the Seven Kingdoms has burned itself out, but in its bitter aftermath new conflicts spark to life. The Martells of Dorne and the Starks of Winterfell seek vengeance for their dead. Euron Crow's Eye, as black a pirate as ever raised a sail, returns from the smoking ruins of Valyria to claim t...
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Author: Rob Reid
Author Rob Reid
Narrator John Hodgman
Duration 9h 53m
In the hilarious tradition of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Rob Reid takes you on a headlong journey through the outer reaches of the universe-and the inner workings of our absurdly dysfunctional music industry. Low-level entertainment lawyer Nick Carter thinks it's a prank, not an alien encounter, when a redheaded mullah and a curvaceous n...
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A Time Quartet Book 2: A Wind In the Door
Author: Madeleine L'Engle
Author Madeleine L'Engle
Narrator Jennifer Ehle
SeriesTime Quartet, Book 2
Duration 5h 27m
Meg Murry can't help but be worried when her six-year-old brother, Charles Wallace, announces there are dragons in the vegetable garden. He's so bright, and so different from other kids, he's getting bullied at school, and he is also strangely, seriously ill. But Charles Wallace is right about the dragons--actually a friendly entity who has come to...
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Author: Madeleine L'Engle
Author Madeleine L'Engle
Narrator Ann Marie Lee
SeriesTime Quartet, Book 5
Duration 9h 41m
A flash of lightning, quivering ground, and, instead of her grandparents' farm, Polly sees mist and jagged mountains -- and coming toward her, a group of young men carrying spears. Why has a time gate opened and dropped Polly into a world that existed 3,000 years ago? Will she be able to get back to the present before the time gate closes -- and...
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Author: Philip K. Dick
Author Philip K. Dick
Narrator Paul Giamatti
Duration 9h 15m
Substance D - otherwise known as Death - is the most dangerous drug ever to find its way on to the black market. It destroys the links between the brain's two hemispheres, leading first to disorentation and then to complete and irreversible brain damage. Bob Arctor, undercover narcotics agent, is trying to find a lead to the source of supply, but t...
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