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?
Dark Star Trilogy Book 1: Black Leopard, Red Wolf
Author: Marlon James
Author Marlon James
Narrator Dion Graham
SeriesDark Star Trilogy, Book 1
Duration 24h 1m
Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Black Leopard, Red Wolf by Marlon James. Tracker is known far and wide for his skills as a hunter - and he always works alone. But when he is engaged to find a child who disappeared three years ago, he must break his own rules, joining a group of eight very different mercenaries working together to find the...
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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 le...
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Author: Ernest Cline
Author Ernest Cline
Narrator Wil Wheaton
Duration 11h 50m
It's just another day of high school for Zack Lightman. He's daydreaming through another boring math class, with just one more month to go until graduation and freedom-if he can make it that long without getting suspended again. Then he glances out his classroom window and spots the flying saucer. At first, Zack thinks he's going crazy. A minute la...
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A Time Quartet Book 4: Many Waters
Author: Madeleine L'Engle
Author Madeleine L'Engle
Narrator Ann Marie Lee
SeriesTime Quartet, Book 4
Duration 8h 55m
A touch of computer keys, a blast of heat, and suddenly the Murry twins, Sandy and Dennys, are gasping in a shimmering desert land. If only the brothers had normal parents, not a scientist mother and a father who experiments with space and time travel. If only the Murry twins had noticed the note on the door of their mother's lab: Experiment In Pro...
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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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Author: Rivers Solomon
Author Rivers Solomon
Narrator Cherise Boothe
Duration 11h 54m
Aster has little to offer folks in the way of rebuttal when they call her ogre and freak. She's used to the names; she only wishes there was more truth to them. If she were truly a monster, she'd be powerful enough to tear down the walls around her until nothing remains of her world. Aster lives in the lowdeck slums of the HSS Matilda, a space vess...
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Author: Angela Chadwick
Author Angela Chadwick
Narrator Zara Ramm
Duration 9h 56m
When Rosie and Jules discover a ground-breaking clinical trial that enables two women to have a female baby, they jump at the chance to make history. Fear-mongering politicians and right-wing movements are quick to latch on to the controversies surrounding Ovum-to-Ovum (o-o) technology and stoke the fears of the public. What will happen to the numb...
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Author: Marie Lu
Author Marie Lu
Narrator Nancy Wu
SeriesWarcross, Book 1
Duration 11h 49m
Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Warcross by Marie Lu, read by Nancy Wu. For the millions who log in every day, Warcross isn't just a game - it's a way of life. Struggling to make ends meet, teenage hacker Emika Chen works as a bounty hunter, tracking down players who bet on the game illegally. When Emika hacks into Warcross, she is shocke...
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Author: Nick Harkaway
Author Nick Harkaway
Narrator Daniel Weyman
Duration 17h 58m
From the acclaimed author of The Gone-Away World - a new riveting action spy thriller, blistering gangster noir, and howling absurdist comedy: a propulsively entertaining tale about a mobster's son and a retired secret agent who are forced to team up to save the world. All Joe Spork wants is a quiet life. He repairs clockwork and lives above his sh...
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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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