AuthorEva Ibbotson
NarratorAngela Thorne
Duration4h 22m
CategoriesChildren's Fiction
Key StageKS2
PublisherChivers
VersionUnabridged
The Wilkinson family, who became ghosts when a bomb dropped on their house in 1943, badly need a new home. But there is a horrible mix-up at the agency that specialises in matching ghosts to suitable homes, and they are sent to Fulton Hall, where the ghastly Fulton and Frieda Snodde-Brittle have asked for a ghost that will frighten their nephew Oliver to death... A crazy, hilarious adventure filled with eccentric spirits and even more bizarre human characters.
Author: Eva Ibbotson
Author Eva Ibbotson
Narrator Angela Thorne
Duration 3h 50m
Through the gentleman's cloakroom on Platform 13 at King's Cross Station lies a beautiful secret island, where people live together with ogres, hags, mermaids, brollachans, harpies and the wonderful mistmakers. But one day things go badly wrong and the Prince of the island is kidnapped by the evil Mrs Trottle. He must be rescued before it's too lat...
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Author Eva Ibbotson
Narrator Sophie Ward
Duration 7h 50m
Miss Minton and Maia are sailing to the city of Manaus, a thousand miles up the mighty Amazon river. Maia, a lonely orphan, is excited to be starting a new life with relatives she's never met. Mysterious Miss Minton has secret reasons of her own for making the journey. But years of living in the jungle have sent Maia's aunt and uncle slightly mad....
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Author Eva Ibbotson
Narrator Susan Jameson
Duration 6h 1m
Three children have been dramatically kidnapped by some mysterious, mad aunts. But Myrtle, Coral and Etta are far from killers - they need the children for a special mission. The secret island where they live is a sanctuary for magical creatures - mermaids, selkies, the amazing boobrie bird and even the great Kraken himself, and the kidnapped child...
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Author Eva Ibbotson
Narrator Prunella Scales
Duration 4h 37m
Arriman the Awful, Wizard of the North, is tired of being the most evil wizard in the world so he decides he must get married and have a son to take over. His wife must be a witch with awesome powers but the organised contest has awful consequences.
View BookAuthor: Eva Ibbotson
Author Eva Ibbotson
Narrator Prunella Scales
Duration 3h 26m
Humphrey the Horrible sounds scary, but he's actually a very friendly skeleton, with twinkling eye sockets and jangling finger bones. Humphrey dreams of being ghastly, like his brother - a screaming skull - or terrifying, like his bloodsucking vampire-bat cousins. But when Humphrey discovers an evil plot to exorcise his family he finally realises y...
View BookAuthor: Eva Ibbotson
Author Eva Ibbotson
Narrator Prunella Scales
Duration 3h 37m
Heckie is determined not to be just a witch. With the help of local wizards and a little boy, she sets about putting the world to rights. But then she falls under the spell of smarming, charming Mr Knapsack and all her good work is nearly undone.
View BookAuthor: Eva Ibbotson
Author Eva Ibbotson
Narrator Prunella Scales
Duration 4h 24m
Twelve year old orphan, Alex MacBuff, doesn't want to sell his beloved home, Carra Castle. But it is falling to pieces and he can't afford to keep it. American millionaire, Hiram C. Hopgood, offers to buy it on condition that there are no ghosts - and Alex can't refuse. The problem is, Carra Castle is full of ghosts! There's Krok the hairy Viking w...
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Author Eva Ibbotson
Narrator Penelope Rawlins
Duration 8h 14m
It is 1910 and Maia, tragically orphaned at 13, has been sent from England to start a new life with distant relatives in Manaus, hundreds of miles up the Amazon. She is accompanied by an eccentric and mysterious governess who has secret reasons of her own for making the journey. Both soon discover an exotic world bursting with new experiences in th...
View BookAuthor: Eva Ibbotson
Author Eva Ibbotson
Narrator Angela Thorne
Duration 4h 41m
Under Platform 13 at Kings Cross Station there is a secret door... It appears only once every nine years. When it opens, four mysterious figures step into the streets of London. A wizard, an ogre, a fey and a young hag have come to find the prince of their kingdom, stolen as a baby nine years before. But the prince has become a horrib...
View BookAuthor: Eva Ibbotson
Author Eva Ibbotson
Narrator Stephen Crossley
Duration 5h 38m
All Hal had ever wanted was a dog. "Never!" cries his mother. "Think of the mess, the scratch-marks, the puddles on the floor." But on the morning of Hal's 10th birthday, the unbelievable happens. He's allowed to choose a puppy at Easy Pets, a rent-a-pet agency (a fact his parents keep from him). The moment he sees the odd-looking terrier, he knows...
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