AuthorTerry Deary, Peter Hepplewhite
NarratorFfion Jones
Duration2h 45m
CategoriesChildren and Young Adult Non-Fiction and Educational Titles, History
Key StageKS2
PublisherInhouse
VersionUnabridged
They're not called the Awesome Egyptians for nothing! The foul pharaohs and their suffering slaves got up to all sorts of terrible tricks. Read this book to... Meet some fabulous pharaohs... and their mummies. Make revolting recipes for 3000 year old sweets. Discover which king had the most blackheads. Find out why some pharaohs wore false beards. Learn to become an Ancient Egyptian in 10 not-so-easy steps! If you like your history horrible, the Awesome Egyptians and their moaning mummies have it all wrapped up! Aaaarrrrgh!
Horrible Histories: The Smashing Saxons
Author: Terry Deary
Author Terry Deary
Narrator Stephanie Beattie
Duration 1h 32m
Readers can discover all the foul facts about the Smashing Saxons, including who got cow pats as Christmas presents, why wearing a pig on your head is lucky and how to make a dead Saxon happy.
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Tudor Chronicles Book 1: The Prince of Rags and Patches
Author: Terry Deary
Author Terry Deary
Narrator Terrence Hardiman
Duration 5h 20m
Set in the last year of Queen Elizabeth's reign, two parallel stories are woven together as 13-year-old William Marsden, with the aid of Meg the serving girl, tracks down a murderer and puzzles over the part played by his great-great-grandfather in the deaths of the Princes in the Tower.
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Author: Terry Deary
Author Terry Deary
Narrator Nia Davies
Duration 3h 36m
Want to know: Why Druids split humans in half, how the Normans outwitted the Welsh with a lump of ham and how an army of Welsh mums fought off the French once and for all? With a bold, accessible new look and a heap of extra-horrible bits, these bestselling titles are sure to be a huge hit with yet another generation of Terry Deary fans.
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Author: Terry Deary
Author Terry Deary
Narrator Denica Fairman
Duration 3h 15m
A girl murders her own father and mother in cold blood. A whole village disappears without trace. Incredible? Impossible? Someone, somewhere, has sworn that each of these sinister stories is true
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Author: Terry Deary
Author Terry Deary
Narrator Stephanie Beattie
Duration 1h 36m
It's history with the nasty bits left in! Want to know: Why the Aztecs liked to eat scum? When the world is going to end? How to play a really violent ball game? Discover all the foul facts about the Angry Aztecs - all the gore and more!
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Author: Terry Deary
Author Terry Deary
Narrator Denica Fairman
Duration 3h
A collection of nine apparently true tales, including strange spirit stones that haunt an Australian farmstead, a young girl who avenges her own murder, and a restless mummy who walks abroad on Halloween.
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Author: Terry Deary
Author Terry Deary
Narrator Denica Fairman
Duration 3h 10m
A monster with fiery breath, a man kidnapped by a family of ape men, a beached sea monster. These are some of the strangest stories around but someone, somewhere, at some time has sworn that each of these stories is true. So even if you think you don't believe in monsters, beware!
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Author: Terry Deary
Author Terry Deary
Narrator Stephen Thorne
Duration 3h
Fascinating, frightening or just plain frustrating? These eight gripping stories show detective work as it really is - and sometimes truth can be stranger than fiction. Read about the ghostly dream that helped to solve a baffling murder mystery, some clever detectives' tricks that led to the conviction of the 'Laurel and Hardy' jewel thieves, and t...
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Horrible Histories: The Rotten Romans & the Woeful Second World War
Author: Terry Deary
Author Terry Deary
Narrator
Duration 2h
THE ROTTEN ROMANS: Want to know what the Roman soldiers wore underneath their kilts, or why rich Romans needed a vomitorium? Listen to find out the terrible tactics of the rotten Roman Army. THE WOEFUL SECOND WORLD WAR: Find out who made a meal out of maggots and which soldiers were so smelly their enemies could sniff them out. All the dire details...
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Author: Terry Deary
Author Terry Deary
Narrator Polly Boyes
Duration 3h 17m
Horrible Christmas is filled with all the festive facts every Horrible Histories reader wanted to know, but were too stuffed full of mince pies to ask! The complete horrible history of Christmas tells tales from the dark days when Puritans tried to abolish Christmas, to Christmas in the trenches when the British and Germans traded bullets for footb...
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