AuthorNina Bawden
NarratorEve Karpf
Duration3h 30m
CategoriesChildren's Fiction
Key StageKS2
PublisherChivers
VersionUnabridged
Kate, Robin and Sammy have a friend called Squib, who they met in the park. Squib is an odd little boy, and Kate is certain that there is a terrible secret behind his frightened eyes. Her attempt to help him leads her on an intriguing and dangerous journey.
Author: Nina Bawden
Author Nina Bawden
Narrator Bernard Cribbins
Duration 4h 16m
12 June 2040. Gandy, Tom's Grandfather, is due to be installed in Nostalgia Block 95 where he will be 'looked after' forever. When he slips through a door leading beyond the Wall, Tom cannot resist following him to the barbaric Outside.
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Author Nina Bawden
Narrator Carole Boyd
Duration 7h 15m
The last thing Tom Jones had expected was to run into Portia on holiday. His wife Amy knows he had an affair some four years ago, but she had never met 'the other woman'. What a curious twist of fate that she is on the same flight as them - and staying at the same hotel. Philip Mann, also staying at the Hotel Parthenon, is in Greece to make sense o...
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Author Nina Bawden
Narrator Richard Owens
Duration 7h 23m
This story is narrated by a painter, who specialises as a copyist. All around him, the women with whom he is in love leave signs which alter emotional details: Clio, his child-bride, is destructive in her pliancy; his first wife, Helen, betrays him; and Maisie, his forthright East End mother has her own secrets. And the two central figures - the pa...
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Author: Nina Bawden
Author Nina Bawden
Narrator Julia Sands
Duration 9h 40m
It is the year of the Queen's Coronation and Joanna, Kate and Poll are living in a London suburb with their mother and stepfather, Boyd, the local doctor. Accepting unquestioningly his unstinting love, they are not curious about their vanished natural father - but the safety of their lives is tenuous. The past arrives to upset the present in the pe...
View BookAuthor: Nina Bawden
Author Nina Bawden
Narrator Eve Karpf
Duration 3h 20m
Cora was supposed to live with her grandparents while her mother and father were away. But Grandma had an accident, and Cora was sent next door to stay with 'Aunt Sunday' and her daughter Angelica. Angelica acts sweet and kind in public but when the two girls are alone she is vicious and spiteful. First she teases Cora, then she threatens her, and...
View BookAuthor: Nina Bawden
Author Nina Bawden
Narrator Di Langford
Duration 2h 50m
On the 10th May 2002, author Nina Bawden and her husband, Austen Kark, boarded the 12.45 train from King's Cross en route to Cambridge for a friend's birthday party. A few minutes later the train derailed. Nina was gravely injured and Austen was killed instantly, along with seven others. In this powerful and poignant letter to her husband, Nina use...
View BookAuthor: Nina Bawden
Author Nina Bawden
Narrator Carole Boyd
Duration 4h 22m
Johnnie was the runt of the litter, a little peppermint pig. He'd cost Mother a shilling, but somehow his great naughtiness and cleverness kept Poll and Theo cheerful, even though it was one of the most difficult years of their lives.
View BookAuthor: Nina Bawden
Author Nina Bawden
Narrator Carole Boyd
Duration 3h 47m
There's something mysterious, exciting, but frightening, too, about the house Bosie, Clara and Noel have come to stay in. Surrounded by its overgrown garden, no other houses in sight, it looks lonely. And are the shuttered windows to keep burglars out, or to keep other people in - like a prison? To the three children, staying with grandparents they...
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