AuthorSusan Hill
NarratorMatt Green
Duration6h 37m
CategoriesYoung Adult and Teen Fiction
Key StageKS4
PublisherInhouse
VersionUnabridged
'He was afraid to go to sleep. For three weeks, he had been afraid of going to sleep . . .' Young officer John Hilliard returns to his battalion in France following a period of sick leave in England. Despite having trouble adjusting to all the new faces, the stiff and reserved Hilliard forms a friendship with David Barton, an open and cheerful new recruit who has still to be bloodied in battle. As the pair approach the front line, to the proximity of death and destruction, their strange friendship deepens. But each knows that soon they will be separated . . .
Author: Susan Hill
Author Susan Hill
Narrator Christopher Kay
Duration 6h
Proud and solitary, Eel Marsh House surveys the windswept reaches of the salt marshes. Arthur Kipps, a young solicitor summoned to a funeral, has no inkling of its tragic secret or of the mysterious black-robed woman who haunts its shuttered rooms. 'The Woman in Black' is a spine-tingling classic of its genre.
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Author Susan Hill
Narrator Steven Pacey
Duration 10h 4m
Gunmen are terrorising young women in the cathedral town of Lafferton. What - if anything - links the apparently random murders? Is the marksman with a rifle the same person as the killer with a handgun? Detective Chief Superintendent Simon Serrailler falls back on well tried police methods such as questioning neighbours and house-to-house searches...
View BookThe Boy Who Taught the Beekeeper To Read
Author: Susan Hill
Author Susan Hill
Narrator
Duration 4h
A young prep school boy, visiting his aunt's country house, finds company and friendship with the gentle beekeeper and begins teaching the man to read; a young country girl fights against becoming a down-trodden domestic skivvy like her dead mother, while another girl reaches a delicate understanding with an elderly blind man as they walk along the...
View BookAuthor: Susan Hill
Author Susan Hill
Narrator Steven Pacey
Duration 11h 23m
A kidnapper is at large, a schoolboy has disappeared - there are no leads, no closure. The police have failed, and morale at Lafferton station has collapsed. Then DCI Simon Serralier receives a call: a child has been snatched in Yorkshire. Has the abductor struck again?
View BookAuthor: Susan Hill
Author Susan Hill
Narrator Catriona Jarvis
Duration 4h
'I didn't want you to come here.' So says the note that the boy Edmund Hooper passes to Charles Kingshaw upon his arrival at Warings. But young Kingshaw and his mother have come to live with Hooper and his father in the ugly, isolated Victorian house for good. To Hooper, Kingshaw is an intruder, a boy to be subtly persecuted, and Kingshaw finds tha...
View BookAuthor: Susan Hill
Author Susan Hill
Narrator Steven Pacey
Duration 14h 47m
A woman vanishes in the fog up on 'the Hill', an area locally known for its tranquillity and peace. The police are not alarmed; people usually disappear for their own reasons. But when a young girl, an old man and even a dog disappear no one can deny that something untoward is happening in this quiet cathedral town. Young policewoman Freya Graffham...
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