AuthorKatherine Rundell
NarratorMargaret Cabourn-Smith
Duration5h 17m
CategoriesChildren's Fiction
Key StageKS2
PublisherBloomsbury
VersionUnabridged
Fresh off the boat from England, Vita Marlowe has a job to do. Her beloved grandfather Jack has been cheated out of his home and possessions by a notorious conman with Mafia connections. Seeing Jack's spirit is broken, Vita is desperate to make him happy again, so she devises a plan to outwit his enemies and recover his home. She finds a young pickpocket, working the streets of the city. And, nearby, two boys with highly unusual skills and secrets of their own are about to be pulled into her lawless, death-defying plan. Katherine Rundell's fifth novel is a heist as never seen before - the story of a group of children who will do anything to right a wrong.
Author: Katherine Rundell
Author Katherine Rundell
Narrator Lenny Henry
Duration 3h 8m
'A rare and magical book. I didn't want it to end.' Bill Bryson 'Rundell is the real deal, a writer of boundless gifts and extraordinary imaginative power.' Observer'Rundell's pen is gold-tipped.' Sunday TimesThe world is more astonishing, more miraculous and more wonderful than our wildest imaginings.In this passionately persuasive and sharply fun...
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Author: Katherine Rundell
Author Katherine Rundell
Narrator Gordon Griffin
Duration 6h 8m
Everyone thinks that Sophie is an orphan. Found floating in a cello case, she is the only recorded female survivor of a shipwreck on the English Channel. But Sophie remembers seeing her mother wave for help... When the child welfare agency threatens to send Sophie to an orphanage, Sophie and her guardian flee to Paris to find her mother, starting w...
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Author: Katherine Rundell
Author Katherine Rundell
Narrator Jamie Parker
Duration 8h 41m
John Donne lived myriad lives. Sometime religious outsider and social disaster, sometime celebrity preacher and establishment darling, John Donne was incapable of being just one thing. He was a scholar of law, a sea adventurer, an MP, a priest, the Dean of St Paul’s Cathedral – and perhaps the greatest love poet in the history of the En...
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Author: Katherine Rundell
Author Katherine Rundell
Narrator Jamie Parker
Duration 34m
Bloomsbury presents One Christmas Wish by Katherine Rundell, read by Jamie Parker.Go on an adventure with Katherine Rundell ..._______________NOMINATED FOR THE CILIP CARNEGIE MEDAL NOMINATED FOR THE CILIP GREENAWAY MEDAL From the winner of the Costa Children's Book Award_______________It's Christmas Eve and Theo – left at home with a babysitt...
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Author: Katherine Rundell
Author Katherine Rundell
Narrator Peter Noble
Duration 6h 43m
From Boston Globe-Horn Book Award winner Katherine Rundell comes an exciting new novel about a group of kids who must survive in the Amazon after their plane crashes. Fred, Con, Lila, and Max are on their way back to England from Manaus when the plane they're on crashes and the pilot dies upon landing. For days they survive alone, until Fred finds...
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