AuthorTove Jansson
NarratorHugh Dennis
Duration3h 26m
CategoriesChildren's Fiction, LGBTQ+ Literature
Key StageKS2
PublisherPenguin
VersionUnabridged
If you haven't met a Moomin yet, you're in for the most magical fun! The unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of Tove Jansson's endearing classic, Comet in Moominland, read with warmth (and some lively character voices) by the comedian Hugh Dennis. A comet is speeding towards Earth and nobody knows what to do!Will it destroy everything and everyone? Moomintroll decides to find out. So, with Sniff, he sets out on an expedition to ask the Professor if a comet is really on its way to destroy the Earth. On their journey they meet some interesting people - such as Snufkin the super tramp, and the Hemulen who rescuesthem from an underground tunnel - and have narrow escapes from such menaces as crocodiles and giant lizards. And on their way back Moomintroll meets the beautiful Snork Maiden and is a changed Moomin for ever after. But what about the comet - and is the World Wiped Out?...
Karen Pirie Book 5: Broken Ground
Author: Val Mcdermid
Author Val Mcdermid
Narrator Cathleen Mccarron
SeriesKaren Pirie, Book 5
Duration 12h 57m
When a body is discovered in the remote depths of the Highlands, DCI Karen Pirie finds herself in the right place at the right time. Unearthed with someone's long-buried inheritance, the victim seems to belong to the distant past - until new evidence suggests otherwise, and Karen is called in to unravel a case where nothing is as it seems. It's not...
View BookThe Moomins Book 3: Finn Family Moomintroll
Author: Tove Jansson
Author Tove Jansson
Narrator Hugh Dennis
Duration 3h 33m
If you haven't met a Moomin yet, you're in for the most magical fun! The unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of Tove Jansson's endearing classic, Finn Family Moomintroll, read with warmth (and some lively character voices) by the comedian Hugh Dennis. Moomintroll is cheerful and chubby and lives in the magical Moominvalley with his mother, M...
View BookAuthor: Alice Oseman
Author Alice Oseman
Narrator Huw Parmenter
Duration 9h 50m
The third novel from the phenomenally talented Alice Oseman - one of the most talked about YA writers in recent years. For Angel Rahimi life is about one thing: The Ark - a pop-rock trio of teenage boys who are taking the world by storm. Being part of The Ark's fandom has given her everything she loves - her friend Juliet, her dreams, her place in...
View BookAuthor: Jeffrey Eugenides
Author Jeffrey Eugenides
Narrator Nathan Osgood
Duration 24h 17m
'I was born twice: first, as a baby girl, on a remarkably smogless Detroit day of January 1960; and then again, as a teenage boy, in an emergency room near Petoskey, Michigan, in August of 1974.' So begins the breathtaking story of Calliope Stephanides and her truly unique family secret, born on the slopes of Mount Olympus and passed on through thr...
View BookTony Hill and Carol Jordan Book 9: Splinter the Silence
Author: Val Mcdermid
Author Val Mcdermid
Narrator Saul Reichlin
SeriesTony Hill and Carol Jordan, Book 9
Duration 12h 47m
When psychological profiler Tony Hill comes across a series of suicides among women tormented by vicious online predators, he begins to wonder if there is more to these tragedies than meets the eye. Could it be murder? But what kind of serial killer wants his crimes to stay hidden? Tony and DCI Carol Jordan begin the hunt for the most dangerous and...
View BookKaren Pirie Book 1: The Distant Echo
Author: Val Mcdermid
Author Val Mcdermid
Narrator Tom Cotcher
SeriesKaren Pirie, Book 1
Duration 14h 12m
On a freezing morning four drunken students stumble upon the body of a woman in the snow. Rosie has been raped, stabbed and left for dead in a cemetery. The only suspects are the four young men now stained with her blood. 25 years later the police mount a 'cold case' review of Rosie's unsolved murder and the four are still suspects. But when two of...
View BookThe Moomins Book 7: Tales From Moomin Valley
Author: Tove Jansson
Author Tove Jansson
Narrator Hugh Dennis
Duration 3h 21m
Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Tales from Moominvalley by Tove Jansson, read by Hugh Dennis. If you haven't met a Moomin yet, you're in for the most magical fun! If you found a tiny golden dragon with green paws, would you know what to do with it? Well, Moomintroll thinks he knows what to do. But when he takes his new-found pet home, thi...
View BookThe Moomins Book 4: The Exploits of Moominpappa
Author: Tove Jansson
Author Tove Jansson
Narrator Hugh Dennis
Duration 3h 12m
If you haven't met a Moomin yet, you're in for the most magical fun! The unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of Tove Jansson's endearing classic, The Exploits of Moominpappa, read with warmth (and some lively character voices) by the comedian Hugh Dennis. 'I decided to run away. There simply wasn't anything else to do.' Here at last is Moomi...
View BookAuthor: Tove Jansson
Author Tove Jansson
Narrator Hugh Dennis
Duration 5h 18m
Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Moominpappa at Sea by Tove Jansson, read by Hugh Dennis. If you haven't met a Moomin yet, you're in for the most magical fun!A Moomintroll is small and shy and fat, and has a Moominpappa and a Moominmamma. Moomins live in the forests of Finland. One day Moominpappa is feeling at a loss. He has no idea what...
View BookAuthor: Val Mcdermid
Author Val Mcdermid
Narrator Saul Reichlin
Duration 13h 17m
In the north of England, single women are beginning to disappear from weddings. A pattern soon becomes clear: Someone is luring the women away, only to leave the victims' bodies in their own burned-out cars in remote locations. Tony and Carol are called upon to investigate but this may be the toughest case they've ever had to face. Meanwhile, Detec...
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