AuthorAndy Lane
NarratorVarious
SeriesTorchwood, Book 3
Duration3h 19m
CategoriesAdult Fiction, Science Fiction
Key StageA Level
PublisherBBC Audiobooks
VersionUnabridged
A friend of Gwen's has recently done an impressive bit of slimming, thanks to a new Cardiff weight-loss clinic with a incredibly simple system, and now Rhys wants to give it a try. Elsewhere in the city, an ordinary woman with superhuman strength and a rapacious appetite attacks a group of teenagers. Eight women have disappeared over the past few days, and the police fear they may have a serial killer on their hands, but as the body count rises and the hungers grow, the Torchwood team realise there may be something much more dangerous than a serial killer at work.
Author: Nick Harkaway
Author Nick Harkaway
Narrator Daniel Weyman
Duration 17h 58m
From the acclaimed author of The Gone-Away World - a new riveting action spy thriller, blistering gangster noir, and howling absurdist comedy: a propulsively entertaining tale about a mobster's son and a retired secret agent who are forced to team up to save the world. All Joe Spork wants is a quiet life. He repairs clockwork and lives above his sh...
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Author: Philip K. Dick
Author Philip K. Dick
Narrator Paul Giamatti
Duration 9h 15m
Substance D - otherwise known as Death - is the most dangerous drug ever to find its way on to the black market. It destroys the links between the brain's two hemispheres, leading first to disorentation and then to complete and irreversible brain damage. Bob Arctor, undercover narcotics agent, is trying to find a lead to the source of supply, but t...
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Author: Brian Minchin
Author Brian Minchin
Narrator David-Lloyd Gareth
Duration 2h 11m
Alien larvae in a baptismal font mark the beginnings of a terrifying adventure for the Torchwood team in this exclusive audio adventure, read by Gareth David-Lloyd. Searching for the source of a bizarre Rift reading, Gwen, Jack and Ianto find a corpse on the beach, his face covered in hundreds of tiny cuts. Watching from the shadows is a man in bla...
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Author: Ian Edgington
Author Ian Edgington
Narrator Kai Owen
Duration 1h 10m
Washington D.C., post-Miracle. The city has been hit by a spate of very unusual serial killings. The victims are different ages and genders and the locations vary, but each body has one thing in common it has been reduced to a dried-up, dessicated husk. Special Agent Lucas Avery has dealt with some tricky puzzles in his time, but this is stranger t...
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Author: Jeff Vandermeer
Author Jeff Vandermeer
Narrator Carol Mccormick
SeriesSouthern Reach Trilogy, Book 1
Duration 6h 3m
For thirty years, Area X has remained behind its border- an environmental disaster zone. Eleven expeditions have been sent in to investigate; all with terrible consequences. Annihilation is the story of the twelfth expedition. Their mission: to take samples and expand their understanding of Area X. But an inexplicable moaning calls in the distance,...
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Author: Ernest Cline
Author Ernest Cline
Narrator Wil Wheaton
Duration 11h 50m
It's just another day of high school for Zack Lightman. He's daydreaming through another boring math class, with just one more month to go until graduation and freedom-if he can make it that long without getting suspended again. Then he glances out his classroom window and spots the flying saucer. At first, Zack thinks he's going crazy. A minute la...
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Can You Tell Me the Name of the Prime Minister?
Author: Martin Jameson
Author Martin Jameson
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 44m
A BBC Radio 4 science-fiction mystery by Martin Jameson, originally broadcast as the Afternoon Play on 14 May 2010. A week after the election, Liz de Souza, a psychiatrist, examines a patient at a secure government research facility who's convinced that Tony Blair is still Prime Minister. Starring Amita Dhiri as Liz de Souza and Suzanna Hamilton as...
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Author: Marie Lu
Author Marie Lu
Narrator Nancy Wu
SeriesWarcross, Book 1
Duration 11h 49m
Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Warcross by Marie Lu, read by Nancy Wu. For the millions who log in every day, Warcross isn't just a game - it's a way of life. Struggling to make ends meet, teenage hacker Emika Chen works as a bounty hunter, tracking down players who bet on the game illegally. When Emika hacks into Warcross, she is shocke...
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Author: Christina Dalcher
Author Christina Dalcher
Narrator Laurence Bouvard
Duration 10h 30m
Jean McClellan spends her time in almost complete silence, limited to just one hundred words a day. Any more, and a thousand volts of electricity will course through her veins. Now the new government is in power, everything has changed. But only if you're a woman. Almost overnight, bank accounts are frozen, passports are taken away and seventy mill...
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Author: George Orwell
Author George Orwell
Narrator Andrew Wincott
Duration 12h 20m
1984 is the year in which it happens. The world is divided into three great powers: Oceania, Eurasia and Eastasia. Throughout Oceania 'The Party' rules by the agency of four ministries whose power is absolute. In The Ministry of Truth, which deals in propaganda, Winston Smith's job is to edit the past. Over time, the impulse to escape the machine t...
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