AuthorTerry Deary
NarratorToby Longworth
SeriesTudor Chronicles, Book 3
Duration5h 11m
CategoriesChildren's Fiction
Key StageKS3
PublisherChivers
VersionUnabridged
A silver cup has been stolen from Marsden Hall and Meg the serving girl will hang for it. Unless she agrees to spy on her friends. For loyal Meg it is a terrible dilemma. Her friend Will is desperate to save her. And Will's mother decides to tell them the story she has kept secret for many years, how she herself as a young lady-in-waiting was forced to spy on Mary, Queen of Scots.
Author: Terry Deary
Author Terry Deary
Narrator Stephanie Beattie
Duration 1h 36m
It's history with the nasty bits left in! Want to know: Why the Aztecs liked to eat scum? When the world is going to end? How to play a really violent ball game? Discover all the foul facts about the Angry Aztecs - all the gore and more!
View BookAuthor: Terry Deary
Author Terry Deary
Narrator Stephen Thorne
Duration 3h
Fascinating, frightening or just plain frustrating? These eight gripping stories show detective work as it really is - and sometimes truth can be stranger than fiction. Read about the ghostly dream that helped to solve a baffling murder mystery, some clever detectives' tricks that led to the conviction of the 'Laurel and Hardy' jewel thieves, and t...
View BookTudor Chronicles Book 5: The Lord of the Dreaming Globe
Author: Terry Deary
Author Terry Deary
Narrator
SeriesTudor Chronicles, Book 5
Duration 5h
All Will wants is to get to Stratford where Master William Shakespeare has promised him work, but somebody seems to think he has important information. And when Master Shakespeare's daughter, Judith, is kidnapped, Will and his friend Meg discover that the world of theatre is not what it seems. Certain actors are spying on their countrymen, on the o...
View BookHorrible Histories: Awesome Egyptians
Author: Terry Deary, Peter Hepplewhite
Author Terry Deary, Peter Hepplewhite
Narrator Ffion Jones
Duration 2h 45m
They're not called the Awesome Egyptians for nothing! The foul pharaohs and their suffering slaves got up to all sorts of terrible tricks. Read this book to... Meet some fabulous pharaohs... and their mummies. Make revolting recipes for 3000 year old sweets. Discover which king had the most blackheads. Find out why some pharaohs wore false beards....
View BookTudor Chronicles Book 4: The Knight of Stars and Storms
Author: Terry Deary
Author Terry Deary
Narrator Toby Longworth
SeriesTudor Chronicles, Book 4
Duration 5h 9m
Will and his father, Sir James - and Meg, the serving girl, who refuses to be left behind - set sail for London with a cargo of coal to sell in an attempt to save the family fortunes. But someone is out to get them. This is a tale of murder and intrigue.
View BookAuthor: Terry Deary
Author Terry Deary
Narrator Denica Fairman
Duration 3h 10m
A monster with fiery breath, a man kidnapped by a family of ape men, a beached sea monster. These are some of the strangest stories around but someone, somewhere, at some time has sworn that each of these stories is true. So even if you think you don't believe in monsters, beware!
View BookTudor Chronicles Book 1: The Prince of Rags and Patches
Author: Terry Deary
Author Terry Deary
Narrator Terrence Hardiman
Duration 5h 20m
Set in the last year of Queen Elizabeth's reign, two parallel stories are woven together as 13-year-old William Marsden, with the aid of Meg the serving girl, tracks down a murderer and puzzles over the part played by his great-great-grandfather in the deaths of the Princes in the Tower.
View BookHorrible Histories: The Smashing Saxons
Author: Terry Deary
Author Terry Deary
Narrator Stephanie Beattie
Duration 1h 32m
Readers can discover all the foul facts about the Smashing Saxons, including who got cow pats as Christmas presents, why wearing a pig on your head is lucky and how to make a dead Saxon happy.
View BookHorrible Histories: The Rotten Romans & the Woeful Second World War
Author: Terry Deary
Author Terry Deary
Narrator
Duration 2h
THE ROTTEN ROMANS: Want to know what the Roman soldiers wore underneath their kilts, or why rich Romans needed a vomitorium? Listen to find out the terrible tactics of the rotten Roman Army. THE WOEFUL SECOND WORLD WAR: Find out who made a meal out of maggots and which soldiers were so smelly their enemies could sniff them out. All the dire details...
View BookAuthor: Terry Deary
Author Terry Deary
Narrator Denica Fairman
Duration 3h
A collection of nine apparently true tales, including strange spirit stones that haunt an Australian farmstead, a young girl who avenges her own murder, and a restless mummy who walks abroad on Halloween.
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