AuthorDiana Wynne Jones
NarratorJonathan Broadbent
Duration9h 26m
CategoriesChildren's Fiction, Fantasy
Key StageKS2
PublisherW.F. Howes
VersionUnabridged
The Year of the Griffin is the sequel to the Dark Lord of Derkholm, set several years after the abolition of commercial 'fantasy world' tourism from our world
The University is now broke, and out of date in terms of what it teaches. The new head, Wizard Corkoran has selected children from wealthy families to fill his own first-year classes, hoping to beg for money. But his students turn out to be more than he expected in oh-so-many ways, and despite the incompetence of their teacher, it falls to them to save the university - and themselves...
A Song of Ice and Fire Series Book 4: Feast For Crows
Author: George R. R. Martin
Author George R. R. Martin
Narrator Roy Dotrice
SeriesA Song of Ice and Fire, Book 4
Duration 33h 49m
The Lannisters are in power on the Iron Throne.The war in the Seven Kingdoms has burned itself out, but in its bitter aftermath new conflicts spark to life. The Martells of Dorne and the Starks of Winterfell seek vengeance for their dead. Euron Crow's Eye, as black a pirate as ever raised a sail, returns from the smoking ruins of Valyria to claim t...
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Author: Diana Wynne Jones
Author Diana Wynne Jones
Narrator Kristin Atherton
Duration 8h 37m
A chaotically magical sequel to Howl’s Moving Castle. Charmain Baker is in over her head. Looking after Great Uncle William's tiny cottage while he's ill should have been easy, but Great Uncle William is better known as the Royal Wizard Norland and his house bends space and time. Its single door leads to any number of places - the bedrooms, t...
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Author: Diana Wynne Jones
Author Diana Wynne Jones
Narrator Kristin Atherton
Duration 8h 57m
In the land of Ingary, where seven league boots and invisibility cloaks exist, young Sophie Hatter catches the unwelcome attention of the Witch of the Waste and is put under a spell....Deciding she has nothing more to lose, Sophie makes her way to the moving castle that hovers on the hills above her town, Market Chipping. But the castle belongs to...
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Author: Neil Gaiman
Author Neil Gaiman
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 3h 16m
A brand new BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of Neil Gaiman's bestselling and much-loved novel. When his father dies, Fat Charlie Nancy discovers that not only was the late Mr Nancy actually the god Anansi, but that he also has a long-lost brother, Spider, who is everything Fat Charlie is not. When Spider begins to take over Fat Charlie's life,...
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A Song of Ice and Fire Series Book 1: Game of Thrones
Author: George R. R. Martin
Author George R. R. Martin
Narrator Roy Dotrice
SeriesA Song of Ice and Fire, Book 1
Duration 34h 5m
There is passion here, and misery and charm, grandeur and squalor, tragedy, nobility and courage. Summers span decades. Winter can last a lifetime. And the struggle for the Iron Throne has begun. It will stretch from the south, where heat breeds plot, lusts and intrigues; to the vast and savage eastern lands; all the way to the frozen north, where...
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Author: Marie Brennan
Author Marie Brennan
Narrator Kate Reading
Duration 11h 34m
Wonders terrestrial and aquatic, ancient ruins, near drownings, and more kinds of dragon than you can shake a wing at... Six years after her perilous exploits in Eriga, Lady Trent embarks on her most ambitious expedition yet: a two-year trip around the world aboard the Royal Survey Ship Basilisk, to study all manner of dragons. She must cope with s...
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A Song of Ice and Fire Series Book 3: A Storm of Swords
Author: George R. R. Martin
Author George R. R. Martin
Narrator Roy Dotrice
SeriesA Song of Ice and Fire, Book 3
Duration 47h 33m
The Seven Kingdoms are divided by revolt and blood feud, and winter approaches like an angry beast. Beyond the Northern borders, wildlings leave their villages to gather in the ice and stone wasteland of the Frostfangs. From there, the renegade Brother Mance Rayder will lead them South towards the Wall. Robb Stark wears his new-forged crown in the...
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A Song of Ice and Fire Series Book 2: A Clash of Kings
Author: George R. R. Martin
Author George R. R. Martin
Narrator Roy Dotrice
SeriesA Song of Ice and Fire, Book 2
Duration 36h 38m
Throughout Westeros, the cold winds are rising. From the ancient citadel of Dragonstone to the forbidding lands of Winterfell, chaos reigns as pretenders to the Iron Throne of the Seven Kingdoms stake their claims through tempest, turmoil and war. As a prophecy of doom cuts across the sky - a comet the colour of blood and flame - five factions stru...
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Author: Diana Wynne Jones
Author Diana Wynne Jones
Narrator Various
Duration 13h 43m
Magids look after all worlds, steer them towards magic, and keep history happening. But Rupert Venables' mentor has just died, and as the junior magid on earth he has to find a replacement. When he interweaves the fate lines to get all the candidates together at a sci-fi fantasy convention, havoc ensues as they all converge on a very strange hotel...
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Author: Marie Brennan
Author Marie Brennan
Narrator Kate Reading
Duration 10h 20m
From Scirland to the farthest reaches of Eriga, Isabella, Lady Trent is known to be the world's preeminent dragon naturalist. Here at last, in her own words, is the true story of a pioneering spirit who risked her reputation and her prospects to satisfy her scientific curiosity; of how she sought true love and happiness despite her lamentable eccen...
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