This audiobook is about the power of language. It's about the quest by news writers to uncover the truth, not just report surface facts. It's about having the vision and patience to study a clouded picture until the full view comes into focus. It's about words that change a nation. This audiobook looks at the first 'muckrackers' in America and is f...

Trixie is a fun and fiesty free-thinker who never seems to hear the word 'no'! She has a heart of gold and a love of animals so big it even includes nits! She's passionate about vegetarianism, music and 'Building a Better World'. All Trixie has ever wanted is her very own horse - and when her gran wins money in a competition, Trixie's dream finally...

Everything is new for Allie Finkle. A new house, a new school, new friends - when all she wanted was a new kitten. Now Allie's finding that it's hard being the new girl, especially when the class bully hates you from the first day! What Allie needs are some new rules to help her out! Like... when you are starting your first day ever at a brand new...

It's May, AD 81. On their way back to Ostia from North Africa, the Roman merchant ship carrying Flavia and her friends is wrecked and one of the four detectives goes missing. A desperate quest takes the others to the Romano-Egyptian port of Alexandria: site of the great lighthouse, and the library and the tomb of Alexander the Great. Codes, riddl...

It's December, AD 80. Ostia is gripped by a case of triple murder. The defendant seems the most unlikely criminal - a tragic and beautiful slave girl with a haunted past. Who will defend the slave girl? And is she really innocent? Justice must prevail in the courtroom, but it isn't easy when the vices and virtues of everyone concerned - even Fla...

The concluding books in T.H. White's retelling of the Arthurian legend see the old King facing the final challenge of his reign. Has he the strength to see it off - or will his lifetime's work be destroyed by his own son? Humane and deeply touching, White concludes his story with a passionate call for peace and a tentative suggestion of hope.

It's late August, AD 79. The Roman world is reeling from the eruption of Mount Vesuvius. Volcanic ash covers the land, sunsets are blood-red and the sea gives up corpses of the dead. At a makeshift camp south of Stabia, hundreds of refugees from the cities of Vesuvius try to come to terms with the disaster. But then children begin to go missing...

Esmie has always longed for a new mum, since her real mother died when she was a baby. So when Lizzie moves in, Esmie is delighted. Surely it can only be a matter of time before dad proposes and Lizzie becomes an official mum. So why does Matty, Esmie's brother, suddenly have cold feet about the whole thing? But Esmie has even more pressing problem...

Ultra-snobby Clara Frankofile has everything an eleven-year-old girl could want. She's fabulously wealthy, she lives alone in a penthouse apartment with its own roller coaster and bumper cars - and all of New York City is terrified of her! Each night at the fashionable Pish Posh restaurant, Clara watches the glittery movie actresses and rock stars...

Lucy has been forced to run away from home as she fears for her safety from her drunken father. She is taken on as a maid at the house of Dr Dee, court magician, upon whom Elizabeth I relies heavily, even down to advising the date of her coronation. The household is strange and sinister, and Lucy has a nose for intrigue ... And she has more than en...

Captain Teggs is no ordinary dinosaur - he's an astrosaur! On the incredible spaceship DSS Sauropod, along with his faithful crew, Gypsy, Arx and Iggy, Teggs rights wrongs, fights evil and eats a lot of grass! Teggs and his crew have been sent to a watery planet where a very large and very scary monster has been attacking a local fish factory. When...

Alice is growing up in the grey world of post-war London. Her escape is her imagination, which always brightens her day. But when a new boy starts school, her mind begins to play tricks on her, and whenever they are together the world becomes a more exciting place.

Goolish is suffering a bit of an identity crisis. After hundreds of years of ghouls, spectres, vampires, mummies and zombies all living happily alongside one another, so-called 'ordinary' people have started to move to the town. The Fang Gang are working hard to develop their gruesome skills to foster good relations between the new residents of Goo...

Josh has always had an affinity with animals, but it's his younger brother Jamie who falls under the wild cat spell and soon it becomes impossible for the family to cope with his frightening and unpredictable behaviour. Only Josh understands, but is he brave enough to break through Jamie's unhappy mask, and save them all? Silver Winner of the Nest...

Eleven-year-old Pearl has always lived on the edges of society. Brought up by her mum on a narrow boat, she never went to school and rarely mixed with other people. But now her mum is ill in hospital and Pearl has been sent to live with a foster family and there is talk of her being adopted by a forever family. All Pearl wants is to be back with he...

A small wooden elephant is gathering dust in an old house, when he's flung into an adventure and finds himself helping three children: Sara, a shy young musician, Nita, who has something to prove, and Jack, who's angry with his mum's new boyfriend... Leaving happiness in his wake - and making several small whiskery friends along the way - the eleph...

Nine-year-old Lucy is really pleased when Allegra Greenwood moves in next door and the girls quickly become friends. But when Allegra tells her that she is a 'stardust spirit', Lucy discovers a whole world of magic beyond her imagination.

Jemma's biggest dreams become possible when she discovers silky cream and brown kitten Flame, and there's double trouble for Kim when silver tabby kitten Flame comes to stay!

Abbot Dagger's Academy is a boarding school for children so weird or so brilliant they must be locked up far from civilisation. Onyx, Owen and Rosetti are the weirdest, baddest and brilliantest... They have to win the Greyte Cup for Achievement, but this is no ordinary trophy - it is the Holy Grail! And someone has hidden it in the trackless wastes...

Frank hated Friday nights, sitting in the museum while his mum did the cleaning. He felt very alone - until a skeleton came over for a chat! And suddenly the museum didn't seem quite so boring any more. But after a few chilling encounters with some of the skeleton's weird and wonderful friends, all Frank really wants is his mum.

Strong-willed Minna is just a blacksmith's daughter, yet she raises a sickly abandoned foal to become the pride of the Roman cavalry. When her fort is threatened by bloodthirsty pirates, the fate of her people depends on Minna and her beloved horse, as they set out on an impossible journey to fetch help.