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Author: Barlow Steve
Series: Luke Challenger Adventure, Book 1
Author Barlow Steve
Narrator Graham Seed
SeriesLuke Challenger Adventure, Book 1
Duration 7h 44m
Someone is trying to kill Luke Challenger. Being garrotted with cable car wires is not the way he wants to end his young life! Luke and his friend Nick flee the would-be assassins into the deepest Brazilian jungle - where they encounter a lost world of real-life dinosaurs. Then a mysterious cult comes after Luke. Why are the sinister Sons of Destin...
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Author: Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb
Author Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb
Narrator Martin Jarvis, Rosalind Ayres
Duration 33m
This classic Shakespeare tale of false identities, cross-dressing, disguises and romantic confusion is brought to life in a story (rather than a play) format. Based in a Dutchy in France, most of the action in fact takes place in 'The Forest of Arden' where the characters in the play fall in love, fall out with each other and find out some unlikely...
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Author: George Orwell
Author George Orwell
Narrator Philip Glenister
Duration 5h 52m
Nineteen Eighty-Four is a classic dystopian novel by English author George Orwell. Published in 1949, it is set in the eponymous year and focuses on a repressive, totalitarian regime. The story follows the life of one seemingly insignificant man, Winston Smith, a civil servant assigned the task of falsifying records and political literature, thus e...
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Author: Vanessa Curtis
Series: Zelah Green, Book 1
Author Vanessa Curtis
Narrator Lisa Coleman
SeriesZelah Green, Book 1
Duration 3h 15m
My name is Zelah Green and I'm a cleanaholic. I spend most of my life running away from germs. And dirt. And people. And I'm just about doing OK and then my stepmother packs me off to some kind of hospital to live with loads of strangers. It's stuck in the middle of nowhere. Great. There's Alice who's anorexic. Caro who cuts herself. Silent Sol wh...
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Author: Dodie Smith
Author Dodie Smith
Narrator Emilia Fox
Duration 4h 52m
I Capture the Castle is Dodie Smith's first novel, written in 1949 while living in USA. Smith was already an established playwright and later became famous for authoring the children's classic The Hundred and One Dalmatians. This coming-of-age novel recounts in the first person the adventures of an eccentric family, the Mortmains, struggling to liv...
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Author: Robert Swindells
Author Robert Swindells
Narrator Matt Walters, Ruth Sillars
Duration 4h
In 2051 Britain is a divided country - half the population shelters in fortified suburbs, the other half smoulders in sealed off ghettos. Zoe is one of the privileged, Daz a semi-literate ghetto dweller. What happens when they fall in love?
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Author: Robert Swindells
Author Robert Swindells
Narrator Crispin Letts
Duration 2h 54m
Forced out of the family home by an abusive stepfather, `Link' is down and out in London. He vividly recounts the day to day experiences of life on the streets. As the author alternates Link's tale with that of an unknown serial killer preying on the homeless, you see how closely their lives brush against each other and know it's only a matter of t...
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Confessions of Georgia Nicholson Series Book 1: Angus, Thongs and Full-frontal Snogging
Author: Louise Rennison
Series: Confessions of Georgia Nicolson, Book 1
Author Louise Rennison
Narrator Louise Rennison
SeriesConfessions of Georgia Nicolson, Book 1
Duration 3h 48m
It's bad enough being a teenager but Georgia Nicolson's problems go way beyond the average. She lives with her annoying parents, a three-year-old sister, her wildcat Angus and has to wear a beret to school. She would, however, rather be blond, have a smaller nose, slimmer eyebrows and a boyfriend. Georgia relates her tales of love and life in her d...
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Author: Pauline Fisk
Author Pauline Fisk
Narrator Susannah Tresilian
Duration 6h 30m
When Abren becomes conscious of her surroundings she is struggling to get out of the flooded river Severn with her only possession, a beautifully embroidered cloth, clutched in her arms. What is she doing in the water, who is she, and where can she go? A magical fantasy of a story that follows the journey of a girl's life over many centuries.
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Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
Author Robert Louis Stevenson
Narrator Jeff Bellamy
Duration 2h 20m
The well-intentioned, wealthy physician Dr Jekyll is fascinated by the duality of human nature. He discovers a drug which can separate the good and evil sides of his character. But can he stop his dark side, the hideous Mr Hyde, from taking control?
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Author: Celia Rees
Author Celia Rees
Narrator Aiofe Nally
Duration 2h 20m
Mary's grandmother is executed for witchcraft, and Mary is forced to leave her home to avoid the same fate. At first she flees to the English countryside, but when the atmosphere of superstition and suspicion becomes all-consuming she leaves on a boat for America in the hope that she can start over and forget her past. But during the journey, she r...
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Author: Simon Armitage
Author Simon Armitage
Narrator Charles Bainbridge
Duration 1h 40m
The first collection of poetry from an award winning poet. This audiobook features `It ain't what you do it's what it does to you' and other poems included for study at GCSE. CONTAINS SOME STRONG LANGUAGE.
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Author: Malorie Blackman
Author Malorie Blackman
Narrator Roger Griffiths
Duration 4h 50m
It's a normal Friday evening for Elliot - until the police knock on the door and tell him his mum's in serious trouble! A security video clearly shows her breaking into a giant pharmaceutical company on behalf of the environmental action group A.N.T.I.D.O.T.E. Elliot can hardly believe it. His mum's a secretary, isn't she? Not a SPY!
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Shakespeare: His Life and Work
Author: Richard Hampton, David Weston
Author Richard Hampton, David Weston
Narrator Judi Dench, Timothy West
Duration 2h 30m
Dame Judi Dench and Timothy West perform extracts from all of Shakespeare's plays from 'Hamlet' to 'Pericles'. This audiobook also includes commentary, music, songs and sonnets.
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Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children
Author: Ransom Riggs
Series: Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children, Book 1
Author Ransom Riggs
Narrator Jesse Bernstein
SeriesMiss Peregrine's Peculiar Children, Book 1
Duration 9h 42m
A mysterious island. An abandoned orphanage. And a strange collection of very curious photographs.. As our story opens, a horrific family tragedy sets sixteen-year-old Jacob journeying to a remote island off the coast of Wales, where he discovers the crumbling ruins of Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children. As Jacob explores its abandoned bed...
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Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
Author Robert Louis Stevenson
Narrator Ian Holm
Duration 2h 33m
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde is one of the classic horror stories of all time with Sir Ian Holm giving us a rare and defininitive reading.
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Author: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Narrator Sapphire Joy
Duration 14h
Fifteen year old Kambili's world is circumscribed by the high walls of her family compound and the frangipani trees she can see from her bedroom window. Her wealthy Catholic father, although generous and well-respected in the community, is repressive and fanatically religious at home. Her life is lived under his shadow and regulated by schedules: p...
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Author: F Scott Fitzgerald
Series: Bright Young Things, Book 3
Author F Scott Fitzgerald
Narrator Laurel Lefkow
SeriesBright Young Things, Book 3
Duration 13m
And now the second of our stories celebrating the riotous, cocktail-swilling, 'Bright Young Things' of the interwar years. Laurel Lefkow reads F Scott Fitzgerald's classic Jazz Age tale set in 1920s California, Bernice Bobs her Hair, in which revenge comes in the shape of a daring new hairstyle. F. Scott Fitzgerald, author of The Beautiful and the...
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Author: Suzanne Collins
Series: The Hunger Games, Book 1
Author Suzanne Collins
Narrator Carolyn Mccormick
SeriesThe Hunger Games, Book 1
Duration 11h 11m
In the ruins of a place once known as North America lies the nation of Panem, a shining Capitol surrounded by twelve outlying districts. The Capitol is harsh and cruel and keeps the districts in line by forcing them all to send one boy and one girl between the ages of twelve and eighteen to participate in the annual Hunger Games, a fight to the dea...
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Author: Suzanne Collins
Series: The Hunger Games, Book 2
Author Suzanne Collins
Narrator Carolyn Mccormick
SeriesThe Hunger Games, Book 2
Duration 11h 37m
Katniss Everdeen continues to struggle to protect herself and her family from the Capitol in this second novel from the bestselling Hunger Games trilogy.
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Author: Suzanne Collins
Series: The Hunger Games, Book 3
Author Suzanne Collins
Narrator Carolyn Mccormick
SeriesThe Hunger Games, Book 3
Duration 11h 41m
Against all odds, Katniss Everdeen has survived the Hunger Games twice. But now that she's made it out of the bloody arena live, she's still not safe. The Capitol is angry. The Capitol wants revenge.
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