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The Angelina Ballerina Story Collection
Author: Katharine Holabird
Format: MP3 CD
Author Katharine Holabird
Narrator Finty Williams
Duration 1h
Angelina Ballerina gleefully dances her way into children's hearts with her dreams of stardom. She's a delightfully stubborn and optimistic young mouse who's determined to be the greatest ballerina in Mouseland. Along with her best friend Alice, her little cousin Henry, her ballet teacher and her parents, Angelina lives in a world full of the joys...
View BookCat Royal Series Book 1: The Diamond of Drury Lane
Author: Julia Golding
Format: MP3 CD
Author Julia Golding
Narrator Finty Williams
SeriesCat Royal, Book 1
Duration 7h 15m
Set in 1790s Covent Garden, this audiobook whisks you back to a bygone era and into the magic of the theatre. Cat Royal is an orphan who lives at the back of the Theatre Royal in Drury Lane. She mingles with the high and low of society, from the actors on stage to the lords and ladies in the stalls to the barrow boys in the grimy marketplace. The t...
View BookAuthor: Ethel Lina White
Format: MP3 CD
Author Ethel Lina White
Narrator Finty Williams
Duration 6h 6m
Iris Carr is a beautiful, young socialite on her way back home to England after vacationing in Europe. Feeling terribly alone and afraid, she finds comfort in the company of a strange woman she knows only as Miss Froy. But comfort soon turns to horror when Miss Froy mysteriously vanishes without a trace. Fearing madness, risking death, Iris despera...
View BookAuthor: Jacqueline Wilson
Format: MP3 CD
Author Jacqueline Wilson
Narrator Finty Williams
Duration 6h 15m
Beauty Cookson is a plain, timid girl who lacks looks, confidence and friends. Beauty lives in uneasy fear whenever Dad's at home, and her pretty, sweet mum is equally subject to Dad's tirades. After an unbearable birthday party and a very real fear that Dad's temper is out of control, Mum and Beauty run away. They find themselves in an idyllic sea...
View BookAuthor: Joan Rice
Format: MP3 CD
Author Joan Rice
Narrator Finty Williams
Duration 6h 24m
Written with flair and exuberance, Joan Rice's diary is a compelling and personal account of life and love in the Second World War. Including additional material from her husband's own diary, 'Sand in my Shoes' is a record of one woman's coming-of-age.
View BookAuthor: Leila Slimani
Format: MP3 CD + Stream / Download
Author Leila Slimani
Narrator Finty Williams
Duration 5h 17m
AdŠle appears to have the perfect life. A respected journalist, she lives in a flawless Parisian apartment with her surgeon husband and their young son. But beneath the veneer of 'having it all', she is bored - and consumed by an insatiable need for sex, whatever the cost. Struggling to contain the twin forces of compulsion and desire, she begins t...
View BookAuthor: J P Delaney
Format: MP3 CD + Stream / Download
Author J P Delaney
Narrator Emilia Fox, Finty Williams
Duration 10h 5m
Jane stumbles on the rental opportunity of a lifetime: the chance to live in a beautiful ultra-minimalist house designed by an enigmatic architect, on condition she abides by a long list of exacting rules. After moving in, she discovers that a previous tenant, Emma, met a mysterious death there - and starts to wonder if her own story will be a re-r...
View BookAuthor: Kate Mosse
Format: MP3 CD + Stream / Download
Author Kate Mosse
Narrator Finty Williams
Duration 27h
1942, Nazi-occupied France. Sandrine, a spirited and courageous nineteen-year-old, finds herself drawn into a Resistance group in Carcassonne - codenamed 'Citadel' - made up of ordinary women who are prepared to risk everything for what is right. And when she meets Raoul, they discover a shared passion for the cause, for their homeland, and for eac...
View BookCat Royal Series Book 2: Cat Among the Pigeons
Author: Julia Golding
Format: MP3 CD
Author Julia Golding
Narrator Finty Williams
SeriesCat Royal, Book 2
Duration 6h 8m
In this sequel to 'The Diamond of Drury Lane', the infamous Cat Royal must save Pedro Hawkins, the runaway African slave, from being shipped off to a slave plantation. She is obliged to wear the breeches and cap of a boy, and once again comes face to face with her nemesis, the evil Billy Shepherd!
View BookAuthor: Raffaella Barker
Format: MP3 CD
Author Raffaella Barker
Narrator Finty Williams
Duration 8h 25m
Ryder James meets Grace Hart the night her exhibition of paintings opens in Copenhagen. Both of them are loners, damaged by tragedy in their lives, both sceptical about love. But they have a connection that can't be broken, which takes them from their separate lives to Norfolk, where they both end up at the same time, bound together by a family eve...
View BookAuthor: Jacqueline Wilson
Format: MP3 CD
Author Jacqueline Wilson
Narrator Finty Williams
Duration 5h 5m
London, 1876, and baby Hetty Feather is left at the Foundling Hospital. The hospital cares for abandoned children but Hetty must live with a foster family until she is big enough to go to school. Life in the countryside is hard but she has 'brothers' Jem and Gideon to play with, and together they sneak off to visit the travelling circus. Hetty is m...
View BookAuthor: Jean Ure
Format: MP3 CD
Author Jean Ure
Narrator Finty Williams
Duration 3h 1m
Cresta's diary starts: 'My mum! She has boys on the brain!' She and Charlie are seriously embarrassed by their parents who insist on behaving like teenagers. The girls are serious about their schoolwork and their careers and they are not going to waste their time thinking about boys...
View BookAuthor: Sophie Dahl
Format: MP3 CD
Author Sophie Dahl
Narrator Finty Williams
Duration 7h 11m
Kitty's mother, Marina, is both utterly beguiling and terrifyingly embarrassing, and more often than not Kitty can only gaze on her antics with awe and toe-curling trepidation. But as Kitty grows up it becomes clear that perhaps Marina isn't the most exemplary of parents, and that sometimes a girl might have to put herself first.
View BookChocolate Wars: From Cadbury To Kraft: 200 Years of Sweet Success and Bitter Rivalry
Author: Deborah Cadbury
Format: MP3 CD
Author Deborah Cadbury
Narrator Finty Williams
Duration 10h 51m
Deborah Cadbury takes a journey into her own family history to uncover the rivalries that have driven 250 years of chocolate empire-building. In the early 19th century Richard Tapper Cadbury sent his son, John, to London to study a new and exotic commodity: cocoa. Within a generation, John's sons had created a chocolate company to rival the great E...
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