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A New Adventure: The Magic Faraway Tree
Author: Jacqueline Wilson
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Author Jacqueline Wilson
Narrator Miriam Margolyes
Duration 5h 27m
Milo, Mia and Birdy are on a countryside holiday, where they are astonished to find an Enchanted Wood. There they encounter some remarkable creatures, including a man with a head like the moon and a fairy with long, golden hair, who both live in the tallest tree in the wood. Little Birdy is only too happy to find that fairies are real. Even her old...
View BookA Bad Spell For the Worst Witch
Author: Jill Murphy
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Author Jill Murphy
Narrator Miriam Margolyes
Duration 1h 20m
A new term spells disaster for Mildred. She is determined to lose her embarrassing reputation as the worst witch the Academy has ever seen - but things rapidly get out of hand. The third book in the series.
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Author Jill Murphy
Narrator Miriam Margolyes
Duration 1h 10m
Mildred Hubble's first term at Miss Cackle's Academy for Witches is a disaster. She can't even ride a broomstick without crashing it and she's always getting her spells wrong. But she manages to get by until she turns Ethel, the teacher's pet, into her deadly enemy. The first book in the series.
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Author Jill Murphy
Narrator Miriam Margolyes
Duration 1h
Miss Cackle had hoped that the new pupil Enid Nightshade would be a good influence on disaster-prone Mildred Hubble, but, as usual, wherever Mildred goes she causes chaos! More adventures for the worst witch in this sequel to the first book of the series.
View BookAuthor: Jill Murphy
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Author Jill Murphy
Narrator Miriam Margolyes
Duration 2h
Mildred Hubble is distraught. On her first day at Miss Cackle's Academy for Witches, her beloved but useless cat, Tabby, is banished to the kitchen to catch mice. Mildred's class is going to spend a week by the sea - but she can't possibly go without Tabby! Keeping him hidden from Miss Hardbroom leads from one disaster to another.
View BookAuthor: Jill Murphy
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Author Jill Murphy
Narrator Miriam Margolyes
Duration 1h 46m
It's the start of a new term at Miss Cackle's Academy for Witches and Mildred Hubble is determined not to be the worst witch this year. Everything starts so well. Mildred's class has a new form teacher - no more Miss Hardbroom for Mildred and her friends! But then the new teacher, Miss Granite, starts acting fishy; Mildred has a bad hair day when a...
View BookAuthor: Muriel Spark
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Author Muriel Spark
Narrator Miriam Margolyes
Duration 4h 30m
'Give me a girl at an impressionable age, and she is mine for life . . .' Passionate, free-thinking and unconventional, Miss Brodie is a teacher who exerts a powerful influence over her group of 'special girls' at Marcia Blaine School. They are the Brodie set, the creme de la creme, each famous for something - Monica for mathematics, Eunice for sw...
View BookAuthor: George Eliot
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Author George Eliot
Narrator Miriam Margolyes
Duration 19h 20m
Brought up at Dorlcote Mill, Maggie Tulliver worships her brother Tom and is desperate to win the approval of her parents, but her passionate, wayward nature and her fierce intelligence bring her into constant conflict with her family. As she reaches adulthood, she finds herself torn between her relationships with three very different men: her prou...
View BookAuthor: Roald Dahl
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Author Roald Dahl
Narrator Miriam Margolyes
Duration 3h
Matilda longs for her parents to be good and loving and understanding, but they are none of these things. They are perfectly horrid to her. Matilda invents a game of punishing them each time they treat her badly and she soon discovers she has supernatural powers. This special edition contains extra Matilda facts.
View BookRevolting Rhymes and Dirty Beasts
Author: Roald Dahl
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Author Roald Dahl
Narrator Miriam Margolyes, Stephen Mangan, Tamsin Greig
Duration 1h
In 'Dirty Beasts', meet a ghastly menagerie of wonderfully comic animals that can only have been invented by Roald Dahl. There is the toad that jumps to France - at his own peril; the pig who ponders the meaning of life; the ant-eater who gets the wrong end of the stick and lots more. Snigger, titter and laugh at their antics in this collection of...
View BookAuthor: Charles Dickens
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Author Charles Dickens
Narrator Miriam Margolyes
Duration 18h
A workhouse orphan, Oliver escapes by running away to London. He gets drawn into the treacherous underworld of pickpockets and thieves headed by Fagin. His companions are ultimately destined for gruesome ends. Will Oliver emerge unscathed from the darkness of the underworld?
View BookAuthor: Charles Dickens
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Author Charles Dickens
Narrator Miriam Margolyes
Duration 3h 15m
Ebenezer Scrooge is a miserly old skinflint. He hates everyone, especially children. But at Christmas the ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Future come to visit him, scare him into mending his ways, and he finds, as he celebrates with Bob Cratchit, Tiny Tim and their family, that geniality brings its own reward.
View BookAuthor: Iris Murdoch
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Author Iris Murdoch
Narrator Miriam Margolyes
Duration 12h 40m
A lay community of thoroughly mixed-up people is encamped outside Imber Abbey, home of an enclosed order of nuns. As the new bell is installed, the old bell - legendary symbol of religion and magic - is rediscovered. Dora Greenfield, erring wife, returns to her husband. Michael Meade, leader of the community, is confronted by a man with whom he had...
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