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Author: Michelle Penn
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Author Michelle Penn
Narrator Sophie Aldred, Saul Reichlin, Nigel Pilkington
Duration 1h 4m
On a wasted island in perpetual sun, the Father practices magic, laments his lost kingdom and commands a ragtag army of three: the passionate and damaged Daughter, the winged Spirit and an indigenous being known only as C. Behind their uniforms—white suits and full-face paper masks—the soldiers seethe with rebellion. The arrival of the...
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Author Various
Narrator Sophie Aldred, Cal-I Jonel
Duration 1h 58m
For Solstice Shorts 2021 we invited writers to respond to the growing climate crisis. Where are the signs of renewal? Are there signs of regrowth? Have we pushed nature too far? What if it’s already too late? Poems and stories from the brink… a tipping point: responding to the floods and droughts and fires all around the globe with ten...
View BookAuthor: Jackie Taylor
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Author Jackie Taylor
Narrator Sophie Aldred
Duration 4h 33m
Set in Cornwall, coastal erosion and flooding take on a near mythical power as the short stories in this collection weave in and out of the recent past and near future, as lives and relationships ebb and flow with the tide. From one maritime tragedy to another, the community, and three generations of women from the same family, struggle with their...
View BookAuthor: Clare Owen
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Author Clare Owen
Narrator Sophie Aldred
Duration 7h 4m
Zed and her family move unwillingly from London to Cornwall, in an attempt to support her mother’s mental health. Gradually the family fall apart, and it is only when Zed realises that the local cormorants are playing a part in the disasters that consume them, in revenge for an ancient wrong, that she and her sister, Amy, start working togeth...
View BookCosmo and the Great Witch Escape
Author: Gwyneth Rees
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Author Gwyneth Rees
Narrator Sophie Aldred
Duration 3h 14m
Cosmo, a witch-cat, is delighted that evil Sybil - the most terrible of witches - is safely in prison. In fact, she's even fitted with a special tag, which means that if she and her cronies try to escape they will be turned into frogs. But then mysterious goings-on are reported in Witch News. Baby witches are being visited by a strange new health v...
View BookAuthor: Jacqueline Wilson
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Author Jacqueline Wilson
Narrator Sophie Aldred
Duration 7h
Floss's parents split up when she was younger and she now divides up her week, spending five days with her mum, her mum's new boyfriend and her new baby half-brother. The other two days Floss spends with her dad, helping him to run his greasy spoon cafe. But then their simple arrangement is thrown into disarray when Floss's mum decides to move to A...
View BookAuthor: Rose Impey
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Author Rose Impey
Narrator Sophie Aldred
Duration 4h 33m
Who would have thought that being run over by a bus could save your life? Chloe is the only child of egg-head parents - and she's been home-schooled for years because her parents are sure it's the best way to nurture her 'special talents'. So Chloe feels isolated and doesn't have any friends of her own age. But when Chloe is in an accident and ends...
View BookAuthor: Gwyneth Rees
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Author Gwyneth Rees
Narrator Sophie Aldred
Duration 2h 45m
Laura thinks she knows her mum pretty well. It's been just the two of them since Dad left. But then Mum brings home a boyfriend and, even worse, starts acting very strangely. She's obviously keeping something from Laura. But what? As Laura digs deeper she begins to suspect the secret might be more terrible than she first thought...
View BookAuthor: Ruth Louise Symes
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Author Ruth Louise Symes
Narrator Sophie Aldred
Duration 2h 56m
Frankie is appalled to hear herself assuring the girls at school that, yes, she has got a boyfriend. The more fibs she tells, the worse it gets, so she builds herself a robot. The robot is the utterly gorgeous Romeo and Frankie is the envy of the school. Unfortunately, Romeo has a few personality flaws: he is completely self-obsessed and doesn't un...
View BookAuthor: Jacqueline Wilson
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Author Jacqueline Wilson
Narrator Sophie Aldred
Duration 51m
Lizzie refuses to speak. She doesn't want to talk to Rory or Jake, her new stepbrothers, or Sam, their Dad, or even her mum. She's totally fed up with having to join a new family and nothing can coax her into speaking to them. Not football, not pizza , not a new bedroom. That is, until she meets a member of the new family who is even more stubbor...
View BookAuthor: Hilary Mckay
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Author Hilary Mckay
Narrator Sophie Aldred
Duration 5h 23m
As if life with their strange parents isn't bad enough, the four Conroy sisters are being bundled off to spend the summer holidays with Big Grandma. She makes them go for walks in the pouring rain - worse still, she expects them to do chores. At first it seems as though Big Grandma is determined to put a stop to any fun. But, being Conroys, the gir...
View BookAuthor: Jacqueline Wilson
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Author Jacqueline Wilson
Narrator Sophie Aldred
Duration 57m
Sadie quite likes her mum being a childminder. But there's a chaotic half-term in store for her when mum falls ill with flu. Sadie has to help out with looking after the babies - and be a mum-minder too!
View BookAuthor: Amanda Brown
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Author Amanda Brown
Narrator Sophie Aldred
Duration 6h 3m
Horrifying, heartbreaking and eye-opening, these are the stories, the patients and the cases that have characterised a career spent behind bars. The no-holds-barred memoirs of a GP who went from working at a quiet suburban practice to treating the country's most dangerous criminals - first in young offenders' institutions, then at the notorious Wor...
View BookAuthor: Gwyneth Rees
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Author Gwyneth Rees
Narrator Sophie Aldred
Duration 2h 56m
Cosmo the witch-cat has his paws full with his new baby brothers and sisters. Especially when the kittens accidentally get turned into frogs by the kindly frog-witch. But before she has a chance to magic them back, the frog-witch and all the frog-kittens are kidnapped by a sinister stranger with froggy plans. Can Cosmo come up with the purr-fect wa...
View BookHappy and Glorious & Practically Perfect
Author: Hilary Mckay
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Author Hilary Mckay
Narrator Sophie Aldred
Duration 3h 39m
HAPPY AND GLORIOUS: It's the Queen's unofficial birthday, and no-one has bought her a present. Not the Prime Minister, not the Treasurer, and not even her lazy Ladies-in-Waiting. All she wants is one small, very cheap present. Just because it has four legs and a tail. That shouldn't put anyone off... PRACTICALLY PERFECT: Life in the palace would be...
View BookAuthor: Hilary Mckay
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Author Hilary Mckay
Narrator Sophie Aldred
SeriesThe Casson Family, Book 3
Duration 5h 36m
It's the Casson Family finale, and Permanent Rose takes centre stage. It's tough being the youngest - Rose is lonely. Her family are always busy doing their own things so Rose comes home to a dark, quiet, empty house every day. Saffy is off with Sarah, Indigo has his paper round and guitar lessons, Eve's in quarantine in the shed, Bill's not much u...
View BookAuthor: Jane Shemilt
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Author Jane Shemilt
Narrator Sophie Aldred
Duration 11h 8m
'I still don't know why we had to check. Did we really think you would be there, curled up and sleeping on the stage? That we would put our arms round you, and take you home?' Naomi has vanished, leaving her family broken and her mother Jenny desperately searching for answers. But the traces fifteen-year-old Naomi's left behind reveal a very differ...
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