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Eco Worriers: Penguin Problems
Author: Kathryn Lamb
Format: MP3 CD
Author Kathryn Lamb
Narrator Ruth Sillers
Duration 3h 24m
Committee eco-worriers Evie and Lola are very, very concerned about green issues - much to the irritation of their gas guzzling families! So when they find a penguin chick in the garden, they're really worried. They set off to investigate.
View BookThe Infinite Wisdom of Harriet Rose
Author: Diana Janney
Format: MP3 CD
Author Diana Janney
Narrator Ruth Sillers
Duration 8h 33m
Harriet Rose, like any other teenager, is naive, overconfident and has always felt she has something important to say. However, unlike most of her peers, her hero is Marcus Aurelius, about of whom she has been composing philosophical reflections on life for some time. When Harriet's father dies, the urge to write these meditations is greater than e...
View BookAuthor: Mary Hooper
Format: MP3 CD
Author Mary Hooper
Narrator Ruth Sillers
Duration 5h 28m
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...
View BookAuthor: Antoinette May
Format: MP3 CD
Author Antoinette May
Narrator Ruth Sillers
Duration 15h 32m
Claudia has a privileged life. Niece of Rome's favoured warrior, she lives in luxury, surrounded by her family and tended by slaves. Gifted with second sight, her dreams tell her many things, from which gladiator will win the battle in the Coliseum to the secret enemies who plot against the Emperor. When Claudia falls deeply in love with a charisma...
View BookThe Wolf Chronicles: Promise of the Wolves
Author: Dorothy Hearst
Format: MP3 CD
Author Dorothy Hearst
Narrator Ruth Sillers
Duration 10h 23m
Born of a forbidden mixed-blood litter and narrowly escaping the fate of her executed brother and sisters, young she-wolf Kaala is allowed to join the Swift River wolf pack, where she must fight to prove herself and survive against the odds.
View BookAuthor: Carolyn Meyer
Format: MP3 CD
Author Carolyn Meyer
Narrator Ruth Sillers
Duration 5h 30m
A matter of life and death - and the Throne of England. Companion volume to 'Mary, Bloody Mary'. Set in the 16th Century, this tells of the danger and conflict Elizabeth Tudor faced after the death of her father, Henry VIII. Once again told from a young girl's point of view, we follow Elizabeth's teenage years through the turbulent reigns of her y...
View BookAuthor: Georgette Heyer
Format: Stream / Download
Author Georgette Heyer
Narrator Ruth Sillers
Duration 11h 7m
After participating in the Jacobite Rising of 1745, Robin and Prudence, brother and sister, become engaged in a swashbuckling, romantic adventure. Our hero and heroine must cross-dress and switch genders if they are to escape prosecution-a humorous move that allows Heyer to explore the manners and language affectations of the period as the two romp...
View BookAuthor: Prof. Greg Wilkinson
Format: Stream / Download
Author Prof. Greg Wilkinson
Narrator Ruth Sillers
Duration 2h 22m
Part of the Family Doctor series. This audiobook will help listeners to understand stress and gives tips and advice on how to cope with it.
View BookA Handful of Earth: A Year of Healing and Growing
Author: Barney Bardsley
Format: MP3 CD
Author Barney Bardsley
Narrator Ruth Sillers
Duration 9h 38m
When Barney Bardsley's husband died of cancer, she felt anxious, alone and exhausted. But she had to stay strong for their young daughter, Molly, so she steeled herself to cope by taking one day at a time. During this dark time she took to tending her small, scruffy allotment and she slowly began to find comfort in nature. This is the diary of her...
View BookBritish History Makers: Guy Fawkes
Author: Leon Ashworth
Format: MP3 CD
Author Leon Ashworth
Narrator Ruth Sillers
Duration 1h
Part of a series that focuses on some of the most colourful characters from history. This audio book features Guy Fawkes, describing his life and the events he orchestrated that could have changed the course of history.
View BookBritish History Makers: Oliver Cromwell
Author: Leon Ashworth
Format: MP3 CD
Author Leon Ashworth
Narrator Ruth Sillers
Duration 55m
Part of a series that focuses on some of the most colourful characters from history. This audio book focuses on the life and times of Oliver Cromwell, explaining how he helped to shape history.
View BookAuthor: Mary Hooper
Format: MP3 CD
Author Mary Hooper
Narrator Ruth Sillers
Duration 5h 51m
Lucy has become a firm fixture in the household of Dr Dee, court magician and consultant to Queen Elizabeth I. In return for saving the queen's life, Lucy has been told that she is to work as a spy for Her Grace and that she is to remain where she is and await further instruction... And then Lucy hears ghostly cries in the house. Convinced that the...
View BookAuthor: Iris Murdoch
Format: MP3 CD
Author Iris Murdoch
Narrator Ruth Sillers
Duration 12h
Mor's life as a schoolmaster at a public school is disrupted by the arrival of a young and beautiful painter commissioned to paint the headmaster.
View BookBritish History Makers: King Henry VIII
Author: Leon Ashworth
Format: MP3 CD
Author Leon Ashworth
Narrator Ruth Sillers
Duration 58m
Part of a series which focuses on some of the most colourful characters from history. This audio book describes the life and times of King Henry VIII, contrasting the daily life of the privileged few with that of ordinary people living in the turbulent time of Henry's reign.
View BookAuthor: Barbara Vine
Format: MP3 CD
Author Barbara Vine
Narrator Ruth Sillers, Paul Blake
Duration 10h 20m
One of the world's most popular writers of mysteries and thrillers, Ruth Rendell (who also writes as Barbara Vine) tells a gripping story of one man's rise and fall from grace. It's late spring of 1990 and a love affair is flourishing: between Ivor Tesham, an ardent womanizer and rising star of Margaret Thatcher's Conservative government, and Hebe...
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