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Author: Richard Hughes
Format: Online
Author Richard Hughes
Narrator Stephanie Beattie
Duration 5h 35m
Published to great acclaim in 1929, this classic and bestselling tale did away with sentimental Victorian visions of childhood and paved the way for later works such as Golding's 'Lord of the Flies'. Set in the last century against a tropical landscape and the ever-present sea, this audiobook tells the story of a family of English children who, on...
View BookTake Me Back: A Trip Through History From the Stone Age To the Digital Age
Author: Various
Format: Online
Author Various
Narrator Stephanie Beattie
Duration 13h 40m
This audiobook is packed with thousands of years of bloody battles, glorious empires, revolting revolutions, monstrous monarchies, and more. Want to meet the movers, shakers and gods of Ancient Greece? Go on a shopping spree in a medieval town? Log onto Captain Cook's blog about his voyages of discovery? Or chart the progress of World War II from i...
View BookKey Stage Three History: The Study Guide
Author: CGP Publications
Format: Online
Author CGP Publications
Narrator Jane Steel
Duration 5h 15m
This audiobook is for 11-14 year olds studying history at Key Stage 3. As well as learning skills and ideas, there are lots of facts in history and you've just got to learn them. Happily this CGP title gives you all that important information as clearly and concisely as possible - along with a few daft bits. The main topics covered are medieval tim...
View BookGCSE English 'Of Mice and Men': The Text Guide
Author: CGP Publications
Format: Online
Author CGP Publications
Narrator Stephanie Beattie
Duration 3h
This text guide is designed to help GCSE students write better essays about 'Of Mice and Men' by John Steinbeck. It is packed with useful explanations about the themes, characters, context and interpretations of the book, all backed up with quotes. There are four sections, all written in CGP's clear, chatty style. It would also make a handy referen...
View BookGoing Up! the No-worries Guide To Secondary School
Author: J Alexander
Format: Online
Author J Alexander
Narrator Stephanie Beattie
Duration 1h 24m
Can't wait to change schools, or worried about fitting in? Listen to this audiobook to have fun from day one. Including: having the right stuff, finding your way around, making new friends, staying on top of classwork and homework and getting on with the older kids.
View BookAuthor: Sid Fleischman
Format: Online
Author Sid Fleischman
Narrator Kerry Shale
Duration 1h 28m
Whenever the young Prince Brat misbehaves, Jemmy is punished in his place, for it is illegal to spank the heir to the throne. But when the prince decided to run away, he demands that Jemmy come with him. Once in the forest they are captured by two criminals. Can they escape and find their way out of danger and back to the city?
View BookThe Sarah Jane Adventures: The Glittering Storm
Author: Stephen Cole
Format: Online
Author Stephen Cole
Narrator Elisabeth Sladen
Duration 1h 11m
When Sarah Jane disturbs a burglar in the night, she is surprised to find a middle-aged woman, her pockets stuffed with jewellery, demanding gold. And then Maria reports that a woman has been stealing rings and necklaces from the girls' changing room at school. The women had recently attended the Auriga Clinic. Is there a link between the clinic an...
View BookDoctor Who and the Dinosaur Invasion
Author: Malcolm Hulke
Format: Online
Author Malcolm Hulke
Narrator Martin Jarvis
Duration 4h 7m
The Doctor walked slowly forward into the cul-de-sac. The giant dinosaur turned its head to focus on the midget now approaching... The Doctor aimed his gun to fire... suddenly from behind came a great roar of anger. He spun round - blocking the exit from the narrow street towered a Tyrannosaurus Rex, its savage jaws dripping with blood... The Docto...
View BookAuthor: Linda Aronson
Format: Online
Author Linda Aronson
Narrator Peter Wickham
Duration 4h 41m
Ian Rude's life is never simple - hardly surprising with a name like his. It's not his fault that his gorgeous girlfriend's cello was run over. But now he needs repair money, fast, before she dumps him and starts seeing someone slightly less accident-prone. Unfortunately, that means working at the psychotic Pocky family's Australian Wildlife Safari...
View BookThe Amazing Mind of Alice Makin
Author: Alan Shea
Format: Online
Author Alan Shea
Narrator Zoe-Anne Phillips
Duration 6h 52m
Alice is growing up in the grey world of post-war London. Her escape is her imagination, which always brightens her day. But when a new boy starts school, her mind begins to play tricks on her, and whenever they are together the world becomes a more exciting place.
View BookAuthor: Pauline Francis
Format: Online
Author Pauline Francis
Narrator Leanne Westbury
Duration 4h 7m
The life of Lady Jane Grey, the 'nine day Queen', is all too often remembered as just a line in a history book, but this debut novel reveals the full fascinating and tragic story - a tale of treachery, power struggles, and religious turmoil in the Tudor court. Winner of the Highland Children's Book Award.
View BookAuthor: Tim Bowler
Format: Online
Author Tim Bowler
Narrator Tim Bruce
SeriesBlade, Book 1
Duration 2h 37m
Blade is hiding. Playing dead. He knows people are looking for him but he doesn't want to be found because he knows these people aren't messing about. But Blade can look after himself. He has to.
View BookAuthor: Malorie Blackman
Format: Online
Author Malorie Blackman
Narrator Diana Bishop
Duration 45m
Despite his Mum's insistence, Sam doesn't want to be friends with Davey; he thinks Davey's a first class, grade A, top of the dung-heap moron. But one day Davey saves Sam's life and a bond is formed between them. Sam is still embarrassed to be seen with Davey, but little by little he has to admit, when it's just the two of them, Davey is a lot of f...
View BookAuthor: Jeanne Willis
Format: Online
Author Jeanne Willis
Narrator David Thorpe
Duration 1h 15m
With his dad out of the picture and his mum working full time, six-year-old John's grandad ends up looking after him most of the time. But John doesn't mind - he loves his grandad, even if they don't always see eye to eye. In fact, much of the time they get on each others nerves! When it comes to the important things though, Grandad and John know j...
View BookAuthor: Frank Richards
Format: Online
Author Frank Richards
Narrator Martin Jarvis
Duration 3h
Billy Bunter makes a surprising appearance in the Remove soccer team when Smithy the Bounder is sacked for the remainder of the term by the captain, Harry Wharton. Cripes! Following the usual order of chaos, this leads to the resignation of many members of the team in protest. Meanwhile, the Fat Owl of the Remove plots to booby trap Smithy in his s...
View BookThe Friday Night Knitting Club
Author: Kate Jacobs
Format: Online
Author Kate Jacobs
Narrator Regina Reagan
SeriesThe Friday Night Knitting Club, Book 1
Duration 12h 8m
Juggling the demands of her yarn shop and single-handedly raising a teenage daughter has made Georgia Walker grateful for her Friday night knitting club. Her friends are happy to escape their lives too, even for just a few hours. But when Georgia's ex suddenly reappears, demanding a role in their daughter's life, her whole world is shattered. Lucki...
View BookAuthor: Colin Cotterill
Format: Online
Author Colin Cotterill
Narrator Gareth Armstrong
SeriesDr. Siri Paibon, Book 1
Duration 7h 58m
Laos, 1976. The monarchy has been deposed, the Communist Pathet Lao have taken over. Most of the educated class has fled, but Dr Siri Paiboun, a Paris-trained doctor remains. And so this seventy-two-year-old physician is appointed state coroner, despite having no training, equipment, experience or even inclination for the job. But the job's not tha...
View BookAuthor: Simon Barnes
Format: Online
Author Simon Barnes
Narrator The Author
Duration 4h 47m
Simon Barnes is one of Britain's leading bird writers and humorists. His weekly column in 'The Times', his essays for the RSPB magazine and his two books on bad bird-watching have made him one of the characters of the bird world. Here he reads his own illuminating introductions to the fifty main birds of Britain, supported by the distinguishing bir...
View BookFortunes of War: The Great Fortune
Author: Olivia Manning
Format: Online
Author Olivia Manning
Narrator Emilia Fox
SeriesThe Balkan Trilogy, Book 1
Duration 5h
Harriet and Guy Pringle, husband and wife, are in Bucharest, where Guy works, at the outbreak of World War II. They are forced to leave the country, travelling through Greece and ending up in North Africa. They are separated and each fear the worst, but love is strong, and hope and faith are even stronger. This audiobook is a detailed account of lo...
View BookAuthor: P.G. Wodehouse
Format: Online
Author P.G. Wodehouse
Narrator Martin Jarvis
SeriesBlandings, Book 3
Duration 5h
Galahad Threepwood is causing scandal again... this time by deciding to not publish his potentially humiliating high-society memoirs. His decision causes rifts in the ranks at castle Blandings and all involved split into three camps: those who want the book suppressed, those who want it published, and those, who for some reason or another, have bee...
View BookAuthor: Aravind Adiga
Format: Online
Author Aravind Adiga
Narrator Bindya Solanki
Duration 8h 10m
Balram Halwai is the White Tiger - the smartest boy in his village. His family is too poor to afford for him to finish school and he has to work in a teashop, breaking coals and wiping tables. But Balram gets his break when a rich man hires him as a chauffeur and takes him to live in Delhi. The city is a revelation. As he drives his master to shopp...
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