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Author: Ross Montgomery
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Author Ross Montgomery
Narrator Joe Coen
Duration 5h 28m
When Owen Underwood's family move to Barrow, it's because there's nowhere safer in the Valleys - and safety is very important. Especially when the threat of tornadoes, and giant bears, is constant. But in Barrow, safety is taken to extremes. Children have to wear bright yellow at all times and are never allowed outside except to go to school. How c...
View BookWhy You Need A Passport When You're Going To Puke
Author: Mitchell Symons
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Author Mitchell Symons
Narrator Paul Vates
Duration 3h 57m
Did you know: Square watermelons are sold in Japan? There is a River Piddle in Dorset? And that Americans use enough toilet paper to wrap around the world nine times! Join us on a fact-finding world tour.
View BookAuthor: Agatha Christie
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Author Agatha Christie
Narrator Robin Bailey
Duration 6h 45m
According to the courts, Jacko Argyle bludgeoned his mother to death with a poker. Sentenced to life imprisonment, he died behind bars. Two years later, new evidence emerges which suggests that the real murderer will strike again.
View BookThe Hundred and One Dalmatians
Author: Dodie Smith
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Author Dodie Smith
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 1h 45m
Cruella de Vil is determined to have a beautiful new coat made from the fur of 101 Dalmatians. Can Pongo and Missis save their beloved puppies from her evil clutches?
View BookAuthor: P.G. Wodehouse
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Author P.G. Wodehouse
Narrator Martin Jarvis
Duration 46m
Rockmetteler (Rocky) Todd, one of the laziest people in America, visits Wooster and Jeeves in New York for their advice. Rocky's aunt has written him a letter informing him that she will give him a large monthly allowance on the condition that he visits all the clubs and retaurants and lives life to the full as she would have done had she been much...
View BookDick Barton and the Cabatolin Diamonds
Author: Geoffrey Webb
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Author Geoffrey Webb
Narrator Douglas Kelly
Duration 4h 2m
Douglas Kelly stars as Dick Barton-Special Agent in another thrilling adventure for radio's greatest hero. Heralded by an instantly memorable signature tune, the adventures of special agent Dick Barton and his friends Jock and Snowey, were essential listening for an entire generation. Originally starring Noel Johnson, Duncan Carse and Gordon Davies...
View BookAuthor: Charles Chilton
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Author Charles Chilton
Narrator Various
SeriesThe Red Planet, Book 8
Duration 29m
Charles Chilton's classic science fiction trilogy stormed the BBC airwaves during the 1950s. Its gripping story lines, extra-terrestrial sound effects and atmospheric music engaged the listener as never before. Between 1953 and 1958, a devoted audience of adults and children attentively followed Captain Jet Morgan and his crew from one cliff-hanger...
View BookThe War Diaries of Alastair Fury: Dead Dad Dog
Author: Jamie Rix
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Author Jamie Rix
Narrator Robert Llewellyn
Duration 2h 24m
Alistair is fed up at being treated like a slave while the rest of the family is ill. Not even lacing his brother and sister's medicine with washing-up liquid gets him off nursing duties! He's still busy trying to hatch the perfect plot for revenge when they're all dragged off to Ireland for a family funeral. Soon, Alistair's plans are full of spoo...
View BookAuthor: Richard (ed.) Mangan
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Author Richard (ed.) Mangan
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Duration 3h 55m
John Gielgud wrote letters almost every day of his adult life. Whether at home in London and later in Buckinghamshire, or acting abroad or on location, he delighted in sitting down each day and recounting what had been going on and what he felt about events around him. Not long before his death aged 96 in May 2000, he was still writing in increasin...
View BookAuthor: Dorothy L Sayers
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Author Dorothy L Sayers
Narrator Ian Carmichael
Duration 6h 34m
Poisoned port... pet cats in peril... purloined pearls... Twelve mystery stories featuring Lord Peter Wimsey and Montague Egg, who deal with a case of wine poisoning, double identity, and murder.
View BookYou Wouldn't Want To Live Without Coding!
Author: Alex Woolf
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Author Alex Woolf
Narrator Mariam Keen
Duration 30m
Coding means creating a set of instructions (or algorithms) that tells a computer how to perform a task. Another word for coding is programming. Learn about the origins of coding, how it is done and how much control it has over our daily lives
View BookAuthor: Jackie Morris, Robert Macfarlane
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Author Jackie Morris, Robert Macfarlane
Narrator Various
Duration 48m
Penguin presents the audiobook edition of The Lost Words by Robert Macfarlane and Jackie Morris, read by Edith Bowman, Guy Garvey, Cerys Matthews and Benjamin Zephaniah. All over the country, there are words disappearing from children's lives. Words like Dandelion, Otter, Bramble, Acorn and Lark represent the natural world of childhood, a rich land...
View BookAuthor: Patricia Cornwell
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Author Patricia Cornwell
Narrator Lorelei King
Duration 12h 49m
The body of a woman has been discovered inside the gates of MIT, draped in an unusual cloth. An examination reveals that the body is covered in a fine dust that under ultra-violet light fluoresces blood-red, emerald-green and sapphire-blue. As Kay Scarpetta pieces together the evidence, she draws herself and her team deeper into the dark world of d...
View BookAuthor: Sarah Pinborough
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Author Sarah Pinborough
Narrator Various
Duration 11h 30m
Louise. Since her husband walked out, Louise has made her son her world, supporting them both with her part-time job. But all that changes when she meets. David. Young, successful and charming - Louise cannot believe a man like him would look at her twice let alone be attracted to her. But that all comes to a grinding halt when she meets his wife....
View BookAuthor: Sophie Hannah
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Author Sophie Hannah
Narrator Julian Rhind-Tutt
Duration 10h 11m
Hercule Poirot returns in another brilliant murder mystery that can only be solved by the eponymous Belgian detective and his `little grey cells'. Lady Athelinda Playford has planned a house party at her mansion in Clonakilty, County Cork, but it is no ordinary gathering. As guests arrive, Lady Playford summons her lawyer to make an urgent change t...
View BookBooktown Mystery Series Book 3: Bookplate Special
Author: Lorna Barrett
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Author Lorna Barrett
Narrator Cassandra Campbell
SeriesBooktown Mystery, Book 3
Duration 8h 24m
Bookstore owner Tricia Miles has put up-and put up with-her uninvited college roommate for weeks. In return, Pammy has stolen $100. But the day she's kicked out, Pammy's found dead in a Dumpster, leaving loads of questions unanswered.
View BookGCSE English Writing Skills: The Study Guide
Author: CGP Publications
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Author CGP Publications
Narrator Kayi Ushe
Duration 3h 14m
This book contains helpful advice for improving GCSE English writing skills. It covers every writing style students will come across in GCSE English, including Writing About Texts, Writing Non-Fiction and Creative Writing. Each type of writing is explained with clear, easy-to-read study notes and examples, with practice questions to test understand...
View BookAuthor: Various
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Author Various
Narrator Anthony Donovan
Duration 2h 27m
A chilling collection of ghost stories containing Rats by M. R. James, The Raven and Berenice by Edgar Allan Poe, The Birthday of the Infanta by Oscar Wilde, A Tough Tussle by Ambrose Bierce and The Signalman by Charles Dickens. In Rats, Mr Thompson comes to regret his decision to investigate a locked room in a country inn, and in The Signalman, th...
View BookDirty Bertie: Dinosaur! & Zombie!
Author: David Roberts
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Author David Roberts
Narrator Evelyn Mclean
Duration 1h 44m
Dirty Bertie - the boy with nose-pickingly disgusting habits - is back for another helping of comic chaos! Join Bertie as he takes Angela Nicely on a dinosaur hunt, bites off more than he can chew at a chocolate factory, and gets into an alarming situation pet-sitting next door's cat! Then he finds himself on the run from a zombified Eugene, discov...
View BookAuthor: Will Gompertz
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Author Will Gompertz
Narrator Will Gompertz
Duration 3h 41m
The Royal Collection is one of the most wide-ranging collections of art and artefacts in the world and provides an intriguing insight into the minds of the monarchs who have assembled it. In this series, BBC Arts Editor Will Gompertz examines dozens of these unique objects, in a quest to 'use the Collection as a prism through which to better unders...
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