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Author: 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...
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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...
View BookA Little Lower Than the Angels
Author: Geraldine Mccaughrean
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Author Geraldine Mccaughrean
Narrator Rachel Sternberg
Duration 3h 35m
Gabriel has no idea what the future will hold when he runs away from his apprenticeship with the bad tempered stonemason. But God himself, in the shape of playmaster Garvey, has plans for him. He wants Gabriel for his angel. Winner of the Whitbread Children's Book Award.
View BookAuthor: Penelope Mortimer
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Author Penelope Mortimer
Narrator Martin Jarvis
Duration 12m
A surprisingly shocking short story which is darkly comical, mainly concerning female submission and the necessary loss of identity to survive in an unfair male-dominated world. Humphrey's mother meets an intriguing stranger at a dance and agrees to go for a walk with him. The events that follow shape the rest of her life, that of her husband and o...
View BookAuthor: Agatha Christie
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Author Agatha Christie
Narrator Rosemary Leach
Duration 7h 17m
Gwenda Reed has come from New Zealand to search for a home in England for her and her husband, Giles. She falls in love with a house on the South Coast where she feels strangely at home, in fact she feels she actually remembers the house. A visit to the theatre then brings a vision to her of a body in the hallway. It also brings Miss Marple into th...
View BookArthur and the Seeing Stone Book 1: The Seeing Stone
Author: Kevin Crossley-Holland
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Author Kevin Crossley-Holland
Narrator Michael Maloney
SeriesArthur and the Seeing Stones, Book 1
Duration 7h 53m
The first volume in the trilogy. The year is 1199, and on the borders of England and Wales young Arthur de Caldicot waits impatiently to grow up and become a knight. One day his father's friend Merlin gives Arthur a shining black stone, and he starts to see stories of his namesake, King Arthur. As the stories of the two Arthurs intertwine, the narr...
View BookAuthor: Agatha Christie
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Author Agatha Christie
Narrator Norman Barrs
Duration 6h 29m
Ten strangers, apparently with little in common, are lured to an island mansion off the coast of Devon. One of the party is found murdered, and tension mounts as the survivors realise that not only is the killer among them, but that they are likely to kill again...
View BookAuthor: Anna Sewell
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Author Anna Sewell
Narrator Martin Jarvis
Duration 2h 30m
The classic tale of a young girl and her love for her horse Black Beauty. During his long life, Black Beauty has many different owners who put him to a variety of tasks, from being a riding horse on a country estate to a cab horse in town. Despite often being subjected to cruelty, Black Beauty's strength, gentle temper and fine instincts stay with...
View BookAuthor: P.G. Wodehouse
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Author P.G. Wodehouse
Narrator Martin Jarvis
Duration 14m
Wooster receives a letter out of the blue from his Aunt Agatha inviting him and Jeeves to join her in Rouville-sur-Mer, France. It turns out that Aunt Agatha has decided it is time that Wooster gets married and has some children. She has met an eminently respectable girl she wants to introduce him to, as she considers her absolutely right for the j...
View BookAuthor: Gary Mitchell
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Author Gary Mitchell
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 1h 28m
Hugh, a music teacher, has had an accident and is visited in hospital by his talented pupil Charlie and his wife Sharon. He looks back on how their relationships evolved over the years as working-class Protestants feel increasingly marginalised by political change.
View BookAuthor: Charles Chilton
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Author Charles Chilton
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SeriesThe Red Planet, Book 7
Duration 28m
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 BookAuthor: Stephenie Meyer
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Author Stephenie Meyer
Narrator Ilyana Kadushin, Matt Walters
SeriesTwilight Saga, Book 3
Duration 16h 25m
As Seattle is ravaged by a string of mysterious killings and a malicious vampire continues her quest for revenge, Bella once again finds herself surrounded by danger. In the midst of it all, she is forced to choose between her love for Edward and her ever-growing friendship with Jacob. And her decision has the potential to ignite the ageless strugg...
View BookAuthor: William Shakespeare
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Author William Shakespeare
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 2h 6m
In this BBC full-cast production of Twelfth Night, Malvolio is looking for trouble - and revenge...Michael Maloney, Josette Simon and Anne-Marie Duff star in this fast and funny production of Shakespeare's most sparkling and optimistic comedy, when all the world is turned on its head and authority is usurped, when by civil...
View BookAuthor: Ian Fleming
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Author Ian Fleming
Narrator David Rintoul
Duration 5h 58m
Sudden emergencies and beautiful girls who aren't quite what they seem are the stock-in-trade of James Bond. And, when 007 is on the case there's only one thing you can be sure of - the result will be thrilling. And, whether he's dealing with the assassination of a Cuban thug in America, the destruction of an international heroin ring, or sudden de...
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