Author: Jamila Gavin
Author Jamila Gavin
Narrator Maria Darling
Duration 8h 50m
In the late 1700s your circumstance of birth meant everything. Toby and Aaron may both find themselves living at Captain Thomas Coram's Hospital for parentless children, but their histories are as far apart as they could possibly be. Toby has been rescued from a life of slave labour in a faraway country; Aaron is the illegitimate son of the heir to...
View BookAuthor: Anne Fine
Author Anne Fine
Narrator Meredith Porteous
Duration 2h 52m
Ione Muffet has spent every summer she can remember alone in the summer house at the end of her garden. But the arrival of the extraordinary Ned Hump changes all that. Ione's father, Professor Muffet, his beautiful secretary, Caroline, and Ned give Ione a riotous introduction to adult life - how not to cope with love, money, careers and forty uninv...
View BookAuthor: Julie Bertagna
Author Julie Bertagna
Narrator Robert Kirkwood
Duration 1h
Dibs can copy any sound, yet he can only communicate through his drawings. Only his sister, Amy, really understands him, but even she wishes Dibs could be like an ordinary brother. Can a lost dolphin, washed up on the beach, help Dibs learn to speak?
View BookThe Dinosaur's Packed Lunch & the Monster Story Teller
Author: Jacqueline Wilson
Author Jacqueline Wilson
Narrator Robert Kirkwood
Duration 33m
In the first book Dinah is on a school trip to see the dinosaurs in the museum. Everyone in the class has a packed lunch, everyone that is except Dinah. But then a friendly iguanodon decides to help, and soon Dinah has a very special packed lunch and a huge surprise! In the second book Natalie is feeling bored one morning in school - until a tiny m...
View BookThis Sceptred Isle: The Twentieth Century 1901-1919
Author: Christopher Lee
Author Christopher Lee
Narrator Anna Massey
Duration 15h 15m
Continuing the award-winning BBC Radio 4 series of the story of Britain, from the start of the twentieth century to the present day - taking us through decades of whirlwind change and technological advancement.
View BookAuthor: Agatha Christie
Author Agatha Christie
Narrator Nicholas Courtney
Duration 6h
In this novelisation of a playscript, the formula for a powerful explosive is stolen. Locking his guests in the library, Sir Claud switches off the lights to let the thief replace it, no questions asked. When the lights come on, Sir Claud is dead and Hercule Poirot must act quickly to prevent a global catastrophe. (Adapted by Charles Osborne).
View BookAuthor: Beverley Naidoo
Author Beverley Naidoo
Narrator Barbara Washington
Duration 1h 30m
Thirteen-year-old Naledi and her younger brother Tiro live with their grandmother in a small village in South Africa. When their baby sister Dineo becomes seriously ill, they decide they have to get to their mother to tell her. Their journey to Johannesburg to find her is full of danger and reveals the prejudice and hostility that was an everyday p...
View BookAuthor: Jacqueline Wilson
Series: Girls in Love, Book 2
Author Jacqueline Wilson
Narrator Sara Jordan
SeriesGirls in Love, Book 2
Duration 4h
When a teen magazine begins its hunt for a new cover girl, three friends, each very different in style and personality, become obsessed by the way they look. As Nadine starts to change her appearance, Magda becomes more infatuated by designer labels and their best friend Ellie, who feels plain in comparison to her two more glamorous colleagues, fin...
View BookAuthor: Jacqueline Wilson
Author Jacqueline Wilson
Narrator Catherine Walker
Duration 1h
Mary can't see properly and is fed up with not being allowed to go anywhere by herself. She sets off to the shop but stumbles into a nightmare when a robbery goes wrong and she is held hostage.
View BookMary Warnock: A Memoir - People & Places
Author: Mary Warnock
Author Mary Warnock
Narrator Mary Warnock
Duration 11h 9m
Mary Warnock entered the public eye when Margaret Thatcher made her Chairman of the highly charged Enquiry into Human Fertilization. In this audiobook she reflects on the places and people who have influenced her including the Oxford school of philosophy in the 1950s and 60s.
View BookAuthor: Jacqueline Wilson
Author Jacqueline Wilson
Narrator Robert Kirkwood
Duration 1h 46m
A werewolf video leaves Micky afraid of dogs. Mum decides that Micky should own a puppy to help him overcome his problem. Micky chooses a werepuppy and Wolfie turns out to be a special pet and a real joker.
View BookAuthor: Norton Juster
Author Norton Juster
Narrator Kevin Moore
Duration 4h 45m
Milo is bored, really bored. He can't see the point in anything. So when a tollbooth suddenly appears in his bedroom, Milo decides that as he has nothing better to do he may as well dust off his toy car, pay the toll, and drive through. What follows is a journey of mythic proportions, during which Milo encounters countless odd characters who are an...
View BookPride & Prejudice - Smartpass Study Guide
Author: Jane Austen
Author Jane Austen
Narrator Various
Duration 4h 30m
Enter Austen's world to help you understand the plot, characters and themes of this classic novel. A text-specific guide packed with advice, insights and essential learning strategies.
View BookWar Poetry 1914-1918 - Smartpass Study Guide
Author: Smartpass
Author Smartpass
Narrator Various
Duration 4h 30m
Experience the carnage and camaraderie of the First World War, first hand. Hear the poems and meet the men who created such art from chaos.
View BookThe Girls' Guide To Hunting and Fishing
Author: Melissa Bank
Author Melissa Bank
Narrator Sara Masters
Duration 7h 5m
When it comes to the mating game, Jane is still learning how to play. When she resorts to a hilarious old fashioned guide - 'How to Meet and Marry Mr Right', Jane discovers that with love, life and men, a girl doesn't always need rules. CONTAINS STRONG LANGUAGE AND ADULT THEMES.
View BookAdrian Mole: The Cappuccino Years
Author: Sue Townsend
Series: Adrian Mole, Book 5
Author Sue Townsend
Narrator Jeff Bellamy
SeriesAdrian Mole, Book 5
Duration 9h 30m
Adrian Mole is now thirty and three-quarters. An accidental celebrity, with a spreading bald patch, despairing of family values, Mole is still worrying: Is Viagra cheating? Why won't the BBC produce his serial killer comedy 'White Van'? Mole chronicles the closing years of the 20th century with slanderous abandon.
View BookAuthor: Graham Greene
Author Graham Greene
Narrator John Atterbury
Duration 8h 15m
Set in London during and just after the Second World War, the love affair between novelist Maurice Bendix and his married lover, Sarah Miles, ends when she suddenly and without explanation breaks it off. Two years later a chance meeting rekindles his love and jealousy. Maurice hires a private detective to follow Sarah and slowly his love for her tu...
View BookAuthor: Jacqueline Wilson
Author Jacqueline Wilson
Narrator Lucinda Gorringe
Duration 3h
Tracy is ten years old and lives in a children's home. She would like a real home one day with a real family. Share her hopes for the future in this beautifully observed, touching and often very funny tale, all told in Tracy's own words.
View BookAuthor: Carole Hayman, Lou Wakefield
Author Carole Hayman, Lou Wakefield
Narrator Prunella Scales, Patricia Routledge
Duration 2h 15m
A follow up to 'Ladies of Letters & Ladies of More Letters'. Vera and Irene now communicate daily by e-mail about the the usual domestic mishaps: Irene's daughter Lesley is refusing to marry the worthy but boring Brian; Vera's exhausted daughter Karen has abandoned her third baby at the hospital and eloped with a male nurse; and Vera's gay son...
View BookA History of Britain: At the Edge of the World? 3000bc - Ad1603
Author: Simon Schama
Series: A History of Britain, Book 1
Author Simon Schama
Narrator Timothy West
SeriesA History of Britain, Book 1
Duration 8h
An abridged but vivid account of 4000 years of British history from the very beginnings of our nation's identity when the first settlers landed on Orkney.
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