Author: Michael Scott
Format: Online
Author Michael Scott
Narrator Paul Boehmer
SeriesThe Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel, Book 5
Duration 10h 52m
The Newman twins have finally been divided. The end is near. In San Francisco, Josh has chosen a side - and he will not stand with his sister, Sophie, or the Alchemyst, Nicholas Flamel. He has chosen to fight along side John Dee and the mysterious Virginia Dare. Sophie will do anything she can to find her brother, but her training must continue. Wi...
View BookAuthor: Melissa Marr
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Author Melissa Marr
Narrator Alyssa Bresnahan
SeriesWicked Lovely, Book 1
Duration 10h 11m
The clash of ancient rules and modern expectations swirl together in this cool, urban 21st century faery tale. Rule #3: Don't stare at invisible faeries. Aislinn has always seen faeries. Powerful and dangerous, they walk hidden in the mortal world, and would blind her if they knew of her Sight. Rule #2: Don't speak to invisible faeries.Now faeries...
View BookAn Interview With Alan Bennett
Author: Listening Books
Format: Online
Author Books Listening
Narrator Alan Bennett
Duration 16h 29m
Alan is an award winning actor, author, screenwriter and playwright. His play The History Boys has been adapted into a popular film as well as receiving 6 Tony Awards for its Broadway run in 2006. The title is available to download from the Listening Books library, number 01451. Photograph c Antony Crolla
View BookAn Interview With Cressida Cowell
Author: Listening Books, Cressida Cowell
Format: Online
Author Listening Books, Cressida Cowell
Narrator Cressida Cowell
Duration 18h 52m
Cressida is the author of the fantastic children's series How to Train Your Dragon. In this interview Cressida reveals some interesting facts about how she chose her dragons' characteristics. You can borrow the book on MP3 CD, number 00164CD. Image c Sam Jones
View BookAuthor: Listening Books
Format: Online
Author Books Listening
Narrator Eoin Colfer
Duration 15h 28m
Eoin is an Irish children's author, most well known for the Artemis Fowl series, a set of 8 science fantasy novels . The first book is available to download or on MP3 CD, number 08747CD. Image c Michael Paynter
View BookAuthor: Listening Books
Format: Online
Author Books Listening
Narrator Ken Follett
Duration 13h 32m
Bestselling author of The Pillars of the Earth trilogy, Ken Follett's novels are frequently featured on the New York Times Bestsellers lists. c Quintas-Fundacion Catedral Santa Maria
View BookAn Interview With Lindsey Davis
Author: Listening Books
Format: Online
Author Books Listening
Narrator Lindsey Davis
Duration 12h
Creator of the Didius Falco character, a Roman detective, her books have been adapted into highly successful audio dramas for the BBC. Her titles include Scandal Takes a Holiday, number 00689CD and Alexandria, number 02294CD. Image c Mark Harrison/Hodder & Stoughton Publishers
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Format: Online
Author Books Listening
Narrator M C Beaton
Duration 15h 10m
Marion Chesney has written over 100 historical romance novels but she is most well known as M C Beaton for her crime novels and her characters Agatha Raisin and Hamish Macbeth. If you are new to her novels, try Agatha Raisin and the Quiche of Death, available to download, number 02386. Image c Constable and Robinson
View BookAn Interview With Marcia Barritt
Author: Listening Books
Format: Online
Author Books Listening
Narrator Marcia Barritt
Duration 19h 23m
Marcia is a bilingual author and artist, specialising in the Jamaican Patwa language. You can find Roots Recollections: Caribbean Poems and Folk Songs available in our library on MP3 CD, number 0029CD.
View BookAn Interview With Margaret Atwood
Author: Listening Books
Format: Online
Author Books Listening
Narrator Margaret Atwood
Duration 20h 4m
Margaret is a Canadian author of more than 40 volumes of poetry, children's literature and many popular novels. Titles in our library include The Edible Woman, available on MP3 CD number 00849CD and Cat's Eye, available to download number 11798. Image c George Whitside
View BookAn Interview With Sally Gardner
Author: Listening Books, Sally Gardner
Format: Online
Author Listening Books, Sally Gardner
Narrator Sally Gardner
Duration 14h 42m
Sally is a Nestle Prize winning children's author and illustrator and her books have been translated into 22 different languages. You can find The Boy Who Could Fly & The Invisible Boy in our library, number 00490CD.
View BookAn Interview With Pippa Goodhart
Author: Listening Books
Format: Online
Author Listening Books
Narrator Pippa Goodhart
Duration 9m
Pippa has written numerous books for children and also writes under the name Laura Owen. You can find Whizz-Bang Winnie and Other Stories, available to download in our library, number 02576.
View BookAuthor: Listening Books
Format: Online
Author Books Listening
Narrator Simon Brett
Duration 13h 37m
Simon Brett is most well known for his mystery crime novels featuring actor and amateur detective, Charles Paris. He has also been a radio producer for the BBC. A Reconstructed Corpse, read by the author himself, is available to download number 10556.
View BookAn Interview With Simon Callow
Author: Listening Books
Format: Online
Author Listening Books
Narrator Simon Callow
Duration 8m
Simon is a hugely successful actor with one of the most recognisable voices in theatre and film. His narration work includes Thames Sacred River by Peter Ackroyd, available to stream, number 00386. Image c The Hanbury Agency Ltd
View BookAuthor: Willy Russell
Format: Online
Author Willy Russell
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 1h 12m
Adapted from the musical by the playwright, with an alternate ending, Blood Brothers is a heart-warming story of Mickey and Edward, two brothers separated at birth, brought together again through friendship. However, their familial relationship is concealed by their guardians who strive to keep them apart because of superstitious beliefs. This edit...
View BookAuthor: W B Yeats
Format: Online
Author W B Yeats
Narrator Richard Popple, Peter Beton
Duration 6h 54m
W B Yeats (1865-1939) is one of the great and innovative poets of the twentieth century. Much of his most vigorous verse on love, sex, Irish and international politics, the complexites of the occult and the 'sedentary toil' of poetry was produced in the years between his fiftieth birthday in 1915 and his death in 1939. Timothy Webb is Professor of...
View BookAuthor: Sebastian Faulks
Format: Online
Author Sebastian Faulks
Narrator David Sibley
Duration 11h
On a small island off the south coast of France, Robert Hendricks, an English doctor who has seen the best and the worst the twentieth century had to offer, is forced to confront the events that made up his life. His host, and antagonist, is Alexander Pereira, a man whose time is running out, but who seems to know more about his guest than Hendrick...
View BookAuthor: Mark Twain
Format: Online
Author Mark Twain
Narrator Thomas Becker
Duration 10h 13m
'We said there warn't no home like a raft, after all. Other places do seem so cramped up and smothery, but a raft don't. You feel mighty free and easy and comfortable on a raft.' Huck Finn escapes from his alcoholic father by faking his own death and so begins his journey through the Deep South, seeking independence and freedom. On his travels, Huc...
View BookAuthor: Ray Bradbury
Format: Online
Author Ray Bradbury
Narrator Paul Michael Garcia
Duration 9h 26m
The Illustrated Man is a 1951 book of eighteen science fiction short stories by Ray Bradbury that explores the nature of mankind.
View BookAuthor: H.G. Wells
Format: Online
Author H.G. Wells
Narrator Daniel Philpott
Duration 5h 15m
The Invisible Man is a science fiction novella by H. G. Wells. Originally serialized in Pearson's Weekly in 1897, it was published as a novel the same year.
View BookAuthor: Charlotte Bronte
Format: Online
Author Charlotte Bronte
Narrator Nadia May
Duration 18h 52m
Treated badly as a child by both her aunt and school, Jane leaves to become a governess to the daughter of the mysterious Mr Rochester. Gradually she falls in love with him, but things are not what they seem and life is not straightforward for the rebellious heroine.
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