The Silk Sisters: Pink Chameleon
Author: Fiona Dunbar
Format: MP3 CD
Author Fiona Dunbar
Narrator Jilly Bond
Duration 5h 40m
In the not too distant future, Rorie and Elsie's parents have disappeared. Just like that. And with only their cruel uncle to look after them, the girls are swept off to his miserable boarding school. But the sisters are determined to escape their uncle's grip - and discover the truth behind their parents' disappearance...
View BookAuthor: Quentin Blake, Emma Chichester Clark
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Author Quentin Blake, Emma Chichester Clark
Narrator Olivia Coleman
Duration 10m
A remarkable collaboration that brings together giants of the picture book world to create a funny, anarchic and utterly delightful book. A classic of the future. Beep! Beep! The three little monkeys are back in an irresistible new story! Hilda Snibbs is taking her three mischievous monkeys to visit her mother in the country. But what is supposed t...
View BookPositively Teenage: A Positively Brilliant Guide To Teenage Well-being
Author: Nicola Morgan
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Author Nicola Morgan
Narrator Sheila Hyde
Duration 6h 7m
Positively Teenage gives you tools to approach your teenage years with optimism and understanding and to develop real wellbeing for life. The media so often portray adolescence negatively but this book shows you how to approach these years far more positively so that you can really flourish and be in control. You'll find simple strategies to develo...
View BookMuriel Spark: The Complete Short Stories
Author: Muriel Spark
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Author Muriel Spark
Narrator Various
Duration 17h 33m
From the cruel irony of A Member of the Family to the fateful echoes of The Go-Away Bird and the unexpectedly sinister The Girl I Left Behind Me, in settings that range from South Africa to the Portobello Road, Muriel Spark coolly probes the idiosyncrasies that lurk beneath the veneer of human respectability, displaying the acerbic wit and wisdom t...
View BookLogan Mcrae Book 4: Flesh House
Author: Stuart Macbride
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Author Stuart Macbride
Narrator Steve Worsley
SeriesLogan McRae, Book 4
Duration 12h 50m
The fourth thriller in the number one best-selling crime series from the award-winning Stuart MacBride. Panic grips the Granite City as DS Logan McRae heads up a manhunt for 'The Flesher' - one of the UK's most notorious serial killers. Twenty years ago 'The Flesher' was butchering people all over the UK - turning victims into oven-ready joints - u...
View BookAuthor: Jessica Knoll
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Author Jessica Knoll
Narrator Madeleine Maby
Duration 11h 47m
Ani FaNelli seems to have it all: a glamorous job at a glossy magazine; an enviable figure with the wardrobe to match; and a handsome fianc‚ from a distinguished blue blood family. But Ani FaNelli is an invention, that veneer of perfection carefully assembled in an attempt to distance herself from a shocking, sordid past. As her wedding draws...
View BookAuthor: Caitlin Moran
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Author Caitlin Moran
Narrator Caitlin Moran
Duration 8h 47m
It's a good time to be a woman: we have the vote and the Pill, and we haven't been burnt as witches since 1727. However, a few nagging questions do remain...Why are we supposed to get Brazilians? Should we use Botox? Do men secretly hate us? And why does everyone ask you when you're going to have a baby? Part memoir, part rant, Caitlin answers the...
View BookAuthor: Jessica Bennett
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Author Jessica Bennett
Narrator Bahni Turpin
Duration 6h 10m
'Engaging, hilarious and practical - I will proudly proclaim myself a card-carrying member of the FFC' - Sheryl Sandberg, COO of Facebook and bestselling author of Lean In. Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable, audiobook edition of Feminist Fight Club by Jessica Bennett, read by Bahni Turpin. This is a call to arms. Are you aged zero to in...
View BookHistorical Stories: The Great Fire of London
Author: Jill Atkins
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Author Jill Atkins
Narrator Richard Popple
Duration 21m
As a sleepy William awakes from the cries of Fire, Fire, he thinks something big must be burning. But from the comfort of his own bed he does not realise the whole of London is ablaze! Will is desperate to help save his home and beloved city but are Will and his family in danger? Will they be able to escape with their lives?
View BookFather Brown Series 2 Episode 2: The Perishiing of the Pendragons
Author: G K Chesterton
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Author G K Chesterton
Narrator Andrew Sachs
SeriesThe Wisdom of Father Brown, Book 2
Duration 27m
With his black hat, huge umbrella, unwordly simplicity and 'beaming but breathless geniality', Father Brown is one of fiction's best-loved amateur detectives. Short and tatty, but with the wisdom and insight to unravel the most wayward of criminal minds, he has entertained generations. In 'The Perishing of the Pendragons', Father Brown learns to si...
View BookAuthor: Simon Passmore
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Author Simon Passmore
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 56m
A fast-paced psychological thriller from BBC Radio 4's 'Saturday Play' slot, originally broadcast 26 March 2011. A city banker is found dead in an opulent apartment. At the funeral, his former girlfriend Helen is unexpectedly questioned about when she last saw him. Did he mention computer files, or give her anything as a keepsake? Helen's suspicion...
View BookAuthor: Esther Freud
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Author Esther Freud
Narrator Esther Freud
Duration 3h
Written through the eyes of a six-year-old girl, this semi-autobiographical novel tells the story of two sisters taken on the trail to Marrakesh during the late sixties by their well-meaning but impulsive hippy mother.
View BookAuthor: Various
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Author Various
Narrator Patrick Malahide
Duration 3h
A collection of eight classic horror stories: 'The Monkey's Paw' by W.W Jacobs; 'Timber' by John Galsworthy; 'The Masque of the Red Death' by Edgar Allan Poe; 'The Squaw' by Bram Stoker; 'Martin's Close' by M.R James; 'The Man in the Bell' by W.E Aytoun; ' Caterpillars' by E. F Benson and 'A Tale of Terror' by Thomas Hood.
View BookI Will Finish With the Story of A Good Cat
Author: Anonymous
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Author Anonymous
Narrator Liza Goddard
Duration 1m
A short overture to the value of trusty animal friends, that also incorporates some historical interest and is a warming closer and thinking-point taken from CSA Word's 'Cats' collection'.
View BookAuthor: Sebastian Bacziewicz
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Author Sebastian Bacziewicz
Narrator Full Cast
SeriesPilgrim Series 2, Book 1
Duration 43m
The first play in Pilgrim Series 2, a collection of four BBC Radio 4 modern-day fantasy adventures written by Sebastian Baczkiewicz and starring Paul Hilton as Pilgrim. The Drowned Church was originally broadcast in the Afternoon Play slot on 31 August 2010. What if all the myths and folktales of these islands were true? And what if they were not o...
View BookAuthor: Maurice Gran, Laurence Marks
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Author Maurice Gran, Laurence Marks
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 1h 26m
Wine shop owner Gerald desperately needs money: his business is failing and the landlord has raised the cost of the lease. When he inherits a watch that used to belong to wartime Nazi Joachim Von Ribbentrop he believes that his financial troubles are over. But it sparks conflict with his wife and brother, who question the ethics of the potential sa...
View BookThe Goon Show: The Case of the Missing Heir
Author: Spike Milligan
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Author Spike Milligan
Narrator Various
SeriesThe Goon Show, Book 24
Duration 2h
Four previously unreleased episodes of the archive radio comedy, selected by Norma Farnes, Spike Milligan's biographer. The episodes are: The Case of the Missing Heir (11/1/55), The Secret Escritoire (27/9/55), The Pam's Paper Insurance Policy (24/11/58), The Dreaded Piano Clubber (26/12/86). Goon but not forgotten! From 1952 to 1960 the Goons rule...
View BookAuthor: Robert Harris
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Author Robert Harris
Narrator Michael Jayston
Duration 9h 43m
Set in Martha's Vineyard, 'The Ghost' tells the story of a writer who accepts the request to ghost-write the memoirs of Britain's former Prime Minister. He soon realises he has made a mistake. The ex-Prime Minister turns out to be a man with many secrets.
View BookAuthor: Jacqueline Wilson
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Author Jacqueline Wilson
Narrator Stephen Tompkinson
Duration 3h 10m
Tim and Biscuits are having a brilliant holiday in Wales. Life is full of ice cream, sandcastles and picnics - until they meet the horrid bully Prickle-Head and his side-kick Pinch-Face. Just as they are about to despair, reinforcements arrive in an unexpected form.
View BookJessica Haggerthwaite: Witch Dispatcher
Author: Emma Barnes
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Author Emma Barnes
Narrator Stephanie Cole
Duration 2h 31m
Jessica reads books like 'Astrophysics Made Simple', and worries about the household bills. So she's not exactly thrilled when her mother decides to 'turn professional' - as a witch. Having a witch for a mother is deeply embarrassing so she decides to thwart her mother's every move. Only, somehow, things don't turn out quite as Jessica planned.
View BookAuthor: P. D. James
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Author P. D. James
Narrator Julian Glover
Duration 9h 47m
The year is 2021. No child has been born for a quarter of a century. The human race faces extinction. Under the despotic rule of Xan Lyppiatt, Warden of England, the old are despairing, the young beautiful but cruel.
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