Author: Josephine Cox
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Author Josephine Cox
Narrator Alex Dunbar
Duration 4h 21m
After years spent with 'the dreaded Laura' Ben is finally free! A new divorcee he can't wait to get back in the game and sets about writing a list of all the things he has to do: NOT sign up to the gym. (He's fit enough anyway). Smoke cigars - they're much more sophisticated than cigarettes. NOT contact Laura and that includes hiding in the b...
View BookAuthor: Robin Nelson
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Author Robin Nelson
Narrator Intuitive
Duration 3h 46m
How does cotton turn into a soft T-shirt? Follow each step in the production cycle-from growing cotton to wearing a comfy shirt-in this fascinating book!
View BookAuthor: Christobel Kent
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Author Christobel Kent
Narrator Clare Corbett
Duration 11h 26m
Fran Hall and her husband Nathan live in a farmhouse on the edge of the Fens. One night, when Fran is woken by her baby, she finds the bed empty beside her and Nathan gone. Searching the house for him she makes a devastating discovery. As Fran finds herself under police scrutiny, she and her two small children become more isolated as she starts to...
View BookAuthor: Melanie Watt
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Author Melanie Watt
Narrator Melanie Watt
Duration 6h
The first book in the Scaredy Squirrel series is a comical story of an endearing squirrel who learns what can happen when he's brave enough to take a risk. Part of our fantastic, Read-along collection for younger readers, these are picture books which highlight the text in time with the narration.
View BookAuthor: Kate Atkinson
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Author Kate Atkinson
Narrator Nicholas Bell
SeriesJackson Brodie, Book 4
Duration 12h 14m
A day like any other for security chief Tracy Waterhouse, until she makes a purchase she hadn't bargained for. One moment of madness is all it takes for Tracy's humdrum world to be turned upside down, the tedium of everyday life replaced by fear and danger at every turn. Witnesses to Tracy's Faustian exchange in the Merrion Centre in Leeds are Till...
View BookAuthor: Various
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Author Various
Narrator Various
Duration 1h 14m
This anthology brings together a selection of best-loved children's poems. All of the old favourites are presented including Edward Lear's The Owl and the Pussycat and Lewis Carroll's Jabberwocky. These classic poems combine catchy, memorable rhymes with vivid word pictures to offer an imaginative feast for children. A variety of readers bring the...
View BookFather Brown, Series 1: The Complete Series
Author: G K Chesterton
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Author G K Chesterton
Narrator Andrew Sachs
Duration 3h 8m
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 Series 1, the High Priest of detection becomes involved in s...
View BookAuthor: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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Author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Narrator Sapphire Joy
Duration 14h
Fifteen year old Kambili's world is circumscribed by the high walls of her family compound and the frangipani trees she can see from her bedroom window. Her wealthy Catholic father, although generous and well-respected in the community, is repressive and fanatically religious at home. Her life is lived under his shadow and regulated by schedules: p...
View BookThe Infinite Monkey Cage, Series 2
Author: BBC Audiogo
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Author BBC Audiogo
Narrator Various
Duration 1h 51m
The second series of the Sony Radio Academy Gold Award-winning BBC Radio 4 show in which physicist Brian Cox and comedian Robin Ince take a witty, irreverent and unashamedly rational look at the world according to science. In the first episode, specially recorded as part of 2010's Cheltenham Science Festival, Brian Cox and Robin Ince are joined by...
View BookAuthor: Ngaio Marsh
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Author Ngaio Marsh
Narrator Ric Jerrom
Duration 9h 5m
When the pesky Anna Bunz arrives at the village of Mardian to investigate the rare survival of folk-dancing there, she quickly antagonises the villagers. But she is not the only source of friction - when the sword dancer's traditional mock beheading becomes horribly real, Superintendent Roderick Alleyn finds himself faced with a case of great compl...
View BookAuthor: Roald Dahl
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Author Roald Dahl
Narrator Jeff Bellamy
Duration 54m
Matilda is a very clever little girl, but her terrible parents don't like her, and her head teacher, Miss Trunchbull, is very frightening. She isn't very happy. Then one day Matilda starts moving things with her eyes, and after that she isn't afraid of anybody!
View BookAuthor: Enid Blyton
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Author Enid Blyton
Narrator Jan Francis
Duration 4h 30m
There's a thief at Kirrin Cottage! The Famous Five think they know who it is but they need to prove it. Where can they find evidence? The discovery of an old map and a very unusual hiding place may help them get to the bottom of the mystery.
View BookAuthor: Oscar Wilde
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Author Oscar Wilde
Narrator John Moffatt
Duration 9h 16m
After meeting Lord Henry Wotton, who remarks that 'youth is the only thing worth having', Dorian Gray becomes obsessed with preserving his looks. He wants to remain as youthful and fresh as he appears in his recently completed portrait by Basil Hallward. When Dorian states that he would give his soul to stay young, he has no idea of the horrors he'...
View BookAuthor: G K Chesterton
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Author G K Chesterton
Narrator Edward Hardwicke
Duration 42m
The 'little cleric from Essex' Father Brown features in this intriguing detective story from master of twists and turns G. K. Chesterton. A man's body is found in a passage, and the suspect must be found. But what motive could have possessed someone to kill in such cold blood? A listener will find out...with a few unexpected surprises along the way...
View BookAuthor: Dick Francis
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Author Dick Francis
Narrator Tony Britton
Duration 9h 10m
Computer whizzkid Peter Keithley, asked to transfer a betting system onto computer tape, dies shortly afterwards. An old friend of his, Jonathan Derry, finds himself in possession of the tapes and discovers that there are greedy, desperate men who will do anything to get their hands on the lucrative software. The evil, bull-faced Angelo goes too fa...
View BookAuthor: Agatha Christie
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Author Agatha Christie
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 2h 12m
Poirot has always hated visiting the dentist, but this time his check-up is painless and soon over. As he leaves Mr. Morley's surgery, he observes a woman wearing patent leather shoes with large buckles. She catches one of the buckles on the taxi door and wrenches it off, and as Poirot hands it back, he is reminded of the children's rhyme "One, two...
View BookAuthor: Jonathan Trigell
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Author Jonathan Trigell
Narrator Russell Boulter
Duration 7h 50m
A is for Apple. A bad apple. Jack has spent most of his life in juvenile institutions, to be released with a new name, new job, new life. At 24, he is utterly innocent of the world, yet guilty of a monstrous childhood crime. To his new friends, he is a good guy with occasional flashes of unexpected violence. To his new girlfriend, he is strangely i...
View BookAuthor: Amanda Swift
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Author Amanda Swift
Narrator Lisa Coleman
Duration 2h
Charlie's a sparky twelve-year-old who thinks she's too fat to get a boyfriend. A mild flirtation with the boy in the local video shop is as far as she's got in terms of a romance. She's enjoying e-mailing her German penfriend, Frank, but when he suggests coming over to visit, she panics. She's sent him a photo of her skinny best friend, rather tha...
View BookAuthor: Enid Blyton
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Author Enid Blyton
Narrator Jan Francis
Duration 4h 39m
The Famous Five are having lots of fun in the snow! But it's not long before they have a new mystery to solve, like who is living in the mysterious house near the chalet they're staying in? The caretaker says nobody has lived there for years, but the Five are sure they've seen a face at one of the windows... A terrified, haunted face, too. Have the...
View BookAuthor: David Hewson
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Author David Hewson
Narrator Saul Reichlin
Duration 14h 7m
Kim and Mia Timmers were just eleven years old when they were imprisoned in a local psychiatric institution, accused of murdering the man they believed to be responsible for the death of their family. Now, ten years later, they are due for release.Detective Pieter Vos is given cause to re-open the case when the girls disappear. His investigation ta...
View BookAuthor: Alex Owen, Ben Ashenden
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Author Alex Owen, Ben Ashenden
Narrator The Authors
Duration 3h 43m
Join Alex and Ben - aka The Pin - in their weird twist on the double-act sketch show. The Pin are a multi-award-winning comedy duo with a unique brand of self-reflexive comedy. Performed in front of a live studio audience, their sketches exist somewhere between razor-sharp smartness and joyous silliness. Expect sketches, commentary on the sketches,...
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