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Doctor Who and the Dinosaur Invasion
Author: Malcolm Hulke
Format: Online
Author Malcolm Hulke
Narrator Martin Jarvis
Duration 4h 7m
The Doctor walked slowly forward into the cul-de-sac. The giant dinosaur turned its head to focus on the midget now approaching... The Doctor aimed his gun to fire... suddenly from behind came a great roar of anger. He spun round - blocking the exit from the narrow street towered a Tyrannosaurus Rex, its savage jaws dripping with blood... The Docto...
View BookAuthor: Jasper Fforde
Format: Online
Author Jasper Fforde
Narrator Gabrielle Kruger
Duration 10h 28m
Leaving Swindon behind her to hide out in the Well of Lost Plots (the place where all fiction is created), Thursday Next, Literary Detective and soon-to-be one parent family, ponders her next move from within an unpublished book of dubious merit entitled 'Caversham Heights'. Landen, her husband, is still eradicated, Aornis Hades is meddling with Th...
View BookRivers of London Book 3: Whispers Under Ground
Author: Ben Aaronovitch
Format: Online
Author Ben Aaronovitch
Narrator Kobna Holdbrook-Smith
SeriesRivers of London, Book 3
Duration 10h 20m
Peter Grant is learning magic fast. And its just as well - he's already had run ins with the deadly supernatural children of the Thames and a terrifying killer in Soho. Progression in the Police Force is less easy. Especially when you work in a department of two. A department that doesn't even officially exist. A department that if you did describe...
View BookDiscworld Series Book 22: The Last Continent
Author: Terry Pratchett
Format: Online
Author Terry Pratchett
Narrator Tony Robinson
SeriesDiscworld, Book 22
Duration 3h
There's nothing like the issue of evolution to get under the skin of academics. Even if their field of expertise is magic rather than biology. With the best and most interfering minds of Unseen University somehow left in charge at a critical evolutionary turning point, the Discworld's last continent needs a saviour. Who is this hero striding across...
View BookAuthor: James Follett
Format: Online
Author James Follett
Narrator Various
Duration 9h 39m
Originally broadcast on BBC Radio 4 to wide acclaim, Earthsearch is set in the far future and concerns Earth's sole survivors, now living on the massive Challenger starship but longing to return to the home they have never known. Their problems arise when it transpires that the planet Earth has disappeared...
View BookAuthor: BBC Audiobooks
Format: Online
Author BBC Audiobooks
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 1h 38m
The rugged Cornwall of days gone by is the scene for first Doctor William Hartnell's 1966 foray into the murky world of pirates and hidden treasure. The TARDIS lands on the seveneenth century Cornish coast, and its crew stumble upon a plot by the local Squire to receive and offload contraband goods. The Doctor meets the churchwarden, whose last wor...
View BookDiscworld Series Book 16: Soul Music
Author: Terry Pratchett
Format: Online
Author Terry Pratchett
Narrator Nigel Planer
SeriesDiscworld, Book 16
Duration 10h 8m
There's no getting away from it. From whichever angle, Death is a horrible, inescapable business. But someone's got to do it. So if Death decides to take a well-earned moment to uncover the meaning of life and discover himself in the process, then there is going to be a void of specific dimensions that needs to be occupied, particularly so when the...
View BookAuthor: Robert Holmes
Format: Online
Author Robert Holmes
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 1h 53m
Patrick Troughton stars as the Doctor in the soundtrack of this classic TV story from 1968, in which he finds the humanoid Gonds enslaved by the monstrous, crystalline Krotons. Along with his companions, Jamie and Zoe, the Doctor befriends the Gonds and enters the lair of their enemies. Can he halt the years of tyrrany and also escape with his life...
View BookAuthor: Philip K. Dick
Format: Online
Author Philip K. Dick
Narrator Paul Giamatti
Duration 9h 15m
Substance D - otherwise known as Death - is the most dangerous drug ever to find its way on to the black market. It destroys the links between the brain's two hemispheres, leading first to disorentation and then to complete and irreversible brain damage. Bob Arctor, undercover narcotics agent, is trying to find a lead to the source of supply, but t...
View BookAuthor: Christina Dalcher
Format: Online
Author Christina Dalcher
Narrator Laurence Bouvard
Duration 10h 30m
Jean McClellan spends her time in almost complete silence, limited to just one hundred words a day. Any more, and a thousand volts of electricity will course through her veins. Now the new government is in power, everything has changed. But only if you're a woman. Almost overnight, bank accounts are frozen, passports are taken away and seventy mill...
View BookDiscworld Series Book 13: Small Gods
Author: Terry Pratchett
Format: Online
Author Terry Pratchett
Narrator Nigel Planer
SeriesDiscworld, Book 13
Duration 9h 55m
Religion is a controversial business in the Discworld. Everyone has their own opinion, and indeed their own gods. Who come in all shapes and sizes. In such a competitive environment, there is a pressing need to make one's presence felt. And it's certainly not remotely helpful to be reduced to be appearing in the form of a tortoise, a manifestation...
View BookAuthor: Terry Pratchett, Stephen Baxter
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Author Terry Pratchett, Stephen Baxter
Narrator Michael Fenton Stevens
SeriesLong Earth, Book 1
Duration 11h 30m
1916: the Western Front. Private Percy Blakeney wakes up. He is lying on fresh spring grass. He can hear birdsong, and the wind in the leaves in the trees. Where has the mud, blood and blasted landscape of No Man's Land gone? 2015: Madison, Wisconsin. Cop Monica Jansson is exploring the burned-out home of a reclusive (some said mad, others dangerou...
View BookAuthor: Claire Wade
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Author Claire Wade
Narrator Emma Gregory
Duration 11h 55m
Imagine a world where.... Everything you ate was monitored by the government. Every step you took was counted. Your children were weighed every day at school. Neighbours reported on neighbours and no one was safe from judgement. Sugar was illegal, and baking was a crime. Imagine if that world was here.... What would you do? Toe the line or fight fo...
View BookThe Long Earth Series Book 2: The Long War
Author: Terry Pratchett, Stephen Baxter
Format: Online
Author Terry Pratchett, Stephen Baxter
Narrator Michael Fenton Stevens
SeriesLong Earth, Book 2
Duration 13h 30m
A generation after the events of The Long Earth, mankind has spread across the new worlds opened up by Stepping. Where Joshua and Lobsang once pioneered, now fleets of airships link the stepwise Americas with trade and culture. Mankind is shaping the Long Earth - but in turn the Long Earth is shaping mankind ... A new `America', called Valhalla, is...
View BookAuthor: Paul Magrs
Format: Online
Author Paul Magrs
Narrator Full Cast
SeriesDoctor Who Serpent Crest, Book 3
Duration 1h 14m
Tom Baker stars as the Fourth Doctor in the third of five thrilling brand new adventures, with Susan Jameson as Mrs Wibbsey Trapped underground, the Doctor and Mrs Wibbsey encounter a small boy who claims to be Aladdin, in search of a fabled lamp. He joins them on their own quest, to find a power source in this weird domain and switch it off. Many...
View BookAuthor: Simon Messingham
Format: Online
Author Simon Messingham
Narrator Russell Tovey
Duration 2h 23m
Sebastiene was human...once. He might look like a nineteenth-century nobleman, but in truth he is a ruthless hunter. He likes nothing more than luring difficult opposition to a planet, and then hunting them down for sport. And now he's caught them all - from Zargregs to Moogs, and even the odd Eternal. In fact, Sebastiene is after only one more pri...
View BookAuthor: Andrzej Sapkowski
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Author Andrzej Sapkowski
Narrator Peter Kenny
Duration 12h 53m
Geralt is a witcher, a man whose magic powers, enhanced by long training and a mysterious elixir, have made him a brilliant fighter and a merciless assassin. Yet he is no ordinary murderer: his targets are the multifarious monsters and vile fiends that ravage the land and attack the innocent. He roams the country seeking assignments, but gradually...
View BookThe Witcher Book 6: Seasons of Storms
Author: Andrzej Sapkowski
Format: Online
Author Andrzej Sapkowski
Narrator Peter Kenny
SeriesThe Witcher, Book 6
Duration 11h 45m
Geralt. The witcher whose mission is to protect ordinary people from the monsters created with magic. A mutant who has the task of killing unnatural beings. He uses a magical sign, potions and the pride of every witcher - two swords, steel and silver. But what would happen if Geralt lost his weapons? Andrzej Sapkowski returns to his most popular he...
View BookDiscworld Series Book 11: Reaper Man
Author: Terry Pratchett
Format: Online
Author Terry Pratchett
Narrator Nigel Planer
SeriesDiscworld, Book 11
Duration 8h 25m
But it can. And it has. So what happens after death is now less of a philosophical question than a question of actual reality. On the disc, as here, they need Death. If Death doesn't come for you, then what are you supposed to do in the meantime? You can't have the undead wandering about like lost souls. There's no telling what might happen, partic...
View BookAuthor: Dennis Spooner
Format: Online
Author Dennis Spooner
Narrator William Hartnell Et Al
Duration 1h 54m
William Hartnell stars as the Doctor, alongside William Russell as Ian, Jacqueline Hill as Barbara and Maureen O'Brien as Vicki in this four part story set in Ancient Rome. Written by Dennis Spooner. Whilst Ian and Barbara are kidnapped by slave traders, the Doctor is mistaken for a famous lyre player and plays at Nero's court. Can the TARDIS crew...
View BookDoctor Who: The Nemonite Invasion
Author: David Roden
Format: Online
Author David Roden
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 2h 22m
When the sky rips open somewhere over Dover, two objects hurtle out of the Vortex and crash-land in the sea. One is the TARDIS, out of control and freefalling - but the other, a mysterious crystalline sphere, is far more sinister . The Doctor and Donna are rescued and taken to a secret command centre in the Dover cliffs. It's May 1940, and Vice-Adm...
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