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Author: Robert Cormier
Author Robert Cormier
Narrator Lorne Magory
Duration 2h 25m
Maimed and disfigured whilst fighting in the Second World War, Francis Cassavant must hide both his face and identity when he returns home to Frenchtown, USA, for his past holds a bitter secret.
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Author: Benjamin Zephaniah
Author Benjamin Zephaniah
Narrator The Author, Peter Kenny
Duration 4h 25m
After suffering severe facial injuries in a joyriding accident, Martin must adjust to living with his new appearance, and to coping with the changing and sometimes discriminatory attitudes of those around him. This audio book also features an exclusive commentary by the author, in which he discusses what inspired him to write the book.
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Author: Benjamin Zephaniah
Author Benjamin Zephaniah
Narrator The Author, Peter Kenny
Duration 6h 10m
Life is not safe for Alem, His father is Ethiopian, his mother Eritrean - and with both countries at war, he is welcome in neither place. So his father does an astonishing thing, which at first appears callous, but is in fact the ultimate gift of love from a parent to a child. This audio book also features an exclusive commentary by the author, in...
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Author: Simon Armitage
Author Simon Armitage
Narrator Charles Bainbridge
Duration 1h 40m
The first collection of poetry from an award winning poet. This audiobook features `It ain't what you do it's what it does to you' and other poems included for study at GCSE. CONTAINS SOME STRONG LANGUAGE.
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Author: Malorie Blackman
Author Malorie Blackman
Narrator Roger Griffiths
Duration 4h 50m
It's a normal Friday evening for Elliot - until the police knock on the door and tell him his mum's in serious trouble! A security video clearly shows her breaking into a giant pharmaceutical company on behalf of the environmental action group A.N.T.I.D.O.T.E. Elliot can hardly believe it. His mum's a secretary, isn't she? Not a SPY!
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Shakespeare: His Life and Work
Author: Richard Hampton, David Weston
Author Richard Hampton, David Weston
Narrator Judi Dench, Timothy West
Duration 2h 30m
Dame Judi Dench and Timothy West perform extracts from all of Shakespeare's plays from 'Hamlet' to 'Pericles'. This audiobook also includes commentary, music, songs and sonnets.
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Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children
Author: Ransom Riggs
Series: Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children, Book 1
Author Ransom Riggs
Narrator Jesse Bernstein
SeriesMiss Peregrine's Peculiar Children, Book 1
Duration 9h 42m
A mysterious island. An abandoned orphanage. And a strange collection of very curious photographs.. As our story opens, a horrific family tragedy sets sixteen-year-old Jacob journeying to a remote island off the coast of Wales, where he discovers the crumbling ruins of Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children. As Jacob explores its abandoned bed...
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Author: Richard Hughes
Author Richard Hughes
Narrator Michael Maloney
Duration 6h 13m
Set in the nineteenth century against a backdrop of island life and the vast surrounding seas, A High Wind in Jamaica is the gripping story of the Bas-Thornton children, whose parents send them back to England following a hurricane in the postcolonial Caribbean they call home. Having set sail, the children quickly fall into the hands of pirates.
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Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
Author Robert Louis Stevenson
Narrator Ian Holm
Duration 2h 33m
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde is one of the classic horror stories of all time with Sir Ian Holm giving us a rare and defininitive reading.
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Author: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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...
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Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Author: J.K Rowling
Series: Harry Potter, Book 3
Author J.K Rowling
Narrator Stephen Fry
SeriesHarry Potter, Book 3
Duration 12h 7m
Harry Potter, along with his best friends, Ron and Hermione, is about to start his third year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Harry can't wait to get back to school after the summer holidays (who wouldn't if they lived with the horrible Dursleys?). But when Harry gets to Hogwarts, the atmosphere is tense. There's an escaped mass murd...
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Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Author: J.K Rowling
Series: Harry Potter, Book 4
Author J.K Rowling
Narrator Stephen Fry
SeriesHarry Potter, Book 4
Duration 21h
The summer holidays seem never-ending and Harry Potter can't wait for the start of the school term. It is his fourth year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, and there are spells to learn and (unluckily) Potions and Divination lessons to attend. But Harry needs to be on his guard at all times - his worst enemy is preparing a horrifying f...
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Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Author: J.K Rowling
Series: Harry Potter, Book 5
Author J.K Rowling
Narrator Stephen Fry
SeriesHarry Potter, Book 5
Duration 29h 7m
Harry Potter is due to start his fifth year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. He is desperate to find out why his friends, Ron and Hermione, have been secretive all summer. But before he even gets to school, Harry survives a terrifying encounter with two Dementors, attends a court hearing at the Ministry of Magic and is escorted on a n...
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Harry Potter and the Half-blood Prince
Author: J.K Rowling
Series: Harry Potter, Book 6
Author J.K Rowling
Narrator Stephen Fry
SeriesHarry Potter, Book 6
Duration 20h 36m
It is Harry Potter's sixth year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. As Voldemort's sinister forces amass and a spirit of gloom and fear sweeps the land, it becomes clear to Harry that he will soon have no choice but to confront his destiny. Can Harry succeed in the death-defying tasks ahead?
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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Author: J.K Rowling
Series: Harry Potter, Book 7
Author J.K Rowling
Narrator Stephen Fry
SeriesHarry Potter, Book 7
Duration 24h
Harry Potter is preparing to leave the Dursleys and Privet Drive for the last time. But the future that awaits him is full of danger, not only for him, but for anyone close to him - and Harry has already lost so much. Only by destroying Voldemort's remaining Horcruxes can Harry free himself and overcome the Dark Lord's forces of evil. In a final pe...
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The Misadventures of Tallulah Casey, Book 1: Withering Tights
Author: Louise Rennison
Series: The Misadventures of Tallulah Casey, Book 1
Author Louise Rennison
Narrator Louise Rennison
SeriesThe Misadventures of Tallulah Casey, Book 1
Duration 6h 30m
Laugh your tights off at the (VERY) amateur dramatic antics of Talullah and her bonkers mates. Picture the scene: Dother Hall performing arts college somewhere Up North. On the whole, it's not quite the showbiz experience Tallulah was expecting! But once her mates turn up and they start their `FAME! I'm gonna liiiiive foreeeeeever, I'm gonna fill m...
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Author: F Scott Fitzgerald
Series: Bright Young Things, Book 3
Author F Scott Fitzgerald
Narrator Laurel Lefkow
SeriesBright Young Things, Book 3
Duration 13m
And now the second of our stories celebrating the riotous, cocktail-swilling, 'Bright Young Things' of the interwar years. Laurel Lefkow reads F Scott Fitzgerald's classic Jazz Age tale set in 1920s California, Bernice Bobs her Hair, in which revenge comes in the shape of a daring new hairstyle. F. Scott Fitzgerald, author of The Beautiful and the...
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Author: Suzanne Collins
Series: The Hunger Games, Book 1
Author Suzanne Collins
Narrator Carolyn Mccormick
SeriesThe Hunger Games, Book 1
Duration 11h 11m
In the ruins of a place once known as North America lies the nation of Panem, a shining Capitol surrounded by twelve outlying districts. The Capitol is harsh and cruel and keeps the districts in line by forcing them all to send one boy and one girl between the ages of twelve and eighteen to participate in the annual Hunger Games, a fight to the dea...
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Author: Suzanne Collins
Series: The Hunger Games, Book 2
Author Suzanne Collins
Narrator Carolyn Mccormick
SeriesThe Hunger Games, Book 2
Duration 11h 37m
Katniss Everdeen continues to struggle to protect herself and her family from the Capitol in this second novel from the bestselling Hunger Games trilogy.
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Author: Suzanne Collins
Series: The Hunger Games, Book 3
Author Suzanne Collins
Narrator Carolyn Mccormick
SeriesThe Hunger Games, Book 3
Duration 11h 41m
Against all odds, Katniss Everdeen has survived the Hunger Games twice. But now that she's made it out of the bloody arena live, she's still not safe. The Capitol is angry. The Capitol wants revenge.
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The Young Bond Series Book 4: Hurricane Gold
Author: Charlie Higson
Series: Young Bond, Book 4
Author Charlie Higson
Narrator Nathaniel Parker
SeriesYoung Bond, Book 4
Duration 8h 13m
As the sun blazes over the Caribbean island of Lagrimas Negras, its bloodthirsty ruler is watching and waiting. Criminals come here to hide, with blood on their hands and escape on their minds. On the mainland, ex-flying ace Jack Stone leaves his son and daughter in the company of James Bond. But a gang of thieves waits in ambush. They want Stone's...
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