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Author: Agnieszka Biskup
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Author Agnieszka Biskup
Narrator Various
Duration 49m
Follows the adventures of Max Axiom as he explains the science behind ecosystems.
View BookAuthor: Will.I.Am
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Author Will.I.Am
Narrator Various
Duration 8h 28m
Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Wizards and Robots by will.i.am and Brian David Johnson, read by Daniel Weyman, Ray Panthaki, Iwan Rheon, Becca Stewart and Brian David Johnson. When a young man breaks into her home claiming her life is in danger, Ada Luring's world changes forever. Geller is a wizard, on the run from his father's hidden c...
View BookAuthor: Hilary Mantel
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Author Hilary Mantel
Narrator Jane Wymark
Duration 6h 51m
This is award-winning novelist Hilary Mantel's uniquely unusual five-part autobiography. Opening with 'A Second Home', in which Mantel describes the death of her stepfather, Giving Up the Ghosts is a wry, shocking and beautifully-written memoir of childhood, ghosts (real and metaphorical), illness and family. Finally, at the memoir's conclusion, Ma...
View BookLovely Lane Book 3: The Mothers of Lovely Lane
Author: Nadine Dorries
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Author Nadine Dorries
Narrator Georgia Maguire
SeriesLovely Lane Series, Book 3
Duration 14h 15m
Noleen Delaney is one of an army of night cleaners at St Angelus hospital in Liverpool. Since her husband was injured in the war, she has supported her five children and the family; she just about gets by. When Finn, her youngest, passes the 11-plus exam, Noleen feels faint. Allowing Finn to attend the grammar will stretch her purse too far. As the...
View BookAuthor: Jane Shemilt
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Author Jane Shemilt
Narrator Sophie Aldred
Duration 11h 8m
'I still don't know why we had to check. Did we really think you would be there, curled up and sleeping on the stage? That we would put our arms round you, and take you home?' Naomi has vanished, leaving her family broken and her mother Jenny desperately searching for answers. But the traces fifteen-year-old Naomi's left behind reveal a very differ...
View BookAuthor: Aoife Walsh
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Author Aoife Walsh
Narrator Annie Aldington
Duration 5h 20m
'But we don't know the first thing about looking after babies.' Phoebe's mum and dad are foster parents, and they're having a tough time. Her dad's moved out for bit, and her little foster brothers are playing up. So when Phoebe and her brother Adam find a baby abandoned in their den, they decide to try and look after her themselves ... ***EXTRA C...
View BookAuthor: Jeremy Paxman
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Author Jeremy Paxman
Narrator Roy Mcmillan
Duration 10h
We may think we know about it, but what was life really like for the British people during the First World War? The well-known images - the pointing finger of Lord Kitchener; a Tommy buried in the mud of the Western Front; the memorial poppies of remembrance day - all reinforce the idea that it was a pointless waste of life. So why did the British...
View BookAuthor: Diana Hendry
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Author Diana Hendry
Narrator Monica Gibb
Duration 13m
The Sweet Possessive is the last of three comic tales from BBC Radio 4's The Greengrocer's Apostrophe, inspired by those hand-written signs offering "Apple's and Banana's" which can be found in every town in Britain. Originally broadcast in the Afternoon Reading slot on 30 September 2010. Distracted by an apostrophe obsession, a woman fails to noti...
View BookAuthor: William Shakespeare
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Author William Shakespeare
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 2h 43m
In this BBC full-cast production of Coriolanus, allies and enemies become blurred just as Rome is in sight...Coriolanus tells of a proud Roman general who captures the town Corioli but subsequently falls from favour with the Roman people. He allies himself with the Volscians and leads an attack on Rome, but allegiances are won and lost be...
View BookAuthor: Beth Waters
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Author Beth Waters
Narrator Louise Amos
Duration 1h 30m
Norman John Gillies was one of the last children ever born on St Kilda, five years before the whole population was evacuated forever to the British mainland. People had lived on these islands for over four thousand years, developing a thriving, tightly-knit society that knew nothing of crime or money, and took care of its weakest members without he...
View BookAuthor: Becky Albertalli
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Author Becky Albertalli
Narrator Arielle Delisle
Duration 7h 58m
Penguin presents the audiobook edition of The Upside of Unrequited by Becky Albertalli, read by Arielle DeLisle. Seventeen-year-old Molly Peskin-Suso knows all about unrequited love-she's lived through it twenty-six times. She crushes hard and crushes often, but always in secret. Because no matter how many times her twin sister, Cassie, tells her t...
View BookAuthor: Jojo Moyes
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Author Jojo Moyes
Narrator Clare Corbett
Duration 14h 54m
France, 1916. Sophie Lefevre is ordered to serve the German officers who socialise in her hotel. When the new Kommandant sets eyes on Sophie's portrait-painted by her husband Edouard-a dangerous obsession is born. Almost a century later, Sophie's portrait hangs in the home of Liv Halston. A chance encounter reveals the painting's true worth-and its...
View BookLovely Lane Book 2: The Children of Lovely Lane
Author: Nadine Dorries
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Author Nadine Dorries
Narrator Georgia Maguire
SeriesLovely Lane Series, Book 2
Duration 16h 45m
St Angelus runs like a family: the workers take care of their own - a lesson the mysterious new assistant matron, Miss Van Gilder, is about to learn the hard way. Little Joe has had trouble breathing but the doctors don't take his sister Lily's concerns seriously, least of all Miss Van Gilder. The nurses of Lovely Lane have a secret which is dividi...
View BookL.a. Candy Book 2: Sweet Little Lies
Author: Lauren Conrad
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Author Lauren Conrad
Narrator Jenna Lamia
SeriesL.A. Candy, Book 2
Duration 7h 14m
In TV star Lauren Conrad's deliciously entertaining novel about young Hollywood, the lies are only as sweet as the people telling them. Jane Roberts was the average girl next door until she and her best friend Scarlett Harp landed their own reality show, L.A. Candy. Suddenly they found themselves thrown into the public eye with VIP tickets to every...
View BookAuthor: J R R Tolkien
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Author J R R Tolkien
Narrator Rob Inglis
Duration 10h 44m
The Hobbit is the unforgettable story of Bilbo, a peace-loving hobbit, who embarks on a strange and magical adventure. A timeless classic. Bilbo Baggins enjoys a quiet and contented life, with no desire to travel far from the comforts of home; then one day the wizard Gandalf and a band of dwarves arrive unexpectedly and enlist his services - as a b...
View BookGoosebumps Series Book 2: Stay Out of the Basement
Author: R L Stine
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Author R L Stine
Narrator Elizabeth Morton
SeriesGoosebumps, Book 2
Duration 2h 40m
Get Goosebumps with the startling repackage of a best selling classic. Now with bonus materials! Dr. Brewer is doing a little plant-testing in his basement. Nothing to worry about. Harmless, really. But Margaret and Casey Brewer are worried about their father. Especially when they...meet...some of the plants he is growing down there. Then they noti...
View BookThe Time Travelling Cat and the Viking Terror
Author: Julia Jarman
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Author Julia Jarman
Narrator Wayne Forester
Duration 4h 27m
Topher is planning a trip to London - but will it be safe, with all the terrorist threats? It worries him, and so do the extended absences of his beloved cat, Ka. And sure enough, in the middle of a big bomb alert, Topher is called away - to a Saxon village threatened by Norsemen.
View BookAuthor: Jennifer Saunders
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Author Jennifer Saunders
Narrator Jennifer Saunders
Duration 9h
Jennifer Saunders' comic creations have brought joy to millions. From Comic Strip to Comic Relief, from Bolly-swilling Edina in Ab Fab to her takes on Madonna or Mamma Mia, her characters are household names. But it's Jennifer herself who has a place in all our hearts. This is her funny, moving and frankly bonkers memoir, filled with laughter, frie...
View BookAuthor: Suzanne Collins
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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.
View BookAuthor: By Jane Ogborn Edited
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Author By Jane Ogborn Edited
Narrator Jan Boyd
Duration 1h 35m
Alfred Lord Tennyson, Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning are the three nineteenth-century poets explored in this collection.
View BookArthur Smith's Balham Bash Series 1
Author: Arthur Smith
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Author Arthur Smith
Narrator Various
Duration 1h 50m
Arthur Smith invites an audience into his South London home for comedy, music and entertainment. There's jamming in the kitchen, chuckles in the front room and poetry on the landing. Pippa Evans is a regular contributor as singer-songwriter Loretta Maine, while special guests include Paul Sinha, Milton Jones, Glenn Tilbrook, Benjamin Zephaniah, Ste...
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