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Author: Agatha Christie
Format: Online
Author Agatha Christie
Narrator Nicholas Courtney
Duration 6h
In this novelisation of a playscript, the formula for a powerful explosive is stolen. Locking his guests in the library, Sir Claud switches off the lights to let the thief replace it, no questions asked. When the lights come on, Sir Claud is dead and Hercule Poirot must act quickly to prevent a global catastrophe. (Adapted by Charles Osborne).
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Author: Beverley Naidoo
Format: Online
Author Beverley Naidoo
Narrator Barbara Washington
Duration 1h 30m
Thirteen-year-old Naledi and her younger brother Tiro live with their grandmother in a small village in South Africa. When their baby sister Dineo becomes seriously ill, they decide they have to get to their mother to tell her. Their journey to Johannesburg to find her is full of danger and reveals the prejudice and hostility that was an everyday p...
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Author: Jacqueline Wilson
Format: Online
Author Jacqueline Wilson
Narrator Sara Jordan
SeriesGirls in Love, Book 2
Duration 4h
When a teen magazine begins its hunt for a new cover girl, three friends, each very different in style and personality, become obsessed by the way they look. As Nadine starts to change her appearance, Magda becomes more infatuated by designer labels and their best friend Ellie, who feels plain in comparison to her two more glamorous colleagues, fin...
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Author: Jacqueline Wilson
Format: Online
Author Jacqueline Wilson
Narrator Catherine Walker
Duration 1h
Mary can't see properly and is fed up with not being allowed to go anywhere by herself. She sets off to the shop but stumbles into a nightmare when a robbery goes wrong and she is held hostage.
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Mary Warnock: A Memoir - People & Places
Author: Mary Warnock
Format: Online
Author Mary Warnock
Narrator Mary Warnock
Duration 11h 9m
Mary Warnock entered the public eye when Margaret Thatcher made her Chairman of the highly charged Enquiry into Human Fertilization. In this audiobook she reflects on the places and people who have influenced her including the Oxford school of philosophy in the 1950s and 60s.
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Author: Jacqueline Wilson
Format: Online
Author Jacqueline Wilson
Narrator Robert Kirkwood
Duration 1h 46m
A werewolf video leaves Micky afraid of dogs. Mum decides that Micky should own a puppy to help him overcome his problem. Micky chooses a werepuppy and Wolfie turns out to be a special pet and a real joker.
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Author: Norton Juster
Format: Online
Author Norton Juster
Narrator Kevin Moore
Duration 4h 45m
Milo is bored, really bored. He can't see the point in anything. So when a tollbooth suddenly appears in his bedroom, Milo decides that as he has nothing better to do he may as well dust off his toy car, pay the toll, and drive through. What follows is a journey of mythic proportions, during which Milo encounters countless odd characters who are an...
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Pride & Prejudice - Smartpass Study Guide
Author: Jane Austen
Format: Online
Author Jane Austen
Narrator Various
Duration 4h 30m
Enter Austen's world to help you understand the plot, characters and themes of this classic novel. A text-specific guide packed with advice, insights and essential learning strategies.
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War Poetry 1914-1918 - Smartpass Study Guide
Author: Smartpass
Format: Online
Author Smartpass
Narrator Various
Duration 4h 30m
Experience the carnage and camaraderie of the First World War, first hand. Hear the poems and meet the men who created such art from chaos.
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Adrian Mole: The Cappuccino Years
Author: Sue Townsend
Format: Online
Author Sue Townsend
Narrator Jeff Bellamy
SeriesAdrian Mole, Book 5
Duration 9h 30m
Adrian Mole is now thirty and three-quarters. An accidental celebrity, with a spreading bald patch, despairing of family values, Mole is still worrying: Is Viagra cheating? Why won't the BBC produce his serial killer comedy 'White Van'? Mole chronicles the closing years of the 20th century with slanderous abandon.
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Author: Graham Greene
Format: Online
Author Graham Greene
Narrator John Atterbury
Duration 8h 15m
Set in London during and just after the Second World War, the love affair between novelist Maurice Bendix and his married lover, Sarah Miles, ends when she suddenly and without explanation breaks it off. Two years later a chance meeting rekindles his love and jealousy. Maurice hires a private detective to follow Sarah and slowly his love for her tu...
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Author: Jacqueline Wilson
Format: Online
Author Jacqueline Wilson
Narrator Lucinda Gorringe
Duration 3h
Tracy is ten years old and lives in a children's home. She would like a real home one day with a real family. Share her hopes for the future in this beautifully observed, touching and often very funny tale, all told in Tracy's own words.
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Author: P. D. James
Format: Online
Author P. D. James
Narrator Sue Reardon Smith
Duration 10h 40m
Commander Adam Dalgliesh discovers that his old friend, the chaplain of a private home for the disabled, has died suddenly. Other deaths follow and Dalgliesh senses that the home is not all that it seems.
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Author: Carole Hayman, Lou Wakefield
Format: Online
Author Carole Hayman, Lou Wakefield
Narrator Prunella Scales, Patricia Routledge
Duration 2h 15m
A follow up to 'Ladies of Letters & Ladies of More Letters'. Vera and Irene now communicate daily by e-mail about the the usual domestic mishaps: Irene's daughter Lesley is refusing to marry the worthy but boring Brian; Vera's exhausted daughter Karen has abandoned her third baby at the hospital and eloped with a male nurse; and Vera's gay son...
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A History of Britain: At the Edge of the World? 3000bc - Ad1603
Author: Simon Schama
Format: Online
Author Simon Schama
Narrator Timothy West
SeriesA History of Britain, Book 1
Duration 8h
An abridged but vivid account of 4000 years of British history from the very beginnings of our nation's identity when the first settlers landed on Orkney.
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A History of Britain: The British Wars 1603 - 1776
Author: Simon Schama
Format: Online
Author Simon Schama
Narrator Timothy West
SeriesA History of Britain, Book 2
Duration 10h
The British Wars began in 1637, starting nearly 200 hundred years of battles waged within and outside our Isles. This audiobook vividly depicts exactly what life was like for our ancestors and how their experiences have shaped modern British culture and identity.
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David Attenborough: Quest Under Capricorn
Author: David Attenborough
Format: Online
Author David Attenborough
Narrator David Attenborough
SeriesQuest Under Capricorn, Book 1
Duration 2h 55m
For the 1960s BBC series 'Zoo Quest', David Attenborough visited the Northern Territory of Australia. Specially recorded for radio, the quest follows the intrepid BBC film crew on their adventures through both jungle and arid desert. David Attenborough meets aborigines, goes walkabout in the bush, and paints a compelling and fascinating picture of...
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Author: Meera Syal
Format: Online
Author Meera Syal
Narrator Various
Duration 1h 40m
Nothing escapes the satirical eye of Britain's successful first all-Asian sketch show in the compilation of the best of the first BBC Radio 4 series together with three shows from series two. CONTAINS STRONG LANGUAGE AND ADULT THEMES.
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Author: Jeremy Strong
Format: Online
Author Jeremy Strong
Narrator Maria Darling
Duration 1h 30m
Winner of the Children's Book Award. Streaker is no ordinary dog. She is a rocket on four legs with a woof attached. Trevor has got until the end of the holidays to train her or he will lose his bet with horrible Charlie Smugg and something very nasty to do with frogspawn will happen.
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Author: Michael Morpurgo
Format: Online
Author Michael Morpurgo
Narrator Maria Darling
Duration 3h 30m
Bess Throckmorton meets an old man at a family reunion who tells her that Sir Walter Raleigh is one of her ancestors. Curious to see where he was imprisoned, she visits the Bloody Tower and finds that the old man was none other than Sir Walter himself. The mischievous old ghost sets about restoring the family's fortune, while Bess has to try to kee...
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