Ted Hughes: An Unauthorised Life
Author: Jonathan Bate
Format: Online
Author Jonathan Bate
Narrator Mike Grady
Duration 25h 43m
A magisterial life of Ted Hughes - identified recently as the only English poet since the First World War with a claim to true greatness and one of Britain's most important writers. Ted Hughes, Poet Laureate, was one of the greatest writers of the 20th century. He is one of Britain's most important poets, a poet of claws and cages: Jaguar, Hawk and...
View BookDeath In Paradise Series Book 3: Death Knocks Twice
Author: Robert Thorogood
Format: Online
Author Robert Thorogood
Narrator Phil Fox
SeriesDeath in Paradise, Book 3
Duration 9h 2m
Two dead bodies. A family of suspects. One grumpy detective. Reluctantly stationed on the sweltering Caribbean island of Saint-Marie, Detective Inspector Richard Poole dreams of cold winds, drizzly rain and a pint in his local pub. Just as he is feeling as fed up as can be, a mysterious vagrant is found dead in the grounds of the historic Beaumont...
View BookAuthor: Listening Books
Format: Online
Author Books Listening
Narrator Alan Durant
Duration 14m
Alan Durant is a children's author and poet. His Creepe Hall series and YA novel Publish or Die are available to borrow from our MP3 CD library.
View BookAn Interview With Ben Aaronovitch
Author: Listening Books
Format: Online
Author Books Listening
Narrator Ben Aaronovitch
Duration 18m
Ben Aaronovitch is the author of The Rivers of London series, the first four books are available to borrow from our MP3 CD library.
View BookAuthor: Listening Books
Format: Online
Author Books Listening
Narrator Bill Bryson
Duration 12m
Bill Bryson has written books in a variety of genres including travel, languages and science. We have a number of his titles available to borrow from both our online and MP3 CD catalogues.
View BookAn Interview With Christopher Paolini
Author: Listening Books
Format: Online
Author Books Listening
Narrator Christopher Paolini
Duration 29m
Christopher Paolini is the author of the Inheritance Cycle series, which is available is borrow from both our online and MP3 CD catalogues.
View BookAn Interview With James Runcie
Author: Listening Books
Format: Online
Author Listening Books
Narrator James Runcie
Duration 21m
James Runcie is a novelist, playwright, TV producer and documentary filmmaker. His Granchester series of books is available to borrow from our library on MP3 CD. Photo ¸ Charlotte Runcie.
View BookAn Interview With Melvyn Bragg
Author: Listening Books
Format: Online
Author Books Listening
Narrator Melvyn Bragg
Duration 12m
Melvyn Bragg is an author and broadcaster. We have a number of his radio documentaries, including the Routes of English series, available to borrow from our online library.
View BookAn Interview With Robert Winston
Author: Listening Books
Format: Online
Author Books Listening
Narrator Robert Winston
Duration 10m
Robert Winston is a scientist, author and broadcaster. We have several of his science books for children available to borrow from both our online and MP3 CD library.
View BookAn Interview With Sarah Millican
Author: Listening Books, Sarah Millican
Format: Online
Author Listening Books, Sarah Millican
Narrator Sarah Millican
Duration 9m
Sarah Millican is a comedian and writer, we have her radio series Sarah Millican's Support Group available to borrow from our online library. Image © Matt Crockett.
View BookAuthor: Listening Books
Format: Online
Author Books Listening
Narrator Vaseem Khan
Duration 16m
Vaseem Khan is a crime writer, the first two books in his Baby Ganesh Detective Agency series are available to borrow from both our online and MP3 CD library. Photo ¸ Nirupama Khan.
View BookAn Interview With Rachel Abbott
Author: Listening Books
Format: Online
Author Books Listening
Narrator Rachel Abbott
Duration 16m
Rachel Abbott is an author of psychological crime thrillers. Two of her books, Only the Innocent and The Back Road are available to borrow from our library.
View BookAuthor: Adriana Mather
Format: Online
Author Adriana Mather
Narrator Adriana Mather
SeriesHow to Hang a Witch, Book 1
Duration 10h 34m
It's the Salem Witch Trials meets Mean Girls in this riveting novel from one of the descendants of Cotton Mather, where high school starts to feel like a modern day witch hunt for a teen with all the wrong connections to Salem's past. Salem, Massachusetts is the site of the infamous witch trials and the new home of Samantha Mather. Recently transpl...
View BookConfessions of Georgia Nicholson Series Book 5: ...and That's When It Fell Off In My Hand
Author: Louise Rennison
Format: Online
Author Louise Rennison
Narrator Louise Rennison
SeriesConfessions of Georgia Nicolson, Book 5
Duration 4h 37m
11.20 a.m.This is my fabulous life: the Sex God left for Whakatane last month and he has taken my heart with him.11.25 a.m. Not literally of course otherwise there would be a big hole in my nunga-nungas.11.28 a.m. And also I would be dead. Which quite frankly would be a blessing in disguise.12.00 p.m. It is soooo boring being brokenhearted... ...bu...
View BookConfessions of Georgia Nicholson Series Book 4: Dancing In My Nuddy Pants!
Author: Louise Rennison
Format: Online
Author Louise Rennison
Narrator Louise Rennison
SeriesConfessions of Georgia Nicolson, Book 4
Duration 3h 35m
Brilliantly funny, Louise Rennison's reads her fourth book 'Dancing in my nuddy pants'. "Yeah. a snogging fest.""Sacr‚ bleu!"Jas looked like she was thinking which is a) unusual and b) scary. I said, "But then this weird thing happened. He had his hands on my waist, standing behind me.""Oo-er." "D-accord. Anyway, I turned round and he sort of...
View BookConfessions of Georgia Nicholson Series Book 3: Knocked Out By My Nunga-nungas
Author: Louise Rennison
Format: Online
Author Louise Rennison
Narrator Louise Rennison
SeriesConfessions of Georgia Nicolson, Book 3
Duration 3h 35m
The Sex God was waiting for me outside school!!! How cool is that? And he was in his cool car. Fortunately I had abstained from doing anything ridiculous with my beret. So I was able to get into his car only having to concentrate on not letting my nostrils flare too much... or knocking him out with my nunga-nungas. SHUT UP,BRAIN!!! Will Georgia eve...
View BookConfessions of Georgia Nicholson Series Book 9: Stop In the Name of Pants!
Author: Louise Rennison
Format: Online
Author Louise Rennison
Narrator Louise Rennison
SeriesConfessions of Georgia Nicolson, Book 9
Duration 4h 41m
Sound the Cosmic Horn for bestselling author Louise Rennison's ninth book of the confessions of crazy but loveable teenager Georgia Nicolson! Now that Georgia has finally won over gorgey Masimo, the Italian Stallion, her old friend and lip-nibbling partner Dave the Laugh has popped up again. Will Georgia go to Pizza-a-gogo land to visit dreamy Masi...
View BookConfessions of Georgia Nicholson Series Book 6: Then He Ate My Boy Entrancers
Author: Louise Rennison
Format: Online
Author Louise Rennison
Narrator Louise Rennison
SeriesConfessions of Georgia Nicolson, Book 6
Duration 4h 58m
Brilliantly funny, teenage angst author Louise Rennison's sixth book about the confessions of crazy but lovable Georgia Nicolson. Read by Louise Rennison. Laugh your socks off at Georgia's tales from her trip to Hamburger-a-gogo land, and her attempts to entice Masimo, the Italian stallion. Can Georgia become the composed sex-kitten she aspires to...
View BookAuthor: Emma Pass
Format: Online
Author Emma Pass
Narrator Fiona Hardingham
Duration 10h 47m
The year is 2113. In Jenna Strong's world, ACID-the most brutal controlling police force in history-rule supreme. No throwaway comment or whispered dissent goes unnoticed-or unpunished. And it was ACID agents who locked Jenna away for life, for a horrendous crime she struggles to remember. But Jenna's violent prison time has taught her how to survi...
View BookAuthor: Jason Reynolds
Format: Online
Author Jason Reynolds
Narrator J.B. Adkins
Duration 6h 5m
In Bed Stuy, New York, a small misunderstanding can escalate into having a price on your head-even if you're totally clean. This gritty, triumphant debut captures the heart and the hardship of life for an urban teen. "A lot of the stuff that gives my neighborhood a bad name, I don't really mess with. The guns and drugs and all that, not really my...
View BookAuthor: Gavriel Savit
Format: Online
Author Gavriel Savit
Narrator Allan Corduner
Duration 6h 30m
Anna and the Swallow Man is a stunning, literary, and wholly original debut novel that tells a new WW2 story. Krak¢w, 1939, is no place to grow up. There are a million marching soldiers and a thousand barking dogs. And Anna Lania is just seven years old when the Germans take her father and suddenly, she's alone. Then she meets the Swallow Man....
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