Author: Nuala Ellwood
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Author Nuala Ellwood
Narrator Sally Scott
Duration 11h 45m
Kate Rafter is a successful war reporter. She's the strong one. The one who escaped Herne Bay and the memories it holds. Her sister Sally didn't. Instead, she drinks. But when their mother dies, Kate is forced to return to the old family home. And on her first night she is woken by a terrifying scream. What secret has Kate stumbled upon? And is she...
View BookAuthor: Santa Montefiore
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Author Santa Montefiore
Narrator Gerri Halligan, Maggie Mash
Duration 16h 5m
Ellen Trawton is running away from it all-literally. She's getting married to a man she doesn't love, her job is depressing and her mother is getting on her nerves. So she escapes to the one place she knows her mother won't follow her-her aunt's house in rural Ireland. Once there, she uncovers a dark family secret-and a future she never knew she mi...
View BookLogan Mcrae Book 1: Cold Granite
Author: Stuart Macbride
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Author Stuart Macbride
Narrator Steve Worsley
SeriesLogan McRae, Book 1
Duration 13h 28m
Stuart MacBride's number one best-selling crime series opens with this award-winning debut. DS Logan McRae and the police in Aberdeen hunt a child killer who stalks the frozen streets. Winter in Aberdeen: murder, mayhem and terrible weather...It's DS Logan McRae's first day back on the job after a year off on the sick, and it couldn't get much wors...
View BookAuthor: Francis Duncan
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Author Francis Duncan
Narrator Geoffrey Beevers
Duration 9h 18m
Amateur sleuth Mordecai Tremaine is back in another classic mystery from the author of Murder for Christmas. When Mordecai Tremaine emerges from the train station, murder is the last thing on his mind. But then again, he has never been able to resist anything in the nature of a mystery - and a mystery is precisely what awaits him in the village of...
View BookI and You and Don't Forget Who
Author: Brian P Cleary
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Author Brian P Cleary
Narrator Intuitive
Duration 4h 35m
The latest addition to the best-selling Words Are CATegoricalr series, this fun-filled guide uses playful puns and humorous illustrations to creatively clarify the concept of pronouns. Key pronouns appear in color for easy identification to show, not tell, readers what pronouns are all about.
View BookAuthor: Nnedi Okorafor
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Author Nnedi Okorafor
Narrator Robin Miles
SeriesBinti, Book 1
Duration 2h 30m
Her name is Binti, and she is the first of the Himba people ever to be offered a place at Oomza University, the finest institution of higher learning in the galaxy. But to accept the offer will mean giving up her place in her family to travel between the stars among strangers who do not share her ways or respect her customs. Knowledge comes at a co...
View BookPaddington Book 2: More About Paddington
Author: Michael Bond
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Author Michael Bond
Narrator Stephen Fry
Duration 2h 38m
"Bears like Paddington are very rare," says Mrs Bird, "and a good thing too, or it would cost us a small fortune in marmalade." Classic adventures of the bear from Darkest Peru. As Paddington says himself, "Things happen to me - I'm that sort of bear." With his attempts at home decorating, detective work and photography, the Brown family soon find...
View BookFather Brown Series 2 Episode 5: The Curse of the Golden Cross
Author: G K Chesterton
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Author G K Chesterton
Narrator Andrew Sachs
SeriesThe Wisdom of Father Brown, Book 5
Duration 27m
With his black hat, huge umbrella, unwordly simplicity and 'beaming but breathless geniality', Father Brown is one of fiction's best-loved amateur detectives. Short and tatty, but with the wisdom and insight to unravel the most wayward of criminal minds, he has entertained generations. In 'The Curse of the Golden Cross', the past and present collid...
View BookRhod Gilbert's Bulging Barrel of Laughs With Mark Watson and Kid British
Author: Rhod Gilbert
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Author Rhod Gilbert
Narrator Various
Duration 56m
Welsh stand-up comedian Rhod Gilbert is one of the biggest names in UK stand-up, performing to sell-out audiences in the Britain and abroad. Now he has his own radio show, recorded in front of a live audience and packed with laughs. Joining Rhod on stage are fellow comedians Lloyd Langford and Greg Davies (We Are Klang), along with Sarah Millican w...
View BookAuthor: Donna Franceschild
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Author Donna Franceschild
Narrator Nitzan Sharron
Duration 43m
Find a stray lottery ticket and think it may be the answer to all their problems. Originally broadcast as the 'Afternoon Play' on 18 February 2009, and repeated on 1 April 2011, 'The Lottery Ticket' was written by BAFTA winner Donna Franceschild, and stars Nitzan Sharron, John Kazek and Meg Fraser.
View BookAuthor: Alex Shearer
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Author Alex Shearer
Narrator Martin Jarvis
Duration 3h
No more chocolate! The government has closed down all the burger bars and chip shops in the country and is striving to build a happier and healthier population. But have they gone too far? Huntly and his friend Smudge think so, and together with local shopkeeper Mrs Bubby, the boys devise a cunning plan to restore freedom, justice and chocolate for...
View BookAuthor: Roald Dahl
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Author Roald Dahl
Narrator Quentin Blake
Duration 40m
A shy man, Mr Hoppy has only the courage for polite conversation with Mrs Silver, as she tends her pet tortoise Alfie, on the balcony below. But, when he learns that her dearest wish is for Alfie to grow bigger, he hatches a plan involving a giant pair of metal claws and 140 tortoises.
View BookThe Chronicles of Narnia Series Book 7: The Last Battle
Author: C S Lewis
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Author C S Lewis
Narrator Jamie Glover
SeriesThe Chronicles of Narnia, Book 7
Duration 6h
A false Aslan is commanding all Narnians to work for the cruel Calormenes and striking terror into every heart. Jill and Eustace find themselves called into Narnia once more, this time to aid King Tirian in the mightiest of all battles. This is the seventh book in the Narnia series.
View BookAuthor: Various
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Author Various
Narrator Richard Pasco
Duration 6h
A spine-tingling collection of the following 14 tales:' The Judge's House' by Bram Stoker; 'The Upper Berth' by F. Marion Crawford; 'Narrative of the Ghost of a Hand'; 'To Be Taken with a Grain of Salt' by Charles Dickens; 'The Tell-Tale Heart' by Edgar Allan Poe; 'Gabriel-Ernest ' by Saki; 'The Furnished Room' by O. Henry, 'My Own True Ghost Story...
View BookAuthor: Julia Blackburn
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Author Julia Blackburn
Narrator Various
Duration 43m
Andrew Sachs stars in this BBC Radio 4 'Afternoon Play' about painter Edward Lear. The Need for Nonsense was originally broadcast on 9 February 2009, and repeated on 17 January 2011. Julia Blackburn's play captures the warm, heartfelt and comic story of the Victorian poet and painter Edward Lear's lifelong friendship with his eccentric Greek servan...
View BookThe Lost Hotel Series: Pilgrim
Author: Sebastian Bacziewicz
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Author Sebastian Bacziewicz
Narrator Full Cast
SeriesPilgrim Series 2, Book 2
Duration 43m
The second play of four in Pilgrim Series 2, a collection of BBC Radio 4 modern-day fantasy adventures written by Sebastian Baczkiewicz and starring Paul Hilton as Pilgrim. The Lost Hotel was originally broadcast in the Afternoon Play slot on 7 September 2010. What if all the myths and folktales of these islands were true? And what if they were not...
View BookAuthor: Mark Michalowski
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Author Mark Michalowski
Narrator Debbie Chazen
Duration 2h 28m
An abridged reading of a BBC Books novel featuring the Doctor and Donna (as played by David Tennant and Catherine Tate in the hit BBC One TV series). For Donna Noble, the Andromeda galaxy is a long, long way from home. But even two-and-a-half-million light years from Earth, danger lurks around every corner...A visit to an art gallery turns into a r...
View BookDoctor Who: The Daleks' Master Plan
Author: BBC Audiobooks
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Author BBC Audiobooks
Narrator Various
Duration 5h 20m
William Hartnell is the original Doctor in the most epic Doctor Who story ever made, in which his arch-enemies the Daleks threaten to destroy the fabric of Time itself! In their quest to gain control of the Solar System, the Daleks have taken possession of the Time Destructor, a weapon which threatens the safety of all who stand in their way. As th...
View BookAuthor: Jb Priestly
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Author Jb Priestly
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 1h 59m
Marcia Warren and Stella Gonet star in J. B. Priestley's classic family drama about the nature of time. Time and the Conways follows the fortunes of one family over a period of years, and offers a moving perspective on the abstract nature of the past, present and future. It is 1919, the War is over and the Conway family are celebrating their daught...
View BookWhat Is Gender? How Does It Define Us? and Other Big Questions For Kids
Author: Juno Dawson
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Author Juno Dawson
Narrator Henry Regan
Duration 1h 3m
A highly topical look at the concept of gender, encouraging children to think for themselves about the issues involved. What's the difference between sex and gender? What does it mean to be defined by your gender? Are there only two genders? This informative book helps kids to explore these questions and many more. It explains how you gender can ha...
View BookLogan Mcrae Book 2: Dying Light
Author: Stuart Macbride
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Author Stuart Macbride
Narrator Steve Worsley
SeriesLogan McRae, Book 2
Duration 12h 45m
The number one best-selling detective series from the award-winning Stuart MacBride continues in this second crime thriller. It's summertime in Scotland: the sun is shining, the sky is blue and people are dying...It's summertime in the Granite City: the sun is shining, the sky is blue and people are dying...It starts with Rosie Williams, a prostitu...
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