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24 HOURS
by Margaret Mahy
read by Richard Simpson
running time 5hrs 45mins
It’s the holiday between school and university and Ellis is free. When he meets Jackie and three strange sisters he is pulled into a series of bizarre situations. In twenty-four exciting hours Ellis is changed forever.
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THE 5TH WAVE
by Rick Yancey
read by Anna-Maria Vesey
running time 13hrs
On a lonely stretch of highway, Cassie runs from the beings that only look human, who have scattered Earth's last survivors. To stay alone is to stay alive, until she meets Evan Walker. Beguiling and mysterious, Evan may be her only hope.
ABANDON
by Meg Cabot
read by Natalia Payne
running time 9hrs 15mins
Abandon series, Book 1. Last year, 17-year-old Pierce died - just for a moment. And when she was in the space between life and death, she met John: tall dark and terrifying, it's his job to usher souls from one realm to the next. There's a fierce attraction between them, but Pierce knows that falling for John means a life of shadows and loneliness in the underworld…
THE BABY-SITTER
by R L Stine
read by Pat Steadman
running time 5hrs 0min
From the moment Jenny accepts a baby-sitting job, she knows she has made a terrible mistake.
CALABRIAN QUEST
by Geoffrey Trease
read by Wendy Denison
running time 6hrs
A gripping story of archaeological adventure and a quest for lost treasure in Italy.
DANCING IN MY NUDDY PANTS
by Louise Rennison
read by Rosemary Cross
running time 4hrs 30mins
4th in Georgia Nicholson series: Sequel to 'Knocked Out By My Nunga-Nungas' (616324). Life continues for Georgia, but is being the girlfriend of the Sex-God as perfect as she had imagined?
THE EAGLE OF THE NINTH
by Rosemary Sutcliff
read by Bob Rollett
running time 10hrs 35mins
Marcus, a Roman soldier in Britain, sets out to solve the mystery of the missing Ninth Legion, which disappeared into the mists of northern Britain, led by his father. His aim is to salvage his father’s reputation and find the Legion’s missing eagle standard, but the task is a dangerous one.
FALLEN
by Lauren Kate
read by Justine Eyre
running time 11hrs 5mins
17-year-old Lucinda falls in love with gorgeous, intelligent Daniel at her new school, the grim, foreboding Sword and Cross. She soon finds out that Daniel is a fallen angel, and that they have spent lifetimes finding and losing one another as good and evil forces plot to keep them apart.
GARETH OF ORKNEY
by E M R Ditmas
read by Stephanie Joy
running time 7hrs
Re-telling of stories about King Arthur's knights of the round table
HACKER
by Malorie Blackman
running time 7hrs 0min
When Vicky's father is accused of stealing over a million pounds from the bank where he works, she is determined to prove his innocence.
I CAPTURE THE CASTLE
by Dodie Smith
read by Jenny Agutter
running time 12hrs 20mins
This is the story of Cassandra Mortmain and her unconventional family, who live in an old English castle. Here she strives, over six months, to hone her writing skills by recording in her three notebooks a journal of the changes that take place within the castle's walls, and her first descent to love.
JACK AND JILL
by Lucy Cavendish
read by Molly Hanson
running time 2hrs
Jill's little brother, Jack, won't speak. There are plenty of things Jill doesn't understand, she doesn't know why her aunt and uncle give her and Jack strange looks, or why they're being talked about in the village. Jill decides to find out what's going on and uncovers the appalling truth behind brother Jack's silence. Quick Reads.
KEMOSHA OF THE CARRIBEAN
by Alex Wheatle
read by Novak. Sara
running time 6hrs 30mins
Kemosha and her brother have lived their whole lives in slavery. Sold away to work in lawless Port Royal, Kemosha takes her chance to escape brutal treatment. With fortune on her side, Kemosha befriends Ravenhide, a man with a mysterious past who teaches her the art of swordfighting, and introduces her to the beautiful runaway Isabella. Yet Kemosha's greatest test yet is upon the deck of the Satisfaction: the notorious Captain Morgan’s ship. His next adventure on the high seas could be the making of Kemosha – and her one chance to earn enough pieces of eight to buy the freedom of her brother.
LA BELLE SAUVAGE
by Philip Pullman
read by Michael Sheen
running time 12hrs 30mins
Eleven-year-old Malcolm and his dæmon, Asta, live at the Trout Inn near Oxford. Across the River Thames, which Malcolm navigates using his beloved canoe, La Belle Sauvage, is Godstow Priory where the nuns live. Malcolm learns they have a baby with them by the name of Lyra Belacqua. Malcolm and Lyra are caught up in a terrifying adventure that takes them into a new world. Volume 1 of 'The Book of Dust' series.
MACBETH
by William Shakespeare
read by Marlowe Dramatic Society
Promised a golden future as ruler of Scotland by three sinister witches, Macbeth murders the king to ensure his ambitions come true. But he soon learns the meaning of terror - killing once, he must kill again and again, and the dead return to haunt him.
THE NATURE OF THE BEAST
by Janni Howker
read by Brenda Usherwood
running time 5hrs
English teenager Bill Coward finds himself losing control of his life when the mill where his father works is shut down and a mysterious beast begins making savage attacks on local livestock.
OF MICE AND MEN
by John Steinbeck
read by Malcolm James
running time 3hrs 45mins
Set in California in 1930s. George and Lennie are itinerant farm workers who dream of owning their own ranch. But not even his best friend can save Lennie from his own strength.
PAPER AVALANCHE
by Lisa Williamson
read by Gemma Lawrence
running time 9hrs
When it comes to flying under the radar, Ro Snow is the expert. No friends. No boys. No parties. And strictly NO VISITORS. It may be lonely but at least this way the truth remains where it should - hidden. Then Tanvi Shah comes tumbling back into her life and Ro finds herself losing control of her carefully constructed lies. Because if Ro's walls come crumbling down, who's going to take care of Bonnie... Bonnie. Never Mum or Mummy or Mother. Just Bonnie.
Q'S LEGACY
by Helene Hanff
read by Betsy Drake
Helene Hanff was inspired to write after reading 'On the Art of Writing' by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch. 'Q' taught Helene to love books. She tells how that first encounter with 'Q' altered the course of her life.
THE RADLEYS
by Matt Haig
read by Mark Meadows
running time 7hrs 45mins
Meet the Radleys: Peter, Helen and their teenage children, Clara and Rowan, live in a typical suburban English town. They are an everyday family, averagely dysfunctional, averagely content. But, as their children have yet to find out, the Radleys have a devastating secret.
SALAR THE SALMON
by Henry Williamson
read by Raymond Mason
The story of Salar and his migration through the rivers of Devon leaves us with a vivid unsentimental picture of how both people and wildlife rely on a river and its estuary.
TALE OF TWO DOLPHINS
by Horace Dobbs
running time 8hrs
Horace Dobbs spent many years studying the behaviour of dolphins in order to try and understand their minds and to learn more about the hidden world beneath the sea. What he discovered caused him to question the validity of his entire scientific training.
UGLIES
by Scott Westerfeld
read by Nicola Down
running time 9hrs 20mins
In Tally’s world, everyone has an operation when they are sixteen to make them supermodel beautiful – a Pretty – and Tally can’t wait. But her friend Shay rebels and runs away to join the Uglies, a group of radical teenagers who want to keep their own faces!
THE VALLEY OF SECRETS
by Charmian Hussey
read by Tony Lister
running time 13hrs 35mins
Stephen had been abandoned as a baby and given up all hope of ever finding his family. Behind locked gates, Stephen discovered his inheritance and a lost Cornish valley with strange secrets.
THE WALL
by William Sutcliffe
read by Ben Seymour
running time 10hrs 15mins
Joshua kicks his football into a building site and discovers a secret tunnel. It leads through pitch darkness under the Wall and into forbidden territory, where a boy like him shouldn't stray. When Joshua emerges into the light of the other side, his world is turned upside down - with kindness, terror and violence, and a debt he can never repay.
XY - A TOOLKIT FOR LIFE
by Matt Whyman
read by Richard Ratcliffe
running time 3hrs 20mins
For a teenage boy life is full of possibilities, temptations and choices. You need the facts, here they are. Sex, body changes, drink, drugs, the works. No preaching, no agenda. It's a toolkit for life, your life.
THE YEAR THE GYPSIES CAME
by Linzi Glass
read by Judy Franklin
It is spring 1966 and a family of wanderers has come to stay at Emily's unhappy Johannesburg home. The arrival of the 'gypsies' changes them all forever and destroys Emily's hopes of a happy family life.
ZENITH
by Julie Bertagna
read by Diane Darwin
running time 8hrs 30mins
Book 2 of ‘Exodus’, sequel to ‘Exodus’ (616406). The Arctic ice floes are melting and as the seas rise and land disappears, Mara and her ship of refugees track the North Star, desperate to find a homeland in the melted ice mountains of Greenland. The floating city of Pomperoy is just one of the shocks that isn’t in their navigation plans.