Audiobooks

Thirteen entertaining and original songs written, performed and produced by Fatcat & Fishface. These songs are a tribute to New Zealand's native birds - our greatest singers, and bird sounds feature on the tracks. The tracks are: Wake Up Bird Wtching Kea Before the Humans Came Cuckoo to You Kingfisher Birdbrain Tickle Me Come Home Little Hopping Birds Nightclub Penguin Every Bird Has Wings

This three CD compilation forms part of the British Library's series of documentary recordings by English-Language authors and playwrights. Around 30 writers will be represented, talking about their lives and work. The recordings derive primarily from BBC broadcasts, the earliest of them dating from the 1930s, and include historic recordings of the first generation of writers whose voices survive through to senior figures of the present day. Among the writers included will be Rudyard Kipling, Virginia Woolf, Ian Fleming and Harold ... read more

This is a fun collection of 25 bright, cheerful and upbeat rhymes, simple rhythmic clapping games and gentle lullabies set to an original score. All-time favourite pre-school playgroup songs featuring musical influences from around the world. Running time approx. 40 minutes.
CD tracks:
The Wheels On The Bus Go Round the World
Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush
A Sailor Went to Sea
Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes
Down by the Station
Eenie Meenie Mackeracka
Hey Diddle Diddle
Incy ... read more

Fatcat and Fishface have assembled 17 of the brightest and the best songs from their five albums to come up with this New Zealand kids' album. Tracks: Fatcat and Fishface Theme; Flyby; You are What you Eat; Pick Me; Favourite Undies; Selfish Shellfish; My Mother's Locked out of the House; Tip of my Tongue; Dinghy; Noodle; Bat Fly; The Wreck of the Diddley; Emily Says; Happity; Una Momento and Holiday. The perfect CD for family holiday travel.

A complete and unabridged audiobook of this classic Roald Dahl tale, brilliantly read by Eric Idle. Charlie Bucket thinks he's the luckiest boy alive when he unwraps one of Willy Wonka's Whipple-Scrumptious Fudgemallow Delights to find the last golden ticket. He wins an amazing tour of Willy Wonka's famous chocolate factory, along with four other winners. It's a tour of a lifetime that changes his life beyond belief.

This title presents a complete and unabridged recording of this classic Dahl tale, read by Joely Richardson. In this award-winning Dahl title, Matilda invents a game of punishing her parents when they treat her badly. She soon discovers that she has supernatural powers.

This title presents a complete and unabridged recording of this classic Dahl tale, read by Richard E. Grant. George's grandma has some very odd views. In fact, she's not a very nice person at all. She thinks caterpillars and slugs are delicious and likes to crunch on beetles best of all. George can do nothing right in Grandma's eyes, so when its time for her medicine, he decided to give her a dose of his own special brew.

Following the success of "The Essential Shakespeare", the British Library and the Royal Shakespeare Company are proud to present a second audio set of live Shakespeare recordings, "Essential Shakespeare Encore". The two discs feature scenes and speeches taken from RSC productions in Stratford-upon- Avon and London, recorded by the British Library and the RSC over a period of almost half a century. As in the first volume, all the recordings are being published for the first time. The extracts, chosen by RSC Chief Associate Director ... read more

A collection that helps little ballerinas to find eight of the most beautiful ballet stories, including 'Swan Lake', 'Coppelia', 'The Firebird', and of course, the perennial favourite, 'The Nutcracker'.

This is a collection of Alan Bennett's diaries.

The complete "Talking Heads" monologues, twelve of Alan Bennett's most highly acclaimed and best-loved works. "A Chip in the Sugar" performed by Alan Bennett. "A Lady of Letters" performed by Patricia Routledge. "Bed Among the Lentils" performed by Anna Massey. "Soldiering On" performed by Stephanie Cole. "Her Big Chance" performed by Julie Walters. "A Cream Cracker Under the Settee" performed by Thora Hird. "Miss Fozzard Finds Her Feet" performed by Patricia Routledge. "The Hand of God" performed by Eileen Atkins. "Playing Sandwic... read more

When Thomas discovers the long-lost town of Great Waterton, The Fat Controller says it will be restored to mark 'Sodor Day'. New engine Stanley arrives to help with the restoration, but Thomas feels his position as the No. 1 engine is under threat and plays a trick on him. When the plan backfires, Thomas finds himself lost down a mine, braving raging rapids and leaping the gap of a broken bridge. This all-action adventure will keep Thomas fans on the edge of their seats! Narrated by Pierce Brosnan

This is Ian Fleming's original James Bond short story about the death of human kindness set in the Caribbean. James Bond is bored in the Bahamas. It had been a dull dinner party with dreary guests, yet a chance remark leads the Governor to tell 007 a true story about a civil servant and his scandalous wife. Over drinks, Bond hears a tale about raw human passions that contains more cruelty and suffering than any experienced by him - and which makes him question the violence in his own life..."Quantum of Solace" was originally publis... read more

Join Postman Pat and Jess the Cat in these two delightful adventures, read by Ken Barrie and Carole Bond. "Postman Pat and the Tuba": there's an awful lot of noise in Greendale as Postman Pat tries to play the tuba. But will he ever be able to play a proper tune? "Postman Pat and the Barometer": on a sunny spring day Pat's old barometer points to snow - and Pat's the only person who is prepared for the blizzard.

The second volume of Michael Palin's diaries covers the 1980s, a decade in which the ties that bound the Pythons loosened as they forged their separate careers. After a live performance at the Hollywood Bowl, they made their last performance together in 1983 in the hugely successful Monty Python's Meaning of Life. Writing and acting in films and television then took over much of Michael's life, culminating in the smash hit A Fish Called Wanda, in which he played the hapless, stuttering Ken (for which he won a BAFTA for Best Support... read more

Etta Bancroft - sweet, kind, still beautiful - adores racing and harbours a crush on one of its stars, the handsome high-handed owner-trainer Rupert Campbell-Black. When her bullying husband dies, Etta's selfish, ambitious children drag her from her lovely Dorset house to live in a hideous modern bungalow in the Cotswold village of Willowwood and to act as an unpaid Nanny to their children. Her neighbour, powerful tycoon and ex-footballer Valent Edwards, has bought the big house next door. One night Etta finds a horribly mutilated ... read more

These days we feel almost as young at fifty as we did at thirty - give or take the odd twinge. However, we are also becoming increasingly aware that the cradle is a lot further off than the grave. Is this the moment to start shaking things up a bit? The last chance to realize those long-cherished dreams? To chuck in the humdrum job and strike out? To set the pulse racing, perhaps, with a view earthwards from a hang-glider, or over the handlebars of a Harley Davidson? Is this when you make it at last onto the main board? Or become t... read more

This charming collection includes such well-loved poems as Hiawatha, The Pied Piper of Hamelin, Jumblies and others.