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| Wondering what you might enjoy? Sample the flavour of a few that have been made into audio books. I love audio books – especially in the car. Such a treat to have someone read to me as I drive. There are more – check out the full list under “Audio Books” – but the rest are on good old-fashoned cassette. I wish more unabridged books found their way into bookshops – the British ones you will find only in a library. But if you like what you hear, the books are easy to come by and they contain all the same words! | ||||||||||||||||
| I am so grateful to the wonderful actors who recorded these for Chivers/BBC or Full Cast Audio. | ||||||||||||||||
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| THE KITE RIDER | ||||||||||||||||
| The reader is Anton Lesser.
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| Hao You is working for a circus, riding kites high in the sky. But a boy in the sky makes a useful weapon of war. That’s how the kite-rider finds himself holding two bombs, fuses lit, just as a typhoon smashes into Cathay… | ||||||||||||||||
| In the States, it is available from Full Cast Audio. | ||||||||||||||||
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| PEANUT BUTTER AND CELLO | ||||||||||||||||
| Not an audio book, this, but a story commissioned for a series of three called “Come Away! Come Away!” on BBC Radio 4 in 2010. | ||||||||||||||||
| The reader is Melody Grove. | ||||||||||||||||
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| SMILE! | ||||||||||||||||
| A story about photography: what it can do and what it can’t. | ||||||||||||||||
| The reader is Richard Morant. | ||||||||||||||||
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| STOP THE TRAIN | ||||||||||||||||
| Laurel Lefkow reads the story of a town in the Oklahoma Prairie. Herman, Kookie and Frank have just been thrown off a train in the middle of nowhere. If they can just tap into the telegraph wire, they can summon help. Herman has made a ‘ground return’ with a metal spike; only snag is: the ground needs to be wet for the electricity to flow… | ||||||||||||||||
| In the States, the superb Full Cast Audio version used a record number of actors to portray the townsfolk of Florence. | ||||||||||||||||
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| THESEUS | ||||||||||||||||
| Full Cast Audio “We put more actors in every box!” | ||||||||||||||||
| The narrator is Cynthia Bishop. | ||||||||||||||||
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| QUESTING KNIGHTS OF THE FAERIE QUEENE | ||||||||||||||||
| Sidney Spenser (400 years ago) demonstrated, with a string of adventures, the various qualities needed by a knight who means to serve the sublime Faerie Queen. | ||||||||||||||||
| Read by Wayne Forester for OAKHILL CHILDREN’S AUDIO BOOKS | ||||||||||||||||
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| PETER PAN IN SCARLET | ||||||||||||||||
| Peter and friends, stranded on a beach and surrounded by forest fire are glad when a ship looms out of the smoke and beaches itself. They climb aboard…. | ||||||||||||||||
| In the States Tim Curry reads the book for McElderry Children’s Books. | ||||||||||||||||
| Here is it read by Andrew Sachs. | ||||||||||||||||
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| THE DEATH-DEFYING PEPPER ROUX | ||||||||||||||||
| Pepper Roux is on the run, pretending to be other people, because Pepper Roux really ought to be dead. While working as a newspaper reporter, he calls himself Pepper Papier. But some memories just can’t be escaped – like the ship he was pretending to captain when it sank… | ||||||||||||||||
| It is brilliantly read here by Anton Lesser. | ||||||||||||||||
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| THE WHITE DARKNESS | ||||||||||||||||
| Sym and Sigurd are walking ahead of a Hagglund caterpillar-track vehicle, roped to its fender, testing the ice underfoot for crevasses. Every step takes them farther from safety, from the hope of being found, across a landscape famous for its cruelty, its treachery…. and its extraordinary tricks of the light… | ||||||||||||||||
| The reader is Ruth Sillers. | ||||||||||||||||
| Sym’s imaginary ally, Antarctic explorer Titus Oates – is played by Richard Morant. | ||||||||||||||||
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| TAMBURLAINE’S ELEPHANTS | ||||||||||||||||
| Rusti has just ridden into battle for the first time. A fallen battle elephant has presented him with his first chance to kill – a little Indian elephant boy called Kavi. Two boys and an elephant alone on a battlefield – there’s a language problem, naturally. | ||||||||||||||||
| Anton Lesser is the reader. | ||||||||||||||||
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Geraldine McCaughrean Copyright 2006© |
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