New Audiobooks and Playaways
Discover our new audiobooks and playaways.
All audiobooks are free to reserve for collection from your local library. Like books, audiobooks can be borrowed for 3 weeks.
It costs £1.40 to borrow audiobooks with up to 8 discs, £2.80 for audiobooks with 9 or more discs.
Audiobooks
1803283564 
Audio book 
Year: 2022
Language: English
Media class: Audio book
Publisher: Nudged Children's Audiobooks
Resource type: Physical
Note: Narrated by the autjhor.1 disc In this environmental fairytale made for our times, a little girl must go alone into the forest to find a special flower to cure her sick mother.
1004075170 
Audio book
Year: 2022
Language: English
Media class: Audio book
Publisher: Nudged Children's Audiobooks
Resource type: Physical
Note: Narrated by Mark Peachey. 3 discs Meet The After-School Detective Club - Lucy, Max, Charlie and her faithful dog Sherlock. They may seem an unlikely gang of friends, but when they spot a phantom figure on Southwold beach one winter's night, they are thrown together to unravel a mystery that none of them expected. Just who is the ghostly spectre that walks the sands of Southwold with a lantern in his hand? What is the connection to the ancient curse that hangs over the town? And is the respectable Quentin De Havilland everything he pretends to be? If the five friends can learn to work together, they might just solve the mystery - if only they can stop arguing with each other first.
1004083157 
Audio book
Year: 2022
Language: English
Media class: Audio book
Publisher: Nudged Children's Audiobooks
Resource type: Physical
Note: Narrated by Nathaniel Priestley. 5 discs From King Arthur's childhood to his final battle, the timeless tales of the sword in the stone, the quests of the Knights of the Round Table and the wizardry of Merlin are woven together into a breathtaking feat of storytelling.
1004084145 
Audio book
Year: 2022
Language: English
Media class: Audio book
Publisher: Nudged Children's Audiobooks
Resource type: Physical
Note: Narrated by Charlie Sanderson. 7 discs Maggie Blue, strongwilled and isolated, sees her enemy from school taken through a window to a parallel world by one of their teachers and determines to follow, whatever the cost. With the help of irascible cat, Hoagy, they discover a world where happiness is being stolen - and they must do everything they can not to be caught up in its web of destruction.
1004080425 
Audio book
Year: 2022
Language: English
Media class: Audio book
Publisher: Nudged Children's Audiobooks
Resource type: Physical
Note: Narrated by Harrie Dobby. 4 discs Failing antibiotics have shifted society online. As big tech companies begin to dominate life, the boundaries between real and virtual have blurred. At 14, Jess is attending school for the first time. Meeting other children and making real friends is something she's dreamed of for years. But Jess misses her family, especially her sister Chloe, who is in poor health. With Chloe's sickness worsening and her medication getting more expensive, Jess turns to the digital world to fix things. She is a brilliant coder and programmer. Desperate to help her sister, Jess dives into classified territory and discovers explosive truths. Truths which reveal just how manipulated reality has become. With her family's lives in the balance, Jess must defy everything she's been told to help them - before it's too late.
1004085044 
Audio book
Year: 2022
Language: English
Media class: Audio book
Publisher: Nudged Children's Audiobooks
Resource type: Physical
Note: Narrated by Leon Rolle and Derek Owusu. 2 discs Using powerful stories from his experiences growing up in Hackney, forming the band Rudimental with his best friends and playing semi-professional football, Leon Rolle, aka Locksmith, wants to show you that not only are you good enough, but that you too can achieve the impossible. With chapters exploring the importance of mindset, managing your emotions and the need for self-belief, Leon demonstrates how that it is often the mistakes, rather than the successes, that shape you as a person. Writing alongside the award-winning author, poet and podcaster Derek Owusu, this is a empowering guide that will help you find your confidence, seize opportunities and fulfil your incredible potential.
1004083181 
Audio book
Year: 2022
Language: English
Media class: Audio book
Publisher: Nudged Children's Audiobooks
Resource type: Physical
Note: Narrated by Ashley Zhangazha. 2 discs Welton Blake has done it! He's asked out Carmella McKenzie - the best-looking girl in school - and she's only gone and said yes! But just as he thinks his luck is starting to change, Welton's phone breaks, kick-starting a series of unfortunate and humiliating events. With bullies to avoid, girls ready to knock him out and all the drama with his mum and dad, life for Welton is about to go very, very wrong.
1004081529 
Audio book
Year: 2022
Language: English
Media class: Audio book
Publisher: Nudged Children's Audiobooks
Resource type: Physical
Note: Narrated by the authors. 3 discs A Pharaoh's beard with strange powers. A lost city of Animal Mummies brought magically to life. And an undead sorceress who shoots fireballs - from her nostrils.
1803286660 
Audio book
Year: 2022
Language: English
Media class: Audio book
Publisher: Nudged Children's Audiobooks
Resource type: Physical
Note: Narrated by Ian McKellen. 6 discs It is early spring, a turbulent, perilous time of sudden storms, frozen river fractures and drifting ice. Fleeing from a demon intent on devouring his souls, Wolf is swept out to Sea far from the Forest and his pack. The ocean too teems with danger: sea wolves, sharks and hunters of the deep, and the demon is gaining ground. Torak and Renn must race to save their pack-brother, battling the harsh, icy waves and merciless torrents. If they can't find Wolf in time, the bond between them will be severed for ever.
1004079834 
Audio book
Year: 2022
Language: English
Media class: Audio book
Publisher: Nudged Children's Audiobooks
Resource type: Physical
Note: Narrated by Harrie Dobby. 6 discs Casey and hundreds of other SkyWakers are now stuck on the planet Hosin, thousands of miles out in space, forced by the Red Eyes to fight the elusive Squids. Casey and her squad, the Ghost Reapers, are determined to rescue the other gamers and return to Earth - but when the strangely compelling Squids enter Casey's mind, begging for help, Casey faces an impossible decision. With the team split in two and Casey's brother on the other side, home seems further away than ever. How can Casey save the planet if she can't keep her friends?
1004086490 
Audio book
Year: 2022
Language: English
Media class: Audio book
Publisher: Nudged Children's Audiobooks
Resource type: Physical
Note: Narrated by Mark Peachey. 4 discs The race is on. The After School Detective Club is on the trail of Ragnar's gold - a hoard of treasure said to have been buried by a Viking warrior and guarded by his demon hound - that is, unless someone else gets there first.
1004086555 
Audio book
Year: 2022
Language: English
Media class: Audio book
Publisher: Nudged Children's Audiobooks
Resource type: Physical
Note: Narrated by Jessica Preddy. 5 discs Growing up in Ember Grove, Bitsy Clark knows better than to break the rules around the Revelry, the mysterious end-of-year party in the woods. So when her best friend, Amy, persuades her to sneak in, Bitsy is full of misgivings. Misgivings that she should have listened to, because it's after the Revelry that Bitsy's luck turns and her life starts to unravel. For Amy it's the opposite, as if she's been blessed with good fortune. Soon Bitsy is convinced that the Revelry has tied the two friends together in a curse that only she can break.
1004075200 
Audio book
Year: 2022
Language: English
Media class: Audio book
Publisher: Nudged Children's Audiobooks
Resource type: Physical
Note: Narrated by Siobhan McSweeney. 10 discs Maeve and her friends have revealed their powers and banded together as a coven: Roe can pick locks, Lily sends sparks flying, Maeve can read minds and Fiona can heal any injury. And even better than their newfound talents? Roe and Maeve are officially an item. But with strange things happening at school, and old enemies appearing in new places, it soon becomes clear their powers are attracting all the wrong attention. It's not long before Maeve's gift start to wane, drained by someone - or something - that's hiding even from her second sight.
1004096895 
Audio book
Year: 2022
Language: English
Media class: Audio book
Publisher: Nudged Children's Audiobooks
Resource type: Physical
Note: Narrated by Alison Campbell. 6 discs February 1948. Ruth has been whisked off to the lonely Rook Farm to investigate the discovery of long-buried treasure with her mother. But at the farmhouse, she finds secrets lurk around every corner. Joe, the farmer's son, is hiding something about the treasure, while land girl Audrey watches their every move. But before Ruth can find out more, the treasure is stolen. With a storm coming, Ruth must race to uncover the secrets of the treasure keepers before all of their lives are changed forever.
1004086520 
Audio book
Year: 2022
Language: English
Media class: Audio book
Publisher: Nudged Children's Audiobooks
Resource type: Physical
Note: Narrated by Amy Enticknap. 6 discs Ophelia Bottom longs for a boring life. Instead, she's stuck living in a rickety converted van and managing Bottom's Travelling Theatre, the moveable stage where her embarrassing actor parents put on occasionally disastrous plays. Every day, she wishes she lived in an ordinary house, with parents who worked ordinary, undramatic jobs. When the family gets stuck in the seaside town of Stopford, Ophelia's dream appears to be coming true: all the Stopford residents seem to have very normal lives. But someone is trying to drive the Bottoms out, and surrounding all the normality is a strange village motto,'Plastic is fantastic'. Can Ophelia discover what's really behind Stopford's perfect appearance - before she loses everything that makes the Bottom family life so special?
XX00420529 
Audio book
Year: 2022
Language: English
Media class: Audio book
Publisher: W.F. Howes
Resource type: Physical
Note: Narrated by Alison Campbell. 7 discs Since the world fell sick with fantastical illnesses, sisters Payton and Ani have grown up in a hospital. When Ani stumbles upon an imprisoned boy who turns everything he touches to gold, her world is turned upside-down. The sisters find themselves outside the hospital for the first time, a dark mystery unravelling.
XX00420524 
Audio book
Year: 2022
Language: English
Media class: Audio book
Publisher: W.F.Howes
Resource type: Physical
Note: Narrated by Chris Devon. 6 discs Is Oakmoss Hornbeam the unluckiest boy in the world? Or has someone cursed him? When a black cat crosses his path, mysteriously blown in by a storm, Oakmoss believes it's his worst omen yet. But Nightshade, a cat of considerable talents, knows when it's game on or game over. With the help of newshound Veena Vale and magical crime investigator Dexter
XX00420528 
Audio book
Year: 2022
Language: English
Media class: Audio book
Publisher: W. F. Howes
Resource type: Physical
Note: Narrated by Sophie Roberts. 6 discs From killers to conservationists, the story of three generations of the Kristensen family, their history as whale hunters and later their mission to save the great whales and our planet.
XX00419930 
Audio book
Year: 2021
Media class: Audio book
Publisher: Bolinda Audio
Resource type: Physical
Note: Performed by Kirsten Potter. 6 discs Taryn Moore is young, beautiful, and brilliant, so why would she kill herself? When Detective Frankie Loomis arrives on the scene to investigate the girl's fatal plunge from her apartment balcony, she knows in her gut there's more to the story. Her instincts are confirmed when surprise information is revealed that could have been reason enough for Taryn's suicide, or a motive for her murder.
XX00420304 
Audio book
Year: 2018
Language: English
Media class: Audio book
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Resource type: Physical
Note: Read by Joan Walker and Jonathan Oliver. 8 discs On the night of 3rd December 1926, Agatha Christie went missing, and was eventually discovered in a hotel in Harrogate ten days later. But what happened to her in that time? Here, Andrew Wilson ingeniously take the facts and creates a gripping, utterly believable story of blackmail and murder. Originally published: 2017
Playaways
XX00416338 
Talking book - MP3 
Year: 2018
Language: English
Media class: Talking book - MP3
Publisher: Bolinda Audio
Resource type: Physical
Note: Playaway. Read by Kristin Condon In the magical fairytale kingdom of Enchantasia, becoming a legendary Prince of Princess doesn't happen overnight. Enter Royal Academy, the training ground for the fairytale leaders of tomorrow.
XX00416741 
Talking book - MP3
Year: 2019
Language: English
Media class: Talking book - MP3
Publisher: Bolinda Audio
Resource type: Physical
Note: Playaway. Performed by Amy Rubinate Judy Moody is in a royal purple-mountain-majesties mood. Make that Majesty with a capital M! With Grandma Lou's help, Judy has dug up proof that some old-timey Moodys (aka the brave Mudeyes) lived in merry olde England. In fact, if her grandpa's notes are right, Judy might even be related to - royal fanfare, please - the Queen herself! Should Judy start packing her purple robe for a sleepover at Buckingham Palace? But then Judy's family tree gets a few more shakes - thanks to her nemesis, Jessica "Fink" Finch - and some more surprises come tumbling out. Crikey! These new gems are not nearly as shiny or sparkly as the crown jewels. Now Judy has some right royal family secrets she'd like to keep hidden away in a dungeon somewhere - and especially away from Jessica, the princess in pink herself!
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XX00418513 
Talking book - MP3
Year: 2019
Language: English
Media class: Talking book - MP3
Publisher: Bolinda audio
Resource type: Physical
Note: Playaway. Read by Sophie Amoss 'We were just these innocent girls in the night trying to make something beautiful. We nearly died. We very nearly did, didn't we?' Samantha Heather Mackey couldn't be more of an outsider in her small, highly selective MFA program at New England's Warren University. A scholarship student who prefers the company of her dark imagination to that of most people, she is utterly repelled by the rest of her fiction writing cohort - a clique of unbearably twee rich girls who call each other 'Bunny', and are often found entangled in a group hug so tight they become one. But everything changes when Samantha receives an invitation to the Bunnies' fabled 'Smut Salon', and finds herself inexplicably drawn to their front door
XX00418517 
Talking book - MP3
Year: 2019
Language: English
Media class: Talking book - MP3
Publisher: Bolinda audio
Resource type: Physical
Note: Playaway. Read by Rebekkah Ross Littleport, Maine, has always felt like two separate towns: an ideal vacation enclave for the wealthy, whose summer homes line the coastline; and a simple harbour community for the year-round residents whose livelihoods rely on service to the visitors. Typically, fierce friendships never develop between a local and a summer girl - but that's just what happens with visitor Sadie Loman and Littleport resident Avery Greer. Each summer for almost a decade, the girls are inseparable - until Sadie is found dead. While the police rule the death a suicide, Avery can't help but feel there are those in the community, including a local detective and Sadie's brother, Parker, who blame her. Someone knows more than they're saying, and Avery is intent on clearing her name, before the facts get twisted against her.
XX00418519 
Talking book - MP3
Year: 2019
Language: English
Media class: Talking book - MP3
Publisher: Bolinda
Resource type: Physical
Note: Playaway. Read by Fred Berman Summary: Both a sequel and prequel to Alan Glynn's classic debut, which became the #1 hit movie Limitless, Under the Night is an irresistible thriller about the seductive power and dangers of unlocking the human mind 1950s Manhattan - Ad man Ned Sweeney finds himself an unwitting participant in MK Ultra trials, the CIA's covert study of psychoactive drugs. The experiment introduces him to MDT-48, a mind-expanding smart drug, which takes him away from his wife and young son and straight to the corridors of the richest and most powerful people of his day. But before long, Ned is dead. Over 60 years later, Ned's grandson, Ray, meets Clay Proctor - a retired government official who may be able to illuminate not only Ned's life and death, but also the truth behind the mysterious MDT-48
XX00418532 
Talking book - MP3
Year: 2019
Language: English
Media class: Talking book - MP3
Publisher: W.F. Howes
Resource type: Physical
Note: Playaway. Narrated by Michael Sheen 'The Secret Commonwealth' sees Lyra, now 20 years old, and her daemon Pantalaimon, forced to navigate their relationship in a way they could never have imagined, and drawn into the complex and dangerous factions of a world that they had no idea existed.
XX00418518 
Talking book - MP3
Year: 2019
Media class: Talking book - MP3
Publisher: Bolinda audio
Resource type: Physical
Note: Playaway. Read by David Rintoul To everything there is a season and a time for every purpose; it is summer in Scotland Street (as it always is) and for the habitués of Edinburgh's favourite street some extraordinary adventures lie in waiting. For the impossibly vain Bruce Anderson - he of the clove-scented hair gel - it may finally be time to settle down, and surely it can only be a question of picking the lucky winner from the hordes of his admirers. The Duke of Johannesburg is keen to take his flight of fancy, a microlite seaplane, from the drawing board to the skies. Big Lou is delighted to discover that her young foster son has a surprising gift for dance but she is faced with big decisions to make on his and her futures.
XX00418533 
Talking book - MP3
Year: 2019
Media class: Talking book - MP3
Publisher: W.F. Howes
Resource type: Physical
Note: Playaway. Narrated by Fenella Woolgar It is 1932, and the losses of the First World War are still keenly felt. Violet Speedwell, mourning for both her fiance and her brother and regarded by society as a `surplus woman' unlikely to marry, resolves to escape her suffocating mother and strike out alone. A new life awaits her in Winchester.
XX00418535 
Talking book - MP3
Year: 2019
Media class: Talking book - MP3
Publisher: W.F. Howes
Resource type: Physical
Note: Playaway. Narrated by David Chandler Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett encounters bad behavior on his own turf: a drone is killing wildlife - and the drone belongs to a mysterious and wealthy man whose grandson is dating Joe's own daughter, Lucy. When Joe tries to lay down the rules for the drone operator, he is asked by the FBI and the DoJ to stand down - and with good reason.
XX00418537 
Talking book - MP3
Year: 2019
Media class: Talking book - MP3
Publisher: W.F. Howes
Resource type: Physical
Note: Playaway. Narrated by David Thorpe
XX00418539 
Talking book - MP3
Year: 2019
Media class: Talking book - MP3
Publisher: W.F. Howes
Resource type: Physical
Note: Playaway. Narrated by David Cameron
XX00418362 
Talking book - MP3
Year: 2019
Language: English
Media class: Talking book - MP3
Publisher: W. F. Howes
Resource type: Physical
Note: Playaway. Narrated by Ant Middleton
XX00418367 
Talking book - MP3
Year: 2019
Media class: Talking book - MP3
Publisher: Atlantic Books
Resource type: Physical
Note: Playaway. Read by John Voce When a grieving man searches for culpability in the death of his wife, a passenger on trains blown up by terrorists, he settles on a politician. The bombers, to his mind, were only the end point in a long chain of proximate causes - to blame them would be like blaming the trigger mechanisms on the bombs. The ultimate cause, he believes, the person
XX00418368 
Talking book - MP3
Year: 2019
Language: English
Media class: Talking book - MP3
Publisher: Bolinda audio
Resource type: Physical
Note: Playaway. Read by Robin Miles
XX00418369 
Talking book - MP3
Year: 2019
Media class: Talking book - MP3
Publisher: Bolinda Audio
Resource type: Physical
Note: Playaway. Read by Lucy Brownhill When Cara Hargraves discovers a diary from the 1940's, it's contents will change her life forever
XX00418371 
Talking book - MP3
Year: 2019
Media class: Talking book - MP3
Publisher: Bolinda Audio
Resource type: Physical
Note: Playaway. Performed by Christopher Lane Created centuries ago by a madman, possessed of supernatural powers and a drive for justice, Deucalion arrives in New Orleans. His path will cross with that of tough police detective Carson O'Connor and her partner, Michael Maddison, who are on the trail of a vicious serial killer.
XX00418372 
Talking book - MP3
Year: 2019
Media class: Talking book - MP3
Publisher: Mirror Books
Resource type: Physical
Note: Playaway. Read by Kate Reading In 1942, Odette Sansom decides to follow her war hero father's footsteps by becoming a SOE agent to aid Britain and her beloved homeland, France. It is here that she meets her commanding officer Captain Peter Churchill. As they successfully complete mission after mission, Peter and Odette fall in love.
XX00418373 
Talking book - MP3
Year: 2019
Media class: Talking book - MP3
Publisher: Vintage Books
Resource type: Physical
Note: Playaway. Read by Kirsty Logan Mara's island is one of stories and magic, but every story ends in the same way. She will finish her days on the cliff, turned to stone and gazing out at the horizon like all the islanders before her. Mara's parents - a boxer and a ballerina - chose this enchanted place as a refuge from the turbulence of their previous lives.
XX00418374 
Talking book - MP3
Year: 2019
Media class: Talking book - MP3
Publisher: Bolinda audio
Resource type: Physical
Note: Playaway. Read by Lucy Brownhill and Colin Mace
XX00418277 
Talking book - MP3
Year: 2019
Language: English
Media class: Talking book - MP3
Publisher: Bolinda
Resource type: Physical
Note: Playaway. Read by Michael Crouch