Jordanhill School Library AV Catalogue

2015/16

Audio CDs

CD1 The Subtle Knife – Pullman, Phillip (8 CDs/ 8 hours 55 mins) Unabridged Will is twelve years old and he’s just killed a man. On the run, he finds a window into another world, and meets a strange, savage girl called Lyra. Both children have a mission to fulfil ……… But the world of Cittagazze is a dangerous place, where soul-eating Spectres roam. And in the mysterious Torre degli Angeli lurks an important secret – an object which people from many worlds would kill to posses ………….

CD 2 The Story Of Tracy Beaker – Wilson, Jaqueline (3 CDs/ 2 hours 40 mins) Ten-year old Tracey was taken inti care a while ago, now she lives in a Children’s Home. She doen’t know exactly where her mum is, but she used to have long, pretend phone calls with her. Tracy’s had two foster families, but things just didn’t work out with either of them. ‘They’ve advertised me in the papers’ she writes, ‘but there weren’t many takers and now I think they’re getting a bit desperate’

CD 3 Flash Flood – Ryan, Chris (3 CDs / 3 hours) Abridged Code Red, Code Red ……. The Thames Barrier has gone! A tidal surge. A dramatic thunderstorm. And a rapidly rising river. Ben is in London for the day. And suddenly his visit becaomes a terrifying struggle to survive as the Barrier is overwhelmed and a torrent of water floods through the city’s streets in an unstoppable deluge of destruction.

CD 4 Goodnight Mister Tom – Magorian, Michelle (3 CDs / 3 hours 15 mins) Abridged x 2 copies Young Willie Beech is evacuated to the country as Britain stands on the brink of the Second World War. A sad, deprived child, he slowly begins to flourish under the care of old Tom Oakley – but his new-found happiness is shattered by a summons from his mother back in London ……….

CD 5 The Wee Free Men – Pratchett, Terry (3 CDs / 3 hours) Abridged There’s trouble on the Aching farm – a monster in the river, a headless horseman in the driveway, and nightmares spreading down from the hills. And now Tiffany Aching’s little brother has been stolen by the Queen of the Faries. Tiffany’s got to get him back. To help her, she has a weapon (a frying pan), her granny’s magic book (well, Diseases of the Sheep, actually) and …….. oh, yes. She’s also got the Nac Mac Feegle, the Wee Free Men, the fightin’, theivin’, tiny blue-skinned pictsies who were thrown out of Fairyland for being Drunk and Disorderly ………..

CD6 Point Blanc – Horowitz, Anthony (5 CDs/ 5 hours 44 mins) Unabridged Fourteen -year old Alex is back at school trying to adapt to his new double life ….. and double homework. But MI6have other plans for him. Armed only with a false ID and a new collection of brilliantly disguised gadgets, Alex must infiltrate the mysterious Point Blanc Academy and establish the truth about what is happening there. Can he alert the world to what he finds before it is too late?

CD7 The Kite Runner – Hosseini, Khaled (5 CDs/ 6 hours) Abridged As a young boy growing up in pre-Soviet Afghanistan, Amir befriends his servant’s son, Hassan. Occupying polar ends of Kabul’s social hierarchy, the two boys nevertheless play together and defend each other against neighbourhood bullies. But during Kabul’s annual kite-fighting tournament in the winter of 1975, Amir takes advantage of Hassan’s guileless devotion and commits a terrible act of betrayal against him.

CD8 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – de Bernieres, Louis (3 CDs/ 3 hours 25 mins) Abridged Despite its atmosphere of timeless tranquillity, Cepallonia is no stranger to the ravages of invasion and war. When the Axis powers occupy the beautiful Greek island in 1941, its inhabitants treat the newcomers with the same quiet resistance and contempt as their many predecessors. But the young Italian officer Captain Corelli, billeted with Dr Iannis and his spirited daughter Pelagia, proves to be not only a superb musician but also a truly remarkable man.

CD9 The Da Vinci Code – Brown, Dan (5 CDs/ 6 hours 40 mins) Abridged Harvard Professor Robert Langdon receives an urgent phone call while on business in Paris: the curator of the Louvre has been brutally murdered inside the museum. Alongside the body, police have found a series of baffling codes. As Langdon and a gifted French cryptologist, Sophie Neveu, begin to sort through the bizarre riddles, they are stunned to find a trail that leads to the works of Leonardo Da Vinci – and suggests the answer to a mystery that stretches deep into the vault of history.

CD10 Labyrinth – Mosse, Kate (6 CDs/ 7 hours 50 mins) Abridged July 1209: in Carcassonne a seventeen –year-old girl is given a mysterious book by her father which he claims contains the secret of the true Grail. Although Alais cannot understand the strange words and symbols hidden within, she knows that her destiny lies in keeping the secret of the labyrinth safe.

CD11 The Time Traveller’s Wife – Niffenegger, Audrey (4 CDs/ 5 hours) Abridged This is the extraordinary story of Clare and Henry who meet when Clare was six and Henry was thirty-six, and were married when Clare was twenty-two and Henry thirty. Impossible but true, because Henry suffers from a rare condition where his genetic clock periodically resets and he finds himself pulled suddenly into his past or future. In the face of this force they can neither prevent nor control, Henry and Clare’s struggle to lead normal lives is both intensely moving and entirely unforgettable.

CD12 The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas – Boyne, John (4 CDs/ 5 hours) Unabridged Nine-year old Bruno knows nothing of the Final Solution or the Holocaust. He is oblivious to the appalling cruelties being inflicted on the people of Europe by his country. All he knows is that he has been moved from a comfortable home in Berlin to a house in a desolate area where there is nothing to do and no one to play with. Until he meets Shmuel, a boy who lives in a strange parallel existence on the other side of the adjoining wire fence and who, like all the other people there, wears a uniform of stripped pyjamas.

CD13 Half Moon Investigations – Colfer, Eoin (3 CDs/ 3 hours 30 mins) Abridged Meet Fletcher Moon. Half-pint schoolboy and fully qualified private investigator. Since graduating online, he has solved all sorts of minor mysteries at school and at home. It was only a matter of time before things got serious. When Fletcher starts asking questions about a spate of odd crimes in the town of Lock, it quickly becomes clear that nothing is quite as it seems. And, as Fletcher delves deeper, it’s not long before the hunter becomes the hunted ……..

CD14 The War Of The Worlds – Wells, H.G. (3 CDs/ 2 hours 50 mins) When a Martian spacecraft crash-lands near Woking, mankind is terrorised by aliens in tall, armoured capsules that stalk the countryside on three legs. The frightening machines wreak havoc on London and the Southern Counties with their heat-rays, and survivors are driven underground.

CD 15 Recoil – McNab, Andy (3 CDs/3 hours) Recuperating in Switzerland after a job that cost the life of one of his closest friends, ex-special forces soldier and deniable operator Nick Stone has only one thing on his mind: the girl who has disappeared. Her trail leads him to Africa, and the deep end of a very dirty Congo war – where it isn’t long before the past comes knocking at his door.

CD 16 Spies – Fryn, Michael (5 CDs/ 6 hours) Abridged In the quiet cul-de-sac where Keith and Stephen live, the only immediate signs of the Second World War are the blackout at night and a single random bombsite. But the two boys start to suspect all is not as it seems when one day Keith announces a disconcerting discovery: the Germans have infiltrated his own family. And when the secret underground world they have dreamed up emerges from the shadows, they find themselves engulfed in mysteries far deeper and more painful than they had bargained for.

CD 17 Young Bond. Silverfin – Higson, Chalie (3 CDs/ 3 hours 30 mins) Abridged Before the name became a legend. Before the boy became a man. Meet James Bond. The Dark waters around a remote Scottish castle hold a sinister secret. One man with a thirst for power will use it – whatever the cost.

CD 18 Cherub. The Recruit – Muchamore, Robert (3 CDs/ 3 hours 40 mins) Abridged A terrorist doen’t let strangers into her flat because they might be undercover police or intelligence agents, but her children bring their mates home whenever they like. What the terrorist doen’t know is that one of these kids has bugged every room. Made copies of all her computer files and stolen her address book. The kids work for CHERUB. For official purposes, these children do not exist.

CD 19 The Colour Of Magic – Pratchett, Terry (3 CDs/ 3 hours) Abridged Somewhere on the frintier between thought and reality exists the Discworld, a parallel time and place which might sound and smell very much like our own, but which looks completely different. It plays by different rules. Certainly it refuses to succumb to the quaint notion that universes are rules by pure logic and the harmony of numbers.

CD 20 The Hobbit – Tolkein, J.R.R. (5 CDs/ 6 hours) Bilbo Baggins enjoys a quiet and contented life, with no desire to travel far from home: then one day the wizard Galdalf and a band of dwarves arrives unexpectedly and enlist his services – as a burgler – on a dangerous expedition to raid the treasure-hoard of Smaug the dragon. Bilbo’s life is never to be the same again.

CD 21 The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night Time – Haddon, Mark (6 CDs/ 6 hours) This is a murder mystery like no other. The detective, and narrator, is Christopher Boone. Christopher is 15 and has Asperger’s Syndrome. He knows a great deal about maths and very little about human beings. He loves lists, patterns and the truth. He hates the colours yellow and brown and being touched. He has never gone further than the end of the road on his own, but when he finds a neighbour’s dog murdered he sets out on a terrifying journey which will turn his whole world upside down.

CD 22 Framed – Boyce, Frank Cottrell (6 CDs/ 7 hours) Unabridged Dylan Hughes is more interested in the Ninja Turtles than in the Renaissance artists they are named after. But then Dad leaves home and, overnight, nine-year old Dylan must become man of the household and boss of the failing family business. A masterpiece worth a mint might be just what they all need ……….

CD 23 The Star Of Kazan – Ibbotson, Eva (6 CDs/ 6 hours) Abridged Annika lives as a servant at a grand house in Vienna, a glittering city famous for its great emperor and the white horses of the Imperial Riding School. Her life there would be perfect but for the mystery of her real mother. For, as a newborn baby, Annika was found in a church, and no one knows where she came from.

CD 24 Doctor Who. The Resurrection Casket – Richards, Justin (2 CDs/ 2 hours 30 mins) Abridged Starfall – a world on the edge, where crooks and smugglers hide in the gloomy shadows and modern technology refuses to work. And that includes the TARDIS. Will the TARDIS ever work again? Is Glint’s lost treasure waiting to be found? The Doctor and Rose aim to find out ……….

CD 25 Ultimate Weapon – Ryan, Chris (3 CDs / 3 hours) Three people. Three stories. And a desperate race for survival in a country in the midst of war. Nick Scott fought in the SAS during the Gulf War. His daughter is a beautiful young scientist who cracked one of the scientific secrets of the age. Now she has vanished.

CD 26 Beyond The Deepwoods – Stewart, Paul (3 CDs / 3 hours 30 mins) Abridged Young Twigg lives in the Deepwoods, among the woodtrolls, but he isn’t one of them. In a brave attempt to find out where he belongs, Twig does what no woodtroll has done before – he strays from the path and wanders into the mysterious, fascinating and sometimes hazardous world of the Deepwoods. And so begins a heart-stopping adventure that will take Twig through a nightmare world of goblins and trogs, bloodthirsty beasts and flesh-eating trees ………..

CD 27 Lord Of The Flies – Golding, William (3 CDs / 3 hours) Abridged A story about a group of very ordinary small boys marooned on a coral island. At first it seems as though it is all going to be great fun; but the fun before long becomes furious and life on the island turns into a nightmare of panic and death. As ordinary standards of behaviour collapse, the whole world the boys know collapses with them – the world of cricket and homework and adventure stories – and another world is revealed beneath, primitive and terrible.

CD 28 Lord Loss – Shan, Darren (5 CDs / 6 hours 15 mins) Unabridged The door feels red hot, as though a fire is burning behind it. I press an ear to the wood – but there’s no crackle. No smoke. Just deep, heavy breathing …….. and a curious dripping sound. My hand’s on the door knob. Inside the room, somebody giggles – low, throaty, sadistic. There’s a rippling sound, followed by snaps and crunches. My hand turns. The door opens. Hell is revealed.

CD 29 About A Boy – Hornby, Nick (3 CDs / 2 hours 45 mins) Abridged Marcus knew he was weird, and that part of the reason he was weird was because his mum, not that long parted from his dad, was weird. But he could live with that – and having the wrong hair, the wrong clothes and the complete lack of cool. Until his mum started crying before breakfast. She often cried, but morning crying was something new, and it was a bad, bad sign. Enter Will, 36, the coolest of the cool and a determinedly child-free zone. Until he discovered a world of bright, attractive available women, thousands of them. Single mothers. So Marcus and Will meet, each obviously, with a lot to learn about living in the nineties.

CD 30 Artemis Fowl – Colfer, Eoin (3 CDs / 3 hours 15 mins) Abridged Twelve-year-old Artemis Fowl is a brilliant criminal mastermind. But even Artemis doesn’t know what he’s taken on when he kidnaps a fairy. Captain Holly Short of the LEPrecon Unit. These aren’t the fairies of bedtime stories. These fairies are armed and they’re dangerous. Artemis thinks he’s got them just where he wants them, but then they stop playing by the rules ………………

CD 31 The Secret Diary Of Adrian Mole – Townsend, Sue (3 CDs / 3 hours) Abridged Life is far from easy when you’re 13 ¾ . If you’re not worried about spots and school bullies, you’re trying to decide which of your parents to live with or whether to be a vet or a comedy writer when you grow up. Not to mention romance, in the shape of beautiful Pandora, who seems not to notice poor Adrian at all. Then there are the rejections from the BBC …………. How much longer can he go on!

CD 32 Stormbreaker – Horowitz, Anthony (4 CDs / 4 hours 55 mins) Unabridged When his guardian dies in suspicious circumstances, fourteen-year-old Alex Rider finds his world turned upside down. Within days he’s gone from schoolboy to superspy. Forcibly recruited into MI6, Alex has to take part in gruelling SAS training exercises; then armed with his own special set of secret gadgets, he’s off on his first mission. But Alex soon finds himself in mortal danger. It looks as if his first assignment may well be his last ……..

CD 33 Treasure Island – Stevenson, Robert Louis (2 CDs / 1 hour 55 mins) Having outwitted a band of pirates to obtain a map disclosing the whereabouts of Captain Flint’s treasure, young Jim sets sail with Squire Trelawney and Dr Livesey bound for Treasure Island. But the crew of the Hispaniola are not what they seem.

CD 34 Holes – Sachar, Louis (4 CDs / 4 hours 50 mins) Unabridged x 2 copies Stanley Yelnat’s family has a history of bad luck, so he isn’t too surprised when a miscarriage of justice sends him to a boy’s juvenile detention centre. At Camp Green Lake the boys must dig a hole a day, five feet deep, five feet across, in the dried up lake bed. The Warden claims the labour is character building, but it is a lie. Stanley must dig up the truth.

CD 35 The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy – Adams, Douglas (3 CDs / 2 hours 55 mins) Arthur Dent never could get the hang of Thursdays. On this particular Thursday his house is set to be demolished and his friend Ford Prefect turns out to be from a star named Betelgeuse (and not, after all, from Guilford) Furthermore, it turns out that the whole Earth is scheduled for demolition by the Vorgons to make way for a new hyperspace bypass. The irony of the situation is almost lost on Arthur as he and Ford hitch an intergalactic ride away from oblivion.

CD 36 The Hollow Chocolate Bunnies Of The Apocalypse – Rankin, Robert (5 CDs / 6 hours 40 mins) Abridged Once upon a time Jack set out to seek his fortune in the big city. But Jack gets a bit lost on the way, and when he finally comes to a big city, it is Toy City, formerly known as Toy Town. And there is a serial killer loose upon the streets. One by one, the old, rich nursery rhyme characters, who made their millions from the royalties on their best-selling rhymes, are being brutally slaughtered. The Toy City police are getting nowhere. Bill Winkie, Private Eye, has also mysteriously vanished, leaving only his sidekick, Eddie Bear, to take care of business.

CD 37 Harry Potter And The Philosopher’s Stone – Rowling, J.K. (7 CDs / 8 hours 25 mins) Unabridged A shower of shooting stars welcomed Harry Potter to the muggle world. Muggle weathermen were amazed – but in the other world, the ministry of Magic knew Harry was to be one of its finest wizards. And on his eleventh birthday it claimed him for Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.

CD 38 Noughts And Crosses – Blackman, Malorie (6 CDs / 6 hours 30 mins) Abridged Callum is a nought – a second-class citizen in a world run by the ruling Crosses …… Sephy is a Cross, daughter of one of the most powerful men in the country. In their world, noughts and crosses simply don’t mix. And as hostility turns to violence, can Callum and Sephy possibly find a way to be together? And then the bomb explodes ………….

CD 39 Room On The Broom – Donaldson, Julia (1 CD ) The witch and her cat couldn’t be happier, flying through the stormy sky on their broomstick ……… until the wind blows away first the witch’s hat, then her bow, then her wand!

CD 40 The Gruffalo – Donaldson, Julia (1 CD) A mouse took a stroll through the deep dark wood ………… but what happens when he meets a hungry gruffalo?

CD 41 Private Peaceful _ Morpurgo, M. (4 CDs/5 hrs) Unabridged For young Private Thomas Peaceful, looking back over his childhood from the battlefields of the First World War, his memories are full of family life deep in the countryside. Mother, his brothers Charlie and Big Joe, and their friend Molly, come vividly alive in his mind. But every moment Tommo spends thinking about his life, means another moment closer to something he cannot bear to think about - a time when the war and its horrific consequences changes his life forever.

CD 42 Skellig – Almond, David (3 CDs / 3 hours) Unabridged Michael steps into the crumbling garage of his new home and discovers something beneath the spider’s webs and dead flies. It could change his world forever …….

CD 43 Millions – Boyce, Frank Cottrell (5 CDs / 6 hours) Unabridged Money can’t buy you happiness. But it can buy you 1 434 Shogun Nude BMX bikes 15 291 travel-size Monopoly sets 18 816 stuffed-drust pizzas We had millions. Pity we only had days to spend it. We weren’t robbers. Or gangsters. We were just trying to do the right thing, but money makes people act strange. Our Anthony developed an unhealthy interest in real estate. Me, I tried to avoid the temptations of this world. But there’s something about stuffed-crust pizzas.

CD 44 Fatherland – Harris Robert (2 CDs / 2 hours) The year is 1964, and it’s a week before Hitler’s 75th birthday. Nazi Germany won the Second World War, Churchill is living in exile in Canada, Joseph Kennedy is President of the United States, and King Edward and Queen Wallis are puppet monarchs of the United Kingdom. In this dimension, history took a very different turn in 1942 to the one we are familiar with ……. Berlin detective Xavier March is called in to investigate the suspicious death of a retired German senior civil servant. His enquiries lead him to inadvertently uncover a terrifying secret that has so far been hidden from the world – a secret so shocking that it must never be revealed.

CD 45 Journey To The River – Ibbotson, Eva (3 CDs / 3 hours) Abridged The girls in Maia’s class told her what to expect when she reached Brazil. ‘There are huge mosquitoes which bite you. You turn as yellow as a lemon and then you die’. But orphan Maia can’t wait to begin her new life with relatives she has never met, a thousand miles up the Amazon. Travelling with her is the mysterious Miss Minton, who has secret reasons of her own for making the journey. And her classmates could never, even in their wildest dreams, imagine the adventures that await her on the shores of the River Sea.

CD 46 Birdsong – Faulks, Sebastian (6 CDs / 6 hours) Abridged A powerful and moving story, set before and during the Great War. Birdsong captures the drama of that era on a national and personal scale. Stephen, a young Englishman, arrives in Amiens in 1910. His life goes through a series of traumaric experiences, from the clandestine love affair that tears apart the family with whom he lives, to the unprecedented experience of the war itself.

CD 47 Perfume – Suskind, Patrick (1 CD / 8.5 hours) Unabridged MP3-CD Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, born in 18th Century Paris and abandoned on the street, discovers he has an extraordinary – almost superhuman – sense of smell. As he sniffs his way across France, this gift is exploited by Grenouille to make the world’s most marvellous perfumes. Yet in seeking perfection in his experiments, he realises that a vital ingredient is missing for the perfect scent: innocence. And in order to get the ingredient he needs, he must capture it – whatever the price.

CD 48 Youth And Heart Of Darkness – Conrad, Joseph (3 CDs / 3 hours 41 mins) Abridged In these two novels Conrad explores the question of self-discovery through powerful and exciting narratives: in Youth, the experienced seaman Marlow tells the story of a young man’s coming of age in his first voyage to the East, while in Heart Of Darkness he describes with terrifying depth and vividness the slide into corruption of an idealistic trader – Kurtz, who has become the demi- devil of the Inner Station in the Belgian Congo ....

CD 49 Norwegian Wood – Murakami, Haruki (11 CDs / 13 hours 28 mins) Unabridged Toru Watanabe, approaching middle age, hears The Beatles song Norwegian Wood in an airplane and, with Proustian vividness, it transports him back to his student days in Japan with Naoko, Midori and Storm Trooper.

CD 50 The Amulet Of Samarkand – Stroud, Jonathan (8 CDs / 9.5 hours) Abridged A young magician’s apprentice, Nathaniel, secretly summons the irascible 5000 year old djinni, Bartimaeus, to do his bidding. The task for Bartiimaeus is not an easy one – he must steal the powerful Amulet of Samarkand from Simon Lovelace, a master magician of unrivalled ruthlessness and ambition. Before long, Bartimaeus and Nathaniel are caught up in a terrifying flood of magical intrigue and murder.Set in modern-day London controlled by magicians, this hilarious thriller will enthral listeners of all ages

CD 51 Dracula – Stoker, Bram (3 CDs / 3 hours 56 mins) Abridged Dracula is an 1897 Gothic horror novel by Irish author Bram Stoker. Famous for introducing the character of the vampire Count Dracula, the novel tells the story of Dracula's attempt to move from Transylvania to England, and the battle between Dracula and a small group of men and women led by Professor Abraham Van Helsing

CD 52 Gulliver’s Travels – Swift, Jonathan (3 CDs / 3 hours 57 mins) Abridged Gulliver visits Lilliput, where the residents are only about six inches tall. His next journey takes him to Brobdingnag, where the residents are about sixty feet tall. In each of these places he is an oddity because of his size. His ship is overtaken by pirates on his next trip and he is rescued by the people on Laputa, an island that floats in the air above the world. On his last expedition he winds up shipwrecked in Houyhnhnm, a land where the intelligent species looks like our horses. The abridged version of his travels are amazing to anyone young or old

CD 53 Rebecca – Du Maurier, Daphne (3 CDs / 3 hours) Abridged The story concerns a woman who marries an English nobleman and returns with him to Manderley, his country estate. There, she finds herself haunted by reminders of his first wife, Rebecca, who died in a boating accident less than a year earlier. In this case, the haunting is psychological, not physical: Rebecca does not appear as a ghost, but her spirit affects nearly everything that takes place at Manderley. The narrator, whose name is never divulged, is left with a growing sense of distrust toward those who loved Rebecca, wondering just how much they resent her for taking Rebecca's place. In the final chapters, the book turns into a detective story, as the principal characters try to reveal or conceal what really happened on the night Rebecca died.

CD 54 The Godfather – Puzo, Mario (6 CDs / 7 hours) Abridged The Godfather is the epic story of organised crime in the 1940s. It is also the intimate story of the Corleone family, at once drawn together and ripped apart by its unique position at the core of the American Mafia.

CD 55 The Amazing Maurice And His Educated Rodents – Pratchett, Terry (3 CDs / 3 hours) Abridged Maurice, a scruffy tomcat with an eye for the main chance, has the perfect fiddle going. He has a stupid-looking kid for a piper, and he has his very own plague of rats – rats who are strangely educated, so Maurice can no longer think of them as ‘lunch’. And everyone knows the stories about rats and pipers – and is giving him lots of money. Until they try the trick in Bad Blintz, and the nice little con suddenly goes down the drain.

CD 56 Remembrance – Breslin, Theresa (6 CDs / 7 hours) Abridged Summer 1915, and the sound of the guns on the Western Front can be heard across the Channel in England. Throughout Britain, local regiments are recruiting for Kitchener’s Army. And in the village of Stratharden, the Great War will alter irrevocably the course of five young lives …………..

CD 57 Wuthering Heights – Bronte, Emily (3 CDs / 3 hours) Abridged

CD 58 Sense And Sensibiility – Austen, Jane (3 CDs / 3 hours) Abridged

CD 59 A Christmas Carol – Dickens, Charles (3 CDs / 3 hours 15 mins) Unabridged Ebenezer Scrooge refuses to accept that Christmas is a time for peace and goodwill to all men. Whilst those less fortunate than him are charitable and fair-natured, Scrooge remains set in his curmudgeonly ways. One Christmas Eve, however his outlook begins to change with a visit from the ghost of his deceased business partner, Jacob Marley.

CD 60 Skulduggery Pleasant – Landy, Derek (6 CDs / 7.5 hours) Unabridged Stephanie’s uncle Gordon wrote horror fiction. At least that’s what Stephanie thought – until he died and left her his estate. Then she discovered that though his books may have been horror, they weren’t exactly ……………. well, fiction. Plunged into a terrifying world of vampires, evil villains and Hollow Men, Stephanie finds help from an unusual source: Skulduggery Pleasant, the wise-cracking skeleton of a dead magician. When all hell breaks loose it’s lucky for Stephanie that she’s not your average twelve year old girl – and it’s lucky for Skulduggery that he’s already dead.

CD 61 Eragon – Paolini, Christopher (8 CDs / 9 hours) Abridged One boy …… One dragon ……. A world of adventure. When Eragon finds a polished blue stone in the forest, he thinks it is the lucky discovery of a poor farm boy. But when the stone brings a dragon hatchling, Eragon soon realises he has stumbled upon a legacy nearly as old as the Empire itself. Overnight his simple life is shattered, and he is thrust into a perilous new world of destiny, magic and power. Can Eragon take up the mantle of the legendary Dragon Riders? The fate of the Empire may rest in his hands ……………….

CD 62 Touching The Void – Simpson, Joe (3 CDs / 3 hours) Abridged In June 1985, Joe Simpson and Simon Yates, two young but experienced climbers, set out to ascend he unclimbed West Face of the remote 21 000 Siula Grande in the Peruvian Andes. They managed to achieve the summit before disaster struck, leaving Simon Yates with an agonising decision to make – to cut the rope holding Joe or to surly die with him. A few days later Simon staggered into Base Camp, exhausted and frostbitten, to tell their non-climbing companion that Joe was dead. For three days he wrestled with guilt. Then a cry in the night woke them and they found Joe, badly injured, crawling through the snowstorm in a delirium.

CD 63 The Tulip Touch – Fine, Anne (3 CDs / 3 hours 8 mins) Nobody wants Tulip in their gang. She skives off school, cheeks the teachers, and makes herself unpopular with her classmates by telling lies. None of this matters to Natalie. At first she finds Tulip exciting, and doesn’t care that other people are so upset and unnerved by Tulip’s bizarre games. But as the games become increasingly sinister and dangerous, Natalie realises that Tulip is going too far. Much too far ……

CD 64 Stella The Star Fairy – Meadows, Daisy (2 CDs / 1 hour 15 mins) Stella the Star Fairy can’t keep Christmas bright and shiny without her three magic tree decorations. Can Kirsty and Rachel help her get them back to the fairy tree by Christmas Eve, or will the season be ruined for everyone?

CD 65 Artemis Fowl – Colfer, Eoin (3 CDs / 3 hours 15 mins) 12 year old Artemis Fowl is a brilliant criminal mastermind. But even Artemis doesn’t know what he’s taken on when he kidnaps a fairy. Capatin Holly Short of the LEPrecon Unit. These aren’t fairies of bedtime stories. These fairies are armed and they’re dangerous. Artemis thinks he’s got them just where he wants them, but then they stop playing by the rules …………..

CD 66 Eclipse – Meyer, Stephanie (13 CDs / 16 hours 30mins) Unabridged 'Bella?' Edward's soft voice came from behind me. I turned to see him spring lightly up the porch steps, his hair windblown from running. He pulled me into his arms at once, and kissed me again. His kiss frightened me. There was too much tension, too strong an edge to the way his lips crushed mine - like he was afraid we had only so much time left to us. As Seattle is ravaged by a string of mysterious killings and a malicious vampire continues her quest for revenge, Bella once again finds herself surrounded by danger. In the midst of it all, she is forced to choose between her love for Edward and her friendship with Jacob - knowing that her decision has the potential to ignite the ageless struggle between vampire and werewolf. With her graduation approaching, Bella has one more decision to make: life or death. But which is which?

CD 67 Twilight – Meyer, Stephanie (11 CDs / 13 hours) Unabridged When 17 year old Isabella Swan moves to Forks, Washington to live with her father she expects that her new life will be as dull as the town. But in spite of her awkward manner and low expectations, she finds that her new classmates are drawn to this pale, dark-haired new girl in town. But not, it seems the Cullen family. These five adopted brothers and sisters obviously prefer their own company and will make no exception for Bella. Bella is convinced that Edward Cullen in particular hates her, but she feels a strange attraction to him, although his hostility makes her feel almost physically ill. He seems determined to push her away, until, that is, he saves her life from an out of control car. Bella will soon discover that there is a very good reason for Edward's coldness. He, and his family, are vampires and he knows how dangerous it is for others to get too close.

CD 68 Mr Gum And The Biscuit Billionaire – Stanton, Andy (1 CD /1 hour 15 mins) Unabridged This is weird, wacky and one in a million: a cross between Roald Dahl and Monty Python. Mr. Gum is back in this second hilarious book and he's as nasty as ever! In fact, he's absolutely grimsters. But this book's not just about him. Read this book and you'll meet a gingerbread man named Alan Taylor who has electric muscles! Plus, all our favourite characters are back: the little girl called Polly, the evil butcher called Billy William The Third, and the very wise man, Friday O'Leary. And, who could forget loveable Jake the dog, or the angry fairy who lives in Mr. Gum's bathtub and whacks him on the head with a frying-pan?

CD 69 Cherub. Class A – Muchamore, Robert (3 CDs / 3 hours) Abridged Keith Moore is Europe's biggest cocaine dealer. The police have been trying to get enough evidence to nail him for more than twenty years. Now, four CHERUB agents are joining the hunt. Can a group of kids successfully infiltrate Keith Moore's organisation when dozens of attempts by undercover police officers have failed? James Adams must start at the bottom, making deliveries for small time drug dealers and getting to know the dangerous underworld they inhabit. He needs to make a big splash if he's going to win the confidence of the man at the top.

CD 70 To Kill A Mockingbird – Lee, Harper (11 CDs / 12 hours)

CD 71 You’re A Bad Man Mr Gum – Stanton, Andy (1 CD / 1 hour) Mr Gum is a complete horror who hates children, animals, fun and corn on the cob. This book’s all about him. And an angry fairy who lives in his bathtub. And Jake the dog, and a little girl called Polly and an evil, stinky butcher all covered in guts. And there’s heroes and sweets and adventures and EVERYTHING

CD 72 The World According to Humphrey- Birney, Betty (3CD’s/3hrs30) 'The time had arrived to put my Plan into action. I was in grave danger and I had no choice. I only had one weapon: a rubber band. It had taken me a long time to get it hooked around the edge of my food dish. Now I carefully pulled it back as far as I could, aiming directly at those big doggy nostrils.' You can learn a lot about life by observing another species. That's what Humphrey was told when he was bought as a classroom pet for Room 26. And it's definitely true! In addition to his classroom escapades, each weekend he gets to sleep over with a different student like Stop- Giggling-Gail and Repeat-That-Please-Richie. Humphrey learns to read, write, shoot rubber bands and much more. With adventures galore, Humphrey's life would be absolutely perfect if only the teacher, Mrs Brisbane, wasn't out to get him ...

CD 73 The Boy in the Dress- Walliams, David (2CD’s/2hrs30) x 2 copies Dennis was different. Why was he different, you ask? Well, a small clue might be in the title of this book…

CD74 Billionaire Boy- Walliams, David (3CD’s/4hrs) x 2 copies Joe has a lot of reasons to be happy. About a billion of them, in fact. You see, Joe's rich. Really, really rich. Joe's got his own bowling alley, his own cinema, even his own butler who is also an orangutan. He's the wealthiest twelve-year-old in the land. Yes, Joe has absolutely everything he could possibly want. But there's just one thing he really needs: a friend...

CD 75 The BFG – Dahl, Roald (4 CDs/ 4hrs 25 mins) Unabridged Every night, when the world is sleeping, big gruesome giants guzzle up whoppsy-whiffling human beans. And there's only one giant who can stop them - the BFG. He's the kindest giant there is and, with his friend Sophie in his top pocket, he sets out to rid the world of the Bloodbottler, the Fleshlumpeater and all their rotsome friends forever...

CD76 Diary Of A Wimpy Kid. The Ugly Truth– Kinny, Jeff (2 CDs/2hrs) Unabridged The massively funny fifth book in the bestselling and award-winning "Diary of a Wimpy Kid" series. Greg Heffley has always been in a hurry to grow up. But is getting older really all it's cracked up to be? Suddenly Greg is dealing with the pressures of boy-girl parties, increased responsibilities, and even the awkward changes that come with getting older. And after a fight with his best friend Rowley, it looks like Greg is going to have to face the "ugly truth" all by himself

CD 77 Diary Of A Wimpy Kid. Cabin Fever – Kinny, J. (2 CDs/2hrs) Unabridged Greg Heffley is in big trouble. School property has been damaged and Greg is the prime suspect. But the crazy thing is, he's innocent! Or at least sort of. The authorities are closing in, but then a surprise blizzard hits and the Heffley family is trapped indoors. Greg knows that when the snow melts he is going to have to face the music but could any punishment be worse than being stuck inside with your family?

CD78 Diary Of A Wimpy Kid. Hard Luck – Kinny, J. (2 CDs/2hrs) Unabridged Greg Heffley's on a losing streak. His best friend, Rowley Jefferson, has ditched him, and finding new friends in middle school is proving to be a tough task. To change his fortunes, Greg decides to take a leap of faith and turn his decisions over to chance. Will a roll of the dice turn things around, or is Greg's life destined to be just another hard-luck story?

CD79 George’s Marvellous Medicine – Dahl, Roald (1 CD/1 hr 15 mins) 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 it’s time for her medicine, he decided to give her a dose of his own special brew.

CD80 Matilda – Dahl, Roald (4 CDs/4hrs 18 mins) Unabridged Matilda's parents have called her some terrible things, but the truth is she's a genius and they're the stupid ones. Underestimating Matilda proves to be a big mistake as they, along with her spiteful headmistress, Miss Trunchbull, discover when Matilda uses her very special power to get the better of them.

CD 81 The Twits – Dahl, Roald (1 CD/57 mins) Unabridged Mr and Mrs Twit are extremely nasty, so the Muggle-Wump monkeys and the Roly-Poly bird hatch an ingenious plan to give them just the ghastly surprise they deserve!

CD 82 Queenie – Wilson, Jaqueline (8 CDs/9hrs 40 mins) Unabridged It's 1953, the year Elizabeth is to be crowned Queen of England. Elsie Kettle can't wait to go to London to see the celebrations on Coronation Day. Elsie lives with her Nan - her mum works as a showgirl, so she's not around very often. Spirited and imaginative, but often lonely, Elsie longs for a best friend. Luckily, she and Nan are very close; Elsie just wishes she was allowed a cat to keep her company sometimes. Then tragedy strikes. Nan and Elsie both fall ill with tuberculosis, and Elsie finds herself whisked away to the children's ward of the hospital. Confined to bed for months on end, Elsie finds it very hard to adapt to the hospital's strict regime. But she invents astonishing ways of entertaining the other children on the ward, and for the first time finds herself surrounded by true friends - including Queenie, the hospital's majestic white cat. Finally, Elsie is well enough to leave hospital. But before she does, she has one very special, very unexpected visitor...

CD83 Charlie & Lola. My Completely Best Story Collection – Child, Lauren (1 CD/40 mins) Unabridged This audio collection contains five classic Charlie and Lola stories, enhanced with music, sound effects, and classic Charlie and Lola dialogue. The five audio adventures include the classic stories: We HONESTLY can look after your Dog; My Wobbly Tooth must not ever, NEVER fall out; I've Won, no i've won, No I've won; Whoops! But it wasn't Me; and Snow is my Favourite and my Best.

CD84 A Basketful Of Kipper – Inkpen, Mick (1 CD) Dawn French reads: Kipper Kipper's Toybox Kipper's Birthday Kipper's Snowy Day Kipper & Roly Kipper's Monster Kipper's A to Z Kipper's Christmas Eve

CD 85 Hairy Maclary Story Collection – Dodd, Lynley (1 CD/30 mins) UnabridgedMeet Hairy Maclary from Hairy Maclary and his friends just want to have fun, but trouble is never far away! The eight stories on this CD collection are all set to music and read by "Dr Who" star David Tennant. The collection contains: "Hairy Maclary from Donaldson's Dairy" "Hairy Maclary, Sit!" "Hairy Maclary and Zackary Quack", "Hairy Maclary's Rumpus at the Vet", "Hairy Maclary Scattercat", "Hairy Maclary's Bone", "Hairy Maclary's Showbusiness", and "Hairy Maclary's Caterwaul Caper".

CD86 Adolphus Tips – Morpurgo, Michael (3 CDs/3hrs) Unabridged A heart-warming tale of courage and warmth, set against the backdrop of the second world war, about an abandoned village, a lifelong friendship and one very adventurous cat!

CD87 Horrid Henry And The Mega-Mean Time Machine – Simon, Francesca (1CD/1hr 10 mins) Unabridged This is a book about trying different foods. If you know about Horrid Henry, then you know that he is naughty and plays awful tricks on his brother Perfect Peter. In this book, Horrid Henry's mum wants go to restaurant 'Le Posh´ for her birthday. Henry doesn't like restaurants that are from other countries. One time he ran around the restaurant and vomited all over two people. It's very, very funny when Stuck-up Steve tricks Horrid Henry and tells him to eat 'escargots´.

CD88 Horrid Henry’s Stinkbomb – Simon, Francesca (1CD/1hr) Unabridged A stinkbomb becomes a deadly weapon in Horrid Henry's long-running war with Moody Margaret; he uses all his guile to win the school reading competition, only to find the longed-for prize is not what he expected; he goes for a sleepover and retreats in horror when he finds that other people's houses aren't always as nice as his own; and he has the joy of seeing Miss Battle-Axe ticked off by the Head when he knows it was all his fault.

CD89 Horrid Henry & The Secret Club – Simon, Francesca (1 CD/1hr) Unabridged Four stories about Henry, in which he has to face Nurse Needle for an injection, torments his brother Peter, creates havoc at his birthday party, and plans revenge when Moody Margaret won't let him into her secret club.

CD90 Mr Stink – Walliams, David (3 CDs) "Mr Stink stank. He also stunk. And if it was correct English to say he stinked, then he stinked as well..." It all starts when Chloe makes friends with Mr Stink, the local tramp. Yes, he smells a bit. But when it looks like he might be driven out of town, Chloe decides to hide him in the garden shed. Now Chloe's got to make sure no one finds out her secret. And speaking of secrets, there just might be more to Mr Stink than meets the eye...or the nose.

CD91 Gangsta Granny – Walliams, David (3 CDs) Our hero Ben is bored beyond belief after he is made to stay at his grandma's house. She's the boringest grandma ever: all she wants to do is to play Scrabble, and eat cabbage soup. But there are two things Ben doesn't know about his grandma. 1) She was once an international jewel thief. 2) All her life, she has been plotting to steal the Crown Jewels, and now she needs Ben's help...

CD92 Ratburger – Walliams, David (3 CDs) From the bestselling author of Gangsta Granny and Demon Dentist comes another hilarious, action-packed and touching novel - the story of a little girl called Zoe. Things are not looking good for Zoe. Her stepmother Sheila is so lazy she gets Zoe to pick her nose for her. The school bully Tina Trotts makes her life a misery - mainly by flobbing on her head. And now the evil Burt from Burt's Burgers is after her pet rat! And guess what he wants to do with it?

CD93 Cliffhanger – Wilson, Jaqueline (1 CD/75 mins) Cliffhanger is about a boy called Tim, a very un-sporty and very un-adventurous boy who is forced to go on an adventure holiday by his dad in hope to toughen him up. Despite Tim's horror, he is forced to go there and his no-sport brain is full of sports and adventure that he has to adjust to.

CD94 A Clockwork Orange – Burgess, Anthony (7 CDs/8 hours) Unabridged The novel is set in a strange, dystopian future and focusses on the character of Alex, our 15 year old anti-hero, who spends his free time indulging in ultra-violence, theft, and classical music. What's amazing is how Burgess gradually makes the reader become so sympathetic to his 'hero'. Alex is bright, witty, defiant; openly confiding his thoughts and feelings to his audience - his "brothers". When the state locks him up and starts altering him with the morally dodgy "Ludovico Technique" one can't help but side with him against his 'doctors'.

DVDs

DVD 1 Doctor Who. Series 1. Vol 1 (12/133 mins) DVD 2 Doctor Who. Series 1. Vol 2 (12/132 mins) DVD 4 Glasgow Through The Ages (E/55 mins) DVD 5 The Incredibles (U/111 mins) DVD 6 Wallace & Gromit’s World of Inventions (U/175 mins) x 2 copies DVD 7 Spider Man 2 (PG/122 mins) DVD 8 Top Ten Australia (E/52 mins) DVD 9 Holes (PG/113 mins) DVD 13 Eyewitness Interactive – Rainforest (E/65 mins) DVD 14 The Cat In The Hat (PG/78 mins) DVD 15 The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy (12/104 mins) DVD 18 Of Mice And Men (PG/106 mins) DVD 19 Madagascar (U/82 mins) DVD 21 SharkTale (U/86 mins) DVD 23 Harry Potter & The Chamber Of Secrets (PG/154 mins) DVD 25 Peter Pan (PG/109 mins) DVD 26 Extreme Weather Experience (E/70 mins) DVD 28 Sense & Sensibility (U/131 mins) x 2 copies DVD 29 Eyewitness Interactive – Natural Disasters (E/70 mins) DVD 30 The BFG (U/88 mins) DVD 31 The Secret Garden (U/97 mins) DVD 32 James & The Giant Peach (U/76 mins) DVD 33 Goodnight Mister Tom (PG/101 mins) DVD 34 The Adventures Of Tintin. Vol 1 (U/164 mins) DVD 35 Little Women (U/114 mins) DVD 36 Eyewitness Interactive – Dinosaur (E/65 mins) DVD 37 A Little Princess (U/93 mins) DVD 39 Eyewitness. Monster (E/65 mins) DVD 40 Titanic (12/189 mins) DVD 41 To Kill A Mockingbird (12/124 mins) DVD 42 Carrie’s War (U/90 mins) DVD 43 Amelie (15/116 mins) DVD 44 The Crucible (12/118 mins) DVD 45 Macbeth (PG/146 mins) DVD 46 Antz (PG/80 mins) DVD 47 The Boy In The Stripped Pyjamas (12/90 mins) DVD 49 Hamlet (PG/129 mins)

DVD 50 Eyewitness. Planets (E/65 mins) DVD 53 Snow Falling On Cedars (15/122 mins) DVD 54 King Lear (PG/132 mins) DVD 55 How To Be A Ballet Dancer (E/48 mins) DVD 56 Horrible Histories. Groovy Greeks/Extraordinary Explorers/Battlin’ Bolivar (U/69 mins) DVD 57 FIFA Fever. Vol 1 (E/95 mins) DVD 58 FIFA Fever. Vol 2 (E/100 mins) DVD 59 All The Goals. FIFA World Cup Germany 2006 (E/130 mins) DVD 60 Horrible Histories. Savage Stone Age/Wild West/Amazing Aussies (U/69 mins) DVD 61 The Polar Express (U/96 mins) DVD 63 The Olympics Through Time (E/73 mins) DVD 64 The Da Vinci Code (12/144 mins) DVD 66 Happy Feet (U/104 mins) DVD 69 Eragon (PG/99 mins) DVD 70 Babe (U/92 mins) DVD 73 101 Dalmations (U/99 mins) DVD 74 The Water Horse (PG/107 mins) DVD 76 Charlotte’s Web (U/93 mins) DVD 77 Emma (U/107 mins) DVD 79 Pride And Prejudice (U/121 mins) DVD 81 The Kite Runner (12/122 mins) DVD 83 Eyewitness. Desert (E/35 mins) DVD 84 Skellig (PG/100 mins) DVD 85 Touching The Void (15/101 mins) DVD 87 Twilight (12/117 mins) DVD 88 The Diary Of Anne Frank (PG/145 mins) DVD89 Eclipse (12/119 mins) DVD90 The Diary of Anne Frank (PG/145 mins) DVD91 The Diary of Anne Frank (PG/145 mins) DVD92 The Diary of Anne Frank (PG/145 mins)