Alison Larkin
101) A Mole Like No Other
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'A Mole Like No Other' by Julia B. Grantham is a fresh, delightful story about a toy mole who is looking for love, friendship and his place in the world.
The tale of Moley and his friends is set in a cosy English country house with a traditional garden. While it is especially popular amongst 5 - 10 year olds, children of all ages will love Moley's adventure, subtle literary references and tongue-in-cheek humor.
This charming new tale is brought...
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Award winning narrator Alison Larkin brings her signature wit and charm to this Audiofile Earphones Award winning recording.
Peter Pan
All children, except one, grow up.' When Peter flies into the Darling home looking for his shadow he teaches Wendy, John and Michael how to fly with him back to the island of Neverland. There they embark on an 'awfully big adventure.
The Inconsiderate Waiter
In the world of the Victorian Club, it does not do for...
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A personal indictment of the institute of slavery in the Southern United States, as witnessed directly by Fanny Kemble, a British actress in 1838 and 1839. Her husband, the heir to the plantations in Georgia, however, forebade her to publish this material on pain of never seeing her daughters again. She complied, until the two daughters had reached the age of twenty-one, and then allowed the journal to be published in 1863, when the Northern troops...
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The friends are going on a birthday adventure to visit the Lollipop Garden through the Rainbow Forest. They go down the Lemonade River on a boat that can almost fly. They meet a herd of talking words. Eventually they arrive at a very sickly Lollipop Garden. To cure the Lollipop flowers and save the harvest they must explore the Sweet Rock Cave and outwit an ancient magic.
Likened to Alice in Wonderland, the captivating story of 10-year-old Tickle...
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Alice in Wonderland and Jabberwocky are brought to sparkling new life in this brilliant recording by internationally acclaimed comedienne Alison Larkin, and Audie Award-winning narrator Derek Perkins.
The recordings are followed by a short excerpt from the Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll, by Carroll's nephew Stuart Dodgson Collingwood.
Cover illustration by Lisa Cavender.
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This fresh and hugely entertaining narration joined with Lewis Carroll's surreal genius results in pure, boundless FUN. Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass brilliantly capture a young girl's feelings about growing up in a nonsensical world. Sylvie and Bruno was Lewis Carroll's final novel and is followed by Carroll's delightful nonsense poem The Hunting of the Snark.
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After a busy day what could be better than getting into bed and listening to some of the world's most beloved classic bedtime stories exquisitely read by Alison Larkin and iconic British actress Virginia McKenna, OBE? Larkin's hugely popular reading of Alice in Wonderland is followed by Beauty and the Beast and The Princess and the Goblin.
109) The Disney Fairies Collection, Volume 1: The Trouble with Tink; Beck and the Great Berry Battle
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Includes titles 1 & 2 in the Disney Fairies Collection: The Trouble with Tink and Beck and the Great Berry Battle
The Trouble with Tink
Tinker Bell is the best fairy in all of Pixie Hollow. But then she loses her tinker’s hammer. The good news is that Tink has a spare hammer. The bad news is that she left it at Peter Pan’s hideout and they’re no longer speaking! Will Tink be able to make up with her old friend –
...110) Bedtime Stories
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These beautifully read bedtime stories are perfect to listen to at the end of a busy day.
Alison Larkin's AudioFile Earphones award winning narration of The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett is followed by her hugely popular reading of Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll and The Birthday Dinosaur by Alison Larkin.
In addition to being the narrator of over 250 audiobooks, including The Complete Novels of Jane Austen, Alison Larkin is...
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The first great fantasy novel, The Princess and the Goblin, published in 1872, had a strong influence on C S Lewis and J R Tolkien - who have inspired many of our greatest writers of modern-day fantasy, from J K Rowling to Sarah J Maas.. It is loved by fans of fantasy fiction to this day.
Eight-year-old Princess Irene lives in a remote mountainous region with no one but her nursemaid for company. Then she meets a mysterious old woman and Curdie,...
112) Middlemarch
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Set in a provincial Victorian neighborhood, the author explores the complex social relationship and the struggle to hold fast to personal tragedy in a materialistic environment.
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Based on the theme 'The Wonder of Words', the fourth year of the Jane Austen Literacy Foundation short story writing competition attracted a wonderful range of original stories that were a delight to read. Three finalist stories were chosen by the special Jane Austen Literacy Foundation judging panel including Susannah Harker (Jane Bennet, BBC Television Pride & Prejudice 1995) and Natalie Jenner (International bestselling author of The Jane Austen...
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Award winning audiobook narrator, bestselling author and comedienne Alison Larkin selects and introduces fairytales of strong, independent, brave, at times irreverent girls and women who take charge of their lives, go on their own adventures, rescue themselves and sometimes even save the men they love. These are not stories of helpless females shut up in high towers waiting around for a handsome man to rescue them while they sleep for years or from...
115) Winnie-the-Pooh
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The adventures of Christopher Robin and his friends, in which Pooh Bear uses a balloon to get honey, Piglet meets a Heffalump, and Eeyore has a birthday.
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Exit Wounds is a thrilling anthology of crime stories written by masters of the genre, including Dean Koontz, Val McDermid, Lee Child, Jeffery Deaver, Elly Griffiths, Dennis Lehane, Joe R. Lansdale, and others.
After an introduction by the editors, Paul B. Kane and Marie O'Regan, this collection includes the following stories:
"The Bully" by Jeffery Deaver"Dead Weight" by Fiona Cummins"Like a Glass Jaw" by Mark Billingham"On The Anatomization...