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An extract from the unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of Rick Riordan's The Kane Chronicles: The Red Pyramid, read by Joseph May and Jane Collingwood.

About the book:

Percy Jackson fought Greek Gods. Now the Gods of Egypt are waking in the modern world....

I guess it started the night out dad blew up the British Museum....

Carter and Sadie Kane's dad is a brilliant Egyptologist with a secret plan that goes horribly wrong. An explosion shatters the ancient Rosetta stone and unleashes Set, the evil god of chaos.

Set imprisons Dr Kane in a golden coffin and Carter and Sadie must run for their lives. To save their dad, they embark on a terrifying quest from Cairo to Paris to the American Southwest and discover the truth about their family's connection to the House of Life: an Egyptian temple of magic that has existed for thousands of years. The pharaohs of ancient Egypt are far from dead and buried. And so, unfortunately, are their gods....

Rick Riordan: The Red Pyramid (The Kane Chronicles #1) read by Jane Collingwood & Joseph May

An extract from the unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of The Kane Chronicles: The Throne of Fire, read by Joseph May and Jane Collingwood. Ever since the gods of Ancient Egypt were unleashed on the modern world, Carter Kane and his sister, Sadie, have been in big trouble. As descendants of the magical House of Life, they command certain powers. But now a terrifying enemy - Apophis, the giant snake of chaos - is rising. If Carter and Sadie don't destroy him, the world will end in five days' time. And in order to battle the forces of chaos, they must revive the sun god Ra - a feat no magician has ever achieved. Because first they must search the world for the three sections of the Book of Ra, then they have to learn how to chant its spells...

Can the Kanes destroy Apophis before he swallows the sun and plunges the earth into darkness... forever?

Rick Riordan: The Throne of Fire (The Kane Chronicles # 2) read by Joseph May & Jane Collingwood

An extract from the unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of The Kane Chronicles: The Serpent's Shadow, read by Joseph May and Jane Collingwood.

Carter and Sadie Kane, descendants of the magical House of Life, are in pretty big trouble. Despite their bravest efforts, Apophis, the giant snake of Chaos, is still threatening to plunge the world into eternal darkness. Now the Kanes must do something no magician has ever managed - defeat Apophis himself. No pressure there then.

Battling against the forces of Chaos, their only hope is an ancient spell - but the magic has been lost for a millennia. Will they find the serpent's shadow, or will they be led to their deaths in the depths of the Underworld?

Rick Riordan: The Serpent's Shadow (The Kane Chronicles # 3) read by Joseph May & Jane Collingwood

An extract from the unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of Beautiful Creatures by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl, read by the actor Kevin T. Collins with Eve Bianco and featuring original music by Michele McGonigle.

About the book:

Is falling in love the beginning . . . Or the end? 

In Ethan Wate's hometown there lies the darkest of secrets.

There is a girl. 
Slowly, she pulled the hood from her head. Green eyes, black hair. Lena Duchannes.

There is a curse. 
On the Sixteenth Moon, the Sixteenth Year, the Book will take what it's been promised. And no one can stop it.

In the end, there is a grave. 
Lena and Ethan become bound together by a deep, powerful love. But Lena is cursed and on her sixteenth birthday, her fate will be decided.

Ethan never even saw it coming. 
The unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of Beautiful Creatures by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl, read by the actor Kevin T. Collins with Eve Bianco and featuring original music by Michele McGonigle.

Is falling in love the beginning . . . Or the end? 

In Ethan Wate's hometown there lies the darkest of secrets.

There is a girl. 
Slowly, she pulled the hood from her head. Green eyes, black hair. Lena Duchannes.

There is a curse. 
On the Sixteenth Moon, the Sixteenth Year, the Book will take what it's been promised. And no one can stop it.

In the end, there is a grave. 
Lena and Ethan become bound together by a deep, powerful love. But Lena is cursed and on her sixteenth birthday, her fate will be decided.

Ethan never even saw it coming. 

This audiobook will be available to download soon from iTunes UK and Audible.co.uk
  


Beautiful Creatures by Kami Garcia & Margaret Stohl: (Audiobook Extract) read by Kevin T. Collins

An extract from the unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of Artemis Fowl, the explosive first novel in Eoin Colfer's bestselling Artemis Fowl series. Read by the actor Gerry O'Brien.

Twelve-year-old villain, Artemis Fowl, is the most ingenious criminal mastermind in history.  His bold and daring plan is to hold a leprechaun to ransom. But he's taking on more than he bargained for when he kidnaps Captain Holly Short of the LEPrecon (Lower Elements Police Reconnaissance Unit). For a start, leprechaun technology is more advanced than our own.  Add to that the fact that Holly is a true heroine and that her senior officer Commander Root will stop at nothing to get her back and you've got the mother of all sieges brewing!

This audiobook will be available to download from iTunes UK and Audible.co.uk from 11th April.

Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer: (Audiobook Extract) read by Gerry O'Brien

An extract from the unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of Eoin Colfer's Artemis Fowl: The Artic Incident, read by the actor Gerry O'Brien.

Someone has been supplying Class A illegal human power sources to the goblins. Captain Holly Short of the LEPrecon Unit is sure that her arch-enemy, thirteen-year-old Artemis Fowl, is responsible. But is he? Artemis has his own problems to deal with: his father is being held to ransom and only a miracle will save him. Maybe this time a brilliant plan just won't be enough. Maybe this time Artemis needs help...

This audiobook will be available to download from iTunes UK and Audible.co.uk from 11th April.

Artemis Fowl and The Arctic Incident by Eoin Colfer: (Audiobook Extract) read by Gerry O'Brien

An extract from the unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of Eoin Colfer's Artemis Fowl: The Opal Deception read by the actor Gerry O'Brien.

Evil pixie, Opal Koboi, is back and she's more dangerous than ever. This time she doesn't just want power over the fairy People - this time she wants the humans too. Captain Holly Short is the only fairy with a hope of stopping her, but as Holly knows, it takes one genius criminal mastermind to fight another. But the 14-year-old genius that Holly is thinking of doesn't even remember that fairies exist. How is she going to convince Artemis Fowl to help her stop Opal? Gold usually does the trick, and this time is should be no different. Or is Artemis changing?

This audiobook is available to download from eMusic.co.uk

Artemis Fowl and The Opal Deception by Eoin Colfer: (Audiobook Extract) read by Gerry O'Brien

An extract from the unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl's Beautiful Darkness, the bewitching second instalment of Ethan and Lena's epic love story. Read by the actor Kevin T. Collins and feauturing original music by Michele McGonigle.

Is death the end . . . or only the beginning?

Ethan Wate always dreamed of leaving the stifling Southern town of Gatlin.

But he never dreamt that finding love with Lena Duchannes would drive him away. Lena is a Caster girl whose supernatural powers unveiled a secretive and cursed side of Gatlin, so powerful it forced him to make a terrible sacrifice.

Now Ethan must find a way to return to Lena - and Gatlin - as she vows to do whatever it takes to get him back. Even if it means trusting old enemies or risking their loved ones' lives.

Can Ethan and Lena rewrite their fate and their spellbinding love story in this stunning finale to the Beautiful Creatures series?
 

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