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Listen to a selection of extracts from our Roald Dahl audiobooks - from Kate Winslet's brilliant rendition of Hortensia to Peter Serafinowicz's Sergeant Samways, there's a little something for everyone. 

While you're here, why not check out our Roald Dahl audiobooks app for iOS. More information over on iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/roald-dahl-audiobooks/id732002985?mt=8

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An extract from audiobook edition of Jussi Adler-Olsen's sensational new thriller, read by the actor Steven Pacey. 

Two boys, brothers, wake tied and bound in a boathouse by the sea. Their kidnapper has gone, but soon he will return. Their bonds are inescapable. But there is a bottle and tar to seal it. Paper and a splinter for writing; blood for ink. A message begging for help.

In Copenhagen's cold cases division Carl Mørck has received a bottle. It holds an old and decayed message, written in blood. It is a cry for help from two boys. Is it real? Who are they and why weren't they reported missing? Can they possibly still be alive?

Jussi Adler-Olsen: Redemption (Audiobook Extract) read by Steven Pacey

An extract from the new audiobook edition of Roald Dahl's The Twits, read by IT Crowd star Richard Ayoade. 

About the book:
Mr Twit is a foul and smelly man with bits of cornflake and sardine in his beard.
Mrs Twit is a horrible old hag with a glass eye.

They've kept Muggle-Wump monkeys caged in the garden for far too long, and now the monkeys want to take their revenge . . .

Roald Dahl: The Twits (Audiobook Extract) read by Richard Ayoade

Douglas Hodge, aka Willy Wonka in the new musical of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, narrates this special podcast all about the making of the new Roald Dahl audiobooks, to celebrate the launch of our new Roald Dahl Audiobooks app.

And now you can hear all your favourite Roald Dahl stories in one phizz-whizzing FREE app, with such whipplescrumptious celebrity readers as Kate Winslet, David Walliams and Stephen Fry. With specially composed music and sound-effects recorded at Pinewood Film Studios, this is audio storytelling as you have never heard it before.

Download your best-loved Roald Dahl story and enjoy some foulsome fiends, tricksy inventors and magical mischief with your morning brew.

With fantastic features including free access to the first chapter of every title, in–app purchase to continue the story and the ability to stream the audiobooks, the Roald Dahl audiobooks app is available from the App Store on iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch or at www.itunes.com/appstore.

The Penguin Podcast: The Making of the Roald Dahl Audiobooks feat. Douglas Hodge & Chris O'Dowd

Swizzle your ears for some of the finest, most fantastic first words every written, spoken and dreamt. Stay tuned for more extracts from Roald Dahl’s best loved children’s stories and if you like what you hear then visit the Apple App. Store to download the Audiobooks App for free!

Have a listen to Matilda, read by Kate Winslet, which was recognized by the American Library Association as an Odyssey Honour Book. 

With fantastic features including free access to the first chapter of every title, in–app purchase to continue the story and the ability to stream the audiobooks, the Roald Dahl Audiobooks App is available from the App Store on iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch or at www.itunes.com/appstore.


Roald Dahl: Matilda read by Kate Winslet

Swiggle your ears for some of the finest, most fantastic first words every written, spoken and dreamt. Stay tuned for more extracts from Roald Dahl’s best loved children’s stories and if you like what you hear then visit the Apple App. Store to download the Audiobooks App and listen to 19 first chapters for FREE!

With fantastic features including free access to the first chapter of every title, in–app purchase to continue the story and the ability to stream the audiobooks, the Roald Dahl Audiobooks App is available from the App Store on iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch or at www.itunes.com/appstore.

Roald Dahl: BFG read by David Walliams

Swizzle your ears for some of the finest, most fantastic first words every written, spoken and dreamt. Stay tuned for more extracts from Roald Dahl’s best loved children’s stories and if you like what you hear then visit the Apple App. Store to download the Audiobooks App for free!

With fantastic features including free access to the first chapter of every title, in–app purchase to continue the story and the ability to stream the audiobooks, the Roald Dahl Audiobooks App is available from the App Store on iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch or at www.itunes.com/appstore.



Roald Dahl: James and the Giant Peach read by Julian Rhind-Tutt

Swizzle your ears for some of the finest, most fantastic first words every written, spoken and dreamt. Stay tuned for more extracts from Roald Dahl’s best loved children’s stories and if you like what you hear then visit the Apple App. Store to download the Audiobooks App for free!

With fantastic features including free access to the first chapter of every title, in–app purchase to continue the story and the ability to stream the audiobooks, the Roald Dahl audiobooks app is available from the App Store on iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch or at www.itunes.com/appstore. 

Have a listen to Matilda, read by Kate Winslet, which was recognized by the American Library Association as an Odyssey Honour Book.

Roald Dahl: The Enormous Crocodile read by Stephen Fry

INSIDEINFO - GROW EP
1. I Am Something Else (InsideInfo &  Neonlight)
2. Honey Bee (Audio Remix)
3. Bottled (feat. Sw@t)
4. Hear Me Roar (InsideInfo & Smooth)
5. Real World (feat. Girl X)
6. Didgeridoo
7. Grow

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InsideInfo & Smooth - Hear Me Roar

The unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of Bitch, a short, sharp, saucy story from Roald Dahl, the master of the shocking tale. Read by the actors Derek Jacobi and Richard E. Grant.

In Bitch, Roald Dahl, one of the world's favourite authors, tells a funny, fruity story about one of his favourite characters, adventurer and seducer Oswald Hendryks Cornelius. Here, Uncle Oswald gets involved with an aphrodisiac that drives men wild with passion . . .

Bitch is taken from the short story collection Switch Bitch, which includes three other black comedies which capture the ins and outs, highs and lows of sex (including another Uncle Oswald story, The Visitor).

This story is also available as a Penguin ebook.

Roald Dahl: Bitch (Audiobook Extract) read by Derek Jacobi and Richard E Grant

Roald Dahl: The Great Switcheroo (Audiobook Extract) read by Shane Rimmer

Roald Dahl: The Visitor (Audiobook Extract) read by Richard E Grant and Derek Jacobi

An extract from the unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of Susan Cain's ground-breaking book Quiet, brilliantly read by Kathe Mazur.

About the book:

In Quiet, the international bestseller, Susan Cain shows how the brain chemistry of introverts and extroverts differs, and how society misunderstands and undervalues introverts. She gives introverts the tools to better understand themselves and take full advantage of their strengths.

Passionately argued, superbly researched, and filled with real stories, Quiet will permanently change how we see introverts - and how you see yourself.

Susan Cain: Quiet (Audiobook Extract) read by Kathe Mazur

An extract from the unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of Anne Frank's The Diary of a Young Girl, including the 5 'missing pages' discovered by the Anne Frank Foundation in 2001. Insightfully read by the actress Helena Bonham Carter. 

The book is now also available digitally, watch the app trailer here: po.st/hTXSEh 

In Amsterdam, in the summer of 1942, the Nazis forced teenager Anne Frank and her family into hiding. For over two years, they, another family and a German dentist lived in a 'secret annexe', fearing discovery. All that time, Anne kept a diary.

An intimate record of tension and struggle, adolescence and confinement, anger and heartbreak, Anne Frank's diary is one of those unique documents, famed throughout the world.It portrays innocence and humanity, suffering and survival in the starkest and most moving terms.

Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl (Saturday, 20th June 1942) read by Helena Bonham Carter

The masterpiece of Steinbeck's later years-a vastly ambitious novel that is at once a family saga and a modern retelling of the Book of Genesis

In his journal, Steinbeck called East of Eden "the first book," and indeed it has the primordial power and simplicity of myth. Set in the rich farmland of California's Salinas Valley, this sprawling and often brutal novel follows the intertwined destinies of two families-the Trasks and the Hamiltons-whose generations helplessly reenact the fall of Adam and Eve and the poisonous rivalry of Cain and Abel. Here is a work in which Steinbeck created his most mesmerizing characters and explored his most enduring themes: the mystery of identity, the inexplicability of love, and the murderous consequences of love's absence.

Available for purchase at:
<a href="http://www.us.penguingroup.com/nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,9780142429211,00.html?East_of_Eden_John_Steinbeck">Penguin.com - Audiobook (CD format)</a>
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<a href="http://www.amazon.com/East-of-Eden/dp/B0055WXTPQ/ref=tmm_aud_title_0?ie=UTF8&qid=1361998317&sr=1-1">Amazon - Audiobook (downloadable format)</a>
<a href="http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/east-of-eden-john-steinbeck/1100594195?ean=9780142429211">Barnes & Noble - Audiobook (CD format)</a>
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East of Eden by John Steinbeck, read by Richard Poe

Moms Who Drink and Swear: True Tales of Loving My Kids While Losing My Mind


If you feel like your kids are killing you, you’ve come to the right place.

Attention all potty-mouthed, cheap-wine-drinking mothers: Prepare to meet your match. Any bad thought you’ve had about your kids, Nicole Knepper has had worse. Much worse. It’s not that she doesn’t love her kids. It’s that she understands what a mind-f*?% it can be to try to civilize those wild little beasts.

Based on her hugely popular Facebook page, “Moms Who Drink and Swear,” this book reveals why family dinners are like herpes, how to avoid smashing toys that are being fought over, and the joy of hearing that your son has murdered his imaginary friend. As Nicole rants and raves about caring for children (without crushing their souls), family togetherness (without too many tears), the saving grace of girlfriends (and vodka), and love and marriage (and all the baggage that goes with them), she gets to the heart of what every exasperated mom is thinking, just much funnier.  

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Moms Who Drink and Swear, written and read by Nicole Knepper

Title music For Penguin Audio Books The Twits by Rold Dahl

The Twits - Roald Dahl audio books / Penguin Publishing

Whoopsy-splunkers! Bend your ears and have a listen to this clip - can you guess who the readers are and what stories they are reading? 
 
Did you know, you can also listen to longer extracts of these Roald Dahl audiobooks on our Soundcloud channel as well?

https://soundcloud.com/penguin-books/the-enormous-crocodile
https://soundcloud.com/penguin-books/danny-the-champion-of-the-world
https://soundcloud.com/penguin-books/the-bfg
https://soundcloud.com/penguin-books/matilda
https://soundcloud.com/penguin-books/charlie-and-the-chocolate-factory
https://soundcloud.com/penguin-books/charlie-and-the-great-glass-elevator

New Roald Dahl audiobooks are coming! Listen to the clip and guess the stories & who's reading them

Penguin Audiobooks Roald Dahl's classic Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, read by Douglas Hodge, who plays Willy Wonka in the West End musical. This audiobook features original music and sound design by Pinewood film studios.

Charlie Bucket desperately wants to eat more than cabbage soup every day. But even more than that, he longs to see Wonka's enormous chocolate factory!

Now Mr Willy Wonka, the most wondrous inventor in the world, has hidden golden tickets inside his delicious creamy chocolate bars. Only five winners can go through those great iron gates; will one of them be Charlie?

Douglas Hodge is a multi-award-winning English actor, with Olivier and Tony awards for his performance in La Cage aux Folles, and nominations for his leading roles in Cyrano de Bergerac, Guys and Dolls and Inadmissible Evidence. In 2013 he is playing the role of Willy Wonka in Sam Mendes' musical of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

This audiobook CD is available to buy from penguin.co.uk, Amazon.co.uk and all good bookshops.


Roald Dahl: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Audiobook Extract) read by Douglas Hodge

Penguin Audiobooks presents Roald Dahl's Matilda, read by multi-award-winning actress Kate Winslet.

Matilda Wormwood is an extraordinary genius with really stupid parents.
Miss Trunchbull is her terrifying headmistress who thinks all her pupils are rotten little stinkers.

But Matilda will show these horrible grown-ups that even though she's only small, she's got some very powerful tricks up her sleeve . . .

Kate Winslet's award-winning and varied career has included standout roles in Titanic, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Finding Neverland, Revolutionary Road and The Reader, for which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress. Also a highly acclaimed voice artist, she received the Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album for Children for Listen to the Storyteller.

This audiobook CD is available to buy from penguin.co.uk, Waterstones.co.uk, Foyles.co.uk, Amazon.co.uk and all good bookshops.

Roald Dahl: Matilda (Audiobook Extract) read by Kate Winslet

Penguin Audiobooks presents Roald Dahl's The BFG, read by actor, writer, and Britain's Got Talent judge David Walliams. This audiobook features original music and sound design by Pinewood film studios.

The BFG is a nice and jumbly giant. In fact, he is the only big friendly giant in Giant Country.

All the other giants are big bonecrunching brutes, and now the BFG and his friend Sophie must stop them guzzling up little human beans - with some help from Her Majester, the Queen.

David Walliams is a multi-award winning British comedian, actor and writer, best known for the comedy series Little Britain; but his acting work includes plays, dramas and films. He is also the author of five hugely successful children's books, including two illustrated by Quentin Blake - Roald Dahl's favourite illustrator.

Roald Dahl: The BFG (Audiobook Extract) read by David Walliams

Penguin Audiobooks presents Roald Dahl's classic Danny the Champion of the World, read with warmth by the actor and comedian Peter Serafinowicz.

Danny thinks his dad is the most marvellous and exciting father any boy ever had - but Danny's dad has a very big secret.

This secret leads them both into the strangest adventure of their lives, and a daring plot that makes Danny the champion of the world.

Peter Serafinowicz is an award-winning English actor, writer, voice-artist, comedian and director. He has appeared in films such as Shaun of the Dead and Couples Retreat. As a voice artist his roles have ranged from Darth Maul in Star Wars Episode 1: The Phantom Menace to Driver Dan in the CBeebies programme StoryTrain.

This audiobook CD is available to buy from penguin.co.uk, Amazon.co.uk and all good bookshops.

Roald Dahl: Danny the Champion of the World (Audiobook Extract) read by Peter Serafinowicz

Stephen Fry reads this enhanced audiobook edition of Roald Dahl's The Enormous Crocodile.  The audiobook features original music and 3D sound design by Pinewood film studios.

The Enormous Crocodile is a greedy grumptious brute who loves to guzzle up little girls and boys.

But the other animals have a scheme to get the better of this foul fiend, once and for all!

Stephen Fry is an award-winning comedian, actor, presenter, director and writer. Television work includes A Bit of Fry and Laurie, Jeeves and Wooster, Blackadder and the host of QI. On film, he played Oscar Wilde, and appeared in Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows
and The Hobbit. His voice work includes narrating the Harry Potter books.

Roald Dahl:The Enormous Crocodile (Audiobook Extract) read by Stephen Fry. SFX by Pinewood Studios

Penguin Audiobooks presents Roald Dahl's classic Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator, read by the actor Douglas Hodge, who plays Willy Wonka in the hit musical adaptation of the book.  This audiobook features original music.

Charlie Bucket and his family are rushing around the Earth at seventeen-thousand miles an hour in a great glass elevator.

It belongs to the fantastic Mr Willy Wonka, and the adventure becomes even greater upon discovering they're not the only ones orbiting the Earth at that particular time . . .

Douglas Hodge is a multi-award-winning English actor, with Olivier and Tony awards for his performance in La Cage aux Folles, and nominations for his leading roles in Cyrano de Bergerac, Guys and Dolls and Inadmissible Evidence. In 2013 he is playing the role of Willy Wonka in Sam Mendes' musical of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

Roald Dahl: Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator (Audiobook Extract) read by Douglas Hodge

Willy Wonka's famous chocolate factory is opening at last!

But only five lucky children will be allowed inside. And the winners are: Augustus Gloop, an enormously fat boy whose hobby is eating; Veruca Salt, a spoiled-rotten brat whose parents are wrapped around her little finger; Violet Beauregarde, a dim-witted gum-chewer with the fastest jaws around; Mike Teavee, a toy pistol-toting gangster-in-training who is obsessed with television; and Charlie Bucket, Our Hero, a boy who is honest and kind, brave and true, and good and ready for the wildest time of his life!

On sale July 3, 2013

Available for purchase at:
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<a href="http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/charlie-and-the-chocolate-factory-roald-dahl/1100047145?ean=9781611761818">Barnes & Noble - Audiobook (CD format)</a>
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<a href="http://www.audible.com/pd/ref=sr_1_2?asin=B00D8J5IMU&qid=1372087823&sr=1-2">Audible - Audiobook (downloadable format)</a>
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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl, read by Douglas Hodge

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Roald Dahl: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Audiobook Extract) read by Douglas Hodge

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