Listen to an extract from Princess Mirror-Belle by Julia Donaldson, read by Sophie Thompson.

A collection of funny and exciting Princess Mirror-Belle adventures.

From the bestselling author of The Gruffalo, Julia Donaldson, comes Princess Mirror-Belle, the exciting adventures of a princess with a difference. Princess Mirror-Belle is perfect for fans who are beginning to read on their own.

Ellen gets a big shock when her double appears out of the bathroom mirror. But Mirror-Belle is a double with a difference! 

She is a princess, and a very mischievous one at that. Join magically mischievous Mirror-Belle as she comes popping out of Ellen's mirror to sweep her into a variety of hilarious escapades - from battling with Dragon Pox to exploring a department store and helping out with the local pantomine. 

You can always guarantee that wherever Mirror-Belle goes, trouble will follow.

http://www.panmacmillan.com/book/juliadonaldson/princessmirrorbelle?format=978144728562501


Princess Mirror-Belle - Julia Donaldson

Listen to the poem All Change from Wriggle and Roar by Julia Donaldson, illustrated by Nick Sharratt, and read by Justin Fletcher.

A wonderful rhyme audio book full of action and noise - guaranteed to make kids love poetry!

Whenever I'm tired of being me
I swing around like a chimpanzee.

Are you tired of being you? Here's a whole bookful of things you can do! There are rhymes to make you wriggle and giggle, shrug and sigh, snap like a crocodile and slither like a snake.

http://www.panmacmillan.com/book/juliadonaldson/wriggleandroar?format=978150980945501

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Wriggle And Roar - Julia Donaldson

Roald Dahl's wickedly funny novels have turned him into the world's number 1 storyteller. In this collection five splendiferous stories are brought to life by the author himself.

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Abridged)
Willy Wonka's famous chocolate factory is opening at last!

James and the Giant Peach (Abridged) 
A little magic can take you a long way

Fantastic Mr. Fox (Unabridged) 
Nobody outfoxes Fantastic Mr. Fox!

The Enormous Crocodile (Unabridged) 
This greedy crocodile loves to guzzle up little boys and girls

The Magic Finger (Unabridged) 
Horrible neighbors learn their lesson from a little girl with powerful magic!

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James And The Giant Peach by Roald Dahl, read by Roald Dahl (audiobook extract)

Roald Dahl's wickedly funny novels have turned him into the world's number 1 storyteller. In this collection five splendiferous stories are brought to life by the author himself.

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Abridged)
Willy Wonka's famous chocolate factory is opening at last!

James and the Giant Peach (Abridged) 
A little magic can take you a long way

Fantastic Mr. Fox (Unabridged) 
Nobody outfoxes Fantastic Mr. Fox!

The Enormous Crocodile (Unabridged) 
This greedy crocodile loves to guzzle up little boys and girls

The Magic Finger (Unabridged) 
Horrible neighbors learn their lesson from a little girl with powerful magic!

The Enormous Crocodile by Roald Dahl, read by Roald Dahl (audiobook extract)

‘Crazy Rich Asians’ author Kevin Kwan chats to Nihal about his new book ‘Sex and Vanity’ - the story of a young woman who finds herself torn between two men.

Kevin discusses some objects which have inspired him and chats to Nihal about why the island of Capri is so important to him, and how he used to make best dressed lists #PenguinPodcast

‘Sex and Vanity’ is available to buy as an audiobook now - https://apple.co/33UuhbY

The Penguin Podcast: Kevin Kwan with Nihal Arthanayake

'A dazzling, vibrant, vision-changing book. I ended it wonderstruck at the fungal world. A remarkable work by a remarkable writer’ Robert Macfarlane, author of Underland

The more we learn about fungi, the less makes sense without them.

Neither plant nor animal, they are found throughout the earth, the air and our bodies. They can be microscopic, yet also account for the largest organisms ever recorded. They enabled the first life on land, can survive unprotected in space and thrive amidst nuclear radiation. In fact, nearly all life relies in some way on fungi.

These endlessly surprising organisms have no brain but can solve problems and manipulate animal behaviour with devastating precision. In giving us bread, alcohol and life-saving medicines, fungi have shaped human history, and their psychedelic properties have recently been shown to alleviate a number of mental illnesses. Their ability to digest plastic, explosives, pesticides and crude oil is being harnessed in break-through technologies, and the discovery that they connect plants in underground networks, the ‘Wood Wide Web’, is transforming the way we understand ecosystems. Yet over ninety percent of their species remain undocumented.

Entangled Life is a mind-altering journey into a spectacular and neglected world, and shows that fungi provide a key to understanding both the planet on which we live, and life itself.

'One of those rare books that can truly change the way you see the world around you. Astounding' Helen MacDonald, author of H Is for Hawk

Entangled Life - written and read by Merlin Sheldrake

The first novel from the award-winning, best-selling author of Everything I Know About Love. 

32-year-old Nina Dean is a successful food writer with a loyal online following, but a life that is falling apart. When she uses dating apps for the first time, she becomes a victim of ghosting, and by the most beguiling of men. Her beloved dad is vanishing in slow motion into dementia, and she's starting to think about ageing and the gendered double-standard of the biological clock. On top of this she has to deal with her mother's desire for a mid-life makeover and the fact that all her friends seem to be slipping away from her.... 

Dolly Alderton's debut novel is funny, tender and painfully relatable, filled with whip-smart observations about relationships and the way we live today.

Ghosts by Dolly Alderton, read by Holliday Grainger

Three years after a virus wiped out 99% of the men on earth, a mother and son are on the run . . .

All Cole has left in the world is her boy, Miles.

With men now a prized commodity, keeping him safe means breaking hastily written new rules - and leaving her own sister for dead.

All Miles has left in the world is his mother.

But is one person enough to save him from the many who would kill to get their hands on a living boy?

Together, Cole and Miles embark on a journey across a changed, hostile country, towards a freedom they may never reach. And when Cole's sister tracks them down, they'll need to decide who to trust - and what loyalty really means in this unimaginable new world.

The compulsive and long-awaited new thriller from the author of Richard and Judy bestseller The Shining Girls and the prize-winning Zoo City

Afterland

Author and historian Ben Macintyre talks to Nihal about his new book ‘Agent Sonya’ - the story of the greatest female spy of the 20th Century.
 
Ben chats to Nihal about how ‘Sonya’s’ gender helped her stay under deep cover for so many years. Ben’s inspirational objects include a jar of chutney given to him from M15 and the jaw-dropping story of his great uncle’s pocketbook (which literally saved his life).  #PenguinPodcast

‘Agent Sonya’ is available to buy as an audiobook now - https://apple.co/32NX94J

The Penguin Podcast: Ben Macintyre with Nihal Arthanayake

Listen to an excerpt from LET US DREAM by Pope Francis and Austen Ivereigh and read by Arthur Morey

LET US DREAM Audiobook Excerpt

A little magic can take you a long way.

After James Henry Trotter's parents are tragically eaten by a rhinoceros, he goes to live with his two horrible aunts, Spiker and Sponge. Life there is no fun, until James accidentally drops some magic crystals by the old peach tree and strange things start to happen. The peach at the top of the tree begins to grow, and before long it's as big as a house. Inside, James meets a bunch of oversized friends—Grasshopper, Centipede, Ladybug, and more. With a snip of the stem, the peach starts rolling away, and the great adventure begins!

On sale July 25, 2013.

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James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl, read by Julian Rhind-Tutt

Penguin Books publishes blockbusting, prize-winning, celebrated, controversial, heart-warming, thought-provoking and inspiring books by a range of authors from Ali Smith to Zadie Smith, Jeremy Clarkson to Jeremy Paxman and Jamie Oliver to Oliver Goldsmith.

Entangled Life - written and read by Merlin Sheldrake

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