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This is an audio book version of Roald Dahl's, The Twits, read by Nicholas Rocke. With many different voices it is sure to be a fantastic 
& entertaining listen for a wide range of young children. Have a listen :)

The Twits; an audio book

Catalyst will transform your approach to networking, making it fun and infinitely more effective.

A good business developer, prospector and networker knows how to create a positive connection with the people they meet. They are the catalyst that creates a chemical reaction between strangers, and they know how to convert these opportunities into new business.

Louisa Clarke and David Kean have spent their careers catalysing strangers into contacts and converting contacts into clients - and even into friends. They have built successful businesses together using the proven techniques in this book, and they have helped hundreds of companies around the world win billions in new business by applying the same methods.

Catalyst is full of illustrative anecdotes, hard-won wisdom and a step-by-step methodology. Whatever industry you work in, if you need more clients to buy your services and you're not sure how to find them, convince them or win them, this is the book for you. Follow this approach and new business will come. You might even make some friends along the way.

For many people, networking, prospecting and selling are scary. If the word 'networking' makes you recoil, if the word 'prospecting' conjures up terrifying spectres of endless cold calls, and if you run for the hills at the mention of 'sales', this book will be balm for you. Because, whilst it doesn't make it effortless, it does make it easy.

'Catalyst is a manual for winning business in today's economy, recommended to anyone who wants to grow their client base. Catalyst is brimming with great advice and inspiration' - Annette King, CEO Publicis Groupe UK

Catalyst by David Kean and Louisa Clarke, read by Louisa Clarke (Audiobook extract)

Listen to the "Are You Remarkable?" excerpt from Carmine Gallo's Talk Like TED audiobook, read by the author.

TED talks have redefined the elements of a successful presentation and become the gold standard for public speaking around the world. TED and associated Tedx conferences are held in more than 130 countries and are being viewed at a rate of 1.5 million times a day. These are presentations that set the world on fire, and the techniques that top TED speakers use are the same ones that will make any presentation more dynamic, fire up any team, and give anyone the confidence to overcome their fear of public speaking.

Public speaking coach and bestselling author of The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs Carmine Gallo has broken down the top TED talks and interviewed the most popular TED presenters as well as the top researchers in the fields of psychology and communications to get their cutting-edge insights and to reveal the nine secrets of all successful TED presentations. From “Unleashing the Master Within” and “Delivering Jaw Dropping Moments” to “Sticking to the 18-minute Rule," Gallo provides a step-by-step method that makes it possible for anyone to create, design, and deliver a TED-style presentation that is engaging, persuasive, and memorable.

Ideas are the true currency of the twenty first century, and Gallo gives readers a way to create presentations around the ideas that matter most to them, presentations that will energize their audiences to spread those ideas, launch new initiatives, and reach their highest goals.


Talk Like TED audiobook excerpt - Are You Remarkable?

An extract from this audio download from Ladybird - packed with all the popular nursery songs and rhymes that children tend to learn at nursery and school. Research has shown that parents often don't know the words to popular nursery songs so this is a great resources for both parents and nursery teachers.

Have fun learning the words and singing along to favourite songs such as Old MacDonald Had a Farm, Five Speckled Frogs,  The Wheels on the Bus, The House that Jack Built, Sleeping Bunnies, Wind the Bobbin Up and more.

Ladybird: I'm Ready to Sing! (Audiobook extract)

Penguin presents an extract from the unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of A Bad Spell for the Worst Witch read by Gemma Arterton

A new term spells disaster for Mildred!

After a disastrous first year, Mildred is determined to lose her embarrassing reputation as the worst witch the Academy has ever seen - but things rapidly get out of hand when her arch-enemy Ethel turns her into a frog ...

Jill Murphy: A Bad Spell For The Worst Witch (Audioback extract) Read by Gemma Arterton

Penguin presents an extract from the unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of The Worst Witch read by Gemma Arterton

Hold on to your broom for magical mayhem! Lovable but disaster-prone Mildred Hubble is a trainee at  Miss Cackle's Academy for Witches, but she's making an awful mess of it. She keeps getting her spells wrong and crashing her broomstick. Yet she manages to get by until she turns Ethel, the teacher's pet, into her deadly enemy and chaos ensues . . .

Jill Murphy: The Worst Witch (Audiobook extract) Read by Gemma Arterton

Penguin presents an extract from the unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of The Worst Witch All At Sea read by Gemma Arterton

Hold on to your broom for magical mayhem! Lovable, but disaster-prone Mildred Hubble is a trainee at  Miss Cackle's Academy for Witches, but she's making an awful mess of it. Mildred can't bear to leave behind her beloved cat, Tabby, when the class goes for a week beside the seaside. But keeping Tabby leads Mildred into yet more trouble.

Jill Murphy: The Worst Witch All At Sea (Audiobook extract) Read by Gemma Arterton

Penguin presents an extract from the unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of The Worst Witch Saves The Day read by Gemma Arterton

Hold on to your broom for magical mayhem!

It's the start of a new term at Miss Cackle's Academy for Witches and Mildred Hubble is determined not to be the worst witch this year. Everything starts so well. Mildred's class has a new form teacher - no more Miss Hardbroom for Mildred and her friends! But then the new teacher, Miss Granite, starts acting fishy; Mildred has a very bad hair day when a hair growth spell goes wrong and she has to put up with know-it-all Ethel Hallow being 'helpful'. To top it all, her beloved cat Tabby is having a nervous breakdown and refuses to fly.

Jill Murphy: The Worst Witch Saves The Day (Audiobook extract) Read by Gemma Arterton

Penguin presents an extract from the unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of The Worst Witch Strikes Again read by Gemma Arterton.

Summer term at Miss Cackle's Academy for Witches has just begun and disaster-prone Mildred Hubble is in deep trouble again - all because of the new girl, Enid Nightshade, who isn't nearly as placid as she looks . . .

Jill Murphy: The Worst Witch Strikes Again (Audiobook extract) Read by Gemma Arterton

The wonderful actress Gemma Arterton has brought the Worst Witch books by Jill Murphy to life with the new audiobooks! 
So want to hear how she got into character and why she loves the Worst Witch? We interviewed her down in the Puffin recording studio fresh from her adventures at Miss Cackles Academy for Witches – and it seems Mildred may have met her match. Gemma exclusively revealed that there are a few uncanny similarities between herself and Mildred (even her cat is just like Tabby!) The comparisons get even spookier as Gemma reveals her teacher was also a lot like Miss Hardbroom . . .  listen to the full interview.

More about the Worst Witch
Hold on to your broom for magical mayhem! Lovable but disaster-prone Mildred Hubble is a trainee at Miss Cackle's Academy for Witches, but she's making an awful mess of it. She keeps getting her spells wrong and crashing her broomstick. Yet she manages to get by until she turns Ethel, the teacher's pet, into her deadly enemy and chaos ensues . . .

Worst Witch Audiobooks
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Gemma Arterton on reading the Worst Witch audiobooks

SNOW WHITE -  English Fairy Tale For Kids

The Cuckoo Child: Audio Book

Gruffalo Audio Book

As we continue to celebrate #LoveAudio week, here is a fascinating discussion between author and narrator for the brilliant debut, Mad.

Listen to Chloe Esposito and Emily Atack (seen in The Inbetweeners and Blue Murder) discuss writing and narrating such an unforgettable novel.

Chloe Esposito and Emily Atack in conversation

Penguin presents the downloadable audiobook edition of Old MacDonald Had a Farm and Other Classics Nursery Rhymes.

This entertaining downloadable audiobook collection from Ladybird contains twenty-nine of the best-loved nursery rhymes and songs that children know and love from home, nursery and school. With jaunty music and characterful singers, it's perfect sing-a-long fun for adults and children alike.

Content includes:
Old MacDonald Had a Farm
The House That Jack Built
The Wheels on the Bus
London Bridge is Falling Down
Row, Row, Row Your Boat
There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly
Ten inthe Bed
If You're Happy and You Know It
Wind the Bobbin Up
Five Little Speckled Frogs
One Man Went to Mow
This Old Man
Five Little Monkeys
Incy Wincy Spider
Down in the Jungle
Five Little Men in a Flying Saucer
Ten Fat Sausages
Jelly on a Plate
Sleeping Bunnies
The Farmer's in his Den
One Finger, One Thumb
Five Little Ducks
Baa, Baa, Black Sheep
Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush
The Ants Go Marching
The Grand Old Duke of York
Humpty Dumpty
Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes
Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star


Read more at https://www.penguin.co.uk/ladybird/books/291316/old-macdonald-had-a-farm-and-other-classic-nursery-rhymes/#IzoWYsA8tEEPuUOX.99

Old MacDonald Had a Farm and other nursery rhymes (Audiobook Extract)

Listen to an excerpt of André Aciman's CALL ME BY YOUR NAME audiobook, read by Armie Hammer. 

Now a major motion picture from director Luca Guadagnino, starring Armie Hammer and Timothée Chalamet, and produced by the Academy Award winning producer of A Room with a View 

Celebrate the ten-year anniversary of André Aciman's tempestuous novel with a dynamic new audiobook, read by Armie Hammer

A New York Times Notable Book of the Year

A Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year

A Washington Post Best Fiction Book of the Year

A New York Magazine "Future Canon" Selection

A Chicago Tribune Favorite Book of the Year

One of The Seattle Times' Michael Upchurch's Favorite Books of the Year

Call Me by Your Name is the story of a sudden and powerful romance that blossoms between an adolescent boy and a summer guest at his parents' cliffside mansion on the Italian Riviera. During the restless summer weeks, unrelenting but buried currents of obsession, fascination, and desire intensify their passion as they test the charged ground between them and verge toward the one thing both already fear they may never truly find again: total intimacy. André Aciman's critically acclaimed debut novel is a frank, unsentimental, heartrending elegy to human passion.

Buy the audiobook

Call Me By Your Name by André Aciman, read by Armie Hammer

The Midnight Gang by David Walliams (1-3)

Introduced by Peter Donaldson, Recorded by Joe and Alan Harfield, Unity Recording Studio, Auldearn, Edited and Mixed at dBs Music

'I have written a blasphemous book', said Melville when his novel was first published in 1851, 'and I feel as spotless as the lamb'. Deeply subversive, in almost every way imaginable, Moby-Dick is a virtual, alternative bible - and as such, ripe for reinterpretation in this new world of new media. Out of Dominion was born its bastard child - or perhaps its immaculate conception - the Moby-Dick Big Read: an online version of Melville's magisterial tome: each of its 135 chapters read out aloud, by a mixture of the celebrated and the unknown, to be broadcast online, one new chapter each day, in a sequence of 135 downloads, publicly and freely accessible.

Starting 16 September 2012!

For more info please go to: www.mobydickbigread.com

Chapter 1: Loomings - Read by Tilda Swinton - http://mobydickbigread.com

An extract from the unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of The Further Tales of Peter Rabbit, a new tale written and read by Emma Thompson.

About the book:

In The Further Tale of Peter Rabbit, Peter's adventures take him beyond the boundaries of Mr McGregor's garden all the way to Scotland. Here he meets the gentle giant Finlay McBurney, a distant Scottish relative, and much entertainment ensues. 

Emma Thompson, Oscar-winning actress and screen writer, is a long time admirer of Beatrix Potter's tales. She has a talent for creating engaging narratives with a dry humour similar to Potter's own and is the perfect choice of author for this new Peter Rabbit tale, to be published 110 years after the original. 

Emma was inspired to set the tale in Scotland by her knowledge of Beatrix's childhood holidays there.

Emma Thompson: The Further Tale of Peter Rabbit (Audiobook Extract) read by Emma Thompson

Bestselling author Diana Evans (‘26a’, ‘The Wonder’) is the perfect guest for this podcast. She tells Katy how objects are an integral part of her writing process and brings some along including a mini London telephone box and her trusty sketchbook. Diana also chats about her new award-winning novel ‘Ordinary People’ which was one of the New Yorker’s books of the year. #PenguinPodcast #InspirationalObjects

The Penguin Podcast: Diana Evans with Katy Brand

Strong Is the New Pretty meets All the Single Ladies in this heartfelt celebration and exploration of the tomboy phenomenon and the future of girlhood, based on the author's viral New York Times op-ed.

Inspired by her thought-provoking op-ed for the New York Times, Lisa Selin Davis's Tomboy explores the history and imagines the future of girls who defy societal expectations based on their gender. Tomboy is a revealing dive into the forces that have shifted and narrowed our ideas of what's normal for boys and girls, and for kids who don't fall neatly into either category. It looks at tomboyism from a Victorian ideal to a twenty-first century fashion statement, chronicling the evolution of the pink/blue divide and what motivates those who cross or straddle it to gender independence -- and who they grow up to be. Davis critically investigates the word "tomboy," but lauds the ideas and ideals it represents.

Davis talks to experts from clothing designers to psychologists, historians to neuroscientists, and tomboys from eight to eighty, to illuminate debates about what is masculine and feminine; what is biological versus socially constructed; what constitutes the categories of boy and girl; and the connection between tomboyism, gender identity, and sexuality.

In Tomboy, Davis tackles an intellectual and emotional makeover of notions of gender, ultimately finding that gender nonconformity can be -- and often is -- a true gift. Ultimately, this book is a celebration not just of tomboys but of gender diversity itself, and of those who resist the pressure of gender norms and summon the courage to live as their true selves.

Available May 5, 2020 from Hachette Audio as a digital download, and in Print and Ebook from Hachette Go. 

Download: 
https://www.downpour.com/tomboy-365544
https://audiobookstore.com/audiobooks/tomboy-2.aspx
https://books.apple.com/us/audiobook/tomboy/id1511892214
https://libro.fm/audiobooks/9781549152986-tomboy
https://www.audible.com/pd/Tomboy-Audiobook/154915298X?qid=1597171207&sr=1-3&ref=a_search_c3_lProduct_1_3&pf_rd_p=e81b7c27-6880-467a-b5a7-13cef5d729fe&pf_rd_r=EX1YD9VWDNQH51J6XS47
https://www.audiobooks.com/audiobook/tomboy-the-surprising-history-and-future-of-girls-who-dare-to-be-different/405398
https://www.nookaudiobooks.com/audiobook/308663/tomboy
https://www.estories.com/audiobook/318986/Lisa-Selin-Davis/Tomboy
https://www.kobo.com/us/en/audiobook/tomboy-9
https://play.google.com/store/audiobooks/details/Lisa_Selin_Davis_Tomboy?id=AQAAAEDsFGdUmM


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TOMBOY by Lisa Selin Davis Read by Therese Plummer - Audiobook Excerpt

An audio book of "The Gingerbread Man" by Mara Alperin & Miriam Latimer, read by Chellce AJ

The Gingerbread Man Audio Book

Sing and rhyme along with these 26 much-loved nursery rhyme songs! Includes: 'The Wheels on the Bus' / 'Down at the Station, Early in the Morning' / 'Row Row Row Your Boat' / 'The Big Ship Sails on the Alley Alley Oh' / 'London Bridge is Falling Down' / 'Jack and Jill' / 'Hickory Dickory Dock' / 'I'm a Little Teapot' / 'Polly Put the Kettle On' / 'Miss Polly had a Dolly' / 'Pop Goes the Weasel' / 'Five Currant Buns' / 'Ten Fat Sausages' / 'Peter Hammers with One Hammer' / 'The Grand Old Duke of York' / 'Girls and Boys Come Out to Play' / 'I Jump Out of Bed' / 'Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush' / 'Ring a Ring o'Roses' / 'I Hear Thunder, I Hear Thunder' / 'Incy Wincy Spider' / 'Heads Shoulders Knees and Toes' / 'If You're Happy and You Know it Clap Your Hands' / 'Twinkle Twinkle Little Star' / 'Wee Willie Winkie' / 'Ten in a Bed'.

The Wheels On The Bus

An extract from the audiobook CD Storytime with Peppa. A collection of thirteen fantastic stories based on Peppa Pig, the hit TV show, featuring newly recorded narration, original TV dialogue, music, and special effects from the Milkshake and Nick Jnr. series.

The stories included are: Peppa Meets the Queen, Peppa Goes Swimming, Sports Day, Dentist Trip, Nature Trail, Tiny Creatures, Daddy Pig's Old Chair, Peppa Plays Football, Fun at the Fair, Recycling Fun, School Bus Trip, Peppa Goes Camping, Peppa's First Sleepover.

Peppa Pig: Peppa Goes Camping (Audiobook Extract) read by John Sparks and various

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Jill Murphy: The Worst Witch All At Sea (Audiobook extract) Read by Gemma Arterton

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