Audio - Fantasy - Children's 2002

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Jasper Fforde The Well of Lost Plots Published November 2003 by ISIS at Ł19.99 Buy direct from ISIS: freephone order number (UK) 0800 731 5637 or click on the Order button to visit their website N.B. P&P Ł2.50 or Ł3.50 for two or more titles
Read by Gabrielle Kruger
Leaving Swindon behind her, to hide out in the Well of Lost Plots - where all fiction is created - Thursday Next, Literary Detective and soon-to-be one-parent family, settles down in an unpublished novel of dubious merit. Her husband, Landen, exists only in her memories and with threats in the real world, the safest place for her is inside the covers of a book.
But there’s something rotten in the state of fiction. The much-awaited upgrade from the old book system - in which grammasites will be exterminated, punctuation standardised and the number of possible plots increased from eight to an astonishing 32 - is only weeks away. But if this is the beginning of a golden age, why are Jurisfiction agents mysteriously dying? Perkins is eaten by the Minotaur, Snell succumbs to the Mispeling Vyrus and Godot is missing. It is up to Thursday to unmask the villain responsible and establish what the upgrade really entails ... Praise for The Eyre Affair
‘Quirky, hilarious, charming, inventive, moving, Fforde writes wonderfully’ Manchester Evening News
Having graduated from the University of Cambridge in 1998, Gabrielle Kruger trained in acting at the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Arts. She has been in several short films and fringe plays in London, including Light Entertainment, a black comedy she co-wrote, produced and acted in at the Barons Court Theatre, Hammersmith. She is currently co-writing a new sitcom.
9 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 11 hrs 50 mins
About The Author
Jasper Fforde has been writing purely for his own pleasure for the past ten years, and is delighted that this has all changed. Just recently he has traded a varied career in the film industry for staring vacantly out of the window and arranging words on a page. He lives and writes in Wales and has a passion for aviation. The Eyre Affair is his first novel. Visit the author’s website: www.jasperfforde.com

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Michael Gerber Barry Trotter and the Shameless Parody Published October 2003 by Orion Audio at Ł13.00 ISBN: 0-75286 082 8
Read by Christopher Cazenove
Hogwash is the most famous school in the wizarding world and Barry Trotter is its most famous pupil. It’s been that way ever since J. G. Rollins’ Barry Trotter and the Philosopher’s Scone broke publishing records worldwide. So important has Barry become to the school’s reputation and finances that it has been agreed that he can stay at Hogwash for as long as he likes. Barry Trotter is 22.
Groupie-laden and scholarship-free, life has been good for the perpetual student, but now disaster looms. The movie Barry Trotter and the Inevitable Attempt to Cash-in has gone into production and the Marketing Dept at Wagner Bros. is going into overdrive. Hogwash will be submerged under a tide of souvenir-crazed Muddle fans, torn apart and sold on eBuy, stone by mossy stone.
The movie must be stopped. Barry, Ermine Cringer and Lon Measly must try to defeat the most powerful force of grasping sleazoids the world has ever known: Hollywood.
Please note that this recording was made in the USA and uses the title under which the book was published there: Barry Trotter and the Unauthorised Parody.
Christopher Cazenove trained at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. Theatre work includes London Suite, Private Lives and The Life and Times of TS. Eliot in theatres in the UK and on international tours. On television he has been in Judge John Deed, Dynasty, The Duchess of Duke Street and Jennie, Lady Randolph Churchill. He has also featured in Three Men and a Little Lady, Heat and Dust and Eye of the Needle on film.
4 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 5 hrs 50 mins Produced by Deborah Raffin Directed by Dave Maiden
About The Author
Michael Gerber is 32 and an American, but that’s alright because he likes Peter Cook and Monty Python and thinks most American comedy is utter crap - present book excepted (or not, but you’ll have to buy it to find out).
In fact he thinks Bill Hicks would’ve loved this book, especially the dirty parts, and would’ve particularly appreciated his memory being used to hawk a cheesy parody.
His writing has appeared in, amongst others, The New Yorker, Playboy and The Wall Street Journal. This is his first book. And it shows.
Michael Gerber would like to make it clear that while he expects you to blame him for this book the state of Britain’s railways really is down to some other guy.

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Terry Pratchett Monstrous Regiment Published December 2003 by ISIS at Ł19.99 Buy direct from ISIS: freephone order number (UK) 0800 731 5637 or click on the Order button to visit their website N.B. P&P Ł2.50 or Ł3.50 for two or more titles
Read by Stephen Briggs
It began as a sudden strange fancy ...
Polly Perks had to become a boy in a hurry. Cutting off her hair and wearing trousers was easy. Learning to fart and belch in public and walk like an ape took more time ...
And now she’s enlisted in the army, and is searching for her lost brother. But there’s a war on. There’s always a war on. And Polly and her fellow recruits are suddenly in the thick of it, without any training, and the enemy is hunting them.
All they have on their side is the most artful sergeant in the army and a vampire with a lust for coffee. Well ... they have the Secret. And as they take the war to the heart of the enemy, they have to use all the resources of ... the Monstrous Regiment.
Stephen Briggs they say knows more about Discworld than Tarry Pratchett. He is Boswell to Terry’s Dr Johnson. They collaborated to write the best selling Discworld Companion and a host of other Discworld projects including published dramatizations of Terry’s books.
Amateur groups in over twenty countries have staged the plays and Stephen also directs them himself for a drama club based in Oxford. As a side-line he now sells an exclusive range of Discworld merchandise direct to Terry’s readers, an enterprise he stumbled info by accident.
9 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 12 hrs
About The Author
Terry Pratchett is Britain's bestselling living novelist and lives behind a (very upmarket) keyboard in Wiltshire, where he answers letters in a desperate attempt to find time to write. He used to grow carnivorous plants, but now they've taken over the greenhouse and he avoids going in.
He says he doesn't want to get a life after all, because it feels like he's already trying to lead three. He is having a new conservatory built for the carnivorous plants, because they deserve it.

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Terry Pratchett The Wee Free Men Published September 2003 by ISIS at Ł18.99 Buy direct from ISIS: freephone order number (UK) 0800 731 5637 or click on the Order button to visit their website N.B. P&P Ł2.50 or Ł3.50 for two or more titles
Read by Stephen Briggs
A Story of Discworld
Up on the chalk downs they call The Wold, witches are banned - ever since the Baron’s son vanished in the woods. Anyway, as all witches know, chalk’s no good for magic. Nine-year-old Tiffany Aching thinks her Granny might have been a witch. But now Granny Aching is dead, it’s up to Tiffany to investigate strange happenings: a fairy-tale monster in the stream, a headless horseman and, strangest of all, the tiny blue men in kilts, the Wee Free Men, who have come looking for the new ‘hag’. These are the Nac Mac Feegles who like nothing better than thieven’, fightin’ and drinkin’. Then Tiffany’s young brother goes missing and Tiffany and the Wee Free Men must join forces to save him from the Queen of the Fairies ...
Stephen Briggs they say knows more about Discworld than Tarry Pratchett. He is Boswell to Terry’s Dr Johnson. They collaborated to write the best selling Discworld Companion and a host of other Discworld projects including published dramatizations of Terry’s books.
Amateur groups in over twenty countries have staged the plays and Stephen also directs them himself for a drama club based in Oxford. As a side-line he now sells an exclusive range of Discworld merchandise direct to Terry’s readers, an enterprise he stumbled info by accident.
7 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 7 hrs 15 mins
About The Author
Terry Pratchett is Britain's bestselling living novelist and lives behind a (very upmarket) keyboard in Wiltshire, where he answers letters in a desperate attempt to find time to write. He used to grow carnivorous plants, but now they've taken over the greenhouse and he avoids going in.
He says he doesn't want to get a life after all, because it feels like he's already trying to lead three. He is having a new conservatory built for the carnivorous plants, because they deserve it.

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Geordie Adams The Real Fairy Storybook Published January 2004 by Orion Audio at Ł4.99 ISBN: 0-75286 098 4
Read by Emma Chambers
With Sally Gardner
It is Midsummer’s Eve. Blossom, the Royal Dressmaker, and her assistants, Nightwing, Fancy, Trip and Pod, are hard at work. The Fairy Queen must have her new dress by midnight in time for the Midsummer Ball, and there are still a thousand pearls to be sewn on to it!
To pass the time they take turns telling stories - stories no human child has ever heard before. For these are fairy tales as told by the fairies, and though some of them may seem just a little familiar, they have a most unusual viewpoint.
Now you can eavesdrop on the fairies as they chat to each other and tell their stories. Stories told by the fairies:
The Seahorse and the Kelpie King When I was a Tooth Fairy
Princess Curly Long Locks
The Shoemaker and the Robber Elves
One Pumpkin, Five Dears and Three Good Wishes
1 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 60 mins Produced by Elspeth Santa Clara

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Sally Gardner A Book of Princesses Published January 2004 by Orion at Ł4.99 ISBN: 0 75286 099 2
Read by Emma Chambers
The book for everyone who loves a princess, with five favourite stories Cinderella
The Frog Prince
Sleeping Beauty
The Princess And The Pea
Snow White
2 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 50 mins Produced by Elspeth Santa Clara

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