Audio - Fantasy - Children's 2002

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Barry Trotter and the Unnecessary Sequel

Michael Gerber Barry Trotter and the Unnecessary Sequel Published July 2004 by Orion Audio at Ł9.99 ISBN: 0-75286 759 8
Read by Christopher Cazenove
Barry Trotter and the Shameless Parody was in the Sunday Times hardback fiction top ten for 21 weeks.
The book nobody has been waiting for
Like a chronic skin condition, the world’s most irritating wizard is back! Barry Trotter, now 38 (going on 11) has returned to the Hogwash School for Wizardry and Witchcrap. He and his wife, Ermine Cringer, are there to deposit their Muddle-loving son Nigel, 11 (going on 38) and about as magical as a plastic fork.
Just as Barry and Ermine are set to leave, Headmaster Dorco Malfeasance dies. Who did it? Barry and Ermine are installed as interim heads of the School. But then, in the sort of plot twist that could only happen in a cheap novel designed to leech off a massive pop-culture phenomenon, Barry develops youthenasia. He begins a steady march backwards in age - and reliving the horrors of adolescence (including the Acne of Fire) may not be the end of it ... Suddenly, solving the mystery becomes a matter of Life and Death. Do they suspect Snipe, as usual, only to find out Lord Valumart’s behind it? Does anyone really care anymore? I mean, come on ...
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.
2 Cassettes Running Time: 3 hrs 40 mins Produced by Kevin Hannsen
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 Truckers Published May 2004 by ISIS at Ł16.99 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
`Outside! What’s it like?’ Masklin looked blank. `Well,’ he said. `It’s sort of big - ‘
To the thousands of tiny nomes who live under the floorboards of a large department store, there is no Outside. Things like Day and Night, Sun and Rain are just daft old legends.
Then a devastating piece of news shatters their existence: the Store - their whole world - is to be demolished. It’s up to Masklin, one of the last nomes to come into the Store, to mastermind an unbelievable escape plan that will take all the nomes into the dangers of the great Outside ...
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.
5 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 5 hrs 30 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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Terry Pratchett The Last Hero Published February 2004 by ISIS at Ł15.99 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 Discworld Novel
He’s been a legend in his own lifetime. He can remember the great days of high adventure. He can remember when a hero didn’t have to worry about fences and lawyers and civilisation. He can remember when people didn’t tell you off for killing dragons. But he can’t always remember, these days, where he put his teeth ...
Now, with his ancient sword, his new walking stick and his old friends - and they’re very old friends - Cohen the Barbarian is going on one final quest. He’s going to climb the highest mountain in the Discworld and meet his gods. He doesn’t like the way they let men grow old and die.
The last hero in the world is going to return what the first hero stole. With a vengeance. That’ll mean the end of world, if no one stops him in time.
Someone is going to try. So who knows who the last hero really is?
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.
4 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 4 hrs 10 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
About The Author
Sally Gardner was a very successful designer of sets and costumes for the theatre for many years, but she always wanted to write and illustrate books for children. Her first was The Little Nut Tree, then there was Playtime Rhymes, a big collection of rhymes for younger children, and now the bestselling A Book (of Princesses.

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