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2026
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An enchanting short verse novel about discovering and saving an urban fox.'Skilfully exploring themes of friendship, nature and the complex emotions of a family break-up, this poignant story is highly recommended.' BookTrust'Explores the tricky territory of early adolescence, loss and grief with an immensely readable light touch'. Nicola DaviesDad has moved out and Ani is struggling to accept his absence. Her mysterious neighbour, ...
Mr Mahli's Shed
And a Ghost Named Dylan
2014
EN
Everbody likes Mr Mahli, especially his neighbours,nine-year-old Tomos and Alys. When he goes on holiday they look after his garden on Cwmdonkin Drive in Swansea for him. But they are not allowed in his mysteriously empty shed. But the friends soon find out the ordinary-looking shed is far from empty - it is home to an odd, slightly grumpy ghost called Dylan. Dylan soon persuades the children to take him to school with them for a change of scenery - at first he behaves, but then things sta...
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Directed by Neville Jason
Unabridged
2 hours 19 min
2000
EN
A Midsummer Night’s Dream must be one of the most enduringly popular of Shakespeare’s plays, and it is not difficult to see why: the work blends several kinds of comedy with a powerful atmosphere of magic and mystery and a satisfying set of contrasts between city and country, reason and imagination, love and infatuation.
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The Paying Guests
shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction
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- Juliet Stevenson
Unabridged
21 hours 29 min
2014
EN
'I raced through it, breathing fast and when I had finished had to reread parts of the wonderful early chapters. I don't like historical novels but this is the exception. I shall let a few months go by and then read it all over again with, I'm sure, undiminished pleasure' Ruth Rendall, GuardianIt is 1922, and London is tense. Ex-servicemen are disillusioned, the out-of-work and the hungry are demanding change. And in South London, in a genteel Camberwell v...
Unabridged
18 hours 6 min
2009
EN
The #1 New York Times bestselling novel and basis for the Academy Award–winning film.Aibileen is a black maid in 1962 Jackson, Mississippi, who's always taken orders quietly, but lately she's unable to hold her bitterness back. Her friend Minny has never held her tongue but now must somehow keep secrets about her employer that leave her speechless. White socialite Skeeter just graduated college. She's full of ambition, but without a husband, she's consider...




