March
2006
(Please note that the prices shown are recommended
retail prices only)
For a month-by-month guide to titles
published since June 2002, take a look
at our previous releases page
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Available
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Bob
the Builder: Project Build It
Enjoy the first six episodes from the hugely popular TV series.
Bob and the team have moved to Sunflower Valley to build a new
town from scratch by eco-friendly means. The fun begins with a
special extended episode Bob's Big Plan followed by Bob's
Big Start, Lofty's Shelter, Dizzy and the Talkie-Talkie,
Scoop's Recruit, Where's Robert? and Wendy's
Welcome.
1 CD, 1hr, ISBN 1846 070643 £5.00
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| Jacqueline Wilson
Candyfloss
Floss loves spending weekends with her dad in his greasy spoon
café, even if it isn't the smartest place in town and only
has three regular customers. When Floss’s mum and her new
husband Steve move to Australia, Floss faces a difficult choice,
but decides to stay with her Dad. He's no good at ironing school
clothes or putting up garden swings, but they muddle along happily
on a diet of chip butties and candyfloss from the local funfair.
But then disaster strikes and they find themselves homeless. Will
their new fairground friends help out? Could Dad and Floss be
destined for a life on the road? A wonderfully moving and brilliantly
entertaining story of family life from the Children's Laureate,
Jacqueline Wilson.
6 CDs, 7hrs, ISBN 0563 510250 £20.00 |
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Anchee Min
Empress
Orchid
To rescue her family from poverty, 17-year-old Orchid competes
to be one of the Chinese emperor's wives. When she is chosen as
a lower-ranking concubine she enters the Forbidden City, and discovers
a complex, dangerous world beneath its immaculate facade. Orchid
succeeds in bribing her way into the royal bed and seducing the
emperor. Little does she know that China is collapsing around
her and that will be the last Empress.
4CDs, 5hrs, ISBN 1846 071682 £17.99
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Grumpy
Old Women
Move over Grumpy Old Men - it's time for the Grumpy Old Women
to have their say in this hilarious guide, read by the narrator
of the BBC TV series Alison Steadman. Body image, visitors, children,
animals, shopping, careers, parties, holidays – and yes,
grumpy old men themselves – all are very much on the list
of what today’s mature woman finds…a source of concern.
Featured grumpies include the series producer and stand-up comic
Judith Holder as well as Janet Street Porter, Jenny Eclair, Ann
Widdecombe, Germaine Greer, Kathryn Flett and Jilly Cooper.
2 CDs, 2hrs 15mins, ISBN 1846 07083x £12.99
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Hancock's
Half Hour
The Very Best Episodes: Volume 2
Ray Galton and Alan Simpson’s second selection of four of
their favourite radio episodes includes new sleeve notes specially
written for this edition. This time round the episodes are: The
Conjuror (19 February 1956), Cyrano de Hancock (8
December 1956), The Diary (30 December 1056) and The
Impersonator (29 December 1959).
2 CDs, 2hrs, ISBN 0563 504080 £12.99
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Geraldine Brooks
March
As the North reels under a series of unexpected defeats during
the first year of the American Civil War, one man leaves behind
his family to aid the Union cause. His experiences will utterly
change his marriage and challenge his most ardently held beliefs.
Geraldine Brooks has taken the character of the absent father,
March, from Louisa May Alcott's beloved classic Little Women,
to show how war affects people in ways they never anticipated.
4CDs, 5hrs, ISBN 1846 071704 £17.99
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Andrew Smith
Moondust
The Apollo space programme sent 12 men to the moon between 1969
and 1972. Of those, nine are still alive. One day, in the not-to-distant
future, there will be no one left who knows the thrill of gazing
back at our own planet. This thought shocked journalist Andrew
Smith so he set out to find and interview the last remaining moonwalkers.
Where do you go after you've been to the moon? This was the question
he most wanted to ask the astronauts and from their answers he
uncovers how their lives, and ours, were forever changed by this
surreal journey.
4 CDs, 5hrs, ISBN 1846 071712 £17.99
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Noddy:
The Great Train Chase and other stories
Join Noddy and his friends in the magical world of Toyland in
these six episodes from the hit television series, complete with
music and sound effects. Make Way for Noddy is one of
the most watched pre-school programmes today and these soundtracks
come with linking narration for the episodes: Don't Be Late,
Noddy, Big-Ears for Day, The Great Train Chase,
Noddy's Great Discovery, Noddy Can Fix It, Bumpy
Dog's Visit.
1 CD, 1hr, ISBN 1846 070651 £5.00
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Thomas
& Friends: The Railway Stories
Michael Angelis reads three of the original books from the bestselling
Railway Series by the Rev. W. Awdry. The stories include:
the first book from the series Three Railway Engines featuring
Edward, Gordon and Henry who live in the same shed; Thomas
the Tank Engine where Thomas proves such a useful engine
he gets his own Branch Line, and James the Red Engine
in which James gets a new red coat of paint to cheer him up after
his accident. Contains Thomas the Tank Engine songs.
1 CD, 1hr, ISBN 1846 07066x £5.00
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Available
from 13 March 2006 |
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Sceptred Isle
Empire: Volume 2 (1783-1876)
Juliet Stevenson narrates the second volume of this eagerly awaited
follow-up to Christopher Lee's award-winning BBC Radio 4 series.
The story picks up as the American colonies have become the United
States of America after their triumph over General Cornwallis
and the British army at Yorktown in 1781. It is also the beginning
of the modern nations of Canada, Australia, New Zealand and South
Africa and the expanding British influence in India, Sri Lanka
and China. We learn about Captain James Cook, Mungo Park, Warren
Hastings, Sir Stamford Raffles and David Livingstone. This volume
ends as Queen Victoria is proclaimed Empress of India in 1876.
6CDs, 7hrs 30mins, ISBN 0563 527258 £25.00
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