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Chivers Children's Audio Books
On CD
November to December
2010
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Jeanette Winterson
The Battle of the Sun
Jeanette Winterson was born in Manchester
in 1959 and adopted by Pentecostal parents
who brought her up in Lancashire. There
were only six books in the house, one of
which was Malory’s Morte d’Arthur, and it
was this that started her life quest of reading
and writing. She went on to read English
at Oxford. Since 1984 she has had several
novels published to great acclaim.
Tanglewreck, published in 2006, was Jeanette
Winterson’s first novel for children, and in
the same year she was awarded an OBE for
services to literature. She has won various
awards around the world for her fiction and
adaptations, including the Whitbread Prize,
UK, and the Prix d’Argent, Cannes Film
Festival. She writes regularly for The Times
and The Guardian.
The Battle of the Sun tells the story of
12-year-old Jack Snap, who is abducted
into a magical world. Thereafter he has to
not only save London and his mother, but
also defeat an evil magus. Halfway through
this story, characters from Winterson’s
bestselling Tanglewreck are reintroduced,
including Silver, a 21st-century girl.
‘An exceptional book: big, ambitious and awash
with Winterson’s usual inventiveness’ – Observer
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Geraldine McCaughrean
Pull Out All the Stops!
Geraldine McCaughrean was born in
1951 and brought up in North London.
She is best-known for her children’s
books, which include A Little Lower than
the Angels (1987), Gold Dust (1993) and
Not the End of the World (2004), each
of which have won the Whitbread
Children’s Book Award, making her
the only writer to have won this
award three times. She has also won
the Carnegie Medal and the Guardian
Children’s Fiction Award. She specialises in the retelling of
classic tales and myths, and in 2005 she was chosen to write the official sequel to J.
M. Barrie’s Peter Pan, Peter Pan in Scarlet.
Her latest novel, Pull Out All the Stops, captures the spirit of adventure and the power
of imagination. The sequel to Stop The Train, it sees Cissy and Cookie meet up once
again with the Bright Lights Theatre Company, this time aboard a derelict paddle
steamer.
Many Geraldine McCaughrean books are available on CD and in Large Print, including
The Death Defying Pepper Roux (ISBN 9781408463475), The Crystal Pool (ISBN
9781408405215), The White Darkness (ISBN 9781405655576), and Stop The Train (ISBN 9781405656924).
For a full list, please send an e-mail for our 2010 Children’s Stocklist.
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Ian Beck
Pastworld
Read by India Fisher & Stephen
Perring
Pastworld is a theme park in which
London has been transformed into
a living recreation of the Victorian
era. Eve, a lifelong resident of
Pastworld, doesn’t know she’s living
in a simulation – until she is forced
to leave home. To Caleb, a tourist,
the theme park is thrilling – until
he finds himself accused of murder.
And in the thick London fog, a
deadly figure prowls...
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John Dougherty
Jack Slater and the Whisper of Doom
Read by Glen McCready
Jack Slater, monster investigator,
has never met a monster he can’t
beat. But he’s never had a case like
this one before. What could scare
monsters so much that they hide
in a wardrobe? What are the Dark
Depths? And can Jack defeat the
mysterious Mr Whisper – or has he
finally met his match?
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