Sophie Aldred

Into the Water

• UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 31 mins)
• By Paula Hawkins
• Narrated By Imogen Church, Sophie Aldred, Daniel Weyman, and others
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The most hotly anticipated novel of the year, from the author of the best-selling novel The Girl on the Train....

As Chimney Sweepers Come to Dust: Flavia de Luce, Book 7

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 24 mins)
• By Alan Bradley
• Narrated By Sophie Aldred
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When Flavia de Luce is banished to Miss Bodycote's Female Academy in Canada, she’s soon on familiar ground when, on her first night, a mummified body is dislodged from a chimney, and she is presented with a gruesome puzzle to solve. Girls have been disappearing with alarming regularity, leading Flavia to wonder not only how and why but what exactly is the academy's true purpose? Flavia must enter a shadowy world where truth and lies seem interchangeable and no one can be trusted.

The One

• UNABRIDGED (11 hrs)
• By John Marrs
• Narrated By Clare Corbett, Vicky Hall, Simon Bubb, and others
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How far would you go to find The One? One simple mouth swab is all it takes. A quick DNA test to find your perfect partner - the one you're genetically made for. A decade after scientists discover everyone has a gene they share with just one other person, millions have taken the test, desperate to find true love. Now, five more people meet their Match. But even soul mates have secrets. And some are more shocking - and deadlier - than others....

The Magic Princess Dress

• UNABRIDGED (3 hrs and 49 mins)
• By Gwyneth Rees
• Narrated By Sophie Aldred

Step inside Marietta’s Magic Dress Shop! There are hundreds of beautiful dresses in every colour of the rainbow, sewn with magic thread. Take a look, try one on and wait for the magic to whisk you away... Ava is looking for her cat when she finds Marietta’s mysterious shop. She tries on a perfectly-fitting gold and emerald princess dress and whizzes through a secret mirror - to fairyland! Will she get there in time to be a bridesmaid at Cinderella’s wedding?

George and the Blue Moon: George's Secret Key to the Universe, Book 5

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 6 mins)
• By Lucy Hawking, Stephen Hawking
• Narrated By Roy McMillan, Sophie Aldred

George and his best friend, Annie, have been selected as junior astronauts - part of a programme that trains up young people for a trip to Mars in the future. This is everything they've ever wanted - they get to be a part of up-to-the-minute space discoveries and meet a bunch of new friends who are as fascinated by the universe as they are. But when they arrive at space camp, George and Annie quickly learn that strange things are happening - on Earth as well as up in our skies.

Thrice the Brinded Cat Hath Mew'd: Flavia de Luce, Book 8

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 46 mins)
• By Alan Bradley
• Narrated By Sophie Aldred
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Twelve-year-old Flavia de Luce is back at Buckshaw at last, but her homecoming is overshadowed by news of her father's illness. Forbidden from visiting him in hospital, Flavia busies herself in the village, but she soon makes a macabre discovery: the corpse of a reclusive woodcarver in an empty house, except for a curiously uncurious cat. Curiosity may not kill this cat, but Flavia is energized at the prospect of a new investigation. However, what awaits Flavia will shake her to the core.

What She Left

• UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 17 mins)
• By T R Richmond
• Narrated By Charles Dance, Emilia Clarke, Imogen Stubbs, and others
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When Alice Salmon died last year, the ripples were felt in the news, on the Internet, and in the hearts of those who knew her best. But the person who knows her most intimately isn't family or a friend. Professor Jeremy Cooke is an academic whose life has become about piecing together Alice's existence in all its flawed and truthful reality. For Cooke, faithfully recreating Alice's life - through her diaries, emails and anything using her voice - is all consuming.

Doctor Who - UNIT Dominion

• UNABRIDGED (5 hrs and 1 min)
• By Nicholas Briggs, Jason Arnopp
• Narrated By Sylvester McCoy, Alex Macqueen, Tracey Childs, and others

The universe stands on the brink of a dimensional crisis - and the Doctor and Raine are pulled into the very epicentre of it. Meanwhile, on Earth, UNIT scientific advisor Dr Elizabeth Klein and an incarnation of the Doctor she's never encountered before are tested to the limit by a series of bizarre, alien invasions. At the heart of it all is a terrible secret, almost as old as the Time Lords themselves.

Doctor Who: Tales of Terror

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 29 mins)
• By Jacqueline Rayner, Mike Tucker, Paul Magrs, and others
• Narrated By Sophie Aldred, Rachael Stirling, Adjoa Andoh, and others
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A new spine-chilling collection of 12 adventures packed with terrifying Doctor Who monsters and villains, just in time for Halloween. Written by Jacqueline Rayner, Mike Tucker, Paul Magrs, Richard Dungworth, Scott Handcock and Craig Donaghy, each story stars an incarnation of the Doctor on a brand-new adventure in time and space. Each also features a frightening nemesis for the Doctor to face, plus appearances from favourite friends and companions such as Sarah Jane, Jo, Ace and Donna.

The Dead in Their Vaulted Arches

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 37 mins)
• By Alan Bradley
• Narrated By Sophie Aldred

The absence of Flavia DeLuce’s mother, Harriet, has always cast a shadow, since her presumed death in a mountaineering accident in Tibet. Now, astonishingly, a specially commissioned train is bringing Harriet back to Buckshaw. But rather than putting the past finally to rest, Harriet's return is set to trigger a further series of bizarre and deadly events, as a most curious group of individuals converge on Buckshaw to pay their respects…

I Am Half-Sick of Shadows

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 8 mins)
• By Alan Bradley
• Narrated By Sophie Aldred

With the family finances in a parlous state, Flavia's father has rented Buckshaw to a film company for a location shooting. When a heavy snowfall cuts the village off, the actors are talked into staging a benefit performance in the parish hall. But old jealousies surface, and the leading lady is murdered. Flavia, who has been enlisted to help out behind the scenes, finds herself up to her knees in snow - and murder!

Daughter

• UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 8 mins)
• By Jane Shemilt
• Narrated By Sophie Aldred
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Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of Daughter by Jane Shemilt, read by Sophie Aldred. I still don't know why we had to check. Did we really think you would be there, curled up and sleeping on the stage? That we would put our arms round you, and take you home? Naomi has vanished, leaving her family broken and her mother Jenny desperately searching for answers. But the traces fifteen-year-old Naomi left behind reveal a very different girl to the one Jenny thought she'd raised.

George and the Unbreakable Code

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 54 mins)
• By Lucy Hawking, Stephen Hawking
• Narrated By Roy McMillan, Sophie Aldred

George and his best friend, Annie, haven't had any space adventures for a while, and they're missing the excitement. But not for long.... Seriously strange things start happening. Banks are handing out free money; supermarkets can't charge for their produce, so people are getting free food; and aircraft are refusing to fly. It looks like the world's biggest and best computers have all been hacked. George and Annie will travel further into space than ever before in order to find out who is behind it.

Doctor Who: Twelve Doctors of Christmas

• UNABRIDGED (5 hrs and 46 mins)
• By Jacqueline Rayner, Colin Brake, Richard Dungworth, and others
• Narrated By Adjoa Andoh, Chris Addison, Rachael Stirling, and others
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A new collection of Christmas adventures, starring 12 incarnations of the Doctor plus many of his friends and enemies. Inside this festive audiobook of Doctor Who stories, you'll find timey-wimey mysteries, travels in the TARDIS, monster-chasing excitement and plenty of Christmas magic. Find out what happens when the Third Doctor meets Jackie Tyler, the Seventh Doctor and Ace encounter an alien at Macy's department store, and the Ninth Doctor tries to get Rose a red bicycle for Christmas.

Stories for Three-Year-Olds

• UNABRIDGED (33 mins)
• By Ladybird
• Narrated By Nigel Pilkington, Roy McMillan, Sophie Aldred

This charming collection of audio stories is perfect for your three-year-old. Ideal for sharing on a journey or at bedtime, this collection includes eight entertaining animal stories: 'Christine's Cornflake', 'The Dirty Dinosaur', 'The Race', 'Where's Teddy?', 'Stop It!', 'No Room for Panda', 'Nigel's Toothache' and 'Indoor Sports'.

Speaking From Among the Bones

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 23 mins)
• By Alan Bradley
• Narrated By Sophie Aldred
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The villagers of Bishop’s Lacey are holding their collective breath as St Tancred’s tomb in the local church is about to be opened after five hundred years. Inveterate eleven-year-old sleuth Flavia de Luce is first at the scene, but the body she finds lying there is not that of a desiccated saint; it is Mr Collicutt, St Tancred's celebrated organist.

Doctor Who: Illegal Alien: A Seventh Doctor novel

• ORIGINAL (9 hrs and 3 mins)
• By Mike Tucker, Robert Perry
• Narrated By Nicholas Briggs, Sophie Aldred

An unabridged reading of this original novel featuring the Seventh Doctor, as played on TV by Sylvester McCoy, and Ace in an encounter with the Cybermen. The Blitz is at its height. As the Luftwaffe bomb London, Cody McBridge, expat American private eye, sees a sinister silver sphere crash-land. He glimpses something emerging from within.

The military dismiss his account of events - the sphere must be a new German secret weapon that has malfunctioned. What else could it be?

Stories for Four-Year-Olds

• UNABRIDGED (32 mins)
• By Ladybird
• Narrated By Nigel Pilkington, Sophie Aldred

Ideal for sharing on a journey or at bedtime, this audio collection of six entertaining animal stories includes: 'Ernest Takes a Ride', 'The Jumble Sale', 'Noisy Norman', 'Mervyn's Glasses', 'The Queue' and 'The up and down Story'.

Doctor Who - The Lost Stories - Earth Aid

• UNABRIDGED (2 hrs and 20 mins)
• By Andrew Cartmel, Ben Aaronovitch
• Narrated By Sylvester McCoy, Sophie Aldred, Beth Chalmers, and others

Welcome aboard the space vessel Vancouver. Its mission: to guard a vast shipment of grain from Earth to the planet Safenesthome. Its Captain is called Ace. She seems a little unsure of herself. In fact, some might almost think she was new to the job...Its medical officer is called simply 'The Doctor', and he's perhaps not all he seems either. When mysterious ships target the Vancouver, Ace and the Doctor are pushed to the limit. Meanwhile, there's something nasty in the grain containers. And it's not very happy....