Malorie Blackman

  • Read by: Derina Dinkin

    Duration: 4 hrs 45 mins

    It's just your average Friday night. Then the police show up.

    Your mum's been caught on CCTV, breaking into a giant chemical company. They say she's working undercover for A.N.T.I.D.O.T.E, a group against animal testing - but how is that possible? She's not a spy - is she? Now she's on the run - and only you can uncover the truth. And you've got to crack a code to do it.

    Key Stage 2
  • Read by: Omari Douglas

    Duration: 8 hrs 6 mins

    In Boys Don't Cry, bestselling author Malorie Blackman explores the unchartered territory of teenage fatherhood. 

    You're waiting for the postman - he's bringing your A level results. University, a career as a journalist - a glittering future lies ahead. But when the doorbell rings it's your old girlfriend; and she's carrying a baby. Your baby. You're happy to look after it, just for an hour or two. But then she doesn't come back - and your future suddenly looks very different.

    Key Stage 3
  • Read by: Gill Wilsher

    Duration: 14 hrs 30 mins

    Sixteen years have passed since Sephy Hadley first met Callum McGregor. For Callie Rose, growing up mixed race in a world where bitter prejudice divides Noughts and Crosses has meant she’s an outsider wherever she turns.

    Enter Jude McGregor. Jude teaches Callie about her real family history, and the more she learns the more he persuades her where her loyalties really lie.

    But soon Callie is caught in a trap she can’t get out of - one which will have deadly consequences.

    Key Stage 4
  • Read by: Diana Bishop

    Duration: 45 mins

    This is a series of 26 short poems telling the story of Sam and Davey. It's all about bullying and friendship, secrets and lies, and the terrible thing that happened one day .

    Key Stage 2
  • Read by: Miscellaneous

    Duration: 9 hrs

    Book 5 of 'Noughts and Crosses' series, sequel to 'Double Cross' (617048). Years have passed since Sephy Hadley - a Cross - first met Callum McGregor - a Nought. Their love was forbidden, powerful - and deadly. But old wounds from the past are hard to heal, and when you're playing a game as dangerous as they are, it won't be long before someone gets caught in the crossfire.

    Key Stage 4
  • Read by: Felix Dexter

    Duration: 3 hrs 45 mins

    When Dominic's Mum invents VIMS, the Virtual Interactive Mobile System, it is hailed as a technological miracle, for there doesn't seem to be anything it can't do. Then it decides to attack without warning, and the apparent miracle is swiftly transformed into a dangerous situation.

    Key Stage 2
  • Read by: Nina Sosanya

    Duration: 5 hrs 1 min

    Nova’s parents are obsessed by running their hotel and don’t pay her much attention. Liam is permanently stuck at the hotel and can’t attract his brother’s attention. When Nova meets Liam things start to look up but the problem is that only she can see him.

    Key Stage 3
  • Read by: Josh Dylan

    Duration: 12 hrs 3 mins

    It is 20 years in 2021 since Malorie Blackman's groundbreaking series began with Noughts & Crosses, which charted the deeply forbidden romance between Sephy (a Cross) and Callum (a nought) - a love affair which had repercussions for their families for generations. Endgame, the breathtaking conclusion to the series, influenced by the unprecedented global events of recent years, is full of twists and turns and emotions, with its incredible characters reaching a dramatic conclusions to their stories.

    Key Stage 4
  • Read by: Tony Lister

    Duration: 1 hr 45 mins

    Shaun is thrilled when he is allowed to go on the school trip, but he is soon fighting for his life when a dangerous game goes wrong.

    Key Stage 2
  • Read by: Pat Steadman

    Duration: 7 hrs

    When Vicky's father is accused of stealing over a million pounds from the bank where he works, she is determined to prove his innocence.

    Key Stage 3
  • Read by: Katherine Shaw

    Duration: 30 mins

    Blindfolded. Alone. Afraid. No idea where she is or what will happen next. The only thing Angela knows is that she's been kidnapped. Does she have the courage to escape? Will she ever see her father again?

    Key Stage 2
  • Read by: Malorie Blackman

    Duration: 7 hrs 30 mins

    For over thirty years, her books have helped to shape British culture, and inspired generations of younger readers and writers. The Noughts and Crosses series, started in 2000, sparked a new and necessary conversation about race and identity in the UK, and are already undisputed classics of twenty-first-century children's literature. She is also a writer whose own life has been shaped by books, from her childhood in south London, the daughter of parents who moved to Britain from Barbados as part of the Windrush Generation, and who experienced a childhood that was both wonderful and marred by the everyday racism and bigotry of the era. She was told she could not apply to study her first love, literature, at university, in spite of her academic potential, but found a way to books and to a life in writing against a number of obstacles.


    Biography - Art Music & Literature
  • Read by: Gill Wilsher

    Duration: 9 hrs 30 mins

    A frightened girl running barefoot on a knife edge... that's how eighteen-year-old Sephy feels as she gazes down at her new-born daughter, Callie Rose. Whilst Sephy is a Cross, the baby's father, Callum, was a nought, giving Callie Rose dual heritage in a society where the ruling Crosses treat the pale-skinned noughts - blankers - as second-class citizens. What kind of world will her daughter grow up into? One which is more equal? Or one where discrimination still has the power to destroy lives? Sephy can only hope that the tomorrows will be better than the yesterdays. But fifteen years later, Callie Rose's actions are to plunge both of them into the heart of danger, forcing Sephy - once again - to take sides...

    Key Stage 4
  • Read by: Miscellaneous

    Duration: 1 hr 55 mins

    A thrilling adaptation of Malorie Blackman's bestselling novel about young love in a dystopian world. Callum and Sephy have known each other since they were babies. His Mum used to work for hers as housekeeper and they played together and became best friends. Then Callum's mother lost her job and they had to start meeting in secret. Because Callum is a Nought - a second class citizen - and Sephy a Cross one of the elite. And Noughts and Crosses can't mix... In this segregated society Noughts are nonentities - discriminated against, denigrated and denied decent education. But now Callum's passed the entrance exams and been allowed into Sephy's posh school. Surely this is his first step to a better life one where he and Sephy can be together? Only it doesn't work out that way. Instead of acceptance the couple face opposition, intimidation and violence. They know they're made for each other - but the world keeps tearing them apart. And soon bigger things will prevail.

    Key Stage 4
  • Read by: Gill Wilsher

    Duration: 11 hrs 30 mins

    Sephy is a Cross: she lives a life of privilege and power. But she's lonely, and burns with injustice at the world she sees around her.

    Callum is a nought: he's considered to be less than nothing - a blanker, there to serve Crosses - but he dreams of a better life.

    They've been friends since they were children, and they both know that's as far as it can ever go. Noughts and Crosses are fated to be bitter enemies - love is out of the question.

    Then - in spite of a world that is fiercely against them - these star-crossed lovers choose each other.

    But this is love story that will lead both of them into terrible danger... and which will have shocking repercussions for generations to come.

    Key Stage 4
  • Read by: Syan Blake

    Duration:

    Beans calls her dad 'Gadgetman' because of the weird and wonderful gadgets he comes up with - everything from exploding biscuits to Spy Kits. But when Gadgetman accidentally invents a device that could be used to steal millions of pounds, the wrong people find out and Gadgetman is kidnapped!With the help of her friends - and her special Gadgetman Spy Kit - Beans is determined to track down the kidnappers and rescue her dad. But can she find Gadgetman before he is forced to hand over the details of his invention...?

    Key Stage 2
  • Read by: Tony Lister

    Duration: 6 hrs

    Cameron is thirteen, and all he wants is a 'normal' life - friends, swimming, school, family. But his life is far from normal. Not every thirteen-year-old desperately needs a new heart because theirs doesn't work properly.

    Finally, one doctor offers hope. Cameron could - if he and his parents agree - take part in a radical and controversial procedure involving the transplant of a pig's heart into his human body. It's risky. And it's never been done before...
    While Cameron comes to terms with the idea, he finds the world around him is much less accepting. But surely everyone will understand that it's better to have a pig's heart that works than a human heart that doesn't - won't they?

    Key Stage 3
  • Read by: Tony Lister

    Duration: 5 hrs

    Gemma longs for her lost mother, taking comfort from the cuttings in her scrapbook; pictures of mothers who loved their children come what may.

    Mike is new to the area; a boy with a terrible secret to hide. A secret about his missing mother.

    Gemma and Mike - two kids hurt by their past and now inextricably linked. Their effect on each other's lives will be explosive.

    Key Stage 2
  • Read by: Brenda Usherwood

    Duration: 6 hrs

    You're the new girl in school. You're just trying to fit in - and it's not working. Then someone accuses you of theft, and you think things can't get any worse. Until you get caught in a freak storm...

    The next thing you know, you're in the future. Being shot at for being out after curfew. You don't even recognise your hometown. And you're heading for a confrontation from your worst nightmare.

    What if you could change the past to save the future?

    Key Stage 2
  • Read by: Vera Garwood

    Duration: 6 hrs 45 mins

    Whizziwig is a small, friendly alien, a long way from home, who can grant wishes. But the wishes have to be made by accident, so it isn't long before some funny things start to happen.

    Key Stage 1
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