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For more than 30 years, no commentator on Irish sport, politics and culture has been the object of so much love, hatred and fascination as Eamon Dunphy. Now, in ‘The Rocky Road’, Dunphy takes us behind the scenes of a passionate life – from childhood poverty in Dublin to the Football League to the forefront of journalism and debate in Ireland.
Boggis, Bunce and Bean are just about the nastiest three farmers you could ever wish to meet. They hate Mr Fox and are determined to get him, and plan to catch him by whatever means necessary.
Mildred Hubble, the worst witch in Miss Cackle’s Academy for Witches, can’t bear to leave behind her beloved cat, Tabby, when the class goes for a week at the seaside. Secretly taking Tabby along gets Mildred into lots of trouble.
Mildred Hubble is sure that the new term at Miss Cackle’s Academy for Witches is going to go brilliantly. Even Mildred’s arch enemy, Ethel Hallow, seems to have turned over a new leaf. As always, Mildred’s plans soon come tumbling down around her. Will Mildred triumph after all?
In the 5th ‘Worst Witch’ story, Mildred’s class has a new form teacher – no more Miss Hardbroom! But then the new teacher, Miss Granite, starts acting very fishy, Mildred has a very bad hair day when a hair growth spell goes wrong, and her beloved cat Tabby is having a nervous breakdown and refuses to fly.
This novel tells the story of James who has lived with his two beastly aunts ever since his parents were eaten up outside London Zoo. Aunt Sponge and Aunt Spiker are really horrible people and make poor James’s life a misery.
Matilda Wormwood is an extraordinary genius with really stupid parents. Miss Trunchbull is her terrifying headmistress who thinks all her pupils are rotten little stinkers. But Matilda will show these horrible grown-ups that even though she’s only small, she’s got some very powerful tricks up her sleeve…
‘A true genius . . . Roald Dahl is my hero’ – David Walliams Phizz-whizzing new branding for the world’s No.1 storyteller, Roald Dahl!Exciting, bold and instantly recognisable with Quentin Blake’s inimitable artwork.The well-loved story of a big friendly giant who spirits a child out of bed to the land of the child-eating giants. Every night, when the world is sleeping, big gruesome giants guzzle up whoppsy-whiffling human beans. And there’s only one giant who can stop them – the BFG. He’s the kindest giant there is and, with his friend Sophie in his top pocket, he sets out to rid the world of the Bloodbottler, the Fleshlumpeater and all their rotsome friends forever . . .Listen to THE BFG and other Roald Dahl audiobooks read by some very famous voices, including Kate Winslet, David Walliams and Steven Fry – plus there are added squelchy soundeffects from Pinewood Studios! Look out for new Roald Dahl apps in the App store and Google Pl
Stephen Fry reads this enhanced audiobook edition of Roald Dahl’s The Enormous Crocodile. The audiobook features original music and 3D sound design by Pinewood film studios.The Enormous Crocodile is a greedy grumptious brute who loves to guzzle up little girls and boys.But the other animals have a scheme to get the better of this foul fiend, once and for all!Stephen Fry is an award-winning comedian, actor, presenter, director and writer. Television work includes A Bit of Fry and Laurie, Jeeves and Wooster, Blackadder and the host of QI. On film, he played Oscar Wilde, and appeared in Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadowsand The Hobbit. His voice work includes narrating the Harry Potter books.
Puffin Audiobooks presents Roald Dahl’s classic Danny the Champion of the World, read with warmth by the actor and comedian Peter Serafinowicz.Danny thinks his dad is the most marvellous and exciting father any boy ever had – but Danny’s dad has a very big secret.This secret leads them both into the strangest adventure of their lives, and a daring plot that makes Danny the champion of the world.Peter Serafinowicz is an award-winning English actor, writer, voice-artist, comedian and director. He has appeared in films such as Shaun of the Dead and Couples Retreat. As a voice artist his roles have ranged from Darth Maul in Star Wars Episode 1: The Phantom Menace to Driver Dan in the CBeebies programme StoryTrain.
Having got rid of their human masters, the animals of Manor Farm look forward to a life of freedom and plenty. But gradually a cunning, ruthless élite emerges and the other animals discover that they are not as equal as they thought.
Despite the tumor-shrinking medical miracle that has bought her a few years, Hazel has never been anything but terminal, her final chapter inscribed upon diagnosis. But when a gorgeous plot twist named Augustus Waters suddenly appears at Cancer Kid Support Group, Hazel’s story is about to be completely rewritten.
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