Action & Adventure

In the ruins of a place once known as North America lies the nation of Panem, a Capitol surrounded by 12 outlying districts. The Capitol keeps the districts in line by forcing them all to send one boy and one girl between the ages of 12 and 18 to participate in the annual Hunger Games....

Fletcher is nothing more than a humble blacksmith's apprentice when a chance encounter leads to the discovery that he has the ability to summon demons from another world....

A selection of enchanting stories by one of the world's best-loved children's authors, Enid Blyton....

Lyra Belacqua lives half-wild and carefree among the scholars of Jordan College, with her daemon, Pantalaimon, always by her side. But the arrival of her fearsome uncle, Lord Asriel, draws her to the heart of a terrible struggle....

Go back in time with number one best-selling author David Walliams for a whizz-bang epic adventure of action, laughter and secret plots - and the extraordinary friendship between a little boy and a huge gorilla that just might save the day....

.I was just a normal kid, I went to school (got expelled a lot, but that wasn't my fault), played sports and hung out with my best friend.Until I accidentally vaporized my maths teacher. Now, I spend my time at Camp Half Blood, battling monsters and generally trying to stay alive....

Lucy has stumbled upon a marvellous land of fauns and centaurs, nymphs and talking animals....

Welcome to the Midnight Gang! Midnight is the time when all children are fast asleep, except of course for the Midnight Gang. That is when their adventures are just beginning....

Read all about it! Read all about it! Ice Monster found in Arctic! When Elsie, an orphan on the streets of Victorian London, hears about the mysterious Ice Monster - a woolly mammoth found at the North Pole - she’s determined to discover more.... 

Franky can't wait to move to his new town - although he wishes he didn't have to leave his best friend, Dani, behind....

The new jaw-achingly funny novel from David Walliams, the number one bestselling author! Make your appointment if you dare....

Joe has a lot of reasons to be happy. About a billion of them, in fact. You see, Joe's rich. Really, really rich.... 

Being the son of a Greek God, nothing in my life has been straightforward. Or monster-free. And it looks like that's not going to change anytime soon now that my arch enemy Luke wants to invade Camp Half-Blood via an ancient labyrinth....

It is 2120 and London is in ruins. The young Prince Alfred has never known a life outside Buckingham Palace – but when strange goings-on breach its walls and stalk the corridors in the dead of night, he is thrust into a world of mystery, adventure and monsters....

In the second book in the number-one best-selling Alex Rider series by Anthony Horowitz, teenage spy Alex is sent by MI6 to infiltrate the exclusive Point Blanc Academy. But the academy hides a deadly secret....

The second novel in Abi Elphinstone’s new series, The Unmapped Chronicles, takes listeners to the magical kingdom of Jungledrop! A breath-taking adventure story that’s also about being kind - to others, to our planet and, perhaps hardest of all, to ourselves....

The new heartwarming and hilariously brilliant story, beautifully read by number one best-selling author David Walliams....

 Teaming up with the CIA, Alex must go to a remote Caribbean island called Skeleton Key, where the insane general Sarov is hatching explosive plans to rewrite history...

=My life could have been the same as an ordinary teenager. Except my dad is Poseidon, and I live in a camp full of half Gods and mythical creatures. So instead, my days are spent combatting half-lion half-humans and trying to live a somewhat normal life....

There's more to life than lessons at Malory Towers, Enid Blyton's best-loved boarding-school series. This fantastic bumper collection contains Malory Towers books one to three, with a brand-new cover illustrated by Pippa Curnick.... 

Eragon and his dragon, Saphira, have just saved the rebel state from destruction by the mighty forces of King Galbatorix, cruel ruler of the Empire....

In the land of Ingary, where seven league boots and cloaks of invisibility do exist, Sophie Hatter catches the unwelcome attention of the Witch of the Waste and is put under a spell....

Things are not looking good for Zoe. Her stepmother Sheila is so lazy she gets Zoe to pick her nose for her.... 

The Christmasaurus is a story about a boy named William Trundle and a dinosaur, the Christmasaurus. It's about how they meet one Christmas Eve and have a magical adventure....

From number one bestselling author David Walliams comes another heartfelt but hilarious hoot of an adventure....

When 12-year-olds Willa and Manny hear of a mysterious animal prowling their town, they are determined to prove it is real. Following the creature into a cave one full moon, they are swept into an alternate, ideal, world - one where pollution and conflict have been conquered decades ago and even their own families seem happier. But when they return, no one believes them. So, with a global war looming in their own world, their quest for proof of the Sideways World becomes ever-more urgent, in a nail-biting race against time.

Lucy, Max, Charlie and Joe aren’t looking for new friends - they have too many of their own problems to worry about. But when the four of them and Charlie’s faithful dog, Sherlock, spot a phantom figure on Southwold beach one winter’s night, they are thrown together to unravel a mystery that none of them expected. Just who is the ghostly spectre that walks the sands of Southwold with a lantern in his hand? What is the connection to the ancient curse that hangs over the town? And is the respectable Quentin De Havilland everything he pretends to be?

Head teacher Mrs Bottomley-Blunt thinks 4B is the worst class in the world. She says school is not about footling or fiddle-faddling or fun. It is about learning, and it is high time 4B tried harder to excel at it. But best friends Stanley and Manjit didn’t literally mean to let flying minibeasts free in the classroom. And they really didn’t literally mean to do a series of dares to become the Overlord of the Universe. These things just happened, even though they had foolproof plans to get away with it all.

It's Lunar New Year, and Nian the Lion Beast is terrorising the Jade Kingdom - and our world is next. Nian is the creature of Jack's nightmares, and he can't help feeling afraid. Somehow he must master another zodiac creature's power - but can he master his fear? 

Orphaned Leonora lives on a remote island, spending her days making crazy cool inventions. When a strange boy called Jack washes up on an inflatable lobster and reveals that evil Uncle Luther has been stealing her inventions and selling them on the mainland, it begins a laugh-out-loud adventure - complete with a furry otter, a singing sea captain and a very secret society.... 

Avani hates dragons. Doesn’t everybody? Don’t you? At least, she used to. And, who’d blame her? The first time Avani saw a dragon was the night her mother died. You’ll love the prequel to the award-winning magical fantasy trilogy, because who doesn’t love a broken, magically gifted elven girl torn between following her dream and living up to her promise? Begin the adventure! Get this audiobook now.

Packed with superheroes, supervillains, and epic showdowns between good and evil, The Unforgettable Logan Foster from debut author Shawn Peter shows that sometimes being a hero is just about being yourself.

In this latest adventure, a class trip to Egypt leads Little Meeko and his Paranormal Squad find themselves encountering a scary mummy in the deep depths of the burial chambers below the pyramids.

Melanie Gate is a foundling with a peculiar talent for opening the unopenable — any lock releases at the touch of her hand. One night, her orphanage is visited by Traveler, a gearling automaton there on behalf of his magical mistress, who needs an apprentice pronto. When Melanie is selected because of her gift, her life changes in a flash, and in more ways than she knows — because Traveler is not at all what he seems. But then, neither is Melanie Gate.  

Listening to children's bedtime stories each evening promotes positive sleeping habits. It builds upon skills in comprehension, vocabulary capacity, and creativity. It calms the mind of a busy child and focuses it on a beautiful and enjoyable fantasy world. The bedtime tale is the perfect way to finish the day of the child and brings them through to a beautiful night of rest.

Join Danny in his adventures of chasing birds, making potions, and wanting to climb the highest tree! A perfect bedtime listen, as your child ends their day saying goodnight with Danny.

In this adventure story from the Follow Me series, Oliver and Paris follow a luna moth at dusk, and learn about nocturnal animals. With the porch light to guide them safely home, they continue hiking,. They discover raccoon kits playing hide-and-seek, and an opossum with a slumber party on her back! They lose sight of Luna, but have fun stumbling on more surprises in Frog Swamp. When they return home, they discover the biggest surprise of all, waiting at the light. 

In Search of Hua Ma is one of a series of novels in Chinese that are fun to listen to and proven to accelerate language learning. Every book in the Mandarin Companion series is carefully written to use characters, words, and grammar that a learner is likely to know. The breakthrough level is written using only 150 unique Chinese characters and is intended for Chinese learners who have obtained a low elementary or novice level of Chinese.  

On a school trip to London, Becky Mellor witnesses the sheer ambition and brutality of Emerson Drake firsthand when she is involved in the greatest terror attack in world history. So begins the most explosive Time Hunters adventure yet - a story that takes Becky, Joe, and Uncle Percy to Jacobean England, the American Old West, and the legendary city of El Dorado in a search for the Sacred Chalice - a relic more commonly known as the Holy Grail....

Dave thought one Steve was bad enough, but now he’s about to face his worst nightmare: a whole town of Steves! Can Dave and his friends prevent Steveageddon? Find out in this unofficial novel set in the world of Minecraft.