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Discover fascinating facts about some of the most amazing women who changed the world. Bursting full of astounding facts, music and sound effects, this is the perfect introduction to just a few of the most incredible women who helped shape the world we live in. List of women featured: Jane Austen, Gertrude Ederle, Coco Chanel, Frida Kahlo, Marie Curie, Mary Anning, Mary Seacole, Amelia Earhart, Agent Fifi, Sacagawa, Emmeline Pankhurst, Rosa Parks and Anne Frank.

From best-selling author and illustrator Kate Pankhurst, descendant of Emmeline Pankhurst, comes another 'smart, informative, inclusive and accessible' book about trail-blazing women. This time, it's women who have helped protect our natural world from way before it was on a political agenda. Discover their untold stories.

Five historical figures and groups who changed the world for the better. Hours of audio fun to keep children entertained while on the move! Introduce your children to six true stories about inspirational women in history, from Boudica to the Suffragettes and the world’s first female pilots.

Eight folktales from all the corners of the world, wonderfully retold, reaching from the Caribbean to Russia. Hours of audio fun to keep children entertained while on the move! Introduce your family to a selection of folk tales from around the world, written especially for children. Filled with sound effects and fun, these stories will introduce your children to a wider world of classic stories.

Four classic stories featuring bold and daring protagonists, abridged especially for young listeners: Little Women, Anne of Green Gables, The Railway Children, The Secret Garden. Hours of audio fun to keep children entertained while on the move! Introduce your children to four classic stories with strong female characters. These abridged versions of classic stories will become firm favourites in your family.

A trio of family favourites, abridged especially for young listeners. Hours of audio fun to keep children entertained while on the move! Introduce your children to three classic stories. Adapted especially for children and filled with sound effects and fun, these stories will become firm favourites in your family.

A collection of four great listens that explore the life and legends of ancient Greece. Hours of audio fun to keep children entertained while on the move! Immerse your children in the fascinating world of ancient Greece with three classic Greek myths, written especially for children, and one non-fiction history about the ancient Greeks.

Nine of the bard’s most tragic plays, from Hamlet to Romeo and Juliet, abridged and novelised for young listeners. Hours of audio fun to keep children entertained while on the move! Introduce your children to the world of Shakespearean tragedies with these abridged stories, written especially for children. Filled with atmospheric sound effects, your children will come away with a newfound love for these classic stories!

Eight of the bard’s funniest plays, from A Midsummer’s Night Dream to The Winter’s Tale, abridged and novelised for young listeners. Hours of audio fun to keep children entertained while on the move! Introduce your children to the wonderful world of Shakespearean comedies with these abridged stories, written especially for children. Filled with sound effects, music and fun, your children will come away with a newfound love for these classic stories!

When Marianne comes home from work one day to find her husband talking to a glamorous woman in the kitchen, insecurities resurface from a time when she was bullied at school. Jealousy rears its head and her marriage begins to fall apart. Desperate for a solution, she finds herself trying to track down her first schoolgirl crush: Edward Harvey. Even thinking his name made her tingle with half-remembered childlike giddiness.

The Villa Girls is the story of four young women who decide that wherever they are in the world and whatever they're doing, they'll meet every few years for a holiday together somewhere sunny. Despite life's taking them in very different directions, their snatched days in the sun in little hidden villas are crucial to them all. Escape, celebration, recovery--over the years the holidays change their lives.

Two best friends. One extreme adventure. Too many secrets... Carlota and Bethany are best friends. Bethany is the sensible one with a long-term boyfriend; Carlota is the crazy one with a wild past and rebellious nature. All is fine in their world - apart from Carlota hating her stepdad and longing for an old flame. And apart from Bethany thinking her boyfriend is about to dump her and that her period is late.

Miranda Fairchild has always blended into the background. But she still dreams of finding her fairy-tale prince. At first glance, her new boss—dangerously charismatic Rafe Knighton—does not fit the bill. But Rafe is beginning to see that there’s more to Miranda than meets the eye. Will he give this stubborn Cinderella the happy ending she deserves?

Crippled 16-year-old Catalina is the one person unable to join in the festivities of the Feast of the Assumption. But then she has a vision of the Virgin, and is miraculously cured. In the dark days of the Spanish Inquisition, such a claim to blessedness has serious consequences, especially when Catalina seems more inclined to obey her heart than the demands of the Church. The last of Maugham's novels, Catalina is a romantic celebration of Spain and a delightfully mischievous satire on absolutism.

February, 1926. The city of London is tense in the days leading up to The General Strike. Evelyn Gifford, (protagonist of The Crimson Rooms) has now qualified as a solicitor - and is one of the first women to do so - but her life remains full of conflict. Embroiled in two new cases, Evelyn finds herself encountering both sides of the strike.

A year ago Emma's twin sister, Laura, choked to death on some birthday cake. Or did she? Since then life hasn’t been the same. Emma thinks she's become invisible, hates school, and has started hearing her sister's voice in her head. Then, someone totally different steps into her world. Lexi has wild red hair and wears an eye-patch. She's a mystery to Emma, a mystery which slowly unravels when they become friends.

Long ago, when wolves and bears roamed the land and before underpants had been invented, the Romans conquered Britain. The Romans built fine houses and straight roads, and encouraged the Celts to take baths. But not everyone liked the Romans. Lots of people fought back, and none more stubbornly than Queen Goodica's youngest daughter, Roodica the Rude!

Lex Murphy's group of friends have all dated, hated, ignored, and lusted after each other for the last few years. If only there was a way of matching people perfectly to avoid all the unrequited love, dumping, and drama! Then Lex's friend, George, is given a mysterious new game by his software-testing dad, and everyone's lives take an unexpected turn.... But how long can this new calm, loved-up atmosphere continue?

Miranda Fairchild has always blended into the background - her two beautiful sisters have seen to that. But that hasn't stopped her from dreaming of finding her prince. When Miranda is hired as the assistant to the dangerously charismatic celebrity Rafe Knighton, she's shocked to learn that he has hidden depths. And Rafe knows there's more to Miranda than meets the eye. Will Rafe give this Cinderella the diamond ring she deserves?

The eagerly anticipated follow-up to Fantastically Great Women Who Changed the World. Overflowing with wonderfully engaging facts, vibrant music and sound effects, it is a celebration of just some of the inspirational women who put their mark on the world we live in. Prepare to be inspired. List of women featured: Elizabeth Blackwell, Qiu Jin, Boudicca, Flora Drummond, Pocahontas, Noor Inayat Khan, Harriet Tubman, Valentina Tereshkova, Ada Lovelace, Sayyida al-Hurra, Hatshepsut, Josephine Baker, Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley.