Audiobooks by Clare Pollard

The Othernauts: A laugh-out-loud ancient Greek adventure for kids!

"AN ORIGINAL RETELLING OF THE CLASSIC GREEK MYTH OF JASON AND THE ARGONAUTS FOR YOUNG READERS WITH A FRESH AND FUNNY TWIST, PERFECT FOR FANS OF LOKI AND DAVID SOLOMONS. 'This witty, original, irreverent take on Greek myth will delight 8+ Loki fans' - THE GUARDIAN Meet Phoebe. She's eleven years old and desperate to escape the boring island where she lives. Enter the Argonauts - a crew of so-called heroes on a quest to grab the golden fleece. Before Phoebe can think better of it, she boards the ship and stows away on the Argo. But the Argonauts have their work cut out. From attacking harpies to deadly whirlpools, giant sea monsters to skeleton armies, there is peril at every turn. Fortunately the Othernauts are on hand - though with Phoebe's unhelpful prophecies, Perry's unreliable shape-shifting skills and Cora the siren's headache-inducing singing, it's not quite clear exactly how much help these kids will be . . . Do the Othernauts have what it takes to get the Argo and its motley crew back to safety in one piece? AN ANCIENT GREEK ODYSSEY TO CAPTURE THE LEGENDARY GOLDEN RUG, I MEAN, FLEECE - BUT NOT LIKE YOU'VE EVER HEARD IT BEFORE . . ."

Clare Pollard (Author), Eve Webster (Narrator)

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[German] - Der Salon der kühnen Frauen: Roman

"Ein hinreißender historischer Roman, der vom Zusammenhalt einer Gruppe von Frauen erzählt, die sich der Übermacht der Männer am Hof des Sonnenkönigs widersetzen. Versailles zu Zeiten Ludwig XIV. Am Hof des Sonnenkönigs herrschen Pomp und Verschwendungssucht. Wer einen Blick hinter die Kulissen wagt, findet Intrigen, Missgunst, Klatsch und Tratsch. Das wissen vor allem die Frauen, die sich regelmäßig in Marie d'Aulnoys Kaminzimmer in Paris treffen und dort zusammen flirten, lachen, Champagner trinken und sich Märchen erzählen. Doch das Geschichtenerzählen ist riskant und droht die Frauen eine nach der anderen in große Gefahr zu bringen … Sexy, scharfsinnig, zeitgemäß: ein schillernder historischer Roman, der von wahren Begebenheiten inspiriert ist und von der Kraft des Geschichtenerzählens unter mutigen Frauen handelt. »Elegant und dekadent, vulgär und klug, bezaubernd und dunkel. Das Buch, das ich dringend gebraucht habe.« Sarah Perry"

Clare Pollard (Author), Sanja Nowara (Narrator)

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The Modern Fairies: An intriguing, sexy historical novel set in the literary salons where some of our favourite fairytales took form

"Brought to you by Penguin. Why don't they tell you it is the beautiful princess who becomes the evil queen; that they are just the same person at different points in their story? Versailles, 1682: a city of the rich, a living fairy-tale, Louis XIV's fever dream. It's a place of opulence, beauty, and power. But strip back the lavish exterior of polite society, and you'll find a dark undercurrent of sexual intrigue and vicious gossip. Nobody is safe here - no matter how highly born they are. No one knows this better than Madame Marie d'Aulnoy. Each week, a rogue group of intellectuals gather at her Parisian home to debate, flirt and perform Contes de Fées - fairy tales - that challenge the status quo, at a salon that will change the course of literature forever. But while they weave tales of glass slippers, enchanted beasts and long-haired princesses, a wolf is lurking, who threatens to destroy the members of the salon one by one. Brilliant and bawdy, romantic and provocative, The Modern Fairies is a dazzling novel inspired by real events, about the delights and dangers of storytelling in dark times. 'Elegant and decadent, vulgar and clever, enchanting and dark. The love child of Angela Carter and Anaïs Nin - the book I really really needed' SARAH PERRY, author of The Essex Serpent 'Pollard's future, as a novelist, is very bright indeed' THE I, praise for Delphi ©2024 Clare Pollard (P)2024 Penguin Audio"

Clare Pollard (Author), Kathryn Drysdale (Narrator)

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Delphi

"Brought to you by Penguin. 'I am sick of the future. Up to here with the future. I don't want anything to do with it; don't want it near me.' This is a story about now. It's a story about a woman, and the family she has made for herself. It's about the dramas unfolding on our screens and behind the curtains of our homes in a world more turbulent than any of us could have imagined. But it's also about before. And what comes next. It's about the flames that have burned for centuries beneath the cracks that are opening now. About the Ancient Greeks, who sacrificed and bargained with their Gods; about prophets and oracles, tarot cards and tea leaves, and how time and certainty and, sometimes, those we love can slip away. It's about the questions we have always asked as we scroll and click and rage against our fates - and the answers that are coming for us whether we like them or not. Extraordinary, electrifying, irreverent and heartbreaking, Delphi is a mesmerising story of our pasts, our presents and our futures, and how we keep on living in a world that is ever-more uncertain and absurd. 'Sexy, dark and dangerous, disturbed and disturbing in equal measure - I loved it' Anna Hope, author of Expectation © Clare Pollard 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022"

Clare Pollard (Author), Emma Lowndes (Narrator)

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Fierce Bad Rabbits: The Tales Behind Children's Picture Books

"Brought to you by Penguin. What is The Tiger Who Came to Tea really about? What has Meg and Mog got to do with Polish embroidery? Why is death in picture books so often represented by being eaten? Fierce Bad Rabbits takes us on an eye-opening journey in a pea-green boat through the history of picture books. From Edward Lear through to Julia Donaldson, Clare Pollard shines a light on some of our best-loved childhood stories and what they really mean, weaving in tales from her own childhood and her re-readings as a parent. Because the best picture books are far more complex than they seem - and darker too. Monsters can gobble up children and go unnoticed, power is not always used wisely, and the wild things are closer than you think. Sparkling with wit, magic and nostalgia, Fierce Bad Rabbits will make you see even stories you've read a hundred times afresh."

Clare Pollard (Author), Clare Pollard (Narrator)

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