Ross Welford has 4 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 4 narrators, with an average listener rating of 4.5★ across 6 ratings. The most-rated is The 1,000-Year-Old Boy.
The 1,000-Year-Old Boy
Summary
The astonishing, beautiful new story from the best-selling and Costa short-listed author of Time Travelling with a Hamster. There are stories about people who want to live forever. This is not one of those stories. This is a story about someone who wants to stop.... Alfie Monk is like any other nearly teenage boy - except he's 1,000 years old and can remember the last Viking invasion of England. Obviously no-one believes him. So when everything Alfie knows and loves is destroyed in a fire and the modern world comes crashing in, Alfie embarks on a mission to find friendship, acceptance and a different way to live...which means finding a way to make sure he will eventually die.
©2018 Ross Welford (P)2018 HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
The Kid Who Came from Space
Summary
The stunning new 10+ story from the best-selling and award-winning author of Time Travelling with a Hamster, for anyone who loved the humour of WALL-E, the action of Star Wars and the deeply touching emotion of ET. A small village in the wilds of Northumberland is rocked by the disappearance of 12-year-old Tammy. Only her twin brother, Ethan, knows she is safe - and the extraordinary truth of where she is. It is a secret he must keep, or risk never seeing her again. But that doesn’t mean he’s going to give up. Together with his friend Iggy and the mysterious (and very hairy) Hellyann, Ethan teams up with a spaceship called Philip, and Suzy the trained chicken, for a nail-biting chase to get his sister back...that will take him further than anyone has ever been before. A remarkable story of sibling connection, friendship and interstellar adventure from the author who Kiran Millwood Hargrave called 'one of my favourite middle grade writers'.
©2020 Ross Welford (P)2020 HarperCollins Publishers Limited
The Dog Who Saved the World
Summary
The astounding new novel from the best-selling and Costa short-listed author of Time Travelling with a Hamster, this is a story for everyone of 10 and older who loves adventure, laughs and tears. When 12-year-old Georgie makes friends with an eccentric retired scientist, she becomes the test subject for a thrilling new experiment: a virtual reality, 3-D version of the future. Then a deadly virus threatens to wipe out every dog in the country, and Georgie’s beloved dog, Mr Mash, gets sick. Which is bad - but worse is still to come. As the world is thrown into chaos, Georgie embarks on a desperate quest: to save every dog on earth and all of humanity.... ...without actually leaving the room. An extraordinary quest with the biggest stakes of all and a huge idea at its heart, this is time travel - but not as you know it.
©2019 Ross Welford (P)2019 HarperCollins Publishers
When We Got Lost in Dreamland
Summary
The landmark new novel from Ross Welford, one of the fastest-growing and most critically acclaimed middle grade authors in the UK, this funny, moving and brilliant sixth book cements his position as the most exciting storyteller around for listeners aged 10 and up. When 11-year-old Malky and his younger brother Seb become the owners of a 'Dreaminator', they are thrust into worlds beyond their wildest imagination. From tree-top flights and Spanish galleons, to thrilling battles and sporting greatness - it seems like nothing is out of reach when you can share a dream with someone else. But impossible dreams come with incredible risks, and when Seb won’t wake up and is taken to hospital in a coma, Malky is forced to leave reality behind and undertake a final, terrifying journey to the Stone Age to wake his brother....
©2021 Ross Welford (P)2021 HarperCollins Publishers Limited