Lauren Laverne has narrated 5 audiobooks on Listento.it by 4 authors, with an average listener rating of 4.4★ across 317 ratings. The most-rated is Spare Room.
Spare Room
Summary
Home is where the nightmare is. The number one international best seller everyone can't stop talking about. Beautiful double room to let to single person. Lisa, a troubled young woman with a past, can’t believe her luck when she finds a beautiful room to rent in a large house. The live-in owners are a kind and welcoming couple. Everything is fine until she finds a suicide note hidden in her room. But when the couple insist this man didn’t exist and that Lisa is their first tenant, Lisa begins to doubt herself. Compelled to uncover the secrets of the man who lived in the room before her, Lisa is alarmed when increasingly disturbing incidents start to happen. Someone doesn’t want Lisa to find out the truth. As the four walls of this house and its secrets begin to close in on Lisa, she descends into a hellish hall of mirrors where she’s not sure what’s real and what’s not as she claws her way towards the truth.... This room has already claimed one victim. Is it about to take another?
©2019 Dreda Say Mitchell (P)2019 Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd
The Singing Mermaid
Summary
A fantastic mermaid adventure, perfect for listening to at home, in the car, at bedtime - or any time at all! Tempted by the promise of fame and fortune, the Singing Mermaid joins a circus. The crowds love her, but the poor mermaid is kept in a tank by the wicked circus owner Sam Sly, and she soon longs to return to the freedom of her ocean home. The Singing Mermaid is a delightful tale from the stellar picture book partnership of Julia Donaldson and Lydia Monks, creators of What the Ladybird Heard. With brilliant rhyming verse read by Lauren Laverne, this story is loved by children and parents alike. Enjoy more stories from Julia Donaldson and Lydia Monks: Sharing a Shell, Sugarlump and the Unicorn, What the Ladybird Heard and The Girl, the Bear and the Magic Shoes.
©2012 Julia Donaldson (P)2013 Pan Macmillan Publisers Ltd
Sugarlump and the Unicorn and Other Stories
Summary
Packed full of magic and adventure, this collection of seven fantastic stories from the creators of the best-selling What the Ladybird Heard series, is perfect for listening to at home, in the car, at bedtime or any time at all!
Join in the adventure with Sugarlump the rocking horse when a unicorn grants his every wish, help the Singing Mermaid escape the circus and return to her seaside home, join Josephine and her extraordinary new shoes for an action-packed adventure and much more! This magical collection features seven much-loved stories from the best-selling picture-book partnership of Julia Donaldson and Lydia Monks, creators of What the Ladybird Heard.
With lively performances from Julian Clary, Noma Dumezweni, Lauren Laverne, Joanna Page, Imelda Staunton, David Tennant and Sophie Thompson and including "Sugarlump and the Unicorn Song", music and sound effects, Sugarlump and the Unicorn and Other Stories is a must-have audio collection, perfect for listening to together.
This fantastic collection includes seven best-selling stories: Sugarlump and the Unicorn, The Singing Mermaid, Sharing a Shell, The Rhyming Rabbit, The Princess and the Wizard, The Girl the Bear and the Magic Shoes and Princess Mirror-Belle and the Dragon Pox.
©2020 Julia Donaldson and Lydia Monks (P)2020 Macmillan Publishers International Ltd
The Paper Dolls
Summary
The breathtakingly beautiful story of one little girl and her five paper dolls. A string of paper dolls go on a fantastical adventure through the house and out into the garden. They soon escape the clutches of the toy dinosaur and the snapping jaws of the oven-glove crocodile, but then a very real pair of scissors threatens. A stunning, rhythmical story of childhood, memory and the power of imagination from the author of The Gruffalo.
©2012 Julia Donaldson (P)2013 Pan Macmillan Publishers Ltd
The Everywhere Bear
Summary
Read by Lauren Laverne, The Everywhere Bear is a warm and engaging story about a very special bear, from Julia Donaldson and Rebecca Cobb, the talented creative partnership behind The Paper Dolls. This audiobook edition also includes a read-along track. The Everywhere Bear has a home on a shelf But he doesn't spend very much time by himself, For each boy and girl in the class is a friend And he goes home with one of them every weekend. The Everywhere Bear has a wonderful time with the children in Class One, but one day he gets more than he bargained for when he falls unnoticed from a backpack and embarks on his own big adventure! He's washed down a drain and whooshed out to sea, rescued by a fishing boat, loaded onto a lorry, carried off by a seagull...how will he ever make it back to Class One?
©2019 Julia Donaldson, Rebecca Cobb (P)2019 Macmillan Digital Audio