Frozen Billy

This is a chilling tale from multi award-winning author Anne Fine, read by Sophie Ward. 'A subversively wicked gift for exploring family tensions' - "The Independent". 'I hate Frozen Billy - his painted, staring wooden eyes, the way his eyelids click when Uncle Len pulls a string, his long thin legs and his bright red wooden mouth...' Clarrie and Will live with their Uncle Len - a brilliant ventriloquist in the nearby music hall.

But, though Len loves his act almost as much as he loves his beer, Top Billing is out of his grasp, until Will thinks up a way to double the drama with a new act and some extraordinary new patter that he and Frozen Billy can share on stage.

It's a grand idea, hatched in hope and excitement. But, to Clarrie's horror, soon it begins to turn terribly sour...This is a spooky adventure set in the late-Victorian world of the music hall.

Anne Fine's awards include the Smarties Book Prize, the Guardian Children's Fiction Award, the Whitbread Children's Book Award and two Carnegie Medals.

She was also twice voted Children's Author of the Year, and her book "Madame Doubtfire" was turned into the hugely successful Hollywood film Mrs Doubtfire.