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To be Confirmed

Aug 2026 · Farshore · Narrated by To be Confirmed

Audiobook

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This book will become available on August 6, 2026. You will not be charged until it is released.

About this audiobook

WINNER! The English Association 4-11 Picture Book Award!

WINNER! Oxfordshire Book Awards Best Picture Book 2025

Nominated for the Carnegie Medal for Illustration 2025.

A Children's Book Club pick for Spooky Halloween Books - BBC Radio 4's Today programme.

When a vegetarian vampire moves into his dream castle, he soon discovers he has an unwanted house guest ...

Colin's new castle is perfect in every way - apart from the DUCK.

The duck pops up when Colin's in the bath. When he's watching telly. When he's ON THE LOO. QUACK!

But where there's a will, there's a way. Colin has a PLAN. Will he succeed in banishing Duck from his castle and leading the bird-free life that he dreams of?

* The perfect book to share or gift during spooky season!

* A brilliantly funny readaloud story that will have kids hooked.

* Fun-filled artwork is packed with detail and humour.

About the author

Holly Swain has always loved to draw, making up characters and their worlds, and she used to have a huge roll of paper under her bed that she constantly drew on. It gradually got smaller and smaller, by which time she was big enough to go to college. She studied illustration at UWE Bristol and then did an MA at University of Brighton. Holly lives with her family in Hove.

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