Alex Bell Audiobooks

Frozen Charlotte brings a proper chill to teen horror, from a writer at home in any age group

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Who is Alex Bell?

Alex Bell, born in 1986, is an English author of speculative fiction with an unusually wide brief: she writes for adults, young adults and middle-grade readers alike, publishing as both Alex Bell and Alexandra Bell as she moves between audiences.

That range is worth pausing on. Writing convincingly for a nine-year-old and for an adult are different disciplines, and authors who manage both across the speculative genres tend to share one gift above the rest: they take imagination seriously at every age, neither writing down to the young nor over-explaining to the grown. Bell’s career has been built on exactly that versatility.

Alex Bell in audiobooks

Our catalogue features Frozen Charlotte, a title with a shiver already in it – two words that pair cold with a name and let the imagination do the rest. Speculative fiction is a broad church, covering the fantastical, the futuristic and the frightening, and a title like that signals its corner clearly enough.

Audio has a particular affinity with the eerie: a voice in the dark does half the atmospheric work before the story even begins. For younger listeners graduating to something with more bite, or adults who never lost the taste for it, Bell’s crossover instincts – sharpened across every age bracket she writes for – make Frozen Charlotte a tempting place to start.