The Travelling Circus
of Lost Things
A Hooey the Hamster Adventure
A hamster who disappeared. A circus that remembers.
A story told in the dark, for anyone who ever lost something
and hoped it went somewhere kind.
This story began with a real hamster. She disappeared from her cage one evening in Borneo and didn't come back for four weeks. When she finally returned — wet, dusty, defiant, and very much alive — nobody could explain where she'd been. So we wrote her a world. A jungle circus in Sarawak where lost things are kept safe by a hornbill ringmaster named Dorai, and where a British Shorthair cat named Clementine guards secrets she'll only share with those brave enough to listen. This is that story. It's told by Tabitha, narrated with Iban language woven through the canopy, and it's yours — free — because some stories need to be heard, not sold.
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A theatre programme for a circus that shouldn't exist.
I put it on for my daughter at bedtime. She wouldn't let me turn it off. We listened to the whole thing in the dark, both of us holding our breath.
— Early listener
The Iban language parts gave me chills. I've never heard anything like this in a children's story. It felt like the jungle was actually there.
— Early listener
I lost my cat last year. I wasn't expecting a hamster audiobook to make me feel like she went somewhere safe. But here we are.
— Early listener
Tabitha's voice is perfect. And the moment Clementine speaks for the first time. I actually gasped.
— Early listener
Listen to the Full Story
Free. Because some things need to be heard, not bought.
Some stories don't end when the last word is spoken.
They settle in. They find the soft places between your ribs
and just… stay there, warm and golden and a little hard to name.
Gold Under the Ribs — an original composition for The Travelling Circus of Lost Things
Hooey's world doesn't end here.