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This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. In a kingdom where the dead can be reduced to numbers and forgotten, Lord Bernhard of the West carries something the Crown cannot easily destroy: their names. Years after famine and brutal levies devastated the western provinces, Bernhard begins...

Uma investigação envolvente, satírica e multifacetada da sociedade nigeriana contemporânea. Para além da originalidade estilística, marca indelével da produção ensaística e dramatúrgica de Wole Soyinka -- e que lhe valeu o prêmio Nobel de Literatura em 1986 -- o romance oferece uma...

Noturno do Chile é um denso monólogo constituído de apenas dois parágrafos: o primeiro ocupa quase todo o livro, e o segundo é uma frase de apenas oito palavras. O padre Sebastián Urrutia Lacroix, o narrador, repassa de modo febril sua vida de poeta e crítico literário "comedido e...

Publicada originalmente em 1949, a distopia futurista 1984 é um dos romances mais influentes do século XX, um inquestionável clássico moderno. Lançada poucos meses antes da morte do autor, é uma obra magistral que ainda se impõe como uma poderosa reflexão ficcional sobre a essência...

Uma disputa de poder entre o submundo da política e travestis paulistanas. Estamos em 2009. Lula segue no auge do poder, o Brasil compõe o grupo dos BRIC e os poços do pré-sal começam a jorrar otimismo. Em uma mansão no interior de São Paulo, durante os feriados de Páscoa, seis...

James Jesus Angleton was a legend in the time of spies. Founder of US counterintelligence at the end of World War II, ruthless hunter of moles and enemies of America, his name is synonymous with skullduggery and intellectual subterfuge. William F. Buckley Jr. presents a subtle and thrilling...

Three men meet on a ship bound for Haiti, where corruption and terror reign under the dictatorship of Papa Doc and the Tontons Macoute, his sinister secret police. Disillusioned and noncommittal, they are the “comedians” of Greene’s title. Brown is a disenchanted English hotel owner; the...

A novel of impressive scope and complexity, “American Woman is a thoughtful, meditative interrogation of…history and politics, of power and racism, and finally, of radicalism” (San Francisco Chronicle), perfect for readers who love Emma Cline’s novel, The Girls. On the lam for an act of...

Gordon Comstock is a poor young man who works by day in a grubby London bookstore and spends his evenings shivering in a rented room, trying to write. Gordon has published a slim volume of verse and is determined to keep free of the “money world” of safe, lucrative jobs, marriage, and family...

In our own time, when the dark threat of a dystopian world is not an alien or avoidable concept, The Last Man (1826) is revealed as a trailblazing novel. With a truly global view, Mary Shelley’s futuristic romain à clef–containing portraits of her husband Percy (Adrian), Lord Byron (Raymond) and several others–spearheaded the apocalyptic genre for an intimidated 19th-century readership that rejected her ‘diseased imagination’ and ‘polluted taste’.

PARTITA - THE HEARTRENDING NEW NOVEL FROM BARBARA KINGSOLVER - COMING OCTOBER 2026 THE MULTI-MILLION COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR TWICE WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION 'One of the best books about climate change.' NAOMI KLEIN 'Lyrical, socially-engaged...

After years teaching Romantic poetry at the Technical University of Cape Town, David Lurie, middle-aged and twice divorced, has an impulsive affair with a student. The affair sours, he is denounced and summoned before a committee of inquiry. Willing to admit his guilt, but refusing to yield to...

The acclaimed political thriller that first introduced the unforgettable Francis Urquhart MP and launched Michael Dobbs’ No 1 bestselling career. Michael Dobbs’ entertaining tale of skulduggery and intrigue within the Palace of Westminster has been a huge hit with the public. Its scheming...

Zara Maxwell é uma agente treinada para se infiltrar entre os figurões de Washington e descobrir tudo o que puder sobre eles. Esta esperta espiã usa de sua beleza, habilidade e inteligência fora do normal, para conseguir cumprir todas as suas missões e segue apenas uma regra: jamais se envolver emocionalmente.

Lucie Manette, long believing herself to be an orphan, meets with London banker Jarvis Lorry in the Royal George Hotel in Dover and finds out her father, Dr. Alexandre Manette, is alive and has been held for the last 18 years as a political prisoner in the Bastille. The three are reunited in an attic garret in Paris, close to the wine shop run by Ernest Defarge, the doctor's former servant, and his wife, Thérèse.

Exclusively from Audible. The Secret Agent is based on an actual attempt made in 1894 to blow up the Greenwich Observatory. A labyrinth of greed, corruption, and betrayal, it is the most darkly humorous of all Conrad's tales. It follows a European secret agent, Adolf Verloc, 'a London shop owner' with anarchist leanings who becomes reluctantly involved in a plot to blow up the Greenwich Observatory. Full of great characters, melodramatic irony and psychological intrigue the tale is far from simple....

This unforgettable novel puts human faces on the Syrian war with the immigrant story of a beekeeper, his wife, and the triumph of spirit when the world becomes unrecognizable. “A beautifully crafted novel of international significance that has the capacity to have us open our eyes and see...

Una mujer acaba de perder a su marido y vela el cadáver durante la noche. Sobre la mesilla hay un libro –la Biblia– que la esposa hojea. Va leyendo los párrafos subrayados por el hombre que se ha ido para siempre. Una oleada de recuerdos le viene a la mente y empieza un lento, desordenado...

The Iron Heel by Jack London is a dystopian novel first published in 1908. The narrative is unusual in being a first-person narrative of a woman protagonist written by a man. Predicting future changes in society and politics, it chronicles the rise of an oligarchic tyranny in the United States. The main narrative covers the years 1912 - 1932, in which the Iron Heel oligarchy arose in the United States. Canada, Mexico, and Cuba formed their own oligarchies and were aligned with the U.S. while in Asia, Japan created an empire in Asia, and Europe became socialist.

Mycroft Canner is a convict. For his crimes he is required, as is the custom of the 25th century, to wander the world being as useful as he can to all he meets. Carlyle Foster is a sensayer - a spiritual counselor in a world that has outlawed the public practice of religion, but which also knows that the inner lives of humans cannot be wished away.