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In the heart of the Indian jungle, a family of tigers lives in fragile harmony with nature —until humanity shatters their world. Tiggra, a rare white tiger, dreads the Time of Leaving —the moment when young tigers must venture out alone. But nothing can prepare him or his siblings for the true test of survival: a brutal hunt known as the Great Slaughter. As hunters with guns and elephants descend on the jungle, Tiggra and his family are scattered, their peaceful life replaced by chaos, fear, and bloodshed. Now on his own, Tiggra must navigate a changed world filled with danger and loss.

Jolie et rayonnante, cuisinière émérite, Dona Flor est très aimée. On la plaint aussi parce qu'elle a épousé Vadinho, vaurien, joueur et coureur. Mais le roman s'ouvre au moment du carnaval et sur la mort inattendue de Vadinho, après sept ans de mariage. Dona Flor se consolera assez vite en épousant le docteur Teodoro, bien qu'il ne soit pas doué d'un tempérament de feu. Vient le jour où Dona Flor trouve Vadinho étendu nu sur le lit. Invisible à tous, Vadinho est complètement réincarné pour la seule Dona Flor et entend bien jouir de ses droits de mari.

New release! A classy, classic historical romance. Fifth in "McVeigh's celebrated Jane Austen series" (Publishers Weekly). Winner of nine gold medals, Finalist in romance for FOREWORD INDIES' "Book of the Year". When Marianne – still beautiful, still impulsive and not yet twenty-one – returns to London, she is rich, with a house in Mayfair and an estate in Dorsetshire. Despite her resolve to remain single, she finds herself besieged with admirers, including the dangerously attractive Willoughby and the charming and irreverent Crawford. Then Marianne’s younger sister Margaret arrives.

The War of the Worlds is the classic alien-invasion novel: Martian cylinders fall down upon a complacent Victorian England, unleashing towering tripods, heat rays and poisonous black smoke. An unnamed writer is among the humans trying to flee, and it is through his eyes that we see the shattering of ordinary life by beings with advanced intelligence and weaponry. The novel's terror is timeless. Its depiction of technological shock, mass panic and sudden ruin feels both fantastical and unnervingly possible. It exposes the arrogance of empire and the horror of facing a power we don't understand.

Joanna Lumley and Roger Allam return as the loving, long-married couple, in the seventh series of Jan Etherington’s award-winning comedy ‘Beautifully written’ Observer Joanna and Roger have weathered a few storms in their 40-year marriage, but their passion for each other hasn’t dimmed...

Notable for its profound empathy, philosophical insight and visceral descriptions, this stunning collection of poetry cements Isaac Rosenberg as one of the most distinctive voices amongst the World War I poets. From haunting meditations on war with 'Break of Day in the Trenches' and 'Dead Man's Dump', to the fleeting moments of hope during battle in 'Returning, We Hear the Larks', this series of deeply affecting poems unveil in unflinching detail the devastating consequences of war. This audiobook edition is beautifully narrated by Ben Allen.

Borges fue nombrado profesor titular de la cátedra de Literatura Inglesa y Norteamericana de la Facultad de Filosofía y Letras de la Universidad de Buenos Aires en 1956 a partir de una postulación tan escueta como contundente: "Sin saberlo, me he venido preparando para este cargo a lo largo de toda mi vida".

Martin Amis blends vivid memories, sharp wit, and tender honesty to deliver an unforgettable memoir that explores his relationships with family, personal tragedies, and the absurdities of being known. "...[Narrator Alex] Jennings's portrayals of Lionel and his circle are tremendous fun." —...

Nina Auerbach shows how every age embraces the vampire it needs, and gets the vampire it deserves. Working with a wide range of texts, as well as movies and television, Auerbach locates vampires at the heart of our national experience and uses them as a lens for viewing the last two hundred...

'A rollicking, brilliant book' GARETH RUSSELL 'Hugely enjoyable' SUNDAY TIMES A rollicking narrative history set during the extraordinary summer of 1726 when Jonathan Swift arrived in London from Dublin, with a draft of Gulliver’s Travels in his bag. Jonathan Swift settled into his great...

Jimmy Edwards stars in this spin-off from The Navy Lark, chronicling life in and around the higher echelons of British United Plastics Ltd Following in the footsteps of The Navy Lark, The TV Lark and The Embassy Lark, The Big Business Lark aired for 13 episodes over the summer of 1969. Blending...

The award-winning 1990s sitcom, written by and starring Nick Revell Nick Revell plays a slightly stranger version of himself in this surreal comedy – a struggling writer in his mid-thirties who shares his untidy flat with Vince and Alan, a pair of talking geraniums. They, meanwhile, watch on...

Across the Atlantic, the election result is close. Too close. Donald Thorn claims victory, and the right-leaning media runs his premature acceptance speech. However, the result will have to be settled in the courts, as allegations of fraud and vote-rigging are rife. Throw the death of Democrat candidate Joe Bowman into the mix, and the dispute threatens to reach fever-pitch on the streets of America. Meanwhile, BBC political reporter Jane Clark is an ambitious woman on a course to the top.

From award-winning audiobook narrator comes this duet-style romantic thriller narrated by the author and William MacLeod. Callum MacLachlan is the owner of the elite close protection company, Caledonia Security. He met a cute nurse, Lea Bonifacio, at a gala in an idyllic Swiss lakeside town. He was about to get her number when screams rang out, and another guest was found facedown, floating in the water. After losing sight of the woman who'd piqued his interest, he goes about his business, unable to get her out of his head.

A British female Amazon, has just completed the incredible run around the British coastline. 5,240 solid miles. Not run on nice flat tarmacked roads, but on gravelly paths, wet sloping hills, sand and slippery grasslands, wind and hail, and even on ice.

In this poem, Arnold tells the story of an Oxford student who abandons academic life to join a band of gypsies. He learns their mysterious, almost magical, and clearly unacademic knowledge and devotes himself to a lifelong quest for direct perception of truth. Unlike the people with whom the poet is surrounded, he never becomes distracted or challenged by corrosive doubt or concern about the trivialities of suburban life.

John Keats (1795–1821) war ein britischer Dichter der Romantik. Oscar Wilde schreibt über Keats: „In meinem Himmel geht er ewig neben Shakespeare und den Griechen." Diese Sammlung präsentiert eine Auswahl seiner Gedichte, darunter „Glanzvoller Stern! Wär ich so stet wie du", „An den Herbst", „Ode an die Melancholie", „La belle dame sans merci" und viele mehr.

*FULL CAST NARRATION* A new audiobook collection of four classic J. B. Priestley plays, including An Inspector Calls. An Inspector Calls is read by Paul Chahidi, as the Inspector, Cicely Whitehead, Tim Treloar, Rachel Bavidge, Emma Appleton, Rory Alexander, Tom Chapman and Lily Lefkow. An...

This collection of 59 short poems consists of verses, some of them incomplete, which remained unpublished at the time of Shelley’s death. Some of them have become the best known of Shelley’s shorter works. The poems were collated and edited by Mary Shelley, who also wrote an introduction to...

“Mr Darcy – Through the Looking Glass” delves into the minds of Miss Jane Austen’s characters in “Pride and Prejudice” through their diaries. Now a dying art, diaries in Jane Austen's time were safe places for the heart and soul where deepest secrets could be written, where the puzzles of life and love could be explored, where heartbreak could be accepted, where the agitated spirit could be calmed and where loss could be assuaged through hope.