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Nick Kane is a man with nothing to lose, and everything to prove. A model soldier fighting for queen and country, it seemed nothing could stop him becoming one of the very top officers. But that was then. And this is now. Injured in a bomb blast on reconnaissance in Iraq he's forced out of the...

When Frankie Blewitt brings home yet another F-for-failure school report, his parents decide to send him to boarding school. At first he is just relieved to be away from his horrible parents, but then he realises that something really weird is going on at Crammar Grammar. Frankie discovers that the headmaster, Dr Gore, has plans to turn the students into robot-like super-brains using his brain-drain machine!

Ever wanted to get away from it all...? Wanda lives in the middle of nowhere. On a farm on the edge of a hill that's not quite high enough to be a proper mountain, in a little village that's seen better days. She's always dreamed of escaping, of travelling the world, but life has got in the way. When her mother ends up in hospital and her sister is preoccupied and pregnant with twins, Wanda has to take responsibility for the farm and the campsite on its green fields.

Charlotte Bold is nothing like her name - she is shy and timid and just wants a quiet life. When her job doing the traffic news on the radio in London is relocated to Sunshine FM in Mumbles, she jumps at the chance for a new start in Wales. But when she arrives she discovers that she's not there to do the travel news - she's there to front the graveyard evening show. And she's not sure she can do it. Thrust into the limelight, she must find her voice and find a way to cope. 

'From Wham! to Spandau Ballet, from success to chaos in the blink of an eye – Martin and I are two ordinary people who have been on an extraordinary adventure together. Through it all, our commitment to each other and to our family is what has always mattered the most.' Shirlie Kemp IT'S A...

The hard-fighting, harder-drinking fortune hunters of The Hammer and the Blade and A Discourse in Steel are back to test their mettle and tempt fickle fate. Fantasy fiction has long welcomed adventurous rogues: Fritz Leiber’s Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser, George R. R. Martin’s Dunk and Egg...

In this haunting novel, a young nurse forms an unlikely connection with the elderly man she cares for, and finds herself confronting the guilt she carries from her past Marguerite Demers is twenty-five when she leaves Paris for the sleepy southern village of Saint Sulpice to take up a job as a...

Penguin presents the audio edition of The Contagious Commandments written and read by Paul Kemp-Robertson and Chris Barth. Contagion may alarm doctors but marketers thrive on it. Some concepts are so compelling you have to share them. But what makes an idea so infectious you can't keep it to...

Brought to you by Penguin. This Penguin Classic is performed by Jessie Buckley, Richard Cordery, Julian Wadham, David Sturzaker, Hugh Fraser, Bruce Alexander, Oscar Batterham, Matthew Spencer, James MacCallum, Stewart Clarke and Jot Davies. This definitive recording includes an Introduction by...

Marguerite Demers is 24 when she leaves Paris for the sleepy southern village of Saint-Sulpice, to take up a job as a live-in nurse. Her charge is Jerome Lanvier, once one of the most powerful men in the village, and now dying alone in his large and secluded house, surrounded by rambling gardens. Manipulative and tyrannical, Jerome has scared away all his previous nurses. 

How has Florida's land changed across five centuries? What has stayed the same, and what remains only in memory? In Tracing Florida Journeys, Leslie Poole delves into the stories of well-known explorers and travelers who came to the peninsula and wrote about their experiences, looking at their words and the paths they took from the perspective of today.

👨‍👦 A HONEST AND PRACTICAL GUIDE TO RAISING STRONG, KIND, AND CONFIDENT BOYS IN A COMPLEX WORLD "Raising a son has never felt more complicated." Boys are growing up in a world very different from the one their fathers knew. That means dads today are trying to guide their sons through a...

Unjustly Served Podcast is real conversations about Military Sexual Trauma (MST), survival, accountability, and the truth about what happens during service—and after.

Welcome to Issue #4 of the exciting and influential pulp magazine The Thrill Book, a noted precursor to the mighty Weird Tales! In this issue "Down the Coast of Shadows" finds a man haunted by the presence of his dead brother, "Profit by Loss" is a thrilling mystery on the transcontinental railroad through the wild west and "The Hidden Emperor" is a fantastical yarn of Oriental intrigue! Plus much more! Hop on board The Thrill Book Express where you are guaranteed to have an exciting time! - Summary by Ben Tucker

Returning to Maple Falls wasn't part of my five-year plan—or my backup plan. Or any plan, really. But here I am, back in my quirky hometown, dodging my mother's judgment, and trying not to cringe every time someone mentions the viral moment. (Yes, that one. No, I don't want to talk about it.)

Was wir aus Jahrtausenden des gesellschaftlichen Aufstiegs und Falls lernen können, um die globale Katastrophe noch zu verhindern Jede Zivilisation glaubt, ewig zu bestehen – doch jeder Goliath fällt. Luke Kemp entwirft eine radikale Geschichte des Aufstiegs und Zusammenbruchs menschlicher...

Welcome fellow travelers to another exciting issue of The Thrill Book! Herein lies all manner of stories for the discerning fan of pulp fiction. We have the chilling science fiction tale of a demented inventor wreaking havoc upon the world in Murray Leinster's "A Thousand Degrees Below Zero". Explore the lost civilization of the Sargasso Sea in the first installment of "The Lost Empire"! We also get the next part of the sea-faring serial "The Opium Ship" as well as the concluding section of the spy story "Strasbourg Rose"! And that's only scratching the surface! So much more lies inside. We ...

“A little peep behind the net curtain of swinging London. Meet the people that made the 60s tick.” Noel Gallagher ‘This is an extraordinary book…An amazing work of cultural and social history.’ Tom Holland 'This is granular Beatles. 1967 the year mop-topperies optimism gave way to...

Dive into a captivating collection of insights on Common Things presented through the intriguing lens of Why and Because. This exploration offers accessible explanations of various topics that touch on the philosophy of nature, including air, animals, the atmosphere, caloric processes, chemistry, ventilation, materia medica, meteorology, acoustics, electricity, light, and zoology. Join us for an enlightening journey through the wonders of the natural world. - Summary by Anonymous

It had been a great business trip to Sin City for the gang from Athenaeum, Incorporated, the off-the-books, black ops private intelligence company. The Presidential Suite, great food, and only one real gunfight. You’d think it would count as a success. Instead, the billboards were a lie. This time… WHAT HAPPENED IN VEGAS DIDN’T STAY IN VEGAS!