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The eye-opening essays in Disability Visibility, all written by disabled people, offer keen insight into the complex and rich disability experience, examining life's ableism and inequality, its challenges and losses, and celebrating its wisdom, passion, and joy. The accounts in this collection, adapted for audio, ask listeners to think about disabled people not as individuals who need to be “fixed", but as members of a community with its own history, culture, and movements. They offer diverse perspectives that speak to past, present, and future generations.

It is the late 1700s in Eastern Europe. A beautiful woman must travel across the treacherous Dark Forest to be by the side of her dying grandmother. With only a young carriage driver to protect her, she must use her wits and all of her courage to cross the wild country.

Both and All is a poetic memoir for the queer canon and all who've mended their own hearts. It is sad and saucy. A sapphic love story that looks at heartbreak and heartmend, parenthood, loverhood, and falling in love with your sweet self. A demonstration of the complexities of motherhood, loverhood, and all of the hardships, sensuality, monotony, and joy that comes with it.

Er nennt sich Rane Ikiku. Aber sie weiß, wer er ist. Die Bestie. Aus den Dimensionen zurückgekehrt, um Rache zu nehmen. An ihrem Volk. An ihrer Familie. Als Neza von den Mordplänen ihrer Stiefmutter erfährt, bleibt ihr keine andere Wahl, als Hals über Kopf aus der Burg ihres Vaters zu fliehen. Sie bricht auf ohne ein Ziel, ohne konkreten Plan, wie sie überleben will. Sie weiß nur eines: Sie will leben. Das Wesen, dem sie auf ihrer Flucht in die Hände fällt, ist alt. Und so unfassbar grausam, dass selbst die ältesten Geschichten nur im Flüsterton davon erzählen.

Alex South is a high-functioning alcoholic who is teetering on the brink of oblivion, her career as a television journalist hanging by a thread following a drunken on-air rant. When a series of murders occur within a couple of miles of her East London home, she is given another chance to prove her skill and report the unfolding events. She thinks she can control the drinking, but soon she finds gaping holes in her memory and wakes to find she’s done things she can’t recall. As the story she’s covering starts to creep into her own life, is Alex a danger only to herself--or to others?

Antonia Case, the co-founder of New Philosopher and Womankind magazines, quits her corporate job in the city and, with her partner, travels across the world in search of meaning. In a quest to find answers, she turns off the soundtrack of the media, rids herself of technology, and with little more than books as carry-on luggage, she journeys from Buenos Aires to Paris, from Barcelona to Byron Bay, seeking guidance from ancient philosophers and modern-day psychologists on what is a good life, and what is a life worth living.

Gwen, the quick-witted Princess of England, and Arthur, future lord and general gadabout, have been betrothed since birth. Unfortunately, the only thing they can agree on is that they hate each other. When Gwen catches Art kissing a boy and Art discovers where Gwen hides her diary (complete with racy entries about Bridget Leclair, the kingdom's only female knight), they become reluctant allies. By pretending to fall for each other, their mutual protection will be assured.

Rachel's boyfriend Frank is different from other people. His strangeness is part of what she loves about him: his innocence, his intelligence, his passionate immersion in the music of JS Bach. As a coder, Frank sees patterns in everything, but as his theories slide further towards the irrational, Rachel becomes increasingly concerned for his wellbeing. There are people Frank knows online, people who share his view of the world and who insist he has a unique role to play. In spite of Rachel's fears for his safety, Frank is determined to meet them face to face.

Best known for her posthumously published novel Suite française, Irène Némirovsky was born in Kiev in 1903. Her family fled the Russian Revolution for Paris, where she found fame as a novelist. But when the Nazis occupied France, she was arrested as a Jew and sent to Auschwitz, where she died aged just 39. This collection includes four of her best works, dramatised for radio with a full cast.

It is 2028. President Trump has just finished his third term and is about to be elected to a fourth. America has become increasingly isolationist and xenophobic. Emboldened by the President’s support, the New American Party has gained power and become a controlling minority. Cloaking its policies in the increasing need for national security, the President and his new party work to remake America in the image they desire, focusing their efforts on personal freedoms and immigration.

Tango pensait couler des jours paisibles dans la Cordillère des Andes. Mais une sombre affaire impliquant son ami Anselmo va brutalement réveiller son passé. Forcé de composer avec le tenace privé Mario Borgès et revenu dans le viseur de ceux à qui il voulait échapper, Tango devra dès lors sans cesse fuir les problèmes... ou les affronter.

All Harvey Beckett wants to do is help the residents of St. Marin's find the perfect book for that moment, snuggle with her hound dog Mayhem, and be ignored by her cat Aslan. But when the small waterside town's newest resident discovers the body of the community's persnickety reporter in her bookshop storeroom just before her grand opening, Harvey can't help trying to solve the crime, even when it might cost her business and her life. The more questions Harvey asks, the more secrets she uncovers.

Do people describe you as strong? Are you outwardly tough as old boots but inwardly plagued by self-doubt, self-pity or even self-loathing? In "Fly Higher" Sarah Furness, a former RAF helicopter pilot who served in Afghanistan, has translated the lessons she learned under fire into military-grade mindfulness strategies for improved self-leadership. Her Healthy Automatic Behaviours In Threatening Scenarios (HABITS) approach will teach you to stay bombproof under pressure – and feel awesome.

When their mother dies after a hit-and-run, the Parker sisters vow to catch the driver. But things take a sudden turn for the far, far worse when bodies start disappearing from the city morgue - their mother's included. With their relationship already strained, Martha, Helen and Geri must unite to foil the crimes of the darkest of international black markets. And bring justice to those who have hurt them and their loved one so badly.

Stratford-upon-Avon, 1940. Rosalind Arden, born into one of the oldest families in England, has grown up running wild through the walled gardens and secret passages of historic Arden House, known to have once been frequented by Shakespeare himself. But centuries of squandered wealth have left the family destitute, and Papa Arden plans to replenish the coffers by securing hasty marriages to the highest bidder for Rosalind and her sisters. Passionate and headstrong, Rosalind is quickly running out of ways to avoid this fate.

Upward: The Power of Looking Up offers inspiration, insight, and encouragement on how changing our perspective can transform our lives and the world around us. It is a story book full of ideas and practical advice, including interviews with incredible people who have chosen to think and live differently. Through the power of our body and mind, nature, creativity, and community, Upward provides a timely collection of thoughts, suggestions, and evidence on the power of looking up, for us now and in the future.

Bismarck's War tells the story of one of the most shocking reversals of fortune in modern European history. The culmination of a globally violent decade, the Franco-Prussian War was deliberately engineered by Bismarck, both to destroy French power and to unite Germany. It could not have worked better, but it also had lurking inside it the poisonous seeds of all the disasters that would ravage the twentieth century.

Thirty miles off the coast of San Francisco lie the Farallon Islands, known to sailors as the Devil’s Teeth. Despite their fearsome reputation, their remote nature appeals to young Lucy Riley, who in 1859 seeks a new start as a teacher to the lighthouse keepers’ children. But Lucy brings treacherous secrets with her, including a name that isn’t hers and a past she can’t escape. On the island, she meets Will Sisson, a mysterious man who seems to recognize her name—but not her face. Wary of Will at first, Lucy slowly starts to trust him.

When Harvey Beckett stumbles upon the body of the community's most reviled dairy farmer, she, her friends, and her parents are launched into an investigation that reveals a family secret that wasn't really that secret after all. Soon, Harvey's curiosity lands her and her mother in a heap of danger that may mark the end of her sleuthing

Harvey Beckett had heard tale of how the postmistress steams open people’s mail to feed her gossip-hungry customers, but when the postmistress is murdered, Harvey learns that the mail carrier might have been doing more than passing along juicy details. Soon, Harvey and her father find themselves embroiled in hunt to find a killer, a quest that might stop her dad’s heart.