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'It's the finish line, not the finish time.' In the late 80s, our Rachel was having a boss time as a podium dancer at the Pleasuredrome, Birkenhead. Fast forward several years and she's married, with the kids she's always dreamed of, but the body she's always dreaded. To make things worse, her...

Set on the French Riviera in the late 1920s, Tender Is the Night is the tragic romance of the young actress Rosemary Hoyt and the stylish American couple Dick and Nicole Diver. A brilliant young psychiatrist at the time of his marriage, Dick is both husband and doctor to Nicole, whose wealth goads him into a lifestyle not his own, and whose growing strength highlights Dick's harrowing demise. A profound study of the romantic concept of character - lyrical, expansive, and hauntingly evocative.

This fifth book in the series is a great combination of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Terrible Two series, and is perfect for fans of Roald Dahl. It's summer vacation, and J. D. is determined to reform his older brother Tom, a.k.a. the Great Brain, from his money swindling ways for good...

Since it was first published more than forty years ago, Robert Fitzgerald's prizewinning translation of Homer's battle epic has become a classic in its own right: a standard against which all other versions of The Iliad are compared. This definitive translation of Homer's epic is timeless in its...

The Ultimate Modern Classics Collection: Volume One is the first instalment in our classics collection focusing on the most important and iconic novels, stories, and poems of the 20th century. Featuring 18 essential modern classics from Orwell, Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Woolf, and many more, and read by a cast of incredible narrators including Iwan Rheon, Ben Allen, Karen Cass, Nathan Osgood, amongst others, this is an essential addition to your library.

The fourth volume in CSA Word's highly-acclaimed Short Story series brings a listener the best classic tales from years (and authors) gone by. Sit back, relax and enjoy this truly nostalgic collection of carefully compiled stories from classic authors such as Arthur Conan Doyle, E.E. Nesbitt and...

"The Great Gatsby" is a 1925 novel by American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald. Set in the Jazz Age on Long Island, near New York City, the novel depicts first-person narrator Nick Carraway's interactions with mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby and Gatsby's obsession to reunite with his former lover, Daisy Buchanan.

Sports Nutritionist Matt Fitzgerald has spent nearly twenty years studying the diets of top professional endurance athletes, who are among the fittest and healthiest people in the world. As a result, he has identified five core habits that are essential to maximizing workout benefits. The Endurance Diet shares key strategies for optimal health and performance: eat everything, eat quality, eat carbohydrate, eat enough, and eat individually. Whether you want to lose weight, win a race, or look a little more like an elite athlete, this plan is for you.

Brought to you by Penguin. An instant bestseller, this is the second fierce, fresh and gloriously romantic YA Greek myth re-imagining from Bea Fitzgerald, TikTok superstar and Sunday Times bestselling author of Girl, Goddess, Queen. Shortlisted for the YA Book Prize 2025! Love caused this war...

Short Stories: The Timeless Collection features 20 well-loved and unabridged tales from the best-loved authors in the history of English literature, including the deliciously sardonic Saki and a brilliant semi-autobiographical tale by Charles Dickens, inspired by the railway. An array of...

Moonlit alleys. Clashing steel. A fugitive with quick wits and quicker feet tears through Elizabethan London, crashing into the candlelit refuge of a book-besotted scholar. As two furious gallants close in, the night sharpens into a duel of nerve, word, and will—until a gray dawn, a quill, and...

A family fractures under holiday lights. A golfer wanders frozen fairways chasing a fading dream. A washed‑up screenwriter stakes everything on a Christmas wish. A young couple takes a snowy train ride home. Few writers capture the winter season's magic and mischief like F. Scott Fitzgerald...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. What if the brightest lights of wealth only made desire more impossible to reach? In *The Great Gatsby*, F. Scott Fitzgerald creates one of the defining novels of the Jazz Age: a luminous, tragic vision of ambition, illusion, love, class, and the...

 The Great Gatsby is a classic work of American literary fiction. Set in the Jazz Age in the 1920s, the story is deeply interesting from a historical lens. The plot centers around a mysterious wealthy figure, Jay Gatsby. Jay Gatsby lives a lavish lifestyle, but as it turns out his money does not buy him happiness or love. Told from the perspective of narrator Nick Carraway, the plots follows the lives of lavish New Yorkers and their love lives. 

It is 1925, and Richard Diver is the high priest of the good life on the white sands of the French Riviera. The Beautiful People – film stars, socialites, aristocrats – gather eagerly and bitchily around him and his wife Nicole. Beneath the breathtaking glamour, however, is a world of pain, and there is at the core of their lives a brittle hollowness. Beautiful, powerful and tragic, Tender is the Night is one of the great works of American fiction.

Three professional narrators, Mike Vendetti, Kathy Verduin, and Stephen Jay Cohen, lend their voices to what is considered by many to be one of F. Scott Fitzgerald's greatest novels, The Great Gatsby. Travel back with them to the Jazz Age, where the wealthy and entitled collide with pretenders and common citizens.

A breakthrough program for triathletes from beginner to advanced, showing how to balance training intensity to maximize performance—from a fitness expert and elite coach. Cutting-edge research has proven that triathletes and other endurance athletes experience their greatest performance when...

A children’s party. A disputed teddy bear. An astonishing shortage of grown-up behavior. When little Ede Andros grabs another child’s toy at a suburban gathering, a small scuffle becomes a very adult affair. Wounded pride fuels sharp remarks, neighborly smiles give way to insults, and two...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. In The Beautiful and Damned, F. Scott Fitzgerald follows Anthony Patch and Gloria Gilbert as love, privilege, and ambition collide with the seductive excess of early twentieth-century New York. Part I introduces their glamorous world of wealth...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. In Part II of The Beautiful and Damned, F. Scott Fitzgerald pushes Anthony Patch and Gloria further into a world where privilege can no longer protect them from disappointment. Money, marriage, ambition, and expectation begin to collide as their...