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In this abridged audiobook, with the known world out of reach, uneasy alliances are sometimes forged on Desolation Island… Captain Bligh, of Bounty fame, is now governor of New South Wales and facing mutiny anew, having lost the support of local settlers. Jack Aubrey is commissioned to come to...

Ich wurde 1927 auf einer Tanzfläche in Buenos Aires gezeugt … So beginnt Litas wundersame Reise mit ihrer schönen Mutter Fabiola, die neben Schuhen vor allem Tango liebt und so manches Chaos anzieht. Als die beiden dank dieser Eigenschaft gezwungen sind, ihre Heimat Hals über Kopf zu...

In her second volume of short stories, which follows the hugely successful 'Encounters', Barbara Erskine has created a compelling world of love, betrayal, suspense and grief. A biographer investigating a tragic death hears voices from the past drawing her towards the truth… A nineteenth...

The gripping new novel from internationally bestselling master of historical fiction Bernard Cornwell. ‘There is everything here that Sharpe fans will love. If this really is the last time Sharpe wields his heavy cavalry sword, he will be sorely missed’ The Times If any man can do the...

Mark Sanderson does for the 30s what Jake Arnott did for 60s London – vividly revealing its hidden underworld in an unforgettably gripping crime novel. "Friday, 18 December, 1936. I went to my funeral this morning…" So begins the diary of Johnny Steadman, an ambitious reporter on London's...

A gritty and compelling family drama from the author of The Street. Perfect for fans of Kitty Neale. It’s going to be a right old knee’s up… The residents of the tough streets around Islington are heartbroken at the death of George the VI but having a young Queen on the throne isn’t the...

Mark Sanderson does for the 30s what Jake Arnott did for 60s London – vividly revealing its hidden underworld in this follow up to Snow Hill On a sweltering day in July 1937, reporter John Steadman is in London’s St Paul’s Cathedral waiting for his girlfriend … But romance is pushed...

A brilliantly moving and darkly comic novel, which charts the attempts of dying heroine Delia – a modern day Mrs Beeton – to prepare her family for the future and lay to rest a ghost from her past Inspired by her heroine, Isabella Beeton, Delia has made a living writing a series of hugely...

READ BY DAME VERA LYNN AND HER DAUGHTER VIRGINIA LEWIS-JONES. Forbidden love and family secrets In World War Two Liverpool in the heartrending new saga from the author of Goodnight Sweetheart. Born Vera Welch on 20 March, 1917 in the East End of London, Dame Vera Lynn’s career was set from an...

The official sequel to Bram Stoker's classic novel Dracula, written by his direct descendent and endorsed by the Stoker family The story begins in 1912, twenty-five years after the events described in the original novel. Dr. Jack Seward, now a disgraced morphine addict, hunts vampires across...

Another Wexford mystery read by George Baker "We're all racist in this country" said Wexford. "Without exception. People over 40 are the worst and that's about all you can say. " But until he became involved with the Akandes, whose daughter had gone missing, Wexford hadn't applied that reality...

The new Liverpool-based World War Two saga from the author of Goodnight Sweetheart and Some Sunny Day is a tale of four very different young women thrown together by war. Finding freedom and independence – as well as love, passion and heartbreak – for the very first time, a unique bond is...

The tide is turning, but on the home front, the battle is far from over for the Campions… Autumn 1944, the allies are invading Italy. At home in Britain, along with everyone else, the Campion family are doing their bit – working tirelessly in the hope that the end of the war is now in sight...

A new kind of thriller, gritty, vivid and menacing, with a pace that never lets up. Nick Stone left the Special Air Service in 1988, soon after the shooting of three IRA terrorists in Gibraltar. Now working for British Intelligence on deniable operations, he discovers the seemingly senseless...

Barbara Erskine returns with this beautiful and haunting tale of dark forces and mystical powers Cambridge, present day: Following the death of her mother, Abi Rutherford receives a mysterious bequest – a misshapen crystal sphere known as the Serpent’s Stone, which gives her glimpses into...

Elizabethan England, and a dastardly Spanish plot to take over the throne is uncovered. It's up to Agent Archie Noble to save Queen and country in this saucy and swashbuckling romp from the bestselling author of The Flashman Papers and The Pyrates. Spoiled, arrogant, filthy rich, and...

‘It is a stunning story, compassionately reimagined’ Guardian Tracy Chevalier’s stunning novel of how one woman’s gift transcends class and gender to lead to some of the most important discoveries of the nineteenth century. A revealing portrait of the intricate and resilient nature of...

The new novel from the international no. 1 bestselling author. Izzie Silver left the small Irish town of Tamarin behind her for life in New York. She's big, beautiful, and dreams of her own model agency for plus-sized women (what her grandmother would call healthy.) Life is good – but she's...

A dramatised reading capturing all the passionate intensity of Charlotte Brontë’s great romantic novel. Bronte's infamous Gothic novel tells the story of orphan Jane, a child of unfortunate circumstances. Raised and treated badly by her aunt and cousins and eventually sent away to a cruel...

The incendiary new thriller from the bestselling author of Remote Control and Crisis Four. Helsinki, December 1999, Nick Stone is on the run after ‘lifting’ one of the heads of what the intelligence services call ROC (Russian Organized Crime). A group of City investors is unhappy with the...