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A job in pantomime seems the perfect way to spend the Christmas season for Charles, but the cast of Cinderella are a motley crew from reality TV and Charles finds himself having to explain the traditions of panto to their baffled American star whose career is on a downward trajectory. When the star is shot dead, and Charles finds the body, he finds himself under suspicion.

Travelling the circumference of the truly gigantic Pacific, Simon Winchester tells the story of the world’s largest body of water, and – in matters economic, political and military – the ocean of the future. The Pacific is a world of tsunamis and Magellan, of the Bounty mutiny and the...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. The smallest things you do to people are rarely small to them. A three-second reaction to someone's good news can say more about a relationship than the anniversary dinner. A mood crosses an office without a word being spoken. A favor asked for can turn...

Dans ce récit plein d'humour mené à 100 à l'heure, Simon Hayot nous relate une aventure passionnante : celle de son parcours professionnel hors normes aux commandes de ses avions, du DC3 mythique au jet d'affaires, dans les Antilles des années 70-80. Ce livre est un témoignage rare écrit par le fondateur d'Air Caraïbes et d'Air Calypso.

Outdoor enthusiast, cyclist and acclaimed travel writer Simon Parker was restless for a new adventure, but with a small baby his explorations needed to begin at home. He decided to cycle through all 15 of the UK's national parks in the anniversary year of the first one's founding, the Peak District. This became a life-changing journey through a landscape, and nation, in flux.

'The Charioteer remains compelling both as a snapshot of a particular - and particularly fascinating - cultural moment, and as a deeply romantic story of love fulfilled against the odds. It has all those qualities that make Mary Renault so memorable as a novelist: craft, subtlety, intelligence...

Ride shotgun with a “James Bond–of-the-supernatural”* as the Secret Histories Novels take you careening through an alternate London where around every corner a new kind of danger awaits.... My name is Eddie Drood, aka Shaman Bond, the very secret agent. And I am a dead man walking. I’ve...

In NIGHT FALL, New York Times-bestselling author Simon R. Green brings the Secret Histories series to a stunning conclusion. The Nightside is London’s hidden heart and secret soul, packed full of sin and shadows. It’s a place where it’s always three o’clock in the morning and dawn never...

The electrifying story of a Munster, Ireland and Lions icon who changed the game - and the face of Irish sport. From the streets of Cork to the grand stages of Thomond Park, the Stade Yves-du-Manoir and beyond, Simon Zebo's journey is one of flair, fire and fearless individuality. In this candid...

Die Krise hält an. Die Maßnahmen, die in normalen Zeiten als Wachstumsstrategien für Unternehmen empfohlen werden, greifen momentan nicht. Was jetzt notwendig ist, sind hingegen konkrete, schnell wirksame Maßnahmen, die Manager umsetzen müssen, um ihr Unternehmen unbeschadet durch die Krise...

An enthralling anthology of 20 CWA Dagger Award-shortlisted gripping and thrilling stories for the most hardened crime fan. Featuring bestselling authors such as Neil Gaiman, Ann Cleeves, Christopher Fowler and Val McDermid. OVER TWENTY CWA DAGGER AWARD-WINNING SHORT STORIES FROM THE BEST OF THE...

Bill Nighy returns as Charles Paris: unsuccessful actor, bad husband and dipsomaniac. Desperately in need of work, having been kicked out of the marital home, Charles jumps at playing a missing property developer in a crime reconstruction programme. But the missing person case soon turns to...

Charles Paris is his own worst enemy, a louche lush who can resist anything except temptation – especially in the form of women and alcohol. He’s been out of work so long now he feels he may never get a job and he’s driving Frances, his semi-ex-wife, mad. So when he’s offered a small...

Charles Paris is thrilled – he’s landed a nice juicy part playing Sergeant Collins in the TV detective series, ‘The Stanislaus Braid Mysteries’, and his estranged wife Frances seems to be on the brink of taking him back. But filming turns out to be a tortuous process, with pompous star...

"Alcolibri Anonimi. Dipendenze Letterarie" è un podcast di Carmen Arzano e Elsa De Simone. Un ponte letterario - sospeso tra Salerno e Strasburgo - costruito con le pagine dei libri che hanno lasciato un segno. Dove? Ascoltaci per scoprirlo!

In questo saggio l'autore ripercorre la storia del Nuovo Pensiero, dalle origini fino all'inizio del Novecento, attraverso un viaggio tra gli autori più importanti e le figure legate a questo movimento che ha influenzato letteratura, religione, spiritualità, filosofia, psicologia e molti altri campi del sapere. Questo viaggio dentro al Nuovo Pensiero ti porterà alla scoperta del suo significato più profondo, un messaggio di amore per una concreta evoluzione personale e spirituale. In questo saggio troverai l'essenza più pura del Nuovo Pensiero.

La Carta de Jamaica es un documento esencial para comprender el desarrollo histórico de América Latina. Escrito por Simón Bolívar en 1815, durante su exilio en Kingston, Jamaica, este texto es una respuesta detallada a un caballero inglés que había mostrado interés en conocer los motivos de la lucha por la independencia de las colonias españolas en América.

Diciotto canzoni, diciannove donne straordinarie. Simone Sarasso, autore innamorato della montagna e della fatica, racconta le eroine del trail running con le canzoni che sono diventate, concerto dopo concerto, la colonna sonora della sua vita. Una raccolta di ritratti non convenzionali. Dagli AC/DC ai Green Day, dai Doors ai Metallica passando per le sonorità più ricercate (ma non per questo meno selvagge) delle Bikini Kill e dei Pogues, Sarasso ripercorre le carriere delle atlete più forti del panorama italiano e internazionale.

Da un'idea di Jessica Briasco e Simone Marchetti. Un podcast interamente dedicato alla salute degli artisti.Photo credits: Lívia Rocha

Comica amatissima, nonché regista, donna di teatro e amante della lirica, Simona Marchini si racconta per la prima volta in questa autobiografia che ha l’andatura di un monologo intenso e disincantato, recitato al lettore come una sorta di pièce teatrale inedita e risolutiva. Con lo stile dolceamaro e ironico cui ci ha abituato, Simona Marchini ripercorre in queste pagine le tappe di una vita fuori dagli schemi.