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Bloomsbury presents The Dreyfus Affair: The Story of the Most Infamous Miscarriage of Justice in French History by Piers Paul Read, read by Tom Alexander. Intelligent, ambitious and a rising star in the French artillery, Captain Alfred Dreyfus appeared to have everything: family, money, and the...

John Rutherford, bookseller and sometime novelist, discovers the bludgeoned corpse of a policeman one evening while taking a stroll in a rainstorm. The overturned bicycle is what first catches Rutherford's eye before spotting PC Johnson's body sprawled on the sodden ground of Phantom Coppice. When Inspector Charlton is called in to find the murderer, he realises that the perpetrator of this crime may be prepared to go to extreme lengths to cover their tracks.

Alex Morgan's first mission as a black-ops Interpol agent sends him to the war-torn streets of Africa. Tasked to evacuate innocent civilians from a coup-threatened nation, he soon uncovers a sinister plot involving a rogue MI6 agent and shadowy forces. In his first solo mission as a black-ops Interpol agent, Alex Morgan is thrust into a world of betrayal and violence. Tasked with evacuating ex-pats from a coup-threatened African nation, Morgan soon uncovers a sinister plot involving a rogue MI6 agent and shadowy forces that threaten global stability.

A captivating volume of over forty short stories full of love, hope, and fear, from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Lady of Hay. Barbara Erskine is a born storyteller. The tales in 'Encounters' illustrate her extraordinary talent for capturing the spirit of a place and drawing us into the...

Daniel: I suck at relationships and don't trust anyone, but there are reasons for that. For one thing, every person I've ever cared about has let me down. The only recent exception: O'Leary's town veterinarian...my new best friend. I came to O'Leary for a fresh start. To pare things down to essentials. To forget about the failures in my past. The last thing I need is complications, and most definitely not a boyfriend.

Sydneysider Abbey Parker, 42, arrives on an idyllic island resort in the Maldives. Her marriage is over, it's her first holiday alone, and an identity crisis is looming. Her solution? A complimentary bottle of champagne and a swim in the Indian Ocean. Staying in the room next door is brooding Londoner Nick Northby, 41. He's on his annual holiday, avoiding the sun, the glare and people—but he can't avoid having to rescue a tipsy, half-naked woman from drowning.

Cerastes, Dark Apostle of the Word Bearers, has returned to the world he once called home. Though his host has been crushed by the fearsome Palatine Aesura and her Sororitas of the Order of the Thorn, Cerastes' dark ambition is undaunted. He will have his revenge. He will resurrect the Eightfold Bane. And he will convert the world he despises to the worship of Chaos. Legitur is about to receive the Word, and it will burn with the fires of revolution.

The heart-stopping new love story from Emma Denny, following beloved characters from One Night in Hartswood and All the Painted Stars. 🏹🏹🏹 'Achingly thoughtful, wonderfully romantic, complex, and tender, Denny’s world and characters leap off the page and tug at your heart' EMMA R...

Madison wacht nach der Entführung in einem finsteren Keller auf und blickt ihren Entführern entgegen. Während sich Neptuno absolut sicher ist, dass Madox hinter der Entführung steckt, läutet er den Krieg ein. Niemand ist vor seiner blinden Rache sicher! Es führt zu einem gewaltigen Blutbad, das nur einer beenden kann: Joaquim. Wird er rechtzeitig auftauchen, um Madison zu retten, Neptuno davon abzuhalten, folgenschwere Fehler zu begehen und sich seine Macht zurückholen? Denn der wahre Feind steht direkt hinter Joaquim und dies ist nicht Madox Bodega.

A blackly comic literary gem in which a broken man confronts a broken world on an uninhabited Pacific island, where a conservation assignment becomes a moral reckoning. “An instant classic.” —The Washington Post “Excellent ” —The New York Times “Urgent and lyrical.”...

'Excellent' New York Times 'An instant classic. . . Hamlet but with goats everywhere' Washington Post 'Beautifully weird, eerie, unexpected - a story for our times' Kevin Barry 'A work of genius. Eradication is a beautiful and devastating novel' Luke Kennard 'A deft, unsettling exploration of...

Normally little happens in these mixed streets of families, retirees, podcasters and gossips. A little group create a community garden. An ageing journalist writes nature columns. A left-wing Scotsman longs for the glory days when he interviewed Castro. A disabled professor plans a book clearance. Supine Mario takes far too many drugs. And Wilf Kelly decides to get a fox as a pet.

Bloomsbury presents Buy, Run, Build: A guide to Entrepreneurship Through Acquisition by Charles Skinner, read by Tom Alexander. ‘This book is fun to read, exciting to apply, and profitable to implement.’ John Kay, economist Buying an established company – rather than creating a start-up...

Amid the dust and mayhem of the Third Crusade, a fearsome knight, Thurstan Wildblood, 'a man with a hole where his soul should be', is charged with returning a female hostage to Christendom, specifically to Canterbury. Melinda of Jerusalem, they say, works miracles. She is touched by God and when she prays, astonishing cures are affected. The problem is that everyone seeks her as their prize. The crusaders captured her from an Islamic stronghold, and Sultan Saladin wants her back.

1982. Nearly 3 years after 52 Americans were taken hostage at the American Embassy in Tehran, student protestors once again attack a western embassy – this time the British, just a week after the assassination of Iran's top nuclear scientist and his Russian counterpart. The Israelis, the British and other western enemies are suspected. Four months later, the Head of Bonn Station for MI6 is murdered along with his family. Forty years later, ex-SAS officer Tom Miller, now working in MI7's Black Ops unit, receives a call from an Iranian terrorist group about an impending terror attack.

In the heart of a tempestuous sea, where the Atlantic roars with untamed fury, an ambitious Norse leader casts his fate into the unknown. When Leif Wolf Killer sets sail on a raid to lands shrouded in mystery, he seeks glory and treasure but soon finds himself caught in a web of nature's wrath and fierce Arab warriors who will stop at nothing to defend their waters. As violent storms rage and treacherous waters rise, the ancient legend of the Three Sisters surfaces in the form of a dragon-shaped rock, rising up from the depths and drawing Leif closer.

Now reimagined in audio, the world of KINGDOM COME, originally published to critical acclaim by DC Comics in 1996 as a four-issue comic book series, comes alive in a dynamic production featuring a full cast, sound effects, and music. In the near-future world of KINGDOM COME, superheroes are...

The third title in Beverley Watt's Shackleford Legacies series.

Meet Thaddeus Cutter. He's a two-bit private detective struggling to get by on Kapamentis – a high-tech alien metropolis whose citizens consider humans little more than vermin. There's no sun, it rains all the time, and business is so bad he can't even afford the rent.

Aliens are stealing human souls to reincarnate them as slaves in another dimension How do I know? …I’m one of them. My people have perpetuated this atrocity unchecked for thousands of years. And you know what the worst is? We’re helped by humans with authority. People you look up to. And...