Dopamine detox is a popular self-improvement concept focused on reducing excessive stimulation and becoming more intentional about how you spend your time and attention. Despite the name, it does not literally remove dopamine from the brain. Instead, the idea is to temporarily step away from highly stimulating activities such as endless scrolling, gaming, constant notifications, binge-watching, and other forms of instant gratification. The goal is to become more aware of habits that make i...

Starring Brian Blessed and Rory Bremner, 1001 Arabian Nights is the first tale from The Opus Pocus: a series of symphonies transformed into funny, action-packed, multimedia stories helping children to discover the magic of classical music!Aimed at ages 7-11, this first release from The Opus Pocus is a musical audiobook set to Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov’s dazzling composition, Scheherazade.

'Savage, brilliant, merciless and mad as hell' FINANCIAL TIMES'A thriller's bones, a satire's glare, and a comeuppance story's anarchic spirit' NEW YORKER'Lives up to the hype' SUNDAY TIMES STYLENathan says he loves me because I let him see me, and he knows how hard that is. He appreciates that I let him in. I say I love him because he is not a dick, in a world full of dicks.

Bloomsbury presents Girl One by Sara Flannery Murphy, read by Jesse Vilinsky.Orphan Black meets Margaret Atwood by way of Naomi Alderman in this brilliantly twisty high concept thrillerJosephine Morrow is Girl One. The first of nine ‘Miracle Babies’ conceived entirely without male aid or intervention, and raised on an experimental commune known as the Homestead.After a suspicious fire at the ranch kills both the doctor behind the pioneering experiment and one of the...

She doesn’t exist. She can’t exist.‘A uniquely gothic tale about grief, belonging and hiding in plain sight’ Jess Kidd, author of Things in Jars’Those who live in the walls must adjust, must twist themselves around in their home, stretching themselves until they’re as thin as air. Not everyone can do what they can.But soon enough, they can’t help themselves. Signs of their presence remain in a house.

Bloomsbury presents Reprieve by James Han Mattson, read by JD Jackson.An autumn 2021 pick for New York Times * Observer * Esquire * O Quarterly * Chicago Tribune * Shondaland'[A] gripping piece of storytelling' GUARDIAN'Brilliantly conceived and unsettling' SUNDAY TIMES'Clever, insightful and unnerving' OBSERVERMost people didn’t make it to Cell Six, he said. Most called out the safe word – reprieve – after the first Cell. It was that intense.W...

When paramedic Megan Lowe is called to the scene of an attempted murder, all she can do is try to save the victim. But as the man is lifted onto a stretcher, she realises she knows him. She despises him. Why should she save his life when he destroyed hers? Jess Foster is on her way home when she receives a text from Megan. Once best friends, the two women haven't been close for years, not since the night when they were just the teenage girls whom no-one believed; whose reputations were rui...

'This gender-swapping Stepford Wives story is as creepy as it is delicious' - Good Housekeeping'Turns its attention to the inadequacies of the nuclear family ... a direct descendant of Ira Levin's feminist classic, The Stepford Wives' - New York Times'Chandler Baker is queen of the feminist thriller' - SALLY HEPWORTHWelcome to the neighbourhood. We do ...

After achieving her lifelong dream of solving a murder, bringing a killer to justice, and proving she is not, in fact, a morbid creep, Beatrice Steele feels like everything is finally falling into place. She's traded her etiquette-obsessed community of Swampshire for the big city of London, accompanied by her ever-trusty chaperone, Miss Bolton. They've settled in a lovely neighborhood, Sweetbriar, known for its proximity to the Sweet Majestic theater, picturesque pleasure gardens, and an u...

What would you do to protect your family if the world stopped working?Not long from now, in a recognisable yet changed London, Signy and Matthew lead a dull, difficult life. They've only really stayed together for the sake of their six year old son, Jed. But they're surviving, just about. Until the day the technology that runs their world stops working. Unable to use their phones, pay for anything, even open the smart door to their flat, Matthew assumes that this i...