A delightful collection of short stories with the legendary Belgian detective Hercule Poirot solving every kind of heinous crime!

Have you ever seen a dragon? Get comfortable and get ready for a collection of delightful dragon tales brought to life for younger listeners.

Discover the Fascinating History and Divinatory Power of the 20th Century's Most Popular Tarot DeckOriginally published in 1909 to little fanfare, the Rider-Waite-Smith Tarot went on to become the bestselling tarot deck of all time. This complete guide shares the compelling story of the deck's creation, a complete analysis of what each card means, and 78 spreads to help you integrate each card's unique spiritual energy.Discover how artist Pamela Colman Smit...

A little girl vanished 100 years ago. Her name was Sophie. Where did she go?An old house in Balmain. A portrait and perfume bottle hidden in a chimney.Unknown and untouched, while a century passed, their memory slowly fading.Glimpses of an eight year old girl and her school friend, missing, never found.The grief of those left behind, those who searched, those who yearned.So begins a journey to discover an Australian family, five generations, from 1840 ...

A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation written by Eoin McNamee, originally broadcast as the Afternoon Play on 23 March 2009. A truck driver in Ireland gives a lift to a female Asian hitchhiker but gets more than he bargained for, especially when his truck is stopped by immigration officers and he and his illegal occupant are taken in for questioning. Starring Stuart Graham as the truck driver, Coyle, Su-Lin Looi as the Road Wife, Alison McKenna as Michelle and Gerard McSorley as Sloan. Also...

Whisky and Other Spirits: Technology, Production and Marketing, Third Edition continues to provide details from raw materials to the finished product, including production, packaging and marketing. It focuses on the science and technology of the process as well as the environment in which it is produced. Today, environmental concerns and sustainability of products has taken on a new level of importance. Traditional ways of packaging and marketing have also changed dramatically in recent ye...

Graham Stewart traces 2,000 years of an island's story—from Roman province to 21st century European nation-state—through 100 historic documentsFrom the eighth-century Lindisfarne Gospels to the great testament of Norman bureaucracy, the Domesday Book, and from the designs for the Union Jack in 1606 to Neville Chamberlain's 1938 Munich agreement with Hitler, the documents selected embrace a wide range of national endeavors: politics and religion, warfare and diploma...

The Pink War boldly explores the compelling intersection of love, loyalty, and courage amid the brutal backdrop of World War II. Follow two working-class men as they answer their nation's call, battling against the forces of Nazism and Fascism across North Africa, Italy, and Western Europe. As soldiers, they earn their stripes and prove their mettle. Yet, beyond the battlefield, they face an equally formidable challenge: concealing their illicit love for each other in a time when same-sex ...

A BBC Radio 3 play by Gary Mitchell about music, friendship and politics. ‘Echoes of War’ moves between present day Belfast and the last 20 years, and explores the loose ends left by the 1998 Good Friday Agreement. Originally broadcast as part of the ‘Drama on 3’ series on 18 January 2009. Hugh, a music teacher, has had an accident and is visited in hospital by his talented pupil Charlie and his wife Sharon. He looks back on how their relationships evolved over the years as working-class P...

The Sun Also Rises was Ernest Hemingway's first published novel, and was both a commercial and literary success. Much information about the plot is available online. The story follows the lives of a group of people living during the 1920's, in Paris, mainly. Many of them had lived through the hardships and horrors of the First World War, and this lent a kind of manic energy to their social lives and relationships, as though there was not enough time and maximum "living" had to be squeezed ...

A fascinating dive into the overlooked fight between the British Empire's Egyptian Expeditionary Force and the Ottoman Empire for control of the Suez Canal.The Battle of Romani was fought between Britain's Egyptian Expeditionary Force (EEF) and the Ottoman Empire's Sinai Expeditionary Force in the Sinai Desert in early August 1916. The Ottoman objective was to disrupt and cut off the Suez Canal, while the EEF's main objective was to protect the Canal and the flow o...

In the summer of 1642 the First Civil War between king and parliament had broken out in England.Initially both sides were confident of victory, but after the first campaigns ended in stalemate they began looking for allies. The meddling of the Stuart Kings with Scotland's religious traditions provoked the National Covenant, and later the Solemn League and Covenant. Yet many Scots continued to support the King, and after his execution, his exiled son.This co...