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The Impossible Dead

From the iconic #1 bestselling author of A SONG FOR THE DARK TIMES

by Ian Rankin ...

Narrated by Peter Forbes ...

Unabridged

12 hours 20 min

Malcolm Fox and his team are back, investigating whether fellow cops covered up for Detective Paul Carter. Carter has been found guilty of misconduct, but what should be a simple job is soon complicated by a brutal murder and a weapon that should not even exist.A trail of revelations leads Fox back to 1985, a year of desperate unrest when letter-bombs and poisonous spores were sent to government ... Read more

£21.99

Malcolm Fox and his team are back, investigating whether fellow cops covered up for Detective Paul Carter. Carter has been found guilty of misconduct, but what should be a simple job is soon complicated by a brutal murder and a weapon that should not even exist.A trail of revelations leads Fox back to 1985, a year of desperate unrest when letter-bombs and poisonous spores were sent to government
... Read more
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Writing Your Dissertation in Fifteen Minutes a Day

A Guide to Starting, Revising, and Finishing Your Doctoral Thesis

by Joan Bolker, EdD ...

Narrated by Elizabeth Wiley ...

Unabridged

6 hours 25 min

Expert writing advice from the editor of the Boston Globe bestseller, The Writer's Home CompanionDissertation writers need strong, practical advice, as well as someone to assure them that their struggles aren't unique. Joan Bolker, midwife to more than one hundred dissertations and cofounder of the Harvard Writing Center, offers invaluable suggestions for the graduate-student writer. Using ... Read more

£11.71

Expert writing advice from the editor of the Boston Globe bestseller, The Writer's Home CompanionDissertation writers need strong, practical advice, as well as someone to assure them that their struggles aren't unique. Joan Bolker, midwife to more than one hundred dissertations and cofounder of the Harvard Writing Center, offers invaluable suggestions for the graduate-student writer. Using
... Read more
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Finders Keepers

A crime thriller from the No. 1 bestseller

by Stephen King ...

Narrated by Will Patton ...

Series Audiobook 1 - The Bill Hodges Trilogy
Unabridged

13 hours 3 min

1978: Meet Morris Bellamy the man who robs the safe of America's most famous reclusive writer John Rothstein. But it isn't just the money he is interested in. Morrie is obsessed by the author's notebooks and is prepared to kill the author for them.2009: Meet young Pete Saubers whose father was knocked down by an out-of-control Mercedes in a job line-up. When he discovers a buried trunk of money ... Read more

£31.99

1978: Meet Morris Bellamy the man who robs the safe of America's most famous reclusive writer John Rothstein. But it isn't just the money he is interested in. Morrie is obsessed by the author's notebooks and is prepared to kill the author for them.2009: Meet young Pete Saubers whose father was knocked down by an out-of-control Mercedes in a job line-up. When he discovers a buried trunk of money
... Read more
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A Song for the Dark Times

The number one bestselling series that inspired BBC One’s REBUS

by Ian Rankin ...

Narrated by James Macpherson ...

Series Audiobook 23 - A Rebus Novel
Unabridged

11 hours 1 min

From the iconic Number One bestseller Ian Rankin, comes one of the must-read books of the year: A SONG FOR THE DARK TIMES'Genius ... Only great novels capture the spirit of the age. This is one of them.'THE TIMES* * * * *'He's gone...'When his daughter Samantha calls in the dead of night, John Rebus knows it's not good news. Her husband has been missing for two day... ... Read more

£21.99

From the iconic Number One bestseller Ian Rankin, comes one of the must-read books of the year: A SONG FOR THE DARK TIMES'Genius ... Only great novels capture the spirit of the age. This is one of them.'THE TIMES* * * * *'He's gone...'When his daughter Samantha calls in the dead of night, John Rebus knows it's not good news. Her husband has been missing for two day...
... Read more
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Super Simple Story Structure

A Quick Guide to Plotting and Writing Your Novel

by L. M. Lilly ...

Narrated by Kim Beels ...

Series Audiobook 1 - Writing As A Second Career
Unabridged

2 hours 24 min

Struggling to start your novel? Stuck in the middle?Finished a first draft, but it doesn’t really grab you?This short, easy-to-follow audiobook helps you speed through your first draft, minimize major rewrites, and keep readers turning the pages.Using specific questions and prompts to expand and focus your story idea, plus examples from plots as diverse as The Terminator, The Awakening, and ... ... Read more

£5.99 or Free with Kobo Plus

Struggling to start your novel? Stuck in the middle?Finished a first draft, but it doesn’t really grab you?This short, easy-to-follow audiobook helps you speed through your first draft, minimize major rewrites, and keep readers turning the pages.Using specific questions and prompts to expand and focus your story idea, plus examples from plots as diverse as The Terminator, The Awakening, and ...
... Read more
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In Her Defence

The NEW Reese Witherspoon Book Club pick, February 2026. A dark and gripping courtroom drama for fans of Gillian Flynn and Ripley

by Philippa Malicka ...

Narrated by Anna Popplewell ...

Unabridged

11 hours 31 min

***A REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK 2026***THE STUNNING DEBUT NOVEL FROM A NEW STAR OF PSYCHOLOGICAL SUSPENSE'So, so, so good! You don't know what's real and you don't know who to trust. I couldn't put it down . . . you're going to lose your mind over it' REESE WITHERSPOON'A gripping courtroom drama I absolutely inhaled'GRAZIA'A courtroom drama with the pulse of a thriller . . . kept me grip... ... Read more

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***A REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK 2026***THE STUNNING DEBUT NOVEL FROM A NEW STAR OF PSYCHOLOGICAL SUSPENSE'So, so, so good! You don't know what's real and you don't know who to trust. I couldn't put it down . . . you're going to lose your mind over it' REESE WITHERSPOON'A gripping courtroom drama I absolutely inhaled'GRAZIA'A courtroom drama with the pulse of a thriller . . . kept me grip...
... Read more
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How to Kill a Language

Power, Resistance and the Race to Save Our Words

by Sophia Smith Galer ...

Narrated by Sophia Smith Galer ...

Unabridged

9 hours 37 min

'Moving, beautiful and important' FINANCIAL TIMES, BEST SUMMER BOOKS 2026'Punchy and persuasive' SUNDAY TIMESAs Sophia Smith Galer’s Nonna lay dying, she realised it wasn’t just a beloved grandmother she was losing – it was the language she spoke, too. From Northern Italy, she spoke a dialët that Sophia, like so many children and grandchildren of migrants, can understand but can’t speak. With the ... Read more

£17.99

'Moving, beautiful and important' FINANCIAL TIMES, BEST SUMMER BOOKS 2026'Punchy and persuasive' SUNDAY TIMESAs Sophia Smith Galer’s Nonna lay dying, she realised it wasn’t just a beloved grandmother she was losing – it was the language she spoke, too. From Northern Italy, she spoke a dialët that Sophia, like so many children and grandchildren of migrants, can understand but can’t speak. With the
... Read more
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Shared Remains

by Rachel Lynch ...

Narrated by Clare Kissane ...

Series Audiobook 12 - Detective Kelly Porter
Unabridged

10 hours 21 min

A criminal that preys on the vulnerable. A detective who will fight for the truth. A broken and bloodied body is found dumped at the bottom of a quarry in Cumbria. There are markers of a suicide at the scene but forensic examinations prove it was all an elaborate staging.DI Kelly Porter soon digs up a bitter history between the two brothers who own the farmland the quarry sits on: Arthur and ... Read more

£14.00

A criminal that preys on the vulnerable. A detective who will fight for the truth. A broken and bloodied body is found dumped at the bottom of a quarry in Cumbria. There are markers of a suicide at the scene but forensic examinations prove it was all an elaborate staging.DI Kelly Porter soon digs up a bitter history between the two brothers who own the farmland the quarry sits on: Arthur and
... Read more
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Flying Blind

The 737 MAX Tragedy and the Fall of Boeing

by Peter Robison ...

Narrated by Feodor Chin ...

Unabridged

10 hours 45 min

Brought to you by Penguin.Boeing's story is the corporate scandal that's transfixed the world like none since the bankruptcy of Enron and the BP oil spill.In examining the history of the 737, a highly-regarded plane that Boeing's new management degraded with cost-focused mandates, Flying Blind explores how Boeing skimped on testing in the race to match a competing plane from Airbus, outsourced ... Read more

£13.99

Brought to you by Penguin.Boeing's story is the corporate scandal that's transfixed the world like none since the bankruptcy of Enron and the BP oil spill.In examining the history of the 737, a highly-regarded plane that Boeing's new management degraded with cost-focused mandates, Flying Blind explores how Boeing skimped on testing in the race to match a competing plane from Airbus, outsourced
... Read more
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Poor

The Award-Winning Memoir of Grit, Courage, and the Life-Changing Value of Self-Belief

by Katriona O'Sullivan ...

Narrated by Katriona O'Sullivan ...

Unabridged

6 hours 48 min

Brought to you by Penguin.'We love a rags-to-riches story, and we love to see someone triumph through sheer determination. But the story is rarely that simple. My story isn't, anyway.'As the middle of five kids growing up in dire poverty, the odds were low on Katriona O'Sullivan making anything of her life. When she became a mother at 15 and ended up homeless, what followed were five years of ... Read more

£14.00

Brought to you by Penguin.'We love a rags-to-riches story, and we love to see someone triumph through sheer determination. But the story is rarely that simple. My story isn't, anyway.'As the middle of five kids growing up in dire poverty, the odds were low on Katriona O'Sullivan making anything of her life. When she became a mother at 15 and ended up homeless, what followed were five years of
... Read more
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King Street Junior

A BBC Radio 4 comedy

by Jim Eldridge ...

Narrated by Peter Davison, Full Cast ...

Unabridged

36 hours 3 min

All ten series of the BBC Radio 4 comedy drama set in a small junior school‘The Sistine Chapel of radio drama’' - The TimesRunning for ten series between 1985 and 1988 (with a sequel, King Street Junior Revisited, airing from 2002-2005), this hugely popular school-based sitcom was one of the BBC’s most successful radio programmes. Created by award-winning writer Jim Eldridge, it follows the headma ... Read more

£16.99

All ten series of the BBC Radio 4 comedy drama set in a small junior school‘The Sistine Chapel of radio drama’' - The TimesRunning for ten series between 1985 and 1988 (with a sequel, King Street Junior Revisited, airing from 2002-2005), this hugely popular school-based sitcom was one of the BBC’s most successful radio programmes. Created by award-winning writer Jim Eldridge, it follows the headma
... Read more
Audiobook

Leadership

Six Studies in World Strategy

by Henry Kissinger ...

Narrated by Sean Patrick Hopkins ...

Unabridged

19 hours 19 min

Brought to you by Penguin.Kissinger's six leaders are Konrad Adenauer, Charles de Gaulle, Richard Nixon, Anwar Sadat, Lee Kuan Yew, and Margaret Thatcher. All of them were formed in a period when established institutions collapsed all over Europe, colonial structures gave way to independent states in Asia and Africa, and a new international order had to be created from the vestiges of the old. ... Read more

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Brought to you by Penguin.Kissinger's six leaders are Konrad Adenauer, Charles de Gaulle, Richard Nixon, Anwar Sadat, Lee Kuan Yew, and Margaret Thatcher. All of them were formed in a period when established institutions collapsed all over Europe, colonial structures gave way to independent states in Asia and Africa, and a new international order had to be created from the vestiges of the old.
... Read more
Audiobook

How to Write a Series

A Guide to Series Types and Structure plus Troubleshooting Tips and Marketing Tactics

by Sara Rosett ...

Narrated by Sara Rosett ...

Series Audiobook 2 - Genre Writers How To
Unabridged

1 hour 41 min

Struggling to structure your book series?Learn how to make a series work for you: increase reader engagement and take advantage of the built-in marketing potential a series gives you.Are you unsure which series structure is best for you? Or are you several books into a series, but you’re stuck? Do you want to expand your literary universe but aren’t sure how to do it? Perhaps you have a series ... Read more

£8.00

Struggling to structure your book series?Learn how to make a series work for you: increase reader engagement and take advantage of the built-in marketing potential a series gives you.Are you unsure which series structure is best for you? Or are you several books into a series, but you’re stuck? Do you want to expand your literary universe but aren’t sure how to do it? Perhaps you have a series
... Read more
Audiobook

Becoming Fluent

How Cognitive Science Can Help Adults Learn a Foreign Language

by Richard Roberts, Roger Kreuz ...

Narrated by P. J. Ochlan ...

Unabridged

5 hours 34 min

Adults who want to learn a foreign language are often discouraged because they believe they cannot acquire a language as easily as children. Once they begin to learn a language, students may be further discouraged when they find the methods used to teach children don’t seem to work for them. What is an adult language learner to do?In Becoming Fluent, Richard Roberts and Roger Kreuz draw on ... Read more

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Adults who want to learn a foreign language are often discouraged because they believe they cannot acquire a language as easily as children. Once they begin to learn a language, students may be further discouraged when they find the methods used to teach children don’t seem to work for them. What is an adult language learner to do?In Becoming Fluent, Richard Roberts and Roger Kreuz draw on
... Read more
Audiobook

12 Birds to Save Your Life

Nature's Lessons in Happiness

by Charlie Corbett ...

Narrated by Charlie Corbett ...

Unabridged

6 hours 56 min

Brought to you by Penguin.Discover the healing power of nature through the stories of these characterful birds.Can you recognise the cheerful chirrups of the house sparrow? A song thrush singing out at winter's darkest hour? Or the beautiful, haunting call of the curlew?At a time of great anxiety and uncertainty, while coping with the untimely death of his mother, Charlie Corbett realised his ... Read more

£13.99

Brought to you by Penguin.Discover the healing power of nature through the stories of these characterful birds.Can you recognise the cheerful chirrups of the house sparrow? A song thrush singing out at winter's darkest hour? Or the beautiful, haunting call of the curlew?At a time of great anxiety and uncertainty, while coping with the untimely death of his mother, Charlie Corbett realised his
... Read more
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The Snakehead

A powerful investigative account of organised crime in New York's Chinatown, from the bestselling author of London Falling

by Patrick Radden Keefe ...

Narrated by Feodor Chin ...

Unabridged

12 hours 58 min

****Patrick Radden Keefe's new book, London Falling, is on sale now**LONGLISTED FOR THE 2024 CWA GOLD DAGGER FOR NON-FICTION‘Reads like a mashup of The Godfather and Chinatown, complete with gun battles, a ruthless kingpin and a mountain of cash. Except that it’s all true’ – Time**In this thrilling story of real-life events, the bestselling author of Empire of Pain investigates a secret world run ... Read more

£14.99

****Patrick Radden Keefe's new book, London Falling, is on sale now**LONGLISTED FOR THE 2024 CWA GOLD DAGGER FOR NON-FICTION‘Reads like a mashup of The Godfather and Chinatown, complete with gun battles, a ruthless kingpin and a mountain of cash. Except that it’s all true’ – Time**In this thrilling story of real-life events, the bestselling author of Empire of Pain investigates a secret world run
... Read more
Audiobook

Metaphors We Live By

by George Lakoff, Mark Johnson ...

Narrated by Sean Pratt ...

Unabridged

9 hours 56 min

The now-classic Metaphors We Live By changed our understanding of metaphor and its role in language and the mind. Metaphor, authors George Lakoff and Mark Johnson explain, is a fundamental mechanism of mind, one that allows us to use what we know about our physical and social experience to provide understanding of countless other subjects. Because such metaphors structure our most basic ... Read more

£18.31

The now-classic Metaphors We Live By changed our understanding of metaphor and its role in language and the mind. Metaphor, authors George Lakoff and Mark Johnson explain, is a fundamental mechanism of mind, one that allows us to use what we know about our physical and social experience to provide understanding of countless other subjects. Because such metaphors structure our most basic
... Read more
Audiobook

The News Quiz: 2015 – 2016

Series 88, 89, 90 and 91 of the topical BBC Radio 4 comedy panel show

by BBC Radio Comedy ...

Narrated by Miles Jupp ...

Series Audiobook 10 - The News Quiz
Unabridged

15 hours 13 min

Four series of the satirical radio panel show chaired by Miles JuppThe News Quiz, 'the finest topical comedy panel game known to radio', has been providing headlines, punchlines, irony and irreverence since it was first broadcast in 1977. In these 33 episodes from September 2015 to October 2016, Miles Jupp takes over at the helm, replacing previous host Sandi Toksvig.Joining him in the name of ... Read more

£16.99

Four series of the satirical radio panel show chaired by Miles JuppThe News Quiz, 'the finest topical comedy panel game known to radio', has been providing headlines, punchlines, irony and irreverence since it was first broadcast in 1977. In these 33 episodes from September 2015 to October 2016, Miles Jupp takes over at the helm, replacing previous host Sandi Toksvig.Joining him in the name of
... Read more
Audiobook

Just Friends?

Mandarin Companion Graded Readers Breakthrough Level

by Jared Turner, John Pasden ...

Narrated by Xiuye Zhang ...

Series series Mandarin Companion
Unabridged

32 min

Dapeng and Wendong are best friends attending the same college. When the beautiful Zixin arrives on campus, they soon discover they both share an interest in her. To preserve their friendship, they make a promise not to pursue her. However, when Wendong sees Zixin going for a ride in Dapeng’s car, the truce dissolves into a battle between the two friends trying to gain the affection of Zixin. Whom ... Read more

£2.00

Dapeng and Wendong are best friends attending the same college. When the beautiful Zixin arrives on campus, they soon discover they both share an interest in her. To preserve their friendship, they make a promise not to pursue her. However, when Wendong sees Zixin going for a ride in Dapeng’s car, the truce dissolves into a battle between the two friends trying to gain the affection of Zixin. Whom
... Read more
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On This Day in History

by Dan Snow ...

Narrated by Dan Snow ...

Unabridged

12 hours 7 min

'History is an infinite reservoir of stories, examples, warnings, explanations, jokes, rebukes and inspiration . . . You can't understand the present if you can't understand the past' DAN SNOW3000 years of the most important stories from the past in 365 days -- from the Ides of March to D-Day, from Britain's favourite historian.In ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY Dan Snow, Britain's favourite historian, ... Read more

£21.99

'History is an infinite reservoir of stories, examples, warnings, explanations, jokes, rebukes and inspiration . . . You can't understand the present if you can't understand the past' DAN SNOW3000 years of the most important stories from the past in 365 days -- from the Ides of March to D-Day, from Britain's favourite historian.In ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY Dan Snow, Britain's favourite historian,
... Read more
Audiobook

Getting More

How You Can Negotiate to Succeed in Work and Life

by Stuart Diamond ...

Narrated by Colin Mace ...

Unabridged

16 hours 25 min

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Getting More by Stuart Diamond, read by Colin Mace.You're always negotiating. Whether making a business deal, talking to friends or booking a holiday, negotiation is going on. And most of us are terrible at it. Experts tell us to negotiate as if we live in a rational world. But people can be angry, fearful and irrational. To achieve your goals you have to ... Read more

£16.00

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Getting More by Stuart Diamond, read by Colin Mace.You're always negotiating. Whether making a business deal, talking to friends or booking a holiday, negotiation is going on. And most of us are terrible at it. Experts tell us to negotiate as if we live in a rational world. But people can be angry, fearful and irrational. To achieve your goals you have to
... Read more
Audiobook

Ask A Historian

50 Surprising Answers to Things You Always Wanted to Know

by Greg Jenner ...

Narrated by Greg Jenner, Dan Schreiber, Janina Ramirez, Shappi Khorsandi ...

Unabridged

11 hours 4 min

'Brilliantly funny' SHAPARAK KHORSANDI'Immensely enjoyable' BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE'Every page contains delights' LINDSEY FITZHARRISWhy is Italy called Italy? How old is curry? How fast was the medieval Chinese post system? How do we know how people sounded in the past? Who invented maths?Responding to fifty genuine questions from the public, Greg Jenner takes you on an entertaining tour through ... Read more

£21.99

'Brilliantly funny' SHAPARAK KHORSANDI'Immensely enjoyable' BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE'Every page contains delights' LINDSEY FITZHARRISWhy is Italy called Italy? How old is curry? How fast was the medieval Chinese post system? How do we know how people sounded in the past? Who invented maths?Responding to fifty genuine questions from the public, Greg Jenner takes you on an entertaining tour through
... Read more
Audiobook

Articulation Training for Adults

A Practical Guide to Clearer Speech, Better Communication and Workplace Confidence

by Luke Fairweather ...

Narrated by Digital Voice Brian E ...

Unabridged

2 hours 19 min

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Articulation for Adults: A Practical Guide to Clearer Speech, Better Communication, and Workplace Confidence is a practical, modern communication guide designed specifically for adults who want to improve the way they speak in professional and everyday situations — without clinical speech therapy, complicated jargon, or unrealistic motivational fluff ... Read more

£5.12 or Free with Kobo Plus

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Articulation for Adults: A Practical Guide to Clearer Speech, Better Communication, and Workplace Confidence is a practical, modern communication guide designed specifically for adults who want to improve the way they speak in professional and everyday situations — without clinical speech therapy, complicated jargon, or unrealistic motivational fluff
... Read more
Audiobook

Courtiers

The Sunday Times bestselling inside story of the power behind the crown

by Valentine Low ...

Narrated by Valentine Low ...

Unabridged

10 hours 5 min

'Fascinating' The Times'Tantalising . . . Low's conclusion is a valuable one.' The TelegraphThe gripping account of how the Royal family really operates from the man who has spent years studying them in his role as Royal correspondent for The Times. Valentine Low asks the important questions: who really runs the show and, as Charles III begins his reign, what will happen next?</st... ... Read more

£21.99

'Fascinating' The Times'Tantalising . . . Low's conclusion is a valuable one.' The TelegraphThe gripping account of how the Royal family really operates from the man who has spent years studying them in his role as Royal correspondent for The Times. Valentine Low asks the important questions: who really runs the show and, as Charles III begins his reign, what will happen next?</st...
... Read more

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