This absorbing illustrated study reveals the evolving tactics and techniques used by all sides in the underground war during 1914–18.Covering the Western Front but also the Gallipoli and Italian theatres, this study explores three aspects of World War I below ground: military mining, attack tunnels and dugouts. In 1914–17, the underground war was a product of static trench warfare, essential to survive it and part of both sides' attempts to overcome it. In 1917–18 ...

A gripping military thriller about war, fatherhood, and the cost of survivalBy Simon JonesSome battles never end.Some consequences can't be escaped.Repercussions is a powerful and emotionally charged military thriller that explores the lasting impact of war and the impossible choices faced by those left behind.Peter Laing is a former British soldier who has spent years trying to bury a violent incident from the Gulf War. He has built a quiet life, fa...

Think about our buildings for a moment. They had one important job. It was an evolutionary bargain with our environment: we build structures to protect us from the elements and keep predators out.Objectively, however, we are failing. Somewhere along the way, we forgot the mammal inside the box. We became obsessed with the box itself, how energy, efficient it is, how airtight we can make it, and how cheaply we can stack it. In doing so, we broke the bargain. Instead of keeping dange...

A defeated chief and a broken shaman stand against a relentless killer, a desperate power-broker, and the might of a kingdom, inexorably converging to decide the fate of the land.With his tribe decimated and nowhere to go, Cossak must pick up the pieces and rebuild what remains of his people’s lives. But it was he who led them to their ruin, and the loss of so many weighs on his heart.Nova flees northward, doggedly pursued by the Gentleman, who wants what he has an...

As one tribe stands against many, and the might of a kingdom works toward their ruin, a warrior and a shaman must find a way to save their people.Friends from birth, Cossak and Nova must lead the last of their tribe in a search for a safe place, surviving attacks from their own people and a kingdom intent on stripping the land of everything to get what it needs.Cossak will become chief. In doing so, he must find the strength to lead his tribe through their destruct...

A twenty-something farming woman working the fields discovers there is a whole universe out there, but she is supposed to decide humanity’s fate?Leena is a young, small-town woman, known for her questioning nature yet destined to live out her life like the others: in servitude to the Bright One, under the guidance of the Vicar.Suffused with holy purpose, the Vicar demands their neighbouring towns be ‘cleansed’, for through him the Bright One speaks. His townspeople are fait...

Don’t Panic! Reissued for the first time in 40 years, two unique recordings of Douglas Adams's sci-fi comedy drama.When Earthman Arthur Dent learns that first his house and then his planet are about to be bulldozed, it’s the beginning of an interplanetary adventure for him and his friend, Ford Prefect. After fleeing Earth they hitch a lift with hoopy frood Zaphod Beeblebrox, who hurtles from one improbability to another - literally. With Trillian and Marvin the Paranoid Android in ...

Simon Joness graphic history of underground warfare during the Great War uses personal reminiscences to convey the danger and suspense of this unconventional form of conflict. He describes how the underground soldiers of the opposing armies engaged in a ruthless fight for supremacy, covers the tunneling methods they employed, and shows the increasingly lethal tactics they developed during the war in which military mining reached its apotheosis. He concentrates on the struggle for ascendanc...

Winner of the Wisden Book of the YearEighteen years, eight series, eight defeats. These are the facts. I look around the room. We’re a young team. Strauss, Flintoff, Vaughan, the new guy, Kevin Pietersen. None of us remember England holding the Ashes. We are a generation that have grown up in Australia’s shadow.In 2005 Simon Jones took part in the greatest Ashes series of all time. As a devastating fast bowler in a brave young England team, Jones w...

A brand new day. With all creation bathed in light after night. Young boy waking to rejoice in it.

Gilded Age TV star and Golden Voice narrator Simon Jones narrates this gripping Agatha Christie classic with authenticity and style.Roger Ackroyd already knows more than is good for him about the woman he’s in love with, who has tragically taken her own life.Then a letter arrives. As he is reading it, Roger Ackroyd is stabbed to death.Earphones Award Winner"..Jones delivers Agatha Christie's classic locked-room mystery to perfection...Jones's interpretation ...

Over 40 hours of pure joy from 3 narrators at the top of their game!The Murder of Roger Ackroyd read by Simon Jones
The Man in the Brown Suit read by Alison LarkinThe Secret Adversary read by Alison LarkinThe Mysterious Affair at Styles read by James WarwickThe Murder on the Links read by James WarwickThis outstanding collection includes award-winning narrator Alison Larkin’s fascinating, lively interviews with Golden Voice narrator Simon Jones, (star o...