This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.In a city where history bites back, murder is just the beginning.Detective Eliza “Bish” Barnaby thought she’d left her home behind—along with its plague outbreaks, random time-shifts, and tendency to accidentally host people from the 1600s during breakfast.But when a dangerous practitioner escapes custody in London, Bish is forced back to Norwich, a city where ancient maps hide deadly shortcuts, angry ...

Anyone can track down a priceless artefact that's been lost for hundreds of years. Finding one that's been hidden on a parallel Earth . . . now that's a neat trick.When Neith Salah—a quantum curator charged with traveling to our parallel Earth to rescue precious artefacts—is ordered to save a priceless Fabergé Egg, she figures it's just another job. The only problem: she's not sure what the egg looks like. Or where it is. Or when it is.Enter Julius Strathcl...

That belongs in a museum!Julius Strathclyde has been dragged through to an alternative earth. Now, training as a quantum curator, every ancient book, every stolen gem, and every lost masterpiece lies at his fingertips. It's incredible.But he has some problems; he can't get home, priceless artefacts are being stolen, and someone is trying to kill him. Oh, and he can't get a decent cup of tea anywhere.Following the disastrous Fabergé assignment, Neith...

The gods don't exist but who's going to tell them?Something is rotten in the heart of Alexandria and Julius Strathclyde is in trouble. He appears to have summoned the gods, which is driving his partner, Neith Salah, insane. Not to mention all the other ultra-rational citizens of Alpha earth.It gets worse.The gods set a challenge that can't be refused. The race is on to find the lost blueprints for the Quantum Stepper. Whoever possesses them will be ...

The Law of Mischief is a genre-blending anthology featuring 28 original short stories from an international cohort of authors. Born from the diverse creative community of the Bestseller Experiment Podcast, this collection explores the second law in an ongoing fantastical series.From dragons helping with breakfast to supernatural investigations, second chances, haunting reckonings, and unexpected romances, each story offers a fresh take on how mischief and magic collide.Whet...

Eine extreme Herausforderung an Mut und Reitkunst führt zwei zusammen, die sich sonst nie begegnet wären: Alexandra aus England und Will aus Tennessee. Für beide hängt alles davon ab, das »Glory«, diesen 1200-Meilen-Marathonritt von Colorada nach Idaho, zu gewinnen. Aber es fällt ihnen immer schwerer, sich als Rivalen zu fühlen … Für die sechzehnjährige Alex, die von ihren Eltern als Erziehungsmaßnahme in ein Bootcamp am Rande der Rocky Mountains geschickt wird, gibt es nur einen Gedanken:...

Beauty. Justice. Identity. Love. Stories. Nature. Hope. These things intrigue us, move us and prompt us to ask big questions. Could there be clues in our deepest desires that point to life’s meaning? Have You Ever Wondered? invites you on an immersive tour through the issues that matter. This book is for anyone who has looked at a landscape and contemplated why we are drawn to beauty; or wondered why we are so insatiably curious about our universe, or even for those who have simply looked ...

Karen, clinical psychologist and captain of the most sophisticated time-traveling spaceship ever constructed, knew that “we need to talk” are words no relationship wants to hear; yet there she was. She was certain chief engineer Andre was “the one,” until the morning she rolled over, looked him in the face, and got a chill. It’s not a good sign when the expert on feelings doesn’t know where her own are coming from. The answer was obvious: travel back in time to the origins of the human rac...

The language of Poetry is an art that most of us attempt at some point in our lives. Although its commonplace exposure has been somewhat marginalised in today’s often fast-paced lives we all recognise good verse that can empathise with our thoughts or open us up to experience new things in new ways, to better understand and to enjoy the many strands of our lives.But finding a starting point can be overwhelming, even off-putting, so in this series we offer up our Top 10 classic poet...

The language of Poetry is an art that most of us attempt at some point in our lives. Although its commonplace exposure has been somewhat marginalised in today’s often fast-paced lives we all recognise good verse that can empathise with our thoughts or open us up to experience new things in new ways, to better understand and to enjoy the many strands of our lives.But finding a starting point can be overwhelming, even off-putting, so in this series we offer up our Top 10 classic poet...

As near Hell as I ever expect to be is the biography of a Civil War soldier from Ohio. In September 1861 twenty-seven-year-old John Vanetton Patterson left his young wife and two babies on their farm near Pemberville. Patterson and thousands of other Ohioans answered Lincoln's call to save the Union. In November Victoria Patterson received a letter, she opened it, and read the inside address, "As near Hell as I ever expect to be". Over the next four years this soldier husband was sick, wou...