Bloomsbury presents Wild Chocolate by Rowan Jacobsen, read by Sam Rushton"Inspiring.” —MARK BITTMAN"One of the best stories under the sun.” —JOS****É ANDR****ÉSFrom James Beard Award-winner Rowan Jacobsen, the thrilling story of the farmers, activists, and chocolate makers fighting all odds to revive ancient cacao and produce the world’s finest bar.When Rowan Jacobsen first heard of ...

Bloomsbury presents 20th Century Ambient by Dusty Henry, read by Sam Rushton.Through text and comics, 20th Century Ambient searches through ambient music’s recent history to unearth how the genre has evolved and the role it plays in our daily lives.Ambient music is a part of our daily lives, whether we all realize it or not. It’s the undercurrent in some of our favorite songs. It’s the mood-setting background music...

A USA TODAY BESTSELLER!A sizzling, standalone, feel-good winter romance from Tessa Bailey, New York Times bestselling author of It Happened One Summer.Two weeks before Christmas and all through Manhattan, shop windows are decorated in red and green satin. I'm standing alone in front of the famous Vivant department store, when a charming man named Aiden asks my opinion of the décor.It's a tragedy i...

Bloomsbury presents Truffle Hound by Rowan Jacobsen, read by Sam Rushton.A Publishers Weekly Best Book of the YearA captivating exploration into the secretive and sensuous world of truffles, the elusive food that has captured hearts, imaginations, and palates worldwide.The scent of one freshly unearthed white truffle in Barolo was all it took to lead Rowan Jacobsen down a rabbit hole into a world of secretive hunts, misty woods, black-market deals, obsessive chefs, ...

Bloomsbury presents Plunderphonics by Matthew Blackwell, read by Sam Rushton.Featuring interviews with John Oswald, Negativland, and others and drawing on a wealth of research on copyright and intellectual property, Plunderphonics explores the impact of a genre that made illegality a point of pride.In Plunderphonics, Matthew Blackwell tells the story of a group of musicians who advocated for changes to the copyrig...

Bloomsbury presents Your Presence Is Mandatory by Sasha Vasilyuk, read by Sam Rushton.Winner of the 2025 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature | Gold Medal Winner for the 94th Annual California Book Awards | Longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel PrizeA riveting debut novel, based on real events, about the price of secrecy, the weight of lies, and one man's drive to protect his family from his past.Ukraine, 2007....

Bloomsbury presents End of Active Service by Matt Young, read by Sam Rushton.A raw and rampaging debut novel from the author of the “inventive, unsparing, irreverent and consistently entertaining” (NYTBR) memoir Eat the Apple—the last phase of war for US veterans: returning home.What was it like? It’s the only thing anyone wants to know about war—and the last thing Corporal Dean Pusey wants to talk about, at least not with one of these fat and happy civilians crowding the b...

BY THE ACCLAIMED AUTHOR OF THE HANDMAID'S TALESometimes I whisper it over to myself: Murderess. Murderess. It rustles, like a taffeta skirt along the floor. Grace Marks. Female fiend? Femme fatale? Or weak and unwilling victim? Around the true story of one of the most enigmatic and notorious women of the 1840s, Margaret Atwood has created an extraordinarily potent tale of sexuality, cruelty and mystery.'Brilliant . . . Atwo...

Bloomsbury presents The Boys of ’67 by Andrew Wiest, read by Sam Rushton.Across the nation in the spring of 1966, farm boys from the Midwest, surfers from California and city-slickers from Cleveland opened their mail to find greetings from Uncle Sam. Some of these men, optimistic and looking to serve their country, joined Charlie Company and trained for service. They deployed together, experiencing the camaraderie, fear, smell, pain, violence, and senseless deaths. And through it a...

By the author of The Handmaid's Tale and The TestamentsA leathery bog-man transforms an old love affair; a sweet, gruesome gift is sent by the wife of an ex-lover; landscape paintings are haunted by the ghost of a young girl. This dazzling collection of ten short stories takes us into familiar Atwood territory to reveal the logic of irrational behaviour and the many textures lying beneath ordinary life.'Atwood is a writer of import...

Students, journalists, farmers, birdwatchers, ex-wives, adolescent lovers - and dancing girls. All ordinary people.Or are they?In brilliant flashes of fantasy, humour and unexpected violence, Margaret Atwood reveals the complexities of human relationships and maps the motivations we scarcely know we have within us. Populated with characters who evoke laughter, compassion, terror and recognition, Atwood's stories show why she remains one of our greatest, most original storyt...

'Yet, during these broken and irregular periods, he had developed one of the most valuable assets any man can have, even from a university education: a love of knowledge and a thirst for learning.'A passion project of Carnegie's, Lincoln the Unknown is a moving portrait of one of the most renowned American politicians in history.Inspired by Carnegie's fascination with the former president, this definitive biography of Abraham Lincoln covers his extraordinary...