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THE VIEW FROM THE CHEAP SEATS: SELECTED NON-FICTION - Neil Gaiman - audio clip
May 31, 2016 00:00The View from the Cheap Seats draws together myriad non-fiction writing by international phenomenon and Sunday Times bestselling author Neil Gaiman. From Make Good Art, the speech that went viral, to pieces on artists and legends including Terry Pratchett and Lou Reed, the collection offers a glimpse into the head and heart of one of the most acclaimed writers of our time. 'Literature does not occur in a vacuum. It cannot be a monologue. It has to be a conversation' Welcome to the conversat...
MAD GIRL - Bryony Gordon - audio clip
May 13, 2016 14:22Bryony Gordon has OCD. It's the snake in her brain that has told her ever since she was a teenager that her world is about to come crashing down: that her family might die if she doesn't repeat a phrase 5 times, or that she might have murdered someone and forgotten about it. It's caused alopecia, bulimia, and drug dependency. And Bryony is sick of it. Keeping silent about her illness has given it a cachet it simply does not deserve, so here she shares her story with trademark wit and dazzli...
THIS MUST BE THE PLACE - Maggie O'Farrell - audio clip
May 10, 2016 10:33Meet Daniel Sullivan, a man with a complicated life. A New Yorker living in the wilds of Ireland, he has children he never sees in California, a father he loathes in Brooklyn and a wife, Claudette, who is a reclusive ex-film star given to shooting at anyone who ventures up their driveway. He is also about to find out something about a woman he lost touch with twenty years ago, and this discovery will send him off-course, far away from wife and home. Will his love for Claudette be enough to ...
SIX TUDOR QUEENS: KATHERINE OF ARAGON, THE TRUE QUEEN - Alison Weir - Audio extract
May 05, 2016 11:47A Spanish princess. Raised to be modest, obedient and devout. Destined to be an English Queen. Six weeks from home across treacherous seas, everything is different: the language, the food, the weather. And for her there is no comfort in any of it. At sixteen years-old, Catalina is alone among strangers. She misses her mother. She mourns her lost brother. She cannot trust even those assigned to her protection. KATHERINE OF ARAGON. The first of Henry's Queens. Her story. History tells us ho...
ANXIETY REBALANCE - Carl Vernon - Audio extract
May 04, 2016 16:08Anxiety Rebalance is Carl Vernon's personal experience of overcoming 15 years of crippling anxiety. In this online best-seller, Carl combines a compelling account of his experience with the answers he found, including the 10 key actions that helped him achieve balance. The response from his readers (of his original self-published edition) has been extraordinary, and his solutions will become as much as a life manual as Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway and Sane New World. 'Throughout the fiftee...
FIND HER - Lisa Gardner - Audiobook Extract
February 09, 2016 00:00To celebrate Headline's 30th birthday we're giving you the chance to download FIND HER by Lisa Gardner on special offer throughout June. Don't miss the chance to download FIND HER by Lisa Gardner on special celebratory offer throughout June. AN ESCAPED KIDNAPPING VICTIM BECOMES AN AVENGER OF INNOCENTS. CAN SHE ESCAPE WHEN SHE'S TARGETED AGAIN? The eighth novel in Sunday Times bestseller Lisa Gardner's Detective D. D. Warren series. Harlan Coben says FIND HER is 'taut psychological suspense'...
YOU AND ME, ALWAYS - Jill Mansell - Audiobook Extract
January 28, 2016 00:00To celebrate Headline's 30th birthday we're giving you the chance to download the sensational YOU AND ME, ALWAYS by Jill Mansell on special offer throughout June. Don't miss the chance to download the sensational YOU AND ME, ALWAYS by Jill Mansell on special celebratory offer throughout June. From the bestselling author of THREE AMAZING THINGS ABOUT YOU and THE ONE YOU REALLY WANT comes a deliciously romantic and poignant read about love, loss and how nothing can stay hidden for ever... If...
BRITANNIA (EAGLES OF THE EMPIRE 14) by Simon Scarrow - audiobook extract
December 22, 2015 00:00Simon Scarrow's veteran Roman soldier heroes face a cunning and relentless enemy in BRITANNIA. Roman Britain, AD 52. The western tribes, inspired by the Druids' hatred of the Romans, prepare to make a stand. But can they match the discipline and courage of the legionaries? Wounded during a skirmish, Centurion Macro remains behind in charge of the fort as Prefect Cato leads an invasion deep into the hills. Cato's mission: to cement Rome's triumph over the natives by crushing the Druid stron...
ME ME ME - Charlotte Crosby - Audiobook Extract
July 30, 2015 00:00To celebrate Headline's 30th birthday we're giving you the chance to download the sensational ME ME ME by Charlotte Crosby on special offer throughout June. Don't miss the chance to download the sensational ME ME ME by Charlotte Crosby on special celebratory offer throughout June. Charlotte Crosby has been one of the UK's best-loved TV stars since she burst onto the celeb scene in 2011 with Geordie Shore. Laugh-out-loud hilarious, genuine, and a proper Geordie, Charlotte's popularity has e...
HEARTS OF STONE - Simon Scarrow - Audiobook Extract
July 03, 2015 00:00To celebrate Headline's 30th birthday we're giving you the chance to download the sensational HEARTS OF STONE by Simon Scarrow on special offer throughout June. Don't miss the chance to download the sensational HEARTS OF STONE by Simon Scarrow on special celebratory offer throughout June. The fierce courage of the men and women of the Greek Resistance is brought to vivid life in Sunday Times bestseller Simon Scarrow's powerful novel of World War II. 'Gripping... [a] moving narrative of frie...
MY MOTHER'S SECRET - Sheila O'Flanagan - Audiobook Extract
July 02, 2015 00:00To celebrate Headline's 30th birthday we're giving you the chance to download the sensational MY MOTHER'S SECRET by Sheila O'Flanagan on special offer throughout June. Don't miss the chance to download the sensational MY MOTHER'S SECRET by Sheila O'Flanagan on special celebratory offer throughout June. Sheila O'Flanagan's MY MOTHER'S SECRET is a thought-provoking and unputdownable novel about a family reeling from the news that nothing about their parents' marriage is what they believed it ...
THE BOY IN THE BOOK - Nathan Penlington - Audio Extract
May 22, 2015 00:00One man's adventure in search of a lost childhood. When Nathan discovered a job lot of the first 106 adventures for sale on eBay, there was never any question that he would place a bid. When the books arrived, he lost himself in the old adventures. Yet, as he flicked through the pages, there was another story being written. In the margins of each book were the scribblings of the little boy who had once owned them, a little boy by the name of Terence John Prendergast. Terence wrote jokes an...
CLOSER THAN YOU THINK - Karen Rose - Audiobook Extract
November 06, 2014 00:00To celebrate Headline's 30th birthday we're giving you the chance to download the thrilling CLOSER THAN YOU THINK by Karen Rose on special offer throughout June. Don't miss the chance to download the thrilling CLOSER THAN YOU THINK by Karen Rose on special celebratory offer throughout June. CLOSER THAN YOU THINK is the gripping first novel in the Cincinnati series and sees Sunday Timesbestseller Karen Rose at her tense, tantalising and thrilling best. 'Intense, complex and unforgettable' J...
WHEN THE EAGLE HUNTS (EAGLES OF THE EMPIRE 3) by Simon Scarrow - audiobook extract
October 24, 2013 00:00WHEN THE EAGLE HUNTS is the compelling third novel in Simon Scarrow's bestselling Eagles of the Empire series. For fans of Bernard Cornwell and Conn Iggulden. After a series of bloody battles, Camulodunum (modern-day Colchester) has fallen to the invading Roman army. The Emperor has returned to Rome, leaving the fearless Centurion Macro and his young Optio, Cato, to rest and regroup, along with the rest of the Second Legion. As their leader General Plautius plans the next phase of their ca...
THE GLADIATOR (EAGLES OF THE EMPIRE 9) by Simon Scarrow - audiobook extract
October 23, 2012 00:00THE GLADIATOR is the compelling ninth novel in Simon Scarrow's bestselling Eagles of the Empire series. A must read for fans of Bernard Cornwell. While centurions Macro and Cato are returning to Rome from a harrowing campaign against the Parthians, their transport ship is almost capsized by a tidal wave. They barely make it to the port of Matala in Crete where they are stunned to find a devastated town. An earthquake has struck the island, destroying its cities and killing thousands. In the ...
THE LEGION (EAGLES OF THE EMPIRE 10) by Simon Scarrow - audiobook extract
July 14, 2012 00:00THE LEGION is the action-packed tenth novel in Simon Scarrow's bestselling Eagles of the Empire series. Perfect for fans of Bernard Cornwell. When the actions of a rebel gladiator in Egypt threaten the stability of the Roman Empire, Prefect Cato and Centurion Macro know he must be stopped. The locals are holding the Romans responsible for the attacks and Ajax's crew have been making along the coast and now Egypt is dangerously volatile. Tasked with tracking and defeating the renegade, Cat...
THE EAGLE'S PROPHECY (EAGLES OF THE EMPIRE 6) by Simon Scarrow - audiobook extract
June 14, 2012 00:00THE EAGLE'S PROPHECY is the gripping sixth novel in Simon Scarrow's bestselling Eagles of the Empire seires. Perfect for fans of Bernard Cornwell. It is spring AD 45 and Centurions Macro and Cato, dismissed from the Second Legion in Britain, are trapped in Rome, waiting for their involvement in the death of a fellow officer to be investigated. It is then that the imperial secretary, the devious Narcissus, makes them an offer they can't refuse: to rescue an imperial agent who has been capture...
THE LADYKILLER - Martina Cole - Audiobook Extract
March 05, 2012 00:00To celebrate Headline's 30th birthday we're giving you the chance to download THE LADYKILLER by Martina Cole on special offer throughout June. Don't miss the chance to download THE LADYKILLER by Martina Cole on special celebratory offer throughout June. George Markham has a nasty little hobby, one that erupts into an orgy of vicious sexual depravity. Patrick Kelly is a hard man. His one soft spot is his daughter, and when she falls victim to the Grantley Ripper, Kelly wants revenge. T...
THE THREAD - Victoria Hislop - Audiobook Extract
October 27, 2011 00:00To celebrate Headline's 30th birthday we're giving you the chance to download THE THREAD by Victoria Hislop on special offer throughout June. Don't miss the chance to download THE THREAD by Victoria Hislop on special celebratory offer throughout June. Thessaloniki, 1917. As Dimitri Komninos is born, a fire sweeps through the thriving multicultural city, where Christians, Jews and Moslems live side by side. It is the first of many catastrophic events that will change for ever this city, as ...
A DISCOVERY OF WITCHES - Deborah Harkness - Audiobook Extract
February 08, 2011 00:00*Now a major Sky original production* THE NUMBER ONE INTERNATIONAL AND SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER. A Discovery of Witches is the first in the must-have, must-read ALL SOULS trilogy. It begins with absence and desire. It begins with blood and fear. It begins with a discovery of witches. (P)2011 Penguin Audio