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THE WYNDHAM CASE (Imogen Quy Book 1) by Jill Paton Walsh - Audiobook extract
August 29, 2019 00:00Booker shortlisted author Jill Paton Walsh introduces us to popular detective Imogen Quy. The locked library of St Agatha's College, Cambridge houses an unrivalled, and according to certain scholars, deeply uninteresting collection of seventeenth century volumes. It also contains one dead student. Tragic and accidental, of course, even if malicious gossip hints that Philip Skellow had been engaged in stealing books rather than acquiring knowledge when he'd slipped, banged his head, and ble...
WHY EVERYONE NEEDS A NEMESIS, by Elle Hunt, read by Heather Long - Audiobook extract
August 29, 2019 00:00We all obsess about worrying less, but worrying can actually be good for you. Similarly we strive to be proactive and fast - but aren't there hidden benefits to procrastinating? The last thing a parent is meant to do is neglect their offspring, but children do amazing things when you just leave them alone. And at work we spend hours frantically brainstorming, but isn't there a benefit to just lazily staring out of the window? In Why Everyone Needs a Nemesis, journalist Elle Hunt explores t...
NEARLY THERE... written and read by Zoë Beaty - Audiobook extract
August 29, 2019 00:00We all obsess about worrying less, but worrying can actually be good for you. Similarly we strive to be proactive and fast - but aren't there hidden benefits to procrastinating? The last thing a parent is meant to do is neglect their offspring, but children do amazing things when you just leave them alone. And at work we spend hours frantically brainstorming, but isn't there a benefit to just lazily staring out of the window? In this short piece, Zoe Beaty explores the benefits of being a ...
WOMEN OF THE DUNES, by Sarah Maine, read by Lesley Mackie - Audiobook extract
August 29, 2019 00:00On the rugged, sea-lashed coast of west Scotland lies Ullaness: home to the Scottish legend of Ulla, a Viking woman who washed up on Scottish shores centuries ago. The legend will bring the stories of three different women together... In AD 800 there is Ulla, lost in a foreign country after her lover is brutally killed. Ellen, a servant-girl in the 1800s, catches the unwanted attentions of the master of the house's lascivious son. And, in the present day, there is Libby - an archaeologist wh...
THE BAD QUARTO, by Jill Paton Walsh, read by Suzannah Hampton - Audiobook extract
August 29, 2019 00:00Another foolhardy Cambridge college-climber has died attempting Harding's Folly. This time it's John Talentire, one of the brightest young dons at St Agatha's, and the verdict is accident, compounded by idiocy. But Imogen Quy - her name rhymes with 'why' - can't help wondering how such a clever young man died so stupidly. And when a wildly eccentric production of Hamlet is interrupted by a murder accusation, Imogen has to look into it, uncovering more crime than she expected.
THE SOULFUL ART OF PERSUASION written and read by Jason Harris - audiobook extract
August 27, 2019 12:06A revolutionary guide to becoming a master influencer in an age of distrust through the cultivation of character-building habits that are essential to both personal growth and sustained business success. This isn't a book full of tips and life-hacks. Instead, THE SOULFUL ART OF PERSUASION will develop the habits that others want to be influenced by. This book is based on a radical idea: Persuasion isn't about facts and argument. It's all about personal character. Jason Harris, CEO of the pow...
A DAUGHTER'S JOURNEY (Birch End Book 1) by Anna Jacobs - audiobook extract
August 23, 2019 09:38Book One in beloved author Anna Jacobs' brand new Birch End series. Jo Melling has arrived in Birch End from Australia, still grieving her father's recent death. She's not intending to stay long, but after tracking down her distant family, Jo becomes more involved in village life than she could ever have imagined - and suddenly in danger too. Jo also finds herself drawn to Nick, a handsome newcomer to the village. Nick had planned to settle in Birch End and start a business, but as he grows...
DEBTS OF DISHONOUR (Imogen Quy Book 3) by Jill Paton Walsh - audiobook extract
August 23, 2019 09:36Imogen Quy returns after a decade to solve another intriguing Cambridge mystery. Hoping to attract a generous endowment, St Agatha's College, Cambridge, invites fabulously wealthy Sir Julius Farran to dine. The evening is a disaster for everyone but Imogen Quy: Farran asks her to come and work for him. She declines, but when Farran dies, suddenly and shockingly, she has to look into it. His death left a large hole in his company accounts that could mean financial ruin for St Agatha's. To ...
EARWIG by Brian Catling - audiobook extract
August 23, 2019 09:30A standalone novel by iconic artist and author of cult bestseller, THE VORRH. Earwig got his nickname from his grandfather. At the start of this story he is employed to look after a strange little girl in a flat in Liege. He spies on her, listens to her by holding a glass up to the wall. But he never touches her except when, as part of his duties, he is required to is to make teeth of ice and insert them in her gums. Earwig takes a rare day off, which he spends drinking by himself in Au ...
WITCHFINDER by Andrew Williams, read by Richard Mitchley - audiobook extract
August 22, 2019 13:57London 1963. The Beatles, Carnaby Street, mini skirts. But the new mood hasn't reached the drab and fearful corridors of MI5 and MI6. Many agents joined the secret service to fight the Nazis. Now they are locked in a Cold War against the Russians. And some of them are traitors. The service has been shaken to its core by the high-profile defections of Cambridge-educated spies Burgess, MacLean and now Philby. Appalled at such flagrant breaches of British security, the Americans are demanding ...
THE VANISHED BRIDE (Bronte Mysteries 1) by Bella Ellis, read by Kristin Atherton - audiobook extract
August 22, 2019 13:55The year is 1845, and Emily, Charlotte and Anne Bronte are sat around the dining room table, laughing merrily as the rain of their Yorkshire summer falls outside. When their brother, Branwell, returns from The Bull Inn, he brings with him the most shocking revelation: that Elizabeth Chester, wife of Robert Chester and mistress of Chester Grange has gone missing - but the bloody scene found in her bedroom suggests she may have been murdered. The governess at Chester Grange is Matilda French, ...
MISSING PERSON by Sarah Lotz - audiobook extract
August 22, 2019 13:47The unmissable new thriller from Sarah Lotz, author of The Three and The White Road. They are a group of misfits who go online for fun. Their hobby is giving names to the missing dead. But a killer is online with them, and his game is in deadly earnest . . . Shaun Ryan's brother, Teddy, died in 1989. Only he didn't. Looking through his grievously ill mother's personal effects, Shaun finds a postcard that Teddy posted from New York, dated October 22nd 1990. And in his mother's family Bible i...
HOW TO by Randall Munroe, read by Wil Wheaton - audiobook extract
August 22, 2019 13:46The world's most entertaining and useless self-help guide, from the brilliant mind behind the wildly popular webcomic xkcd and the million-selling What If? and Thing Explainer. For any task you might want to do, there's a right way, a wrong way, and a way so monumentally bad that no one would ever try it. How To is a guide to the third kind of approach. It's full of highly impractical advice for everything from landing a plane to digging a hole. Bestselling author and cartoonist Randall Mun...
THE HIDING GAME by Louise Phillips, read by Jennifer Woodward - audiobook extract
August 22, 2019 13:43The thrilling new bestseller from acclaimed crime writer Louise Phillips. Abby Jones, a young nanny from a small town outside Boston, is the last person with infant Jacob Rotterdam when he becomes seriously ill. Within hours, tragically, he dies, and Abby is charged with his murder. Heather Baxter, her defense attorney, knows the case is not as clear cut as the Assistant District Attorney claims, and with enormous media attention on the trial, the stakes couldn't be higher. When Heather d...
FILTER THIS by Sophie White, read by Jacqueline Milne - audiobook extract
August 22, 2019 13:41The sparkling debut novel from Sophie White set in the online world of social media and Instagram. Ali Jones is hell-bent on achieving her #lifegoals: 10,000 Instagram followers and a win at the upcoming Glossie Influencer Awards. So when she inadvertently leads people to believe she is sporting a baby bump and immediately gains thousands of followers, she realises that the Mummy Influencer wave could be her ticket to Insta-success, even if off-screen it feels like her life is falling apart...
BEYOND THE WILD RIVER by Sarah Maine, read by Carolyn Bonnyman - audiobook extract
August 22, 2019 13:39A spellbinding and beautiful novel from the author of THE HOUSE BETWEEN TIDES, winner of the Waterstones Scottish Book of the Year. Scotland,1893. Nineteen-year-old Evelyn Ballantyre, the daughter of a wealthy landowner, has rarely strayed from her family's estate in the Scottish Borders. She was once close to her philanthropist father, but his silence over what really happened on the day a poacher was shot on estate land has come between them. An invitation to accompany her father to Ca...
THE LEAN AND HAPPY HOME, by Eva Jarlsdotter, read by Julia Maisey - Audiobook extract
August 22, 2019 00:00More time, less waste. How to get your family life in order. Lean is a philosophy embraced by the most creative and successful organisations around the world, from Nike to Toyota. Now for the first time, social entrepreneur Eva Jarlsdotter is applying it to family life. LEAN will remove waste: wasted time, wasted energy, wasted money. LEAN will give you the gift of time. This book will show you how to get your life in order, offering a smooth, easy process to bring harmony to your family...
WHAT YOU PAY FOR, by Claire Askew, read by Sarah Barron - Audiobook extracts
August 22, 2019 00:00DI Helen Birch faces a terrible choice - family or justice? - in the gripping second novel from the author of All the Hidden Truths DI Birch joined the police to find her little brother, who walked out of his life one day and was never seen again. She stayed to help others, determined to seek justice where she could. On the fourteenth anniversary of Charlie's disappearance, Birch takes part in a raid on one of Scotland's most feared criminal organisations. It's a good day's work - a chance ...
THE ART OF DYING, by Douglas Lindsay, read by Angus King - Audiobook extract
August 22, 2019 00:00Book 3 in the 'dark and satisfying' (James Oswald) DI Westphall series. Praise for the DI Westphall series 'Richly atmospheric . . . Lindsay solidifies his place as one of the rising stars of tartan noir' Publishers Weekly 'The Boy in the Well is a dark and satisfying mystery. I thoroughly enjoyed my time in the company of DI Ben Westphall, a compelling personality . . . This one comes thoroughly recommended' James Oswald 'A Tartan Noir tour de force. Lindsay writes with an economy and sk...
BLACK OPS, by Chris Ryan, read by Michael Fenner - Audiobook extract
August 22, 2019 00:00The seventh book in the bestselling Danny Black series. A series of gruesome killings take place in Dubai, Ghana and America. The victims are all connected with the SAS. In Hereford Danny Black realises they have something more specific in common - they were all involved in training a young Muslim soldier, Ibrahim Khan. Khan has been working under cover in Islamic State in a mission organised by MI6. Danny Black sets out to track him down with the help of Khan's MI6 handler on a trail th...
THE GABRIEL HOUNDS, by Mary Stewart, read by Amy Molloy - Audiobook extract
August 15, 2019 00:00Mary Stewart, one of the great British storytellers of the 20th century, transports listeners to rural Northumberland for this tale of romance, ambition, and deceit - a perfect fit for fans of Agatha Christie and Barbara Pym. Whitescar is a beautiful old house and farm situated in Roman Wall country. It will make a rich inheritance for its heirs, but in order to secure it, they enlist the help of a young woman named Mary who bears remarkable resemblance to missing Whitescar heiress, Annabel...
DO SOMETHING, written and read by Kajal Odedra - Audiobook extract
August 15, 2019 00:00A user's guide to Activism by one of the UK's biggest names in grass-roots campaigning shows in a few simple steps how we can all make a difference. People power works and is changing the world around us. This is a user's guide to activism by one of the UK's biggest names in grass-roots campaigning. Illustrated with lessons from the real world, it is a guide to creating change for anyone who has ever asked themselves 'why hasn't anyone done something about that?' We are taught to believe th...
THE NATURAL PRESCRIPTION, by Dr Andreas Michalsen, read by Gavin Osborn - Audiobook extract
August 15, 2019 00:00A thoughtful and compelling case for the power and potential of natural medicine to heal the human body, from bestselling author Dr Andreas Michalsen. This illuminating book has the power to transform your health and change your life. We are living longer than ever before, but our prolonged lives have come at a price: a rise in chronic diseases like digestive disorders, high blood pressure, heart disease, arthritis and cancer. These diseases pose a challenge to conventional medicine, which ...
MY BROTHER MICHAEL, by Mary Stewart, read by Jasmine Blackborow - Audiobook extract
August 15, 2019 00:00One of Britain's most beloved authors, Mary Stewart leads her readers on a journey of murder and deceit through the dusty roads of mid-century Greece in this tale that fans of Agatha Christie and Barbara Pym are sure to love. 'Nothing ever happens to me...' So begins Camilla Haven's letter home during her quiet holiday in Athens. But when a stranger begs her to drive a car to Delphi, swearing that it is a matter of life and death, Camilla impulsively takes the opportunity she's been offered....
THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO ASPERGER'S, by Tony Attwood, read by John Sackville - Audiobook extract
August 15, 2019 00:00The Asperger's Syndrome Bible for parents and professionals, newly updated with an introduction explaining the DSM-5 The Complete Guide to Asperger's Syndrome is the definitive handbook for anyone affected by Asperger's syndrome (AS). Now including a new introduction explaining the impact of DSM-5 on the diagnosis and approach to AS, it brings together a wealth of information on all aspects of the syndrome for children through to adults. Drawing on case studies and personal accounts from At...
DEATH IN THE TUSCAN HILLS, by Marco Vichi, read by Tim Bruce - Audiobook extract
August 15, 2019 00:00The fifth book in the award-winning crime series by Marco Vichi sees Inspector Bordelli take the law into his own hands. Spring, 1967. The trail of tragedy and destruction that followed the previous winter's flood seems to have died down; Florence is beginning to recover. But Inspector Bordelli does not feel the same sense of relief - he has not had a moment's peace since his investigation of a young boy's murder went disastrously wrong. Unsettled and embittered, Bordelli resigns from the f...
THE MOON-SPINNERS, by Mary Stewart, read by Daphne Kouma - Audiobook extract
August 15, 2019 00:00The pioneer of romantic suspense Mary Stewart transports listeners to the idyllic hills of mid-century Crete in this tale of peril and intrigue that will keep fans of Agatha Christie and Barbara Pym on the edge of their seats. While on a walking holiday through the beautiful, deserted hills of Crete, Nicola Ferris stumbles across a critically injured Englishman, guarded by a fierce Greek. Nicola cannot abandon them and so sets off on a perilous search for their lost companion - all the whil...
THE IVY TREE, by Mary Stewart, read by Amy Molloy - Audiobook extract
August 15, 2019 00:00Mary Stewart, one of the great British storytellers of the 20th century, transports listeners to rural Northumberland for this tale of romance, ambition, and deceit - a perfect fit for fans of Agatha Christie and Barbara Pym. Whitescar is a beautiful old house and farm situated in Roman Wall country. It will make a rich inheritance for its heirs, but in order to secure it, they enlist the help of a young woman named Mary who bears remarkable resemblance to missing Whitescar heiress, Annabel...
A PIECE OF JUSTICE (Imogen Quy Book 2) by Jill Paton Walsh - Audiobook extract
August 09, 2019 10:56Booker shortlisted author Jill Paton Walsh returns with the second Imogen Quy mystery. Biography is usually a safe profession. Even rather sedate. But more than one biographer has found that writing about the late great mathematician Gideon Summerfield leads to a hasty retreat. Or something more deadly... Imogen Quy, the coolly competent college nurse at St. Agatha's College, Cambridge, first notices the pattern when her enthusiastic lodger Fran becomes the latest Summerfield biographer. Be...
BEAUTIFUL OUTLAW, written and read by John Eldredge - Audiobook extract
August 09, 2019 09:01An exciting look at the real Jesus - wild, playful and provocative - from bestselling author John Eldredge. Jesus is the most vague, misrepresented figure in the history of the world. Is it possible to know and trust someone so ethereal and lofty? What is he really like? BEAUTIFUL OUTLAW offers a look into the humanity of Jesus, dismantling all the religious nonsense and helping us understand who this man really was - on a personal level. Focusing on his compelling personality, bestselling...
HOW IT WAS, written and read by Janet Ellis - Audiobook extract
August 08, 2019 00:00Marion Deacon sits by the hospital bed of her dying husband, Michael. Outwardly she is, as she says, an unremarkable old woman. She has long concealed her history - and her feelings - from the casual observer. But as she sits by Michael's bed, she's haunted by memories from almost forty years ago . . . Marion Deacon is a wife and mother, and not particularly good at being either. It's the 1970s and in her small village the Swinging 60s, the wave of feminism, the prospect of an exciting li...
LIGHT ON LIFE, by B.K.S. Iyengar, read by Christopher Oxford - Audiobook extract
August 08, 2019 00:00A must-have for anyone who practises yoga or is interested in the teachings of the East. B.K.S. Iyengar, whose teachings on yoga are followed throughout the world, reflects upon his lifetime's experience on the yoga path. The structure of the book follows the different aspects of that path (from Freedom Awaits, through The Physical Body, The Energy Body, The Mental Body, The Intellectual Body, The Divine Body to Living in Freedom) and provides a learning framework for yoga as well as an inva...
BAD DAY AT THE VULTURE CLUB, by Vaseem Khan, read by Madhav Sharma - Audiobook extract
August 08, 2019 00:00In the gripping new Baby Ganesh Agency novel, Inspector Chopra and his elephant sidekick investigate the death of one of Mumbai's wealthiest citizens, a murder with ramifications for its poorest. The Parsees are among the oldest, most secretive and most influential communities in the city: respected, envied and sometimes feared. When prominent industrialist Cyrus Zorabian is murdered on holy ground, his body dumped inside a Tower of Silence - where the Parsee dead are consumed by vultures -...
TUHRSDAY NIGHTS AT THE BLUEBELL INN
August 08, 2019 00:00In every pub in every town unspoken stories lie beneath the surface. Each week, six women meet at The Bluebell Inn. They form an unlikely and occasionally triumphant ladies darts team. They banter and jibe, they laugh. But their hidden stories of love and loss are what, in the end, will bind them. There is Mary, full of it but cradling her dark secret; Lena - young and bold, she has made her choice; the cat woman who must return to the place of her birth before it's too late. There's Ma...
CAGING SKIES, by Christine Leunens, read by Tim Bruce - Audiobook extract
August 08, 2019 00:00A gripping, atmospheric novel about obsession and love in war-time Vienna This extraordinary novel is seen through the eyes of Johannes, an avid member of the Hitler Youth in the 1940s. After he is severely injured in a raid, he discovers his parents are hiding a Jewish girl called Elsa behind a false wall in their large house in Vienna. His initial horror turns to interest, then love and obsession. After the disappearance of his parents, Johannes finds he is the only one aware of Elsa's e...
HOUSE OF BROKEN ANGELS, written and read by Luis Alberto Urrea - audiobook extract
August 08, 2019 00:00'All we do, mija, is love. Love is the answer. Nothing stops it. Not borders. Not death.' In his final days, beloved and ailing patriarch Miguel Angel de La Cruz, affectionately called Big Angel, has summoned his entire clan for one last legendary birthday party. But as the party approaches, his mother, nearly one hundred, dies, transforming the weekend into a farewell doubleheader. Among the guests is Big Angel's half brother, known as Little Angel, who must reckon with the truth that altho...
CHASING THE DRAGON, by Jackie Pullinger, read by Deryn Edwards - Audiobook extract
August 08, 2019 00:00Until it was pulled down, the Walled City was Hong Kong's most foreboding territory. It was a lawless place, dominated by the Triads, and which the police hesitated to enter. Strangers were unwelcome. Drug smuggling and heroin addiction flourished, as did prostitution and pornography, extortion and fear. When Jackie Pullinger set sail from England in 1966 she had no idea that God was calling her to the Walled City. Yet, as she spoke of Jesus Christ, brutal Triad gangsters were converted, pro...
THIS AMERICA, written and read by Jill Lepore - audiobook extract
August 08, 2019 00:00From the acclaimed New York Times bestselling historian, Jill Lepore, comes a bold new history of nationalism, and a plan for hope in the twenty-first century. With dangerous forms of nationalism on the rise, at a time of much despair over the future of liberal democracy, Harvard historian and New Yorker writer Jill Lepore makes a stirring case for the nation - and repudiates nationalism by explaining its long history. In part a primer on the origins of nations, The Case for the Nation expl...
HARD TIME, by Sara Paretsky, read by Liza Ross - Audiobook extract
August 08, 2019 00:00The ninth V.I. Warshawski thriller from one of America's greatest female crime writers, combining contemporary issues, social injustice and fast-paced suspense. While driving home after celebrating friend Murray Ryerson's big break into TV hosting, V.I. almost collides with a fatally wounded woman lying in the street. The deceased is Nicola Aguinaldo, former employee of security giant B.B. Baladine and recent prison runaway. Taking on the case, V.I. finds herself plunged into a sinister net...
TOTAL RECALL, by Sara Paretsky, read by Liza Ross - Audiobook extract
August 08, 2019 00:00The tenth V.I. Warshawski thriller from one of America's greatest female crime writers, combining contemporary issues, social injustice and fast-paced suspense. When V.I.'s close friend Lotty Herschel is approached by a man claiming to be a fellow Holocaust survivor, she's forced to recall a painful past she's tried desperately to forget. Coming to Lotty's aid, V.I. decides to investigate the mysterious stranger. But her findings lead to the exposure of something much darker involving an in...
BARRIE, by Seán Laidlaw, read by James Price - Audiobook extract
August 08, 2019 00:00The heart-warming story of Barrie, the stray puppy rescued from the rubble in Syria by former soldier Sean Laidlaw. Barrie was rescued from the rubble by Bomb disposal expert and former soldier Sean Laidlaw. He gradually gained her trust and they soon became inseparable. When Sean's contract to Syria was not renewed and he could not return to her, he raised the funds to bring her home with him. The two created an incredible bond in their three months together, and they were reunited in emo...
BRAIN CHANGER, written and read by Professor Felice Jacka - Audiobook extract
August 07, 2019 15:21A combination of Professor Felice Jacka's love of food and her own experience of depression and anxiety as a young woman led her to question whether what we put in our mouths everyday affects more than our waistline. Felice set out on a journey of discovery to change the status quo and uncover the truth through rigorous science. Beginning her PhD in 2005, she examined the association between women's diets and their mental health, focusing on depression and anxiety. She soon discovered - you f...
CITY OF WINDOWS, by Robert Pobi, read by Stephen Graybill - Audiobook extract
August 06, 2019 00:00In the middle of a blizzard, down a busy New York avenue, into a moving car. And there's nothing worse than hunting a killer with a rifle in a city of windows. The agent in charge knows only one man with the skills to work out where the bullet came from. Lucas Page, physics professor and maths prodigy, quit the FBI after it nearly cost him his life. But he can't resist the call to help, to prove that he is still capable of extraordinary things. Because Page is wired to see crime from a d...
ALL THE WATER IN THE WORLD, by Karen Raney, read by Gabra Zackman and Rebekkah Ross - Audio extract
August 06, 2019 00:00Maddy is sixteen. Deeply curious, wry and vivacious, she's poised at the outset of adulthood. She has loyal friends, a mother with whom she's unusually close, a father she's never met, devoted grandparents, and a crush on a boy named Jack. Maddy also has cancer. Hungry for experience despite living in the shadow of illness, Maddy seeks out her first romantic relationship, ponders philosophical questions, finds solace in music and art, and tracks down her father, Antonio. She continually test...
DEAD MEN'S DUST, by Matt Hilton, read by David John - audiobook extract
August 01, 2019 00:00Hodder's biggest fiction launch of 2009: Matt Hilton's debut introducing series character Joe Hunter, Britain's best vigilante - fighting America's worst criminals. 'Some may call me a vigilante. I think I've just got problems to fix.' Right now, Hunter's big problem is a missing little brother, last seen fleeing the site of a gruesome killing. Hunter needs the help of an old army buddy, a whole lot of hardware and a trip to Little Rock, Arkansas, to fix this particular problem. A brutal e...
JUDGEMENT AND WRATH, by Matt Hilton, read by Sean Barrett - audiobook extract
August 01, 2019 00:00The second action thriller featuring Joe Hunter: Britain's best vigilante - fighting America's worst criminals. Joe Hunter doesn't like bullies. So his latest job - saving a young woman from her bully boyfriend - is a no-brainer. As it turns out, the vengeful father isn't the only one who wants the boyfriend dead. Soon Hunter is face-to-face with a contract killer who takes his work very seriously. Contract killer Dantalion has a talent for killing and keeps a list of his victims in a b...
Soul Fuel By Bear Grylls, read by Bear Grylls and Elliot Fitzpatrick - Audiobook Introduction
July 31, 2019 08:11Short daily reflections from one of the world's favourite adventurers. The Telegraph calls him 'globally . . . perhaps the most famous adventurer alive'. Bestselling author Bear Grylls has survived a free-fall parachute accident that left him with a broken back, possibly unable to walk again; falling down a mountain in the Rockies, severing a finger in the Vietnam jungle, a broken shoulder in Antarctica. He passed the gruelling training to join the SAS, crossed the North Atlantic in an open ...
SOUL FUEL by Bear Grylls, read by Bear Grylls and Elliot Fitzpatrick - Introduction
July 29, 2019 09:09Short daily reflections from one of the world's favourite adventurers. The Telegraph calls him 'globally . . . perhaps the most famous adventurer alive'. Bestselling author Bear Grylls has survived a free-fall parachute accident that left him with a broken back, possibly unable to walk again; falling down a mountain in the Rockies, severing a finger in the Vietnam jungle, a broken shoulder in Antarctica. He passed the gruelling training to join the SAS, crossed the North Atlantic in an open ...
THE WALKER'S GUIDE TO OUTDOOR CLUES AND SIGNS, written and read by Tristan Gooley - audio extract
July 26, 2019 00:002015 BBC Countryfile Magazine Country Book of the Year and winner of the Outdoor Book of the Year at The Great Outdoors Awards 2015 The ultimate guide to what the land, sun, moon, stars, trees, plants, animals, sky and clouds can reveal - when you know what to look for. Includes over 850 outdoor clues and signs. This top ten bestseller is the result of Tristan Gooley's two decades of pioneering outdoors experience and six years of instructing, researching and writing. It includes lots of...
SHE LIES IN THE VINES, by Benjamin Stevenson, read by Nicholas Osmond - audiobook extract
July 25, 2019 00:00Four years ago Eliza Dacey was brutally murdered. Within hours, her killer was caught. Wasn't he? So reads the opening titles of Jack Quick's new true-crime documentary. A skilled producer, Jack knows that the bigger the conspiracy, the higher the ratings. Curtis Wade, convicted of Eliza's murder on circumstantial evidence and victim of a biased police force, is the perfect subject. Millions of viewers agree. Just before the finale, Jack uncovers a minor detail that may prove Curtis guilty...