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THE FUTURE OF DESIGN by Lorraine Justice, read by Katherine Fenton - audiobook extract
June 06, 2019 06:00Creating a successful global product is complex. Why do some products survive or become reinvented? What makes a product loved by some and despised by others? What key issues were present when some of the most notable inventions and product designs occurred? Through interviews with successful product designers and inventors from around the world, and case studies of products from their local inception to their global success, The Future of Design will answer these important questions and pro...
DEFINING YOU, written and read by Fiona Murden - audiobook extract
June 06, 2019 00:00SHORTLISTED FOR BEST SELF DEVELOPMENT BOOK AT THE BUSINESS BOOK AWARDS Have you ever wondered what a profiling session would tell you about yourself? Fiona Murden helps some of the most successful people in the world to understand their behaviour and improve their performance. Here she guides you through the professional profiling assessment process in private, to help you discover your strengths, understand what really drives you and learn which environments will help you to excel. ...
IF ONLY, by Melanie Murphy, read by Amy McAllister - audiobook extract
June 06, 2019 00:00The warm, sparkling first novel from Melanie Murphy, author of non-fiction bestseller Fully Functioning Human (Almost) is full of heart, humour and magic. Erin is about to turn thirty and her life is definitely not where she thought it would be. She hates her job, she's jealous of her perfect flatmate - and she has just called off her wedding. A trip home to Ireland to celebrate her birthday with her beloved grandmother is exactly what Erin needs, and she's spent days preparing herself to b...
GUN ISLAND, by Amitav Ghosh, read by Sagar Arya - audiobook extract
June 06, 2019 00:00Bundook. Gun. A common word, but one which turns Deen Datta's world upside down. A dealer of rare books, Deen is used to a quiet life spent indoors, but as his once-solid beliefs begin to shift, he is forced to set out on an extraordinary journey; one that takes him from India to Los Angeles and Venice via a tangled route through the memories and experiences of those he meets along the way. There is Piya, a fellow Bengali-American who sets his journey in motion; Tipu, an entrepreneurial youn...
I'M WORTH MORE, written and read by Rob Moore - audiobook extract
June 06, 2019 00:00Understand your real value - you're worth more than you think! Anyone can look successful with the right watch on their wrist or car parked in the driveway - but what is real success, and how much are you really worth? In this fascinating, liberating audiobook, bestselling author and Rob Moore takes you back to basics and examines how to realise your real value - your self esteem, your ambitions, your reputation and your income. No longer will you doubt your self, make self-defeating compa...
ANGELS, written and read by Peter Stanford - audiobook extract
June 06, 2019 00:00'In a 2016 poll, one in 10 Britons claimed to have experienced the presence of an angel, while one in three remain convinced that they have a guardian angel. These are huge numbers and mean that, on some counts, angels are doing better than God.' In the secular, sceptical, post-Christian world of the West, continuing faith in angels is both anomaly and comfort. But what exactly are angels, and why have so many in different times and contexts around the globe believed in them? What is their h...
SHORTEST WAY HOME, written and read by Peter Buttigieg
June 06, 2019 00:00'The best American political biography since Obama's Dreams from My Father' - Guardian NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A mayor's inspirational story of a Midwest city that has become nothing less than a blueprint for the future of American renewal. Once described by the Washington Post as "the most interesting mayor you've never heard of," Pete Buttigieg, the thirty-seven-year-old mayor of South Bend, Indiana, has now emerged as one of America's most visionary politicians. With soaring prose tha...
HIDDEN CHRISTMAS, by Timothy Keller, read by Sean Pratt - audiobook extract
June 06, 2019 00:00One of bestselling New York pastor Tim Keller's most popular Christmas sermons, expanded and published in a beautiful gift edition. The New Testament begins not with a dramatic narrative or lofty poetry but with a genealogy. Provocatively, Matthew's gospel includes women in Jesus' family line - something that wasn't customary in an ancient culture, where women were largely powerless and uninfluential. In this surprising take on the Christmas story, Tim Keller reveals how, by focusing on th...
SUPERFAST, written and read by Sophie Devonshire - audiobook extract
June 06, 2019 00:00*SHORTLISTED FOR BEST LEADERSHIP BOOK AT THE BUSINESS BOOK AWARDS* In today's fast-paced world, leaders need to move at speed. The rate of innovation and change in organisations and the challenges of impatient investors or shareholders mean leadership decisions must be quick, smart and deliver real impact. Superfast provides cutting edge inspiration and a host of exciting ideas about how to accelerate performance in an agile and thoughtful way, shedding new light on leading in a world whic...
POSITION OF TRUST, by Andy Woodward, read by Mark Hadfield - audiobook extract
June 06, 2019 00:00A brave and moving account by football's first whistle blower, breaking the silence on the scandal of sexual abuse in youth clubs and junior teams. Andy Woodward was a wide eyed, hopeful footballer playing for Stockport Boys, when Barry Bennell first noticed him. Andy was 11 years old, and Bennell a youth coach with a big reputation for spotting and nurturing young footballing talent. The clubs Bennell worked for and the parents of the boys he coached, trusted and believed in him, inviti...
ROCKONOMICS, by Alan B Krueger, read by Fred Berman - audiobook extract
June 04, 2019 00:00Alan Krueger, the former chairman of the president's Council of Economic Advisers, uses the music industry, from rock artists to music executives, from managers to promoters, as a way in to explain the principles of economics, and the forces shaping our economic lives. As economists recognize, the music industry is often a leading indicator of today's economy; it is among the first to be disrupted by the latest wave of technology, and examining the ins and outs of how musicians create and se...
HALF A WORLD AWAY by Mike Gayle, read by Joanna Brookes & Kayi Ushe - audiobook extract
June 03, 2019 17:12Strangers living worlds apart. Strangers with nothing in common. But it wasn't always that way... Kerry Hayes is a single mum, living on a tough south London estate. She provides for her son by cleaning houses she could never hope to afford. Taken into care as a child, Kerry cannot ever forget her past. Noah Martineau is a successful barrister with a beautiful wife, daughter and home in fashionable Primrose Hill. Adopted as a child, Noah always looks forward, never back. When Kerry reache...
THE ART OF QUIET INFLUENCE by Jocelyn DAvis, read by Liza Ross - audiobook extract
May 30, 2019 06:00Mindfulness meets execution...at work. The wisdom of 13 Eastern sages, augmented by modern research on workplace influence, is the basis for profound yet practical advice on getting things done without force. The Art of Quiet Influence shows anyone how to use influence, a key mindfulness principle, to get things done at work. Through the classic wisdom of 13 Eastern sages (especially the Buddha), relevant insights from influence research, and anecdotes and advice from 25 contemporary expert...
COURT NUMBER ONE, by Thomas Grant, read by Jonathan Keeble
May 30, 2019 06:00Court Number One of the Old Bailey is the most famous court room in the world, and the venue of some of the most sensational human dramas ever to be played out in a criminal trial. The principal criminal court of England, historically reserved for the more serious and high-profile trials, Court Number One opened its doors in 1907 after the building of the 'new' Old Bailey. In the decades that followed it witnessed the trials of the most famous and infamous defendants of the twentieth century...
WHY IGNORING YOUR CHILDREN WILL MAKE EVERYONE HAPPIER - written and read by Tom Hodgkinson
May 30, 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? EVERYTHING BAD IS GOOD FOR YOU is a new series of short pieces d...
WHERE THERE'S A WILL, by Beth Corby, read by Helen Keeley - audiobook extract
May 30, 2019 00:00After leaving university with two degrees and no idea what to do with her life, twenty-five year old Hannah is stunned when she is left a mystery bequest by her rich, estranged great-uncle Donald. But there's a catch: before she can find out what she's inherited, she must undertake a series of unknown tasks alongside Alec, Donald's reluctant (but rather gorgeous) PA. As the tasks progress and she and Alec grow closer, Hannah begins to think that Donald's real gift might have more to do ...
The Gestapo, by Frank McDonough, read by Paul McGann
May 30, 2019 00:00Professor Frank McDonough is one of the leading scholars and most popular writers on the history of Nazi Germany. Frank McDonough's work has been described as, 'modern history writing at its very best...Ground-breaking, fascinating, occasionally deeply revisionist' by renowned historian Andrew Roberts. Drawing on a detailed examination of previously unpublished Gestapo case files this book relates the fascinating, vivid and disturbing accounts of a cross-section of ordinary and extraordi...
BOY IN THE WELL, by Douglas Lindsay, read by Angus King
May 30, 2019 00:00The body of a young boy is discovered at the bottom of a well that has been sealed for two hundred years. Yet the corpse is only days old . . . Soon, similarities from an old crime emerge and DI Ben Westphall must look to the past to piece together the dark and twisted events taking place in the present.
THE CORNER SHOP, written and read by Babita Sharma
May 24, 2019 16:21From the general stores of the first half of the 20th century (one of which was run by the father of a certain Margaret Thatcher), to the reimagined corner shops run by immigrants from India, East Africa and Eastern Europe from the 60s to the noughties, their influence has shaped the way we shop, the way we eat, and the way we understand ourselves. Babita Sharma was raised in a corner shop in Reading, and over the counter watched a changing world, from the clientele to the products to the p...
PHOEBE: A STORY by Paula Gooder, read by Joan Walker and Paula Gooder
May 23, 2019 00:00Sometime around 56 AD, the apostle Paul wrote to the church in Rome. His letter was arguably his theological masterpiece, and has continued to shape Christian faith ever since. He entrusted this letter to Phoebe, the deacon of the church at Cenchreae; in writing to the church that almost surely met in her home, Paul refers to her both as a deacon and as a helper or patron of many. But who was this remarkable woman? In this, her first work of fiction, Biblical scholar and popular author and ...
A CURE FOR HEARTACHE by Mary Jane Grant, read by Jennifer Woodward - audiobook extract
May 16, 2019 06:00When her husband of 25 years suddenly announces he's leaving her, writer Mary Jane Grant runs away to London to immerse herself in any reality but her own. Reeling from the shock and loss of her marriage and the life she's known, she begins to discover that if she can just focus on the moment she's in, take notice of the people, the sights and smells around her, that her pain and grief start to recede. From the bustling cafes of Camden and the pastel-coloured streets of Notting Hill, to t...
SALTWATER by Jessica Andrews, read by Natalie Jamieson - audiobook extract
May 16, 2019 06:00When Lucy wins a place at university, she thinks London will unlock her future. It is a city alive with pop up bars, cool girls and neon lights illuminating the Thames at night. At least this is what Lucy expects, having grown up seemingly a world away in working-class Sunderland, amid legendary family stories of Irish immigrants and boarding houses, now-defunct ice rinks and an engagement ring at a fish market. Yet Lucy's transition to a new life is more overwhelming than she ever exp...
EPIC CONTINENT by Nicholas Jubber, read by Luke Thompson - audiobook extract
May 16, 2019 06:00Award-winning travel writer Nicholas Jubber journeys across Europe exploring Europe's epic poems, from the Odyssey to Beowulf, the Song of Roland to the Nibelungenlied, and their impact on European identity in these turbulent times. These are the stories that made Europe. Journeying from Turkey to Iceland, award-winning travel writer Nicholas Jubber takes us on a fascinating adventure through our continent's most enduring epic poems to learn how they were shaped by their times and how they...
THEODORE BOONE: THE ACCOMPLICE, by John Grisham, read by Richard Thomas - audiobook extract
May 14, 2019 00:00John Grisham delivers high-intensity legal drama for a new generation of readers in the seventh novel in his bestselling Theodore Boone series. Woody Lambert is in trouble. He comes from a broken family, suffers bad grades at school and his older brother, Tony, is on probation for a drug offence. When Woody inadvertently gets caught up with Tony and one of his friends, Garth, cruising around Strattenburg in a beaten-up Mustang drinking beer, one thing leads to another and Garth holds up a co...
ANXIETY: PANICKING ABOUT PANIC by Joshua Fletcher - audiobook extract
May 09, 2019 21:19The best-selling self-help book for people who suffer from anxiety. In this informative, accessible guide, Joshua Fletcher draws on his own experiences to help others deal with anxiety. Now a counsellor, Josh lived with anxiety disorder before overcoming the condition. This audiobook is tailored for people like you, who are experiencing panic attacks, feeling anxious, worrying about about your health and the future, wondering why anxiety is present in the first place. Anxiety: Panicking...
FINALE by Stephanie Garber - audiobook extract
May 09, 2019 06:00All games must come to an end... Sunday Times bestselling author Stephanie Garber takes us once again to the magical world of Caraval, where Scarlett and Tella Dragna must fight for their happy endings after a tragedy sends Tella on a treacherous path for revenge. . . Caraval is over, but perhaps the greatest game of all has begun - with lives, empires, and hearts all at stake. There are no spectators this time: only those who will win, and those who will lose everything. Welcome, welcome t...
A SINGLE SOURCE by Peter Hanington, read by Jonathan Keeble - audiobook extract
May 03, 2019 16:08Veteran BBC reporter William Carver is in Cairo - bang in the middle of the Arab Spring. 'The only story in the world' according to his editor. But it isn't - there's another story, more significant and potentially more dangerous, and if no one else is willing to tell it...then Carver will, whatever the consequences. A Single Source tells two stories, which over a few tumultuous months come together to prove inextricably linked. There are the dramatic, world-changing events across North...
AIRS ABOVE THE GROUND by Mary Stewart, read by Antonia Whillins
May 03, 2019 16:07The original writer of romantic suspense, Mary Stewart leads her readers on a thrilling journey across mid-century Europe in this tale of adventure and deception, sure to be loved by fans of Agatha Christie and Barbara Pym. Vanessa March's husband, Lewis, is meant to be on a business trip in Stockholm - so why does he briefly appear in newsreel footage of a fire at a circus in Vienna, with his arm around another woman? Vanessa flies to Austria to find her husband, inadvertently becoming invo...
NINE COACHES WAITING by Mary Stewart, read by Ellie Heydon - audiobook extract
May 03, 2019 16:00Mary Stewart transports her listeners to mid-century Savoy for a plot of danger and deception, perfect for fans of Agatha Christie and Barbara Pym. A classic tale by one of the world's most beloved authors. Linda Martin understands what is to be lonely: her parents died when she was young, and she was raised in an orphanage. When she is hired as a governess to the orphaned young Philippe, Comte de Valmy, Linda finds a kindred spirit in the lonely little boy. But Philippe is the heir to a vas...
THE SCIENCE OF FATE by Hannah Critchlow - audiobook extract
May 03, 2019 15:57Are we really the masters of our own destiny? Neuroscientist Hannah Critchlow shows how far our future is already hardwired in our brains. Like Sapiens and Thinking Fast and Slow, The Science of Fate revolutionises the way we understand our species and ourselves. So many of us believe that we are free to shape our own destiny. But what if free will doesn't exist? What if our lives are largely predetermined, hardwired in our brains - and our choices over what we eat, whom we fall in love ...
THE LOST ONE by Mary Stewart, read by Antonia Whillans - audiobook extract
May 03, 2019 15:52The recently rediscovered short story 'The Lost One', perfect for fans of Daphne du Maurier, Santa Montefiore and Anya Seton. First published in Woman's Journal in 1960, and set against the backdrop of unfenced country and dark winding valleys at night, the aptly named 'The Lost One' features The Wind off the Small Isles heroine Perdita West, who brings her characteristic pluck and courage to this classic Mary Stewart tale of suspense and intrigue....
WALK WITH YOUR WOLF by Jonathan Hoban - audiobook extract
May 03, 2019 15:48Nature is our greatest healer. It's time to start walking and reclaim the wildness in all of us. Walking is a way to get you to listen to yourself openly and honestly, without all the noise that our endless inner critic inflicts upon us. When did you last take a walk? Not a stroll to the shops or to the pub but a walk that got you energised, stimulated your senses, allowing you to destress? If the answer is that you'd love to walk but don't have the time, there really are more reasons...
THE LAST WHALERS by Doug Bock Clark - audiobook extract
May 02, 2019 06:00At a time when global change has eradicated thousands of unique cultures, The Last Whalers tells the stunning inside story of the Lamalerans, an ancient tribe of 1,500 hunter-gatherers who live on a volcanic island so remote it is known by other Indonesians as "The Land Left Behind." They have survived for centuries by taking whales with bamboo harpoons, but now are being pushed toward collapse by the encroachment of the modern world. Award-winning journalist Doug Bock Clark, who lived with ...
The Swap, by Fiona Mitchell, read by Jane Collingwood
April 18, 2019 06:00When two strangers, Tess and Annie, undergo IVF at an American clinic, their embryos are mixed up and each woman gives birth to the wrong child. The women only discover the devastating error three years later. Tess wants to swap the children back; Annie doesn't. As the pair wrangle, neither of them expect what unfolds. Two women. Two children. One thought-provoking novel. (p) Hodder & Stoughton Ltd
The Art of Happiness At Work, by The Dalai Lama and Howard C. Cutler, read by Kris Dyer
April 18, 2019 06:00Of the many Dalai Lama titles on sale, The Art of Happiness - written with western psychiatrist Howard Cutler - is by far the biggest bestseller of them all. A huge international success, it has sold over 2 million copies worldwide, with nearly 300,000 of these in the UK alone. Now, this inspirational new book brings the successful East-meets-West pairing together again to provide a practical application of Tibetan Buddhist spiritual values to the world of work. In this wise and practical bo...
THE SCORPION'S STRIKE by Anthony Riches, read by Saul Reichlin - audiobook extract
April 17, 2019 17:51With his compelling Centurions trilogy complete, Anthony Riches returns to his best-selling Empire sequence of novels with his storytelling skills polished to perfection. Set in the second century AD, The Scorpion's Strike continues the story of Marcus Aquila's fight for justice for a family ripped asunder by imperial assassins. Still seeking revenge, Marcus finds himself thrown back into the heart of the chaos that is shaking the Roman Empire to its roots. Fresh from their close escape f...
Trillion Dollar Coach, by Eric Schmidt, Jonathan Rosenberg, and Alan Eagle, read by Dan Woren
April 16, 2019 13:00The team behind How Google Works returns with management lessons from legendary coach and business executive, Bill Campbell, whose mentoring of some of our most successful modern entrepreneurs has helped create well over a trillion dollars in market value. Bill Campbell played an instrumental role in the growth of several prominent companies, such as Google, Apple, and Intuit, fostering deep relationships with Silicon Valley visionaries, including Steve Jobs, Larry Page, and Eric Schmidt. In...
THE ART OF HAPPINESS IN A TROUBLED WORLD, by the Dalai Lama & Howard C. Cutler - audiobook extract
April 10, 2019 13:19Following on from the internationally best-selling The Art of Happiness, the Dalai Lama and Howard Cutler bring us the inspiring The Art of Happiness in a Troubled World. This inspirational book brings the successful East-meets-West pairing together again to provide a practical application of Tibetan Buddhist spiritual values to the fast-paced, unpredictable, stressful and demanding world we all live in today. In this wise, insightful and practical book, the Dalai Lama shows us how to follo...
HEIDA by Steinunn Sigurðardóttir - audiobook extract
April 10, 2019 13:14The inspiring story of Icelandic sheep farmer, former model and feminist heroine has become an international best seller and won both the Icelandic Booksellers' Prize and Women's Literature Prize. I'm not on my own because I've been sitting crying into a handkerchief or apron over a lack of interested men. I've been made every offer imaginable over the years. Men offer themselves, their sons...drunk fathers sometimes call me up and say things like: 'Do you need a farmhand?' 'I can lift the h...
INCREDIBLE JOURNEYS by David Barrie - audiobook extract
April 10, 2019 13:13An audiobook about animal navigation - how creatures, great and small, find their way and how brilliantly they manage without benefit of maps or instruments - and what lessons there are for human beings. In Incredible Journeys, award-winning author David Barrie takes us on a tour of the cutting-edge science of animal navigation, where breakthroughs are allowing scientists to unravel, for the first time, how animals as various as butterflies, birds, crustaceans, fish, reptiles and even peop...
STONE MOTHERS by Erin Kelly - audiobook extract
April 10, 2019 13:11'The Victorians used to call their mental hospitals stone mothers,' I say. 'They thought the design of the building could literally nurse the sick back to health.' Marianne grew up in the shadow of the old asylum, a place that still haunts her dreams. She was 17 when she fled the town, her family, her boyfriend Jesse and the body they buried. Now, forced to return, she can feel the past closing around her. And Jesse, who never forgave her for leaving, is finally threatening to expose the ...
SURPRISE KILL VANISH by Annie Jacobson - audiobook extract
April 10, 2019 13:10The definitive, character-driven history of CIA covert operations and US government-sponsored assassinations, from the author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist The Pentagon's Brain. Since 1947, domestic and foreign assassinations have been executed under the CIA-led covert action operations team. Before that time, responsibility for taking out America's enemies abroad was even more shrouded in mystery. Despite Hollywood notions of last-minute rogue operations and external secret hires, covert...
End the Struggle and Dance With Life, by Susan Jeffers
April 04, 2019 06:00From the author of the bestselling classic FEEL THE FEAR AND DO IT ANYWAY comes inspirational advice to heal the spirit and lift the weight of the world, now in unabridged audio download. Dr Susan Jeffers, whose previous books have touched millions throughout the world, provides the tools and concepts that show us how to feel calmer, more in control, and more excited about life. With wisdom, humour and clarity, she opens our eyes to what pulls us down and what lifts us up. This is an invalua...
A CAPITOL DEATH (Flavia Albia Book ) by Lindsey Davis - audiobook extract
April 04, 2019 06:00Emperor Domitian has been awarded (or rather, has demanded) yet another Triumph to celebrate two so-called victories. Preparations are going smoothly until one of the men overseeing arrangements for the celebration accidentally falls to his death from a cliff on the symbolic Capitoline Hill. But an old woman comes forward, insisting that the man was in fact pushed - and she refuses to leave it alone. Tiberius is soon dragged in to find out what really happened, and swiftly passes the job ...
THE LANGUAGE OF BIRDS by Jill Dawson - audiobook extract
April 04, 2019 06:00Drawing on the infamous Lord Lucan affair, this compelling novel explores the roots of a shocking murder from a fresh perspective and brings to vivid life an era when women's voices all too often went unheard. In the summer of 1974, Mandy River arrives in London to make a fresh start and begins working as nanny to the children of one Lady Morven. She quickly finds herself in the midst of a bitter custody battle and the house under siege: Lord Morven is having his wife watched. According to...
Claire Askew & Olivia Kiernan Interview
April 02, 2019 15:07Authors Olivia Kiernan and Claire Askew talk about writing their second novels, about inspiration and about the research required for crime fiction.
Lindsey Davis interview: A CAPITOL DEATH and the Flavia Albia series
April 02, 2019 11:49Author Lindsey Davis speaks to her long-time editor Oliver Johnson about the latest entry in her bestselling Flavia Albia series, Roman ruins and their author/editor relationship.
The Keeper of Lost Things (Booktrack edition) by Ruth Hogan - audiobook extract
March 29, 2019 15:24The Keeper of Lost Things: Booktrack Edition adds an immersive musical soundtrack to your audiobook listening experience!* Meet the 'Keeper of Lost Things'... Once a celebrated author of short stories now in his twilight years, Anthony Peardew has spent half his life collecting lost objects, trying to atone for a promise broken many years before. Realising he is running out of time, he leaves his house and all its lost treasures to his assistant Laura, the one person he can trust to fulfil ...
AMERICA BEFORE by Graham Hancock, read by the author - audiobook extract
March 21, 2019 17:27Until very recently there was almost universal agreement amongst scientists that human beings first entered the Americas from Siberia around 13,000 years ago by walking into Alaska across the Bering landbridge. Thanks to scientific advances, and to archaeological and geological discoveries made in the past five years, we now know that the Americas were populated by humans for tens of thousands of years before the previously accepted date. Deeply puzzling and hitherto unsuspected genetic con...
BEFORE I FIND YOU by Ali Knight, read by Candida Gubbins - audiobooks extract
March 21, 2019 07:00A thrilling new psychological suspense novel from the author of Wink Murder, perfect for fans of Friend Request, Close to Home and The Guilty Wife. Maggie is a husband watcher. A snooper, a marriage doctor, a destroyer of dreams, a killer of happy ever afters. She runs her own private detective agency specialising in catching those who cheat. And she is bloody good at it. Helene is a husband catcher. A beautiful wife, a doting stepmother, a perfect homemaker and a dazzling presence at part...