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A collection of dramas set in South and Central America by acclaimed dramatist Mike Walker. An award-winning dramatist, author and feature writer, Mike Walker has written numerous original dramas for BBC Radio 4, including his epic chronicles Tsar, Caesar!, The Stuarts and Castle of the Hawk. Collected here are five of his gripping dramas from the 1980s and '90s, set around the Amazon rainforest and Nicaragua.

Shortlisted for The Week Jr Children’s Book of the Year: Audiobook! A laugh-out-loud cartoon-filled adventure for 7+ readers, featuring the world’s funniest fairy, from the bestselling author of The Land of Roar. Perfect for fans of Loki, Tom Gates and Wimpy Kid Ridiculously funny and packed...

37 years of flying provides material for a lot of stories. Daddyman’s Flying Adventures is a collection of personal experiences—about people, connections, and the opportunities and chance meetings woven into the fabric of life. There is joy in flying, and sharing the experience with others. This book is for anyone who finds the joy and freedom of flight alluring

Grief can be a beast. A beast that teaches us how to heal, how to respond to our triggers and how to love again. Finding the space where we can grieve as we please can be difficult for people who are grieving. My hope is that you find support through my words and embrace the courage to grieve as you please and find the people who will hold space unconditionally for you.

Bad People is a hilarious and poignant window into the mind of a grief-stricken young woman. Using dry humor, unabashed nerdism, and cartoon dinosaurs, award-winning playwright Kati Schwartz tells her Me Too story, giving an intimate glimpse into vulnerability and complicity, and then into the harrowing processes of healing and self-acceptance.

Maximilian Greyson believed in living life on his own terms. Fast and loose and free for the ladies. A chance encounter with the beautiful Alexandra Hart caused Maximillian to lose his heart. It was love at first sight for him, but Alli wanted nothing to do with the raven-haired, blue-eyed stranger.

A cruel conqueror has captured the Spanish city of Fuente Ovejuna. As his reign of terror builds, the townspeople look within themselves to find the courage to overthrow him. The eminent Spanish playwright Lope de Vega based his best-known play on a historical incident that took place in 1476. Written in the early 17th century, the play remains a timely meditation on honor and selflessness in the face of oppression.

Tormented by visions of the crushed and burned bodies of her guildmates, Raelynn, the only Light Bringer, hasn't stopped running. Accompanied only by a shadow who protects her from the Brotherhood's control, Raelynn fights against the fate she's been told about since childhood. But when her guardian steps out of the shadows, the carefully built walls around herself crumble into dust.

From historian and bestselling author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist Empire of the Summer Moon comes a “captivating, thoroughly researched” (The New York Times Book Review) tale of the rise and fall of the world’s largest airship—and the doomed love story between an ambitious British...

A.A. Milne, the beloved author of the Winnie-the-Pooh series, followed up his success to the first two Pooh books, When We Were Very Young and Winnie-the-Pooh, with Now We Are Six, a collection of poems that has become a classic in children's literature.

A crazy jester, three princesses and a wise old king. The tale of how wise King George selects the successor to his throne. Which of his three daughters will best care for his people and kingdom? Will it be Princess Bella, beautiful in every way? What about the talented and artistic Princess Estrella? Or perhaps quiet and ordinary Princess Pinella? An impossible choice for many but not for this king! His tapestry trial will change the kingdom forever…so long as the jester doesn’t ruin it all.

Literary cohorts and members of the famous Algonquin Round Table, Dorothy Parker and Franklin P. Adams, made these two short audiobooks to humorously contrast the experiences of both men and women meeting, dating...and then deciding not to marry various men and women in their lives.

We're made to look passive, dissociated, and defeated. If we're not pot-bellied beer drinkers or egoistic morons, no one wants to watch the broadcast. What happened to John Wayne, Matt Dillon, and G.I. Joe? Men who knew their strengths, understood their roles, believed in hard-nosed Christian values. Well, they're not dead; in fact, they're alive and well buried inside each one of us, waiting to emerge like the heroes they are. All they need is a reminder of what our God-given nature is. It's time for us to go back to the very beginning and dissect exactly who we are as men.

Our search for Alaria and her blood casters has gone nowhere and no matter what we do, we can’t find a new lead. With no other choice, we have to turn to the investigation we had on hold: the mysterious restaurant where magics go missing every six months and never come back.

Presented here is Volume II of our Feminist Literary Classics series, featuring three more of the most important feminist novels ever written. Each of these audiobooks is presented in its original and unabridged format.

The investigation into the murder of an investment banker reveals a hidden side to sharp-suited victim Adam Sinclair—and a cast-iron reason why someone would want him dead. The problem is DS Kevin Coupland knows the chief suspect. Not a friend in the conventional sense, but certainly the closest he's had to one. Following his gut, Coupland pursues Dominic Neilson, a more likely suspect, and it helps that he keeps treading on Coupland's one remaining nerve.

Presented here are the final 12 tales (of 56) featuring Sherlock Holmes and John Watson as penned by their creator, the legendary Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. They are presented here in their original and unabridged format.

Set in the financial centres of 1820s Frankfurt and London, Jezebel’s Daughter (1880) tells the story of two widows: Madame Fontaine, who will go to any lengths to secure her daughter’s marriage, and Mrs Wagner, who devotes herself to her late husband’s social reforms. In pursuit of her endeavours, Mrs Wagner befriends Jack Straw, a former inmate of Bedlam, who plays a pivotal role as the action, full of plotting and counterplotting, unfolds, culminating in the morgue, where several lives hang in the balance.

Back from the brink, Fuller has a thriving business, money in his pocket and even a woman in his life in the shape of the UK's youngest Home Secretary, Rosemary Longthorn-Grey. All is well, until he learns of the release of ex DCI Larry Simpson. After serving just two years in a secure hospital, Lauren's killer is free and walking the streets of Manchester. As the weeks and months pass by, Rick becomes desperate for revenge. It eats at him.

A collection of observations about the male of the species from one of the 20th century's most celebrated and renowned humorists, Men I'm Not Married To is a series of descriptions of nine men, all of whom Parker managed to avoid accompanying down the aisle. Some longer, some very short, each of these descriptions shows Parker's full range of wit, sardonic humor, and wry cynicism.