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The pitch is the absolute essence of modern business. Ideas are the most valuable commodity in the modern economy, and it is human skill which develops them. However, the skills of the pitch are not only relevant to the world of business; rather, they apply to just about every significant personal transaction in your life....

Random House presents the audiobook edition of A Map of the Invisible by Jon Butterworth, read by Wayne Forester. 'A magnificent, compelling and insightful voyage to the frontier of knowledge from a great writer with a deep understanding.' Brian Cox What is the universe really made of? How do we...

In the fifth part, the Business Risk Buster strikes at a gun shop. A seventy-year-old gentleman decided to sell his company and shop, but he forgot about his collateral in the bank and almost ended up paying very dearly for that. Contents: Don't be afraid to start your own business, even at an advanced age: you have enough life experience and a cool head. Before you sell your company, prepare thoroughly for such a transaction. Always choose the buyer very carefully. When selling a company, make sure you are not held liable for its obligations.

In the first part, the business risk buster strikes at a car showroom where two co-owners cannot agree on anything and the only way out is their business divorce. Contents: Avoid co-ownership of a company in equal shares. If you cannot own a company by yourself, conclude a partnership agreement. Beware of employing family members. Continually adjust the number of employees according to the amount of your profit. Regularly assess the effectiveness of all your employees. How to easily perform a financial analysis of your company.

Chased by a hit-man, a young man returns home from London to a small town in Wales. Reconciliation with his family is alternated with his pursuer's progress. A long criminal connection is revealed, but can he escape the sins of his fathers? This is a tense, tightly written drama that will captivate the listener with fast, gut-wrenching action.

Once again, award-winning author Geraldine McCaughrean brings a literary classic to life, retelling The Faerie Queen in an accessible and compelling way. The original was written in 1596 for Elizabeth 1st, but now McCaughrean introduces a whole new generation of readers to Edmund Spenser's exciting adventures of knights and dragons, sorcerers and hermits, princesses and sea nymphs.

An enduringly popular classic of children's fiction, The Coral Island tells the story of three boys stranded on a seemingly idyllic desert island. Thoughtful Ralph, clever, brave Jack and mischievous Peterkin soon find, however, that their new home has more than a few surprises in store! Wayne Forester's energetic reading brings this classic adventure vididly to life.

Adapted from the classic story by Oscar Wilde.... There has been a ghost in the house for 300 years, and Lord Canterville’s family have had enough of it. So Lord Canterville sells his grand old house to an American family. Mr. Hiram B. Otis is happy to buy the house and the ghost - because of course Americans don’t believe in ghosts. The Canterville ghost has great plans to frighten the life out of the Otis family. But Americans don’t frighten easily....

Most people don't realise that an entire Ghost World exists alongside their own. They are not aware that they walk with ghosts every day. Tom Golden is the only one who knows, the only one who can see them. But when his friends start becoming visible to everyone else, he realises something somewhere has gone very wrong. Can he put it right before the two worlds collide?

Flowkwee is on a mission – he has to disguise himself as a schoolboy and spy on young earthlings, in order to help his father with his research. Here are his letters to his best friend, describing the strange earthlings who have only one head, two peepers, and no aerials, lights, whirlers or even winkers! And he discovers the fool-proof way to catch earthlings is to tell them to follow a sign saying ‘ice cream!’

In a city in Arabia there lives a boy called Aladdin. He is poor and often hungry, but one day he finds an old lamp. When he rubs the lamp, smoke comes out of it, and then out of the smoke comes a magical jinnee (genie). With the jinnee’s help, Aladdin is soon rich, with gold and jewels and many fine things. But can he win the love of the Sultan’s daughter, the beautiful Princess Badr-al-Budur?

Stowed away on top of a train, twenty-year-old Wim Aloserij escapes the obligatory work camps in Nazi-ruled Germany in 1943. The young man from Amsterdam then goes into hiding on a farm—sleeping for months in a wooden chest hidden underground. But it's not to last. In the cover of night, Wim is captured during a raid and transported to the infamous Gestapo prison in Amsterdam. There, his life changes forever as he is thrown into the nightmare of the Holocaust and transported to Camp Amersfoort—the first of three concentration camps he must endure. 

The Emperor is dead. Long live the Empire. General Bordan has a lifetime of duty and sacrifice behind him in the service of the Empire. But with rebellion brewing in the countryside, and assassins, thieves and politicians vying for power in the city, it is all Bordan can do to protect the heir...

Mouse has never had a friend quite like Pig. Pig is so incredibly kind, endlessly thoughtful and fabulously fun, but he also has a big secret...he’s a tremendous worrier! When Pig gets the brilliant idea to throw a party for Mouse and their friends, he can’t help but think of everything that could possibly go wrong. After all, what if a lion eats all the invitations? What if nobody comes? Or worse, what if everyone comes and has an awful time?

Bloomsbury presents We Are All Inventors! by Kate Pankhurst. Read by Kate Pankhurst, Nneka Oyoye and Lily Lefkow with Megan Gage, Polly Edsell, Dinita Gohil, and Wayne Forester. Unleash your IMAGINATION and learn all about INVENTING in this fact-packed new picture book from the bestselling...