Results narrated by "Des Powell" in All categories

Long before modern highways and railways transformed travel, ancient roads connected villages, cities, and civilizations across mountains, deserts, forests, rivers, and plains. The Forgotten Roads of the World takes listeners on a journey through these historic pathways, exploring how traders, travelers, scholars, craftspeople, and messengers used them to move goods, exchange ideas, and build connections between distant communities. These forgotten routes were much more than paths from one destination to another.

Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer is often remembered as a simple story about kindness and inclusion. But beneath the music and tradition is something deeper. A story about difference. A story about exclusion. A story about being valued only when you become useful. Misfit Magic revisits a familiar story with new attention —exploring what it reveals about identity, dignity, and the quiet ways people are asked to change in order to belong. Because the question has never gone away: Who gets to belong —and on what terms?

Let the MILLION-COPY BESTSELLING author Jo Bartlett sweep you away with her BRAND NEW heartwarming and absorbing read Thirteen years ago, Iris’s life was shattered when her father’s sudden death revealed a devastating secret, making her doubt everything she believed to be true. Now working...

Shortlisted for the 2022 Booker Prize An extraordinary, “playful, moving, and wholly remarkable” (The Guardian) coming-of-age novel filled with myth and magic from one of England's greatest living writers. An introspective young boy, Joseph Coppock is trying to make sense of the world...

Sons and Lovers is the moving and explicit account of a young man growing up in a closed mining community. Born into a difficult marriage, Paul Morel is shy, introverted and impressionable. As a young adult he becomes violently caught between the attentions of three women; his influential mother...

Ruby Brown is looking for change, not for love. But does she really know what she wants? Why do people love Carole Matthews? 'Fun, fantastic and brimming with Matthews magic' MILLY JOHNSON 'Gorgeous' KATIE FFORDE 'Irresistibly warm-hearted' TRISHA ASHLEY 'Warm, witty and hopeful' SARAH MORGAN 'I...

'Wessex' and its scenery plays a starring role in this story of innocence lost, breaking free, unrequited love and unchecked desires. Examining the sometimes-detrimental relationships between men and women and in turn, their tumultuous trysts with their surroundings, this story follows Bathsheba...

ONE OF THE BEST FEEL-GOOD BOOKS OF 2021 BY THE WASHINGTON POST “I read Eight Perfect Hours in one sitting, in four perfect hours, because I couldn’t bear to put it down without knowing the ending.” —Jodi Picoult, #1 New York Times bestselling author In this romantic and heartwarming...

The Resurrection of Lucian the VampireIn a small northeastern town, an unprecedented evil has been accidentally awoken. Lucian, a centuries old vampire has returned from hell with vengeance on his mind. Vengeance against the town that destroyed him in his last life. This is a story of the courage it takes to stand up to the powerful vampire and includes witchcraft, ghosts, fast paced action and horror as the creature begins its reign of terror.

Four practical guides to broader, more curious thinking, in one collection. This collection brings together Books 5 to 8 of the Sharper Thinking series, which look at how philosophers, scientists, explorers and inventors think. Listen in any order. Inside this collection: - Think Like a...

Paranormal investigator Yvette Fielding has been uncovering the ghostly pasts of places for over 20 years. Join her as she brings to life the hauntings and chilling histories of some of the most notorious hotels in the UK. From an inn haunted by murderous landlords, to the hotel that inspired a famous horror movie, and even Yvette's own holiday cottage, these spooky stories are not for the fainthearted! Prepare to discover some truly terrifying paranormal activity, including the ghosts of restless murder victims, a captured witch and even Lady Jane Grey.

Leah has spent her entire life believing magic isn’t real… until the day her only family member vanishes on her eighteenth birthday—leaving behind a forbidden book bound to her blood. The moment she opens it, her power awakens, tearing open visions and glimpses of the past and future she cannot control. Eighteen years ago, her entire bloodline was slaughtered for possessing this power. Now, the Order wants it back. Dragged into a hidden world she never knew existed; Leah discovers the book doesn’t predict fate—it reveals where fate can be broken.

Iris Vesper was never a daughter; she was a commodity. In the shadowed spires of Abaddon’s Reach, the women of the elite are bred for a binary existence: to be playthings or incubators. In this cold, 18th-century landscape, Iris’s girlhood was merely a curriculum of absolute submission. By the time she was hammered onto the auction block, she had been molded into the perfect, silent servant; a masterpiece of obedience in a world that stifled the very idea of love.

Notice problems, imagine better answers, and turn ideas into things that work. Think Like an Inventor treats invention as a way of thinking, not a technical skill. It covers noticing, imagination, working with constraints, prototyping, persistence and collaboration, and ends with habits for a...

When midwife Hope Masterson arrives in Cornwall to start her dream job by the sea, she’s ready for a fresh start and a chance to make a real difference to the lives of the women and babies she cares for. Working between St Piran’s hospital and the community midwifery unit of Port Agnes, Hope...

We have been here before! Natural disasters, financial problems, political corruption, the Middle East, the treatment of wounded soldiers, free and fair elections, foreign relations, sports results, travel delays, death and taxes... The issues that make the headlines today are also the things people worried about 2,000 and more years ago. Learning how the people of the past dealt with them can prepare us to face the issues affecting us today.

A gripping psychological thriller from M. A. Hunter. If you like Claire Douglas, this is for you! When Ruby comes home shaking, blood on her hands, she tells her mother Ellie she fought back when her boyfriend Jamie tried to assault her. He fell, hit his head—and isn’t moving. Determined to...

Written by CIA-trained cybersecurity expert and former hacker Dr. Eric Cole, this book pulls back the curtain on the invisible war shaping our lives—the collision between artificial intelligence, human behavior, and the technology we depend on.

The second adventure in a brilliantly funny and charming two-colour series from a bestselling illustrator. It's the day of the annual Fastest Feathers race in Little Ditch, but Marty Moose can’t stop to join in the fun – he’s got a very important parcel to deliver. The prize is a beautiful...

Rachel wakes from a coma to discover her controlling husband has been killed, and the police suspect her of involvement. But all Rachel can recall from the last few weeks are tantalising flashes of a fellow commuter. A man whose name she doesn't know. A man who has disappeared without a trace...