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Tour the most formative period for religion and philosophy in world history. Join award-winning classics professor Matthew Dillon and explore the myriad developments of the Axial Age. Axial Age refers to the era (800–200 BCE) when five Eurasian civilizations experienced an unprecedented period...

Even when you're lost, love can find you . . . Sometimes it takes losing everything to find the person you need . . . Most people travel to Croatia for its endless sunshine, pebbly beaches and crystal clear sea. Kate goes there to disappear. She needs to escape from a life that has fallen apart...

Literary detectives Sarah Dillon and Corin Throsby investigate the stories behind the stories of nine great novels In this engrossing series, Drs Sarah Dillon and Corin Throsby set off on a quest to discover how some of our most famous, best-loved books were written. What was happening in the...

Adapted from Thomas Keneally’s novel The Playmaker, Our Country’s Good tells the true story of the convicts and marines sent to Australia as part of the first penal colony. An eloquent argument for the redemptive power of theatre, Wertenbaker’s classic drama celebrates the beauty of language – in the slang of the criminal classes and the poetry of the play – and at the same time examines how it is used as an instrument of power.

Elena Godwin could never have known that her dream holiday to Mexico would change her life forever. She thought that she was in charge of her own destiny. But on a gorgeous summer evening, her whole world is ripped from her feet in a single moment. Ten years later, she still can't forget the face of the stranger who held her whilst everything she knew was destroyed. Thrown back together again, Elena starts to uncover the truth around that fateful night—and questions whether she made the right decision all those years ago.

Brought to you by Penguin. Alice Teale is missing. In a town full of secrets, hers was the biggest. The gripping new thriller from the bestselling author of The Chosen Ones. As usual, seventeen-year-old Alice Teale walked out of school at the end of a bright spring day. She's not been seen since...

Brought to you by Penguin. Equality at work expert Ann Francke reveals how to understand and tackle the damaging consequences of gender imbalance in the workplace Gender balance is first and foremost a business issue. McKinsey estimates we could add 28 trillion to global GDP if we achieved...

An unmissable novel of love, disaster, heartbreak, and unexpected happy endings, by the bestselling British author of Maybe One Day. “When I was twenty-six years old my world was literally turned upside down and inside out, like a coat pocket being excavated for loose change. It was terrible...

In the world of leadership, being “suited” means being prepared to face the challenges and responsibilities that come with guiding others and embodying the traits that inspire confidence and foster trust. Just as a well-fitted suit projects self-assurance, a leader equipped with emotional intelligence, integrity, and vision stands out in any room. Texas native Dennis W Pullin is a husband, father, healthcare executive, and podcast host. He believes in the art of simplicity, affirming that sophistication isn’t about abundance but about the intentional curation of what truly matters.

Clarity creates freedom. James is stuck. He feels misunderstood and mistreated, captive to patterns he cannot escape. Every setback feels personal. Every day is beyond his control—until he encounters a mysterious mentor. Through a series of subtle lessons and quiet revelations divulged in his...

Ethan Cole is the man people call when systems falter. In a high-pressure corporate leadership role, he absorbs volatility, manages risk, and keeps ambitious projects from collapsing. Reliability is his reputation. Control is his strength. Promotion is inevitable. At home, the demands are quieter—but no less exacting. A wife who watches more than she speaks. Children who do not need performance, only presence. Small moments that cannot be delegated.

Dyson is a Torso Farmer...and he's going to find out there are worse ways to live and die in Valhalla. Retro is a Spaceman...and he's going to have to choose between retirement and evolution. Stacey talks to dead people... and now she really, really needs them to talk back. Ten tales of horror, sadness and hilarity, as science fiction rubs shoulders with both the magical and the mundane.

Freedom Without Blood is a philosophical and ethical exploration of how modern society justifies suffering in the name of religion, law, and tradition. This work examines the hidden mechanisms through which institutions protect beliefs and structures while real victims—human and animal—are left without a voice. It does not attack faith, but questions the moral systems that normalize pain, silence responsibility, and redefine obedience as virtue.

A dragon rider. A biplane pilot. Two enemy nations, one epic love story. Her mother is dead. Her kingdom has fallen. And the person to blame for it is the man Essa loves—Charlie, a famed biplane pilot from the enemy nation across the sea. But Charlie is gone now, flown back to the cursed...

I'm Maxim Temnikov, and unlike your typical twelve-year-old, I have the spirit of a necromancer living inside my head. I also study at a magic school where everyone is at least a few years older than me. And if that wasn't enough, I spend more time at the headmaster's office than I do in my room...

Luciel and his comrades have defeated Dongahar and his demonified men, and the Church of Saint Shurule is safe—for now. But there is no time to rest, as the fight is far from over. A letter written by the traitor himself tells Luciel all about the demonification experiments Blanche and...

Curiosity killed the colony once. Valence's job is to make sure it never happens again. In 2083, a novel bacterium erupted from the Martian soil, turning skin to glass and leaving only a handful alive. To rebuild, the survivors handed full authority to the colony AI—a desperate choice that...

When Brian Dillon was sixteen his mother died and he simply gave up all schoolwork. Halfway through college his father died, and the stakes of reading and writing seemed even higher. Ambivalence explores what learning meant to its author, what it enabled and denied, between the ages of seventeen and twenty-six, when he left his native Dublin. It's at once a memoir of that city in the 1980s and 1990s, an uncynical portrait of the adolescent and early-adult mind, and an intimate defence of radical thinking about literature and life.

Well, they haven't kicked me out yet, so that's good news. And though I've made some enemies, I've also made some friends, too! Prince Alexey, the ghost Ibrahim, the cursed giant dwarf Hornborn, and the witch Lacrimosa. No fantasy tale is complete without a witch, after all. I even closed my...

Jesus the Abuser and the Man Who Listens to Dogs is a dark psychological novel about silence, power, and the crimes that survive because no one dares to name them.