In der fünften Folge der aktuellen Staffel des Bertelsmann Business Podcasts „Kreativität & Unternehmertum“ spricht n-tv-Moderatorin und Podcast-Host Isabelle Körner mit einem der renommiertesten Fotografen der Gegenwart: Jim Rakete. Im Rahmen eines Kunstprojekts hat Rakete kürzlich die Vielfalt des Bertelsmann-Konzerns in beeindruckenden Bildern festgehalten. Bertelsmann hat ihm dabei keine Vorgaben gemacht. Die Ausstellung mit dem Titel „Das alles ist Bertelsmann by Jim Rakete“ ist ab sofort dauerhaft im Corporate Center von Bertelsmann in Gütersloh ausgestellt. Im Gespräch mit Isabelle Körner spricht der Fotograf unter anderem über Kreativität, wie die besondere Zusammenarbeit mit Bertelsmann entstand, welche speziellen Herausforderungen und Ansätze er bei diesem Projekt hatte. Zudem teilt Jim Rakete seine Gedanken darüber, warum er den Begriff „Leidenschaft“ problematisch findet und stattdessen „Hingabe“ bevorzugt, und diskutiert, ob Künstliche Intelligenz in der Fotografie wirklich Kunst ist.

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All the Stars Align is the magical love story that is Taylor Swift’s Enchanted meets Cyrano, from the author of Ellie Haycock is Totally Normal.

All The Stars Align by Gretchen Schreiber, read by Taylor Meskimen

Deb Perelman, the author of three bestselling cookbooks and one of the internet's most successful food bloggers, takes listeners through some of her favorite recipes from her third book, Smitten Kitchen Keepers, in a special audio edition—Smitten Kitchen Keepers: A Kitchen Counter Conversation.

What makes a truly perfect recipe for spaghetti and meatballs? Is there an ultimate devil’s food cake? What makes a recipe worthy of your forever files? In Smitten Kitchen Keepers: A Kitchen Counter Conversation, listeners get the chance to sit across the counter from Deb Perelman and hear her thoughts on these questions and more, as she chats about 44 fail-safe, satisfying recipes you’ll rely on for years to come. Smitten Kitchen Keepers: A Kitchen Counter Conversation includes a bonus PDF of ingredients and instructions, so listeners can try these recipes for themselves and learn what makes them the kinds of recipes they’ll turn to again and again.

Listen to a recipe from "Smitten Kitchen Keepers: A Kitchen Counter Conversation" by Deb Perelman, read by the author

A deeply researched, lively, and personal exploration of the multibillion-dollar wellness industry -- about why women are feeling so un-well and how this trend has shaped our thinking about health and self-care

Peloton. Pilates. Biohacking. Colonics. Ashwagandha. Today, the wellness industry is a $3.7 trillion behemoth that touches us all. In this timely and clear-eyed book, journalist Amy Larocca peels back the layers behind the wellness movement and reckons with its promises and profits. How did we get here and how did the idea of wellness become integrated with women's lives? And how did we end up spending so much money on products that may not work at all?

Amy Larocca takes readers into the communities that swear by their activated charcoal toothpaste and green juice enemas, explaining what each of these practices really is—and what the science says. Larocca holds a magnifying glass to alternative medicine and nouveau lifestyle prescriptions -- and tries a lot herself along the way -- ultimately delivering an assessment of how the wellness industry embodies our (gendered, class-based, racialized) perceptions of care and self-improvement, and how it preys on our unshakable fear of the unknown. She traces the history of how the beauty and fashion industries have peddled snake oil to women for decades—and why we keep coming back for more.

A clear-eyed and honest portrait of the weird world of wellness, How to Be Well lays bare the ways in which the simple notion of caring for oneself has become a seriously big business.

Listen to a clip from "How to Be Well" by Amy Larocca, read by the author

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What happens when you find love, but life keeps getting in the way?

When she first meets Adam, Coralie is new to London and feeling adrift. But Adam is clever, witty, and – he insists – half an inch taller than the average British male. His charming four-year-old daughter, Zora, only adds to his appeal.

And yet ten years on, something important is missing from the life Coralie and Adam (though let’s face it, mostly Coralie) have built. Or maybe, having gained everything she dreamed of, Coralie has lost something she once had: herself.

Set against an eventful decade that included the soap opera of five Prime Ministers plus Brexit and Covid, Consider Yourself Kissed puts the subjects of love and family on a grand stage, bringing to life how the intimate drama in our homes inescapably competes for energy and attention with the shared drama of our times.

Consider Yourself Kissed is a captivating portrait of a woman in love which effortlessly balances sweetness with bite, the public with the personal, and humour with heart.


'Deeply appealing . . . At once a smart literary love story and an absorbing family drama' MEG WOLITZER

'Clever, joyful, familiar . . . and so funny' NINA STIBBE

'A beautiful romcom for grown-ups' ELLA RISBRIDGER

© Jessica Stanley 2025 (P) Penguin Audio 2025

Consider Yourself Kissed by Jessica Stanley, read by Lydia Leonard - 2022 and Chapter 1

THE #1 KOREAN INSTANT BESTSELLER AND PRIZEWINNER WITH A UNIQUE NARRATOR

Discover the original and uplifting sensation for fans of CONVENIENCE STORE WOMAN and KLARA AND THE SUN
It's only when we slow down that we can truly experience joy ...

2035: In the shadow of a race-course, two sisters grow up, helping their mother at the local cafe that serves renowned ramen. Family life is fractious especially when one of them loses their day-job to an automaton.

When the sisters discover their beloved race-horse Today is being sent to the knacker's yard after a lifetime of over-racing, they are determined to rescue her.

To remind Today of happier times, they hatch a plan to let her run one last race. But it will be no ordinary event.

They will train her to run the slowest race of her life.

Narrated by a most unusual and unforgettable storyteller, A Thousand Blues is a powerful hymn to our humanity. Brimming with heart, hope and rage, it is a book to cherish, share and come back to.

'A stunningly crafted novel, evoking a myriad emotions' Kim Bo-young

‘A dazzling, warm novel that shows us how to move forward as a society without leaving anyone or anything behind' Choi Jin-young, author of To the Warm Horizon©2025 Cheon Seon-Ran (P)2025 Penguin Audio

A Thousand Blues, written by Cheon Seon-ran and read by Jennifer Kim

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Your house is on fire. What do you save?
You have seconds to decide.
If everything is about to burn, what do you rescue first?

When the West End Gallery in London's fashionable Coal Drops Yard is set alight, the fire service must use the list of paintings lodged with it - a grab list - to snatch the key paintings from the flames.

But something has been altered. It’s the wrong list.

Then the ashes reveal another tragedy: an unidentified dead body. Someone who shouldn’t have been in the gallery. Crusading journalist Famie Madden wants to know who it is and why they were there. Soon it becomes apparent that the ashes are hiding much more than they should be - and that this is much more than a casual act of arson…

Bestselling author and legendary broadcaster Simon Mayo has created a spellbinding contemporary thriller. He weaves a story ripped from today’s newspapers that will take Famie far from the pages of her website into a murderous family saga stretching back over centuries.

Praise for Simon Mayo

'Mayo spools out his many twists and turns skilfully.' Observer

'Simon Mayo is clearly a force to be reckoned with in the thriller world.' The Times

©2025 Simon Mayo (P)2025 Penguin Audio

Black Tag, written by Simon Mayo and read by Rachel Bavidge

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Hot shot DC lawyer Meena is engaged - well, sort of. Her fiancé-to-be thinks they are. The only hitch? Meena is already married.

Which is how she ends up Houston bound to convince her childhood-sweetheart-slash-husband (courtesy of one slightly too wild night in Vegas nearly a decade ago) to finally agree to get UN-hitched.

But life loves to throw curve balls, or in this case, a good old natural disaster.

She touches down just in time to find out a hurricane is coming - all flights are cancelled and the only place she can take refuge? Her soon-to-be-ex-husband's home.

Will the storm force them to face what happened all those years ago? And might this be the best worst thing that has ever happened to them?

©2025 Naina Kumar (P)2025 Penguin Audio

Flirting with Disaster, written and read by Naina Kumar

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Longlisted for the International Booker Prize 2025

‘Without mud, the lotus could not survive.’

Born with a congenital muscle disorder, Shaka Isawa has severe spine curvature and uses an electric wheelchair and ventilator. Within the limits of her care home, her life is lived online: she studies, she tweets indignantly, she posts outrageous stories on an erotica website. One day, a new male carer reveals he has read it all – the sex, the provocation, the dirt. Her response? An indecent proposal…

Written by the first disabled author to win Japan’s most prestigious literary award and acclaimed instantly as one of the most important Japanese novels of the 21st century, Hunchback is an extraordinary, thrilling glimpse into the desire and darkness of a woman placed at humanity’s edge.

‘Filled with unforgettable insight’ Sakaya Murata, author of Convenience Store Woman

©2025 Saou Ichikawa (P)2025 Penguin Audio

Hunchback, written by Saou Ichikawa and read by Yuriri Naka

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'We love a rags-to-riches story, and we love to see someone triumph through sheer determination. But the story is rarely that simple. My story isn't, anyway.

'As the middle of five kids growing up in dire poverty, the odds were low on Katriona O'Sullivan making anything of her life. When she became a mother at 15 and ended up homeless, what followed were five years of barely coping.

This is the extraordinary story - moving, funny, brave, and sometimes startling - of how Katriona turned her life around. How the seeds of self-belief planted by teachers in childhood stayed with her. How she found mentors whose encouragement revived those seeds in adulthood.

Now an award-winning lecturer whose work challenges barriers to education, Poor stands as a stirring argument for the importance of looking out for our kids' futures. Of giving them hope, practical support and meaningful opportunities.

©2023 Katriona O'Sullivan (P)2023 Penguin Audio

Poor, written and read by Katriona O'Sullivan

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Six friends. One remote hotel. A long-overdue reunion. Welcome to The Hitchcock Hotel...

Alfred Smettle adores Hitchcock.

And who better to become founder, owner and manager of The Hitchcock Hotel, a remote, sprawling Victorian house sitting atop a hill in the beautiful White Mountains, New England. There, guests can find movie props and memorabilia in every room, round-the-clock film screenings, and an aviary with fifty crows.

For the hotel's first anniversary, Alfred invites the five college friends he studied film with. He hasn't spoken to any of them in sixteen years. Not after what happened. But who better to appreciate Alfred's creation?

His guests arrive, and everything seems to go according to plan. Until one glimpses someone standing outside her shower curtain.

Another is violently ill every time she eats the hotel food. Then their mobile phones go missing.

You should always make the audience suffer as much as possible, right?

The guests are stuck in the middle of nowhere, and things are about to get even worse. After all, no Hitchcock set is complete without a dead body.

'Fans of Knives Out, Agatha Christie, and (of course) Alfred Hitchcock, rejoice! The Hitchcock Hotel is cool, classy – but such fun; reverent – yet so original.' A.J. FINN

'As twisty as a Hitchcock film' ALEX MICHAELIDES

'A scream from start to finish' JANICE HALLETT

©2024 Stephanie Wrobel (P)2024 Penguin Audio

The Hitchcock Hotel, written by Stephanie Wrobel and read by Michael Crouch, Helen Lloyd, Gail Shalan

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