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The Big Swim is a collection of thought-provoking stories that illustrate how the personal is intertwined with the political. Like many people today, Carrie Saxifrage is very aware that our current way of life is a threat to the biosphere, and like many people, she feels helpless and anxious about the future of our planet. In these frequently touching, surprisingly funny and encouraging stories, Carrie explores the possibilities for personal satisfaction without a large environmental footprint. The author discovers her greatest adventure is learning to align how she lives with what she loves. She turns her own despair into action and paves the way for us to discover the variety of tools we have at hand as we meet the biggest challenge humanity has ever faced.

Audiobook: The Big Swim by Carrie Saxifrage, read by the author

Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable, audiobook edition of Charlotte Brontë: A Life written and read by Claire Harman.

Raised motherless on remote Yorkshire moors, watching five beloved siblings sicken and die, haunted by unrequited love: Charlotte Brontë's life has all the drama and tragedy of the great Gothic novels it inspired.

Charlotte was a literary visionary, a feminist trailblazer and the driving force behind the whole Brontë family. She pushed Emily to publish Wuthering Heights and took charge of their precarious finances when her feckless brother turned to opium. In Jane Eyre she introduced the world to a brand new kind of heroine, modelled on herself: quiet but fiercely intelligent, burning with passion and potential.

This is the definitive biography of one of Britain's best loved writers.

Charlotte Brontë: A Life written and read by Claire Harman

Bill Bryson discusses The Road to Little Dribbling, his follow up to Notes From A Small Island. To tell the story of his journey Bill brings along his passport, a walking stick, a cow, Stonehenge and an ordnance survey map.  Recorded with Richard E Grant in front of a live audience at the Cambridge Corn Exchange.

The Penguin Podcast: Richard E. Grant with Bill Bryson – Live

The latest in a new series of classic detective stories from the vaults of HarperCollins is a reissue of one of literature’s most audacious and thought-provoking novels of murder and intrigue, performed by Richard E. Grant. Includes John Inglisham’s foreword from the original Detective Story Club edition. 

 “The Detective Story Club”, launched by Collins in 1929, was a clearing house for the best and most ingenious crime stories of the age, chosen by a select committee of experts. Now, almost 90 years later, these books are the classics of the Golden Age, republished at last with the same popular cover designs that appealed to their original readers.

Originally published in 1886 as “Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde”, Robert Louis Stevenson’s book had been propelled to massive success following a favourable review in The Times, and by 1901 had sold a quarter of a million copies. This is how the Detective Club described the book:

‘In addition to being one of the most amazing crime stories ever written, “Dr Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” is probably the most remarkable of all the writings of Robert Louis Stevenson. It would be unfair to the reader to give away the secret of this thriller. Suffice it to say that every page grips and the unforgettable portrait of a mast criminal takes shape until the sensational climax is reached, a climax of dramatic intensity, without equal in the realm of detective fiction. If one wished to append a moral to this crime fantasy it might well be this: “The self you choose to-day, and not the self you chose yesterday, is the fate of to-morrow.”’

Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, By R. L. Stevenson, Read by Richard E. Grant

A HILARIOUS and JUST-A-LITTLE HEARTBREAKING FESTIVE TREAT for anyone who’s looking for a little bit of MAGIC this CHRISTMAS TIME! 

Last Christmas, when Livvy was knocked down in the supermarket car park she certainly wasn’t ready to actually be dead! For months now she’s floated on the edge of the afterlife, generally making a nuisance of herself.

And she’s not ready to go just yet! She’s furious about the new woman in her husband’s life and she’s worried about her beloved son who doesn’t seem to be adjusting to life without her at all.

This Christmas, Livvy is given one last magical chance to make everything right. Will she take it and give her family the perfect Christmas?

Perfect for fans of CAROLE MATTHEWS, TRISHA ASHLEY and JENNY COLGAN.

Make A Christmas Wish, By Julia Williams, Read by Penny McDonald

Slice of Cherry by Dia Reeves on Audible:
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Summary:


Kit and Fancy Cordelle are sisters of the best kind: best friends, best confidantes, and best accomplices. The daughters of the infamous Bonesaw Killer, Kit and Fancy are used to feeling like outsiders, and that's just the way they like it.

But in Portero, where the weird and wild run rampant, the Cordelle sisters are hardly the oddest or most dangerous creatures around. It's no surprise when Kit and Fancy start to give in to their deepest desire: the desire to kill. What starts as a fascination with slicing open and stitching up quickly spirals into a gratifying murder spree. Of course, the sisters aren't killing just anyone, only the people who truly deserve it. But the girls have learned from the mistakes of their father, and know that a shred of evidence could get them caught.

So when Fancy stumbles upon a mysterious and invisible doorway to another world, she opens a door to endless possibilities.



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Slice of Cherry by Dia Reeves, Narrated by Suzy Jackson

Masterful nonfiction stylist Simon Winchester reveals that he might never have become a writer had he not been colorblind. Lucky for us, his Christmas wreaths are monochrome. Winchester mines the Pacific Ocean for stories about transistor radios, the origins of the California surfing craze, and the lessons to be learned from navigating by the stars. Download the PACIFIC audiobook via iTunes http://ads.harpercollins.com/hcaudiopres?isbn=9780062420060&retailer=appleor Audible http://ads.harpercollins.com/hcaudiopres?isbn=9780062420060&retailer=audible

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Listen to an excerpt of Sherrilyn Kenyon's Born of Betrayal, read by Fred Berman.

Years ago, family loyalty caused Fain Hauk to give up everything he loved: His military career. His planet. His fiancée. Even his name.

Now decades later, everything has changed. He's built a new life out of the ashes of his old, and he's vowed to never let anything threaten his loved ones again.

But when old enemies align themselves with new ones, he's caught in the middle of a brutal war. And when fate throws his former fiancée back into his world and she has her own agenda that includes taking his head for what he did to her years ago, more than just his life is at stake. The fate of the Ichidian universe and that of his brothers-in-arms hangs in the balance. Winner take all.

It's killed or be killed, and never has the battle been more fierce...

Or more fun, in Born of Betrayal, the next League: Nemesis Rising audiobook from #1 New York Times bestselling author Sherrilyn Kenyon!

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Born of Betrayal by Sherrilyn Kenyon, audiobook excerpt

Listen to an excerpt from the introduction of AMAZING FANTASTIC INCREDIBLE by Stan Lee, read by the author.

AMAZING FANTASTIC INCREDIBLE Audiobook Excerpt read by Stan Lee

Listen to an excerpt of Jason Denzel's Mystic, read by Mary Robinette Kowal.

Mystic is the start of an enchanting new epic fantasy series from Jason Denzel, the founder of Dragonmount.

I called to the Myst, and it sent us you. For hundreds of years, high-born nobles have competed for the chance to learn of the Myst. Powerful, revered, and often reclusive, Mystics have the unique ability to summon and manipulate the Myst: the underlying energy that lives at the heart of the universe. Once in a very great while, they take an apprentice, always from the most privileged sects of society. Such has always been the tradition - until a new High Mystic takes her seat and chooses Pomella AnDone, a restless, low-born teenager, as a candidate.

Commoners have never been welcomed among the select few given the opportunity to rise beyond even the highest nobility. So when Pomella chooses to accept the summons and journey to Kelt Apar, she knows that she will have more to contend with than the competition for the apprenticeship. Breaking both law and tradition, Pomella undergoes three trials against the other candidates to prove her worthiness. As the trials unfold, Pomella navigates a deadly world of intolerance and betrayal, unaware that ruthless conspirators intend to make her suffer for having the audacity to seek to unravel the secrets of the Myst.

Mystic by Jason Denzel, audiobook excerpt

Listen to an excerpt from BATMAN AND ROBIN HAVE AN ALTERCATION from THE BAZAAR OF BAD DREAMS by Stephen King, read by Santino Fontana. 

'Batman and Robin Have An Altercation' / THE BAZAAR OF BAD DREAMS Audiobook Excerpt

Winter Witch by Elaine Cunningham on Audible:
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Summary:

In a village of the frozen north, a child is born possessed by a strange and alien spirit, only to be cast out by her tribe and taken in by the mysterious winter witches of Irrisen, a land locked in permanent magical winter. Farther south, a young mapmaker with a penchant for forgery discovers that his sham treasure maps have begun striking gold. This is the story of Ellasif, a barbarian shield maiden who will stop at nothing to recover her missing sister, and Decclan, the ne'er-do-well young spellcaster-turned-forger who wants only to prove himself to the woman he loves. Together they'll face monsters, magic, and the fury of Ellasif's own cold-hearted warriors in their quest to rescue the lost child. Yet when they finally reach the ice-walled city of Whitethrone, where trolls hold court and wolves roam the streets as men, will it be too late to save the girl from the forces of darkness? 

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Winter Witch by Elaine Cunningham, Narrarted by Daniel Thomas May

Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Old School written by Jeff Kinney, read by Dan Russell.

Get ready, book 10 in the phenomenally bestselling Diary of a Wimpy Kid series is coming!

Life was better in the old days. Or was it?

That's the question Greg Heffley is asking as his town voluntarily unplugs and goes electronics-free. But modern life has its conveniences, and Greg isn't cut out for an old-fashioned world.

With tension building inside and outside the Heffley home, will Greg find a way to survive? Or is going 'old school' just too hard for a kid like Greg?

Praise for Jeff Kinney:

'The world has gone crazy for Jeff Kinney's Diary of a Wimpy Kid' - Sun

'Kinney is right up there with J K Rowling as one of the bestselling children's authors on the planet' - Independent

'The most hotly anticipated children's book of the year is here - Diary of a Wimpy Kid' - Big Issue

Diary Of A Wimpy Kid: Old School by Jeff Kinney (Audiobook Extract) read by Dan Russell

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Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, By R. L. Stevenson, Read by Richard E. Grant

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