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An extract from the unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of The Future of the Mind by Michio Kaku, The international bestselling author of Physics of the Impossible. Read by the actor Feodor Chin.

Recording memories, mind reading, videotaping our dreams, mind control, avatars, and telekinesis - no longer are these feats of the mind solely the province of overheated science fiction. As Michio Kaku reveals, not only are they possible, but with the latest advances in brain science and recent astonishing breakthroughs in technology, they already exist. In The Future of the Mind, the New York Times-bestselling author takes us on a stunning, provocative and exhilarating tour of the top laboratories around the world to meet the scientists who are already revolutionising the way we think about the brain - and ourselves.

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Michio Kaku: The Future of the Mind (Audiobook extract) Read by Feodor Chin

An audiobook extract from "Guilt", read by the actor Steven Pacey. Following the international No.1 bestsellers Mercy and Disgrace, Guilt is the fourth heart-stopping Department Q novel from Jussi Adler-Olsen, and a gripping treat for all fans of the Scandinavian crime thriller. Read by the actor Steven Pacey.

1987. Nete Rosen thought she'd put her traumatic youth behind her. Her caring foster parents and loving husband helped her start again. However, when a man from her past reappears one night, Nete's new life could be shattered.

But she won't be drawn back into that nightmare - she won't be a victim again...

2010. Detective Carl Mørck from Copenhagen's cold case division is looking into the disappearance of Rita Nielsen, an escort agency owner. The investigation reveals that Rita is only one piece of the puzzle.

Because this is not a one-off incident - but part of a disturbing pattern which has been hidden from prying eyes for over twenty years...

'Gripping storytelling' Guardian 

'Engrossing' Sunday Express

'As impressive as it is unnerving' Independent

Jussi Adler-Olsen was born in Copenhagen and worked as a magazine editor and publisher before starting to write fiction. Mercy and Disgrace are the first two in currently four novels in the Department Q series. He holds the prestigious Glass Key Award, given annually for a crime novel by a Scandinavian author, and is also winner of the Golden Laurels, Denmark's highest literary accolade.

Jussi Adler-Olsen: Guilt (Audiobook extract) Read by Steven Pacey

Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of Jojo Moyes's The One Plus One, read by Elizabeth Bower, Ben Elliot, Nicola Stanton and Steven France.

The One Plus One is the beautiful, poignant and utterly compelling new novel by the internationally bestselling author Jojo Moyes.

One single mum
With two jobs and two children, Jess Thomas does her best day after day. But it's hard on your own. And sometimes you take risks you shouldn't. Because you have to . . .

One chaotic family
Jess's gifted, quirky daughter Tanzie is brilliant with numbers, but without a helping hand she'll never get the chance to shine. And Nicky, Jess's teenage stepson, can't fight the bullies alone. 
Sometimes Jess feels like they're sinking . . .
                                       
One handsome stranger
Into their lives comes Ed Nicholls, a man whose life is in chaos, and who is running from a deeply uncertain future. But he has time on his hands. He knows what it's like to be lonely. And he wants to help . . .

One unexpected love story
The One Plus One is a captivating and unconventional romance from Jojo Moyes about two lost souls meeting in the most unlikely circumstances.

Praise for Jojo Moyes:

'Majestic, utterly compelling, tremendous. A heart-stopping read' Independent on Sunday

'Truly beautiful. Made us laugh, smile and sob like a baby - you simply have to read it' Closer

'A triumph. Packs such an emotional punch, you'll need a box of tissues' Elle

Jojo Moyes is a novelist and a journalist. She worked at the Independent for ten years before leaving to write full time. Her previous novels have all been critically acclaimed and include The Ship of Brides, Foreign Fruit, The Last Letter From Your Lover, winner of Spring 2012's most popular Richard and Judy Book Club title Me Before You and most recently The Girl you Left Behind. She lives in Essex with her husband and their three children.

Jojo Moyes: The One Plus One (Audiobook extract) Read by Elizabeth Bower and Steven France

An extract from the unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of The Hangman's Song, the third in the phenomenally successful Inspector McLean series by James Oswald's. Read by the actor Ian Hanmore. 

The body of a man is found hanging in an empty house. To the Edinburgh police force this appears to be a simple suicide case. 

Days later another body is found. 

The body is hanging from an identical rope and the noose has been tied using the same knot. 

Then a third body is found.

As Inspector McLean digs deeper he descends into a world where the lines of reality are blurred and where the most irrational answers become the only explanations.

James Oswald: The Hangman's Song (Audiobook extract) Read by Ian Hanmore

We interrupt this episode of the Penguin Podcast to bring you important information on our latest books and authors.

Today's stories:

Alain de Botton says The News can learn from novelists.
Coleen Nolan has No Regrets.
An exclusive reveal - what do the Flash Boys get up to on Wall Street?
An interview with the translator of Daniel Anselme's lost book On Leave.
Mohsin Hamid shows us How To Get Filthy Rich In Rising Asia.
Royal Correspondent, Elizabeth Fremantle, live from Hampton Court Palace at the wedding of Henry VIII and Catherine Parr - will this new Queen's Gambit pay off?
Danny Dorling's All That is Solid study sheds light on the great housing disaster in the UK.
And another classic revisted and revised for the modern day speaker seeking to use Plain Words to help get their point across better.

The news where you are follows with James Robertson (one of his 365 three-hundred-and-sixty-five-word short stories)

The Penguin Podcast: This is the News feat. Coleen Nolan and Mohsin Hamid

Swizzle your ears for some of the finest, most fantastic first words every written, spoken and dreamt. Stay tuned for more extracts from Roald Dahl’s best loved children’s stories and if you like what you hear then visit the Apple App. Store to download the Audiobooks App for free!
With fantastic features including free access to the first chapter of every title, in–app purchase to continue the story and the ability to stream the audiobooks, the Roald Dahl Audiobooks App is available from the App Store on iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch or at www.itunes.com/appstore.

Roald Dahl: The Minpins read by Bill Bailey

طبيعة الدنيا زي الموج تجيب وتودي
ما تهتمو للايام
ظروف بتعدي ما تهتمو للايام
سبيل الزول عشان يفتح طريق يا دوب
يكون زادو البشيلو معاهو شوق مشهوق
عشان يلقي انتصارو يا زمن محبوب
يضوق المرة يتوشح بي صبر ايوب
ما تهتمو بالايام
ظروف بتعدي ما تهتمو للايام
وما تهتمو اصلو الناس حياة ظروف
بتتحكم تغير كل خط مالوف
مصير الزول حياتو ياتو ياما فيها يشوف
وفي دنيانا بنلاقي الفرح والخوف
ماتهتمو للايام
ظروف بتعدي ما تهتمو للايام
جمال الدنيا في بسمة سرور وجمال
وفي فرح الخواطر الطيبة في الامال
وفي شروق الصباح في بسمة الاطفال
ومهما تظلم الايام ضياها الفال
وما تهتمو للايام
ظروف بتعدي ما تهتمو للايام
	


سامي المغربي / ما تهتم للايام

A groundbreaking exploration of how cyberspace is changing the way we think, feel, and behave &#160;&#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; Mary Aiken is the world&rsquo;s leading expert in forensic cyberpsychology&mdash;a discipline that combines psychology, criminology, and technology to investigate the intersection where technology and human behavior meet. In this, her first book, Aiken has created a starting point for all future conversations about how the Internet is shaping development and behavior, societal norms and values, children, safety, security, and our perception of the world. Cyberspace is an environment full of surveillance, but who is looking out for us? The Cyber Effect offers a fascinating and chilling look at a future we can still do something about. &#160; Drawing on her own research and extensive experience with law enforcement, Mary Aiken covers a wide range of subjects from the impact of screens on the developing child to the explosion of teen sexting, and the acceleration of compulsive and addictive behaviors online (gaming, shopping, pornography). She examines the escalation of cyberchondria (anxiety produced by self-diagnosing online), cyberstalking, and organized cybercrime in the Deep Web. Aiken provides surprising statistics and incredible-but-true case studies of hidden trends that are shaping our culture and raising troubling questions about where the digital revolution is taking us. &#160; The Cyber Effect will upend your assumptions about your online life and forever change the way you think about the technology you, your friends, and family use. Readers will gain a new understanding of the rapid change taking shape around us and come away with critical tools to become part of this very necessary conversation. Advance praise for&#160;The Cyber Effect &ldquo;Just as Rachel Carson launched the modern environmental movement with her&#160;Silent Spring, Mary Aiken delivers a deeply disturbing, utterly penetrating, and urgently timed investigation into the perils of the largest unregulated social experiment of our time.&rdquo;&mdash;Bob Woodward &#160; &ldquo;Mary Aiken takes us on a fascinating, thought-provoking, and at times scary journey down the rabbit hole to witness how the Internet is changing the human psyche. A must-read for anyone who wants to understand the temptations and tragedies of cyberspace.&rdquo;&mdash;John R. Suler, PhD, author of&#160;The Psychology of Cyberspace &ldquo;Drawing on a fascinating and mind-boggling range of research and knowledge, Mary Aiken has written a great, important book that terrifies then consoles by pointing a way forward so that our experience online might not outstrip our common sense. A must-read for this moment in time.&rdquo;&mdash;Steven D. Levitt, co-author of the&#160;New York Times&#160;bestseller&#160;Freakonomics &ldquo;Figuring out how to guide kids in a hyperconnected world is one of the biggest challenges for today&rsquo;s parents. Mary Aiken clearly and calmly separates reality from myth. She clearly lays out the issues we really need to be concerned about and calmly instructs us on how to keep our kids safe and healthy in their digital lives.&rdquo;&mdash;Peggy Orenstein, author of the&#160;New York Times&#160;bestseller&#160;Girls &amp; Sex&#160; &ldquo;Having worked with law enforcement groups from INTERPOL and Europol as well as the U.S. government, Aiken knows firsthand how today&rsquo;s digital tools can be exploited by criminals lurking in the Internet&rsquo;s Dark Net.&rdquo;&mdash;Newsweek

The Cyber Effect by Mary Aiken, read by Rachel Fulginiti

"Out of the secret world I once knew, I have tried to make a theatre for the larger worlds we inhabit. First comes the imagining, then the search for reality. Then back to the imagining, and to the desk where I'm sitting now."&#160; &#160; &#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; From his years serving in British Intelligence during the Cold War, to a career as a writer that took him from war-torn Cambodia to Beirut on the cusp of the 1982 Israeli invasion to Russia before and after the collapse of the Berlin Wall, le Carr&eacute;&#160;has always written from the heart of modern times.&#160;In this, his first memoir,&#160;le Carr&eacute; is as funny as he is incisive, reading into the events he witnesses the same moral ambiguity with which he imbues his novels. Whether he's writing about the parrot at a Beirut hotel that could perfectly mimic machine gun fire or the opening bars of Beethoven&rsquo;s Fifth, visiting Rwanda&rsquo;s museums of the unburied dead in the aftermath of the genocide, celebrating New Year&rsquo;s Eve 1982 with Yasser Arafat and his high command, interviewing a German woman terrorist in her desert prison in the Negev, listening to the wisdoms of the great physicist, dissident, and Nobel Prize winner Andrei Sakharov, meeting with two former heads of the KGB, watching Alec Guinness prepare for his role as George Smiley in the legendary BBC TV adaptations, or describing the female aid worker who inspired the main character in&#160;The Constant Gardener, le Carr&eacute; endows each happening with vividness and humor, now making us laugh out loud, now inviting us to think anew about events and people we believed we understood. &#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; Best of all, le Carr&eacute; gives us a glimpse of a writer&rsquo;s journey over more than six decades, and his own hunt for the human spark that has given so much life and heart to his fictional characters. Available for purchase at: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0735210047?tag=randohouseinc7911-20">Amazon - Audiobook (CD format)</a><a href="http://www.anrdoezrs.net/links/2665379/type/dlg/sid/PRHD39095A662--9780735210042/http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/?ean=9780735210042 ">Barnes & Noble - Audiobook (CD format)</a><a href="http://www.tkqlhce.com/click-2665379-10876509?SID=PRHD39095A662--9780735210042&url=http://www.booksamillion.com/p/9780735210042">Books A Million - Audiobook (CD format)</a><a href="http://www.hudsonbooksellers.com/book/9780735220775?utm_source=prh&utm_medium=affiliate&utm_term=301&utm_content=PRHD39095A662--9780735220775&utm_campaign=9780735220775">Hudson Booksellers</a><a href="http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780735210042?aff=PenguinGroupUS">IndieBound - Audiobook (CD format)</a><a href="http://www.powells.com/book/-9780735210042?utm_source=randomhouse&utm_campaign=randomhouse&utm_content=PRHD39095A662--9780735210042">Powell's - Audiobook (CD format)</a><a href="http://goto.target.com/c/128773/81938/2092?subId1=PRHD39095A662--9780735220775&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.target.com%2Fs%3FsearchTerm%3D9780735220775">Target</a><a href="http://linksynergy.walmart.com/fs-bin/click?id=VD9*lkiWNd8&subid=&offerid=183959.1&type=10&tmpid=273&u1=PRHD39095A662--9780735210042&RD_PARM1=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.walmart.com%2Fsearch%2Fsearch-ng.do%3F&RD_PARM2=search_query%3D9780735210042%2526ic%3D16_0%2526Find%3DFind%2526search_constraint%3D3920">Walmart - Audiobook (CD format)</a><a href="https://google.prf.hn/click/camref:1011ld4r/pubref:PRHD39095A662--9780735220799/destination:https://play.google.com/store/search?q=9780735220799&c=books">Google Play Store</a><a href="http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZSearch.woa/wa/advancedSearch?term=The+Pigeon+Tunnel&entity=audiobook&at=11l3IH&ct=PRHD39095A662--9780735210059">iBooks - Audiobook (Downloadable format)</a><a href="http://click.linksynergy.com/link?id=VD9*lkiWNd8&offerid=258185.12829781935712206&type=2&u1=PRHD39095A662--9780735220799&murl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.kobobooks.com%2Fsearch%2Fsearch.html%3Fq%3D9780735220799">Kobo</a><a href="http://www.qksrv.net/click-2665379-10273919?url=http://www.audible.com/search?advsearchKeywords=The+Pigeon+Tunnel+John+le+Carr%c3%a9&source_code=COMA0213WS031709&SID=PRHD39095A662--9780735210059">Audible - Audiobook (Downloadable format)</a><a href="http://www.tkqlhce.com/click-2665379-11117375?SID=PRHD39095A662--9780735210059&url=http://www.audiobooks.com/audiobook/9780735210059">audiobooks.com - Audiobook (Downloadable format)</a><a href="http://www.downpour.com/catalogsearch/result/?q=9780735210059">downpour - Audiobook (Downloadable format)</a><a href="http://www.qksrv.net/click-2665379-10273919?SID=PRHD39095A662--9780735210059&url=http://www.emusic.com/listen/#/search/book/The+Pigeon+Tunnel">eMusic - Audiobook (Downloadable format)</a>

The Pigeon Tunnel by John le Carré, read by John le Carré

Fortune, mania, genius, philanthropy&mdash;the bestselling author of&#160;Mountains Beyond Mountains gives us the inspiring story of Kayak.com founder Paul English, an American maverick and a man who had a mind for the age that was coming. Tracy Kidder, the &ldquo;master of the nonfiction narrative&rdquo; (The Baltimore Sun) and author of the bestselling classic The Soul of a New Machine, now tells the story of Paul English, a kinetic and unconventional inventor and entrepreneur, who as a boy rebelled against authority. Growing up in working-class Boston, English discovers a medium for his talents the first time he sees a computer. As a young man, despite suffering from what would eventually be diagnosed as bipolar disorder, he begins his pilgrim&rsquo;s journey through the ups and downs in the brave new world of computers. Relating to the Internet as if it&rsquo;s an extension of his own mind, he discovers that he has a talent for conceiving innovative enterprises and building teams that can develop them, becoming &ldquo;a Pied Piper&rdquo; of geeks. His innovative management style, success, and innate sense of fair play inspire intense loyalty. Early on, one colleague observes: &ldquo;Someday this boy&rsquo;s going to get hit by a truck full of money, and I&rsquo;m going to be standing beside him.&rdquo; Yet when English does indeed make a fortune, when the travel website Kayak is sold for almost two billion dollars&mdash;the first thing he thinks about is how to give the money away: &ldquo;What else would you do with it?&rdquo; The second thing he thinks is, What&rsquo;s next? With the power of a consummate storyteller, Tracy Kidder casts a fresh, critical, and often humorous eye on the way new ideas and new money are reshaping our culture and the world. A Truck Full of Money is a mesmerizing portrait of an irresistibly endearing man who is indefatigable, original, and as unpredictable as America itself. Praise for Tracy Kidder A Truck Full of Money &ldquo;A Truck Full of Money brings us into unknown spaces of the complex workings of the mind&mdash;of a brilliant software engineer, of this new decade, of the brutal/fast business of technology, of stunning privilege, and of one man&rsquo;s efforts to put his fortune to humane use.&rdquo;&mdash;Adrian Nicole LeBlanc &ldquo;The story of [an] entrepreneur&rsquo;s remarkable life [and] the new American economy and the technological world that built it. More engrossing work from a gifted practitioner of narrative nonfiction.&rdquo;&mdash;Kirkus Mountains Beyond Mountains &ldquo;[A] masterpiece . . . an astonishing book that will leave you questioning your own life and political views.&rdquo;&mdash;USA Today &ldquo;Stunning . . . Mountains Beyond Mountains will move you, restore your faith in the ability of one person to make a difference in these increasingly maddening, dispiriting times.&rdquo;&mdash;San Diego Union-Tribune Strength in What Remains &ldquo;The reporting is impeccable, but it&rsquo;s Kidder&rsquo;s great feat of sympathetic imagination that dazzles. Walk a mile in Deo&rsquo;s shoes; your world will be larger and darker for it.&rdquo;&mdash;William Finnegan &ldquo;Extraordinarily stirring . . . a miracle of human courage.&rdquo;&mdash;The Washington Post The Soul of a New Machine &ldquo;A splendid book, which goes far toward reviving Aldous Huxley&rsquo;s prophecy . . . of a worthy literature of science and technology. . . . Kidder has endowed the tale with such pace, texture, and poetic implication that he has elevated it to a high level of narrative art.&rdquo;&mdash;The New York Times Book Review

A Truck Full of Money by Tracy Kidder, read by Paul Michael

&ldquo;The Nix&#160;is a mother-son psychodrama with ghosts and politics, but it&rsquo;s also a tragicomedy about anger and sanctimony in America. . . . Nathan Hill is a maestro.&rdquo; &mdash;John Irving&#160; &#160; A Nix can take many forms. In Norwegian folklore, it is a spirit who sometimes appears as a white horse that steals children away. In Nathan Hill&rsquo;s remarkable first novel, a Nix is anything you love that one day disappears, taking with it a piece of your heart.&#160; It&rsquo;s 2011, and Samuel Andresen-Anderson&mdash;college professor, stalled writer&mdash;has a Nix of his own: his mother, Faye. He hasn&rsquo;t seen her in decades, not since she abandoned the family when he was a boy. Now she&rsquo;s re-appeared, having committed an absurd crime that electrifies the nightly news, beguiles the internet, and inflames a politically divided country. The media paints Faye as a radical hippie with a sordid past, but as far as Samuel knows, his mother was an ordinary girl who married her high-school sweetheart. Which version of his mother is true? Two facts are certain: she&rsquo;s facing some serious charges, and she needs Samuel&rsquo;s help. To save her, Samuel will have to embark on his own journey, uncovering long-buried secrets about the woman he thought he knew, secrets that stretch across generations and have their origin all the way back in Norway, home of the mysterious Nix. As he does so, Samuel will confront not only Faye&rsquo;s losses but also his own lost love, and will relearn everything he thought he knew about his mother, and himself. From the suburban Midwest to New York City to the 1968 riots that rocked Chicago and beyond, The Nix explores&mdash;with sharp humor and a fierce tenderness&mdash;the resilience of love and home, even in times of radical change.

The Nix by Nathan Hill, read by Ari Fliakos

A celebration of the writing and editing life, as well as a look behind the scenes at some of the most influential magazines in America (and the writers who made them what they are). &#160; You might not know Terry McDonell, but you certainly know his work. Among the magazines he has top-edited: Outside, Rolling Stone, Esquire,&#160;and&#160;Sports Illustrated.&#160;In this revealing memoir, McDonell talks about what really happens when editors and writers work with deadlines ticking (or drinks on the bar). His stories about the people and personalities he&rsquo;s known are both heartbreaking and bitingly funny&mdash;playing &ldquo;acid golf&rdquo; with Hunter S. Thompson, practicing brinksmanship with David Carr and Steve Jobs, working the European fashion scene with Liz Tilberis, pitching TV pilots with Richard Price. Here, too, is an expert&rsquo;s practical advice on how to recruit&mdash;and keep&mdash;high-profile talent; what makes a compelling lede; how to grow online traffic that translates into dollars; and how, in whatever format, on whatever platform, a good editor really works, and what it takes to write well. Taking us from the raucous days of New Journalism to today&rsquo;s digital landscape, McDonell argues that the need for clear storytelling from trustworthy news sources has never been stronger. Says Jeffrey Eugenides: &ldquo;Every time I run into Terry, I think how great it would be to have dinner with him. Hear about the writers he's known and edited over the years, what the magazine business was like back then, how it's changed and where it's going, inside info about Edward Abbey, Jim Harrison, Annie Proulx, old New York, and the Swimsuit issue. That dinner is this book.&rdquo;

The Accidental Life by Terry McDonell, read by Jason Culp

'Captivating …There's a breadth of humanity in An Unsafe Haven which is very moving. I loved the sense of Lebanon and of what is unique and precious about the Arab world' Helen Dunmore

Set in contemporary Beirut, a rich, illuminating and deeply moving novel about a group of friends whose lives are shaped and affected daily by the war in Syria. 

 Imagine trying to live a normal life in a world which changes daily and where nothing is certain …

Hannah has deep roots in Beirut, the city of her birth and of her family. Her American husband, Peter, has certainty only in her. They thought that they were used to the upheavals in Lebanon, but as the war in neighbouring Syria enters its fifth year, the region’s increasingly fragile state begins to impact on their lives in wholly different ways.

An incident in a busy street brings them into direct contact with a Syrian refugee and her son. As they work to reunite Fatima with her family, her story forces Hannah to face the crisis of the expanding refugee camps, and to question the very future of her homeland.

And when their close friend Anas, an artist, arrives to open his exhibition, shocking news from his home in Damascus raises uncomfortable questions about his loyalty to his family and his country.

Heartrending and beautifully written, An Unsafe Haven is a universal story of people whose lives are tested and transformed, as they wrestle with the anguish of war, displacement and loss, but also with the vital need for hope.

An Unsafe Haven, By Nada Awar Jarrar, Read by Nathalie Armin

A powerful methodology to help you switch on your body’s innate ability to sleep well and how to build extraordinary energy. 

 Sleep problems aren’t created when you put your head on the pillow. Everything you do during the day – every thought, every behaviour, every choice you make – can impact on how you sleep at night.
Dr Nerina Ramlakhan, a physiologist and renowned sleep and energy expert, has worked with people for over twenty five years. Combining this professional experience with academic and personal insights, she shares her view that sleep problems are not just about sleep but rather about how we deal with life and its inevitable challenges.
In this ground breaking book, she goes beyond traditional sleep methods to examine the true causes of sleep problems .
Fast Asleep Wide Awake shares a unique and highly practical process for accessing deep and restorative sleep and shifting your energy from survival energy to a more sustainable and vibrant source of energy that we all have access to.
Using tools and techniques based on Western science and Eastern practices learn how to sleep deeply and find the energy to embrace life’s challenges with courage and optimism.

Fast Asleep, Wide Awake, By Dr Nerina Ramlakhan, Read by Dr Nerina Ramlakhan

The jewel in the French crown, Katherine de Valois, is waiting under lock and key for King Henry V. While he’s been slaughtering her kinsmen in Agincourt, Katherine has been praying for marriage to save her from her misery. But the brutal King wants her crown, not her innocent love.

For Katherine, England is a lion’s den of greed, avarice and mistrust. And when Katherine is widowed at twenty-one she is a prize ripe for the taking. Her young son the future monarch, her hand in marriage worth a kingdom.

This is a deadly political game; one the Dowager Queen must learn fast. The players – Duke of Gloucester, Edmund Beaufort and Owen Tudor -are circling.

Who will have her? Who will ruin her?

This is the story of Katherine de Valois. The forbidden queen who launched the most famous dynasty of all time…

*

"This book has everything – royalty, scandal, fascinating historical politics and ultimately, the shaping of the woman who founded the Tudors." Cosmopolitan

The Forbidden Queen, by Anne O'Brien, Read by Emily Lucienne

The official movie tie-in edition to Oliver Stone&rsquo;s major motion picture, starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt. &#160; Edward Snowden is one of the most extraordinary whistleblowers in history. A precocious computer specialist who rapidly rose through the ranks of the U.S. intelligence community, Snowden was only twenty-nine years old when he exposed the National Security Agency's mass surveillance program of citizens, which collects and stores people&rsquo;s phone calls, emails, and contacts. Forced to flee the country to escape federal prosecutors, he remains a controversial figure in exile, having been called, by turns, a traitor, a hero, a dissident, a patriot. Now, in these pages, award-winning Guardian correspondent Luke Harding takes us inside Snowden&rsquo;s story, which has all the action and intrigue of a spy novel&mdash;yet is too astonishing not to be true. The Snowden Files is an essential investigation of the interplay between one man and the government, between national security and the right to privacy, and how the far-reaching capabilities of digital surveillance affect us all.

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