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The Penguin Podcast: The Archive

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The Numbers Game by Chris Anderson and David Sally reveals football's astonishing hidden rules

Football is 50% luck
Managers only have 19% influence
Substitutes should be made in the 58th, 73rd, or 79th minute
Darren Bent's goals win more games than Wayne Rooney's
u, is feted by the world's leading clubs. In this incisive, myth-busting book with behavioural analyst David Sally, he uncovers the n
We are at the dawn of football's data revolution. From passes completed ratios to average transfer fees, we are blitzed by statistics - but mostly they only confuse and hide the real story. It's time to find a way through this data minefield. Time to learn which numbers truly hold the key to winning matches. Time to discover which players and managers are really valuable, and why. 

Chris Anderson, former professional goalkeeper turned football statistics gurumbers that count. Among the astonishing results, you'll discover why preventing a goal is more valuable than scoring one, why taking too many shots might kill you, and why it is far better to improve your worst player than buy a superstar. Lively, accessible and full of wonderful stories and insights, 

The Numbers Game is the first comprehensive book to understand the modern world of football - the key for fans to debate and unlock their teams' performance (and win more bets and fantasy football points). This is essential reading for football fans everywhere and will also appeal to readers who loved Moneyball and Freakonomics.

Interview with the authors of The Numbers Game - Chris Anderson & David Sally

Listen to an excerpt from Andrew Lane's Fire Storm audiobook, read by James Langton.

In Fire Storm, Andrew Lane's fourth action-filled puzzler for teen Sherlock, plunges the young detective into a fight for his life as he battles to discover what has happened to his missing friends.

Young Sherlock's friend and her father have vanished. Their house looks as if nobody has ever lived in it; the neighbors claim never to have heard of them. Sherlock begins to doubt his sanity, until a clever clue points him to Scotland. Following that clue leads him into a mystery that involves kidnapping, bodysnatchers, and a man who claims he can raise the dead. Only the budding detective Sherlock can untangle the mind-bending--and dangerous--puzzles that ensnare his friends. Think you know Sherlock Holmes? Think again!

Fire Storm audiobook excerpt

Puffin Audiobooks presents a brand new recording of Roald Dahl's James and the Giant Peach, to be read by Green Wing actor Julian Rhind-Tutt.  The audiobooks features original music and '3D' sound design by Pinewood film studios.

James Henry Trotter's parents have been eaten by a rhinoceros, so now he lives with his two repulsive aunts.


Roald Dahl: James and the Giant Peach (Audiobook Extract) read by Julian Rhind-Tutt

Puffin Audiobooks presents two volumes of beastly poetry by Roald Dahl, complete and unabridged and raucously read by Miriam Margolyes, Stephen Mangan, and Tamsin Greig.  The audiobook contains original music.

In Revolting Rhymes, you can think again if you thought you knew the stories of some of the most popular fairy tales. Here are six of the best known retold, with more than a twist or two, by the master of the comic and the blood-curdling.

Download the phizz-whizzing Roald Dahl Audiobooks App!
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: Revolting Rhymes & Dirty Beasts read by Stephen Mangan, Tamsin Greig & Miriam Margolyes

An extarct from the most hotly-anticipated children's book release of the year, the globally-bestselling and award-winning Diary of a Wimpy Kid series is back, in this hilarious audio edition, read by Dan Russell.

Greg Heffley's on a losing streak. His best friend, Rowley Jefferson, has ditched him, and finding new friends in middle school is proving to be a tough task. To change his fortunes, Greg decides to take a leap of faith and turn his decisions over to chance. Will a roll of the dice turn things around, or is Greg's life destined to be just another hard-luck story?

Jeff Kinney: Wimpy Kid, Hard Luck (Audiobook extract) read by Dan Russell

VIRAL SONG

NEW   I Love You, Tye Tribbett 2013

If an older man and woman spend lots of time together, going to family gatherings and the like, but they're NOT dating, what do you call their relationship? Best friends? Dear friends? Or . . . something else? And a marathon runner who's crossed 31 states on foot talks about the odd phrases people use when giving directions. Plus, handegg, victuals and vittles, nernees and farsees, take a decision vs. make a decision, and the growing popularity of text tattoos.

Not Quite A Boyfriend (full episode)

We think Christmas is the perfect time to unwind and muse on the recent past. It certainly has been a busy year for Penguin, but before we say goodbye to 2013 we want to take the opportunity to reflect on our highlights and news-worthy moments. A Penguin round-up of the year, as it were...

The Penguin Podcast: A Penguin Round-up of 2013 feat. Wimpy Kid, Colm Tóibín and Al Murray

Viral song- toby turner Electro remix

Performed by Edoardo Ballerini.

The Jackson women, Indiana and Amanda, have always had each other. Yet while their bond is strong, mother and daughter are as different as night and day. While her mom looks for the good in people, Amanda is fascinated by the dark side of human nature—as is her father, the SFPD's deputy chief of homicide. Brilliant and introverted, Amanda is a natural-born sleuth addicted to Ripper, the online mystery game she plays with her beloved grandfather and friends around the world. When a string of strange murders occurs across the city, Amanda plunges into her own investigation. But the case becomes all too personal when Indiana suddenly vanishes. Now, with her mother's life on the line, the young detective must solve the most complex mystery she's ever faced before it's too late. 


RIPPER by Isabel Allende

Listen to an excerpt from Charles Finch's The Last Enchantments audiobook, read by Luke Daniels.

The Last Enchantments is a powerfully moving and lyrically written novel. A young American embarks on a year at Oxford and has an impassioned affair that will change his life forever

After graduating from Yale, William Baker, scion of an old line patrician family, goes to work in presidential politics.  But when the campaign into which he's poured his heart ends in disappointment, he decides to leave New York behind, along with the devoted, ambitious, and well-connected woman he’s been in love with for the last four years.

Will expects nothing more than a year off before resuming the comfortable life he's always known, but he's soon caught up in a whirlwind of unexpected friendships and romantic entanglements that threaten his safe plans. As he explores the heady social world of Oxford,  he becomes fast friends with Tom, his snobbish but affable flat mate;  Anil, an Indian economist with a deep love for gangster rap; Anneliese, a German historian obsessed with photography; and Timmo, whose chief ambition is to become a reality television star. What he's least prepared for is Sophie, a witty, beautiful and enigmatic woman who makes him question everything he knows about himself.

For readers who made a classic of Richard Yates's A Good School, Charles Finch's The Last Enchantments is a sweeping novel about love and loss that redefines what it means to grow up as an American in the twenty-first century.

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The Last Enchantments audiobook excerpt

This May, Pelican’s back!
 
What was this iconically blue bird all about? What did it publish? And most importantly, why do we need it today? 
 
We have the imprint’s editor Laura Stickney to tell us why we’re bringing back Pelican. We speak to our in-house designer Matthew Young, who has been a part of bringing Pelicans alive on the page, in bookshops and online. And finally, we fly off to the Bristol Festival of Ideas, to hear the economist Ha-Joon Chang. Enjoy.
 
Pelicans are now in stores around the world. Visit pelicanbooks.com to read the first chapters of the first five titles for free.


The Penguin Podcast: Pelican Books

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Jeff The Killer - Sweet Dreams (Marilyn Manson & Creepypasta Tribute)

This episode of the Penguin Podcast focuses on one of literature’s favourite characters - the underdog.

The Penguin Podcast: Underdogs feat. Malcolm Gladwell, Matthew Frank & Elizabeth Fremantle

Fall~ on Spotify

Hier, Daar en Nu

This summer we're hitting the road with #penguinjourneys, and the Penguin Podcast is coming along for the ride. The wonderful Clare Balding, author of My Animals and Other Family and new book Walking Home (out this autumn), introduces this jet-setting episode. 

We have also teamed up with our friends at Rough Guides to give you top travel tips for each continent along the way. Head over to http://www.roughguides.com/ for more summer travel inspiration and join us on Twitter for an #askapenguin #penguinjourneys special with the expert travel team at Rough Guides on the 8th August. 

Now settle down and listen to the amazing journeys and the audiobooks we've matched them to. Let us know where your #penguinjourneys are taking you this summer, and what books you're taking with you, over on Twitter and Facebook. 

You can pre-order Clare's new book, Walking Home here: http://www.clarebalding.co.uk/news/walking-home-my-family-and-other-rambles and you can buy all the books featured in the campaign over on iTunes (opens in iTunes): http://po.st/PenguinJourneysiTunes

Keep up with all our travels this summer and follow the #penguinjourneys board over on Pinterest: http://po.st/PJpins

Join the #penguinjourneys discussion on Penguin Facebook and Twitter:

https://www.facebook.com/penguinbooks

https://twitter.com/PenguinUKBooks

Happy travels listener!

The Penguin Podcast: Penguin Journeys feat. Clare Balding, Gruff Rhys and a Roald Dahl short story

Today marks the centenary of the outbreak of World War One and we wanted to share the stories we’ve come to know and love by our authors, about this momentous occasion in history.  From accounts by soldiers who lived in the trenches to fictional novels recreating the lives of people during that time, we’ll take you back a hundred years to give you a snapshot of those four long years at war.

The Penguin Podcast: Writing The First World War feat. Jeremy Paxman, Robert Graves and Pat Barker

This episode we’re focusing on the topic of art.  After all, Penguin has always had an upstanding reputation for brilliant, cutting edge book cover design and it’s something we take very seriously.  We have some fantastic interviews and clips lined up with arty people from Art Directors to video animators to critics to popular British artists. 

The Penguin Podcast: Art and Design feat. Grayson Perry, Lauren Child and Petra Börner

Made a remix of one of my favorite youtubers, Tobuscus! He has a bunch of neat videos out there.

DL link in my SC archive ;^)

Enjoy!

Tobuscus - Nugget in a Biscuit (EO Electro House Remix) (BUY LINK = FREE DL)

Safety Torch!!

Nugget in a Biscuit!!

Penguin Books publishes blockbusting, prize-winning, celebrated, controversial, heart-warming, thought-provoking and inspiring books by a range of authors from Ali Smith to Zadie Smith, Jeremy Clarkson to Jeremy Paxman and Jamie Oliver to Oliver Goldsmith.

The Penguin Podcast: A Penguin Round-up of 2013 feat. Wimpy Kid, Colm Tóibín and Al Murray

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