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Columnist, critic and award-winning author Craig Brown is well known for his Private Eye parodies lampooning politicians and celebrities. He has written for numerous newspapers, both under his own name and as his alter egos Wallace Arnold and Bel Littlejohn. Collected here are Brown's four fantastic radio series, plus two bonus programmes in which he discusses his life and work.

From learning the science of response to understanding social discord, You Can Talk to Anyone!, is the ultimate guide to listening, understanding, and effortlessly communicating to anyone, at any time, in any place.

Sexism. Self-doubt. Invisibility. When you're one of the only women in your workplace, it can be difficult to gain your footing. Organizations need to change, but in the meantime, women can find success in these settings—and even flourish in them. Thriving in a Male-Dominated Workplace provides the advice you need to ensure your professional growth in roles and industries that have traditionally been filled by and controlled by men.

The Scare Street train is leaving the station with a new collection of skin-crawling horror. Thirteen tales of nightmares and dark fantasy lurk within. Plenty of listening to occupy your mind, as your train ride to terror begins.

The haunting voices of children echo through the darkness. Ancient curses, sinister lullabies, dark nursery rhymes fill your ears - no matter how hard you try to drown it out with your screams. You feel your sanity slipping away as you struggle to escape this hellish prison....

Scare Street is proud to present Night Terrors volumes seven to nine in a single collection. A bone-chilling anthology of fiendish fiction, featuring 41 terrifying tales for your listening pleasure. Haunted houses, vicious killers, insane horrors from beyond... Every nightmare you’ve ever had hunts you through the shadows.

A child of man, with hair like day meeting night, will guide the vampire back into the sunlight. Lila Bran has been here before, she has been the mouse in the Vipers’ game. But this time, she’s stronger. This time, she has power, the safety of her brother, and—most importantly—she has Ambrose Draven. As she aims to prove herself against her enemies in the Viper Morada, will Lila find the depth of her powers and prove she is more than a murine? Or will she discover the beginnings of another great war between the four remaining vampire manors?

Current life goals: get through these 50-hour work weeks while maintaining my sanity, avoid relationships with Dominants who can't accept me for who I am, strengthen my relationship with my older brother, and survive a year of living with my brother and his best friend, who are moving back to Chicago to start a business. So far, so good. My new bartending job at Club Caliber is going well, Liam has been texting me about how excited he is to move into our new place and spend more time with me, and I even hit it off with a man at my last bartending shift who might actually be my perfect match.

Virginia Constance Kramer is a good girl. Until she meets the man that makes her want to be bad.... He’s got a record; she’s never been so much as grounded. His old man is a convict; her dad is the police sergeant. He’s seen too much darkness; she can barely see out of the stained-glass curtain the world wants her to hide behind. She’s willing to fight her parents, the town, and the whole world if she has to, but first she has to get past the wall Joe Franklin has built around his heart. He thinks she’s too good, too sweet, too pure for a man like him.

Alex Martin’s world is changing at an alarming pace. She had arrived at the Wilmot’s mountain compound with her best friend Laura just as all hell has broken loose. A dozen or so blasts set off by a terrorist group had hit most major cities in the US. Their compound was also attacked, so they all moved to the fortified tunnels beneath the buildings. The Wilmot brothers - Grant, Daniel, and Roman - were Laura’s men, former military personnel, as were most of their companions. They were all survivors of a secret government experiment performed on them when they were children.

This is Chicago, and nothing can stay “normal” for too long. A woman who was declared dead a year ago just wandered back into the hospital and whispers a word that sends chills through every member of the Night Council: necromancer. If that’s true, if that’s how this really happened, why did he come to Chicago, and who is he really looking to bring back from the dead? There are a lot of dangerous people buried in this city.

After thirty-five years of teaching and one quiet retirement party that ends too soon, Maggie Lawson realizes she has no idea what comes next. So she makes a list—one hundred ice cream flavors to taste before her next birthday—and starts with the nearest scoop shop in town. What begins as a playful challenge quickly becomes something deeper.

Ein Bär von einem Mann der sich von der Menschheit abgewandt hat. Eine verwundete Wildkatze auf der Flucht vor tödlichen Feinden. Als ich die verletzte Frau am Fuß des Wasserfalls finde, ist es mit der Ruhe vorbei. Sie bedeutet Ärger, das erkenne ich sofort. Ihre Probleme folgen ihr und wollen es unbedingt wissen. Sie wollen herausfinden, was passiert, wenn man mir so richtig auf die Nüsse geht.

Reggie Orrick is a talented English magus and Philosophical Archeologist tasked with a unique mission—to hatch a long-lost dragon egg. He never expected his life to be upended by Ian "Kelp" McGinty, an Unfortunate with no magical abilities but an uncanny knack for guiding Reggie right where he needs to go. Their connection deepens as they face spectral encounters and dangerous adversaries, all while safeguarding a rare dragon and uncovering the hidden truths of the magus world. But just as they find their footing together, Kelp's sudden disappearance leaves Reggie questioning everything.

Colton Ray Denison grew up surrounded by silence, shame, and half-truths in a broken Texas home—raised on bitterness and built on lies. For years, he believed the story his mother told: that his father, a Vietnam veteran, had abandoned the family in disgrace. But everything changes the summer Colton finds a box of hidden letters—vile confessions written by his mother to the father she betrayed. As truth cracks open his world, Colton begins a quiet, emotional journey to reclaim his identity, protect his younger sister, and choose a better path than the one laid before him.

Gerade als ich die Hoffnung auf die wahre Liebe begraben will, stoße ich am Flughafen auf den heißen Milliardär Isaac Carter. Auf dem Weg zu einer Konferenz treffe ich auf Isaac Carter. Erst später erfahre ich, dass Isaac meine finanzielle Pleite ausnutzte und meine Firma kaufte. Grund genug ihm den Rücken zu kehren, aber so leicht macht es mir der Playboy nicht. Isaac macht mir ein Jobangebot, das ich nicht ablehnen kann. Jetzt ist er mein Boss und auch wenn ich mich gegen meine eigenen Wünsche wehre, ich will, dass er auch mein Liebhaber ist.

Right. So apparently this is a story about dragons. Not that I was asked, mind you. Some overenthusiastic writer with too much imagination and not enough sense opened a portal full of the blasted things, and now the world’s on fire.

After years of waiting patiently in the shadows, I've finally come to claim what is mine. And that prize is Viviana Valachi, the youngest daughter of the Valachi Don. She is timid and obedient, everything her father raised her to be. But there is a fire in those Valachi eyes that is matched only by her brother, whom I hold captive. Azrael is on the move. No place or person is safe, even those I keep in golden cages.

The ink isn't dry on the contract for my arranged marriage when my first and only love comes back to town. The Pits demand five souls, turning men into monsters. I know this, as it took away my humanity when I was forced to kill my best friend. I lost not only him, but his sister and my lover—who can never discover the truth of her brother's death. I swore before I snapped his neck that I would find out who runs the Pits and bring them to their knees.

The father of her daughter refused to speak with her. She was constantly receiving hate notes, some crammed in her locker, some thrown at her in class. As time passed, she found it increasingly difficult to cope with the constant stress. Not only was her burgeoning alcohol addiction quickly becoming her only means of escape, but her fantasies about one of her teachers, someone she had known her entire life, were becoming intense and impossible to ignore.