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Miracle and Wonder: Conversations with Paul Simon is part memoir, part investigation, and unlike any creative portrait you’ve ever heard before. Recorded over a series of 30 hours of conversation between Simon, Gladwell, and Gladwell’s oldest friend and co-writer, journalist and Broken Record podcast co-host Bruce Headlam, the conversation flows from Simon’s music, to his childhood in Queens, NY, to his frequent collaborators including Art Garfunkel and the nature of creativity itself.

First published in 1996, The Eyes of the Skin is a classic of architectural theory. It asks the far-reaching question why, when there are five senses, is one single sense―sight―so predominant in architectural culture and design? With the ascendancy of the digital and the all-pervasive use of the image electronically, the subject is all the more pressing and topical since the first edition’s publication.

In this love letter to reading, curated by Pandora Sykes in aid of the National Literacy Trust, bestselling and beloved writers share their favourite books: the ones they hold most dearly, that they return to time and again and that helped make them the writers they are.

What happens when Paul Simon, widely considered one of the greatest songwriters in music history, and Malcolm Gladwell, the bestselling author and podcast host, sit down together, with a tape recorder and a guitar? Miracle and Wonder: Conversations with Paul Simon is part memoir, part investigation, and unlike any creative portrait you’ve ever heard before.

Peter Shaffer’s three most renowned plays, plus a radio monologue performed by Dame Judi Dench. Sir Peter Shaffer was one of the most distinguished and successful British playwrights of his generation. He won the Tony Award for both Amadeus and Equus, and the film adaptation of Amadeus garnered eight Oscars. In 1997, he was awarded an OBE, and he was knighted in the 2001 New Year honours list. This collection contains his best-known plays and a monologue specially written for radio, first broadcast in 1989.

Suits you, Sir! With a host of memorable characters and catch-phrases, The Fast Show was one of the most popular BBC TV comedy shows ever. The talents of Paul Whitehouse, Charlie Higson, Caroline Aherne, Simon Day and many more come together in this collection of selected TV episodes and special...

One of Russia's most iconic poets, Alexander Pushkin is often described as the 'father of Russian literature'. A gambler, playboy and social reformer, he was exiled by the Tsar for his controversial poetry and died aged 37 in a duel defending his wife's honour. This BBC Radio anthology includes dramatisations and readings of Pushkin's most famous works - plus biographical programmes and an original play based on his life.

Tales of blood, magic, and steel by masters of the craft!

For fans of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy and ElvenQuest, this is the epic fantasy series first heard on BBC Radio 4 in 1980 that wonderfully parodies J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings. The kingdom of Albion is under threat from The Evil One, and the wizard Radox The Green has...

Physicist and popular science author Simon Singh explores the numbers and concepts that lie at the heart of some of the trickiest problems in mathematics, revealing their history, significance and unique qualities. Beginning with zero - which, amazingly, wasn't invented until 400 BC and then took thousands of years to catch on - he goes on to serve up a slice of pi, uncover the hidden beauty of the Golden Ratio, reveal the reality behind the imaginary number and explain why some infinities are bigger than others.

This book contains the following works: 1. Edgar Allan Poe: The Pit and the Pendulum 2. William Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night's Dream 3. Frances Hodgson Burnett: The Secret Garden 4. Fyodor Dostoevsky: The Dream of a Ridiculous Man 5. Robert Louis Stevenson: Treasure Island 6. H. P. Lovecraft: At the Mountains of Madness 7. Jack London: The Call of the Wild 8. Mary W. Shelley: Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus 9. Osamu Dazai: No Longer Human (Confessions of a Faulty Man) 10. Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Scarlet Letter

Die Inseln Maotou und Hawutai feiern ein Fest der Freundschaft. Jeder der beiden Söhne der Dorfvorsteher soll zu diesem Anlass vor den Inselbewohnern etwas Besonderes vorführen. Auru hat einen traditionellen Tanz vorbereitet. Naones Sohn Keanu aber führt sein neues Flyboard vor und gewinnt mit seinem coolen Auftritt das Herz von Clarissa.

Für das Muschelfest soll eine „Große Riesenmuschel" auf dem Festplatz der Insel aufgebaut werden. Doch Auru hat es eilig, er ist unvorsichtig und lässt die Muschel fallen. Sie zerbricht. Aurus Vater ist stocksauer. Er befiehlt seinem Sohn, unverzüglich eine neue Muschel aus dem Meer zu holen. Auru ist verzweifelt, denn er kommt zu spät zu der Verabredung mit seinem Freund Inapo.

Yann und seinen Freunden fallen rote Schlieren im Tiefseegraben auf. Sie informieren Onkel Patrick über dieses ungewöhnliche Phänomen, der sich das sofort persönlich ansehen will. Ramana warnt ihn vor einer Fahrt in den Tiefseegraben, weil dort die Ponaturis, unheimliche Unterwasserwesen, zu Hause sind.

Ramana eröffnet Timeti, dass sie eine echte Mutprobe bestehen muss, wenn sie eine vollausgebildete Schamanin sein will. Sie muss dafür im Meer einen Hai auf die Schnauze küssen. Als Timetis Mutter Maeva Wind davon bekommt, ist sie außer sich vor Wut und versucht alles, um Timeti von ihrem Vorhaben abzuhalten.

Ramana erzählt Yann und seinen Freunden Timeti und Auru die Legende vom Fischmann, einem erfolgreichen Perlentaucher, der angeblich stundenlang unter Wasser bleiben konnte. Yann, Timeti und Auru wollen das Geheimnis des Tauchers lüften und den Perlenschatz finden.

If your tastes run to Victorian mysteries and murder, you’ll enjoy Peter Ackroyd’s special blending of fact and fiction in this magnificent recreation of the bizarre murders that rocked Victorian England. Drawing on surviving police records and court transcripts, Ackroyd paints a fascinating portrait of a savage murderer, the terror that rippled across London, and the innocent woman charged with the crimes.

An age of bloody civil war and dictatorship is at an end. In its turbulent aftermath, an ambitious young lawyer, Marcus Tullius Cicero, is beginning to make a name for himself. But does he have what it takes, and can this new era of peace and prosperity truly last? When he defends the accused in a prominent murder trial, Cicero's path crosses with that of Sulla, the former dictator and a war hero of the Republic. Soon, Cicero will discover that beneath Rome’s civilised and sophisticated veneer lies corruption, cruelty and vice.

Die jungen Inselbewohner auf Maotou bereiten sich auf einen Speerwurf-Wettbewerb vor. Yann möchte auch gerne mitmachen, hat das Speerwerfen aber bisher noch nie trainiert. Auru versucht, Yann die Technik des Speerwerfens beizubringen, gibt aber bald genervt auf.

This book contains the following works: Edgar Allan Poe: The Gold Bug, William Shakespeare: Romeo And Juliet, Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe: Faust, Mark Twain: Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Leo Tolstoy: The Death of Ivan Ilyich (Translator: Constance Garnett), Arthur Conan Doyle: The Lost World, Henry James: The Turn of the Screw, Antoine de Saint-Exupery: The Little Prince (Translator: Marina Zhigalova), Oscar Wilde: The Picture of Dorian Gray, Kate Chopin: The Awakening.