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Set during World War Two, Hut 33 follows the adventures of a team of codebreakers at Bletchley Park as they work tirelessly to break German codes, matching wits with the fabled Enigma Machine. Unfortunately, they hate each other. Archie is a stroppy Geordie socialist revolutionary while Professor Charles Gardner is a toffee-nosed snob. In theory, the immensely stupid 3rd Lt. Joshua Featherstonhaugh-Marshall is in charge of the hut, but he is still struggling with even the most basic concepts....

A collection of four ghostly tales inspired by M. R. James: Casting the Runes, Lost Hearts, The Treasure of Abbott-Thomas and A View from the Hill.

Bug has hit her 30s with a bump. An almost wedding, an almost ex-husband, and a bookshop that’s almost turning a profit. With the help of her best friend – free spirit, activist and all-round legend Winnie, she’s going to make it all come good. Probably. Definitely. Maybe. At least she’s got her friends around her.

*INSTANT BESTSELLER* Go inside the high-stakes world of sports ownership as New York Times bestselling author and owner of the Baltimore Orioles David M. Rubenstein reveals the financial strategies, leadership secrets, and billion-dollar deal-making behind championship franchises through...

Brought to you by Penguin. Revisit the world of Beatrix Potter in this timeless new audiobook edition. Featuring all 23 of the classic tales, this new collection features a range of award-winning and contemporary voices, including Olivia Colman, Tom Hardy, Lily James, James Acaster, David...

Do you know that you can program your brain and mind for greater success? The answer is alpha brainwave level. Telepathic powers exist in all of us, they are part of the natural way we communicate with each other. Our brain beats at 14 cycles per second; the beta frequency. Very occasionally it beats between 7 and 14 cycles per second. This frequency is known as alpha frequency. Alpha is the key to becoming telepathic.

Most performance and mindset books focus on doing more: working harder, optimizing habits, or pushing through resistance. From Fear to Flow takes a different approach. The answer isn’t adding more or trying harder; it’s removing what’s in the way. For many high achievers, the real driver of their striving is a fearful and persistent voice shaped over time: the ego. Not arrogance or bravado, but a protective voice built to shield us from pain and failure.

Novelist, poet and critic Kingsley Amis was one of Britain’s greatest postwar writers. A master of comic fiction, he came to fame in 1954, and won the 1986 Booker Prize for The Old Devils. Included in this collection are dramatisations of seven of his short stories and two novels, all imbued with his characteristic wit and social satire. These are complemented by readings of selected correspondence and an interview with Amis himself.

Keggie Carew grew up in the gravitational field of an unorthodox father who lived on his wits and dazzling charm. As his memory begins to fail, she embarks on a quest to unravel his story, and soon finds herself in a far more consuming place than she had bargained for. Tom Carew was a maverick...

Seven radio dramas from one of the defining playwrights of his generation, starring Martin Freeman, Ruth Wilson, Robert Glenister, Frances Barber and David Schofield Acclaimed by The Observer as ‘a poet of the east end overspill’, David Eldridge ranks among Britain’s most exciting...

Die Spannungen im Nahen Osten eskalieren. Der Iran hat Vergeltung für einen israelischen Angriff angekündigt, und die Welt fürchtet einen offenen Krieg. Berlin verlangt dringend Informationen über den bevorstehenden Schlag – doch der BND tappt im Dunkeln. Anna wird nach Teheran geschickt, um eine alte Quelle zu reaktivieren: Amin Zarei, ein Informant bei den Revolutionswächtern.

Thornton Wilder is one of America's most important literary figures. He won the Pulitzer Prize three times - for his novel The Bridge of San Luis Rey and the plays Our Town and The Skin of Our Teeth - and is the only person to be awarded the Pulitzer for both fiction and drama. Included here are four of his key works, set in different times and places, but sharing the same fundamental motifs - the universality of human experience and our search for life's meaning.

Bei Ölbohrungen vor den Orkneyinseln, unter der Leitung von Professor Kenworth, wird das Wrack eines Schiffes entdeckt. Wie sich herausstellt, handelt es sich um das versunkene Schiff des Piraten Ahab Mortensen, der auch als der SCHWARZE AHAB berüchtigt war. Durch die Bergung befreit, terrorisiert der untote Ahab und seine Seeräuberhorde erneut die englische Küste. Der Pirat beginnt damit, sich eine neue Mannschaft zusammenzustellen, und zwingt jede Nacht drei Menschen an Bord seines Schiffes, wo er sie tötet und als Untote weiterexistieren lässt.

Rewire your brain and master your emotions with this helpful bundle! You'll learn why you overthink, procrastinate, and have anxiety, and most importantly, how to fix it.

It's a curious homecoming for Vince, the son nobody seems to remember. Violence is never far from the surface as his unexpected return uncovers a deep, dark secret that triggers catastrophe in Sam Shepard's Pulitzer Prize-winning Buried Child. An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring Hale Appleman as Vince; Tom Bower as Dodge; John Getz as Father Dewis; Amy Madigan as Halie; Robert Parsons as Tilden; Jeff Perry as Bradley; and Madeline Zima as Shelly. Directed by Peter Levin.

Als man beim BND herausfindet, dass die SVIA Milliarden Dollar mit dem Verkauf von Verjüngungsmitteln verdient, schickt Heinrich Gehlen Anna Gudwin und Tom Hellbrandt in die Welt der Reichen, Schönen und der großen Politik. Sie finden heraus, dass es Stephen Thaus nur zweitrangig ums Geld geht. Denn die Menschen aus der High Society werden durch die Einnahmen der Präparate zwar jünger, gleichzeitig aber zu seinen willfährigen Werkzeugen.

Ein globaler Internetcrash stürzt die Welt ins Chaos, Tsunami-Wellen zerstören ganze Küsten, und die Super-Mächte der Welt beschuldigen sich gegenseitig. Anna Gudwin ist sich sicher, dass Stephen Thaus hinter all dem steckt. Sie und ihr Team kämpfen gegen die Zeit, um seine neue Weltordnung in letzter Sekunde zu verhindern.

Sometimes cozy and familiar as Grandma's homemade scarf, sometimes cold as a frozen forest after a snowstorm, this collection of classic winter tales and poems is as varied as the season it celebrates. Featuring the masterful storytelling of Nathaniel Hawthorne, Louisa May Alcott, Hans Christian Andersen, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Charles Dickens and a host of others, this audiobook will keep the listener enthralled deep into the long winter night.

22 BBC radio programmes celebrating the great outdoors, introduced by Harriet Noble Spending time in nature is good for both our bodies and minds - but with our hectic lives (not to mention the unreliable British weather), it can be hard to get outside as much as we'd like. But fear not: we've...

Three King Heirs battle to protect their dynasty, but will love send them straight to the penalty box?