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Following the success of Catching LIfe by the Throat, Josephine Hart compiles more poetry from the like of such poets as Milton, Byron, Keats, Shelley, Browning, Frost and Lowell.

Read by a dazzling cast of actors including Eileen Atkins, Nancy Carroll, Alan Cox, Charles Dance, Joanna David, Lindsay Duncan, Edward Fox, Emilia Fox, Robert Hardy, Tom Hollander, Jeremy Irons, Felicity Kendal, Elizabeth McGovern, Mark Strong, Dominic West, Greg Wise.

Here is the first novel of the famous Balkan Trilogy, previously successfully adapted for BBC television, starring Emma Thompson and Kenneth Brannagh. The book is perfectly suited to audio. Charting the experiences of a young couple caught up in the politics of war when living abroad, it is a compelling story of love, loss and reconciliation.

One late spring evening in 1912, in the kitchens at Sterne, preparations begin for an elegant supper party in honor of Emerald Torrington's twentieth birthday. But only a few miles away, a dreadful accident propels a crowd of mysterious and not altogether savory survivors to seek shelter at the ramshackle manor - and the household is thrown into confusion and mischief.

Theo is determined to seek happiness with her husband's business rival, Vincent. Having fled London for Paris, however, she soon learns of Richard's financial collapse - and discovers that rather more than just his job is at stake.

Power is fundamental in our lives—we express it in every conversation, relationship, and choice we make. All too often, we equate force and domination with power, while gentleness and compassion are considered “soft” or “weak.” The destructive nature of this skewed perspective has never been more obvious, yet there is reason to hope. With Gentle Power, Dr. Emilia Elisabet Lahti shares an illuminating guide to an emerging shift in the way we define true strength.

From New York Times bestselling author Alan Moore—one of the most influential writers in the history of comics—"a wonderful collection, brilliant and often moving" (Neil Gaiman) which takes us to the fantastical underside of reality. In his first-ever short story collection, which spans forty years of work, Alan Moore presents a series of wildly different and equally unforgettable characters who discover—and in some cases even make and unmake—the various uncharted parts of existence.

When Alice Salmon died last year, the ripples were felt in the news, on the Internet, and in the hearts of those who knew her best. But the person who knows her most intimately isn't family or a friend. Professor Jeremy Cooke is an academic whose life has become about piecing together Alice's existence in all its flawed and truthful reality. For Cooke, faithfully recreating Alice's life - through her diaries, emails and anything using her voice - is all consuming.

Josie Jenkins, aged eight and three quarters, can do a few tricks, but she astonishes herself and everyone else when she finds she can lift a table, a car and even a bus with no effort at all.

A fascinating, bite-sized insight into how human sexuality came to be the way it is now - Jared Diamond explains why we are different from the animal kingdom. Why are humans one of the few species to have sex in private? Why do humans have sex any day of the month or year, including when the female is pregnant, beyond her reproductive years, or between her fertile cycles? Why are human females one of the few mammals to go through menopause?

By day Judith Rashleigh is a put-upon assistant at a London auction house. By night she's a hostess in one of the capital's unsavoury bars. Desperate to make something of herself, Judith knows she has to play the game. She's learned to dress, speak and act in the interests of men. She's learned to be a good girl. But after uncovering a dark secret at the heart of the art world, Judith is fired and her dreams of a better life are torn apart. So she turns to a long-neglected friend. A friend that kept her chin up and back straight through every past slight. A friend that a good girl like her shouldn't have: rage.

Er ist der beste Freund ihres Bruders. Ihre größte Versuchung. Ihr Untergang. Als der beste Freund ihres Bruders in ihr Nachbarhaus zieht, ändert sich Ava Chens Leben von Grund auf. Alex Volkov sieht aus wie die Sünde und ist kalt wie Eis. Aber Ava schafft es, seine Mauern Stein um Stein einzureißen, und je besser sie den Multimillionär kennenlernt, desto weniger kann sie sich seiner Anziehungskraft entziehen. Schon bald kann auch Alex die ungewohnten Gefühle nicht länger leugnen.

Als Madison herausfindet, dass sie all die Jahre belogen wurde und niemandem vertrauen kann, will sie nichts wie weg: weg vom Elite Kings Club und weg von Bishop. Sie flieht bis ans andere Ende der Welt, und hofft, dass niemand sie finden wird. Doch so sehr sie versucht, ihre Spuren zu verwischen, Bishop hat sie längst aufgespürt. Denn der Elite Kings Club gibt nichts wieder her, was einmal ihm gehört hat.

When 18-year-old Ellen accepts the post of housekeeper at Hallendorf School of Music, Drama and Dance she wasn't expecting it to be quite so unusual. For deep in the beautiful Austrian countryside, she finds an eccentrically magical world occupied by wild children and even wilder teachers, experimental dancers, and a tortoise on wheels.

Chloe Mills weiß, was sie will. Doch auf dem Weg zum Traumjob stellt sich ihr ein Problem in den Weg: ihr Boss Bennett Ryan. Perfektionistisch, arrogant - und absolut unwiderstehlich. Ein verführerischer Mistkerl! Bennett Ryan weiß, was er will. Und dazu gehört garantiert keine Affäre mit seiner sexy Praktikantin, die ihn mit ihrem unschuldigen Lächeln in den Wahnsinn treibt. Trotzdem kann er Chloe einfach nicht widerstehen.

In the intricate dance of fate, Mina, a diligent high school senior, is abruptly torn from her ordinary life by an underground criminal organization, thrusting her into an unfamiliar and challenging world. Oliver, a man who has recently emerged from the shadows of abandonment, grapples with the harsh reality of Mina's abduction. The unexpected loss of their intense love jeopardizes Oliver's newfound hope for a better life, even as their extraordinary connection ignites amid peril and enigma.

In the fourth interview in Audible and The Telegraph's 30 Minutes With... series, Emilia Fox talks to Matthew Stadlen about being part of an acting dynasty, how she started out and how she handles being ever in the media spotlight. In this entrancing interview, Fox reflects on a decade as the star of Silent Witness and what it's like to first experience an real-life autopsy.

Vom Ex gestalkt, pleite, obdachlos und im Auto schlafen – Avas Leben ist der reinste Scherbenhaufen. Der neue Job könnte die Rettung sein. Aber der neue Boss bringt ihr Leben nur noch mehr aus der Bahn – allerdings auf ungeahnte Art und Weise... Ava ist am Tiefpunkt angekommen: Vom Ex rausgeworfen und vollkommen pleite wird sie obdachlos und muss im Auto schlafen. Um diesem Schlamassel zu entkommen braucht sie einen Job – unbedingt! Doch es hagelt Absagen – aber wie durch ein Wunder ergattert sie einen Job als Chefsekretärin bei Nate Brockton.

Emma Bovary is the beautiful, frustrated wife of a provincial doctor. Torn between fantasy and reality, Emma, mesmerising to the opposite sex, embarks upon love affairs that belie her class aspirations, but are true to her soul. Madame Bovary is a compelling portrayal of the intensity of human passion, a characteristic that is Emma's greatest attribute, yet one which ultimately leads to tragedy.

Kingston Sinclair will seinen Anteil des Erbes möglichst schnell zu Geld machen. Geld ist alles, was für ihn zählt! Dumm nur, dass das Erbe verschwunden ist. Zudem bringt ihn die engagierte Ermittlerin Sadie dauernd auf die Palme, arbeitet parallel auch für seine Mutter und weckt obendrein ein ungekanntes, fleischliches Verlangen in ihm . Er will sie... und das Juwel... und das Geld! Aber irgendwer spielt falsch: Sadie? Seine Mutter? Oder beide? Der vierte und letzte Teil der Serie um die Sinclair-Brüder

London 1792: The Kellaways move from familiar rural Dorset to the tumult of a cramped, unforgiving city. They are leaving behind a terrible loss, a blow that only a completely new life may soften. Against the backdrop of a city jittery over the increasingly bloody French Revolution, a surprising bond forms between Jem, the youngest Kellaway boy, and streetwise Londoner Maggie Butterfield. Their friendship takes a dramatic turn when they become entangled in the life of their neighbour, the printer, poet, and radical, William Blake.