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ID: 758405

Title: Failed State: Why Nothing Works and How We Fix It

Author: Sam Freedman

Narrator: Sam Freedman

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8:51:57

Language: English

Release date: 07-11-24

Publisher: Pan Macmillan

Genres: History, Europe

Summary:

'Funny, whipsmart and devastating. Sanity on steroids for our unhinged times' – Emily Maitlis

'Fantastic. Excellent. Exquisite' – The Secret Barrister

Why does nothing work in Britain?

It’s harder than ever to get a GP appointment. Burglaries go unpunished. Rivers are overrun with sewage. Real wages have been stagnant for years, even as the cost of housing rises inexorably. Why is everything going wrong at the same time?

It's easy to point the finger at dysfunctional or even corrupt politicians. But in reality it’s more complicated. Politicians can make things better or worse, but all work within our state institutions. And ours are broken.

In Failed State, Sam Freedman, one of Britain's leading policy experts, offers a devastating analysis of where we’ve gone wrong. Speaking to politicians of all stripes, civil servants and workers on the frontline, this book bursts with insight on the real problems that are so often hidden from the front pages. The result is a witty, landmark book that paves the way for a fairer and more prosperous Britain.

'Concise, wise and clear, we can only hope that every member of the new government will read and digest this book' – David Aaronovitch

'Brilliantly timed and frighteningly true. We should listen to what Freedman has to say' – Anthony Seldon

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ID: 706022

Title: Anyone's Ghost

Author: August Thompson

Narrator: Lee Osorio

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:19:36

Language: English

Release date: 07-11-24

Publisher: Pan Macmillan

Genres: Erotica, LGBTQ

Summary:

'An overwhelmingly beautiful love story. This book will make you cry Jonathan Safran Foer, author of Everything Is Illuminated

The lonely life of fifteen-year-old Theron David Alden is transformed when he meets Jake. Older, cooler, more confident and startlingly beautiful, Jake likes the same bands, the same drugs, and has the same drive to oblivion.

Over the course of two decades, Theron and Jake get high, drift apart, and are brought hurtling back together, until a final collision tears them apart forever.

Theron wants Jake, and he wants to be Jake. But is Jake brave enough to want him back?

A gorgeous modern love story about the lives that change us, and the loves that haunt us, Anyones Ghost will break your heart.

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ID: 791623

Title: Chamber Divers

Author: Rachel Lance

Narrator: Andy Cresswell

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12:37:52

Language: English

Release date: 07-11-24

Publisher: W.F. Howes

Genres: Biography & Memoir, History & Culture

Summary:

The untold story of the D-Day scientists who changed special operations forever.

On the beaches of Normandy, two summers before D-Day, the Allies attempted an all but forgotten landing. Of the nearly seven thousand Allied troops sent ashore, only a few hundred survived the terrible massacre, and the reason for the debacle was a lack of reconnaissance. The shore turned out to be impassable to tanks. The Nazis had hidden obstacles in unexpected places. The fortifications were more numerous and deadly than imagined. The Allies knew they needed to take the fight to Hitler on the European mainland to end the war, but they could not afford to be unprepared again. A small group of eccentric researchers, experimenting on themselves from inside pressure tanks in the middle of the London air raids, explored the deadly science needed to enable the critical reconnaissance vessels and underwater breathing apparatuses that would enable the Allies' dramatic, history-making success during the next major beach landing: D-Day.

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ID: 783929

Title: One Day

Author: David Nicholls

Narrator: Annabel Scholey

Format: Unabridged

Length: 14:18:27

Language: English

Release date: 07-11-24

Publisher: W.F. Howes

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Literary Fiction

Summary:

A brand-new recording narrated by Annabel Scholey, star of Being Human and Walking on Sunshine.

TWENTY YEARS, TWO PEOPLE, ONE DAY

15th July 1988. Emma and Dexter meet for the first time on the night of their graduation. Tomorrow they must go their separate ways.

So where will they be on this one day next year? And the year after that?

And every year that follows?

'A wonderful, wonderful book'

THE TIMES

'Perfect'

NEW YORK TIMES

'A modern classic'

DAILY MIRROR

'You'd be hard pressed to find a sharper, sweeter romantic comedy'

INDEPENDENT

'Big, absorbing, smart, fantastically readable'

NICK HORNBY

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ID: 709243

Title: Spellshop

Author: Sarah Beth Durst

Narrator: Caitlin Davies

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12:10:34

Language: English

Release date: 07-11-24

Publisher: Pan Macmillan

Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Romance, Romantasy

Summary:

Perfect for fans of Travis Baldree and TJ Klune, The Spellshop by Sarah Beth Durst is a cosy fantasy tale full of stolen spellbooks, unexpected friendships, sweet jams and even sweeter romance.

'Reading this book was like sitting in the sun . . . a warm, peaceful delight of a novel' – Katherine Arden, author of The Bear and the Nightingale

Every home needs a little magic . . .

Kiela has always had trouble dealing with people, and as librarian at the Great Library of Alyssium, she hasn’t had to.

She and her assistant, Caz, a sentient spider plant, have spent most of the last eleven years sequestered among the empire’s precious spellbooks, protecting the magic for the city’s elite. But a revolution is brewing and when the library goes up in flames, Kiela and Caz steal whatever books they can and flee to the faraway island where she grew up. But to her dismay, in addition to a nosy – and very handsome – neighbour, she finds the town in disarray.

The empire has slowly been draining power from the island, and now Kiela is determined to make things right. But opening up her own spellshop comes with its own risks – the consequence of sharing magic with commoners is death. And as Kiela starts to make a place for herself among the townspeople, she realizes she must break down the walls she has kept so high . . .

From award-winning author Sarah Beth Durst, The Spellshop is a cottagecore cosy fantasy following a woman's unexpected journey through the low-stakes market of illegal spell-selling and the high-risk business of starting over.

'Sarah Beth Durst is the hidden gem of the fantasy world' – Book Riot

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ID: 784357

Title: Growing Pains of Adrian Mole

Author: Sue Townsend

Narrator: Isaac Rouse

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5:08:40

Language: English

Release date: 07-11-24

Publisher: W.F. Howes

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Humor

Summary:

'If I turn out to be mentally deranged in adult life, it will be all my mother's fault.'

Adrian Mole continues to struggle valiantly against the slings and arrows of growing up and his own family's attempts to scar him for life in this second volume of his secret diary.

'I not only wept, I howled and hooted and had to get up and walk around the room and wipe my eyes so that I could go on reading' TOM SHARPE

'A satire of our times. Very funny indeed' SUNDAY TIMES

'We laugh both at Mole and with him. A wonderful comic read, that, like all the best comedy, says something rather meaningful' HEAT

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ID: 784354

Title: Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 3/4

Author: Sue Townsend

Narrator: Isaac Rouse

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4:43:59

Language: English

Release date: 07-11-24

Publisher: W.F. Howes

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Humor

Summary:

Friday January 2nd

I felt rotten today. It's my mother's fault for singing 'My Way' at two o'clock in the morning at the top of the stairs. Just my luck to have a mother like her. There is a chance my parents could be alcoholics. Next year I could be in a children's home.

Meet Adrian Mole, a hapless teenager providing an unabashed, pimples-and-all glimpse into adolescent life. Writing candidly about his parents' marital troubles, the dog, his life as a tortured poet and 'misunderstood intellectual', Adrian's painfully honest diary is still hilarious and compelling reading thirty years after it first appeared.

'A satire of our times. Very funny indeed' SUNDAY TIMES

'My comfort read. The best diaries ever written - with apologies to Samuel Pepys, Bridget Jones and me' ADAM KAY

FEATURED IN 'THE 100 BOOKS THAT SHAPED OUR WORLD' BBC ARTS

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ID: 796837

Title: Ice-Cream Boy

Author: Lindsay Littleson

Narrator: Angus King

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5:29:21

Language: English

Release date: 07-11-24

Publisher: W.F. Howes

Genres: Kids, Health & Family

Summary:

Twelve-year-old Luca Verani has big plans for his future. But when his aunt announces she's selling the family's ice cream café and his nonna's mind starts to wander, Luca's dreams melt away Will his family ever be the same again? Heart-warming and gently funny, this hopeful new novel from the Carnegie-nominated author of Guardians of the Wild Unicorns presents a child's perspective on dementia in the family.

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ID: 706033

Title: Sharp Glass

Author: Sarah Hilary

Narrator: Imogen Church

Format: Unabridged

Length: 13:59:37

Language: English

Release date: 07-11-24

Publisher: Pan Macmillan

Genres: Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Suspense

Summary:

Sarah Hilary, Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year winner and author of Black Thorn, returns with Sharp Glass. Trapped and alone in a remote house in the country, one woman must find a way to defeat a captor who has no intention of letting her go.

'A master of her craft. In every book she makes the words sing' – Ann Cleeves

The last thing she remembers is standing outside the empty house. One she was employed to pack, ready for removal. Her job is her life. It is her compulsion to take care of an owner’s precious possessions, to do whatever it takes to help them move on. Now she is cold, dirty, damp, trapped in its cellar with no chance of escape, miles from anywhere. His prisoner.

And then he returns.

Her captor believes she holds the answers to why a young girl was murdered a year ago. He refuses to let her go until she reveals her secrets. But he doesn’t know she has hidden depths, and an anger she works hard to control.

The battle lines are drawn. They are the only two people who can solve the mystery of the dead girl. But when the truth is revealed, whose life will shatter?

Praise for Sarah Hilary and Black Thorn:

'An astonishingly gifted writer' – Marian Keyes, author of Again, Rachel

'Nail-biting, heart-wrenching stuff . . . has the atmopshere and drama of a modern-day du Maurier novel' – Erin Kelly, author of The Skeleton Key

'A mesmerizing story of family and community, secrets and lies. Psychologically rich and captivatingly told' – Megan Abbott, author of You Will Know Me

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ID: 730171

Title: Sky on Fire

Author: Jenn Lyons

Narrator: Lauren Fortgang

Format: Unabridged

Length: 17:51:02

Language: English

Release date: 07-11-24

Publisher: Pan Macmillan

Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Epic Fantasy

Summary:

Enter a world ruled by dragons . . .

'Spectacular and sexy fantasy' – Freya Marske, author of A Marvellous Light

The Sky on Fire is a daring new fantasy heist adventure from Jenn Lyons that will thrill fans of Temeraire, Fourth Wing and Dragonriders of Pern.

Anahrod lives only for survival, forging her own way through the harsh jungles of the Deep with her titan drake by her side. Even when an adventuring party saves her from capture by a local warlord, she is eager to return to her solitary life.

But this is no ordinary rescue. It’s Anahrod’s past catching up with her. These cunning misfits – and their frustratingly appealing dragonrider ringleader – intend to spirit her away to the dragon-ruled sky cities, where they need her help to steal from a dragon’s hoard.

There’s just one problem: the hoard in question belongs to the current regent, Neveranimas – and she wants Anahrod dead.

From the acclaimed author of the Chorus of Dragons series, this soaring stand-alone fantasy combines conniving dragons, lightning banter, high-stakes intrigue and a little bit of heat.

Praise for Jenn Lyons

'An extraordinary book' – Lev Grossman, author of The Bright Sword

'A fantastic page-turner' – John Gwynne, author of The Shadow of Gods

'Lyons proves she is worthy of comparison to other masters of epic fantasy' – Booklist

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