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ID: 699773

Title: Germania: A Personal History of Germans Ancient and Modern

Author: Simon Winder

Narrator: Peter Noble

Format: Unabridged

Length: 19:06:20

Language: English

Release date: 04-11-24

Publisher: Pan Macmillan

Genres: History, Europe, Travel, General Comedy

Summary:

The Sunday Times Bestseller and insipration behind David Mitchell's Unruly.

'Entertaining and informative . . . Delightful' – Independent

There are many reasons to be fascinated by Germany: forests, architecture and fairy tales, not to mention its history and inhabitants’ penchant for very peculiar food. Our distant and often maligned cousin, this is a place in which innumerable strange characters have held power, in which a chaotic jigsaw of borders have moved about seemingly at random, and which at the dark heart of the 20th century fell into the hands of truly terrible forces. And now Simon Winder is here to tell us everything else there is to know about this mesmerizing, tortured and endlessly fascinating country.

Germania is also a personal guide to the Germany that Simon Winder loves. In this startlingly vibrant account, Winder describes Germany’s past afresh, starting with the shaggy world of the ancient forests, all the way up to the present day – and in doing so, he sees and begins to understand a country much like our own: Protestant, aggressive and committed to betterment.

Joining Danubia and Lotharingia in Winder’s endlessly fascinating retelling of European history, Germania is a brilliant, vivid and enthusiastic insight to the hidden wonders of Germany

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ID: 699772

Title: Man Who Saved Britain

Author: Simon Winder

Narrator: Peter Noble

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11:04:45

Language: English

Release date: 04-11-24

Publisher: Pan Macmillan

Genres: History, Europe, General Comedy

Summary:

Award-winning author Simon Winder takes us through the legacy of one of Britain's most influential and enduring cultural figures, James Bond.

'An entertaining romp through the literary and cinematic heartland of James Bond country' – Sunday Times

'A hilarious blend of cultural history, biography and memoir' – Guardian

After victory in World War II, Britain was a relieved but also a profoundly traumatized country. Simon Winder, born into this nation of uncertain identity, fell in love (as many before and since) with the man created as the antidote, a quintessentially British figure of great cultural significance: James Bond.

Written with passion, wit and a great deal of personal insight and affection, this book is his wildly amusing attempt to get to grips with Bond’s legacy and the difficult decades in which it really mattered.

'Read-aloud funny' – Independent on Sunday

'Superb' – Wall Street Journal

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ID: 699774

Title: Lotharingia: A Personal History of France, Germany and the Countries In Between

Author: Simon Winder

Narrator: Peter Noble

Format: Unabridged

Length: 20:34:52

Language: English

Release date: 04-11-24

Publisher: Pan Macmillan

Genres: History, World, Europe

Summary:

A Sunday Times History Book of the Year

Shortlisted for The Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year Award

'No Briton has written better than Winder about Europe' - Sunday Times

In AD 843, the three surviving grandsons of the great Emperor Charlemagne met at Verdun. After years of bitter squabbles over who would inherit the family land, they finally decided to divide the territory and go their separate ways. In a moment of staggering significance, one grandson inherited what became France, another Germany and the third Lotharingia: the chunk that initially divided the other two. The dynamic between these three great zones has dictated much of our subsequent fate.

In this beguiling, hilarious and compelling book Simon Winder retraces how both from west and from east any number of ambitious characters have tried and failed to grapple with these Lotharingians, who ultimately became Dutch, German, Belgian, French, Luxembourgers and Swiss. Over many centuries, not only has Lotharingia brought forth many of Europe's greatest artists, inventors and thinkers, but it has also reduced many a would-be conqueror to helpless tears of rage and frustration.

Joining Germania and Danubia in Simon Winder's endlessly fascinating retelling of European history, Lotharingia is a personal, wonderful and gripping story.

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ID: 757810

Title: Scandalous Life of Ruby M Devereaux

Author: Mandy Robotham

Narrator: Joan Walker

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:02:04

Language: English

Release date: 04-11-24

Publisher: W.F. Howes

Genres: Fiction & Literature, General

Summary:

A fun and gripping faux-memoir book club listen from an internationally bestselling author of historical fiction, perfect for fans of The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo.

Everyone knows Ruby Devereaux's books. But no one knows her story. until now.

From a teenager in wartime England to a veteran of modern-day London - via 1950's New York, the Swinging Sixties, Cold War Berlin, Venice and Vietnam - Ruby Devereaux has lived one hell of a life: parties, scandals and conflict zones, meeting men and adventure along the way. In a writing career spanning seven decades and more than twenty books, she's distilled everything into her work. Or has she?

Now beyond her 90th year, Ruby's energy is ebbing and her beloved typewriter put away. Until a call from her publisher presents Ruby with an ultimatum, and the impetus to embark on one last book - 'warts and all', as she says. Even in her dotage, Ruby.M Devereux has the power to surprise, because whatever this author does, she does on her own terms. Always.

Is Ruby finally about to reveal the secrets of her infamous life?

Taking the listener on a rollercoaster ride through the latter half of the 20th Century, The Scandalous Life of Ruby Devereaux is a mesmerising story of one unforgettable woman's place in an ever-changing world.

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ID: 710818

Title: Sylvanian Families: Freya's Birthday Surprise: An Official Sylvanian Families Story

Author: Macmillan Children's Books

Narrator: Genevieve Gaunt

Format: Unabridged

Length: 0:17:12

Language: English

Release date: 04-11-24

Publisher: Pan Macmillan

Genres: Kids, General, Animals & Nature, Fairy Tales & Folklore

Summary:

Come and celebrate Freya the Chocolate Rabbit's birthday with all her friends in the Sylvanian Village in this sweet audiobook, based on the animation Freya's Happy Diary, now showing on YouTube!

It's Freya's birthday and she's having a party, but her best friends, Ralph Walnut and Lyra Persian, are nowhere to be found! As Freya searches, she meets lots of friends and neighbours who give her presents of shiny, bright balloons. So many balloons, in fact, that she's lifted right into the air!

As she soars over the Sylvanian Village, she starts to wonder how she will ever get down . . . and whether her two best friends will turn up in time to help.

This adorable audiobook brings the classic and beloved toy range to life as never before.

Also available: The World of Sylvanian Families: The Official Guide, Easter Search-and-Find and more!

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ID: 754939

Title: Not Dead Enough

Author: Peter James

Narrator: Daniel Weyman

Format: Unabridged

Length: 15:55:00

Language: English

Release date: 04-11-24

Publisher: Pan Macmillan

Genres: Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Police Stories

Summary:

Detective Superintendent Roy Grace thinks he’s found a serial killer, but not everything is as it seems in Not Dead Enough, by award-winning crime author Peter James, read by Daniel Weyman.

A beautiful socialite is dead. Roy Grace’s leading suspect, her husband, was sixty miles away when she died, but all other evidence points to him. Has someone stolen his identity or is he simply a very clever liar?

Grace’s investigation, and his budding new relationship, are derailed after a reported sighting of his wife, Sandy, who has been missing for nine years. Grace desperately tries to cast light on the truth in both cases as his emotional turmoil – and the body count – grows . . .

Although the Roy Grace novels can be read in any order, Not Dead Enough is the third thrilling title in the bestselling series. Enjoy more of the Brighton detective’s investigations in Dead Man’s Footsteps and Dead Tomorrow.

Now a major ITV series, Grace, starring John Simm.

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ID: 699775

Title: Danubia: A Personal History of Habsburg Europe

Author: Simon Winder

Narrator: Peter Noble

Format: Unabridged

Length: 22:06:54

Language: English

Release date: 04-11-24

Publisher: Pan Macmillan

Genres: History, Europe

Summary:

Longlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction

'Funny, erudite, frequently irritating . . . and never boring' – Sarah Bakewell, Financial Times

'An excellent, rich and amusing read' – The Times, Book of the Week

For centuries much of Europe was in the hands of the very peculiar Habsburg family. An unstable mixture of wizards, obsessives, melancholics, bores, musicians and warriors, they saw off – through luck, guile and sheer mulishness – any number of rivals, until finally packing up in 1918. From their principal lairs along the Danube they ruled most of Central Europe and Germany and interfered everywhere – indeed the history of Europe hardly makes sense without them.

Danubia plunges the reader into a maelstrom of alchemy, skeletons, jewels, bear-moats, unfortunate marriages and a guinea-pig village. Full of music, piracy, religion and fighting, it is the history of a dynasty, but it is at least as much about the people they ruled, who spoke many different languages, lived in a vast range of landscapes, believed in many rival gods and often showed a marked ingratitude towards their oddball ruler in Vienna.

Joining Germania and Lotharingia in Simon Winder's endlessly fascinating retelling of European history, Danubia is a hilarious, eccentric and witty saga.

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ID: 698784

Title: Dead Weight: On hunger, harm and disordered eating

Author: Emmeline Clein

Narrator: Karissa Vacker

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11:31:47

Language: English

Release date: 04-04-24

Publisher: Pan Macmillan

Genres: Biography & Memoir, Non-Fiction, Psychology, History & Culture

Summary:

'Electric with insight' - Leslie Jamison, author of The Recovering

Emmeline Clein's own history of disordered eating began when she was just twelve. In Dead Weight, alongside her own experience and through the stories of other women – famous figures from across time and popular culture, and girls she's known and loved – she traces the medical and cultural history of anorexia, bulimia, orthorexia and binge eating disorder.

In writing that’s electric, fierce and endlessly curious, Clein investigates the economic conditions underpinning our eating disorder epidemic, grapples with the myriad ways disordered eating has affected her own friendships and romantic relationships, and illuminates how today's feminism has been complicit in disordered eating culture. Through it all, she challenges the accepted narratives women absorb every day about themselves, unearthing the pernicious messages that connect female worth to inhabiting an ever-smaller form.

Aiming to galvanize listeners against disordered eating, Clein imagines a world where we allow ourselves to listen to our appetites and fight back against these diseases of self-destruction. In an age of appetite suppression, when self-shrinking is fetishized as a core tenet of the feminine experience, it is far past time for a book like Dead Weight.

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ID: 716944

Title: She's Not Sorry

Author: Mary Kubica

Narrator: Andi Arndt

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:32:00

Language: English

Release date: 04-03-24

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Suspense

Summary:

An ICU nurse accidentally uncovers a patients frightening past in this riveting thriller.

Meghan Michaels is trying to find balance between being a single mum to a teenage daughter and working as a full-time nurse. While Meghan is on duty at the hospital one day, a patient named Caitlin arrives in a coma with a traumatic brain injury, after jumping from a bridge and plunging over twenty feet to the train tracks below. But when a witness comes forward with shocking details about the fall, it calls everything they know into question. Was Caitlin pushed, and if so, by whom? And why?

Meghan has always tried to stay emotionally detached from her patients, but this time, she mistakenly lets herself get too close until shes deeply entangled in Caitlins life. Only when its too late does she realise that she and her daughter could be the next victims...

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ID: 734565

Title: Navy Grooms/Navy Brat/Navy Woman

Author: Debbie Macomber

Narrator: Kristin Kalbli

Format: Unabridged

Length: 13:07:06

Language: English

Release date: 04-01-24

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Romance, Fiction & Literature, Contemporary Women, Military

Summary:

Loving a man in uniform

Navy Brat

Erin MacNamera has one rule: never fall for a navy man. But from the pulse-stopping moment her eyes meet Lieutenant Brandon Davis's across a crowded lounge, Erin knows life will never be the same. Sexy, tender and strong, Brandon is all she's ever dreamed of in a man, but he's also navy-and as a navy brat from way back, she knows better than to give her heart to a seafaring man.

Navy Woman

Busy attorney Catherine Fredrickson loves her job at a submarine base, but her new boss, Royce Nyland, has her spirits sinking fast. The icy single dad is distant, demanding...and incredibly attractive. And while he initially keeps her at arm's length, together they brew a stormy passion that is impossible to deny. Though the laws of the sea deem naval fraternizing strictly taboo, how long can they resist romance?

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