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  • A Private Place by Amanda Craig, read by Helen McAlpine (Audiobook extract)
    Savagely funny, compelling and a cult classic, A Private Place has struck a chord with generations. It's now available with a new afterword by the author.
    Knotshead is a school catering for the children of the rich, famous, liberal - and deluded. With its progressive curriculum, complacent staff and beautiful grounds, it looks like Paradise. But the clever, the odd and the bookish are relentlessly persecuted as pupils make their own rules in a bubble of privilege and prejudice. When Alice, the Headmaster's intellectual step-daughter, and the much-expelled American millionaire Winthrop T Sheen join forces against the school bully, Grub Viner, a gifted pianist and school "joker", has to choose between love and loyalty, and black comedy escalates to murder.
    5 min
  • How to Tell Anxiety to Sod Off by James Withey, read by Joe Jameson (Audiobook extract)
    An accessible, comforting and practical book for anyone experiencing anxiety, from the author of The Recovery Letters and How to Tell Depression to Piss Off.
    Despite more and more people opening up about their mental health, anxiety is still taboo. We're not supposed to be anxious; we're supposed to be resilient and able to 'get on with it'. We are expected to excel while juggling a hectic, pressurised schedule at home and at work, despite the lines between the two being more blurred than ever.
    This book dispels that taboo. It is for anyone who has experienced general anxiety disorder, trauma-related anxiety, clinical anxiety and those with 'low-level' anxieties.
    At once empathetic and entertaining, How to Tell Anxiety to Sod Off offers 40 ways to get to a better place with anxiety. They are born out of the author's personal experience of managing his own anxiety and his many years of working as a counselor helping people with their mental health.
    5 min
  • One Night, New York by Lara Thompson, read by Stephanie Cannon (Audiobook extract)
    A delicious detective story set in 1930s New York, and the winner of the inaugural Virago/The Pool New Crime Writer Award.
    'ONE NIGHT, NEW YORK transports the reader to the glitter and the danger of old New York. A page-turner with style.' ERIN KELLY
    'ENTHRALLING' THE TIMES, BEST NEW HISTORICAL FICTION
    A THRILLING DEBUT NOVEL OF CORRUPTION AND MURDER, SET IN THE NIGHTCLUBS, TENEMENTS AND SKYSCRAPERS OF 1930s NEW YORK - FROM THE WINNER OF THE VIRAGO/THE POOL NEW CRIME WRITER AWARD.
    At the top of the Empire State Building on a freezing December night, two women hold their breath. Frances and Agnes are waiting for the man who has wronged them. They plan to seek the ultimate revenge.
    Set over the course of a single night, One Night, New York is a detective story, a romance and a coming-of-age tale. It is also a story of old New York, of bohemian Greenwich Village between the wars, of floozies and artists and addicts, of a city that sucked in creatives and immigrants alike, lighting up the world, while all around America burned amid the heat of the Great Depression.
    'An atmospheric portrait of a city in the grip of the Great Depression as well as a compelling crime story' GUARDIAN
    'Thompson's impressive debut delivers a beautifully detailed and multifaceted account of Jazz Age New York' IRISH TIMES
    'An assured debut so evocative you can almost smell the bathtub gin wafting off the pages' RED MAGAZINE
    5 min
  • Olga Dies Dreaming by Xochitl Gonzalez, readers in description (Audiobook extract)
    Read by Almarie Guerra, Inés del Castillo and Armando Riesco.
    A blazing new talent debuts with the story of a status-driven wedding planner grappling with her absent mother, her glittering career among New York's elite and her Puerto Rican roots in the wake of Hurricane Maria.
    It's 2017, and Olga and her brother, Pedro 'Prieto' Acevedo, are bold-faced names in their hometown of New York. Prieto is a popular congressman representing their gentrifying, Latinx neighborhood in Brooklyn, while Olga is the tony wedding planner for Manhattan's power brokers.
    Despite their alluring public lives, behind closed doors things are far less rosy. Sure, Olga can orchestrate the love stories of the one percent, but she can't seem to find her own . . . until she meets Matteo, who forces her to confront the effects of long-held family secrets.
    Twenty-seven years ago, their mother, Blanca, a Young Lord-turned-radical, abandoned her children to advance a militant political cause, leaving them to be raised by their grandmother. Now, with the winds of hurricane season, Blanca has come barreling back into their lives.
    Set against the backdrop of New York City in the months surrounding the most devastating hurricane in Puerto Rico's history, Olga Dies Dreaming is a story that examines political corruption, familial strife and the very notion of the American dream - all while asking what it really means to weather a storm.
    5 min
  • Full Out, written and read by Monica Aldama (Audiobook extract)
    From the breakout star of Netflix's Cheer, a motivational and inspiring guide to becoming a champion in all areas of life.
    In Full Out, Coach Monica Aldama shares how she built one of the most successful and beloved cheerleading programs in America. Her uncompromising brand of discipline and consistency goes far beyond the mat - showing how the principles of building a winning team apply to personal goals, the corporate world, parenting and all aspects of life.
    There's a lot of talk these days about short cuts and life hacks, but what really counts is commitment and integrity, helping your friends, and improving with your teammates. Coach Monica shares deeply personal stories of triumph and tragedy from divorce and remarriage to her husband, her challenges as a young mother working more than full time, and her strenuous weeks on Dancing with the Stars. She shares surprising behind-the-scenes moments from the Cheer docuseries, and insights gleaned from more than two decades of pushing students to succeed. A true force and inspiration who has captured hearts around the world, Coach Monica will show you how to take command of your talent, make the most of your potential, and find your drive to win.
    5 min
  • Gods of Risk by James S. A. Corey, read by Jefferson Mays (Audiobook extract)
    Gods of Risk is a novella that expands the world of James S. A. Corey's New York Times bestselling Expanse series - now a Prime Original TV series.
    As tension between Mars and Earth mounts, and terrorism plagues the Martian city of Londres Nova, sixteen-year-old David Draper is fighting his own lonely war. A gifted chemist vying for a place at the university, David leads a secret life as a manufacturer for a ruthless drug dealer. When his friend Leelee goes missing, leaving signs of the dealer's involvement, David takes it upon himself to save her. But first he must shake his aunt Bobbie Draper, an ex-marine who has been set adrift in her own life after a mysterious series of events nobody is talking about.
    The Expanse series:
    Leviathan Wakes
    Caliban's War
    Abaddon's Gate
    Cibola Burn
    Nemesis Games
    Babylon's Ashes
    Persepolis Rising
    Tiamat's Wrath
    Praise for the Expanse:
    'The science fictional equivalent of A Song of Ice and Fire' NPR Books
    'As close as you'll get to a Hollywood blockbuster in book form' io9.com
    'Great characters, excellent dialogue, memorable fights' wired.com
    'High adventure equalling the best space opera has to offer, cutting-edge technology and a group of unforgettable characters . . . Perhaps one of the best tales the genre has yet to produce' Library Journal
    'This is the future the way it's supposed to be' Wall Street Journal
    'Tense and thrilling' SciFiNow
    5 min
  • The Butcher of Anderson Station by James S. A. Corey, read by Jefferson Mays (Audiobook extract)
    The Butcher of Anderson Station is a short story that expands the world of James S. A. Corey's New York Times bestselling Expanse series - now a Prime Original TV series.
    One day, Colonel Fred Johnson will be hailed as a hero to the system. One day, he will meet a desperate man in possession of a stolen spaceship and a deadly secret and extend a hand of friendship. But long before he became the leader of the Outer Planets Alliance, Fred Johnson had a very different name. The Butcher of Anderson Station.
    This is his story.
    The Expanse series:
    Leviathan Wakes
    Caliban's War
    Abaddon's Gate
    Cibola Burn
    Nemesis Games
    Babylon's Ashes
    Persepolis Rising
    Tiamat's Wrath
    Praise for the Expanse:
    'The science fictional equivalent of A Song of Ice and Fire' NPR Books
    'As close as you'll get to a Hollywood blockbuster in book form' io9.com
    'Great characters, excellent dialogue, memorable fights' wired.com
    'High adventure equalling the best space opera has to offer, cutting-edge technology and a group of unforgettable characters . . . Perhaps one of the best tales the genre has yet to produce' Library Journal
    'This is the future the way it's supposed to be' Wall Street Journal
    'Tense and thrilling' SciFiNow
    4 min
  • The Churn by James S. A. Corey, read by Jefferson Mays (Audiobook extract)
    The Churn is a novella that expands the world of James S. A. Corey's New York Times bestselling Expanse series - now a Prime Original TV series.
    Before his trip to the stars, before the Rocinante, Amos Burton was confined to a Baltimore where crime paid you or killed you. Unless the authorities got to you first.
    The Expanse series:
    Leviathan Wakes
    Caliban's War
    Abaddon's Gate
    Cibola Burn
    Nemesis Games
    Babylon's Ashes
    Persepolis Rising
    Tiamat's Wrath
    Praise for the Expanse:
    'The science fictional equivalent of A Song of Ice and Fire' NPR Books
    'As close as you'll get to a Hollywood blockbuster in book form' io9.com
    'Great characters, excellent dialogue, memorable fights' wired.com
    'High adventure equalling the best space opera has to offer, cutting-edge technology and a group of unforgettable characters . . . Perhaps one of the best tales the genre has yet to produce' Library Journal
    'This is the future the way it's supposed to be' Wall Street Journal
    'Tense and thrilling' SciFiNow
    5 min
  • Window Shopping by Tessa Bailey, read by Alexa Morden & Sam Rushton (Audiobook extract)
    A USA TODAY BESTSELLER!
    A sizzling, standalone, feel-good holiday romance from Tessa Bailey, New York Times bestselling author of It Happened One Summer.
    Two weeks before Christmas and all through Manhattan, shop windows are decorated in red and green satin. I'm standing alone in front of the famous Vivant department store, when a charming man named Aiden asks my opinion of the décor.
    It's a tragedy in tinsel, I say, unable to lie. He asks for a better idea with a twinkle in his eye. Did I know he owned the place? No. He put me on the spot. Now I'm working for that man, trying to ignore that he's hot. But as a down on her luck girl with a difficult past, I know an opportunity when I see one - and I have to make it last.
    I'll put my heart and soul into dressing his holiday windows. I'll work without stopping. And when we lose the battle with temptation, I'll try and remember I'm just window shopping.
    5 min
  • Silent Parade by Keigo Higashino, read by David Shih (Audiobook extract)
    The new book by the international bestelling Japanese crime writer Keigo Higashino, featuring Dectective Galileo, Higashino's much-loved character from The Devotion of Suspect X, The Salvation of a Saint, and A Midsummer's Equation.
    An Amazon.com Editors' Picks: Best Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
    Kusanagi pointed at Yukawa with his fork. "When it comes to unraveling impossible crimes, you're the master. It's time for Detective Galileo to stand up.
    A popular young girl disappears without a trace, her skeletal remains discovered three years later in the ashes of a burned-out house. There's a suspect and compelling circumstantial evidence of his guilt, but no concrete proof. When he isn't indicted, he returns to mock the girl's family. And this isn't the first time he's been suspected of the murder of a young girl, nearly twenty years ago he was tried and released due to lack of evidence. Chief Inspector Kusanagi of the Homicide Division of the Tokyo Police worked both cases.
    The neighborhood in which the murdered girl lived is famous for an annual street festival, featuring a parade with entries from around Tokyo and Japan. During the parade, the suspected killer dies unexpectedly. His death is suspiciously convenient but the people with all the best motives have rock solid alibis. Chief Inspector Kusanagi turns once again to his college friend, Physics professor and occasional police consultant Manabu Yukawa, known as Detective Galileo, to help solve the string of seemingly impossible murders.
    Praise for Keigo Higashino
    'An intriguing mashup of police procedural and golden age puzzle mystery' Guardian on Newcomer
    5 min

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