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ID: 650472

Title: Doctor Who: The Alt Reality Collection: 1st, 2nd, 4th & 12th Doctor Novelisations

Author: Paul Cornell, Peter Ling, Stephen Gallagher, Terrance Dicks

Narrator: Derek Jacobi, John Leeson, Jon Culshaw, Mark Gatiss

Format: Unabridged

Length: 16:40:46

Language: English

Release date: 05-04-23

Publisher: PGRH UK

Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy

Summary:

The Doctor ventures into alternative dimensions in these four exciting novelisations of TV stories.

In The Mind Robber, by Peter Ling, the Second Doctor, Jamie and Zoe land in a world populated by storybook characters - but who, or what, lurks behind the fiction?

In The Invisible Enemy, by Terrance Dicks, the Fourth Doctor and Leela make a terrifying journey into the Time Lord's own brain in order to confront the Nucleus of the Swarm.

Warriors' Gate, by Stephen Gallagher, is the destination at the ethereal intersection between universes for the Fourth Doctor, Romana, Adric and K9, and in Twice Upon a Time, by Paul Cornell, it's a case of déjà vu for the First and Twelfth Doctors when they meet by chance in a strange yet familiar No Man's Land.

Derek Jacobi, John Leeson, Jon Culshaw and Mark Gatiss read these stories of adventure in weird worlds.

© 2023 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd (P) 2023 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd.

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ID: 617982

Title: History of Burning

Author: Janika Oza

Narrator: Kp Upadhyayula, Lipica Shah

Format: Unabridged

Length: 13:40:28

Language: English

Release date: 05-04-23

Publisher: PGRH UK

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, Sagas

Summary:

Brought to you by Penguin.

An immersive, kaleidoscopic debut for fans of Homegoing and Pachinko: one family's search for a better life through four continents, four generations and a century of change

At the turn of the twentieth century Pirbhai, a teenage boy, is taken from his village in India and travels perilously across the sea to labour on the East African railroad for the British. There, he is given a ruthless order. Following it will ensure his survival. But it will also torment him and reverberate across his family's future for decades to come.

During the waning days of British colonial rule, and as Uganda moves towards independence and military dictatorship, Pirbhai's children and grandchildren come of age in a divided nation. In 1972, when Idi Amin's brutal regime expels the Ugandan Asians, the family has no choice but to flee. In the chaos, they leave something devastating and unexpected behind.

As Pirbhai's grandchildren find their way back to each other in exile in Toronto, a letter arrives that will stoke the flames of the fire that haunts the family. It makes each generation question how far they are willing to go, and who they are willing to defy, in order to secure their own place in the world.

A History of Burning is an unforgettable tour de force, an intimate family saga of complicity and resistance, about the stories we share, what remains unspoken and the eternal search for home.

©2023 Janika Oza (P)2023 Penguin Audio

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ID: 613641

Title: Chain-Gang All-Stars

Author: Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

Narrator: Aaron Goodson, Lee Osorio, Michael Crouch, Shayna Small

Format: Unabridged

Length: 13:39:18

Language: English

Release date: 05-02-23

Publisher: PGRH UK

Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Fiction & Literature, Literary Fiction, General, Apocalyptic & Dystopian

Summary:

Welcome to Chain-Gang All-Stars - the popular and highly controversial programme inside America's prison system. In packed arenas, watched by millions of live-stream viewers, prisoners compete as gladiators for the ultimate prize: their freedom.

Fan favourites Loretta Thurwar and Hamara 'Hurricane Staxxx' Stacker are teammates and lovers. Thurwar is nearing the end of her time on the circuit, free in just a few matches, a fact she carries as heavily as her lethal hammer. As she prepares for her final encounters, as protestors gather at the gates, and as the programme's corporate owners stack the odds against her - will the price be simply too high?

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ID: 617396

Title: Lords of Uncreation

Author: Adrian Tchaikovsky

Narrator: Sophie Aldred

Format: Unabridged

Length: 20:49:00

Language: English

Release date: 04-27-23

Publisher: Pan Macmillan

Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Space Opera

Summary:

From Adrian Tchaikovsky, author of Children of Time and winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award, Lords of Uncreation is the final high-octane instalment in the Final Architecture space opera trilogy.

He's found a way to end their war, but will humanity survive to see it?

Idris Telemmier has uncovered a secret that changes everything – the Architects’ greatest weakness. A shadowy Cartel scrambles to turn his discovery into a weapon against these alien destroyers of worlds. But between them and victory stands self-interest. The galaxy’s great powers would rather pursue their own agendas than stand together against this shared terror.

Human and inhuman interests wrestle to control Idris’ discovery, as the galaxy erupts into a mutually destructive and self-defeating war. The other great obstacle to striking against their alien threat is Idris himself. He knows that the Architects, despite their power, are merely tools of a higher intelligence.

Deep within unspace, where time moves differently, and reality isn’t quite what it seems, their masters are the true threat. Masters who are just becoming aware of humanity’s daring – and taking steps to exterminate this annoyance forever.

Praise for Adrian Tchaikovsky:

‘One of the most interesting and accomplished writers in speculative fiction’ – Christopher Paolini

‘[Adrian] writes incredibly enjoyable sci-fi, full of life and ideas’ – Patrick Ness, author of The Knife of Never Letting Go

‘Brilliant science fiction’ – James McAvoy on Children of Time

‘Full of sparkling, speculative invention’ – Stephen Baxter, author of the Xeelee Sequence on The Doors of Eden

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ID: 589479

Title: Ultra-Processed People: Why Do We All Eat Stuff That Isnt Food and Why Cant We Stop?

Author: Chris van Tulleken

Narrator: Chris van Tulleken

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12:10:00

Language: English

Release date: 04-27-23

Publisher: Penguin Books LTD

Genres: Business & Economics, Non-Fiction, Social Science, Business Development

Summary:

Brought to you by Penguin.

This audiobook contains exclusive bonus content between Drs Chris and Xand van Tulleken, where they deep-dive into what you've just listened to at the end of each part.

An eye-opening investigation into the science, economics, history and production of ultra-processed food.

It's not you, it's the food.

We have entered a new 'age of eating' where most of our calories come from an entirely novel set of substances called Ultra-Processed Food, food which is industrially processed and designed and marketed to be addictive. But do we really know what it's doing to our bodies?

Join Chris in his travels through the world of food science and a UPF diet to discover what's really going on. Find out why exercise and willpower can't save us, and what UPF is really doing to our bodies, our health, our weight, and the planet (hint: nothing good).

For too long we've been told we just need to make different choices, when really we're living in a food environment that makes it nigh-on impossible. So this is a book about our rights. The right to know what we eat and what it does to our bodies and the right to good, affordable food.

©2023 Chris van Tulleken (P)2023 Penguin Audio

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ID: 637363

Title: Country Life: A story of peaks and troughs

Author: Giles Wood, Mary Killen

Narrator: Giles Wood, Mary Killen

Format: Unabridged

Length: 06:16:42

Language: English

Release date: 04-27-23

Publisher: PGRH UK

Genres: Biography & Memoir, Science & Technology, Animals & Nature

Summary:

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The Nutty Idyll

Former townies Giles and Mary swapped city life for rural Wiltshire over thirty years ago, and they've each embraced it in their own very different ways.

Mary has happily traded sophisticated London salons for monthly lectures at the Farmers' Club, competitive school quizzes, church interactions and local Auction House sales. While Giles has immersed himself in the catastrophic consequences of conventional farming, his organic no-dig veg-patch, the increasingly disproportionate response by local landlords to harmless trespassers and the strange death of the village house martins.

For recent city escapees and indigenous country folk alike, Giles and Mary sift through the unhelpful dreamy myths and offer a practical reality, with robust back and forth on every aspect of life in rural outposts, including but not limited to planning wars, class wars, dog thefts, tree-felling fights, misunderstandings between incomers and natives and the role of the Heron Appreciation Society.

The much-loved Wiltshire couple share their combined, hard-earned lessons, so we can learn the secret skills of grumbling and bumbling our way towards a new contented country life.

©2023 Giles Wood & Mary Killen (P)2023 Penguin Audio

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ID: 597799

Title: Divisible by Itself and One

Author: Kae Tempest

Narrator: Kae Tempest

Format: Unabridged

Length: 01:46:12

Language: English

Release date: 04-27-23

Publisher: Pan Macmillan

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Poetry

Summary:

I want to sing you early songs. Go deeper.

I want to take you back where you began,

Find the scraps of you you hid in secret

And bring them back to life beneath my tongue.

Divisible by Itself and One is the powerful new collection from our foremost truth-teller Kae Tempest. Ruminative, wise, with a newer, more contemplative and metaphysical note running through, it is a book engaged with the big questions and the emotional states in which we live and create. Some of the poems experiment with form, some are free, and yet all are politically and morally conscious. Divisible by Itself and One is also a book about human form, the body as boundary and how we are read by the world. Taking its bearings - and title - from the prime number, Divisible by Itself and One is concerned, ultimately, with integrity: how to live in honest relationship with oneself and others.

“Tempest delivers their thoughts gorgeously, rhythmically, but also with clarity and a fierce grace” Observer

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ID: 588000

Title: Only Love Can Hurt Like This

Author: Paige Toon

Narrator: Gemma Whelan, Jared Zeus

Format: Unabridged

Length: 09:50:02

Language: English

Release date: 04-27-23

Publisher: Penguin Books LTD

Genres: Romance, Fiction & Literature, Literary Fiction, Contemporary, Clean & Wholesome

Summary:

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Some love stories are worth risking everything for.

Wren leaves home and heartbreak to spend the summer with her father and step-family on their farm in Indiana, Midwestern USA. More than anything she hopes this trip will provide a chance to heal and build bridges.

There Wren meets two brothers. Jonas is a notorious heartbreaker and Anders is still grieving the wife he lost in a tragic accident three years ago. In spite of being warned off falling for either of them, Wren is inextricably drawn to Anders.

As the harvest approaches, Wren knows her feelings are growing stronger. What Wren doesn't know is that Anders has been harbouring an earth-shattering secret, and if he acts on any feelings he has for Wren it will have serious fall-out for everyone.

Walking away from Anders will hurt Wren more than she can imagine. But how can she possibly stay once she's discovered the obstacles that lie between them?

'Deep, emotional, powerful, beautifully written with a masterful tender touch - this book is a must-read.' Milly Johnson

'Paige Toon writes such beautiful, emotional love stories. I adored Only Love Can Hurt Like This - it swept me away to the gorgeous Wetherill Farm and I fell in love with Wren and Anders' Beth O'Leary

'Oh my GOD. This book! Only Paige Toon can make me believe in the power of love this way. Wren and Anders took me on a sweeping journey through America's Midwest that left me giddy, and breathless. This is going to be totally massive, because it has everything: family, love, secrets, sexy descriptions of brooding, hot men... just sublime' Laura Jane Williams

© Paige Toon 2023 (P) Penguin Audio 2023

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ID: 647577

Title: Wonder Boy: Tony Hsieh, Zappos and the Myth of Happiness in Silicon Valley

Author: Angel Au-Yeung, David Jeans

Narrator: Kurt Kanazawa

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11:57:30

Language: English

Release date: 04-27-23

Publisher: PGRH UK

Genres: Business & Economics, Biography & Memoir, Career Development, Management & Leadership

Summary:

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Wonder Boy is a riveting investigation into the turbulent life of Zappos visionary Tony Hsieh, whose radical business strategies revolutionized both the tech world and corporate culture, based on rigorous research and reporting by two seasoned journalists.

Tony Hsieh's first successful venture was in middle school, selling personalized buttons. At Harvard, he made a profit compiling and selling study guides. In 1998, Hsieh sold his first company to Microsoft for $265 million. About a decade later, he sold online shoe empire Zappos to Amazon for $1.2 billion.

The secret to his success? Making his employees happy.

At its peak, Zappos's employee-friendly culture was so famous across the tech industry that it became one of the hardest companies to get hired at, and CEOs from other companies regularly toured the headquarters. But Hsieh's vision for change didn't stop with corporate culture: Hsieh went on to move Zappos headquarters to Las Vegas and personally funded a nine-figure campaign to revitalize the city's historic downtown area. There, he could be found living in an Airstream and chatting up the locals. But Hsieh's forays into community-revival projects spun out of control as his issues with mental health and addiction ramped up, creating the opportunity for more enablers than friends to stand in his mercurial good graces.

Drawing on hundreds of interviews with a wide range of people whose lives Hsieh touched, journalists Angel Au-Yeung and David Jeans craft a rich portrait of a man who was plagued by the pressure to succeed but who never lost his generous spirit.

©2023 Angel Au-Yeung & David Jeans (P)2023 Penguin Audio

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ID: 622570

Title: William Boyd: A BBC Radio Drama Collection: A Good Man in Africa, An Ice Cream War, Restless and more

Author: William Boyd

Narrator: Alan Rickman, Alison Steadman, Ben Miles, Bill Nighy, Bill Paterson, Eileen Aitkin, Fenella Woolgar, Full Cast , Niamh Cusack, Tom Goodman-Hill

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:01:58

Language: English

Release date: 04-27-23

Publisher: PGRH UK

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Thriller & Horror, General, Espionage, International Mystery

Summary:

A collection of BBC dramatisations and readings of William Boyd's award-winning novels and short stories

One of Britain's foremost contemporary writers, William Boyd is renowned worldwide for his bestselling novels, which have been translated into over 30 languages. He has won numerous awards, including the Somerset Maugham Award (for A Good Man in Africa), the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize (for An Ice-Cream War) and the Costa Book Award (for Restless).

Collected here are the BBC radio productions of all three acclaimed books. Starring Alan Rickman Alison Steadman and Bill Patterson, A Good Man in Africa tells the satirical story of a buffoonish diplomat's struggles in a fictional West African country. In the espionage thriller Restless, it is 1976, and Ruth discovers that her very English mother, Sally, is in fact a Russian emigré and former British spy. Eileen Atkins stars as Sally, with Fenella Woolgar as Ruth. And in An Ice-Cream War, as millions face slaughter on the Western Front, British and German colonists in East Africa try to emulate their European counterparts. Nickolas Grace and William Hootkins star in this darkly comic drama.

Also included are dramatisations of three of Boyd's superb short stories. 'On the Yankee Station' is a gripping tale of revenge on an American aircraft carrier; 'The Destiny of Nathalie X' features an African filmmaker's encounter with Hollywood and its grotesque inhabitants; and in the eerie 'A Haunting', a landscape architect finds himself taken over by an unseen presence. Peter Whitman, Keith Edwards, John Sessions and Maynard Eziashi are among the star casts.

We conclude with five further stories, read by Ben Miles, Jonathan Firth, Bill Nighy, Niamh Cusack and Tom Goodman-Hill.