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ID: 414200

Title: Wisdom of the Ancients: Life lessons from our distant past

Author: Neil Oliver

Narrator: Neil Oliver

Format: Unabridged

Length: 07:59:05

Language: English

Release date: 09-17-20

Publisher: Penguin Books LTD

Genres: History, World

Summary:

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From the bestselling author of The Story of the British Isles in 100 Places comes this inspiring and beautifully written meditation on the wisdom inherited from our ancestors.

For all we have gained in the modern world, simple peace of mind is hard to find. In a time that is increasingly fraught with complexity and conflict, we are told that our wellbeing relies on remaining as present as possible. But what if the key to being present lies in the past?

In Wisdom of the Ancients, Neil Oliver takes us back in time, to grab hold of the ideas buried in forgotten cultures and early civilizations. From Laetoli footprints in Tanzania to Keralan rituals, stone circles and cave paintings, Oliver takes us on a global journey through antiquity. A master storyteller, drawing on immense knowledge of our ancient past, he distils this wisdom into twelve messages that have endured the test of time, and invites us to consider how these might apply to our lives today. The result is powerful and inspirational, moving and profound.

© Neil Oliver 2020 (P) Penguin Audio 2020

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ID: 392004

Title: Abstainer

Author: Ian McGuire

Narrator: Patrick Moy

Format: Unabridged

Length: 08:43:05

Language: English

Release date: 09-17-20

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio UK

Genres: Fiction & Literature, General

Summary:

‘Truly terrific' Richard Ford

'Dickens for the twenty-first century' Roddy Doyle

'A powerful, gripping tale' Sunday Times

A man hanging on by a thread.

A city about to snap.

 

From the acclaimed author of The North Water comes an epic story of revenge and obsession.

 

Manchester, 1867

 

Two men, haunted by their pasts.

Driven by the need for justice.

 

Blood begets blood.

In a fight for life and legacy.

 

Stephen Doyle arrives in Manchester from New York. He is an Irish-American veteran of the Civil War and a member of the Fenians, a secret society intent on ending British rule in Ireland, by any means necessary. Now he has come to seek vengeance.

 

James O'Connor has fled grief and drink in Dublin for a sober start in Manchester as Head Constable. His mission is to discover and thwart the Fenians’ plans. When his long-lost nephew arrives on his doorstep, he never could have foreseen how this would imperil his fragile new life – or how his and Doyle's fates would come to be intertwined. 

 

The rebels will be hanged at dawn, and their brotherhood is already plotting revenge.

 

Praise for The North Water, longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2016

 

‘Brilliant, fast-paced, gripping. A tour de force of narrative tension and a masterful reconstruction of a lost world’ Hilary Mantel

 

‘Utterly convincing and compelling… A startling achievement’ Martin Amis

 

‘Riveting and darkly brilliant… McGuire has an extraordinary talent’ Colm Toibin

 

‘Has exceptional power and energy’ Sunday Times

 

‘A stunning novel that snares the reader from the outset and keeps the tightest grip until the bitter end’ Financial Times

 

‘A vivid read, full of twists, turns, period detail and strong characters’ The Times

 

‘Terrific – McGuire’s use of the pitiless, fearsomely beautiful Arctic landscape as a theatre for enduring questions is inspired’ Daily Mail

 

‘McGuire has a sure and unwavering touch… a writer of exceptional craft and confidence’ Irish Times

 

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ID: 414197

Title: V2

Author: Robert Harris

Narrator: David Rintoul

Format: Unabridged

Length: 08:40:55

Language: English

Release date: 09-17-20

Publisher: Penguin Books LTD

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Suspense, Historical Fiction

Summary:

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THE TOP RICHARD AND JUDY BOOK CLUB PICK FOR SUMMER 2021

'Immersive' Guardian

'Stunning' Daily Express

'Riveting' Telegraph

Victory is close. Vengeance is closer.

Rudi Graf used to dream of sending a rocket to the moon. Instead, he has helped to create the world's most sophisticated weapon: the V2 ballistic missile, capable of delivering a one-ton warhead at three times the speed of sound.

In a desperate gamble to avoid defeat in the winter of 1944, Hitler orders ten thousand to be built. Graf is tasked with firing these lethal 'vengeance weapons' at London.

Kay Caton-Walsh is an officer in the Women's Auxiliary Air Force who joins a unit of WAAFs on a mission to newly liberated Belgium. Armed with little more than a slide rule and a few equations, Kay and her colleagues will attempt to locate and destroy the launch sites.

As the death toll soars, Graf and Kay fight their grim, invisible war - until one final explosion of violence causes their destinies to collide...

'A riveting read with a corker of a twist' Daily Telegraph

'Supremely readable' Observer

'Delivers one hell of a punch' Express

'Captures the real nature of war. Gripping' Ben MacIntyre

© Robert Harris 2020 (P) Penguin Audio 2020

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ID: 436615

Title: Secrets of the Railway Girls

Author: Maisie Thomas

Narrator: Julia Franklin

Format: Unabridged

Length: 14:25:00

Language: English

Release date: 09-17-20

Publisher: Penguin Books LTD

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Historical Fiction, Sagas

Summary:

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The second novel in the uplifting railway girls series that shows just how important friendship and love is in a time of uncertainty and change. Perfect for fans of Nancy Revell.

Manchester, November 1940

As the war continues and secrets threaten the railway girls, they will discover the true meaning of friendship.

For Dot, her job on the railways is everything. Transporting parcels around the country gives her pride that she is doing her bit for the war effort, but a growing friendship causes problems when home and work collide.

Joan loves her boyfriend Bob dearly, but when tragedy strikes, her heart is torn apart, and she is forced to make a decision that could hurt those she loves most.

Meanwhile Mabel has finally found a place to call home and her relationship seems to be going from strength to strength. However, the relentless bombing in the Christmas blitz is about to destroy everything she holds dear, and she will need her friends' courage and generosity now more than ever.

Brought together by their work on Manchester's railways, the three women find that with the support and encouragement of each other, they can get through even the most challenging of times.

© Maisie Thomas 2020 (P) Penguin Audio 2020

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ID: 415133

Title: Total Power

Author: Kyle Mills, Vince Flynn

Narrator: George Guidall

Format: Unabridged

Length: 09:27:52

Language: English

Release date: 09-15-20

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio UK

Genres: Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Suspense, Political Thriller, Espionage

Summary:

In the latest compulsive thriller in the New York Times bestselling Mitch Rapp series, when terrorists take out the entire US power grid, it's a race against the clock to prevent chaos.

‘Suspenseful, strikingly original’ Publishers Weekly

‘Proves once again that the Mitch Rapp series is “the best in the world when it comes to special ops”’ Booklist

Captured by Mitch Rapp, ISIS’s top technology expert reveals that he was about to meet a man who could bring down America’s power grid. When the CIA trap to eliminate this man fails, ISIS operatives help the cyber terrorist do what he said he would – plunge the country into darkness. With no concept of how this unprecedented act was accomplished, the task of getting the power back on could take months, or even years. Computers and phone networks are down, petrol pumps are inoperable, even water systems and food supplies are struggling.

With resources suddenly gone and America on the brink of collapse, Rapp and his team embark on a mission to find the only people who can repair the damage – the ones who caused it. But this is unlike anything he’s experienced before and time is running out . . .

Can Rapp get the lights back on before it's too late?

Praise for the Mitch Rapp series

'Sizzles with inside information and CIA secrets' Dan Brown

'A cracking, uncompromising yarn that literally takes no prisoners' The Times

'Vince Flynn clearly has one eye on Lee Child's action thriller throne with this twist-laden story. . . instantly gripping' Shortlist

'Action-packed, in-your-face, adrenalin-pumped super-hero macho escapist fiction that does exactly what it says on the label' Irish Independent

'Mitch Rapp is a great character who always leaves the bad guys either very sorry for themselves or very dead' Guardian

'Outstanding . . . Mills is writing at the top of his game' Publishers Weekly

 

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ID: 440472

Title: Rage

Author: Bob Woodward

Narrator: Robert Petkoff

Format: Unabridged

Length: 13:10:00

Language: English

Release date: 09-15-20

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio UK

Genres: Global Politics

Summary:

BOB WOODWARD’S NEW BOOK, RAGE, IS AN UNPRECEDENTED AND INTIMATE TOUR DE FORCE OF NEW REPORTING ON THE TRUMP PRESIDENCY FACING A GLOBAL PANDEMIC, ECONOMIC DISASTER AND RACIAL UNREST.

 

Woodward, the No 1 international bestselling author of Fear: Trump in the White House, has uncovered the precise moment the president was warned that the Covid-19 epidemic would be the biggest national security threat to his presidency. In dramatic detail, Woodward takes readers into the Oval Office as Trump’s head pops up when he is told in January 2020 that the pandemic could reach the scale of the 1918 Spanish Flu that killed 675,000 Americans.

In 17 on-the-record interviews with Woodward over seven volatile months - an utterly vivid window into Trump’s mind - the president provides a self-portrait that is part denial and part combative interchange mixed with surprising moments of doubt as he glimpses the perils in the presidency and what he calls the 'dynamite behind every door'. At key decision points, Rage shows how Trump’s responses to the crises of 2020 were rooted in the instincts, habits and style he developed during his first three years as president.

Revisiting the earliest days of the Trump presidency, Rage reveals how Secretary of Defense James Mattis, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats struggled to keep the country safe as the president dismantled any semblance of collegial national security decision making. Rage draws from hundreds of hours of interviews with first-hand witnesses as well as participants’ notes, emails, diaries, calendars and confidential documents.

Woodward obtained 25 never-seen personal letters exchanged between Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, who describes the bond between the two leaders as out of a 'fantasy film'. Trump insists to Woodward he will triumph over Covid-19 and the economic calamity. 'Don’t worry about it, Bob. Okay?' Trump told the author in July. 'Don’t worry about it. We’ll get to do another book. You’ll find I was right.'

 

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ID: 440538

Title: Startup CEO: A Field Guide to Scaling Up Your Business, 2nd Edition

Author: Matt Blumberg

Narrator: Jonathan Yen

Format: Unabridged

Length: 16:36:48

Language: English

Release date: 09-15-20

Publisher: Ascent Audio

Genres: Business & Economics, Management & Leadership, Business Development

Summary:

Being a startup CEO is a job like no other: it's difficult, risky, stressful, lonely, and often learned through trial and error. As a startup CEO seeing things for the first time, you're likely to make mistakes, fail, get things wrong, and feel like you don't have any control over outcomes. Author Matt Blumberg has been there, and in Startup CEO he shares his experience, mistakes, and lessons learned as he guided Return Path from a handful of employees and no revenues to over $100 million in revenues and 500 employees.

Startup CEO is not a memoir of Return Path's twenty-year journey but a thoughtful CEO-focused book that provides first-time CEOs with advice, tools, and approaches for the situations that startup CEOs will face. You'll learn: how to tell your story to new hires, investors, and customers for greater alignment; how to create a values-based culture for speed and engagement; how to create business and personal operating systems so that you can balance your life and grow your company at the same time; how to develop, lead, and leverage your board of directors for greater impact; and how to ensure that your company is bought, not sold, when you exit.

Startup CEO is the field guide every CEO needs throughout the growth of their company.

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ID: 391384

Title: Spymasters

Author: Chris Whipple

Narrator: Mark Bramhall

Format: Unabridged

Length: 14:49:18

Language: English

Release date: 09-15-20

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio UK

Genres: Global Politics

Summary:

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Gatekeepers, a remarkable, behind-the-scenes look at what it's like to run the world's most powerful intelligence agency, and how the CIA is often a crucial counterforce against presidents threatening to overstep the powers of their office.

Only 11 men and one woman are alive today who have made the life-and-death decisions that come with running the world's most powerful and influential intelligence service. With unprecedented, deep access to nearly all these individuals, Chris Whipple tells the story of an agency that answers to the United States president, but whose activities — spying, espionage, and covert action — take place on every continent. At pivotal moments, the CIA acts as a brake on rogue presidents, starting in the mid-seventies with DCI Richard Helms’ refusal to conceal Richard Nixon’s criminality and continuing recently as the actions of a CIA whistleblower ignited impeachment proceedings against Donald Trump.

Since its inception in 1947, the Central Intelligence Agency has been a powerful player on the world stage, operating largely in the shadows to protect American interests. For The Spymasters, Whipple conducted extensive, exclusive interviews with nearly every living CIA director, pulling back the curtain on the world's elite spy agency and showing how the CIA partners — or clashes — with counterparts in Britain, France, Germany, Israel, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and Russia. Topics covered in the book include attempts by presidents to use the agency for their own ends; simmering problems in the Middle East and Asia; rogue nuclear threats; and cyberwarfare. 

The Spymasters recounts seven decades of CIA activity and elicits predictions about the issues — and threats — that will engage the attention of future operatives and analysts. Including eye-opening interviews with George Tenet, John Brennan, Leon Panetta and David Petraeus, as well as those who've just recently departed the agency, this is a timely, essential and important contribution to current events.

 

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ID: 412888

Title: Another Now: Dispatches from an Alternative Present

Author: Yanis Varoufakis

Narrator: Leighton Pugh

Format: Unabridged

Length: 07:28:48

Language: English

Release date: 09-10-20

Publisher: Penguin Books LTD

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

Summary:

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What would a fair and equal society actually look like? The world-renowned economist and bestselling author Yanis Varoufakis presents his radical and subversive answer.

Imagine it is 2025. Years earlier, in the wake of the financial crisis of 2008, a global hi-tech uprising has birthed a post-capitalist world in which work, money, land, digital networks and politics have been truly democratised.

In a thought-experiment of startling originality, world-famous economist Yanis Varoufakis offers a glimpse of this alternative reality. Through the eyes of three characters - a libertarian ex-banker, a Marxist-feminist and a maverick technologist - we see the genesis of a world without commercial banks or stock markets, where companies are owned equally by all staff, basic income is guaranteed, global imbalances and climate change cancel each other out, and housing is socialised.

Is a liberal socialism feasible? Can prosperity grow without costing the Earth? Are we able to build the good society, despite our flaws?

As radical in its form as in its vision, Another Now blends Platonic dialogue with speculative fiction to show that there is an alternative to capitalism, while also confronting us with the greatest question: how far are we willing to go to bring it about?

(C) Yanis Varoufakis 2020 (P) Penguin Audio 2020

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ID: 425757

Title: Icons of England

Author: Bill Bryson

Narrator: Barnaby Edwards, Ben Eagle, David Rintoul, Homer Todiwala, Leda Hodgson, Sara Novak, Sara Poyzer, Terence Wilton

Format: Unabridged

Length: 06:37:09

Language: English

Release date: 09-10-20

Publisher: Penguin Books LTD

Genres: Non-Fiction, Social Science

Summary:

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This celebration of the English countryside does not only focus on the rolling green landscapes and magnificent monuments that set England apart from the rest of the world. Many of the contributors bring their own special touch, presenting a refreshingly eclectic variety of personal icons, from pub signs to seaside piers, from cattle grids to canal boats, and from village cricket to nimbies.

First published as a lavish colour coffeetable book, this new expanded edition has double the original number of contributions from many celebrities including Bill Bryson, Michael Palin, Eric Clapton, Bryan Ferry, Sebastian Faulks, Kate Adie, Kevin Spacey, Gavin Pretor-Pinney, Richard Mabey , Simon Jenkins, John Sergeant, Benjamin Zephaniah, Joan Bakewell, Antony Beevor, Libby Purves, Jonathan Dimbleby, and many more: and a new preface by HRH Prince Charles.

© Bill Bryson 2011 (P) Penguin Audio 2020

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