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With twinkling lights and cosy nights, it’s the perfect time to curl up with a great audiobook. Whether you love a heart-warming romance, a gripping mystery, or a classic Christmas tale, we’ve got plenty of seasonal listens to choose from.
December 3, 2025
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Audiobooks were firmly in the spotlight at last night’s inaugural British Audio Awards - known as the Speakies - with audiobooks featuring Ncuti Gatwa, David Tennant, and Nicola Coughlan among the evening’s big winners.
November 25, 2025
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Find out how we choose books for our eclectic catalogue of over 8,000 titles from our Publisher Relations Manager, Amy!
June 26, 2024
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I binged Netflix's recent series, Bridgerton, as fast as I could. If you did the same then check out these books to read after!
January 8, 2021
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February is LGBT History Month every year in the UK. In 2020, the theme is Poetry, Prose, and Plays, which celebrates the contribution that LGBT+ writers have made to writing of all kinds, from Sappho to Juno Dawson.
February 19, 2020
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Right now, everything feels pretty terrible. The news is just constant sound bites of terrible politicians. It's dark at 4pm (this should be illegal). And it hasn't stopped raining for two months.
November 12, 2019
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Laura Carlin is the bestselling author of The Wicked Cometh, a dark and mysterious tale set against the backdrop of the slums of Georgian London. This is Laura’s debut novel, and it earned her a nomination for the Books Are...
March 18, 2019
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There is a strange and troubled kind of intimacy between our own moment of climate change and 19th century Britain. It was there that a global, fossil fuel economy first took shape, through its coal-powered factories, railways, and steamships, which drove the emergence of modern consumer capitalism.
May 30, 2017
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With the start of April comes Jazz Appreciation Month. Listening to jazz music, going to see performances and exploring the history of jazz, are all great ways to spend your month. But we're here to recommend something bookish.
April 3, 2017
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It's a truth universally acknowledged that not all fictional couples are created equal. Some of them are sweeping romances that you can’t stop thinking about for weeks, while others add tension and drama to a book and are, quite frankly, just unhealthy.
March 13, 2017
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