Debbie Harry is a musician, actor, activist and the iconic face of New York City cool. As the front-woman of Blondie, she and the band forged a new sound that brought together the worlds of rock, punk, disco, reggae and hip-hop to create some of the most beloved pop songs of all time. With all the grit, grime, and glory recounted in intimate detail...

In this inspiring, uplifting and heartwarming memoir, world-renowned veterinary surgeon Professor Noel Fitzpatrick explores his journey to becoming The Supervet. Growing up on the family farm in Ballyfin, Ireland, Noel's childhood was spent tending to the cattle and sheep, the hay and silage, the tractors and land, his beloved sheepdog, Pirate, pro...

TV documentary maker Simon Reeve has dodged bullets on frontlines, hunted with the Bushmen of the Kalahari, dived with manta rays, seals and sharks, survived malaria, walked through minefields, tracked lions on foot, been taught to fish by the President of Moldova, and detained for spying by the KGB. After a decade spent making more than 80 program...

For the first time, Andrew Ridgeley - one half of one of the most famous bands in the world - tells the inside story of Wham! and his life-long friendship with George Michael. It is 1975, Watford, and two teenagers, George and Andrew, meet for the first time. Bonding over their love for singing, song writing and pop music, together they set out to...

Twenty years ago, Bill Bryson went on a trip around Britain to celebrate the green and kindly island that had become his adopted country. The hilarious book that resulted, Notes from a Small Island, was taken to the nation's heart and became the bestselling travel book ever, and was also voted in a BBC poll the book that best represents Britain.Now...

Down through the centuries, the castles of Dover, Deal and Walmer have been of prime strategic importance to England, protecting the south-east tip of the country from invasion. This is an account of their national importance and includes fascinating stories of historical characters associated with them, from Henry VIII through to the late Queen El...

Life and death in the Nine Section, a small group of hard-bitten and eccentric Cumbrian borderers with whom the author, then 19, served in the last great land campaign of the Second World War. It describes when the 17th Black Cat Division captured a vital strongpoint deep in Japanese territory, held it against counter-attack and spearheaded the fin...

After 25 years of 'sex, drugs, bad behaviour and haute cuisine', chef and novelist Anthony Bourdain has decided to tell all. From his first oyster in the Gironde to his lowly position as a dishwasher in a honky-tonk fish restaurant in Provincetown; from the kitchen of the Rainbow Room atop the Rockefeller Center to drug dealers in the East Village;...

Part of the Family Doctor series. This audiobook will help listeners to understand stress and gives tips and advice on how to cope with it.

On 6th June 2004, Frank Gardner and cameraman Simon Cumbers were in a quiet suburb of Riyadh, filming a report on Al-Qaeda, when they were ambushed by Islamist gunmen. This is the story of a man who was left for dead. Told with honesty, integrity and humour, this audiobook reveals a deep understanding of the Islamic world and offers an insider's...

Madhur is an accomplished food writer and this biography is an account of her childhood in India. Growing up in an age and society that has now disappeared, it is made all the more evocative by Madhur's passion for food. This audiobook also touches on the history and religion of the time and continent.

In this work Darwin challenged many of the most deeply held beliefs of the Western World, and therefore it is high on any serious list of the most important and influential books ever written. This audiobook has been abridged to remove those chapters that are now known to be wrong, notably those concerned with genetics.

One of the most flamboyant women of the late 18th century, Mary Robinson's life was marked by reversals of fortune. After being raised by a middle-class father, Mary was married, age 14, to Thomas Robinson. His dissipated lifestyle landed the couple and their baby in debtor's prison, where Mary wrote her first book of poetry and met lifelong friend...

Horatio Nelson was a national hero who secured a century of maritime supremacy for his country and became the focus of British identity and aspiration. Christopher Hibbert creates a portrait of the man - at once humble yet ambitious, kind but at times irritable, exceptionally lovable and yet often vain and self-pitying, unswerving in his sense of p...

Critic Kenneth Tynan, the impresario who created 'Oh Calcutta', was also an eccentric and connoisseur of cuisine, wine, literature and women. For over three decades he was at the centre of the theatre and film worlds and his diaries record a judicious blend of aesthetics, theatre lore, love, marriage, sex and politics. CONTAINS STRONG LANGUAGE.

Dodging minefields in Cambodia, diving into the icy waters outside a Russian bath, Chef Bourdain travels the world over in search of the ultimate meal. The adventures include Japan, where he eats traditional Fugu, a poisonous blowfish which can be prepared only by specially licensed chefs, and Saigon, where he's treated to a sustaining meal of live...

Part of the Family Doctor series. This audiobook aims to give an understanding of Parkinson's disease, presented in a clear and accessible way. It is suitable for study and helpful to those who know anyone with Parkinson's disease or has it themselves.

In the United Kingdom, over 110,000 people have a stroke for the first time each year. This audiobook, published in association with the British Medical Association, is a clear and accessible way to understand strokes. Part of the Family Doctor series.

When Tony Benn left Parliament after 51 years he quoted his wife Caroline's remark that now he would have 'more time for politics'. And so this has proved: in the first seven years of this century he has helped reinvigorate national debate through public meetings, mass campaigns and appearances in the media, passionately bringing moral and politic...

Captain Jason Schofield possesses the kind of reckless abandon only a 2 million pound overdraft can inspire in a right minded, thirty-year-old fisherman. Taking his trawler out in the worst weather at the very worst time of year, he is joined by a brave and indomitable crew, and by 'one mad and seasick writer'. This is Redmond O'Hanlon's very funn...

Urbane, brilliant, brave, funny, famous, handsome - Nigel Havers is the real-life charmer you might expect. In a career that has taken him from a schoolboy production of 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' to the red carpet on Oscar Night with 'Chariots of Fire', via starring roles in the West End stage, classic television series like 'Don't Wait Up' and a...