Tiffany Aching is a trainee witch working for the seriously scary Miss Treason. When Tiffany witnesses the Dark Dance - the crossover from summer to winter - she does what nobody has done before and jumps into the dance, into the oldest story there is, drawing the attention of the Wintersmith himself. With the help of Granny Weatherwax and the Na...

A real witch never usually steps out of her body and leaves it empty. Eleven year old Tiffany Aching does and there is something ancient and horrible just waiting for a body like that to take over. Tiffany returns for this new adventure, helped once again by the Nac Mac Feegle, the rowdiest, toughest, smelliest bunch of fairies ever to be thrown...

This audiobook is narrated in the all-knowing matter-of-fact voice of Death, witnessing the story of the citizens of Molching and especially two children's struggle to steal from the Nazi book burning piles. While it is a tale of the cruel twists of fate and the coincidences on which all our lives hinge, this is also a joyous look at how books can...

Nine year old Bruno knows nothing of the Final Solution or the Holocaust. When he moves house he meets Shumel, a boy who lives a strange parallel existence on the other side of the adjoining wire fence and who, like the other people there, wears a uniform of striped pyjamas. Features an exclusive interview with the author.

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 audiobook Hawking attempts to make the ideas and concepts of his bestseller 'A Brief History of Time' even more accessible. It is up-to-date with the latest scientific observations and findings, and is a guide to non-scientists everywhere in the search for the secrets of time and space.

This social history audiobook vividly describes the everyday activities and concerns of Londoners. Particular areas of interest include customs, food, drink, entertainment, sex, crime and punishment.

What on earth is Postmodernism? Here is an audio guide to the maddeningly enigmatic concept that has been used to describe our cultural condition of the late 20th and early 21st centuries. It explains the essentials of structuralism, semiotics and deconstruction as developed by Foucault, Levi-Strauss, Barthes, Derrida, Lacan, Lytard and others.

How did the great scientists make their remarkable discoveries? And what kind of men were they? This audiobook introduces the work of nine men to younger listeners. It ranges from the world of Ancient Greece to the 20th century discovery of DNA. Included are the crucial discovery that the earth goes around the sun (Galileo), the principal of gr...

Roman Britain: Marcus Flavius Aquilla, a young centurion is forced into retirement after he is wounded in his first major engagement against a rebel British tribe. It allows him the freedom to embark upon a dangerous mission to find out what happened to the Ninth Legion which, years before, disappeared in the savage lands of the Picts. Will he fi...

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.

Commander Sam Vimes of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch admits he may not be the sharpest knife in the cutlery drawer - he might not even be a spoon. But he's dogged and honest and he'll be damned if he lets anyone disturb his city's always-tentative peace - and that includes a rabble-rousing dwarf from the sticks (or deep beneath them) who's been stirr...

Flanders, June 1917: a British officer and celebrated poet is shot dead, killed not by German fire, but while he was recuperating from shell shock well behind the lines. A young English soldier is arrested and, although he protests his innocence, is charged with his murder. Douglas Konig is a conscientious objector, previously a detective with the...

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...

Early one morning, Thomas Pitt, dauntless mainstay of the Special Branch, is summoned to Long Spoon Lane, where anarchists are plotting an attack. Bombs explode, destroying the homes of many poor people. After a chase, two of the culprits are captured and the leader is shot . . . but by whom?

On a wild stormy night in 1813, Nathan Jago, drift fisherman, ex-prizefighter and lord of the manor of Polrudden, rescues a young boy from a drowning mother's arms as a French ship founders on the jagged Cornish rocks. It is an act that will profoundly affect his destiny. Despite hard times, Nathan and his wife Amy adopt Jean-Paul and bring him up...

The Cornish coast of 1810 is alive with fishing boats, warships and smugglers. For Nathan Jago, a fishing business seems the ideal place to invest his prizefighting winnings. It's not all plain sailing to a wealthy future though. For a start there is the wilful squire's daughter Elinor and Amy with her fierce Cornish pride. The first novel in the J...

In this audiobook Beryl Bainbridge retells the tragic tale of Captain Scott and his companions as they searched for the South Pole. Five first-person narratives give different perspectives on the voyage: Petty Officer Taff Evans; the ship's scholar, medic, and biologist Dr. Edward Wilson; Robert Falcon Scott; Lieutenant Henry Bowers; and Captain La...

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...

Set in 17th-century France against a backdrop of terror and religious frenzy. Juliette seeks refuge in a remote abbey - and reinvents herself as Soeur Auguste. Then her past turns up to haunt her in the guise of a man she has every reason to fear.