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Set during World War Two, Hut 33 follows the adventures of a team of codebreakers at Bletchley Park as they work tirelessly to break German codes, matching wits with the fabled Enigma Machine. Unfortunately, they hate each other. Archie is a stroppy Geordie socialist revolutionary while Professor Charles Gardner is a toffee-nosed snob. In theory, the immensely stupid 3rd Lt. Joshua Featherstonhaugh-Marshall is in charge of the hut, but he is still struggling with even the most basic concepts....

A collection of four ghostly tales inspired by M. R. James: Casting the Runes, Lost Hearts, The Treasure of Abbott-Thomas and A View from the Hill.

Brought to you by Penguin. Revisit the world of Beatrix Potter in this timeless new audiobook edition. Featuring all 23 of the classic tales, this new collection features a range of award-winning and contemporary voices, including Olivia Colman, Tom Hardy, Lily James, James Acaster, David...

Bug has hit her 30s with a bump. An almost wedding, an almost ex-husband, and a bookshop that’s almost turning a profit. With the help of her best friend – free spirit, activist and all-round legend Winnie, she’s going to make it all come good. Probably. Definitely. Maybe. At least she’s got her friends around her.

Thornton Wilder is one of America's most important literary figures. He won the Pulitzer Prize three times - for his novel The Bridge of San Luis Rey and the plays Our Town and The Skin of Our Teeth - and is the only person to be awarded the Pulitzer for both fiction and drama. Included here are four of his key works, set in different times and places, but sharing the same fundamental motifs - the universality of human experience and our search for life's meaning.

Keggie Carew grew up in the gravitational field of an unorthodox father who lived on his wits and dazzling charm. As his memory begins to fail, she embarks on a quest to unravel his story and soon finds herself in a far more consuming place than she had bargained for. Tom Carew was a maverick, a left-handed stutterer, a law unto himself. As a member of an elite SOE unit, he was parachuted behind enemy lines to raise guerrilla resistance in France, then Burma, in the Second World War.

Three King Heirs battle to protect their dynasty, but will love send them straight to the penalty box?

Rewire your brain and master your emotions with this helpful bundle! You'll learn why you overthink, procrastinate, and have anxiety, and most importantly, how to fix it.

Do you know that you can program your brain and mind for greater success? The answer is alpha brainwave level. Telepathic powers exist in all of us, they are part of the natural way we communicate with each other. Our brain beats at 14 cycles per second; the beta frequency. Very occasionally it beats between 7 and 14 cycles per second. This frequency is known as alpha frequency. Alpha is the key to becoming telepathic.

It's a curious homecoming for Vince, the son nobody seems to remember. Violence is never far from the surface as his unexpected return uncovers a deep, dark secret that triggers catastrophe in Sam Shepard's Pulitzer Prize-winning Buried Child. An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring Hale Appleman as Vince; Tom Bower as Dodge; John Getz as Father Dewis; Amy Madigan as Halie; Robert Parsons as Tilden; Jeff Perry as Bradley; and Madeline Zima as Shelly. Directed by Peter Levin.

Novelist, poet and critic Kingsley Amis was one of Britain’s greatest postwar writers. A master of comic fiction, he came to fame in 1954, and won the 1986 Booker Prize for The Old Devils. Included in this collection are dramatisations of seven of his short stories and two novels, all imbued with his characteristic wit and social satire. These are complemented by readings of selected correspondence and an interview with Amis himself.

Nach dem unerwarteten Tod des Papstes machen sich Kardinäle aus aller Welt auf den Weg nach Vatikan, um den Nachfolger zu bestimmen. In kürzester Zeit avanciert der junge, populistische Kardinal Magnus Marx in der Öffentlichkeit zum Favoriten auf den vakanten Heiligen Stuhl. Dabei wird sein rasanter Aufstieg von mysteriösen Todesfällen begleitet. Zusammen mit Team Boa findet Anna Gudwin heraus, dass Marx von einem geheimen Orden gelenkt wird, der die Welt ins Chaos stürzen will.

22 BBC radio programmes celebrating the great outdoors, introduced by Harriet Noble Spending time in nature is good for both our bodies and minds - but with our hectic lives (not to mention the unreliable British weather), it can be hard to get outside as much as we'd like. But fear not: we've...

Millie und Eliza haben ihren ersten Fall gelöst und sind frisch gebackene Roommates. Ein merkwürdiger Herr namens Arthur Biggs beauftragt sie, ein verschwundenes Baby zu finden. Ist der kleine Percy Opfer von Menschenhändlern geworden? Die Uhr tickt: Bei der Suche nach dem Neugeborenen zählt jede Minute. Doch sind Millie und Eliza der Aufgabe gewachsen?

Part four of a multi-part documentary series with distinguished actors, directors, writers, composers, and special effects mavens examining the history of the horror, fantasy, and science fiction films, from the groundbreaking silent 1920s through the Golden Age of Universal, the Silver Age of Hammer, and up through the 1980s and beyond. Enjoy never-before-seen interviews and fun-filled facts about the stars, the producers, and the movies that made America want to go to the theater!

Sometimes cozy and familiar as Grandma's homemade scarf, sometimes cold as a frozen forest after a snowstorm, this collection of classic winter tales and poems is as varied as the season it celebrates. Featuring the masterful storytelling of Nathaniel Hawthorne, Louisa May Alcott, Hans Christian Andersen, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Charles Dickens and a host of others, this audiobook will keep the listener enthralled deep into the long winter night.

Selling Simplified: How to Read People in Business is an audiobook that breaks down and explains the process of selling and how to read people so that anybody can learn to sell and achieve any sales goal. The maudiobook targets people in sales, business, and entrepreneurs. The tactics in this audiobook teaches people about how to sell and how to get ahead in business.

A story of a man's reflections as he looks back about upon a life he had as a successful rock musician, and the lessons learned from those adventures. If you were ever in a band or loved someone who was, I think you will enjoy the community and shared experience.

Um an das Gold der Roten Schlange in der Bank of Ireland zu gelangen, benötigt das Team McLair den zweiten Schlüssel, der in den Händen der Fälscherin Tessa Prendergast liegt. Cody Roche und Wayne McLair dringen gemeinsam in das Prendergast-Anwesen ein, doch landet Wayne schnell in einem Käfig. Dem Tod ins Auge blickend bleibt ihm keine andere Wahl, als sein Leben den Schatten anzuvertrauen.

Bei Ölbohrungen vor den Orkneyinseln, unter der Leitung von Professor Kenworth, wird das Wrack eines Schiffes entdeckt. Wie sich herausstellt, handelt es sich um das versunkene Schiff des Piraten Ahab Mortensen, der auch als der SCHWARZE AHAB berüchtigt war. Durch die Bergung befreit, terrorisiert der untote Ahab und seine Seeräuberhorde erneut die englische Küste. Der Pirat beginnt damit, sich eine neue Mannschaft zusammenzustellen, und zwingt jede Nacht drei Menschen an Bord seines Schiffes, wo er sie tötet und als Untote weiterexistieren lässt.