“Kanye West Owes Me $300 might be the funniest rap memoir ever.” (LA Weekly)  After Vanilla Ice, but before Eminem, there was "Hot Karl", the Jewish kid from the LA suburbs who became a rap battling legend - and then almost became a star.  When 12-ye...

Kanye West Owes Me $300

A young man, Elwin, seeks to become an elementalist. But with war looming and an accident that could cost him his freedom, Elwin finds himself fleeing for his life and evading the Guardians of Life. The Guardians think Elwin guilty of the most grievous of crimes, and as he trains the gifts of his bloodline, he will discover a secret from long in his past. 

Taming the Elements

The Prophet is perhaps the most cherished inspirational and enlightening work in the world. Almustafa, the chosen and beloved, must leave the port of Orphalese upon the ship he has waited upon for 12 years. As he descends to the waterfront, the peopl...

The Prophet

In 1942, Norman Hanson learned to fly the Royal Navy's newest fighter: the US-built Chance Vought Corsair. Fast, rugged, and demanding to fly, it was an intimidating machine. But in the hands of its young Fleet Air Arm pilots, it also proved to be a ...

Carrier Pilot

More than 40 years before Gary Taubes published The Case Against Sugar, John Yudkin published his now-classic exposé on the dangers of sugar - now with a new introduction by Robert H. Lustig, the best-selling author of Fat Chance. Scientist John Yudk...

Pure, White, and Deadly

A country-house murder-mystery classic, as a party of people find themselves snowed in on Christmas Eve with a murderer among them....   The snow is thick, the phone line is down, and no one is getting in or out of Warbeck Hall. All is set for a love...

An English Murder

This is the story of the greatest empire the world has ever known. Simon Baker charts the rise and fall of the world's first superpower, focusing on six momentous turning points that shaped Roman history. Welcome to Rome as you've never seen it befor...

Ancient Rome

To the modern eye, King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table have many similarities to our own contemporary super-heroes. Equipped with magical powers, enchanted swords, super-strength, and countless villains to take on, they protect the weak an...

Le Morte D'Arthur

Dawn on Sunday, June 22, 1941 saw the opening onslaughts of Operation Barbarossa as German forces stormed forward into the Soviet Union. Few of them were to survive the five long years of bitter struggle. A posting to the Eastern Front during the Sec...

War on the Eastern Front

This explosive work of history unearths clues that finally demonstrate the truth about one of the world's great religions: that it was born out of the conflict between the Romans and messianic Jews who fought a bitter war with each other during the f...

Creating Christ

Whip-smart 13-year-old Julian Costello Proctor - better known as Jules - has an eidetic memory. For as long as he can remember, he has remembered everything. "My mind is always on," he explains. But when an unexpected death throws his life into turmo...

A Window into Time

Will Rabjohns, perhaps the most famous wildlife photographer in the world, has made his reputation chronicling the fates of endangered species. But after a terrible accident, Will is left in a coma. And in its depths, he revisits the wildernesses of ...

Sacrament

An account of the D-Day invasion - from the German point of view. The Allied invasion of Northern France was the greatest combined operation in the history of warfare. Up until now, it has been recorded from the attackers' point of view - whereas the...

The Germans in Normandy

The Victorians are often credited with ushering in our current era, yet the seeds of change were planted in the years before. The Regency (1811-1820) began when the profligate Prince of Wales - the future King George IV - replaced his insane father, ...

The Regency Years

Denied citizenship by the Roman Empire, a soldier named Alaric changed history by unleashing a surprise attack on the capital city of an unjust empire. Stigmatized and relegated to the margins of Roman society, the Goths were violent "barbarians" who...

Alaric the Goth

Beauty can be consoling, disturbing, sacred, profane; it can be exhilarating, appealing, inspiring, chilling. It can affect us in an unlimited variety of ways. Yet it is never viewed with indifference.  In this Very Short Introduction audiobook, the ...

Beauty

The practice of Wicca is more popular than ever. While some Wiccans are unable to find a coven, others simply prefer to practice alone. Either way, solitary practice is a wholly authentic choice, steeped in traditions even older than those of organiz...

Wicca for One

Featured title on PBS's The Great American Read in 2018 River steamboat captain Charles Marlow has set forth on the Congo in Africa to find the enigmatic European trader Mr. Kurtz. Preceded by his reputation as a brilliant emissary of progress, Kurtz...

Heart of Darkness (AmazonClassics Edition)

This is the little-known story of Heavy Panzer (Tiger) Battalion 507 told through the recollections of the men who fought with the unit.   The book was conceived during a reunion of the "507" at Rohrdorf in 1982, where it was agreed to set up an edit...

Tiger Battalion 507

Slavoj Žižek's first book is a provocative and original work looking at the question of human agency in a postmodern world. In a thrilling tour de force that made his name, he explores the ideological fantasies of wholeness and exclusion which make up human society.

The Sublime Object of Ideology

This account of the Great War puts you right in the action - from one of the fighter pilots of the Royal Flying Corps.  From the young airmen who took their frail machines high above the trenches of World War I and fought their foes in single combat,...

No Parachute

The gripping "untold story" (Daily Mail) of the Secret Hunters, deep-cover British special forces who pursued Nazi fugitives from justice after World War II.  In the late summer of 1944, 80 British Special Air Service (SAS) soldiers undertook a cover...

The Nazi Hunters

This quintessentially English novel is considered by many to be a masterpiece of storytelling. Set for the most part on a riverbank in rural England, against a backdrop of social, agricultural, and industrial change typical of the early 20th century,...

The Wind in the Willows

E.R. Edison’s The Worm Ouroboros inspired the epic-fantasy writers that followed him. This production is of the first edition (1922).   The Lords of Demonland are celebrating Lord Juss's birthday when an envoy arrives from Witchland. He brings demand...

The Worm Ouroboros

A woman is found murdered in her bathtub, and the murder has been made to look like a suicide. But a strange symbol found at the crime scene leads the local police to call Commissaire Adamsberg and his team. When the symbol is found near the body of ...

A Climate of Fear

We are in darkness. We are alone.  They came from the lands of light. They came with torches, with lanterns, with the banners of the sun. The children of endless day - they came to banish the darkness.  And they came to kill.  We are the children of never-ending night. We are the dwellers of shadow. In the light of our enemy, we are dying.  We were born in darkness. We must cast out the light. This is our story.

Empires of Moth

In 1903, the Arctic's fabled Northwest Passage is navigated for the first time. In 2012, an eminent climatologist is found dead in his London apartment. For Robert Spire, an environmental lawyer, what seems like a standard executor's appointment in h...

Tipping Point: Action-Adventure Thriller

In this sweeping and provocative work, political economist William Davies draws on a 400-year history of ideas to reframe our understanding of the contemporary world. He argues that global trends decades and even centuries in the making have reduced ...

Nervous States

When Jim, a young merchant seaman, joins a ship carrying Muslims to Mecca, he's flush with heroic daydreams. But after only a few days aboard, the Patna hits something in the night and begins to take on water. In a crucial moment that tests his coura...

Lord Jim (AmazonClassics Edition)

Our world is broken. Our people are torn.  The sun no longer rises. Evening no longer falls. In the lands of endless sunlight, we fear the darkness, we forge swords, we march to war. In the shadows of eternal night, we hide, we pray, we die. Soldiers of sunlight and children of darkness - we were once one. We were torn apart. We must be one again.  We are the people of Moth. Our world must once more turn. 

Secrets of Moth

The dragonkin have returned, devouring the essences of those able to tame the Elements. Now Elwin must learn to survive in exile. As he searches for ways to use his innate powers without being destroyed by the dragons, Zarah and Feffer seek out secre...

Mastering the Elements

Scrooge! His name has become synonymous with being miserly and miserable, especially at Christmas! A Christmas Carol is the much-loved novella by Charles Dickens which tells Scrooge's story. This mean, misanthropic man is visited by the ghost of his ...

A Christmas Carol

Misdirection is the first novel in a series of international crime thrillers by Martin Link. High-tech and action packed, this may seem like the stuff of science fiction; however, the series features amazing new technology that actually exist in the ...

Misdirection

Tragedy at Law follows a rather self-important High Court judge, Mr. Justice Barber, as he moves from town to town presiding over cases in the Southern England circuit. When an anonymous letter arrives for Barber, warning of imminent revenge, he dism...

Tragedy at Law

Francis Pettigrew travels to Exmoor for a holiday with his wife - an area in which as a young boy he was traumatized by coming across a dead body on the moor. In an attempt to exorcise this trauma, Pettigrew walks across the moor to the place where t...

Untimely Death

Over Easter weekend 2015, a motley crew of six English thieves, several in their 60s and 70s, couldn't resist coming out of retirement for one last career-topping heist. Their target: the Hatton Garden Safe Deposit, in the heart of London's medieval ...

The Last Job

From the man who has brought you 20 books of dark fiction and fantasy, unforgettable horror movies such Hellraiser and Candyman, and countless paintings and illustrations, this is the first-ever collection of Clive Barker's nonfiction. Representing n...

The Painter, the Creature, and the Father of Lies

1991: A plan to destabilise Hong Kong is emerging; the key players are being put into place, the wheels are in motion and innocent people will die.  Frank Bowen is a Londoner on holiday in tropical Thailand. Half drunk and strapped for cash, he’s the...

False Flag

Rathen, a former Captain in King Delvant's army, retired to a quiet backwater town after the kingdom's forces were dissolved following the king's sudden death. Trying to forget his problems with the copious use of strong ale, he is approached by the ...

Rathen

England's Dreaming is the ultimate book on punk, its progenitors, the Sex Pistols, and the moment they defined for music fans in England and the United States. Savage brings to life the sensational story of the meteoric rise and rapid implosion of th...

England's Dreaming

A great many theorists have argued that the defining feature of modernity is that people no longer believe in spirits, myths, or magic. Jason A. Josephson-Storm argues that as broad cultural history goes, this narrative is wrong, as attempts to suppr...

The Myth of Disenchantment

Frank Bowen's mission is to find a GCHQ whistleblower, but in doing so unwittingly risks everything, including his own family's safety.  As part of a covert team, assigned to dangerous missions, Bowen believes he knows what he's up against, until a t...

Pandora Red

I am broken. I am lost.  Our world has fallen still. One half lies drenched in eternal daylight, the other cloaked in endless night. Our people are divided, some living under the sun, the others hidden in shadow. All is light or darkness. All is the ...

Daughter of Moth

Our song fades. Our children perish. Our world, a land torn between day and night, runs red with blood.  For countless years, Moth has been frozen still, one half drenched in eternal daylight, the other cloaked in endless night. For countless years, ...

Legacy of Moth

This supernatural thriller from F. R. Tallis takes listeners beneath the wartime seas of the stormy North Atlantic in 1941, where not all those onboard are invited.  It's 1941. A German submarine, U-330, patrols the stormy waters of the North Atlanti...

The Passenger

From colonial empire-building in the 19th century to the postcolonial culture wars of the 21st century, attempts at "comparison" have defined the international agenda of literature. But what is comparative literature? Ambitious readers looking to str...

Comparative Literature

Our world burns with war.  In the west, the people of eternal sunlight invade the darkness, armed with swords, arrows, and torches. In the east, the children of endless night fight from the shadows. Soldiers of sunlight and dwellers of darkness. Thei...

Shadows of Moth

In 1966, two columnists joined Newsweek magazine. Their assignment: Debate the world of business and economics. Paul Samuelson was a towering figure in Keynesian economics. Milton Friedman championed "monetarism" and insisted the Federal Reserve main...

Samuelson Friedman

Down for the Count explores the tawdry history of elections in the United States - a chronicle of votes bought, stolen, suppressed, lost, miscounted, thrown into rivers, and litigated up to the US Supreme Court - and uses it to explain why we are now...

Down for the Count

In this James-Bond-meets-real-world thriller, MI5 man Lucas Norton once again finds himself caught up in a high-stakes assault when a sniper in a powerboat takes a pot-shot at his family. Could it be linked to the daring raid carried out at GCHQ, whe...

Credence

Isabel Houghton has been shot dead, and her fugitive husband James is the chief suspect. Scotland Yard's Inspector Cauldron must unravel the mystery, and discover the connection between James and the notorious drug dealer, Cornelius Mildew. 

The Mildew Gang Trilogy, Book One

An account of heroism and courage in one of the Allies' biggest military catastrophes of the Second World War. Ideal for fans of James Holland, Anthony Beevor, and Cornelius Ryan. Ten thousand Allied troops landed in the Netherlands in September 1944...

The Grey Goose of Arnhem

Just in time for the 2018 World Cup, a lively and lyrical guide to appreciating the drama of soccer. Soccer is not only the world's most popular sport, it's also one of the most widely shared forms of global culture. The Language of the Game is a pas...

The Language of the Game

From a new adventure with the world's most famous consulting detective to tales in the far-flung past, future, and present, Warren Fahy presents an anthology of five stories (one featuring Sherlock Holmes). For the listener with an appetite for exoti...

The Haunting of Sherlock Holmes and Other Tales of Adventure

Voyage into an enchanted world in this epic fantasy of adventure and romance as a young king with god-like powers inherits a kingdom and a curse: what he loves most will be his doom. How he decides to fight his fate will endanger his entire kingdom, ...

Crimson

On the 8th June 1940, the Nazi battleships Scharnhorst and Gneisenau opened their guns on the aircraft carrier HMS Glorious. Within minutes, the Glorious was taking on water, and the order was given to abandon ship. Hundreds of men leapt into the icy...

Arctic Rescue

An apocalyptic fairy tale of Lovecraftian proportions, Lightbringers weaves real-world history and mythology with fantastic and terrible imaginations...creating a future that is both beautiful and terrifying. The ancient conflict that has waged on Ea...

Lightbringers: The Age of Myths and Legends

Paris and Helen - more than a romance, this audiobook depicts the adventures and inner life of the Trojan prince Paris, a complex figure in a world of stark simplicity, moving through passion, betrayal, and violence to a stunning finale. Through inte...

I, Paris

London, 1888. A knife flashes in the fog. A madman has begun the most notorious and shocking series of murders in history. With each new discovery of a woman's mutilated body, the citywide panic grows. The police seem unable to stop the killer, even ...

Curtains of Blood

Far from civilization, on the hunt for Sir John Franklin's recently lost Northwest Passage expedition, Lieutenant Morgan and his crew find themselves trapped in ever-hardening Arctic ice that threatens to break apart their ship. When Morgan realizes ...

The Surfacing

During the summer of 1940, Hitler's Germany appeared unstoppable. The Nazis were masters of mainland Europe, in alliance with Stalin's Russia, and only the English Channel prevented an immediate invasion.   Britain stood alone. The BEF had been route...

Operation Sealion

From sorcerous bridges that link worlds to the simple traditions of country folk; from the mysterious natures of twins to the dangerous powers of obligation and contract. Laden with perils for both the adventurous and the unsuspecting, magic is ultim...

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