As heard on the New Yorker Radio Hour: The triumphant and "engaging history" (The New Yorker) of the young women who devised a winning strategy that defeated Nazi U-boats and delivered a decisive victory in the Battle of the Atlantic.  By 1941, Winst...

A Game of Birds and Wolves

“Taut, clever, compelling, and guaranteed to keep you on the edge of your seat.” —Paula Hawkins, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Girl on the Train and Into the Water From the bestselling author of Anatomy of a Scandal—now a hit Netflix se...

Little Disasters

An SBS Gurkha soldier's account of how his tough Nepali upbringing and the lessons learned in his army life enabled his record-breaking conquest of all 14 of the world's 8,000m peaks in under seven months. What happens when ambition meets limitless i...

Beyond Possible

Best-selling author Bear Grylls is best known for his seven seasons on National Geographic's Man vs. Wild, his current NBC TV series, Running Wild with Bear Grylls, and his adventures climbing ice cliffs, running through forest fires, and parachuting...

Soul Fuel

A dazzling new history of the world told through the 10 major empires of human civilization. Eminent historian Paul Strathern opens the story of Empire with the Akkadian civilization, which ruled over a vast expanse of the region of ancient Mesopotam...

Empire

When 3 Para began their assault under cover of darkness on Mount Longdon in June 1982, nobody knew what to expect. The three platoons of B Company each approached the mountain silently, treading carefully through a series of defensive minefields. But...

Three Days in June

Bloomsbury presents Looking East in Winter by Rowan Williams, read by Elliot Fitzpatrick. In many ways, we seem to be living in wintry times at present in the Western world. In this new book, Rowan Williams, former Archbishop of Canterbury and a note...

Looking East in Winter

1941. The Battle of the Atlantic is a disaster. Thousands of supply ships ferrying vital food and fuel from North America to Britain are being torpedoed by German U-boats.  Prime Minister Winston Churchill is lying to the country about the number of ...

Brought to you by Penguin.  True Grit by Bear Grylls is read by Eliot Fitzpatrick, with an introduction read by the author.  Bear Grylls knows what it takes to survive. But he’s not the first.  Take the American bombardier Louis Zamperini, who surviv...

True Grit

Short daily reflections from one of the world's favourite adventurers. The Telegraph calls him "globally...perhaps the most famous adventurer alive".  Best-selling author Bear Grylls has survived a free-fall parachute accident that left him with a br...

Brought to you by Penguin.  The extraordinary new autobiography from adventurer Bear Grylls. In Never Give Up, global adventurer and TV presenter Bear Grylls chronicles his life and career since stepping onto screen, taking listeners along with him o...

Never Give Up

A dazzling new history of the world through 10 major empires. Rise and Fall opens with the Akkadian Empire, which ruled over a vast expanse of the region of ancient Mesopotamia, then turns to the immense Roman Empire, where we trace back our Western ...

Rise and Fall

Adultery, alcoholism, drugs and murder on the suburban streets of Bournemouth. The Rattenbury case of 1935 was one of the great tabloid sensations of the interwar period. The glamorous femme fatale at the heart of the story dominated the front pages ...

The Fatal Passion of Alma Rattenbury

During the spring and summer of 2021, global news reports were filled with the impending US/NATO withdrawal from Afghanistan. At best, it would be viewed as a stalemate, with an orderly transition to a stable, US-backed Afghan government. At worse, i...

Afghanistan: Graveyard of Empires

A life-affirming novel of love, loss and letting go - for fans of Eleanor Oliphant, The Trouble with Goats and Sheep and When God Was a Rabbit. On her 47th birthday, Sydney Smith stands on a rooftop and prepares to jump....  Sydney is a cartoonist an...

Do Not Feed the Bear

Gus Poyet declared it to be the toughest league in England. Neil Warnock went further, believing it to be the tightest division in Europe. Norwich boss Daniel Farke went further still: 'The Championship, without any doubt, is the toughest league in t...

The Hard Yards

On the 23rd of May 2019, Hakan Bulgurlu became one of the fortunate few to have reached the summit of Mount Everest. To stand on top of the world’s highest mountain is a humbling experience; to bear witness to nature at its most awe-inspiring and pow...

A Mountain to Climb

The remarkable untold story of a Jewish orphan who fled Nazi Germany for London, only to be arrested there by the British government and sent to an internment camp for suspected foreign agents on the Isle of Man, alongside a renowned group of refugee...

The Island of Extraordinary Captives

The first panoramic history of the Western world from the 1970s to the present day: Empire of Democracy is the story for those asking how we got to where we are. Half a century ago, at the height of the Cold War and amidst a world economic crisis, th...

Empire of Democracy

Great cities are complex, chaotic and colossal. These are cities that dominate the world stage and define eras; where ideas flourish, revolutions are born and history is made. Through 10 unique cities, from the founding of ancient capitals to buzzing...

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