A small prison cell in India holds an 18-year-old penniless waiter from a Mumbai slum. But Ram Mohammad Thomas isn't a criminal. He is under arrest for correctly answering 12 tricky trivia questions on the show Who Will Win a Billion? Reluctant to pa...

Slumdog Millionaire (a.k.a. Q&A)

In 1519, Hernando Cortés arrived in Mexico to investigate stories of a wealthy empire. What he encountered was beyond his wildest dreams; an advanced civilization with complex artistic, political, and religious systems (involving extensive human sacr...

History of the Conquest of Mexico

This is a story from the Murders in the Rue Morgue (The Dupin Stories) collection.  Auguste Dupin, investigator extraordinaire, was the remarkable creation of Edgar Allan Poe. Written in the 1840s, Poe presented the acutely observant, shrewd but idio...

The Murders in the Rue Morgue

Jack Reacher has no place to go and all the time in the world to get there, so a remote railroad stop on the prairie with the curious name of Mother's Rest seems perfect for an aimless one-day stopover.  He expects to find a lonely pioneer tombstone ...

Make Me

Nine-year-old Oskar Schell is an inventor, amateur entomologist, computer consultant, Francophile, letter writer, pacifist, amateur astronomer, natural historian, percussionist, romantic, Great Explorer, jeweller, origamist, detective, vegan and coll...

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Meet Balram Halwal, the 'White Tiger': servant, philosopher, entrepreneur, murderer. Over the course of seven nights, by the scattered light of a preposterous chandelier, Balram tells his story....  Born in a village in the dark heart of India, the s...

The White Tiger

Kerry Shale reads an exciting original story featuring the 12th Doctor, as played on TV by Peter Capaldi, in an adventure with the Weeping Angels.  All Alex Yow wants is to become a photojournalist and break her first story. All Brandon Yow wants is ...

Doctor Who: The Lost Angel

Why the social character of scientific knowledge makes it trustworthy  Do doctors really know what they are talking about when they tell us vaccines are safe? Should we take climate experts at their word when they warn us about the perils of global w...

Why Trust Science?

A Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist’s journey into a billon-dollar secret industry that is shaping our world - the booming business of private spying, operatives-for-hire retained by companies, political parties, and the powerful to dig...

Spooked

Jack 'No Middle Name' Reacher, lone wolf, knight errant, ex-military cop, lover of women, scourge of the wicked and righter of wrongs, is the most iconic hero for our age. This is the first time all Lee Child's shorter fiction featuring Jack Reacher ...

No Middle Name

Ever wondered what early experiences shaped Reacher's explosive career as butt-kicker supreme, the one-man guided-missile battler for justice? In this original new story, Lee Child looks back on an incident in his hero Jack Reacher's teenage years as the younger son of a tough career US Marine, on a faraway military base in the Pacific.

Second Son

New Year's Day, 1990. The Berlin Wall is coming down. Soon America won't have any enemies left to fight. The army is under pressure to downsize. Jack Reacher is the duty military police officer on a base in North Carolina when he takes a call reporti...

The Enemy

A spellbinding literary thriller about terror, war, greed, and the darkest secrets of the human soul, by the author of the million-copy best seller The Interpretation of Murder  Under a clear blue September sky, America's financial center in lower Ma...

The Death Instinct

When Eragon finds a polished stone in the forest, he thinks it is the lucky discovery of a poor farm boy; perhaps it will buy his family meat for the winter. But when the stone brings a dragon hatchling, Eragon soon realizes he has stumbled upon a le...

Eragon

The Purloined Letter

A collection of witty, warm, mysterious short stories from some of the best classic authors. This fine collection of intelligent, unabridged short stories about intriguing, interesting and sometimes inspirational men is an audio treat for young and o...

Short Stories: The Thinking Man's Collection

With a foreword by Nicholas Carr, author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist The Shallows.  Today, society embraces sharing like never before. Fueled by our dependence on mobile devices and social media, we have created an ecosystem of obsessive connectio...

Solitude

It's a profile, like all the others on the online dating site. But as NYPD Detective Kat Donovan focuses on the accompanying picture, she feels her whole world explode, as emotions she's ignored for decades come crashing down on her. Staring back at ...

Missing You

Auguste Dupin, investigator extraordinaire, was the remarkable creation of Edgar Allan Poe. Written in the 1840s, Poe presented the acutely observant, shrewd but idiosyncratic character who, with his chronicler, provided the inspiration for the more famous Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson.The Dupin Stories include the following:   "The Murders in the Rue Morgue"  "The Mystery of Marie Roget"  "The Purloined Letter"  

The Dupin Stories

An original short story about Jack Reacher, available exclusively in digital format (ebook and audio), following the success of last year's "Second Son".  Early in his military career, Jack Reacher is ordered undercover in Washington, to discover whi...

Deep Down

Six years have passed since Jake Sanders watched Natalie, the love of his life, marry another man. Six years of hiding a broken heart by throwing himself into his career as a college professor. Six years of keeping his promise to leave Natalie alone,...

Six Years

Thriller master Lee Child presents an exclusive ebook novella about the teenage Reacher.  July 1977. Jack Reacher is almost 17, and he stops in New York on his way from South Korea to visit his brother at West Point. The summer heat is suffocating, f...

High Heat

Oaths sworn.... Loyalties tested.... Forces collide.  It's only been months since Eragon first uttered "brisingr", an ancient-language term for fire. Since then, he's not only learned to create magic with words - he's been challenged to his very core...

Brisingr

Darkness falls... Despair abounds... Evil reigns... Eragon and his dragon, Saphira, have just saved the rebel state from destruction by the mighty forces of King Galbatorix, cruel ruler of the Empire. Now Eragon must travel to Ellesméra, land of the ...

Eldest

Finalist for the 2018 Man Booker Prize Winner of the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction, the Goldsmiths Prize for Innovative Fiction, and the Roehampton Poetry Prize From the award-winning British author - a poet's noir narrative that tells th...

The Long Take

This is a story from the Great Explorers collection.  Here are the stories of nine great adventures and the lives of the men who took part in them. They pushed back the frontiers of man's knowledge of the world by their vision, courage, and sheer dog...

Ibn Battuta

Here are the stories of nine great adventures and the lives of the men who took part in them. They pushed back the frontiers of man's knowledge of the world by their vision, courage, and sheer doggedness. They were very different people, from bold adventurers facing the unknown with enjoyment to careful, more scientific individuals. Their journeys are placed within their historical context, but also contain the words of the men themselves.

Great Explorers

When Kent Nerburn received a letter from Jennifer, a young woman questioning her calling to spend her life in the arts, the writer and artist was struck by how closely her questions mirrored the doubts and yearnings of his own youth.  Nerburn resolve...

Dancing with the Gods

Smoky Barrett is scarred, alone and suicidal. But there's a brutal killer at large in LA who has vowed to destroy the lives of everyone on her team of FBI agents. Smoky has no choice but to get back to work and on his deadly trail. Starring Kate Mulgrew in the main role.

Shape of You

Has Jack Reacher finally met his match? 61 Hours ended with Reacher trapped in a desperate situation from which escape seemed impossible. Even for him. Was that really the end of the road for the maverick loner? Apparently not. There’s deadly trouble...

Worth Dying For

The 10th novel in the critically acclaimed Lincoln Rhyme series, from number-one best-selling author Jeffery Deaver.  They are calling it the 'million-dollar bullet': a sniper shot from a near-impossible distance. But there is no crime-scene investig...

The Kill Room

Two couples, two marriages; both seemingly perfect, both falling apart. Beneath the surface gentility of the American John Dowell with his wife Florence and the landed grace of Edward and Leonora lie fictions and deceit. There are secret desires, hid...

The Good Soldier

Never forgive, never forget. That’s Jack Reacher’s standard operating procedure. And Francis Xavier Quinn was the worst guy he had ever met. He had done truly unforgivable things. So Reacher was glad to know he was dead. Until the day he saw him, ali...

Persuader

Jack Reacher walks alone. No job, no ID, no last known address. Doesn’t want to be found. But he never turns down a plea for help. Especially from a woman. Now a woman tracks him down. A woman serving at the very heart of US power. A woman who needs ...

Without Fail

The brand-new Jack Reacher short story, published as an audio exclusive.  The tiny town of Naismith has nothing going for it - except the start of a wilderness trail through Maine's ancient forests. But one day the trail is suddenly closed by county ...

Not a Drill

The child is safe, but the killer is still out there. He's sending chilling messages claiming to be a descendent of Jack the Ripper, continuing a murderous legacy. He and his accomplices also seem to know everyone's deepest, darkest secrets… Starring Kate Mulgrew in the main role.

Wildest Dreams

It began with Eragon... It ends with Inheritance.  Not so very long ago, Eragon - Shadeslayer, Dragon Rider - was nothing more than a poor farm boy, and his dragon, Saphira, only a blue stone in the forest. Now, the fate of an entire civilization res...

Inheritance

Suicide bombers are easy to spot. They give out all kinds of tell-tale signs. Mostly because they're nervous. By definition they're all first-timers.  Reacher knows the 12 giveaway signs to look out for. Riding the subway in New York at two o'clock i...

Gone Tomorrow

A shattering account of the crack cocaine years from award-winning American historian David Farber, Crack tells the story of the young men who bet their lives on the rewards of selling "rock" cocaine, the people who gave themselves over to the crack ...

Crack

Winter in South Dakota. Blowing snow, icy roads, a tired driver. A bus skids and crashes and is stranded in a gathering storm.  There's a small town twenty miles away, where a vulnerable witness is guarded around the clock. There's a strange stone bu...

61 Hours

The Mystery of the Marie Roget

Here are the main stories from The Old Testament: Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel, Noah's Ark, Abraham and Isaac, Moses, The Ten Commandments, David and Goliath, Jonah and the Whale, Daniel and the Lion's Den, and more. In these days where religion plays...

Moses and Other Stories from the Old Testament

In this new exclusive short story, number-one Sunday Times best-selling author Lee Child goes back to 1989, when Jack Reacher is serving as an officer in the military police.  A young lieutenant colonel in a stylish handmade uniform roars through the...

Small Wars

An updated edition of this compulsive collection of the world's most entertaining, inspiring, and powerful letters, curated by the founder of the global phenomenon: Letters of Note. Letters of Note, the book based on the beloved website of the same n...

Letters of Note: Correspondence Deserving of a Wider Audience

Time is running out for Smoky and her team. The enemy knows where everyone lives and exactly what their weak spots are. Only a final confrontation with his nemesis will satisfy him. But will Smoky be able to face her demon? Starring Kate Mulgrew in the main role.

Bad Blood

The California desert. A four-year-old boy disappears, plunging his parents into the public hell of a media witch-hunt. But the desert is inexplicable and miraculous, and the family's fate is bound up with that of all those who have travelled before ...

Gods Without Men

With all her friends and colleagues endangered by the unseen enemy, the stakes have never been higher for Smoky Barrett. But she has learned something crucial about the savage maniac and it might just be enough to bring about his downfall. Starring Kate Mulgrew in the main role.

Cheap Thrills

Two small towns in Colorado: Hope and Despair. Between them, nothing but 12 miles of empty road. Jack Reacher can't find a ride, so he walks. All he wants is a cup of coffee. What he gets are four redneck deputies who want to run him out of town.

Nothing to Lose

Winner of the CWA Best abridged Crime Audiobook 2012. March 1997. A woman has her throat cut behind a bar in Carter Crossing, Mississippi. Just down the road is a big army base. Is the murderer a local guy - or is he a soldier?  Jack Reacher, still a...

The Affair

In 1987 a massive snowstorm hits New York as Peter Kaldheim flees the city, owing drug debts to a dealer who is no stranger to casual violence.  Leaving behind his chaotic past, Kaldheim hits the road, living hand-to-mouth in flophouses, panhandling ...

Idiot Wind

The story of the life of Jesus of Nazareth is told in the first four books of the New Testament of the Bible: the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. The word "gospel" comes from old English, and means the "good story". The Gospels portray Jesu...

The Story of Jesus

The new blockbuster thriller from the author of the of To Kill the President. Someone is trying to destroy the evidence of history's greatest crimes. Academics and Holocaust survivors dead in mysterious circumstances. Museums and libraries burning. D...

To Kill the Truth

We are in the throes of a revolution, yet most of us are so disorientated by the rapid pace of technological and cultural change that we find it difficult to understand what’s going on. 50 Digital Ideas You Really Need to Know provides a clear path t...

50 Digital Ideas You Really Need to Know

This is a story from the Moses and Other Stories from the Old Testament  collection.  Here are the main stories from The Old Testament: Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel, Noah's Ark, Abraham and Isaac, Moses, The Ten Commandments, David and Goliath, Jonah ...

Noah's Ark

Jack Reacher - six foot five and dangerous. Adrift in the hellish heat of Texas. Moving like a shark in the water. Looking for a lift through the vast empty landscape.  A Cadillac stops. A ride, but with a hitch. A pretty young woman, alone. Her husb...

Echo Burning

Sergeant Amy Callan and Lieutenant Caroline Cook have a lot in common. Both were army high-flyers.Both were acquainted with Jack Reacher. Both were forced to resign from the service. Now they're both dead.  Both were found in their own home, naked, in a bath full of paint. Both were apparent victims of an army man - a loner, a smart guy with a score to settle, a ruthless vigilante.  A man just like Jack Reacher.

The Visitor

A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of the strange legal case of film star Peter Lorre, written and produced by Michael Butt and starring Stephen Greif. Originally broadcast as the ‘Afternoon Play’ on 10 May 2010.Towards the end of his unique caree...

Peter Lorre vs. Peter Lorre

In "James Penney's New Identity", in the dry desert of Southern California, James Penney is laid off from the plant after 17 loyal years of service. With the threat of the bank repossessing his treasured red Firebird, he goes on the run. But why are ...

James Penney’s New Identity - Guy Walks into a Bar

This audiobook narrated by Kerry Shale traces the life and times of a uniquely American testament. In his retirement, Thomas Jefferson edited the New Testament with a penknife and glue, removing all mention of miracles and other supernatural events. ...

The Jefferson Bible: A Biography

Here are the life stories of eight remarkable people who were born and grew up in America and who made their mark upon American history. They represent the remarkable individuality and sense of enterprise and courage that has marked the American hero...

Famous Americans in History

Abraham

New York is being held to ransom. Manhattan’s electricity grid has been the victim of a horrific attack...and more are planned. While the FBI and Homeland Security try to determine who's behind the carnage, Lincoln Rhyme and Amelia Sachs race to deco...

Burning Wire

Lincoln Rhyme returns in number-one bestselling author Jeffery Deaver's new scarily contemporary thriller, read by Kerry Shale and Trevor White.  Rhyme's cousin has been arrested for murder. The evidence clearly shows he did it, but Rhyme agrees to c...

The Broken Window

The emergence of the Polgar sisters in the 1970s and 80s rocked the chess world. In a heavily male dominated game, the three Hungarian girls broke record after record. The youngest, Judit, was talked of as a potential world champion. The Chess Girls ...

The Chess Girls

Lewis & Clark

Moses

Harlan's very first young adult project will link in with the storylines in his up-and-coming adult thrillers as Myron Bolitar discovers that his mysterious tearaway younger brother, Brad, has a son - now teenaged. When our series hero's father, Brad...

Shelter

David & Goliath

Released to coincide with the 200th anniversary of the author’s birth in January 1809, this selection of well-loved, chilling tales from the master of the supernatural is a perfect Christmas gift. The short stories include "The Murders in the Rue Mor...

The Essential Edgar Allan Poe

A fight in an alley behind a bar: a visiting European is knifed by local thug Ramon Espejo, and all hell breaks loose. The dead man was a diplomat on an important mission to São Paulo, and next day Ramon is on the run, heading north in his van toward...

Hunter's Run

In his compelling new work of fiction, Aravind Adiga has imagined the small Indian city of Kittur, an everytown nestling on the coast south of Goa and north of Calicut. Through the myriad and distinctive voices of its in habitants, an entire Indian w...

Between the Assassinations

Penguin Classics presents Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, adapted for audio and now available as a digital download as part of the Penguin English Library series. Read by the actor Kerry Shale.'I'm unfavorable to killin' a man as lon...

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Jack Reacher walks alone. Once a go-to hard man in the US military police, now he’s a drifter of no fixed abode. But the army tracks him down. Because someone has taken a long-range shot at the French president. Only one man could have done it. And R...

Personal

Daniel

Random House presents the unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of Solitude by Michael Harris, read by Kerry Shale.  Solitude is a rapidly vanishing experience. Our society now embraces sharing like never before: time alone is being forced out o...

After an epic and interrupted journey all the way from the snows of South Dakota, Jack Reacher has finally made it to Virginia. His destination: a sturdy stone building a short bus ride from Washington D.C., the headquarters of his old unit, the 110t...

Never Go Back

New York City is thrown into chaos by the assaults of the Bone Collector, a serial kidnapper and killer who gives the police a chance to save his victims from death by leaving obscure clues. The cops go to Lincoln Rhyme, an ex-NYPD forensics expert l...

The Bone Collector

In the morning, they gave Reacher a medal. And in the afternoon, they sent him back to school.  Night School takes Reacher back to his army days, but this time he's not in uniform. With trusted sergeant Frances Neagley at his side, he must carry the fate of the world on his shoulders in a wired, fiendishly clever new adventure that will make cold sweat trickle down your spine. 

Night School

Livingstone & Stanley

In 1993, a damaged, reclusive genius outlines a far-fetched plan for the ultimate terrorist attack, in a members-only Internet chatroom. Eight years later, John Fagan awakes to see the World Trade Center in flames - and his casual brainstorm material...

Maximum Impact

Solomon

Samson & Delilah

Fourteen-year-old Sarah Becker has been abducted, snatched from a busy shopping precinct in downtown LA. Judging from the state of the girls whose bodies have already been found, her long hair will be hacked off and she will be tortured. She has abou...

The Straw Men

Grotesquely arranged corpses are turning up in remote locations across America: is it the work of a bizarre sect or a solitary serial killer? An electrifying thriller from the author of The Straw Men. A guilty man walks alone into the cold mountain f...

The Lonely Dead

Cain & Abel

Jonah & the Whale

Who’s Afraid? Alex Cross’s first case since joining the FBI has his new colleagues perplexed. Across the country, men and women are kidnapped in broad daylight. They are not being taken for ransom, Alex realises, but being bought and sold. And it see...

The Big Bad Wolf

Captain Cook

Sean Dillon is back in another heart-stopping, adrenalin-laced adventure  When the president's right hand men foil a plan to assassinate him. Sean Dillon is called upon to trace the would-be killer's history  It appears the assassin is British with M...

Dark Justice

The Apollo Mission to the Moon

Having ended the Edgar Award-nominated Shelter with a jaw-dropping cliff-hanger, Coben picks up Mickey's story right where it left off in this suspenseful new adventure. Mickey and his loyal new friends, sharp-witted Ema and adorably charming Spoon, ...

Seconds Away

A collection of short stories from number-one best-selling author Jeffery Deaver, including one new Lincoln Rhyme tale, previously unpublished in the UK.

More Twisted

Thirty years after his death, Marsden Hexcamp's "Art of the Final Moment" remains as sought after as ever. But this is no ordinary collection of paintings. Hexcamp's portfolio was completed with the aid of a devoted band of acolytes and half a dozen ...

The Death Collectors

Christopher Columbus

Marco Polo

Joseph

The tense, suspense-packed follow up to the internationally best-selling thrillers The Straw Men and The Lonely Dead. Ward Hopkins' past come backs to haunt him with a vengeance when an ex-CIA colleague tracks him down, desperate for help in solving ...

Blood of Angels

The Creation of the World

When A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court was published in 1889, Mark Twain was undergoing a series of personal and professional crises. Thus what began as a literary burlesque of British chivalry and culture grew into a disturbing satire of m...

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