Brought to you by Penguin. The number one Sunday Times best seller. TLS, Observer, Sunday Times, FT, Guardian, Daily Mail and Evening Standard Books of the Year 2017. Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker, read by J...

Why We Sleep

A New York Times best-selling author explains how the physical world shaped the history of our species When we talk about human history, we often focus on great leaders, population forces, and decisive wars. But how has the earth itself determined ou...

Origins

Brought to you by Penguin.  Meet the traders who supply the world with oil, metal and food - no matter how corrupt, war-torn or famine-stricken the source. The modern world is built on commodities - from the oil that fuels our cars to the metals that...

The World for Sale

D-Day, June 6, 1944, and the 76 days of bitter fighting in Normandy that followed the Allied landing, have become the defining episode of World War II in the west - the object of books, films, television series, and documentaries. Yet as familiar as ...

Normandy '44

The Asperger's syndrome bible for parents and professionals, newly updated with an introduction explaining the DSM-5.  The Complete Guide to Asperger's Syndrome is the definitive handbook for anyone affected by Asperger's syndrome (AS). Now including...

The Complete Guide to Asperger's Syndrome

Brought to you by Penguin. Was there a beginning of time? Could time run backwards? Is the universe infinite or does it have boundaries? These are just some of the questions considered in the internationally acclaimed masterpiece by the world renowne...

A Brief History of Time

In these troubled times, do you wonder about the future and the destiny of humanity? Do you want to know the true purpose of your existence on Earth and in the Universe? The most secret book in the world holds the answers you seek! Named as one of th...

The Book of Secret Wisdom: The Prophetic Record of Human Destiny and Evolution

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Beartown by Fredik Backman, read by John Sackville.  Beartown is a small town in a large Swedish forest. For most of the year it is under a thick blanket of snow, experiencing the kind of cold and dark that b...

Beartown

Since her astonishing debut at 25 with Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, Jeanette Winterson has achieved worldwide critical and commercial success as “one of the most daring and inventive writers of our time” (Elle). Her new novel, Frankissstein, is an...

Frankissstein

In a captivating tour of cities famous and forgotten, acclaimed historian Ben Wilson tells the glorious, millennia-spanning story how urban living sparked humankind's greatest innovations. “A towering achievement.... Reading this book is like visitin...

Metropolis

Have you heard of the secret Book of Dzyan?  Generations of Truth-seekers have been searching for this mysterious manuscript of untold antiquity that conceals the entire wisdom of the world, yet only a chosen few have ever gained access to it. Thus, ...

The Secret Book of Dzyan

Random House presents the audiobook edition of The Circadian Code, by Dr Satchidananda Panda.  Change your daily routine, transform your health.  Circadian rhythms are biological processes or clocks that exist in each one of our cells. Programmed to ...

The Circadian Code

Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2020 Penguin presents the audio edition of Serotonin by Michel Houellebecq.  The most important French book of the year.  Dissatisfied and discontent, Florent-Claude Labrouste begrudgingly works as an engineer for the ...

Serotonin

Brought to you by Penguin.   Lama Yeshe didn't see a car until he was 15 years old.   In his quiet village, he and other children ran in fields with yaks and mastiffs. The rhythm of life was anchored by the pastoral cycles. Food was carefully apporti...

From a Mountain in Tibet

The life of one of Western art's most admired and misunderstood painters.  J. M. W. Turner is one of the most important figures in Western art, and his visionary work paved the way for a revolution in landscape painting. Over the course of his lifeti...

Turner

It's New Year's Eve. A major terrorist cell is planning a series of attacks across London over the next 48 hours. The government has surveillance on the group, a man undercover, and prepare to move in, to take out the terrorists before they can strik...

Nine Lives

The science behind a good meal: all the sounds, sights, and tastes that make us like what we're eating - and want to eat more.  Why do we consume 35 percent more food when eating with one other person, and 75 percent more when dining with three? How ...

Gastrophysics

From the people who brought you the bestselling Confessions of a GP. From stampeding nudes to inebriated teenagers, young nurse Michael Alexander never really knew what he was getting himself into. But now, sixteen years since he was first launched i...

Confessions of a Male Nurse

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Us Against You by Fredik Backman, read by John Sackville.  A small, broken town sits on the edge of a frozen lake surrounded by a forest, its wounds still raw from a tragedy that tore its fragile community in...

Us Against You

An award-winning historian plumbs the depths of Hitler and Stalin's vicious regimes, and shows the extent to which they brutalized the world around them.  Two 20th century tyrants stand apart from all the rest in terms of their ruthlessness and the d...

Hitler and Stalin

A fascinating investigation of the origin of humans based on incredible new discoveries and advanced scientific technology. Fifty thousand years ago, Homo sapiens was not the only species of humans in the world. There were also Neanderthals in what i...

The World Before Us

Brought to you by Penguin.  This Penguin Classic is performed by award-winning voice actor Martin Jarvis OBE, as well as John Sackville, Maya Saroya and the translator of this edition, David Raeburn. This definitive recording includes an introduction...

Metamorphoses

Young counterterrorist cop Sam Archer arrives for work at the Armed Response Unit expecting a quiet day. But unbeknownst to him, a storm is coming. Three men have already been killed that morning. One committed suicide by the River Thames. Another wa...

Blackout

Why do we consume 35 percent more food when eating with one more person and 75 percent more when with three? Why are 27 percent of drinks bought on aeroplanes tomato juice? How are chefs and companies planning to transform our dining experiences, and...

In this beautifully written book, Buddhist monk and Nobel Peace Prize nominee Thich Nhat Hanh explains how to acquire the skills of mindfulness. Once we have these skills, we can slow our lives down and discover how to live in the moment - even simpl...

The Miracle of Mindfulness

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of The Square and the Tower by Niall Ferguson.  What if everything we thought we knew about history was wrong? From the global best-selling author of Empire, The Ascent of Money and Civilization, this is a whole...

The Square and the Tower

On a cold December morning in New York City, a man is found dead in Central Park. There are no knife or gunshot wounds to his body and no signs of violence. But beside the body is a box containing a cracked vial. Suspecting he died from some sort of ...

Silent Night

Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2019 Random House presents the audiobook edition of Frankissstein by Jeanette Winterson.  From 'one of the most gifted writers working today' (New York Times) comes an audacious new novel about the bodies we live in an...

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of The Boy Who Followed His Father into Auschwitz by Jeremy Dronfield, read by John Sackville.   In 1939, Gustav Kleinmann, a Jewish upholsterer in Vienna, was seized by the Nazis. Along with his teenage son, Fr...

The Boy Who Followed His Father into Auschwitz

As remarkable as Columbus and the conquistador expeditions, the history of Portuguese exploration is now almost forgotten.  But Portugal's navigators cracked the code of the Atlantic winds, launched the expedition of Vasco da Gama to India and beat t...

Conquerors

The eight-year-old boy had vanished from the car and, as if by slick, sick magic, had been replaced by a note on the steering wheel reading, "You don't love him." At the height of summer, a dark shadow falls across Exmoor; more children are stolen, e...

Finders Keepers

Random House presents the audiobook edition of Origins by Lewis Dartnell, read by John Sackville. When we talk about human history, we focus on great leaders, mass migration and decisive wars. But how has the Earth itself determined our destiny? How ...

Brought to you by Penguin. For more than 20 years, Dr Andrew Jenkinson has helped thousands of people to solve their weight problems. Looking at how we eat today, in this audiobook he explores why modern nutrition has failed us. Why We Eat (Too Much)...

Why We Eat (Too Much)

“As David Robson makes plain in this compelling book, the way we think about the world can profoundly shape how we navigate it. Based in science and packed with smart advice, The Expectation Effect will expand your mind - and maybe even extend your l...

The Expectation Effect

New York City. Summer. A series of violent and highly successful bank robberies have been carried out across the city, all by the same five-man team. Millions of dollars have been stolen. The thieves are slick, efficient, well organized, and vicious....

The Getaway

Random House presents the audiobook edition of Normandy '44, by James Holland, read by John Sackville.  Renowned World War Two historian James Holland presents an entirely new perspective on one of the most important moments in recent history. Unflin...

Normandy ‘44

Penguin presents the audio edition of How to Love by Thich Nhat Hanh, read by John Sackville. How to Love is part of a charming series of books from Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh, exploring the essential foundations of mindful meditation and practice.  ...

How to Love

It's late 1938. Thomas Heiselberg has built a career in Berlin as a market researcher for an American advertising company. In Leningrad, 22-year-old Sasha Weissberg has grown up eavesdropping on the intellectual conversations in her parents' literary...

Good People

Is God a Woman? Unveiling our forgotten history, Zinovia Dushkova, Ph.D., continues to reveal sacred texts that have been immortalized in the secret depositories of Shambhala. This time her new work represents a synthesis from the pages of the Book o...

The Ascending Goddess: The Untold Story of the Lotus of Fiery Love

What is it really like to be a racer?  What is it like to be swept along at 60kmh in the middle of the pack? How does it feel to be reeled in from a solo breakaway metres from the line? What happens to the body during a high-speed chute? What tactics...

The Racer

Random House presents the audiobook edition of Small Is Beautiful by E. F. Schumacher.  How does our economic system impact the way we live? Does it really affect what we truly care about?  Oxford economist E. F. Schumacher provides an enlightening s...

Small Is Beautiful

Direct democracy can no longer be thought of as something that belongs to the future.... This is the scarcely believable story of how, in just over three years, a political dotcom grew to become one of the most powerful forces in the affairs of a cou...

Alien Landing

The latest ‘Jack Haldean’ mystery, set in the Roaring Twenties A hundred thousand dragons lie, underneath an Arabian sky. How do a few lines of poetry, a chance encounter in a London hotel, and a death in Sussex lead to a lost city of Arabia, and to ...

A Hundred Thousand Dragons

A missing man leads Jack Haldean straight into danger... Mark Helston, the rising star of Hunt Coffee Limited, was successful and popular, with plenty of money and everything to live for. Yet at half past seven on the evening of the ninth of January,...

Trouble Brewing

The extraordinary prize-winning debut from Andrew Miller. Winner of the IMPAC Award and James Tait Black Memorial Prize. At the dawn of the Enlightenment, James Dyer is born unable to feel pain. A source of wonder and scientific curiosity as a child,...

Ingenious Pain

Penguin presents the audio edition of How to Fight by Thich Nhat Hanh, read by John Sackville. Thich Nhat Hanh is the subject of the major documentary Walk with Me narrated by Benedict Cumberbatch. Learn how to bring love and compassion into an angry...

How to Fight

Margot Lewis is the agony aunt for The Cambridge Examiner. Her advice column, Dear Amy, gets all kinds of letters - but none like the one she's just received: 'Dear Amy, I don't know where I am. I've been kidnapped and am being held prisoner by a str...

Dear Amy

Penguin presents the audio edition of How to Relax by Thich Nhat Hanh, read by John Sackville.  How to Relax is part of a new series of books from Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh, exploring the essential foundations of mindful meditation and practise.  Th...

How to Relax

Random House presents the audiobook edition of Panic Room by Robert Goddard, read by Hollie Taylor and John Sackville.  Sometimes the danger is on the inside....  High on a Cornish cliff sits a vast uninhabited mansion. Uninhabited except for Blake, ...

Panic Room

In a hugely ambitious study that crosses continents, languages, and almost a century, Gregory Woods identifies the ways in which homosexuality has helped shape Western culture. Extending from the trials of Oscar Wilde to the gay liberation era, this ...

Homintern

What was it like for those who saw Christ Jesus with their own eyes? This remarkable book shares the life-changing experience of an Initiate, Thales of Argos, who casts new light on an ancient story and renews its power to inspire. Join Thales of Arg...

The Mystery of Christ

The new entry in the popular Jack Haldean series, set in the Roaring Twenties Charles Otterbourne’s New Century company should have been the perfect partner for Professor Alan Carrington’s radical new gramophone. After all, Charles was not only a lea...

Off the Record

As gripping as it is gruesome, How to Solve a Murder is a fascinating insight into the career of a pathologist told by experts in the field. Includes a foreword from Dr Richard Shepherd, best-selling author of Unnatural Causes.  Fractured skulls. Gas...

How to Solve a Murder

Marking the centenary of the Titanic, A Shape of Ice is an utterly compelling exploration of the lives on board the most famous ship in history. The RMS Titanic was built as one of the world's largest and most luxurious liners. A marine Ritz, it was ...

Titanic Lives

Penguin presents the audio edition of How to Walk by Thich Nhat Hanh, read by John Sackville.  How to Walk is part of a charming series of books from Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh, exploring the essential foundations of mindful meditation and practice.  Focusing on mindful walking, Nhat Hanh explains how this technique can diminish depression, recapture wonder and help us to express sincere gratitude. 

How to Walk

In 2014 it is possible that Israel, backed by the United States, will launch an attack on Iran. This would be a catastrophic event, risking war, bloodshed, and global economic collapse. In this passionate, but rationally argued essay, the author's at...

A Dangerous Delusion

Penguin presents the audio edition of How to See by Thich Nhat Hanh, read by John Sackville.  Truly see yourself.  How to See is about our misperceptions, how we can gain insight and how mindfulness practices can help us see our real selves. Thich Nh...

How to See

Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of Noonday by Pat Barker, read by Juliet Stevenson, Stephen Boxer, John Sackville, Anne Reid & Finlay Robertson.  London, the Blitz, autumn 1940. Ambulance drivers Elinor Brooke and Kit ...

Noonday

The British MI5 faces off against Oswald Mosley's British Union of Fascists as war threatens Europe.  Brinley Knight has a photographic memory. Bored with his mundane job, he accepts an offer from MI5 to become a full-time spy in a shadowy world of e...

The Man from Section Five

At the height of summer a dark shadow falls across Exmoor. Children are being stolen from cars. Each disappearance is marked only by a terse note – a brutal accusation. There are no explanations, no ransom demands... and no hope. Policeman Jonas Holl...

Shipcott in bleak mid-winter: a close knit community where no stranger goes unnoticed. So when an elderly woman is murdered in her bed, village policeman Jonas Holly is doubly shocked. How could someone have killed and left no trace? Jonas finds hims...

Darkside

Introducing Luke Carlton - ex-Special Boat Service commando and now under contract to MI6 for some of its most dangerous missions. Sent into the steaming Colombian jungle to investigate the murder of a British intelligence officer, Luke finds himself...

Crisis

Penguin presents the audio edition of How to Eat by Thich Nhat Hanh, read by John Sackville. How to Eat is part of a charming series of books from Zen Master, Thich Nhat Hanh, exploring the essential foundations of mindful meditation and practice.  H...

How to Eat

The Sunday Times best-selling memoir from the Tour de France cyclist who lifts the lid on his drug use and return to sport. By his 18th birthday David Millar was living and racing in France, sleeping in rented rooms, tipped to be the next English-spe...

Racing Through the Dark

Brought to you by Penguin. Fifty thousand years ago, we were not the only species of human in the world. There were at least four others, including the Neanderthals, Homo floresiensis, Homo luzonesis and the Denisovans. At the forefront of the latter...

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Charles I: An Abbreviated Life by Mark Kishlansky, read by John Sackville.  The tragedy of Charles I dominates one of the most strange and painful periods in British history as the whole island tore itself ap...

Charles I: An Abbreviated Life

Penguin presents the unabridged downloadable audiobook edition of Turner by Franny Moyle, read by John Sackville. J. M. W. Turner is Britain's most famous landscape painter. Yet beyond his artistic achievements, little is known of the man himself and...

A new adventure with the Second Doctor as told by his companion, Polly. February, 1944: France is occupied by the Third Reich, the French Gestapo has an iron grip and the native resistance attempts to overthrow the invaders. On one quiet winter's nig...

Doctor Who - The Companion Chronicles - Resistance

Giacomo Casanova arrives in England in the summer of 1763 at the age of 38, seeking a respite from his restless travels and liaisons.  But the lure of company proves too hard to resist and the dazzlingly pretty face of young Marie Charpillon even har...

Casanova

Brought to you by Penguin.  In this masterful work, one of the most revered spiritual leaders in the world today shares his wisdom on how to be the change we want to see in the world. In these troubling times, we all yearn for a better world. But man...

Zen and the Art of Saving the Planet

Extraordinary tales from a perishing landscape. Chinese writer Fan Wen manages to weave a fable of love, dreams, sacrifice, and spirituality, starting from the conflict between two prominent families - beneath the snow mountain of a picturesque Easte...

Land of Mercy

A riveting and evocative tale of passion and murder, set on the French Riviera in the 1930s, from the No.1 bestselling author of The Savage Garden. France, 1935: At the poor man’s end of the Riviera sits Le Rayol, a haven for artists, expatriates and...

House of the Hanged

Penguin presents the audio edition of How to Sit by Thich Nhat Hanh, read by John Sackville. How to Sit is part of a charming series of books from Zen Master, Thich Nhat Hanh, exploring the essential foundations of mindful meditation and practice. Ho...

How to Sit

It's 24 December 1999. Byron Easy, a poverty-stricken poet, half-cut and suicidal, sits on a stationary train at King's Cross waiting to depart. He has in his lap a bin-liner containing his remaining worldly goods - an empty bottle of red wine, a few...

Byron Easy

More than any other technology, cars have transformed our culture. Cars have created vast wealth as well as novel dreams of freedom and mobility. They have transformed our sense of distance and made the world infinitely more available to our eyes and...

The Car

The profoundly moving and deeply intimate story of one Jewish family’s fate in the Holocaust, following the thread from Germany to Latvia and to Britain.  It was only by accident that Peter as a child discovered that his father, Fred Bradley, was in ...

The Last Train

Brought to you by Penguin.  Religion is both unique—as far as we can judge—and universal to humans. Our species diverged from the great apes about six to eight million years ago, and since then, along with language, our propensity towards spiritual t...

How Religion Evolved

What if today was your last day.... A bomb has exploded during a fashion show, killing a beautiful model on the catwalk. The murderer is still at large...and he may strike again. Yet this is the least of police Commissioner Christian Verger's worries...

Future Perfect

Brought to you by Penguin. In this enlightening series, world-renowned spiritual leader Thich Nhat Hanh shares the essential foundations of mindful practice and meditation.

How to Focus

Brought to you by Penguin. The number one best seller about the world that shaped Boris Johnson. In 1975, as a child, Richard Beard was sent away from his home to sleep in a dormitory. So were David Cameron and Boris Johnson. In those days a private ...

Sad Little Men

Brought to you by Penguin.  A comforting book that will offer relief to anyone moving through intense grief and loss, Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh shares accessible, healing words of wisdom to transform our suffering. In the immediate aftermath of a lo...

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