In the ruthless arena of King Henry VIII's court, only one man dares to gamble his life to win the king's favor and ascend to the heights of political powerEngland in the 1520s is a heartbeat from disaster. If the king dies without a male heir, the c...

Wolf Hall

Factfulness: The stress-reducing habit of only carrying opinions for which you have strong supporting facts.  When asked simple questions about global trends - why the world's population is increasing; how many young women go to school; how many of u...

Factfulness

Nobody wants to fail. But in highly complex organizations, success can happen only when we confront our mistakes, learn from our own version of a black box, and create a climate where it's safe to fail.  We all have to endure failure from time to tim...

Black Box Thinking

"Jane Collingwood, Nicky Diss, and Simon Slater narrate as three parts of a fractured triangle brought together by a terrifying abduction...this mind-bending thriller is sure to enthrall listeners." (AudioFile Magazine) This program includes an exclu...

Dear Child

After an astonishing career-first in Scotland, and then over 27 years with Manchester United Football Club - Sir Alex Ferguson delivers Leading, in which the greatest soccer coach of all time will analyze the pivotal leadership decisions of his 38 ye...

Leading

National Book Critics Circle, Fiction, 2010 Man Booker Prize, Fiction, 2009 Tudor England. Henry VIII is on the throne, but has no heir. Cardinal Wolsey is charged with securing his divorce. Into this atmosphere of distrust comes Thomas Cromwell - a ...

Columnist for The Times and best-selling author of Bounce: The myth of talent and the power of practice Matthew Syed argues that the key to success is a positive attitude to failure.  What links the Mercedes Formula One team with Google? What links D...

From the New York Times best-selling author of The Rosie Project comes a story of taking chances and learning to love again as two people, one mourning her husband and the other recovering from divorce, cross paths on the centuries-old Camino pilgrim...

Two Steps Forward

An eye-opening examination of the stupid things smart people do - and how to cultivate skills to protect ourselves from error.  "As a rule, I have found that the greater brain a man has, and the better he is educated, the easier it has been to mystif...

The Intelligence Trap

At the American Academy of Classical Art, popular opinion has it that the school's handsome and mysterious founder, Raphael Sinclair, is a vampire. It is a rumor Rafe does nothing to dispel. Scholarship student Tessa Moss has long dreamed of the chan...

The Color of Light

An astonishing debut, a novel of epic scope and suspense that conjures up all the magic and menace of Victorian London  1892: James Norbury, a shy would-be poet newly down from Oxford, finds lodging with a charming young aristocrat. Through this new ...

The Quick

Insiders call it the Craft. Discover the fascinating true story of one of the most influential and misunderstood secret brotherhoods in modern society. Founded in London in 1717 as a way of binding men in fellowship, Freemasonry proved so addictive t...

The Craft

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is a hugely popular self-help technique, which teaches you to break free from destructive or negative behaviors and make positive changes to both your thoughts and your actions. This practical guide to managing anxi...

Managing Anxiety with CBT for Dummies

Good communication, motivation, negotiation and leadership skills are essential for those looking to succeed in business. Business NLP For Dummies helps listeners use NLP techniques to foster these crucial skills and develop their strengths in the wo...

Business NLP for Dummies

What does it take to lead a team to world-class success over a sustained period of time?Sir Alex Ferguson is one of the few leaders who truly knows. In his 38 years in management, Sir Alex won an astonishing 49 trophies and helped grow Manchester Uni...

The moving, playful memoir of Hans Rosling, Swedish statistics mastermind, researcher extraordinaire and author of the global best seller, Factfulness, with Ola Rosling and Anna Rosling Rönnlund This is a book that contains very few numbers. Instead,...

How I Learned to Understand the World

Billy Billingham grew up tough - a grim future ahead of him offering little respite from the hostile streets he walked. Leaving school at 11 years of age, the threat of borstal hanging over his head, running with gangs in Birmingham, and almost being...

The Hard Way

What blinkered Einstein and Edison? Why did Steve Jobs and NASA make lethal errors of judgement? How might environmental disaster and social inequality be averted?    It is time for us to learn a new way of thinking.    The 21st century presents comp...

Through years of success in Hollywood composing music for Oscar-winning films, Chris Lowndes always imagined he would come full circle, home to Yorkshire with his beloved wife, Laura. Now he’s back in the Yorkshire Dales, but Laura is dead, and Chris...

Before the Poison

The thrilling 25th instalment in Peter Robinson's number one best-selling Banks series, in which Banks and his team find themselves with two suspicious deaths. A young local student has apparently committed suicide. Her body is found in an abandoned ...

Careless Love

The thrilling 24th instalment in Peter Robinson's number one best-selling Banks Series.  A shocking mass murder occurs at a wedding in a small Dales church, and a huge manhunt follows. Eventually the shooter is run to ground, and things take their in...

Sleeping in the Ground

What can Roger Federer teach us about the secret of longevity? What do the All Blacks have in common with improvised jazz musicians? What can cognitive neuroscientists tell us about what happens to the brains of sportspeople when they perform? And wh...

The Greatest

Banks is back - and this time he's investigating the murder of one of his own. Detective Inspector Bill Reid is killed by a crossbow in the tranquil grounds of a police rehabilitation centre, and compromising photos are found in his room. DCI Banks, ...

Watching the Dark

In Burning the Books, Richard Ovenden describes the deliberate destruction of knowledge held in libraries and archives from ancient Alexandria to contemporary Sarajevo, from smashed Assyrian tablets in Iraq to the destroyed immigration documents of t...

Burning the Books

A disgraced college lecturer is found murdered with £5,000 in his pocket on a disused railway line near his home. Since being dismissed from his job for sexual misconduct four years previously, he has been living a poverty-stricken and hermit-like ex...

Children of the Revolution

John Connolly brings Stan Laurel to life in this extraordinary novel about the comedian's wildly successful and tender partnership with Oliver Hardy during the anarchy of early Hollywood John Connolly conjures the Golden Age of Hollywood in this movi...

Defuse your anger with CBT  Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) is a hugely popular self-help technique that teaches you how to break free from destructive or negative behaviors and make positive changes to both your thoughts and your actions. This p...

Managing Anger with CBT for Dummies

The 26th instalment of the internationally best-selling DCI Banks series.  When the body of a teenage boy is found stuffed into a wheely bin on the East Side Estate, Banks and Annie have a homegrown murder case to solve.   But Banks' attention is also on Zelda, who, in helping him track down his old enemy, has put herself in danger and alerted the stone-cold Eastern European sex traffickers who brought her to the UK.

Many Rivers to Cross

A romantic comedy from Graeme Simsion, author of The Rosie Project, and his wife Anne Buist.  Two misfits walk 2000 km along the pilgrims' way in Spain to find themselves and, perhaps, each other.  Zoe, a sometime artist, is from California. Martin, ...

Gallows View is the first novel in Peter Robinson's best-selling Inspector Banks series.  Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks has recently moved to the Yorkshire Dales from London to escape the stress of the metropolis. But he soon finds that life i...

Gallows View

When the body of a young girl is found in a remote countryside lane, evidence suggests she was drugged, abused and thrown from a moving van - before being beaten to death. While DI Annie Cabbot investigates the circumstances in which a 14-year-old co...

When the Music's Over

It's 1.15 a.m. Connie Bowskill should be asleep. Instead, she's logging on to a property website in search of a particular house: 11 Bentley Grove, Cambridge. She knows it's for sale; she saw the estate agent's board in the front garden less than six...

Lasting Damage

A Necessary End is the third novel in Peter Robinson's Inspector Banks series, following on from A Dedicated Man.  In the usually peaceful town of Eastvale, a simmering tension has now reached breaking point. An antinuclear demonstration has ended in...

A Necessary End

The 22nd novel in number-one best-selling author Peter Robinson's critically acclaimed DCI Banks series. When two boys vanish under mysterious circumstances, the local community is filled with unease. And when a caravan belonging to one of the youths...

Abattoir Blues

The Hanging Valley is the fourth novel in Peter Robinson's Inspector Banks series, following on from A Necessary End.  A faceless corpse is discovered in a tranquil, hidden valley below the village of Swainshead. And when Chief Inspector Alan Banks a...

The Hanging Valley

Wednesday's Child is the sixth novel in Peter Robinson's Inspector Banks series, following on from Past Reason Hated. When two social workers, investigating reports of child abuse, appear at Brenda Scupham's door, her fear of authority leads her to c...

Wednesday's Child

A Dedicated Man is the second novel in Peter Robinson's Inspector Banks series, following on from Gallows View.  Near the village of Helmthorpe, Swainsdale, the body of a well-liked local historian is found half buried under a dry stone wall. Harry S...

A Dedicated Man

The Sunday Times best seller Aftermath is the 12th novel in Peter Robinson's Inspector Banks series, following on from Cold Is the Grave.  Number 35 The Hill is an ordinary house in an ordinary street. But it is about to become infamous. When two pol...

Aftermath

Cecil Rhodes and Shaquille O'Neal; Mozart and Peter Sellers; Duke Ellington and the duke of Wellington; Benjamin Franklin and Rudyard Kipling. These Masons, and many others, people The Craft, but even more compelling is the overarching narrative of F...

John Connolly re-creates the golden age of Hollywood for an intensely compassionate study of the tension between commercial demands and artistic integrity and the human frailties behind even the greatest of artists.  An extraordinary reimagining of t...

You are about to discover the secrets of The Quick – But first you must travel to Victorian Yorkshire, and there, on a remote country estate, meet a brother and sister alone in the world and bound by tragedy.In time, you will enter the rooms of Londo...

If your children were forced to testify against you, what terrible secrets would they reveal? Moscow 1945. As Stalin and his courtiers celebrate victory over Hitler, shots ring out. On a nearby bridge, a teenage boy and girl lie dead. But this is no ...

One Night in Winter

Playing with Fire is the 14th novel in Peter Robinson's Inspector Banks series, following on from The Summer That Never Was. In the early hours of a cold January morning, two narrow boats catch fire on the dead-end stretch of the Eastvale canal. When...

Playing with Fire

A stirring debut about the complex relationship between a soldier and his psychiatrist, set in a failing psychiatric hospital between the end of the Second World War and the founding of the NHS.  'Daniel stared at the white-ish brain matter clinging ...

Walking Wounded

A blockbuster historical audiobook from best-selling author David Mark - which will appeal to his fans as well as anyone who loves Ripper Street, The Suspicions of Mr Whicher and Antonia Hodgson. From Hell, Hull and Halifax, may the Good Lord deliver...

The Zealot's Bones

Krakow, 1585. Summoned by the King of Poland to help save his dying niece, Edward Kelley and his master, alchemist and scholar Dr John Dee, discover a dark secret at the heart of The Countess Bathory’s malady. But perhaps the cure will prove more ter...

The Secrets of Life and Death

I've Got Mail is the brand new book from Jeff Stelling, the Sunday Times best-selling author and host of Sky Sports' iconic football show Soccer Saturday. Reproducing a selection of correspondence he has received down the years, Stelling tells some i...

I've Got Mail

The remarkable story of three Yorkshire cricketers from the Golden Age - George Hirst, Wilfred Rhodes and Schofield Haigh - who transformed their county's fortunes, inspired a generation of cricketers and left a unique legacy on the game. Between the...

First of the Summer Wine

The Yorkshire Vet embarks on this newest adventure treating the animals and their assorted owners across the Yorkshire Dales. A Yorkshire Vet: The Next Chapter follows Julian's veterinary stories and amusing anecdotes through his work as a mixed prac...

A Yorkshire Vet: The Next Chapter

A celebration of the different creatures - great and small - that this Yorkshire vet has come to know and love. Yorkshire vet Julian Norton has spent his days as a mixed practice vet treating animals across the bucolic Yorkshire Dales. Julian's voice...

All Creatures

From a 2018 Wainwright Prize shortlisted author, The Circling Sky is part childhood memoir, blended with exquisite nature observation and the story of one man's journey over a year to one of the UK's key natural habitats, the New Forest of Hampshire....

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