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Confidence: A brand new escapist thriller from the award-winning author of Conviction

Brought to you by Penguin. Anna is back. Confidence reunites the reader with Anna and Finn - the stars of Denise Mina's critically acclaimed thriller Conviction (A Reese Witherspoon x Hello Sunshine Book Club Pick). Anna and Finn investigate a young girl's disappearance which seems to be connected to an art heist years ago. Beginning in a tumble-down chateau in rural France and taking the reader on a thrilling chase across Europe, Confidence, is another stellar novel from one of crime writing's most accomplished authors. PRAISE FOR CONVICTION: If you loved Killing Eve, you'll devour Conviction' Erin Kelly 'Such a delight: playful, fast-paced, and entirely compulsive' Ann Cleeves 'A dark star of a novel, blazingly intense, up-to-the-minute fresh, and exciting as all hell' A. J. Finn, author of The Woman in the Window © Denise Mina 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022

Denise Mina (Author), Jonathan Keeble, Rona Morison (Narrator)

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Putin: The new and definitive biography

Brought to you by Penguin. Vladimir Putin is a pariah to the West. Alone among world leaders, he has the power to reduce the United States and Europe to ashes in a nuclear firestorm and has threatened to do so. He invades his neighbours, most recently Ukraine, meddles in western elections and orders assassinations inside and outside Russia. The regime he heads is autocratic and corrupt. Yet many Russians continue to support him. Despite western sanctions, the majority have been living better than at any time in the past. By fair means or foul, under Putin's leadership, Russia has once again become a force to be reckoned with. Philip Short's magisterial biography explores in unprecedented depth the personality of its enigmatic and ruthless leader and demolishes many of our preconceptions about Putin's Russia. Since becoming President in 2000, his obsession has been to restore Russia's status as a great power, unbound by western rules. What forces and experiences shaped him? What led him to challenge the American-led world order that has kept the peace since the end of the Cold War? To explain is not to justify. Putin's regime is dark. He pursues his goals relentlessly by whatever means he thinks fit. But on closer examination, much of what we think we know about him turns out to rest on half-truths. This book is as close as we will come to understanding Russia's ruler. It also makes us revise long-held assumptions about the course of global politics since the end of the Cold War. © Philip Short 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022

Philip Short (Author), Jonathan Keeble (Narrator)

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Long Gore Hall: British Detective Tanner Murder Mystery Series Book 8

THE DEBUT CRIME THRILLER SERIES OF THE YEAR An intruder shot dead to be seen rising from the grave, a young reporter's body found with a face contorted by fear, and a long-forgotten mansion lying in the midst of an ancient Norfolk marsh. The ancestral owner of Long Gore Hall arrives from overseas with an ambitious plan to renovate his crumbling family home. But when he shoots an intruder only for the body to vanish into thin air, DI Tanner is left grappling with a story of a ghostly apparition, one that will instantly kill anyone who dares stare into its hollow, unforgiving eyes. Set within the mysterious beauty of the Norfolk Broads, this fast-paced British detective series is a dark cozy murder mystery with a slice of humour and a touch of romance which will have you guessing until the very end, when the last shocking twist is finally revealed. Long Gore Hall is a totally addictive gripping crime thriller, the eigth in a chilling series of serial killer books, ones which will rapidly convert followers of L J Ross, Faith Martin, Joy Ellis, Damien Boyd and J M Dalgliesh into David Blake devotees.

David Black, David Blake (Author), Jonathan Keeble (Narrator)

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Desperate Remedies: Psychiatry and the Mysteries of Mental Illness

Brought to you by Penguin. For more than two hundred years, disturbances of reason, cognition and emotion - the sort of things that were once called 'madness' - have been described and treated by the medical profession. Mental illness, it is said, is an illness like any other - a disorder that can treated by doctors, whose suffering can be eased, and from which patients can return. And yet serious mental illness remains a profound mystery that is in some ways no closer to being solved than it was at the start of the twentieth century. In this clear-sighted and provocative exploration of psychiatry, acclaimed sociologist Andrew Scull traces the history of its attempts to understand and mitigate mental illness: from the age of the asylum and unimaginable surgical and chemical interventions, through the rise and fall of Freud and the talking cure, and on to our own time of drug companies and antidepressants. Through it all, Scull argues, the often vain and rash attempts to come to terms with the enigma of mental disorder have frequently resulted in dire consequences for the patient. Deeply researched and lucidly conveyed, Desperate Remedies masterfully illustrates the assumptions and theory behind the therapy, providing a definitive new account of psychiatry's and society's battle with mental illness. © Andrew Scull 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022

Andrew Scull (Author), Jonathan Keeble (Narrator)

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Strangeways Unlocked: The Shocking Truth about Life Behind Bars

A darkly funny, harrowing and heartbreaking look at the reality of prison life, with first-hand accounts from men who found themselves on the wrong side of the cell doors. Neil ‘Sam’ Samworth spent eleven years as a prison officer at HMP Manchester, better known as Strangeways. He has seen it all: from notorious criminals, dangerous gangsters and repeat offenders to those who simply made the wrong decisions. In this shocking page-turner, he tracks down former prisoners and staff, and uncovers the inside story of what life is really like in one of the UK’s most infamous high-security prisons. We’ll see a prisoner whose unwanted feud with an inmate ends in a fight and the loss of his eye, another who is convicted for theft but leaves addicted to spice, and many who become victims of the IPP system where they find themselves serving indefinite sentences for petty crimes. We’ll see the dark underworld of the prison system, where riots can occur at any time, where the worlds of gangbangers suddenly collide, where class A drugs and contrabands roam. On the other side, we’ll see staff grappling with a failing prison system, while dealing with an inmate who records the highest ever psychopath rating and caring fully for another they suspect is feigning handicap. In brutally raw and gripping detail, Strangeways Unlocked gives voice to the people behind the bars and exposes a prison system that is failing them, providing an unforgettable account of a life that many can only imagine.

Neil Samworth (Author), Jonathan Keeble, Neil Samworth (Narrator)

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The Ship Asunder: A Maritime History of Britain in Eleven Vessels

Brought to you by Penguin. If Britain's maritime history were embodied in a single ship, she would have a prehistoric prow, a mast plucked from a Victorian steamship, the hull of a modest fishing vessel, the propeller of an ocean liner and an anchor made of stone. We might call her Asunder, and, fantastical though she is, we could in fact find her today, scattered in fragments across the country's creeks and coastlines. This extraordinary book collects those fragments for a profound and haunting exploration of our seafaring past. In his moving and original new history, Tom Nancollas goes in search of eleven relics that together tell the story of Britain at sea. From the swallowtail prow of a Bronze Age vessel to a stone ship moored at a Baroque quayside, each one illuminates a distinct phase of our adventures upon the waves; each brings us close to the people, places and vessels that made a maritime nation. Weaving together stories of great naval architects and unsung shipwrights, fishermen and merchants, shipwrecks and superstition, pilgrimage, trade and war, The Ship Asunder celebrates the richness of Britain's seafaring tradition in all its glory and tragedy, triumph and disaster, and asks how we might best memorialise it as it vanishes from our shores. © Tom Nancollas 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022

Tom Nancollas (Author), Jonathan Keeble (Narrator)

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Goose Green: The decisive battle of the Falklands War - by the British troops who fought it

Published to mark the fortieth anniversary of the Falklands war 'There was a time when we did extraordinary things.' On 28 May 1982, 450 men of the 2nd Battalion, the Parachute Regiment - 2 Para - went into action to retake the settlement of Goose Green on East Falkland, where more than 1,000 Argentine soldiers were holding 119 Falkland Islanders - men, women, children and one baby - in squalid conditions. Forty years on, Goose Green is still the biggest and bloodiest battle the British Army has fought in modern times. This book is the living narrative of the battle told by the very men who fought it; not just the soldiers of 2 Para, but also the SAS, the Royal Navy and Merchant Navy, and others, in more than a hundred exclusive and untold personal accounts. Some are extremely funny, some touching, and some heart-breaking. All were recorded face to face, the speakers' own words adding a gritty authenticity to each account and conveying the confusion and terror of battle, as well as the courage and selflessness of men in action. Goose Green is a book that goes beyond the official histories and the many memoirs to bring to life the first and, as it turned out, the decisive battle of this country's outstanding campaign to retake the Falkland Islands from a foreign invader. This is a true story of a great victory against all the odds, told by the men who fought it.

Nigel Ely (Author), Jonathan Keeble (Narrator)

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Edgar Allan Poe: The Complete Collection: Stories, Poems, Essays, and Novels

The complete collection of Edgar Allan Poe's short stories, poems, novels, and essays, read by Audie-award winning actors Peter Noble and Jonathan Keeble. Edgar Allan Poe was a writer, poet, editor, and literary critic. Poe is best known for his poetry and short stories, particularly his tales of mystery and the macabre, and is widely regarded as a central figure of Romanticism in the United States, and of American literature. Poe was one of the country's earliest practitioners of the short story, and considered to be the inventor of the detective fiction genre, as well as a significant contributor to the emerging genre of science fiction. This collection contains over 150 of Poe's short stories, poems, novels, and essays, including: - The Raven - The Black Cat - The Fall of the House of Usher - The Gold-Bug - The Masque of the Red Death - The Murders in the Rue Morgue - The Pit and the Pendulum - The Tell-Tale Heart - Annabel Lee - The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar - William Wilson - The Lake - The Raven - The Valley of Unrest - The Village Street - The Cask of Amontillado - The Haunted Palace - The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket - The Philosophy of Composition - The Philosophy of Furniture - The Poetic Principle - The Rationale of Verse

Edgar Allan Poe (Author), Jonathan Keeble, Peter Noble (Narrator)

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The Talle-Tale Heart

The 'Tell-Tale Heart' was first published in The Pioneer in January 1843. It is often considered a classic of the Gothic fiction genre and is one of Poe's best known short stories. The tale of murder and terror, told by a nameless homicidal madman, influenced later stream-of-consciousness fiction and helped secure the author's reputation as master of the macabre. The narrator relates with relish his murder and dismemberment of an old man. Poe's revelation of the narrator's madness is a classic study in psychopathology.

Edgar Allan Poe (Author), Jonathan Keeble (Narrator)

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The Pit and the Pendulum

'The Pit and the Pendulum', one of Poe's most well-renowned short stories, is centered around the torments endured by a prisoner of the Spanish Inquisition. The narrator of the story describes his experience of being tortured. The story is especially effective at inspiring fear in the reader because of its heavy focus on the senses, such as sound, emphasizing its reality, unlike many of Poe's stories which are aided by the supernatural.

Edgar Allan Poe (Author), Jonathan Keeble (Narrator)

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The Fall of the House of Usher

'The Fall of the House of Usher' is a short story by Poe, first published in 1839 in Burton's Gentleman's Magazine. The story follows the unnerving experience of a nameless narrator who is summoned to care for a reclusive friend and his sister in an old, haunted mansion. Both are mentally and physically unwell, their paranoia and agitation being exacerbated by strange happenings in and around the property. Soon, the narrator himself begins to experience the eerie old house and it's ghostly inclinations. Poe ties themes of madness, mystery, suspense, death, and the ethereal together into one of the most gripping short stories ever published.

Edgar Allan Poe (Author), Jonathan Keeble (Narrator)

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Edgar Allan Poe: The Complete Stories

The complete collection of Edgar Allan Poe's stories, read by award-award winning actor Jonathan Keeble. Edgar Allan Poe was a writer, poet, editor, and literary critic. Poe is best known for his poetry and short stories, particularly his tales of mystery and the macabre, and is widely regarded as a central figure of Romanticism in the United States, and of American literature. Poe was one of the country's earliest practitioners of the short story, and considered to be the inventor of the detective fiction genre, as well as a significant contributor to the emerging genre of science fiction. The 55+ stories included here are: - A Descent into the Maelstrom - A Predicament - A Tale of Jerusalem - A Tale of the Ragged Mountains - Berenice - Bon-Bon - Diddling - Eleonora - Four Beasts in One—The Homo-Cameleopard - Hop-Frog - How to Write a Blackwood Article - King Pest - Landor's Cottage - Ligeia - Lionising - Loss of Breath - Mellonta Tauta - Mesmeric Revelation - Metzengerstein - Morella - Manuscript Found in a Bottle - Mystification - Never Bet the Devil Your Head - Shadow – A Parable - Silence – A Fable - Some Words with a Mummy - The Assignation - The Black Cat - The Cask of Amontillado - The Colloquy of Monos and Una - The Devil in the Belfry - The Domain of Arnheim - The Duc de L'Omelette - The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar - The Fall of the House of Usher - The Gold-Bug - The Imp of the Perverse - The Masque of the Red Death - The Murders in the Rue Morgue - The Mystery of Marie Rogêt - The Oblong Box - The Oval Portrait - The Pit and the Pendulum - The Power of Words - The Premature Burial - The Purloined Letter - The Spectacles - The Sphinx - The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether - The Tell-Tale Heart - The Thousand-and-Second Tale of Scheherazade - The Unparalleled Adventure of One Hans Pfaall - Thou Art the Man - Three Sundays in a Week - Von Kempelen and His Discovery - Why the Little Frenchman Wears His Hand in a Sling - William Wilson - X-ing a Paragrab

Edgar Allan Poe (Author), Jonathan Keeble (Narrator)

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