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Alan returns to podcasting, offering his unique perspective on life’s big questions, the hot-button issues of the day, his professional successes and the most intimate details of his personal life in a series he is already calling ‘seminal’. The second series will come partly from the oasthouse—in order to satisfy people who'd rather he didn’t mess with the format—and partly from other locations—to appeal to those who found the original format a bit limiting.

Contains Books 1 and 2 of the Unconventional Heroes series. Two Necromancers, a Bureaucrat, and an Elf, book 1: Two necromancers, a bureaucrat, and an elf - it sounds like the start of a bad joke, only the joke is on Timmy. Timothy Walter Bolton - better known as Timmy - has spent most of his...

We return to… Guy Secretan now disgustingly rich, nationally famous, and building a Swiss chalet-style mansion of alarming ambition. Mac MacCartney is thinking about leaving it again, while Caroline Todd contemplates whether she’ll ever get to be a mother. Martin Dear despite minimal effort, is somehow still not a doctor. Joanna Clore has served her time and is ready for action. Alan Statham is getting used to life working under Boyce, who is doing his level best to hold on to his department, his parking space, and his sanity. Sue White remains a law unto herself.

The highly anticipated sequel to the instant New York Times, Sunday Times and global bestselling phenomenon, The Love Hypothesis. Olive Smith finally has her PhD, and she's living her happy ever after. Well, not quite her ever after, since postdoctoral fellowships are temporary by nature, but...

Meet Clare Barker, the social worker who likes nothing more than sorting out other people's problems (while failing to deal with her own). Wracked with guilt over being white, middle-class and heterosexual, she has a dedicated social conscience (unless it's inconvenient for her) and lives to interfere in other people's lives—both on a personal and professional basis. Bearing the brunt of her control freakery and lack of self-awareness are her family, colleagues and long-suffering teacher partner, Brian—all of whom have their own frustrations, disappointments and dramas.

Humour, mystery, and a time leap back to the 1970s. Could you relive your life and change the past? However, history always repeats … or does it?… Jason Apsley is about to find out.

The Kurupt FM crew are back. Due to (they claim) overwhelming demand from the fans, pirate radio veterans MC Grindah, DJ Steves, DJ Beats, and their manager, Chabuddy G, return to provide vital insight on six burning issues: Nature, Politics, TV & Film, The Future, History, and Travel. Prepare to come away, if not better informed, certainly with a better understanding of what a garage MC reckons about some stuff.

Sea swims, sleuthing and a very badly behaved seagull. Welcome to Lyme Regis.Annie Abbott and her friends from the Lyme Regis Women's Swimming Club can't seem to go for a swim without stumbling into a crime. Her daughter, DC Tina Abbott of Dorset Police, would much rather they left it to the...

24/7 Demon Mart: Publisher's Pack features two books from the 24/7 Demon Mart series: The Graveyard Shift, book one, and Monster Burger, book two. It also includes the bonus Hell for the Holidays, a 24/7 Demon Mart Christmas special. Lloyd Wallace is the most clueless crossing guard the intersection of hell and earth has ever seen. So clueless, that he doesn't even realize the beer cave in the corner store where he works is the gateway to hell.

Ex-con Bob has done his time. After five years at Her Majesty's pleasure, he's been released on licence with an ankle tag registered to his estranged son's address. Uptight Gruff isn't too happy about it - he's just become a father himself and the last thing he needs is his delinquent dad back in his life. But Bob turns on the charm, persuading sympathetic daughter-in-law Alice that his heart's in the right place and manages to inveigle his way into moving in. 

The complete soundtracks of the first two series of the iconic comedy show, plus Christmas specials Often voted Britain’s best-loved sitcom, Only Fools and Horses ran on BBC One from 1981 to 2003, spanning seven series and 16 Christmas specials. Created and written by John Sullivan, the show...

Garth Marenghi - Frighternerman, Darkscribe, Doomsage - is back with volume two of his TerrorTome . . . Horror novelist Nick Steen is abducted and imprisoned at Nulltec, a shadowy technological research facility with excellent conference parking, concealed deep on the Stalkford Downs. There he...

Things are not well within the Lodrak Empire. An entire city goes up in smoke and ash, and an entire province is slowly being consumed by an ever-expanding cloud of death. But while the humans rally to contain the fallout of this disaster, they are much quicker to pin the blame for it on their elven neighbors to the north. With centuries' worth of strife and bad blood between the two nations flaring up, all out war is rapidly becoming an inevitability.

*** GAME ON, the final book from the MULTI-MILLION BESTESELLING INTO DARKNESS series is OUT NOW *** THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the author of TikTok's favourite dark and steamy romance, Lights Out, comes Navessa Allen's second book in the New York Times bestselling Into Darkness...

All five series of the award-winning sketch show - plus standalone comedy Daydream Believers 'Fresh and full of invention' The Telegraph Welcome to the inside-out world of Mitchell and Webb, a strange and surreal place populated by misfits, eccentrics, talking animals and a few stray Radio 4...

Alien gods are coming to devour our world. But someone needs to do the paperwork. Follow Morag Murray as she joins the government department tasked with making sure the end of the world goes as smoothly as possible. Combining cosmic horror, workplace comedy and found-family chaos, the Oddjobs series is about ordinary people trying to keep going long after the situation has stopped being remotely manageable. Enjoy books 1-3 in this boxed set. Unstoppable horrors from beyond are poised to invade and literally create Hell on Earth.

Childless couple Robin and Wendy have developed an obsession with Mayfield - the model village they've built in their garage. However, running a model village is slightly more complicated than they expected, especially as they live next-door to Derek, a former superstar salesman who is struggling with the erratic side effects of mental health medication, and Maureen, who is always getting involved in get-rich-quick schemes.

Hettie Bagshot has bitten off more than any cat could chew. As soon as she launches her No. 2 Feline Detective Agency, she's bucketed into a case: Furcross, a home for slightly older cats, has a nasty spate of bodysnatching, and three of the residents have been stolen from their graves. Hettie...

*THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 2024* 'Gorgeous! Warm and funny and brimming with tenderness and heart' GRAHAM NORTON 'Full of Sara Cox's natural warmth and wit' PRIMA 'Relatable, observant and funny' WOMAN & HOME Josie's life is fine. Absolutely, completely fine. Nice husband, brilliant...

Over 1 million Discworld audiobooks sold – discover the extraordinary universe of Terry Pratchett’s Discworld like never before The audiobook of The Light Fantastic is read by Colin Morgan (Merlin; Testament of Youth; Belfast). BAFTA and Golden Globe award-winning actor Bill Nighy (Love...