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Timeless poetry of feeling and emotion, Love and Space Dust carries listeners on a journey through love, life, relationships, and then far beyond into the stars and the far-flung galaxies, where all that remains of the feelings we once felt and the lives we once lived are love and space dust.

The home of spine-tingling "cosy horror", featuring stories by some of the world's greatest writers, performed by the curator and story-teller of the Dangerous Tales library, Andy David Jones.

Penguin Classics presents Henry Fielding's Tom Jones, adapted for audio and available as a digital download as part of the Penguin English Library series. Read by the actor Robert Lindsay. '"Sir, I am concerned at the Trouble I give you; nay indeed my Nakedness may well make me ashamed to look...

Kade Hollander is a worthless whore-mongering drunk wandering medieval England at the turn of the twelfth century. When a mysterious sentient sword appears at the end of a rainbow and tells Kade he only has days to live, his simple life of solitude becomes a desperate struggle for survival. With the aid of a talking toad, a sultry witch, and the magic sword, Kade must battle his way to the land of the dead to find the only hope of restoring his health.

Despite a childhood of privilege and a college degree, Tony Joppa was stuck in extended adolescence fueled by drugs, alcohol, and apathy. After a drunk-driving accident lands him in jail, Joppa begins his journey to sobriety and self-realization. That journey takes him across the country, around the world, and deeply inward, where his life changes thanks to the help of Alcoholics Anonymous, Buddhism, The United States Navy, and the many teachers he meets along the way.

Although he hasn’t seen Robert Bergin for 40 years, Ishmael feels duty bound to respond when his old friend calls for help. Robert’s daughter Gillian is about to be married, and he is afraid she’ll fall prey to the ancient family curse. Arriving in rural Yorkshire, Ishmael and his partner Penny learn that the vicar who was to perform the ceremony has been found dead in the church, hanging from his own bell rope.

Shakespeare's King John is a rarely performed history which tells the story of John's turbulent reign from 1199 to 1216. King John goes to war against the French after claims that his nephew should be king instead. John has conflict with the church, orders his nephew's death and turns the nobles against himself. In the end, John dies from poison, the French retreat and his son becomes king.

When a diabolical superfoe acquires a superlaser that uses hypercolor to control emotion, he throws the world into a kaleidoscope of deadly mood swings. CURE goes on red alert. And if things aren't black enough, a rival nation has seen the mind-blowing potential of beaming mood-altering color from satellites...and rendering entire nations defenseless.

Ethan never asked to see beyond the veil. Haunted by visions, plagued by nightmares, and scarred by a past he doesn’t fully understand, he’s thrust into a spiritual battlefield that rages unseen around him. When demonic forces target his city of Fairbridge, Ethan discovers his gift as a Seer—a rare calling to discern the unseen and confront the enemy head-on. As strongholds crumble and allies reveal themselves on both sides of the veil, Ethan must rise—not as a victim, but as a warrior.

#1 New York Times bestselling author and master of horror Stephen King teams up with Bev Vincent of Cemetery Dance to present a terrifying collection of sixteen short stories (and one poem) that tap into one of King’s greatest fears—air travel—featuring previously unpublished stories by...

A modern romance. Can a man find love after tragedy? He can, if two determined women wish it to be so.

Morocco Jones challenges the Mafia in a-kill-or-be-killed novel of murder, molls, and mayhem. The Syndicate made a big mistake when they murdered Chris Shane because Shane was the man who had saved Morocco from torture and death at the hand of a despot's most savage secret agent back in Eastern Europe during the war - his best friend and the man to whom he owed his life. No bunch of gun-happy gorillas could scare a guy like Morocco.

A long time ago, Joseph woke up next to a lake with his past scrubbed from his memory. Now, 10 years later, secrets will be revealed. It’s time for Joseph to discover the truth of his mysterious past, but for that to happen, it seems he’ll need to embrace his dark destiny. And that’s not all poor Joseph has to deal with. There’s also a spate of bizarre animal slaughters sweeping the area, a strange man who believes something monstrous is taking over his village, and a blossoming romance that may or may not be tainted with pure evil.

This is about Captain Morgan Jones of the Vindaloo Curry, a submarine he found in the desert one day, and after hauling it back to the ocean by camel train, set it to floating again after repairing a few holes. After trial and error and a lot of huffing and puffing, he managed to get to the Taff River and after sailing up it to Ponty, took on a crew and then set off for the Orient and many adventures.