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When Cherringham Pickleball Club Captain Carl Roper is found dead on the courts, it looks like just an unfortunate accident. But for Jack and Sarah, that story doesn't add up. As they investigate the club, the players, and a big pending deal, they find themselves in a race against time to find the real reason Carl Roper died - and the identity of his killer ...

Set in a magical kingdom where a wealthy prince and a Russian princess meet for the first time and fall madly in love with each other. Their wedding is to be a huge celebration for the entire realm, with all sorts of entertainment, including fireworks as a grand finale. As soon as various firework elements are set in place, they start talking amongst each other, and we meet the very distinguished Remarkable Rocket, responsible for so many of Oscar Wilde's memorable epigrams.

Hear the best stories ever written with Puffin Classics on audio. The Happy Prince and Other Stories is a haunting, magical fairy tale collection, in which Oscar Wilde beautifully evokes (amongst others) The Happy Prince, who was not so happy after all, The Selfish Giant who learned to love...

For the first time, the complete works of M. R. James are available to download in one collection. This unabridged collection of all M.R. James' ghost stories includes tales from Ghost Stories of an Antiquary, More Ghost Stories, A Thin Ghost and Others, and A Warning to the Curious and Other Ghost Stories. It is expertly read by award-winning narrator Jonathan Keeble.

Kate thought it was a nightmare.A wedding. A courthouse she’d never seen. Joey waiting at the altar. And a black book in her hands.Then her friend describes the exact same dream.Soon, photographs appear from an unknown number, memories begin contradicting reality, and Kate starts questioning...

This audiobook, read by Audie award-winning narrators, includes unabridged recordings of all Fyodor Dostoyevky's greatest works: 15 novels and novellas, 18 short stories, a short study of Dostoyevsky by Virginia Woolf, and two books of non-fiction - his Letters and European travel journal.

Meet Harlow Torrent, part-time journalist and full-time Slip Witch and her crazy witch family in this ten-book cozy mystery box set.

Form-defining short stories. First published in 1914, James Joyce defined what the short story could be with his collection The Dubliners. A mixture of prose and poetry, each story can be listened to independently, or as a collection. From childhood to maturity, we see what life - and ultimately death - can be, via an extraordinary cast of characters, all of whom experience an epiphany. There’s Father Flynn, the priest; Evelyn, the shop girl who dreams of escape; Mrs Mooney, the butcher’s daughter, who runs a boarding house.

Jeeves, not only a tireless servant to the feckless Bertie Wooster, is the saviour of a good many other individuals as well. The list is long: Bingo Little has cause to be grateful to Jeeves in the affair of the marooned cabinet minister; Sippy Sipperley, when he is persecuted by his former headmaster; Tuppy Glossop, in his foolhardy pursuit of Cora Bellinger the opera singer; not to mention Miss Dalgeish the dog-girl; Bertie's fat Uncle George when he brushes with the lower classes.

Pubblicata dall'editore Treves nel 1883, la raccolta di novelle "Per le vie" ha per protagonisti gli emarginati. Lo scenario questa volta però non è la Sicilia e la vita contadina. Verga infatti ci presenta la dura lotta per la sopravvivenza per gli ultimi in una grande città come la Milano ottocentesca.

Murder and mystery lurk in the hills and on the shores of Devon and Cornwall in this new Special Edition Hardback of Agatha Christie’s finest countryside stories. Growing up in Torquay, Agatha Christie’s love of the West Country never left her and many of her finest stories are set on the...

Collins brings the Queen of Crime, Agatha Christie, to English language learners. Agatha Christie is the most widely published author of all time and in any language. Now Collins has adapted her famous detective novels for English language learners. These carefully abridged versions are shorter...

The thrilling prequel to The Good Daughter – Karin Slaughter's incredible novel soon to be a major TV series starring Rose Byrne and Meghann Fahy. This audio edition is read by Meghann Fahy, who plays Charlie in the TV show of The Good Daughter Sometimes the truth is the most devastating twist...

In the near future, where America has become a police state, one hundred boys are selected to enter an annual contest where the winner will be awarded whatever he wants for the rest of his life. The game is simple - maintain a steady walking pace of four miles per hour without stopping. Three...

Ten stories. Ten dark mysteries. Ten encounters with reflections that should not exist. In She Married the Monster in the Mirror, mirrors are more than simple reflections. They conceal secrets, expose hidden truths, and reveal things that were never meant to be seen. Across 10 suspenseful...

Some doors should never be opened. Across eleven chilling supernatural mysteries, ordinary objects reveal terrifying secrets. Haunted mirrors, shifting corridors, mysterious clocks, and forgotten passageways draw unsuspecting people into worlds where reality cannot be trusted. Each story brings...

A collection of 98 enthralling and pulse-quickening stories, spanning five decades, venerates the remarkable imagination of J. G. Ballard. With a body of work unparalleled in twentieth-century literature, J. G. Ballard is recognized as one of the greatest and most prophetic writers in the world. With the much-hailed release of The Complete Stories of J. G. Ballard, readers now have a means to celebrate the unmatched range and mesmerizing cadences of a literary genius.

**Now a major motion picture starring Olivia Coleman and Alexander Skarsgard.** Read by Marli Siu (Wicker, Everything I Know About Love). A darkly humorous and haunting folk fable. Wicker by Ursula Wills is a short story perfect for fans of Katherine Arden and Naomi Novik. Husband Material...

Hold tight. We are going into a number of dark places, but I think I know the way. Just don't let go of my arm . . . Unrivalled master of suspense Stephen King takes the unsuspecting reader on a fantastic journey through the dark shadows of our innermost fears. Do the dead sing? In this bumper...

Could a gentleman of intelligence, noble connexions, and education like Mr. Darcy fall victim to a love potion?In “The Love Potion,” Elizabeth’s flippant use of a Romani woman’s gift to avenge Mr. Darcy for his insult appears to reap a surprising result. She soon regrets her impulsive...