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'Jeffs narrates these interconnected tales with warmth, intimacy and a subtle undercurrent of menace' Guardian (Audiobook of the Week) Enriched for audio with specially commissioned music based on traditional melodies, Old Songs fuses short stories, histories, lyrics and music in an enthralling...

Embra, winter of 1574. Queen Mary has fled Scotland, to raise an army from the French. Her son and heir, Jamie, is held under protection in Stirling Castle. John Knox is dead. The people are unmoored and lurching under the uncertain governance of this riven land. It's a deadly time for young student Will Fowler, short of stature, low of birth but mightily ambitious, to make his name.

Gateshead, April 1866. The Apprentice of Split Crow Lane takes the forgotten case of a child murder in 1866 as a springboard to delve deeply into the pysche of the Victorians. What Jane Housham finds in this exploration of guilt, sexual deviance and madness is a diagnosis that is still ripe for the challenging and a sentence that provokes even our liberal modern judgment.

In his timely new audiobook, Mikhail Shishkin, argues that Russia is not a 'riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma': we just don't know enough about it. So what is the real story behind Putin's autocratic regime and its invasion of Ukraine? In My Russia: War or Peace? Shishkin traces the roots of Russia's problems, from the 'Kievan Rus' via the Grand Duchy of Moscow, empire, revolution and Cold War, to the now thirty-year-old Russian Federation.

In lucid and energised prose, Emily Mayhew summons the four horsemen of the apocalypse; the collective threat to humanity bearing the names of war, pestilence, famine and death. As they began in Revelations and have remained in human consciousness ever since, spanning time and space and evolving as new scientific discoveries and advancements in technology alter the world.

𝐋𝐚 𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐬𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐳𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐜𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐚𝐥𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐝𝐨𝐝𝐢𝐜𝐢 𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐨𝐥𝐞“Non sarà che dietro tanta smania di innovazione, rigenerazione e sostenibilità si nascondano le solite dinamiche di potere, profitto e rendita?”Da questa domanda nascono I DIALOGHI DELLA CREANZA, il nuovo progetto Riverrun Hub che prova a fare il punto sull’innovazione sociale e culturale in Italia. Un podcast in 12 episodi in dialogo con i protagonisti@ più interessanti della trasformazione sociale e culturale in Italia.Per ...