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Step into a world where memory glows like warm lamplight and the past feels close enough to touch. Yesterday Blue is a tender, atmospheric novel that blends 70s coastal nostalgia with the quiet ache of adulthood, capturing the soft, golden moments that shape us long after they’ve passed. Through Lily’s eyes, listeners drift between the innocence of youth and the bittersweet beauty of second chances. The story moves with the rhythm of ocean tides — gentle, steady, full of emotion — as old friends reconnect over warm dinners, soft conversations, and the kind of memories that never truly fade.

Brought to you by Puffin. The first audiobook in the bestselling Percy Jackson and the Olympians series. Discover the story behind the Disney+ series. HALF BOY - HALF GOD - ALL HERO. Look, I never asked to be the son of a Greek god. I was just a normal kid. . . until I accidentally vaporized my...

**THE PHENOMENAL NEW BOOK FROM COMEDIAN AND SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE AUDACITY, KATHERINE RYAN** 'First Born Daughter is for anyone who was born into the role of unpaid family manager or simply suffers from hyper independence as a trauma response. It's part social commentary, part...

Willow Carruthers - British Oscar winner, style icon and mother of three - is facing a crisis: she’s broke, discovery of her partner’s infidelity has left her a single mother and, if the banks have their way, she’s about to be homeless.

Your rage isn't a character flaw. It's a message. You didn’t used to be like this, did you? The sharp words, the slammed drawer, the guilt that follows. I’ve been there too – wondering how I became someone who snaps at the people I love the most. What if I told you that your anger isn’t...

Epheria is a land divided by war and mistrust. The High Lords of the South squabble and fight, only kept in check by the Dragonguard, traitors of a time long past, who serve the empire of the North. In the remote villages of Southern Epheria, still reeling from the tragic loss of his brother, Calen Bryer prepares for The Proving - a test of courage and skill that not all survive. But when three strangers arrive in the village of Milltown, with a secret they are willing to die for, Calen’s world is ripped from under him and he is thrust headfirst into a war.

When the mayor’s daughter is found dead beneath the pines, the sleepy Oregon town of Whispering Pines turns from postcard-perfect to a place full of whispered warnings. Detective Ethan Cole—supposedly on leave—soon finds himself pulled into a tangle of old rivalries, land deals, and carefully hidden favors. Lucy Blackwood’s notebook points to shell companies, secret meetings and a ledger someone would burn to keep buried. As Ethan follows van tracks, a smeared fingerprint, and a string of carved symbols, the town’s calm facade begins to crack.

Across Britain, violent criminals are walking free – cases derailed by sharp-suited defence lawyers and soft-touch judges – and public fury is reaching breaking point. Into that anger step the New Crusaders, a shadowy group that hunts down offenders who have slipped through the net and delivers their own brand of punishment live across social media to millions of cheering followers. To some, they're heroes. To the government, they're terrorists.

Everyone wanted a piece of the world’s most beloved film star, but who finally took it? Italy, 1929. When renowned detective Lord Edgington boards a luxurious night train in Rome, he hopes for attentive service, fine food and perhaps a chance to read his book. But a short distance into the...

Ten years after the events of Morning Star, Darrow and the Rising are battling the remaining Gold loyalist forces and are closer than ever to abolishing the color-coded caste system of Society for good. But new foes will emerge from the shadows to threaten the imperfect victory Darrow and his friends have earned. Pierce Brown expands the size and scope of his impressive Red Rising universe with new characters, enemies, and conflicts among the stars.

A newborn is taken from a locked house in Edinburgh. No ransom. No witnesses. Just an empty cot and parents with power to burn. DI Sam Winter is called into the abduction of nine-week-old Kai Drummond, taken while his wealthy parents were out celebrating the launch of their high-profile charity foundation. The family want results fast, the press want blood and the politicians circling the Drummonds want the story buried.

Bryce Quinlan never expected to see a world other than Midgard, but now that she has, all she wants is to get back. Everything she loves is in Midgard: her family, her friends, her mate. Stranded in a strange world, she's going to need all her wits about her to get home again. And that's no easy feat when she has no idea who to trust. Hunt Athalar has found himself in some deep holes in his life, but this one might be the deepest of all. After a few brief months with everything he ever wanted, he's in the Asteri's dungeons again, stripped of his freedom and without a clue as to Bryce's fate.

Orodan is back to square one, except without the Status screen and skill levels which govern life for all beings within the System. But as he soon learns... his skills haven't really been affected, only the numbers gone. He can still fight, he can still clean... and with the time loops unaffected, he can still grind and die. Systemless, bereft of aid and in a situation nobody in the universe's history has been in before, Orodan must rebuild himself from the ground up.

Brought to you by Puffin. The first book in the hilarious new series for children by the bestselling creator of Hurrah For Gin. Lottie Brooks is 11 ¾ and her life is already officially over - not only is she about to start high school without any friends or glamorous swooshy hair, she's just...

The sensational #1 bestseller from the master of the everyman thriller and author of Richard and Judy Book Club pick, THE HOLIDAY, T.M. Logan 'A tense and gripping thriller' B A Paris, bestselling author of BEHIND CLOSED DOORS. 'So gripping I genuinely found it hard to put down' KL Slater...

Brought to you by Penguin. Lottie Brooks continues to navigate the many perils of growing up in this fantastically funny series for a 9-12 audience, filled with friendship, embarrassing moments and plenty of lols. Woe is me. So much is wrong in my life... Still look like a tomato Am stuck...

John Moffat stars as the Belgian detective Hercule Poirot in seven more BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisations. The stories in this volume are: Evil Under the Sun, Sad Cypress, Murder in Mesopotamia, Lord Edgware Dies, Halloween Party, Murder on the Links and Five Little Pigs. Based on the original novels by Agatha Christie, these superb adaptations feature a cast of outstanding actors playing an array of likely suspects.

Twenty-year-old Violet Sorrengail was supposed to enter the Scribe Quadrant, living a quiet life among books and history. Now, the commanding general—also known as her tough-as-talons mother—has ordered Violet to join the hundreds of candidates striving to become the elite of Navarre: dragon riders. But when you’re smaller than everyone else and your body is brittle, death is only a heartbeat away...because dragons don’t bond to “fragile” humans. They incinerate them.

Brought to you by Penguin. FROM THE PULITZER-WINNING, BOOKER-SHORTLISTED ELIZABETH STROUT COMES A STUNNING STANDALONE NOVEL OF LOVE, LONELINESS AND NEW BEGINNINGS Artie Dam is a man with a secret. He spends his days teaching history to high schoolers, expanding their young minds, correcting...

Everyone expected Violet Sorrengail to die during her first year at Basgiath War College – Violet included. But Threshing was only the first impossible test meant to weed out the weak-willed, the unworthy, and the unlucky. Now the real training begins, and Violet’s already wondering how she’ll get through. It’s not just that it’s grueling and maliciously brutal, or even that it’s designed to stretch the riders’ capacity for pain beyond endurance. It’s the new vice commandant, who’s made it his personal mission to teach Violet exactly how powerless she is – unless she betrays the man she loves.