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If you’re one of the unlucky few who has a partner who snores, don’t worry. We’ve got your backs and created the ultimate solution to ensure you still get to sleep. This audiobook is filled with over 10 hours of the very best white noise and sleep sounds to help block out any snoring. You’ll finally get the sleep you deserve and you’ll wake up feeling refreshed and recharged.

When Nusrit Mehtab joined the Met Police in the late 80s the organisation was rife with racism and misogyny. Officers refused to patrol with her, or even call her by her name. Her attempts to get promoted were met with hostility and ridicule and she was subject to cruel pranks. As the years passed and her seniority grew, Nusrit was dismayed to find that these problems got worse, not better. After 30 years, she finally had enough and left the MET, initiating an employment tribunal against them in the process.

A tender hate-to-love YA romance about two teens who connect through their high school poetry club, where the power of the written word tears down the walls they’ve built around their hearts. No one in Delray knows Jae Aƒenyo’s story—that she’s a teen mom who placed her baby for...

Tired of being bullied, a scrawny, impoverished Dawood Ibrahim is looking for a saviour, Khalid Khan Bachcha, who would teach him the ropes of handling a bunch of hooligans. Instead, what he gets is a mentor who eventually transforms him into a cunning mafia boss. In Dawood's Mentor, Dawood...

For many years, Sadiq wasn't fully aware of the dangers posed by air pollution, nor its connection with climate change. Then, at the age of 43, he was unexpectedly diagnosed with adult-onset asthma - brought on by the polluted London air he had been breathing for decades.

Rajinder Singh Bedi (1 September 1915-1984) was an Indian Urdu writer of the progressive writers' movement and a playwright, who later worked in Hindi cinema as a film director, screenwriter and dialogue writer. Bedi is considered one of the leading 20th century progressive writers of Urdu fiction, and one of the most prominent Urdu fiction writers. He is most known for "disturbing" Partition of India tales. This collection includes the following: "Garam Coat"; "Lajwanti"; and "Sirf Ek Cigarette."

The killer is closing in… can she find him before he finds her? When Detective Nikki Parekh receives a set of threatening postcards, she knows it can only mean one thing… The man who escaped arrest after murdering her mother two years ago is back. Each postcard has a similar message...

Meet Tula, Vinny, Jabeen, Sonal and Samina - best friends and members of the 'Girlie’ club. Listen to this joyous exploration of friendship, family, work and womanhood in the British Asian community in the 90s. In their regular gatherings for ‘Girlie’ evenings the friends drink, laugh, blow off steam and commiserate. Nothing is sacred and friendships are tested, marriages analysed, and secrets exposed.

What Wendy Ross wants is simple - to live and love openly as a modern, independent woman. The problem is that according to her birth certificate her name is Roy Clark and she is a boy. Mistreated by her father, who is appalled at having such a child, misunderstood by her sister, whose clothes she has stolen, and committed to a mental hospital where she is mistaken for a homosexual, Wendy finally gets her chance to escape when she turns 21 and inherits a small legacy.

Some would say the Market is the last authentic part of the city centre. This northern city has reinvented itself as a business and financial centre, bristling with designer shops and bars. A cosmopolitan, twenty-four hour city. Yet slap bang in the centre the Victorian City Market remains what it has always been; a place where you can get anything and see anything - a place teeming with life. The market is the real face of the city - mucky, multicultural and magnificent.

Puede considerarse como la obra poética más importante del siglo XX. El mismo Federico la definía como “mi obra más popular” y él la llamaba gitana, “porque el gitano es el alfabeto de la verdad andaluza y universal”. Los temas que salpican el romancero a lo largo de sus 18 romances recorren valores universales como la muerte, la noche, el cielo o la luna.

About the Author Pushkar Raj Thakur is one of India's most dynamic, thought-provoking, and inspirational speakers and business trainers. He is widely recognised for his popular courses Born on in Network Marketing and Advanced Personality Development. He has served as a leading consultant and advisor for several major computer companies. Along with this, he also conducts leadership training programmes and motivational seminars.

With the impact of the pandemic, the ongoing fourth industrial revolution, the broadening awareness of institutionalised discrimination and the concerns around an economic recession, it is an understatement to say that we're entering a 'new normal' in which working patterns and career trajectories have irreversibly changed. From two leading academics, this is both a practical guide to success and an insight into the future of work. It draws upon both the authors' academic research and an international array of case studies and interviews to provide engaging and illuminating insights.

Brought to you by Penguin. We live in the age of big companies where rising levels of power are concentrated in the hands of a few. Yet no government or organisation has the power to regulate these titans and hold them to account. We need big companies to share their power and we, the people of...

In this exclusive interview at Audible Studios in London, Vaseem Khan provides an insight into how he as an author constructs his novels. He describes how he made The Perplexing Theft of the Jewel in the Crown as authentic as possible, the painstaking research and adding his own personal touches.

En esta historia los protagonistas son dos perros, Cipión y Berganza, que se encuentran recostados a la entrada del hospital de la Resurrección en Valladolid, cuando se dan cuenta que, de repente y de forma inexplicable ,parecen haber adquirido el don del habla. Deciden, pues, aprovechar esta sobrenatural circunstancia para contarse el uno al otro sus vidas.Es Berganza que comienza con la historia de su vida, que, al estilo de la del Lazarillo de Tormes, le hace pasar alegrías y desdichas de la mano de los distintos amos que le han ido tocando lo largo de su vida.

Iris My whole life is a lie. Driven by an obsessive crush, torrid desire, and treacherous secrets I hold dear to my heart. Nobody is none the wiser. Not my parents. Not my best friends. Not even my new fiancé. Now, my house of cards is about to fall. One carnal lie at a time. And making them ruthlessly tumble is my fiancé's older brother. Kian Singhania. Enigmatic. Reclusive. Menacing. A merciless lone wolf with a heart of ice. The man I've craved and burned for from the shadows, whose lair I've dared to venture into without protection. Everyone is scared I'll be eaten alive.

Saadat Hasan Manto was a Pakistani playwright and author considered among the greatest writers of short stories in South Asian history. Presented here is a selection from his writings.

In Urdu: An autobiographical masterpiece by Intizar Hussain, reminiscing on his early life in India and then the post-partition Pakistan, transitioning into a vivid history of the formative years of the young country and its people.

Djinn are the cool breezes in warm rooms, the materializations of your deepest desires, the monsters waiting beneath your bed. They have appeared in the stories of Muslim communities across time and throughout the world, but this is the first comprehensive guide to these beguiling creatures. Whether you have been steeped in these djinn tales since childhood or are seeking to open your eyes to the Unseen for the first time, you are invited to open this book and explore the world of the djinn.